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Tuesday Aug 21, 2007

Trade Round-Up: August 21, 2007

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Variety's Daniel Frankel and Ben Fritz tag team on a story about the drama surrounding Paramount and DreamWorks Animation's DVD decisions. Paper announced on Tuesday that the studios have exclusively picked HD DVD for all future releases. The story details the move, saying that it's the third by Paramount in an "ongoing format war," not to mention DWA's Jeffrey Katzenberg's back-and-forth quotes on the format. Katzenberg normally isn't one to second-guess major decisions, so read all of Variety's archive reporting here.

Jennifer Garner is headed to the Great White Way, reports Variety. The "Alias" actress has signed on to star opposite soon-to-be big-nosed Kevin Kline in a revival of "Cyrano de Bergerac." The role will be Garner's first foray to the Broadway stage. Well, kind of. She served as an uderstudy in the 1995 revival of "A Month in the Country." But film auds have no need to fret: she'll be back on the big-screen soon in Uni's "The Kingdom" and Fox Searchlight's "Juno."

Bidding wars are few and far between these days in Hollywood. However, a hot one has recently gone down with Universal cashing its way to the top of the crop to acquire "Lone Survivor." The story centers on the life of Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal who led a team into Afghanistan in search of a major Taliban leader. THR dishes the details on the new deal, which include Peter Berg on board to direct.

Speaking of new projects, THR has also the scoop on another redo, this time about the sci-fi thriller "Logan's Run." The long-in-development Warner Bros. project will be directed by commercial helmer Josesph Kosinski and THR's Borys Kit gives all the back-story in today's report.

Variety also has a couple song and dance stories to fill the paper today. On the heels of news that "Hairspray" has become only the third recent musical to cross $100 million at the domestic box office, Michael Fleming reports that Rob Marshall and Harvey Weinstein are prepping a "Chicago" follow-up with "Nine." Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Javier Bardem are on board. Get the rest of the musically-charged deets here.

- CHRIS GARDNER




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