Table of Contents
Week of 04/16/2003

Articles

Movielink downloads Hollywood.com deal

 

Pop culture hidden in The Onion

 

Fox rocks; NBC gets laughs

 

Cannes fest jury announced

 

Francophones echo fund gripe

 

Disney park on roll

 

SARS jars Toronto fest

 

SARS fear slowing China

 

SABC2 preps dozen

 

'Pupendo' piles up

 

Mild interest in NBC's 'Ellie' return

 

Viv U slice of strife

 

'Faceless' in front

 

'Dance' drops Ahmanson for B'way

 

ZelnickMedia buys direct-marketing co.

 

Equity backs SAG-AFTRA merger

 

Tauzin backs June 2 regs deadline

 

Sirius targets gay auds

 

Kathy Harper

 

James Kotsilibas-Davis

 

Thomas W. Phipps

 

Marina Ladynina

 

Merriem Lanova

 

A&E keen on 'CSI: Miami'

 

Rae Creevey

 

Luis Marden

 

AFI board taps HBO's Albrecht

 

Union combo faces counterpoint

 

Fortnight faves

 

HBO to bridle Fidel biopic

 

Oliveira moves to WB Brazil

 

McQueen on board with Telefilm

 

'Hitler' mini to be a judicious bio

 

Saban faces setback in Kirch takeover

 

WMA bags big prize: Kelley

 

Malcolm Williamson

 

Larry Bryant

 

Sue Knussen

 

Nielsen joins 'Scary 3' cast

 

Stone nabs Hoover pic

 

Millennium is dealing with the 'Aftermath'

 

Standup deal for 'Blue'

 

'Elektra' duo plugged in

 

Fox builds 'Hotel' as reality tentpole

 

Nolan wants 'Prestige'

 

Willis' sixth sense says: Forget 'Me'

 

Services set for d.p. Escoffier

 

'Smallville' producers flying to Touchstone

 

AFTRA nods to Cedric, Flack

 

A&E revs up for 'King'

 

WE adds pix, originals

 

Bob Hope gets another star

 

'Wind'-swept preem

 

IFC peddles 'Influence'

 

Project A.L.S. honors Bob Grey

 

Valenti reels in film series

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
April 17, 2003

 

'Idol' creator pitches epic quiz

 

Wendy's well-watched weight-loss cards

 

"Major" Sundararajan

 

Alexander Bennett

 

Geraldo Franca de Lima

 

Fred Hudson

 

Wyn Ritchie Evans

 

Moses Hogan

 

Bert Charles

 

Vancouver wary of SARS

 

Leo Award noms announced

 

Lauder looking for a piece of TV2

 

EM.TV selling stake in Formula One

 

Singer-pianist Short hospitalized

 

Rogers revs up 14% for quarter

 

Del Plata maintains A-level status

 

Adalberto Martinez

 

EU beefs up media funding schemes

 

Sydney Lassick

 

Arts & Ideas gets more premieres

 

Maurice Rapf

 

Yale Rep to host Chekhov from Russia

 

A last part of Kirch empire sold off

 

Watchdogs give martial arts pics a karate chop

 

Total commitment to digital cabler

 

Pols shutter Yugoslav pubcaster TV YU

 

TBS' 'Survivor' isn't a thriver in ratings war

 

'Wanda' taps the laffer field

 

Exex gird for summer shuffle

 

Duo mounts Hottentot co-prod'n

 

CGI studio gears up for 'Happy Feet'

 

'Core,' local hit turn around troubled B.O.

 

Little 'Lenin!' gives biz big boost

 

U.S. distrib targets gay auds for Mexican drag pic

 

Cable biz carps over carriage fees

 

SARS spooks pic sellers bound for Cannes

 

Clarke's family ties may tether RIAA trial balloon

 

Nippon houses nix output pacts

 

Newell, Leigh top Channing slate

 

'Johnny English' makes wide impression

 

'Rings' sequel captures more magic than Harry 2

 

Will beach babes be boffo B.O.?

 

The new game in town

 

Inside Move: 'Idol's' vocal gymnastics

 

Inside Move: Tossed spaghetti western

 

Inside Move: RTL, BMG worship 'Idol' clone

 

Will Parsons' new plumage pass test?

 

Inside Move: Click and awe?

 

Inside Move: Rogers closing the book

 

Inside Move: Hip-hop hooray

 

Maguire caught in sticky web

 

U studios stymied as Music blares

 

Inside Move: H'w'd splits dems' check

 

Baz rebrands 'Boheme'

 

West End weathers grim season

 

B.O. rises; 'Egg' 241g

 

Biz up; 'Lion' hot in Cincy

 

'Tell Me' the time

 

'Lion' to light Opera

 

'Little Women' gets tuner treatment

 

ACT staying alive in Seattle

 

Unproduced play recognized

 

Susan French

 

Jan Scott

 

SARS mars H.K. fest

 

U.S. pix caught up in Bollywood battle

 

'Anger's' still the B.O. rage

 

Newell digs 'Gardner'

 

Miami gay fest skeds U.S. preems

 

Jacobson COO at In Demand

 

FX skein not so 'Lucky'

 

Tribeca slates family fare

 

Outer Crix announce noms

 

Revolution nabs coin from Chase

 

HBO pulls Stone doc from Tribeca

 

Viv U sez case is 'nothing new'

 

Thompson trips on tech

 

Creditors drive away with EM.TV F1 stake

 

Marilyn Gordon

 

Potter homevid conjures $108 mil

 

DOJ backs RIAA fight

 

'Crime' game touts stars

 

'Music' doc silenced

 

'Rings' wins again in Nebula nods

 

For Oscar, Grammys move up

 

'Johnny' spies o'seas lead

 

Inside Move: Sony taps 7 for committee

 

KNBC taps ayem anchor

 

NBC news ups ratings edge

 

Jean Drucker

 

AFTRA OKs radio strike

 

Gemstar fires Yuen, Leung

 

Brenda Hampton

 

Correction

 

William Monahan

 

Michael Clarke Duncan

 

No regal ratings for 'Kingpin' on Telemundo

 

Maria Menounos, Marla Sokoloff

 

Lisa Marie Presley

 

Martin Strange-Hansen

 

Hartford sets stage for thesps

 

Harry Ellis Dickson

 

Booth coin to help build care facility

 

Spidey suit spins on

 

Low-coin 'Dinner' tops Phoenix Fest

 

Ex-'Superman' helmer's plate 'Full'

 

Konstantinos 'Dino' Yannopoulos

 

Primedia turns page: Rogers exits publisher

 

Date shows eye Gotham hook-ups

 

Violet Ann Hill

 

Jillian Grace Geib

 

Lovitz loves Laugh Factory

 

Hunt on Loeb legal team

 

Sarandon honored by Film Society

 

'Whale' rides into Maui

 

Leeza options Stone's 'Once'

 

Silverstone to 'Doo' sequel

 

Thesps play with 'Child' adaptation

 

Brit Mably crowned for Par-Lion pic

 

Lopez leaps from veep to 'Julio' screenwriter

 

Thesp-turned-scripter Stowe sez no to dough

 

'Commandments' rules Sunday

 

KCTS-TV cuts jobs, national programs

 

Tribute for Slovak helmer

 

Czech fest slates competition pix

 

Shanghai fest still a go amid SARS woes

 

Foreign sales for Golden Scene

 

S. Africa eyes India ties

 

Japanes make a pitch for digital

 

Bard Music Fest fetes Janacek

 

'Girls,' 'Art' in showcase

 

ABC telepic helps part ratings waters

 

No Broadway rebirth

 

Toronto stands by its studio plans

 

U.S. news b'casts set for Iraq

 

Better news for Headline

 

Fund-raisers' casting call

 

'Wanted' preem raps to Malibu beat

 

IATSE will lobby for health reform

 

Constantin's Hitler pic taps Ganz as its fuhrer

 

RealNetworks' digital music wager

 

Fader ups prod'n sked, adds chief

 

'Love' unites world in Prague

 

Pocket Pix add-on after GameBoy set

 

Private Media to sell adult films online

 

Activision on 'Call' for Spark

 

Douglas 'Noel' Fox

 

Avid joins Final Draft, Evertz

 

Evangeline Machlin

 

LucasArts finds voice talent for game

 

Tickets.com goes out to the ballgame

 

Chanteuse Simone dies at 70

 

Brody eyeing musical plan, 'SNL' gig

 

Apple seeds digital tunes

 

M'max jumps to Zenith for ad buying duties

 

'Confidence' builder

 

Game violence bill passes

 

Kid thesps to gain from money law

 

Cast sinks teeth into 'Buffy' swan song

 

Angelinos rush into 'Fools'

 

Kudos rise from 'Ashes'

 

O'seas holiday B.O. ho-hum

 

WB's 'Sabrina' casts its final spell

 

Earl King

 

Pols discuss runaway prod'n relief

 

Gemstar's exec sweep not cheap

 

KCBS shifts gears via weekend changes

 

Emil Loteanu

 

AOL TW poised to sell Comedy Central

 

Was Spidey hijacked by Sony?

 

Reality vet signs Eye's dotted line

 

HGTV plants Iwata as VP

 

ABC's 'Hospital' ready to operate

 

Charles Rolland 'Charlie' Douglass

 

Knit maven eyes new venue

 

Fox falls for summer 'Love' on Mondays

 

Burnett getting real with CAA

 

Tribeca orders 'Italian'

 

Carlton to incarcerate celebs

 

'Personality' counts for Fox

 

Vital Viacom touts big revs, profits

 

KWA nabs 'Carmen' int'l rights

 

Studio Hamburg WWP commits to pics

 

Tribeca has drive-in dates

 

'Angel,' 'Miami' ratings rise

 

Men's Journal gets new main man

 

Kirch pull on soccer denied

 

Salty gives taste of slate

 

Astral earnings soaring

 

Fest adds Latin-American section

 

Sundance net nabs rights to 'Aftermath'

 

Gallic court puts off soccer ruling

 

Who wants a cheat?

 

Clear Channel, AFTRA reach tentative deal

 

Italy: Give us b'busters

 

Floyd heads to U as sr. VP of biz affairs

 

Cannes docu studies '8½'

 

H.K. to heal film biz

 

Winslet voices 'Pride' in role

 

Diskeries file suit against Napster backers

 

VH1 promotes Leo to veepee

 

SEC rains on AOL TW

 

Edward Shaw

 

Czech hit 'Pupendo' tops local B.O.

 

Prison pic Brazil's top local opener in 10 yrs.

 

Studios win grant for EU toon

 

CineNova inks TV deals with MGM, Fox

 

Chris Masterson

 

Jean Smart, Method Man

 

'Personality' traits endearing to auds

 

Vigil looking to control Canal 9

 

USA's 'Helen' launches solid ratings

 

Cholly Atkins

 

Nazeh Darwazeh

 

Andrea King

 

Lion, UA ink a Streamline first-look deal

 

SAG background players in focus

 

Karen Morley

 

Fox sets '90210' class reunion

 

Costas makes pitch for 'Durham' team

 

Koonin upped at Turner

 

'Heart' opens to Schiff

 

Vera Zorina

 

Powell gets backing for media regs

 

Felice Bryant

 

Graham P. Jarvis

 

Two-way freedom

 

Robert L. Rooney

 

Nazeh Darwazeh

 

Block that merger

 

Manilow makes B'way move with 'Harmony'

 

Anything goes

 

'Kwai' guy's schemes came true

 

Cannes pic clique

 

Calley joins USC board

 

'Ella' trio regroups

 

Hudson gets scary payoff for 'Skeleton'

 

NBC falls for a couple of dating skeins

 

Watts elects 'Nixon' role

 

Legendary sax player Edwards dead at 78

 

Leonard Venger

 

Sarah Merritt Eastman

 

Kim Kovac

 

Christian Vesper

 

Reviews

Ice Bound

Holes

The Hero: Love Story of a Spy

Bon Voyage

Identity

It Runs in the Family

I am Trying to Break Your Heart

Three Sisters

Come Drink With Me; The Blue and the Black (Parts 1 and 2); Hong Kong Rhapsody; The Magic Blade

Scenes From the Big Picture

Elizabeth the Queen

The Real Cancun

Two Days

As You Like It

Foo Fighters

Christian McBride

White Stripes

Gretty Good Time

All About My Father

Karen Akers: Theater Songs

The Faint

Girl Hood

Jon E. Edwards is in Love

Malefique

Returner

Raining Cows

Blackout

Lysistrata, D.C.

Small Town

She Stoops to Comedy

The Second Life of Lidice

Jan Werich's Fimfarum

Faithless Games

A Leaf in the Wind

Under the Same Sky

Emigrants

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

The Classic

Wanted

Body to Body

Shimkent Hotel

Bonhoeffer

Day of the Gun

Raymundo


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