Table of Contents
Week of 02/05/2003
Articles
Big pix should equal big sites
Imogene Bliss
Frears wins Brit directing kudos
Sounding dramatic
Optimum, BBC4 to back foreign films
'Idol,' '24' power Fox's Tuesday
Joffe currying plans for epic
Dutch Oscar winners warn gov't
'Worst Driver' has big impact
Optus out of ITV
Stage adds theaters
Minds Eye to skate
BBC director to top shop
MGM's profit polished
Three headliners top Summer Sanitarium tour
Just whistlin' Dixie
Spacey to act in new Old Vic & pics
'Idol,' '24' power Fox win
Copps' call for more hearings irks Powell
Bauer sets sights on ProSieben control
H'wood's Gore bore
CAA yoked to Youth firm
Pax names Schulman senior veep
AMC to consolidate ad unit, lay off 145
Clear Channel cleared in suit
Praisery BHI taps Henry
Oscar Watch: Marisa Tomei
Natascha McElhone
Ana Claudia Talancon
Mosaic, marketers pact
Viv U not vivacious
Gray Lady slates Arts weekend
Bochco tome goes 'Hollywood'
Focus ups Spencer to VP
Akselrad ups brief at HBO
Viacom shares surge over Karmazin buzz
Par Pix nets 'Five' pitch
Trio books 'Blockbuster'
Film distrib exex tapped by Newmark
Lifetime OKs 'Missing' pilot
U Motown, Combs near distrib deal
New Line scares up $1.3m for 'Monster'
Hanley joins 'Volunteer'
Clancy Xbox games killer for Ubi Soft
Baer bags deal at Hyde Park
Doubled-up by laffs
Nets shuffle sweep sked
SAG, AFTRA nups may be a tough sell
Some in SAG to nix pic vote
Ventura show pinned down
'Fear' host is the 'Man' for Central
Double teaming Olympics
Warners going back to the Wells
Section Eight on 'Nine'
Inside Move: New wrinkle for Medavoy
CBS: Rather anchored to 'News'
Inside Move: Thesps' perks jerked
Inside Move: Jacko beats Sadaam
Night of 'Knights'
'July' arrives in chilly NYC
Politics, fashion converge at amfAR gala
WB lures revelers into its 'Matrix'
Peter Shaw
Site for Marvel's blind hero
Dublin gets new film fest
Discovery alters contracts to protect brand
'Idol,' 'Bachelorette' wow on Wednesday
Scribe tribe goes 'Bowling'
Analyst calms cable panic
Gemstar settles collusion charges
Larry LeSueur
Charlie Biddle
Deal reached on music cable fees
Sheppard adds partners
Pic is Pixar's elixir
Oscar Watch: Renee Zellweger
Boffo 'Idol' leads Fox to 5th straight win
RTL Klub announces best year
Powell downgrades Dem's hearings
ITV's Grace ankles post
EU won't end quotas
Foreign prod'n runs out of Canada
BBC will argue for keeping fee
Dracula pic park sees light of day
Jacko doc defended
Dublin fest fare set
Flemish orgs unite
ACTRA awards back
DGA enthused over 'Curb'
'Sweet' release on DVD
Fourtou: No IPO, sale ahead for Canal Plus
Analyst Dixon out at Warburg
PGA: 14 eligible for nod
ITV no longer on top
Mouse suit moves ahead
Clarification
'Kimmel' coming up
Indie distrib TLA takes 'Trip'
'Daredevil' dedication pays dividends
Firms look East for pix
Par Classics snooping up 'Detective'
Lions Gate flipping the digital switch
Par's planning 'Paranoia' pic
Lynch seals McNeal deal
'Diary' dear for helmer Hickenlooper
Hawk hopes Idiom flies
Inside Move: Sanitized 'Sex' offered
Gelbard set to gel at CAA
Adamson to leave ICM
Diller looks to beef up USAI
Iraq won't rock Oscar
Eye spying laffers; Fox books hotel
Jolie taking wing with 'World'
Berlin Fest high on 'Chi'
Pax model makes cents
Mohawk chief stays
Heavyweights pull into 'Terminal'
Lighting illuminates Five
Weekend Box Office Preview
February 7, 2003
More staff quit Russia's NTV
Jacko boffo for ABC
DirecTV to open books to suitors
'Gangs,' 'Perdition' top Golden Reel nods
B.O. off; 'Contact' 996g
Biz droops; 'Miz' 583g
'Things' goes well for Frears
London takes 'Notice'
Moguls carting off art
Attack of the manager mavens
Other outfits stick to the basics
Inside Move: 'Superman' may fly with fresh face
Inside Move: Who will flex WB's new arthouse arm?
The company you love to hate
Visual vets still Oscar virgins
Inside Move: Powells push their agendas for FCC, Iraq
Telecasts' numbers vary
Inside Move: Science vets step up in shuttle disaster
Broadcast Critics chase lucrative awards action
Crafty Rupe caging birds
HK fest goes charity route
Inside Move: Fox birthplace gives way to high school
Finance forum finds new comeback fund
Inside Move: U.K. court says Hello! to privacy case
Inside Move: 'Matrix' meshes media
What's the holdup with VOD?
Dickie to direct again
Unions ponder union
China warms to loosening film quotas
Entertainers protest new tax
O'seas cools, but 'Catch Me' catches on
New studio will sake it to 'em
Protests strain film-gov't ties
Urban comedy gets top prize at Hungarian fest
Production halts as 'Barber' gets snipped
Thesp takes her case to Congress
Cairo fest prez says to Yanks: Come to Egypt
Filmmakers await peace
Doyle doles out colorful vistas
Babelsberg with an English accent
Story of genocide in Rwanda told
Fighting pirates on the high sees
Senator Intl. elects Weisbein exec VP
News Corp.'s power play
Soph slump strikes cable
Reality changes pilot perspective
Nile plex seeded with fertile 'Potter' soil
UPN gets pinned by other nets
Staff fear Viv U will sink Canal
Pickard takes on troubled ITV
SABC moves news in ratings war with E.TV
EU investigates pubcaster TV2's budget
Eurosportnews kicks off in new territory
WB makes Booth its voice in Europe
Fun and games rock the road
'Ragtime' reimagined
Loopy lovers get the last laugh
Turner sale of stock jars AOL TW
Rogers Cable keeps top job in family
Alliance writes down Headline
Belo, Hearst see profit rise
RIAA cues pressure
Martin, Cleese pics among laff fest fare
S.F. slates career nod for Altman
TNN renews gamer 'Oblivious'
PR partners bow Zeitgeist
Nokia cell game for rivalry
Justin Rosenblatt
Torquil Macneal, John Alexander
Michael Dagnery
Yoni Cohen
Patricia A. Liguori
Sharon Tunstall
Alpe Adria fest expands its scope
BCE ends convergence plan
Box behind 'Boudica'
S'dance aids tyro producer
Hyperion toons up spinoff of 'Andaz'
Party plans Hindi newsie
Zee queueing new music
Long to head Oz school
Disney raises Younger to prexy
ABC adopts 'Family'
Jacko spec primes ABC for sweeps
'Surreal' stint nets Hammer a WB deal
Inside Move: Protest prompts extra SAG screenings
Leder back in CAA fold
BV family pix to greet Hallmark web
Phillippe fires rep team
'Wilbur' wanted o'seas
'Extrano,' 'Partido' get Bavarian flavor
'Lenin' unveils Teuton wares
Filho fills Net post
'Married,' 'Dragon,' 'Jungle' jump o'seas
Maluf steps out of Sistema
Cinerenta fund ups Mehlitz
Saban vows to buy Kirch Media assets
Lagardere media revs up
Gaul's Godard, Jaoui set to shoot pix
UPC swallows up 7 Romanian cablers
Can Bollywood bring political harmony?
Global TV taps Wyatt EIC
Blockbuster trims staff
German 'Superstar' gets 2nd season pickup
Czechs clear sale of TV Galaxie
Scripter seen for Par's 'Eye'
SBC enters competish for satcaster DirecTV
Famous faces front Berlin
WB adopting 'Family' pilot
Leary, Garofalo to help Carolines celebrate 20th
A high-def reception for 'Wedding'
Will Rogers Institute names spokesman
Court upholds pirate b'caster law
'Two Towers' tops AOL Moviegoer kudos
AFI names new vice deal of prod'n, post prod'n
'Confidence' to open film festivals
The moment of truth near for Acad
Femme cabler commits to 'Mix It Up'
Grais creates new shingle
LaMarre to script, produce 'Nora'
Multichannel Advertising Council formed
Angelsmith bows Sony, CBS, RCA projects
Drama League honors Orbach
Julian Allan Bedolis
Union boards bless marriage
TV caucus names officers
RTL Klub b'casts good year
U.S. TV tuned in to Europe
Finicky foreigners
New pic ventures
Year's market motto: 'AFM for everyone'
Potente has beat on Rofe's 'Street'
Subs to get a piece of theater's action
'Night' train heads to U.S.
'Perversity' perks Perry
Pepsi pops for billion
Zelnick bags mag deal
'Traffic' pals play the ponies
'Willard' ecard option is scary
Weiss getting 'Scary' redux
Sony snaps up 'My Life' for U.S.
'Mortadelo' tops Spanish pic B.O. records
Miramax nabs 'I'm Not Scared'
'Simpsons,' 'Law,' '60' shine Sunday
German Premiere inks Mouse deal
ITV regime change?
Taiwan eyes a film quota
Cablevision taps Broc CEO
TV4 Sweden revs up 10%
NTV bows in Bangladesh
Toei, Gaga 'Double' up
Jacko complains to Blighty bodies
Serbs back to work
India biz tries self-reg
Orgs seek music ID
MGM stocks fall further
Pressplay links with indie labels
DirecTV aims to channel $2.9 bil
TFM taps Rougier topper
B'way soldiering on
Margaret Scott
Robert Livingston Pell
Ron Morgan
Former 007 Moore feted for Peace
Ed Harridsleff
Robert St. John
Local pix rule B.O.
Meakin ankles post at top net for No. 2
Don Stanley
Marketing sage Savage new Maverick rider
Goodtimes roll in
ABC's 'Life' shines at DGA daytime noms
All-Star game stellar for TNT
Bush blesses b'cast org
Cablevision to unplug Wiz stores
Wellspring nabs 2 foreign pix
Valenti meets with world leaders on copyright
Shannyn Sossamon
Brian Gadinsky
ShoWest lauds Lohman
Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Lifetime 'Wild' for hour pilot
Sam Baum
Duffy joins Telepictures
Thompson, Alcon nurse 'Baby'
Mexican pic fee hit
Jerome Hines
Costumers fete Riggs
Alexander Bookston
From Rich to rube
Inside move: 'Defense' suffers
Inside move: HBO monograms crix' tapes
ABC adds 2 laffer pilots
Sanitized 'Sex' gives nets a big headache
Bravo orders makeover series 'Queer'
And the honorary Oscar should go to . . . Ford
ABC seeks deal to rerun Jacko spec
Allen dons 'Father's' duds
Correction
Viv dumps art, pumps year's revs
Warners, Linson run for 'Cover'
Paradigm shifts into MCA digs
Burnett to helm 'Ed' seg
Lorber forms specialty DVD distrib label
Sly flies as 'Spy' guy
'Dead' set on Irish romance
Dealers wheel into action at Berlin Fest
A pay-per tiger?
Fox hosts daring do
Dutton hits 'Bottom' with theater life
Cinematheque fetes Lucas' tech twosome
Short's attention span
Pointing out 'Net pirates
Academy Award Nominees 2003
'Chi' floozies pull a doozy
Miramax tops list of films by noms
Dunaway, York head for 'Bahama Triangle'
U.S. to shoot WB pilot in Spain
'Babij Jar' unscrews in Berlin
'Joe,' 'Fear' conquer all on Monday
Oscar tidbits
Reflections in gold
Kinzer Scott Mactavish
Lydia Jane Thomas
Zoe Elena Carlaftes
Faves are no-shows
Overjoyed overseas
Mouse house full of noms
Final studio tally a matter of opinion
VSDA effort aids indies
Demo duel sweeps to tie
Cinematographers OK move to curb lack of sleep
Fox, NBC embrace new reality in ratings race
Spain's film biz to save homegrown fare
Burdwick hints at Telewest-NTL merger
Random House to bring Ullstein under roof
Five in the 'Dead Zone'
Scanbox to invest in Scandi pix
Danish criminal hosts 'Gossip' talker
Toronto cashes in on foreign prod'n
Murdoch praises Bush's, Blair's stances on Iraq
Gallic giant Toscan du Plantier dies
Troubled Cinar taps Snyder prexy, CEO
White House's tale of tape
FullAudio taps president-CEO
Miramax inks with AMI to produce magazines
Infinity Promos taps vet Lobel
Seagal under siege
Cablevision clicks
B'buster gets 4th-qtr kick
Walters hosts Peabody fete
GameCube, Xbox '02 sales fell short
Pixar gets Intel inside
Internetter IGN posts profits
Pols to seek runaway relief
Russert: Questions, few answers on war
Pubs bet on public's fascination with H'w'd
Don't 'Gang' up
The pull of Japan's 'compact culture'
More on Marty
Cultural protectionism
Par pic vault feeds Turner net
Friedman Classic prez
It's tricky taking noms to the box office bank
Inside Move: Fed feud derails debate
Olbermann cables NBC Games
Fox to air Jackson's footage of interview
Starz! in orbit with Oscar contenders
Top 'NYPD' recruit
'Mighty Wind' will premiere at Austin fest
Anchor Bay to exit CNN
VRP on the road again with WB
Redford to deal with 'Unfinished' business
Reviews
The Education of Gore Vidal
The Perfect Husband
Roja...the Power of Pure Love
Returning Mickey Stern
Eldra
Profoundly Normal
Simon, An English Legionnaire
The Good Thief
The Kopeck
ScoLoHoFo
The Suit
Fool's Song
The Great Gato
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
Journey of the Grey Men
Thirteen Chimes
Forest
The Iguazu Effect
The Sentimental Teaser
Gololed
Noi Albinoi
Winning Ticket
Living Kills
My Name Was Sabina Spielrein
Kenny Rankin
The Witch Affair
Rose and Walsh
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Midnight's Children
Love in the Age of Therapy
Theophilus North
The Life of David Gale
Headnoise
The Jungle Book 2
Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives
Paul Weller
The Doors of the 21st Century
The Barber of Seville
Robinella & the CC Stringband
Little Shop of Horrors
A Salute to the Blues
I'm Not Scared
The Flower of Evil
Monsieur N.
Good Bye Lenin!
Body Snatchers -- The Musical
Jenufa
Taxi 3
Down by Love
Rose's Songs
Happy Birthday!
The Colour of Happines
Rinaldo
Hungarian Beauty
Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
Vagabond
La Dispute
Nickel & Dimed
Poisonous Mushroom
Dancing Figure
Broken Wings
FireDancer
The Pastry Girl
My Life Without Me
Remember Me
His Brother
Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family
Les Troyens
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