☀️ SONY, LEGENDARY Part Ways After Just 2 Years
WME, NFL rep biz likely parting ways / AMAZON moves Hoover pic forward / DC enlists Daniel Craig
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on THURSDAY, November 21, 2024.
Where it’s time to say farewell to Milhouse, or at least the voice actor who plays him on The Simpsons, as Pamela Hayden is retiring from the show after 35 years. 🤯
Thus, Rod Flanders and others will sadly have to find a new person to bring them to life, and somehow capture the joie de vivre that is Jimbo Jones.
YUM 🤤: Meet A24, the chocolate bar. Ya know, it’s always great to see the big ideas finally being able to be executed at a company when new funding comes in the door. Well done! They’re avail at the A24 Shop (right next to the $40 Heretic blueberry pie candle 😳) and at some AMC Theaters soon — but I hear you have to be under 40 to buy them.
AND: Yer Coachella headliners in April are Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Green Day and Post Malone. Yer boy here 🙋♂️ will be nowhere near Coachella in April.
ALSO: Spike Lee is the jury prez for the next Red Sea Film Fest in Saudi Arabia next month.
THEN: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced she indeed will be stepping down on Jan. 20 when Trump takes office.
PLUS: A huzzah to the LPGA⛳️ as it concludes its season this weekend (Nelly Korda is going for her 8th win of the season, which would be the most for a player since 2007). Either way — the LPGA total prize money is going up from $118M this year to $131M for the 2025 season.
Granted, that’s probably the equivalent, oh, 8 LIV tournament events . . . but at least people actually watch the LPGA.
AND: A cheers to UCONN women’s hoops coach Geno Auriemma on becoming the winningest coach in NCAA hoops 🏀 history across men’s and women’s hoops.
WOW: This NYT local voting breakdown map of the shifts for Dems and Republicans in 2024 vs. 2020 is really something. While it wouldn’t have changed the overall outcome, the lack of turnout for Dems/Kamala in good 'ol blue stalwarts of NYC, Chicago and L.A. was quite something — not sure this was so much a “red surge” as it was a “blue deficit” vs. 2020:
NYC changes:
DEM: -573k
REP: +94k
L.A. County:
DEM: -621k
REP: +37k
Chicago (Cook County):
DEM: -295k
REP: +22k
WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL
Well, #Wickedator #Glicked, #Wickediator or SNL’s choice of #Gladicked has finally arrived. So naturally, we must have 2 polls.
Although who would have bet that Wicked would be the longer movie here? 🤯 (2h 41m vs. 2h 28m — good luck with that double feature)
Wicked is tracking at $100M on the low side . . . to more than $130M on the high side.
$65M seems to be the consensus on Gladiator II.
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