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· The DGA agrees on a new three year deal with the networks and studios, getting better health care, but losing out on issues of DVD residuals and reality TV jurisdiction. The WGA's strategy of sitting around and seeing what the directors could get has officially come back to bite them on their collective-bargaining asses. [Variety, sub. req'd]
· SAG shows the status-quo-loving WGA how it's done, using their elections to enact a change in leadership. [THR]
· The MGM and Sony deal is finally done, freeing us up to never think about it again. Well, at least until the layoffs start. [THR]

·Long-lost-parent-returning-to-meddle-in-neglected-child's-life-with-unexpected-wacky- but-sometimes-poignant-consequences alert: Chazz Palminteri will star in an NBC comedy pilot from the creators of Ed, playing a father trying to connect with the son he left as a baby. [THR]
· Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson will star in the feel-good-but-sort-of-true-lawyer-defends-exorcism-performing-priest-and-gets- back-her-faith movie The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel. OK, we've never seen a movie idea quite like this, but we're really enjoying derisively sticking hyphens everywhere this morning. [Variety, sub. req'd]
· Zombies are still hot! Dennis Hopper, Simon Baker and John Leguizamo join Asia Argento in Universal's The Land of the Dead from zombie auteur George A. Romero. This had better have those fast zombies, and not the boring, shuffling kind, or all zombie-related buzz will be rescinded. [THR]