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Emmy 2025 Breakdown, Cameron Diaz’s Bad Day, and A24’s Goblin.
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The Emmy nominations marked a territorial shift of who owns prestige TV.
HBO came out on top with a monstrous 142 nominations.
Netflix, which eats everyone’s lunch in terms of monthly viewing, watch time/day, and subs, came in second with a staggering 121 nominations.
Apple had some of the highest-nominated shows with Severance (27) and The Studio (23) making up over 60% of the studio’s 81 noms, their personal record. Not bad for a six-year-old studio.
There were also some major disappointments, like Prime and Paramount+ being overlooked for all above-the-line nominations.
Interestingly, two Oscar-winning directors, Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard, got some love, but for acting. Apple TV+’s The Studio minted these two directors' nominations for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. They share the category with six-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston, also for The Studio, whom I loved as the righteously unhinged, sloshed, bumbling boss in the final episodes.
Here is a breakdown of the 2025 Emmy Nominations by the numbers:
0: nominations
Paul Giamatti (Black Mirror)
Danny McBride (Righteous Gemstones)
Eddie Redmayne (Day of the Jackal)
Diego Luna (Andor)
Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)
Jon Hamm (Your Friends & Neighbors), the Apple TV+ show, only received 1 nom for theme music
Elisabeth Moss (Handmaid’s Tale)
Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones 4)
Kevin Kline (Disclaimer)
Patrick Schwarzenegger, Leslie Bibb (White Lotus)
Taylor Sheridan (creator: Landman, 1923)
Christopher Storer (creator: The Bear)
Squid Game S2
1st: Emmy Nomination
Harrison Ford, Shrinking (Apple TV+)
Javier Bardem and Cooper Koch Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)
Ayo Edebiri (1st directing nom), The Bear (FX)
Triple Oscar-winning DP, Emmanuel Lubezki, Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
Brit Lower, Severance S2 (Apple TV+)
Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti, The Penguin (HBO)
Stephen Graham, Adolescence (Netflix)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+)
Rebel Ridge (Netflix)
2: nominations
Catherine O’Hara (The Studio, The Last of Us)
Julianne Nicholson (Paradise, Hacks)
Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal (Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing)
HBO’s Somebody Somewhere S3 (Outstanding Supporting Actor, Outstanding Writing). These are the now-cancelled series’ only nominations.
3: lifetime nominations
Brian Tyree Henry (2025 nom: Dope Thief, the show’s only nomination. Previous noms: Atlanta, This Is Us)
0 & 6: Zero 2025 Oscar wins and Six 2025 Emmy nominations
Will & Harper (Netflix)
23 nominations - most ever for a new comedy series
The Studio (Apple)
26: Years since their last Emmy nomination
Noah Wyle (The Pitt in 2026)
Noah Wyle (ER in 1999)
27: nominations - most nominated show
Severance (S2)
35: nominations for FX (down from 93 in 2024)
13 for The Bear
8 for Dying for Sex
62: Years between the youngest supporting actor nominee and the oldest Best Drama actress nominee
15-year-old Owen Cooper, Adolescence (Netflix)
77-year-old Kathy Bates, Matlock (CBS)
81: Nominations
Apple (most ever, topping last year’s 72)
120: Nominations for Netflix
142: Nominations for HBO (their highest ever)
24 for The Penguin
23 for The White Lotus (S3)
16 for The Last of Us
14 for Hacks (S4)
Combining Disney+ with its other streaming services, Hulu, and FX, The Walt Disney Company has a total of 137 nominations.
Amazon had a down year with 12 total nominations, nothing above-the-line in fiction. But it got an Emmy nom for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for I Am: Celine Dion. Their flagship prestige show Étoile, from the creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was given 2 noms (Choreography, Cinematography).
Paramount+ also didn’t receive a single above-the-line nomination, with only seven total nominations.
Here is a sampling of our favorite reactions to garnering a nomination:
Stephen Graham (Adolescence star and co-creator) stated:
“Look, give me a gun and let me shoot an alien, that’s fine. That has its place. But if you look at the choices that I have made personally throughout my career… were inspired by these great social realistic dramas…”
Adam Scott stated:
“I try to keep myself severed, for lack of a better term, so I try to keep myself in a default position of assuming nothing’s going to happen… and being pleasantly surprised if anything goes in a positive direction.”
The Studio’s co-creator, Evan Goldberg, said:
“My mother never wanted me to grow up to make a bunch of filthy R-rated comedies, but she is really proud today.”
Below is a list of 77th Emmy nominations:
https://theindustry.co/p/emmy-2025-nominations
THE INDUSTRY TLDR
The Soulmate is being adapted by Made Up Stories (Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers).
Colin Greten joins New Regency as VP of Film.
Cameron Diaz stars in Netflix’s Bad Day.
Lily-Rose Depp joins Alpha Gang and Werwulf.
Dennis Haysbert joins Higher Love.
Better stars Tom Hopper as rival twins.
Jon M. Chu’s animated Seuss adaptation, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! casts Ariana Grande.
Andrea Gibson of Come See Me in the Good Light dies at 49.
David Mikalson lands A24 feature with viral script The Goblin.
Joseph & Vanessa Winter (Deadstream) helm a fresh Amityville take.
Harris Dickinson’s Urchin (premiere: Cannes) acquired by 1-2 Special.
Magnolia acquires doc A Savage Art on cartoonist Pat Oliphant.
Locarno doc Nova ’78 revisits a historic counterculture gathering.
THE INDUSTRY NEWS
The Soulmate, the bestselling novel from author Sally Hepworth, is being made for the small screen from producer Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, HBO’s The Undoing). The novel follows an envious married couple whose idyllic life takes a turn for the worse. Made Up Stories is joining forces with Imogen Banks (creator: Tubi’s The Offspring).
New Regency (Deadpool & Wolverine) has hired Colin Greten as the new VP of Film. Greten was previously a creative production exec at 20th Century, where he oversaw Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021) and The Amateur. Regency is in growth mode, expanding its upcoming slate of high-profile films.
Streaming gains over Cable + Broadcast. Last month, the share of consumers who watch TV on streaming topped those who watch it on Cable + Broadcast. Now those margins are higher with streaming at 46% and Cable + Broadcast at 41.9%. YouTube accounts for 12.8% of all TV viewing and 28% of all streaming viewership. That’s a whopping 54% larger share than Netflix and a 250% larger share than Disney. Full breakdown from Nielsen here.
Mini Tidbit:
The LA County Board voted to streamline permitting, lower fees, and speed up approvals, a major win for anyone trying to film in LA without losing their mind.
Trailers:
Prime’s The Map That Leads to You
Dir: Lasse Hallström (Chocolat)
Stans
Produced by and featuring Eminem
The Network’s Exposure
THE ACTOR SPOTLIGHT
Cameron Diaz is having a bad day. In Netflix’s Bad Day, Cameron’s character must trek through a modern society filled with petty inconveniences that keep her from her daughter’s birthday party. It’s said to share a lot of DNA with Falling Down (1993, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall trailer).
The actress is having a good year, after unretiring for Netflix’s Back in Action (cover story), a film that is Netflix’s 6th highest watched film of all time with 147.2M views.
Diaz’s torturous need to obscure the truth from her children in that film was played for comic effect. In Bad Day, we can’t wait to see what she comes up with to tell her daughter.
Shooting this fall.
Shaun of the Dead actor Nick Frost has transformed into the fan-favorite lovable half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in a first look image on the set of HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series.
A lot like Robbie Coltrane’s gentle giant Hagrid, Frost most recently starred in Universal’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon as Gobber, a veteran warrior but comforting father figure to a young Hiccup.
Debuting on HBO in 2027.
Lily-Rose Depp and the Double Casting Announcements. Depp will play an alien in the Zellner Brothers’ (dir: Sasquatch Sunset) Alpha Gang. She will play one of the aliens disguised as a 1950s leather-clad biker gang who get derailed when they discover human emotions. Depp has a gesticular, guttural quality that will work well for Alpha Gang’s zaniness. Chris Pine and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) have also been cast.
Depp is also starring in Rob Eggers’ Werwulf along with Aaron-Taylor Johnson. Depp gave a blisteringly manic portrayal of sexual possession in Eggers’ previous Nosferatu. Focus Features distributes with the production kicking off in September.
Upcoming drama feature Higher Love casts Dennis Haysbert (Far from Heaven) in one of its lead roles.
Logline:
A man's wife faces a severe health crisis, forcing an impossible choice and leading him into caregiving, solitude, and a surprising friendship.
Haysbert’s character has not been confirmed. But his role as President David Palmer in Fox’s 24 displayed his sense of integrity and quiet strength, which would translate effectively for Higher Love. Production kicks off next month.
Tidbits:
Psychological thriller CRCL9 is led by Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Ugly Stepsister), who possesses a duality as an actress to appear one way, different from who she really is. From Chris Weitz’s Depth of Field (Prod. Co. About a Boy), CRCL9 follows a young woman who is targeted by an online stalker and as the danger of the situation heightens she starts to play along. In the Sundance body horror film, The Ugly Stepsister (trailer), the Norwegian actress first appears to be innocent and graceful, but is actually arrogant and complicit. Production on CRCL9 has officially wrapped.
Dash Pictures (Frontier) is giving scripted projects a try with Better, a suspense film that sees The Umbrella Academy’s Tom Hopper as identical twins. Hopper stars as a man who meets his long-lost identical twin, who appears to be much better than him in every way, sparking a crisis of dangerous proportions. The plot sounds like Three Identical Strangers (2018) with the tension and darkness of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013).
Ariana Grande will voice a lead role in Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, a 2028 animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s beloved book, directed by a familiar collaborator, Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu. Grande joins other musically inclined individuals Josh Gad (Frozen). Wicked seems to have helped her find a musical niche.
Mini Tidbits:
Bleecker Street’s Spinal Tap II features cameos by Paul McCartney and Elton John, which makes sense as director Rob Reiner says the film celebrates aging performers who still love playing music. Spinal Tap II releases September 12th.
Newfoundlander Natasha Henstridge and Joshua Close (Fargo) join Josh Hartnett in Jesse McKeown’s untitled Newfoundland-set series about a mysterious sea creature terrorizing a remote seaside town. Cur
The co-star of Sundance’s Come See Me in the Good Light, Andrea Gibson, has passed away at 49. The film followed two poets, one with an incurable cancer diagnosis. It’s billed as being funny, though.
INDIE FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT / FESTIVALS
David Mikalson is a true indie discovery. A24 is giving him roughly $6M for his first feature.
It came about after his feature script, The Goblin, which he’d spent some time/money developing, went viral around Hollywood, with everyone wanting to take a meeting.
I’m excited to see what he does with the film, which is said to be E.T. meets Ted. His previous short film Stuck (2020) is a gross-out body horror film set in a gymnasium. I like Mikalson’s masterful eye for creating narrative tension through long takes and clever editing (full short).
BoulderLight Pictures (Companion) and Divide/Conquer (Blackphone 2) are teaming up on Amityville, a new take on the real-life Amityville crimes.
Directed by the Deadstream duo, Joseph and Vanessa Winter, from their own script. Deadstream (trailer) showed a mastery of found footage and some incredibly gnarly practical monster effects.
While inspired by the real-life events at 112 Ocean Avenue, the film will not reference the DeFeo murders, instead choosing to use the tone and location as a jumping-off point, currently in production.
Original 1979 version trailer.
Harris Dickinson’s Cannes directorial debut, Urchin, is picked up by 1-2 Special (distributor: Cannes official selection: A Poet, Cannes Director’s Fortnight: Miroirs No.3).
Urchin follows an unhoused man, Mike, who struggles in a world where empathy is lacking, yet desperately longs for it at every turn.
The respect Dickinson pays to the character of Mike, to show his imperfections instead of painting him as a saint, shows his talent for showcasing human stories.
Releasing this fall. Clip.
Tidbits:
Magnolia Pictures has acquired A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant, a documentary about the influential, Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist. Directed by Bill Banowsky, the film explores Oliphant’s five-decade career and the role of satire in democracy. It hits U.S. theaters Sept. 5.
Locarno-premiering doc Nova ’78 revisits the iconic 1978 Nova Convention, a counterculture mecca featuring William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, and others, utilizing restored 16mm footage. Teaser here.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Move aside, Peppa Pig, Bluey is the new top dog.
Bluey, the widely popular and commercially successful Australian children’s program, was named the most-streamed program in the U.S. in 2024, which primarily drove growth in BBC Studios’ consumer products division.
BBC had a record-breaking 2024/25 year:
Total Revenues: €2.2bn ($2.96bn)
↑ 15.6% (2023/24)
EBITDA: $303M (2024/25)
↑ 11.4% (2023/24)
For the BBC, this marks the fourth consecutive year of profits exceeding $296M.
BBC Commercial has exceeded expectations, delivering $1.38bn in the first three years of their five-year commitment, attempting to meet $2.02bn by 2026/27.
Tidbit:
After La Salsa Vive’s box office success, producer Diego F. Ramírez launched 64A Docs, a new label, with the goal of spotlighting Colombia’s cultural impact through documentaries on salsa, Afro festivals, and Indigenous heritage.
ON THIS DAY
1967. Will Ferrell born in Irvine, California.
Written by Gabriel Miller, Spencer Carter, and Madelyn Menapace.
Editor: Gabriel Miller.
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