Trade Round-Up: DiCaprio Not Slowed By Brutal Bottling
· Var loves cute, extended metaphors: WOTW "wages six day War," "invading" nearly 4,000 screens. Who even knew Tom Cruise had a movie coming out? [Variety]
· Carsey-Werner's Tom Werner might be looking for a rebound hook-up with Mandalay Mosaic TV. Drunken, lustful late-night phonecalls to follow. [THR]
· Not even a bottle to the head can slow Leonardo DiCaprio's career, as the healing actor is in negotiations to play a smuggler in The Blood Diamond for Warner Bros. [Variety]
· A record 32 films have crossed the $100 million threshold in the past twelve months? But what about The Slump? We suspect someone is fudging the Euro-to-dollar conversion rates. [THR]
· Unafraid of the Curse of Jeff Zucker, TV production unit Tollins/Robbins sets up a deal to develop and produce for NBC Universal TV Studio. [Variety]