Negromancer News Bits and Bites from October 12th to 18th, 2025 - UPDATE #9

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

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NEWS:

EMMYS - Deadline:  The winners at the 2025 / 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards have been announced.  ABC's long-running soap, "General Hospital," wins "Outstanding Drama Series."

MOVIES - From TheWrap:  Jim Carrey is in talks to star in Warner Bros. Pictures' live-action film based on the classic Hanna-Barbera animated series, "The Jetsons."  Colin Trevorrow of "Jurassic World" fame is set to co-write and direct.

MOVIES - From Variety:  There is new information on Mel Gibson's two-part film sequel to his 2004 hit, "The Passion of the Christ." First, Finnish actor, Jaacko Ohtonen, will replace Jim Caviezel as "Jesus Christ." "The Resurrection of the Christ Part One" will arrive Good Friday, March 26, 2026, and the "The Resurrection of the Christ Part Two" is set to arrive 40 days later on May 6, 2026, which is also the holy day known as "the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord." Lionsgate is handling theatrical distribution of the film which started shooting in Italy last week.

DISNEY - From THR:  Disney+ will stream the six-issue docuseries, "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era," beginning with the first two episodes on December 12, 2025.

HARRY POTTER - From People:  The first set photos of actor John Lithgow as "Professor Albus Dumbledore" in HBO's upcoming "Harry Potter" have arrived.

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro:  The winner of the 10/10 to 10/12/2025 weekend box office is Walt Disney Pictures' "Tron: Ares" with an estimated take of 33.5 million dollars.

MOVIES - From Deadline:  David Ellison and Paramount‘s planned acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has an obstacle – CEO David Zaslav.  Plus, Netflix or Amazon could be looking to add some WBD IP to their balance sheets.

OBITS:

From RollingStone:  American musician and recording artist, Ace Frehley, has died at the age of 74, Thursday, October 16, 2025.  Frehley was a founding member of the rock band, Kiss, where he was known as "The Spaceman" and "Space Ace." Frehely and was the band's lead guitarist and occasional lead singer from 1973 to 1972, when he departed the band.  He formed his own group, "Frehley's Comet," and also recorded as a solo artist.  He rejoined Kiss in 1996 for a reunion tour and again departed the band in 2002. Frehley was inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" in 2014 as a member of Kiss.  As a member of Kiss, Frehley received one Grammy Award nomination ("Best Hard Rock Performance" for "Psycho Circus"), which is, to date, the only Grammy Award nomination Kiss has ever received.

From Variety:  American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, and recording artist, D'Angelo, has died at the age of 51, Tuesday, October 14, 2025 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.  D'Angelo was best known as a pioneer of the neo-soul movement.  He released three acclaimed studio albums, "Brown Sugar" (1995), "Voodoo: (2000), and "Black Messiah" (2014), the last with his band, "The Vanguard." He was nominated for 14 Grammy Awards and won four times, two of those for "Best R&B Album." A fourth studio album will be released posthumously.

From THR:  American artist, illustrator, and cover designer, Drew Struzan, has died at the age of 78, Monday, October 13, 2025, after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.  Struzan is best known for the over 150 movie poster he painted, including for "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), "Blade Runner" (1982), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), "Back to the Future" (1985), "Coming to America" (1988), "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001), and "Hellboy" (2004), to name a few.  Struzan was a favorite of directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Guillermo del Toro.