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· This should make up for Hannibal: Oliver Stone's next project is a G.W. biopic titled simply, Bush. (Why is the frat boy in us suddenly compelled to add the words National Lampoon's to the beginning of that?) To play the Greatest American President Currently Holding Office—Josh Brolin, who's looking forward to taking on a role in which he gets to turn the figurative pitbulls on everyone else for a change. [Variety]
· Just days after the DGA reached a quick and dirty deal with AMPTP, the WGA announces that they have ended the negotiation stalemate, and that "informal" talks have been set, just as soon as the two sides can settle on which Koo Koo Roo sides would be acceptable for the catering. [Variety]
· DreamWorks Animation entered into a multibillion-dollar deal to build a theme park in Dubai. Michael Jackson must be rolling in his oxygen chamber for having left the country so tantalizingly close to the grand opening of Donkey and Puss n' Boots's Wacky Wave Pool. [Variety]

· Seeing a golden opportunity to clear their development docket of pilot stinkers, CBS has killed 20 projects, trotting them out single file to an abandoned studio on the Television City lot, where they were doused in gasoline and burned alive, with only their scorched brads left behind as proof that they ever existed at all. [THR]
· Penelope Cruz's voice talents have been secured by superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer to play Juarez, a literal guinea pig, in live-action/CG film G-Force. You read correctly: No face, no boobs, just her voice. [THR]