Primetime for Haim and Kirch

Sony closes German film arm

Fox's 'Idol' crushes competish

Fox's 'Idol' picks up steam

50 Cent's album gets the most coin

Daytime Emmys honor talent

ArtistDirect taps Sr. VP

'Sexless' pic takes SXSW aud, jury prizes

Croft crafter has craving for 'Job'

Daytime Emmy Nominees List (Part II)

Reps back consumer copies

CAA to represent Madonna

'Daughters' to stay in Nine's corral

MTV, Motorola pact for p'gramming

Toei sells 'Muscle' sequel to U.S.

Lopez to 'Dance' with Gere in Miramax redo

B'way audiences loud and clear

Chase steps up as Bailey ankles Canuck exhib

Artisan, Miramax lighting 'Havana'

Oscar Watch: Dustin Hoffman, Richard Gere

Brazil's economic slowdown hits blurbs

AOL TW probe gloom looms

EMI lowered to 'junk'

Kotick joins Yahoo! board

Timberlake to host CBS' Dion special

'Osbournes' DVD set sells Miramax on value of bid

AMC loading 'Shoot-Out'

Enron exex held in Blockbuster deal

WB, U.S. settle pay claim

Soros controls Croatia cabler

Pilots casting hot, heavy

Duo turn zeroes to heroes

Alcon paints Muniz with CGI 'Stripes'

Angel eyes for Nederlander

Staples pact ends spat

Former Gemstar exex to testify in SEC probe

Plural ankles NYC for Miami

Cablevision says YES to Yankees net

Game Show, Lampoon to launch 'Funny Money'

New Fox cabler taps Sternberg

Children's hospitals hail Reeve, King

Landmark headed to Twin Cities for venue

Annaud aboard 'Tripoli'

Merrill cuts CNBC feed

20th parties Lane

Night of 'The Hunted'

Monte Carlo names noms

Not so leisure weekend for cultural luminaries

French fry morale at U Studios

Double 'Daughter' derby

Smooth Jazz Awards get ambitious backer

Company playing the 'Game'

Miramax gets 'Derailed' by Siegel bestseller

Inside Move: Oscar campaigns on orange alert

Revelations trumpets biz vet to exec veep

Producer Bullish on pix

Prince and pauper in ABC hopper

Mob showdown at HBO

DreamWorks rolling with CGI rock pic

MPTF to take care of their own

Adam Faith

Canal Plus minus workers

Hall of Fame inducts new rockers

BBC makes switch

Sci Fi maps out miniseries backstory

Method Fest unveils lineup of 22 features

Manny Harmon

'District' thesp Thigpen dies

Auds don't really get the 'Girl'

Showtime inks for Carlton pix

Smith studies book sale

Springer set on exiting ProSiebenSat

EchoStar sharpens ax for costly nets

SBC pursues Warner exhib

Oscar Watch: Julia Roberts

U.S. 'Solaris' sizzles

Moscow gets new IMAX theater

Stagnaro enters 'Paradise'

Parodi goes to America

Fonseca's 'Hammer' nails distribution deal

Nine nabs Roadshow rights

'Hours' takes top German pic prize

Portugal preps pic quota

Fund pitches in for pics

Beeb's big bird brouhaha

Frog taps Sanagustin sr. VP of current fare

Paul Dy

India Frames local biz for close-up

Ad industry rep sees no SAG strike threat

Teuton star heads home

RAI offers its top spot to vet journalist

Matthew Settle

Simon Rex, Jeremy Piven, Daryl Hammond

Collective links up to Mainframe

Stern 'Hot' and bothered

Pepsi contest set to pop

Moore, WGAE in pay rift

Piracy perils pervasive

Weekend Box Office Preview
March 14, 2003

Merged guild means more dues for some

Comedy king Lear writes for 'South Park'

Kudos honor trailers

'Men' treads carefully into sequel territory

Regal to reign over seven more plexes

Zinn Arthur

Disney is sold on 'Shopgirl' pic

ABC still digs 'Mole'

Brady puts on the 'Dog'

Dempsey backs 'Boy'; Cole studies '101'

'West Wing' gets a 'Friend'

Fox, Davis extend pact for 3 years

'Cursed' casts Ricci

ABC 'Lines' up Lurie show

MTV scales 'Heights' for update

Col running with 'Scared'

A determinator for Intermedia

WB paws purrrrrfect Catwoman

Trio of actors goes 'Missing'

Salter self-starts consultancy firm

Earlier Oscars impacts smaller pics

L.A. reroutes for Oscar

Walker won't don cape for WB

'Love' takes on 'Matrix'

Local pols are getting tough on Cluff

Duo drawn to 'Intrigue'

Cox Arquette in 'November' drama

Caldwell, Mosher and Hynes tackling Tennessee

Shout! exex tap Sony for distrib'n

Actors round out 'World'

Cablevision deal puts Yankees in lineup

Evolution selects exec

Here comes 'Bride' as opener of Gen Art fest

Bob Ivers

Ward on board 'Havana'

AT&T makes Oscar trivial

EA soundtrack a slam dunk

Lagardere in critical condition

Get air time with Fly Guy

Angola war is focus of local feature

Indian bureaucracy keeping filmmakers out

Singapore co. to animate 'Bamboo'

Piracy slices into Egyptian pics

April showers kudos, fests and forums

Gaga databases info for media, film companies

CME awarded $353 mil

The Oscar shift hits the fan

Forget the thanks: Try a diatribe!

Inside Move: Border brouhaha pinches Johnson

Inside Move: 'Joe' copycats courting eager nets

Jobseekers find vroom at the top

Inside Move: Dutch pubcaster seduces older aud

Inside Move: WGA, 'preditors' feel bite of roles

Liberty tastes it all, but will Malone bite?

Inside Move: 'Ali G' pic gathers dust on shelf

Laid-back lion seeks friendlier lairs

Film financing with a creative touch

Indian helmers base pics on 9/11 tragedy

Fest's Encuentros program encounters success

'Maid' captures 'entertain me' mood o'seas

Odeon, Entertainment's Greens spread their wings

Olsen gang pic no longer featuring Danishes

Censors won't let 'Hours' say it with a kiss

40 countries' pics unspool at H.K. fest

'Stander' producers plan for scholarship

Director Lee joins cabinet as culture, tour minister

Horror genre rises from dead

Clash of the distributor, p'grammers titans

Reality sets in for stations, syndication

Reality TV does the twist

Fox, WB get dates with gals

Formatting a TV plan

Featured Player: Chris Evans

Dr. Sex revs uptight auds

Sexy super chefs set to cook up a storm

Ailing web presses founder back to work

MediaCorp chooses 'Village' life

Even macho men are soft on soaps

Cabler reaches out to young, rich auds

Time not on retailer's side

B'way gets back to business

Musicians, producers contract details

Strike slams B.O.

Biz steady; '42nd' 898g

A virtual victory for virtual orchestras?

Fetes peak for Oscar week

Governors' ball takes cue from 1929

Oscar writer reveals dos and don'ts of show

Posthumous prizes rare for Acad

Keepers of the ballots swear not to give away secrets

Oscar bounty

H'w'd's auto focus

Party's the thing for SAG Awards

Mothers enjoy a B.I.G. Night Out

'House' warming top B.O. spot

BMG creates Classics combo

S&P's wary of Gemstar

Azteca adds Texas affils

ABC, RealNetworks prep 24 hour newscast

Cable using VOD to compete with satellite

'Zelda' sales legendary for Nintendo

Gamers seek constitutional protections

Showtime's 'BS' pays off

CME Czechs up coin from ruling

'Late Show' slates guest hosts

Stanley Tucci, Dana Delany, Ryan Merriman, Paula Garces, Ruben Blades

Peter Boyle

New arthouse for L.A.

Bierko ices ABC role

PBS skeds Sept. bow for WTC doc

Discovery Kids sees Latin ratings rise

Lagardere loses company leader

EU OKs Spain feevee merger

Kirch not Saban's Euro stepping stone

Oscar Watch: John Travolta, U2

'24 Hours' to launch Paris-L.A. film fest

Inside Move: Dark 'Superman' curse?

Djindic's death hurts media bill

BiH courts sub fees

Former Kirch exec hangs shingle

McCain to cablers: Offer nets a la carte

H'w'd clothier Carroll dies

'Police Videos' creator feared dead

Gruner + Jahr eyes Euro glossy Gala

Ten in the driver's seat for Chrysler competition

TW, Fox game for cable deal

Buyer buzz

'Paradise' uncovers propaganda

Child's play

Young eyes o'seas; hires Brown, Fisher

Diplomatic push in 'Sopranos' spat

Kid properties take new shape to drive revs

Tops in docs

Big, brash nonfiction all the rage at Mipdoc

Stations get real

SAG-AFTRA campaign has $1.6 mil pricetag

Yahoo! plays Platinum card

'Silence' becomes actresses

U, Shady join 'One Nation'

New Line wed to script

Aussie takes reins on '9/11'

'Bares' eyes B'way berth

'Cody' sequel fast-tracked

TV feast fit for a 'King'

Turner 'Diggs' USA pilot

Monahan eyes war script for Col

Writer Gilroy is 'Bourne' again

CBS joins Turner for bit of 'Schmidt'

Producer in at Wonderland

Par for the course: Raynr swings 'Club'

Networks race to get Smart on the air

Hackman topping 'Moose' ticket

EMI retools distrib'n ops

Pathe picks trio of pix

BBC comic fundraiser bags $58 mil

Oscar, Oscar, everywhere

'Beene,' 'Greek' hold up well

Othar Turner, Bernice Turner Pratcher

Branagh bags two BAFTA TV noms

Ulrich crafts 'Cursed' role

Lagardere year hit with $309 mil loss

'Maid' aids weak int'l B.O.

AOL TW seeks a passage to China

'Boomtown' hits ratings boom

Granada investors request Allen's resignation

Doc duo flow to Wellspring

Stapanek must say 'sorry' to CME

'Pianist' flies with Polish Eagles

Silverscreen fulfills its namesake

RTL loss narrows as revs climb

Court gives Supercanal time to deal

Woss establishes film division at SEL

Exhibs battle in Nevada

'Valentin' stirs controversy at Mar del Plata

Actors' health plan sagging

Studios stick to pic plan

U.S. exex still planning Mip trek

News nets will share war footage

War deadline sets biz scramble

U.K. distrib earnings about equal to P&A

'Piglet' preem in the pink

Oscar plans on track despite Iraq

Bernard Schwab

Panel studies race, H'wood

Sogecable rocks with red hot 'Mortadelo'

'Charlie' rubs CBS the right way

B'way's March more lamb than lion

TBS orders up 'Ripley'

Duo bottle Pellegrino tale

'Girlfight' director in 'Flux'

Howitt lured to 'Laws'

Kidd's 'P.S.' in the mail at Hart Sharp

Canadian guilds see TV crisis

'Sopranos' kingpin set for raise

Acad waits and watches . . .

Showtime prexy to exit

A web of Spidey intrigue

TV titan tackles Teutons

Disney targets tykes via radio

Alarcon to lead RTI

'Elina' draws BUFF kudos

TV forging a battle plan

Gogolak to top Benderspink

Euro film orgs rip regs

Disney in the 'Know' on spec

MTV pic kudos returns to Shrine

Guild gives fitting tribute to costumers

Trailers hitch onto kudos

Eminem's extra mile

Freeway chases spawn niche service

NBC takes Monday

Oscar Watch: Paul Simon, Susan Sarandon

3 Procacci films nab 25 Donatello noms

Oscar glitz nixed

NBC flock's on top

Latin DirecTV files for Chapter 11

Oz SEL bows L.A. film arm

Rupe floats a billion in News Corp. bonds

WB makes Amigo in Spain

Oz thesps urge gov't to retain TV quotas

Two MGM exex swap options for raise

Eilat fest's zest still intact

HIT pretax profit rises 67%

'Pleasant' nabs top prize at Sofia fest

Paul Stojanovich

U.K. boosts specialty pix

'StripSearch' gets U.K. slot

Net music venture Echo adds Borders as partner

Former MSG prexy joins marketing agency

TW Cable inks with Sorpresa

Rights revels in rev rise

Farrell, Paura ink deal with Disney

TV Land, Nick at Nite program new VP

Hurd, EFF ready Micro economics

WB pix ups Brassel

U.K. book biz a jolly good ally for America

Mouse faces storm at annual meeting

Tough task for new Teuton titan

The show must go on

Ads clog plexes

I oughta know

Standup Ted keeps AOL TW seat

War won't bounce NCAA from primetime

'Embedding' plan under fire

Sidney Lippman

War routs book promos

Manfred Durniok

MAC tracks punk 'Prey' to distrib'n

Eve bites, Joe arcs on pilots

Howard Fast

New 'Deal' rescinded by Peacock

Cable filling in networks' blanks

BBC sked boasts big service push

S.F. fest to honor Hoffman

N-TV: Ja to Jautz

Correction

Masters tracks 'Storm'

Disney, Queen hold court

Par packs Rodat for 'Rabbit' punch

Sib writers to helm 'Synergy' at Universal

New Line has 'Family' pic

Flower planted for 2 more years at Sony

Stewart bids adieu to CAA

Indie 'Anymore' nabs stars

Shankman ready to meet 'Jetsons'

The Grey

My House in Umbria

Real Time

Luciano Pavarotti

Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal

Buicks

A Little Night Music