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· How you can tell we're in the middle of the holiday news draught (besides items on Zellweger's falsies): Variety looks at the video game companies that won't let Hollywood make shitty movies out of Halo and Grand Theft Auto. [Variety, sub. req'.d.]
· Academy members report that many screener discs don't work, or worse, fail in mid-movie. Alexander's awards chances have increased exponentially. [Variety]
· The renegade film critics of San Diego choose abortion over wine, shaking off the Sideways peer pressure to name Vera Drake their film of the year. [THR]
· Comedy Central signs up Jimmy Kimmel sidekick Adam Carolla for his own talk show, which should somewhat dull the sting of losing the Late Late Show to Craig Ferguson. [THR]
· A judge dismisses the conflict-of-interest suit against SAG CEO Bob Pisano for being on the board of Netflix. This decision frees up SAG for the same kind of collective bargaining buggering that the studios recently gave to the DGA and WGA. [THR]