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Not a matter of if but when. What's keeping NBC from pulling the plug on the Golden Globes, that non-event event where no one's showing up to pick up awards that no one's handing out? Check THR for the latest. Check out the photo (Meryl Streep at last year's Globes) for a star-hoisting-a-statuette image you definitely won't see this time around.

They will be esoteric. The National Society of Film Critics chose "There Will Be Blood," director Paul Thomas Anderson (P.T. to his friends), star Daniel Day-Lewis and cinematographer Robert Elswit for top honors in a weekend ceremony at Sardi's in New York. Knocked off: "Atonement." Still on a pedestal: Julie Christie, Casey Affleck and Cate Blanchett, all likely Oscar nominees. Read more here.

A "Lions for Lambs" redo? Yet another "Rocky?" Let's hope not. But the legendary production banner United Artists, that's now under the newish direction of Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, is said to be close to a Worldwide Pants-style agreement with the WGA. Two other indie studios, Lionsgate and The Weinstein Co., are in similar talks.