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Var on the recent layoffs at THR: cost-cutting newsroom pinkslips, executive axings. THR on the THR layoffs: Exciting new opportunities for promotion from within! [Variety, THR]
Sony Pictures hits the $3 billion box office mark this year (thanks, Da Vinci Code!), a milestone only achieved by other studios three times in the past three years. [THR]
ABC makes a deal with producer Phil Gurin to adapt the German game show Wetten das...? (Wanna Bet? for American audiences, immediately begins its search for a desperate actor whose popularity peaked two decades ago to host. [Variety]
· Andrew "Andre 3000" Benjamin signs on for 1970s basketball comedy Semi-Pro, in which he will battle Will Ferrell to see who can grow the most comically exaggerated Afro. [THR]
Peter Bart discusses where the entertainment industry is heading. His conclusion? We don't know, we stopped reading after the third paragraph. It's Friday, and we really can't handle a glimpse into the future. [Variety]