Trade Round-Up: Sly Does Poe
· Warner Home Video's "godfather of DVD" Warren Lieberfarb sues his former employer, claiming he was "hoodwinked" by the conglomerate into accepting the "magic beans" of worthless stock options from the conglomerate to compensate him for his role in creating the "Wondrous All-Purpose Opti-Platter" that revolutionized home entertainment. [Variety]
· 24 wins the key demo on the last Monday of the season for Fox, while CBS gets its first look at Two and a Half Men's reign of Monday night sitcom terror. [THR]
· Reality television Apocalypse-bringer Endemol girds itself for the day when people will no longer want to watch people gobble various unsavory parts of a horse's reproductive system, adding a scripted television division. [Variety]
· BBC staffers go on strike, halting almost all of the network's news and live programming, and having virtually no repercussions for anyone in the United States. [THR]
· Sylvester Stallone wants Robert Downey Jr. to star in Poe, a movie on the life of Edgar Allen Poe that he's written and plans to direct. Oscar-worthy scene: A montage demonstrates Poe's arduous preparation before penning "The Cask of Amontillado," where the author spent three grueling months in Siberia huffing ether and dragging huge logs behind him. [Variety]