Universal And DreamWorks Hooking Up?
The NY Post reports (exclusively, they might add, in bold and all-caps) that DreamWorks' live-action studio had a little too much to drink, picked up a telephone, and asked NBC Universal if it could come over "just to talk." NBC-Uni knew that if it didn't tell DreamWorks, "OK, you can stop by, but NOTHING is going to happen, not even if you beg and threaten to cry all night until we agree to acquire you," the studio would keep calling all until it finally gave in. The next morning, things were a little awkward—couldn't DreamWorks have asked first before borrowing the tooth brush?—but everyone insists that things aren't serious, they're just talking, that's all. And would anyone be that surprised if DreamWorks got sloshed and started calling everyone in its address book, just so it could feel pretty again? It's got some self-esteem issues since The Island flopped.