It's official:

http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/ ... k=morenews

Good news for The Aisle Seat as Dreamworks review DVDs have become impossible to get ahold of.

And good news for those of us who weren't looking forward to the prospect of a Michael Bay Transformers movie. Can't see that one happening now that Bay has joined that small select group of filmmakers who'll be forever blamed for busting a studio...

Here's a lengthy story from today's NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/busin ... nted=print

Basically Spielberg -- because of his long-standing association with Universal -- would have preferred to be bought out by them, but dealing with GE basically ruined the package. Paramount takes over the entire live action catalog and all 9 remaining films DW is producing.