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

 

Ventura show pinned down

 

Some in SAG to nix pic vote

 

'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

 

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

 

Inside Move: Fox birthplace gives way to high school

 

Inside Move: U.K. court says Hello! to privacy case

 

Inside Move: 'Matrix' meshes media

 

Dickie to direct again

 

New studio will sake it to 'em

 

Protests strain film-gov't ties

 

Senator Intl. elects Weisbein exec VP

 

News Corp.'s power play

 

Nile plex seeded with fertile 'Potter' soil

 

UPN gets pinned by other nets

 

Pickard takes on troubled ITV

 

SABC moves news in ratings war with E.TV

 

Eurosportnews kicks off in new territory

 

Fun and games rock the road

 

'Ragtime' reimagined

 

Biz droops; 'Miz' 583g

 

'Things' goes well for Frears

 

London takes 'Notice'

 

Crafty Rupe caging birds

 

HK fest goes charity route

 

Finance forum finds new comeback fund

 

What's the holdup with VOD?

 

Unions ponder union

 

China warms to loosening film quotas

 

Entertainers protest new tax

 

O'seas cools, but 'Catch Me' catches on

 

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

 

Soph slump strikes cable

 

Reality changes pilot perspective

 

Staff fear Viv U will sink Canal

 

EU investigates pubcaster TV2's budget

 

WB makes Booth its voice in Europe

 

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

 

Potente has beat on Rofe's 'Street'

 

Subs to get a piece of theater's action

 

'Traffic' pals play the ponies

 

Year's market motto: 'AFM for everyone'

 

'Night' train heads to U.S.

 

'Perversity' perks Perry

 

Pepsi pops for billion

 

Zelnick bags mag deal

 

'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