We bet Terrence Howard's family gatherings are going to be interesting - he has had to make his brother redundant.
The Crash actor had to sack his sibling after his construction company in Philadelphia became another victim of the global credit crunch.
He told the New York Daily News, "I had to let my brother, Antonio, go. We thought we had four or five jobs lined up. But the loans aren't out there. I can't carry him."
Not that the credit crunch has meant that Howard will work on movies on the cheap. He is being replaced by Don Cheadle on Iron Man 2 because Marvel Films offered him "less money" than the first film.