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Trade Round-Up: Vaughn To Be Stuck In $20 Million Chimney

mark · 02/27/06 03:03PM

In case you've fallen down a well (in which case we thank you for still reading this site via your mobile phone or PDA): Stacey Snider leaves Universal to become CEO and co-chair of DreamWorks. Successor at Universal TBD. [Variety, THR]
Vince Vaughn might pop his $20 million cherry by re-teaming with Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin for Fred Claus, the story of Santa's loser brother. With that kind of paycheck, Vaughn inches ever closer to the day he doesn't need to date Jennifer Aniston anymore to help his career. [Variety]
· Former The WB wonderboy Jordan Levin helps form Generate, a management-production firm that has already partnered up with MTV to ensnare teenagers by developing content for every media platform that currently divides their split-second attention spans. [THR]
It's not quite Aquaman: The Motion Picture, but James Cameron continues his love-affair with the mysteries of the deep by signing up to direct The Dive, the tragic story of freediver Francisco "Pipin" Ferraras. [Variety]
· The Dancing with the Stars finale does nice Sunday night numbers for ABC. Intrigued by the Nielsen success, the network will test its theory that *anything* can succeed in the Desperate Housewives timeslot, scheduling a bold relaunch of Emily's Reason's Why Not for the weekend after the Oscars. [Variety]