Trade Round-Up: Kirsten Dunst Deployed To Iraq
· "Major" directors Cameron Crowe and Tony Scott are plunged into dark waters of existential anguish after being trounced by a shitty horror remake this weekend. [Variety]
· According to a THR report, NBC won't renew its NASCAR deal past 2006, preferring that all of the network's fiery wrecks occur on its primetime schedule. [THR]
· The proposed sale of DreamWorks grows still more complicated; despite press reports, Var says that NBC Universal has not increased its offer to buy Steven Spielberg's failed dreams, and new bidder Paramount has expressed its interest in being used as a ploy to drive up the price of the inevitable sale to NBC Uni. [Variety]
· Even if the other networks ran live coverage of Jesus Christ's return on Sunday night, ABC's Desperate Housewives would still trounce them in the Nielsens. [THR]
· Headline of the day: "Par sends Dunst to Iraq." Don't get your hopes up, she's been cast as a relief worker killed by suicide bomber, not punished by Paramount for Elizabethtown's weak opening. [Variety]