Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LINKEDIN here if ya like or email me at seanmcnultynyc@gmail.com), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on SUNDAY, February 15, 2026.

Where META is bringing us closer to a world where I think we’ll all want to put masks back on.

Yes, America’s favorite tech company (poll results pending) is planning to add a facial recognition system to META GLASSES this year, so if you have a FB or INSTA profile, META’s AI can identify you to someone wearing the glasses.

The exact rollout of how wide this net will be is still TBD — it may only show you people you’re connnected to, etc. And yes, I’m sure the AI will totally forget your face if you choose to delete your social profile.

This is all being given the Big Brother-speak branding of “Name Tag.” So, I’m sorry name-tag manufacturers — you’ve been now also been added to the AI industrial trash heap.

This comes just 5 years after FACEBOOK pulled back from automatically tagging you in every photo that exists of you on the platform because it was, ya know, a bit much. IRL is a totally different thing!

THEN: Your Independent Spirit Awards winners will update here this evening.

ALSO: The WASSERMAN Agency is now up for sale because, well, ya know. Agency exec Mike Watts will also now run the day-to-day of the agency, while Casey focuses his attentions on LA28.

Jimmy Fallon is also ending plans for a pasta sauce line with former top SONY MUSIC honcho Tommy Mottola after his ties to Epstein also came out in the latest tranche of Epstein files.

GOOD NEWS!: You can now use the YOUTUBE app on your APPLE Vision Pro headset in the back of your closet.

KUDOS: To Maya Hawke and singer Christian Lee Hutson on their wedding yesterday.

PLUS: DISNEY and PARAMOUNT have both sent cease and desist communications to BYTE DANCE over its new SEEDANCE AI product.

OH: AMAZON’s RING canceled its planned integration with tech surveillance state company FLOCK SAFETY, curiously days after RING’s Super Bowl ad about using its vast network of home security cameras to find lost dogs.

Turns out, FLOCK SAFETY’s surveillance camera system has also been used to find humans too . . . including by ICE to track immigrants, as well as by the police in Texas locate a woman who had a self-administered abortion in the state, according to the ACLU (FLOCK SAFETY mainly tracks license plates on cars to locate folks).

AND: Just a follow up on that new needed train tunnel for Jersey commuters — the Trump administration has released funds to continue that new NYC/NJ rail tunnel after a court order mandated it, with work set to resume on Tuesday after a brief disruption, and a rally by union workers in Jersey on Friday.

However, the administration is still appealing the judge’s decision — with a hearing set for Feb. 23.
Trump had previously agreed to release the funds only if support was given to putting his name was put on Penn Station and Dulles Airport because, in the words of the White House, “Why not?”.

WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL

Wuthering Heights bears take the prize, kudos to the 23%.

FINAL NOTE: I’ll be back on Wednesday, as everyone is off tomorrow.

🎥 THE BOX OFFICE

It’s nice when football is over, isn’t it?

We have 3 new movies each doing decent business . . . and perhaps more notably — some very impressive holds for existing films.

Sadly, Hollywood’s lock on Presidents Day weekend gets a large Super Bowl wrench next year (although that’s only a dent for one evening).

But, here’s what we got for this weekend and where we stand for the year, and whether all of these movies could top just 1 MARVEL film from last year’s Presidents Day.

Then onto the latest moves and rumblings in the WBD saga and the roundup of movie & TV developments from the weekend.