Saturday, September 20, 2025

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from September 14th to 20th, 2025 - UPDATE #7

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

APPLE - From Deadline:  Director Martin Scorsese is eyeing "What Happens at Night" as his next film, with Apple Original Films looking to finance and produce the film.  Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are set to star.

MOVIES - From Deadline:  Director Joseph Kosinski's (F1) "Miami Vice" film is due from Universal on August 6, 2027.  The new film is set in the 1980s.

EMMYS - From THR:  The winners at the 2025 / 77th Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced.  "The Studio" (AppleTV+) won "Outstanding Comedy Series."  "The Pitt" (HBO Max) won "Outstanding Drama Series." "Adolescence" (Netflix) won "Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series."

From Deadline:  And then there was the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards weekend before last.

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro:  The winner of the 9/12 to 9/14/2025 weekend box office is Sony and Crunchyroll's "Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle" with an estimated take of 70 million dollars.

BUSINESS - From Variety:  Why does David Ellison and Skydance want Warner Bros. Discovery now... when waiting could mean taking on less of WBD's debt?

OBITS:

From Variety:  American film actor, director, and producer and Hollywood icon, Robert Redford, has died at the age of 89, Tuesday, September 16, 2025.  Redford's career is so long and his list of credits is so massive, that I'll just hit some of the highlights.  Redford won the Best Director Oscar for "Ordinary People" (1980), and he directed other films including, "Quiz Show" (1994), which earned him a Best Director Oscar nomination, and also "Lions for Lambs" (2007).  Redford received a Best Action Oscar nomination for "The Sting" (1973), but he other acclaimed roles occurred in such films as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "The Candidate" (1972), "The Way We Were" (1973), "The Great Gatsby" (1974), "All the President's Men" (1976), "The Natural" (1984), and a personal favorite, "Sneakers" (1992).  Redford is also known for founding the "Sundance Film Festival," the largest film festival for independent films in the United States.  In 2001, Redford received the "Academic Honorary Award."

From Deadline:  American television writer, producer, and creator, John Masius, died at the age of 75, Saturday, September 13, 2025 from complications of ALS (also known as "Lou Gehrig's disease).  He first came to prominence working on the former CBS drama, "The White Shadow" (1978-81). He is best known for his work on the acclaimed former NBC medical drama, "St. Elsewhere" (1982-87).  He was nominated for 14 Primetime Emmy Awards.  Masius won "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series" twice for his work on "St. Elsewhere."  He is also known for creating such TV series as "Touched by an Angel" (CBS), "Providence" (NBC), and "Hawthorne" (TNT).


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