Trade Round-Up: Clint Inches Closer To Oscar
· Clint Eastwood wins the Directors Guild Award for Million Dollar Baby. We can almost hear Martin Scorcese's Oscar hopes fading away. [THR]
· Forty Shades of Blue wins Sundance's dramatic competition, while audiences somewhat predictably pick Hustle & Flow, Paramount's nine million dollar baby. [Variety]
· News that five people care about: Nicole Kidman parks her vanity production company, Blueprint Films, with Initial Entertainment Group. [Variety]
· The Daily Show ranter Lewis Black signs up for a television development deal with Sony for an eventual show "built around his cantankerous stage persona." Hopefully that won't translate to playing a widower with two adorable daughters and a well-meaning-but-overbearing mother who moves in to help raise the kids. [THR]
· Spike TV announces that president Albie Hecht is "stepping down," with Comedy Central's Doug Herzog likely annexing the job into his part of the Viacom empire. Somewhere, Les Moonves is cackling and stroking a white cat. [Variety]