Trade Round-Up: Shyamalan Shitcans UTA, Falls Into CAA's Poaching Embrace
· Following in the footsteps of fellow sickly A-lister Jim Carrey, M. Night Shyamalan shitcans his longtime rep at UTA, succumbing to CAA's promises to lovingly suckle him back to health with the career-restorative milk flowing from its pair of demon teats. Details are sure to follow, but we're sure that the sudden dumping occurred at the end of a meeting in which the twist-happy director deceived his former agency into believing he would remain with them forever, no matter how cold his career had become. [Variety]
· AOL is close to poaching NBC TV Group president Randy Falco. Feel free to be utterly titillated or completely uninterested by this executive-shuffling development. [THR]
Variety eulogizes the VHS tape. You will weep openly for the obsolete format that once brought you so much joy, then smash your tape-rewinder in agony over the loss. [Variety]
Astounding numbers of people continue to be interested in Dancing with the Stars, which scores 26.7 million viewers with its last performance show. Additonally, the premiere of William Shatner's gameshow, Show Me the Money, proves decidedly less shat-tastic than its exuberantly shat-punning ads promised. [THR]
The Weinstein Company signs an exclusive four-year video rental deal with Blockbuster, cruelly withholding titles like Bobby and School for Scoundrels from the world's crap-craving Netflix queues. [Variety]