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Billion Dollar Producer: Working Title Films
10/22/06
With $3.5 billion in worldwide grosses since their breakthrough "Four Weddings and a Funeral" in 1994, it's finally time to admit Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, co-chairs of Working Title Films, might just be onto something.

ShowEast 2006
10/19/06
Saturday nights at the movies are rarely like this. Walk through the entrance to the lobby, and you're greeted by music from a baby grand piano. Relaxing on an overstuffed couch sounds nice, but instead you purchase movie tickets at an electronic kiosk, where you can reserve your favorite seats and order concessions at the same time.

BARNES MORRIS AT 10
10/16/06
With A-list clients, youthful law firm takes antiestablishment to the bank As Kevin Morris shows a visitor around the loftlike, soon-to-be-vacated Santa Monica digs of his entertainment firm Barnes Morris Klein Mark Yorn Barnes & Levine, it becomes apparent that the impending move is symbolic as well as physical.

NEW YORK MAYOR'S OFFICE AT 40
10/15/06
Following a rather tepid summer and fall festival season, generating few film standouts and pickups, indie industryites are looking to the American Film Market to get back to business.

AFM PREVIEW 2006
10/15/06
Following a rather tepid summer and fall festival season, generating few film standouts and pickups, indie industryites are looking to the American Film Market to get back to business.

AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE GALA: GEORGE CLOONEY
10/12/06
When George Clooney accepts the 21st annual American Cinematheque Award onstage at the Beverly Hilton tonight, it will be ostensibly for his role as "an extraordinary artist."

New media grip MIP

Digital content is king at trade show
By Elizabeth Guider 10/12/06 4:13pm

Fueled by a dizzying array of digitally driven gizmos and platforms, the 22nd annual Mipcom TV trade show, which wraps today, proved to be a heady mix of punditry and dealmaking.

Bodenheimer kicks off Mobile TV
ESPN prexy looks to connect with fans
By Liza Foreman 10/12/06 7:34am

Parsons tips hat to Google
CEO salutes netco
By Elizabeth Guider 10/11/06 9:00pm

H'wood dramas draw big bucks in Cannes
U.S. hits command big fees o'seas
By Elizabeth Guider 10/11/06 7:16pm

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Among the skeins buyers will be offered are Beta's World War II pic 'March of Millions' (pictured), WB's 'The Class,' Fox's 'Shark.'

Banks, bombs and 'Betty'
Elizabeth Guider 10/1/06

Reshaping media is the buzz concept that will define the 22nd annual Mipcom TV trade show in Cannes next week, as a record 12,000 participants trek to the Riviera resort to wheel and deal in programming rights.

Hugh Laurie starrer 'House' (pictured) has become a hit for Grermany’s RTL, while 'Desperate Housewives,' attracts younger auds on rival ProSieben.

Yanks' tube invasion
While U.S. series never disappeared from German TV, for years they took a backseat to local p'gramming and were largely relegated to second-league channels or nonprimetime slots.

Despite heightened anti-American sentiment in the Mideast, U.S. series such as 'Gilmore Girls,' which is seen on One TV, continue to draw high numbers.

Brimming with buzz
Variety correspondents Ali Jaafar, Shilpa Bharatan Iyer and Tom Birchenough report on three of the most intriguing global television markets: the Middle East, India and Russia.

Discovery Kids launched 'Growing Up Creepie' on the Internet before premiering it on cable months later.

Parents share in experience
The kids biz has a new buzzword: co-viewing. Children's programmers are taking a page from an earlier TV era and resurrecting the notion of family viewing.