Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LINKEDIN here if ya like or e-mail me at [email protected]), and right here’s the Hollywood + Media information to know on Thursday, September 11, 2025.
Where earlier than we dive into the occasions of the day throughout the media & leisure enterprise, it’s necessary to take a second to start out with the place my thoughts actually begins on Sept. 11 yearly in NYC, now 24 years later.
AND: NJ’s Montclair Film Fest set NETFLIX’s Jay Kelly as its opening film, in addition to:
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BLACK BEAR’s Christy because the closing night time movie
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SEARCHLIGHT’s Rental Family because the centerpiece
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APPLE TV+’s Come See Me In the Good Light because the featured doc
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Fest begins Oct. 17, pre-sale begins Sept. 29
YAH: Season 2 of AMAZON’s Beast Games was given an up to $15M grant from the North Carolina authorities as a part of the state’s incentive program (observe the time period “grant” was used, not a tax incentive, but it surely looks like the targets of using individuals and spending cash within the state are the identical).
UH: If you misplaced 1.4 tons of cocaine in your final superyacht journey — I’ve excellent news and dangerous information.
YUP: French streaming music platform DEEZER reported that 28% of the songs uploaded to the service each day are fully AI-generated, amounting to about 30k+ songs a day. #AISlop
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That quantity was 20k+ simply 5 months in the past.
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70% of the performs on the AI songs had been additionally deemed to be fraudulent in response to the corporate’s AI detection system.
ALSO: Bad Bunny, one of many world’s largest recording artists, has decided to skip the U.S. entirely on his tour explicitly as a consequence of issues that the U.S. authorities will use the occasions as raiding alternatives to harass or spherical up followers who’re merely attending a music live performance.
THEN: AMAZON joined the autonomous driving taxi business today, as its ZOOX enterprise (sadly, it appears the title ZOINKS was already taken by a man named Scooby) began accepting rides from most of the people at this time on the Vegas strip — and get them whereas they’re free, as the corporate continues to be awaiting full regulatory approval.
AH: The swamp draining continues . . . because the Trump admin has halted the I.R.S.’ efforts to shut down a bunch of aggressive tax shelters utilized by wealthy folks and American firms. Finally, I catch a break!
PLUS: Having extra cops in NYC subway stations appears to have helped the crime price, as major crimes in the subway system hit 15-year lows this summer.
The forecasts for the SONY CRUNCHYROLL Demon Slayer pic are . . . I believe “vast” covers it. The conservative facet is $35M to $40M. The considerably bullish of us are round $50M+, and a few very bullish of us are round $65M to $70M+. So, let’s simply solid 3 tranches.
Zaz got here to play with a WB/D divorce timeline replace, and a few film group, HBO MAX and NCS intel steering too (a dive into Mark Shapiro’s feedback on TKO income development, UFC int’l rights and extra follows down within the sports activities media part as properly).