Trade Round-Up: Hollywood Is On Vacation
· Morris Chestnut will star in the NBC pilot Dante, which "revolves around the life and family of a football superstar who has an extra-large sense of entitlement and often is out of touch with reality," and seemingly based on a character from a Budweiser commercial. If they wanted to steal from beer commercials, why can't we have 22 minutes of those two chicks catfighting in bikinis? Or those "Wassssup?" guys. We kinda miss them. [THR]
· Chicago film critics lay down in front of the Sideways steamroller. [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· Disney settles with the SEC for failing to disclose the "lucrative relationships" that the company had with relatives of board members. Oopsies! Were they supposed to let shareholders know they were hiring family members? [THR]
· Showtime euthanizes Dead Like Me after two seasons, but signs up a TV version of Barbershop. We think it's so adorable that Showtime keeps trying to make its own shows, but they should probably stick with their winning formula of hot gays and lesbians. [Variety]
· CBS quite logically selects the Irish Jonathan Rhys-Meyers to play Irish folk music icon Elvis Presley in a miniseries. [Variety]