Trade Round-Up: Kate Hudson And The Stallion Team Up
· DVD sales growth stalls, but execs at places like Disney can still wipe with hundred dollar bills from home video sales of The Incredibles ($315 million) and National Treasue ($196 million). [Variety]
· Fox Searchlight plans a Notorious B.I.G. biopic for Antoine Fuqua to direct, will soon be gunned down by a rival studio with a Tupac Shakur movie in development. [THR]
· Kate Hudson will join Owen "The Butterscotch Stallion" Wilson in Universal's You, Me and Dupree. Open memo to Univerasl: Please lose the Seussian title before release. The Stallion will not countenance such cheesy, singsong nonsense. [Variety]
· News five people care about: Fredric Reynolds, considered frontrunner for the CFO gig at soon-to-be-created CBS Corp. gives Viacom an unexpected kiss-off. [THR]
· Everything that's wrong with television, in one easy sentence: At about $400,000 each per episode of King of Queens, Leah Remini and Kevin James might be the two highest paid actors on network TV. [Variety]