According to Devlin, those people who own a Sony Blu-Ray™ device "will now be able to see Godzilla as we always intended." We laughed out loud, only to quickly learn that it wasn't a stand-up performance. While we appreciate the marketing rationale on a certain level (we suppose it makes sense to try and capitalize on the American public's renewed interest in giant lizards rampaging through lower Manhattan), we can't help but wonder why Sony picked Godzilla from their massive library to push their blazing new format on the masses. We can only assume that Joe Roth's Tomcats must've been unavailable. It didn't stop there, though. Those who own a PlayStation 3 and buy the Godzilla triple-dip will be able to send Godzilla-branded ringtones ("Roar" AND "Growl") over The Internets to their friends ... for free! Kill us now.

He said that Ms. Taymor was overreacting to a normal Hollywood process of testing different versions of a movie, something he has done many times before, including with Michael Mann's "Last of the Mohicans." He called his version of "Across the Universe" "an experiment."

"She's a brilliant director," he said. "She's made a brilliant movie. This process is not anything out of the ordinary. Her reaction through her representatives might be. But her orientation is stage. It's different if you're making a $12-million film, or a $45-million film. No one is uncomfortable in this process, other than Julie."

And he warned that the conflict could hurt the movie. "If you work off her hysteria, that will do the film an injustice," he said. "Nobody wants to do that. She's worked long and hard, and made a wonderful movie."

Following his persuasive and sensitive argument (note his laudable tact in never once mentioning the phrase "on the rag," no matter how badly he wanted to say it), Taymor will probably come around and finally open herself up to "the process" she's so irrationally resisted until now, allowing fellow director Roth to share the cinematic gifts that made Christmas with the Kranks such an aesthetic triumph.

• Film Has Two Versions; Only One Is Julie Taymor's [NY Times]

And if it turns out the whispers are wrong, we're sure that the Revolution store has a generous return policy for any unworn apparel you regret purchasing.

UPDATE: The details, according to Variety: They will release 13 already finished or in-production films via Sony over the next two years, they've ceased development while the studio "tries to figure out its future" (read: bye bye), and Joe Roth is "hammering out" his "future production arrangement" at Sony.

• Previously: Joe Roth: At Least My Crap Made Money [Defamer]

"I dreamed last night that I fired [Revolution partner] Tom Sherak," he says with a wry grin, sipping a Diet Coke between takes. Roth said that, in the dream, he was sitting with Chris Columbus, who's directing a film of the stage musical "Rent" for Revolution. "Tom came in, singing and dancing, all excited, saying, 'I got our trailer on the front of "Star Wars!" ' And I go, 'Which trailer, the one for Chris' movie or the one for mine?' And Tom says, 'Neither! I got the trailer for "Die Hard 3!" '

"I started yelling at him, 'What about my movie, you son of a bitch!' And Tom said, 'Hey, I gotta do what I gotta do.' So I fired him."

This one certainly doesn't require much Freudian analysis, but once you open the floodgates, everyone will feel compelled to share their own dreams. For example, we dreamed that later on in the column, Roth wrapped the supposed humility of realizing that he's churned out crap in a self-aggrandizing disclaimer about his financial success, which sounded something like, "My unwillingness to be exposed to failure has prevented me from being viewed as a serious director. I guess I've been hiding behind making money for my company." Then the dream really got weird, as the Revolution logo rose in the sky, transformed into a giant set of buttocks, then showered the earth with turds labeled "Christmas with the Kranks" and "XXX: State oft the Union." What do you suppose that means?

• Joe Roth rewrites his life's script [LAT]