WB plans to bring back OCEANS 11 with Margot RobbieUNI sets Momoa for action comedy / The NBA & China have made up? / STARZ gets into Ava DuVernay biz
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY May 20, 2022. Where let’s have our Friday morning coffee enjoying the views at Emma Stone’s MALIBU house (she won’t mind, she already bought a new place outside Austin). And for just $4.295 Million (use the extra $5k to splurge on the coffee), it can be all yours everyday.
ALSO: Congrats to RiRi on her BiBi! Ok yes fine, baby. No word on a name. PLUS: Dave Chappelle’s on-stage attacker was arrested for allegedly stabbing a man back in December at a transitional housing facility. AND: HARRY STYLES’s “One Night Only In New York” (on Long Island) concert tonight will live stream on APPLE MUSIC for their subscribers. Link to watch is here, and kicks off at 9p EST. Link to his… rather chill new album Harry’s House down in the PLAYING ME OFF section at the bottom of this email of course. 📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
WB looking to revive “Oceans 11” franchise with Margot Robbie starringJay Roach is on board to direct, pic will be set in 1960’s Europe so this sounds more like an attempt to create a new take on a… pretty perfect movie, which always works out well. Carrie Solomon is writing the script (she doesn’t seem to have any produced writing credits?). No greenlight yet but WB is hoping to shoot Spring 2023. /THR UNI sets Jason Momoa to star in action comedy “Shots! Shots! Shots!”Which should make a nice double feature someday with Pete Davidson’s upcoming “Bodies Bodies Bodies”. Also… I think Jason Momoa is now booked through 2025. Oh right the movie - described as “True Lies” + “Taken” + “The Lost City” so… it’s an action pic. Script being written now, Jason also producing. /THR SEARCHLIGHT / HULU sets $25 Million deal for Amy Adams comedic horror pit from ANNAPURNACalled “Nightbitch”, about a mom raising a toddler in the suburbs who thinks she’s slowly turning into a dog. Based on a book by Rachel Yoder who also wrote the script for the “darkly comic neo-horror” project to drop on HULU in the US. So, guessing “Fresh” did pretty well for HULU this year. Marielle Heller (”Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) directing. /Variety ALSO IN MOVIES
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“Stranger Things 4” MONOPOLY game mistakenly drops early… reveals spoilersAh retailers… sounds like games were shipped a bit early and like a sneaker drop gone wrong, some were either sold to people… fell off a truck… or a guy knew a guy… but either way images of cards that reveal S4 plot points have been showing up online before the game’s official planned release. Duffer Bros were… not a fan. Especially as it sounds like they weren’t consulted about the game. /THR
STARZ orders potential 3 seasons of new Ava Duvernay dramaScript to series commitment (so if STARZ likes the initial script/s, the show gets a 3 Season order), untitled half-hour relationship drama starring Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff (“Eternals”). About two opposites who attract (one is ambitious, commitment centric, Black and deaf, the other is restless, not-so-much on relationships, White and hearing. Thinking you’ve figured out who is playing whom). Ava now overseeing the writing with her team. /Deadline ALSO IN TV
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- “Jerry Maguire” quote that WBD CEO David “Zaz” Zaslav has reportedly been using often on the lot according to the WSJ’s look at Zaz’s early days at WBD, including:
THE ANKLER asked around town for thoughts on working with DISNEY Streaming Strategy decider Kareem Daniels since… there is very little written about the person who decides where DISNEY kingdom Movie & TV projects will be released.
Here’s the story of SNL’s Please Don’t Destroy comedy trio for any other big fans out there. Turns out they were literally still doing day jobs at ice cream shops and temp jobs in NYC when they debuted on the show. /THR This Q&A with IFC head Arianna Bocco on the state of the Independent Film Theatrical and Streaming biz in 2022 had some good, front line perspectives. Plus she’s renovating a movie theater near where I’m from in Jersey so . FRIDAYIN THEATERS:
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🎥 TRAILER HOUSEAMAZON PRIME “The Terminal List” series teaser - Chris Pratt stars in a series about a Navy Seal operation that went south… which may not have been what it seems, co-starring Taylor Kitsch. Premieres Fri July 1  NETFLIX “The Umbrella Academy” Season 3 trailer - Premieres Wed June 22  APPLE TV+ “Prehistoric Planet” trailer 2 - Premieres Mon May 23  PARAMOUNT+ “Evil” Season 3 trailer - Way different tonal presentation for this show than what CBS used to do… and I’d personally say more intriguing. Definitely not as just, well, dark. Premieres Sun June 12  NETFLIX Letterman with Ryan Reynolds, about the time he got an earring at 12 years old, and last clip I’ll post! You can Stream whatever ya like here.  🎧 PLAYING ME OFFHere’s the new HARRY STYLES album on Spotify, and man is this a chill album… but here’s a song that I’m guessing will get a lot of chatter this weekend, speculating on the lyrics.  If you need some new tunes: Email me anytime - just Reply to this email, or connect here on LINKED IN. -SEAN MCNULTY @theseanmac on TWITTER @TheWakeupNews on INSTAGRAM
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