Trade Round-Up: SAG Gets Shaft On DVDs
· After watching the DGA and WGA go down in flames negotiating for increased DVD residuals, SAG/AFTRA gives up the dream after facing "rock-hard resistance from studios and nets." But everyone knew they were going to get bent over and given the "rock-hard" shaft after the writers and directors hummed their way through their earlier buggerings. [Variety]
· Despite The Big Pitt and Aniston Break-Up, Plan B and Tri-Star will soon start production on the adaptation of Running with Scissors, starring Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, and Joseph Fiennes. [Variety]
· More Brad and Jen: Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be a test case for whether or not banging your co-star before a very public split with your A-list wife results in increased box office. God, we hope it does, just for all the studio-ordered affairs. [THR]
· Huzzah! The overall deal is not yet dead! Darren Star is close to signing a three-year deal with Sony Pictures TV. OK, it's not dead if your last project was Sex and the City. [THR]
· Fox and Spelling TV team up for one hour drama set in a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Please, kill us now, and make it painful. It'll still be better than an hour of this. [THR]