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A sleepy trade round-up for Christmas Eve:
· I Am Legend continues to clean up overseas, accidentally giving foreigners the impression that Manhattan is a sparsely populated American island with inexpensive real estate and some overzealous homeless people. [Variety]
· Much like the war in Iraq, except with fewer babies on the front lines, the writers strike proves elusive in putting a face on the enemy. [Variety]
· 2007 will go down as The Year the World's Biggest Stars Proved to be Gigantic, Useless Wastes of Hundreds of Millions of Studio Dollars. We're looking at you, Pitt, Cruise, Kidman, and Cera. Oh—strike that last one. Kid's on fire. [Variety]

· Worldwide Pants offering Late Show With David Letterman and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson remain the only two late night talk shows without firm plans to return to the air, after direct negotiations with the WGA resulted in no agreement. The WGA released a "terse" statement reading, "A lively exchange of information took place. The WGAW and WGAE will not comment further." Pants responded by teasing an all-new edition of Stupid Negotiator Tricks should talks not end up going their way. [THR]
· Letterman's efforts to forge an interim deal with the Guild echoes the efforts of his idol, Johnny Carson, who undertook similar efforts in the 1988 strike before returning without them, with only his best "Wayne Newton is really gay" material to get him through the monologues. [THR]