Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY July 15, 2022.
Where you can now put a ring on your TIKTOKs – BEYONCE’s brought her music catalog to the platform. And know that I’m at best, only half-proud of that ring line.
PLUS: Writer Eric Weinberg (Co-EP on “Scrubs”, also on “Californication” and Charlie Sheen’s “Anger Management”) arrested on multiple charges of sexual assault from 2012 to 2019.
ALSO: This was just 🤯 to read in July 2022 – 40% of the KANSAS CITY ROYALS baseball team is still unvaxxed. CANADA’s vaxx policy at their border means that 10 of their players including both of their catchers can’t make the trip for their series against TORONTO this weekend. The PHILLIES had 4 players who couldn’t make it earlier this week. That’s fun eh?
AND: Congrats to Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner who welcomed baby #2, a girl who joins her 2 year-old sister Willa.
ALSO IN THIS EDITION:
The core of the MICROSOFT tech that’ll drive NETFLIX’s Ad service… was originally assembled to run the future of HBOMAX, and more on the MICROSOFT deal.
NFT biz slowdown hits OPEN SEA hard.
📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
APPLE TV+ sets Channing Tatum to co-star with Scarlett Johannson in “Project Artemis” pic
This is the movie that Chris Evans dropped out of… as did Jason Bateman as director.
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