Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on WEDNESDAY September 7, 2022.

Where in today’s Q3 Streaming Discount of the Day (I really had no idea our Ankler podcast had such influence!):

HULU+LIVE TV is giving $20 off for 3 months… aka most of the NFL season. It’s for new customers, and some “select” returning customers.

The $56 a month deal is for the taking til Oct 5. So you can pay $168 for that, OR you could spend $52 over that 3 months instead and:

Buy a $25 digital antenna to watch games on local channels for free (and keep the antenna)
Pay $27 for 3 months of AMAZON PRIME to watch Thursday Night Football
And be OK with missing Monday Night Football games on ESPN. Well -except if your local team is playing… as the NFL has to legally air them on a local TV channel too 😉.

PLUS: Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford will be the leads for the BROADWAY revival of “Sweeney Todd” to open in March. Thomas Kail (“Hamilton”) is directing.

AND: The Biebs is postponing his North America tour dates due to what sounds like exhaustion, or as he put it on INSTA - to take care of his health after going back out on the road in Europe this Summer after the hiatus for his Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome diagnosis. He had tour dates through the end of the year, and some extending thru March in 2023 so, reschedule TBA.

ALSO: Tickets go on sale here today for the Stand Up For Heroes music & comedy event this Fall on Nov 7 at Lincoln Center, with Springsteen & Jon Stewart among many other guests also announced today.

IN TODAY’S EDITION:

The Rock gets new co-star for AMAZON holiday movie
Dan Lin is not taking the DC job
UK’s SKY is giving employee bonuses for… heating bills this Winter. huh.
Kenya Barris sets another NETFLIX project… despite leaving NETFLIX a year ago
A couple of great new Fall movie trailers and more.

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

really hope this wasn’t a cake of The Rock.. 😬 via Giphy

AMAZON sets Kiernan Shipka to co-star with The Rock in holiday pic

This is his “Red One” project that supposedly has ‘organic’ tie-ins with the overall AMAZON empire but still few details here. Other than we’re looking at Christmas 2023 for this, and it’s described as an Action-Adventure-Comedy. Much like my 30s. As for other talent here…

☀️Soderbergh sets lead for next HBOMAX…

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