The Muppets: Reloaded

German movie going slips in Q1

Fox's 'Idol,' '24' growing

Webby TV Nom: Animal Planet

Bertelsmann reports Q1 losses

Canuck coin choke

50 Cent tops album charts

'Wrinkle in Time' takes top honors

Police clear Townshend

BBC plays with 'Sisters'

SPTI moves LeGoy

TV Colombia added

UCI promotes Marin

Mojito nabs mojo

Harry M. Dailey

Nick's ditching Veronica

Cinema Expo honors Odeon topper Segal

Picless Pixar profits dip

New Playboy showing financial virility

Old refrain: 'Idol' leads Fox

Acad unveils 28 student kudos finalists

Revolution driven by 'Id'

ArtistDirect delisted

Nets' primetime ad sales rise

Japanese firm sweeps Leiber/Stoller catalogs

Mary McAdoo Hussey

Pressplay cues up J

Charter's seeing less red during first quarter

Spike strikes deal for minorities' work

Maverick senses 'Fate'

Stage left: Somlyo exits theater post

Solons mull music biz royalty bill

CNN says Brown won't be in promos

Corrections

Runaways pique pol

LaBute explains it at Tribeca panel

iEmmy fest taps Wu as chairman

Dreyer joins Liaisons as veep

Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker divide mag awards

Andrew Deutscher, Howard Nelson

Matt Lane

Ernest Cartwright

Candice Pearson

Diana Zakis

Stephanie Greenhut Baumoel

Spence Kramer

TNT books 'Librarian'

AFM endorses SAG-AFTRA merger

Inside Move: Where's Rachel's baby?

Inside Move: CNN checking out Friedman

Zombie dead set on more 'Corpses'

H'w'd man indicted on criminal piracy charges

Eli Zander Schwartz

Laszlo George Shaw

Odin James Arvold Chapman

Jase David Draper

Justin D. Gilbert

U.K.'s Ford drives int'l Miramax

'Identity's' Scott enters 'Bottleneck'

Trio reads a franchise in 'Runelords' novels

Ascendant venturing into film

Pair of pix on Radar

Gotham pitches major woo

'SNL' vet Kattan to split skits

Playtone 'Fly' goes CGI

Permut leads film 'Revolt'

Scribe brings new map to 'Snicket' thicket

Putting Initial on Hallstrom's 'Life'

Peacock gets grip on reality

Element X pairs with Visionview

'Down' to business

Pundits buzz at Maher bash

'Journey' bash puts a capper on season

Jean Conil

Celador to make 'Millionaire' pic

Webby TV Nom: CartoonNetwork.com

'Idol,' Fox laffers win Wednesday

Sondheim musicals win 5 awards

Consumer orgs jump on Powell

Ozon double bill offered at Cannes

U.K. to review Fox

Taormina Fest sets fetes

Nat'l Geo has beastly plans for Brazil

BV Int'l TV ups Gaignault

Israel film fest skeds L.A. visit

Latin Acad bestows kudos on Gil

Exhibs plan to strike

Davis inks Jean to J Records deal

Oz biz: Don't give in to U.S. on quotas

Tough Q1 for Constantin Film

Tony eligibility gets clarification

Univision's profits rise 68% in 1Q

Subs buoy Comcast

Sony Music unveils new sales plan

Fireworks sparks to 'Nola' at Tribeca fest

MTV Latin America renames kudofest

Taymor touts originality in Tribeca forum

Primedia mags reassigned within co.

Bertram Ross

Summerall calls it quits

Scripters profess to blurring lines at panel

Moore's hot-potato '911' docu loses an Icon

'Jingle' laffer set to rock on at Revolution

Erna Segal aka 'Chiquita'

Foxtel hunts subs with new features

Stage vs. screen debate

Fox chasing Peacock

Berlusconi busts 'TG3'

Cinematographers Guild finds new home

Dreyfuss: SAG members, play nice

Reiner to be feted at Maui fest

HBO nabs 'Rich' rights

TCM celebrates Harryhausen's pix

News anchor Quezada ankles for KVEA

Off Broadway's summer 'Heaven'

'Cooler,' 'Camp' bookend LAFF

EA laps up Lego titles based on 'Bionicle' pic

'Daredevil' to be Fox's first D-VHS

'Mac,' 'ER' shine at Prism nods

Sheldon Kasdan

Steve Bartels

Lilia Charlotte Buckingham

Samuel J. LeFrak

HDFest to preem features, shorts

Infogames to change name to Atari

Acclaim hit with class-action suit

Claxson tunes in Comcast

Rupe catches hell from Hill over DirecTV

Palm Springs fest CEO is sprung

Thesp floats to oater

MTC's Meadow nets Mr. Abbott career prize

Sutherland 'Taking' gig for summer

Kerner gets Par's 'Life'

'Frasier' alums back for series' finale

Sony tooning new animation unit

'Ali G' comic in at Mosaic

War, comedy on Par

Ice Cube warms to deal that returns him to CAA

Col, Wagon rope Peoples for 'Lone'

Miramax plays 'Bolly'

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BAFTA moves film awards

EasyCinema fails to woo U.S. majors

Promark lands Men and Motors deal

'ER's 200th scores for NBC

Webby TV Nom: Frontline/World

Llewellyn Thomas (Robert Bernard Thomas)

Craig Media takes NFL Monday Night rights

'T-Rex' chomps to highest grossing Imax 3D pic

TV2/Danmark posts profit

Nickelodeon to b'cast in India

Three to takeover sports TV channel DSF

HBO Asia exec ankles net

Nickelodeon Brazil says ratings, ad sales up

Moneo joins Aurum Producciones

How great is day-and-date?

Bukowski's wild life to become toon

Hanway plans Wenders Western

Hogan back to Oz for 'Bedfellows'

Gov't body to release film funds

'X2' leads B.O. to second-highest sesh

Retailored Film Four sets Meadows for first pic

Four hits fly under the radar

Piracy hurts B'wood profits

Magyar helmer takes Brussels prize

Pubcasters' poor report

Oz industry scrambles to ward off U.S. threat

Aussie alarms go off as biz battles piracy

TVNZ in a scrum over rugby

Auds surf in on wave of FM radio stations

SABC asks auds for p'gramming input

Curtain up on fractious finale

B.O. dives; 'Aida' 464g

B.O. declines; '42nd' 973g

Noises Off: Changing Lanes

Crix' tally

Motown trio still in groove

Inside Move: TV biz turns up laff track

Inside Move: Fox stalls in suit against Zahn, Leibner

Inside Move: Heist pic traffics in H'w'd headaches

Inside Move: For U, it's time to get real over real estate

Inside Move: McCarthy's other list

Inside Move: Fathom drawing its own course

Cannes-do attitude meets harsh reality of headlines

Bash turns into call to arms

Legiters fete Albee with class

Tribeca finds its image

Odyssey closes 'Ring'

Local scripts still found lacking

Fasten your seat belts, UPN

Memo to Les: End UPN as we know it

Cable stable stalled by economy

New fest topper faces challenges

U.S. auds hear Claxson call

CNBC-Bloomberg fight heats up

Emmys do the splits

Zee is quick to pick up on fashion Trendz

Pubcaster takes content to the edge

Everyone's talking about 'Jerry'

Will Apple for pay keep doldrums away?

The French connection

Inside Move: Reporting scandal hits pic, book

The dreaded deal

Femme films find their footing

Inside Move: Filmmaking vet Balian begins new career

Inside Move: Loews lathers up with Lever for promo

Mika tops overseas sales

H'w'd hits the panic button

Big 'Daddy' can't conquer 'X' appeal

Ambaji Shinde

Muriel Topaz

Calpers to zap exex

Oz coin refunneled

Hong Kong gov't takes SARS precautions

Jury's back on 'Practice'

CME tunes in TV gains

Saban calming creditors

Rupe up on Sky Italia's feevee future

Journos questioned about Berlusconi bias

LeGoy lands Latam berth for Sony Intl.

Ads, Univision coin boost Televisa revs

SAG, AFTRA project red ink, recovery

ABC tops Daytime Creative Emmys

Mouse's Pooh claim tossed

IFC takes 'Curious' turn to VOD sex

Sundance to 'Die' laffing

Jacko sues U over royalties

Italo B.O. stays home

Style fashions 8 series for fall

Ozzy won't bat for Sony

Anifest awards a 'Stowaway'

'X2' shoots o'seas as 'Reloaded' aims

San Sebastian sets sidebars

'ER' charts NBC win Thursday; 'CSI' hot

Vidgamers come out to play in L.A.

Scribe Anthony sees Cinema Revival

MGM and Danjaq extend Bond pact

Pamela Bowden

'Blind Shaft' tops at Tribeca Fest

Mood buoyant Down Under

Screenblast retooled

Rich guys seek money makers

WB pumps piracy patrol

Bruckheimer hits trifecta

Goldberg, Marin roar back in 'Lion'

Nat'l Geo maps Sorensen to kids arm

Cannes Brass

Universal raises two exec veeps

Sunny forecast in Europe

Indie market remains underdeveloped in Mexico

Bills soar for legal eagles

Topliners lead MTC home

NBC extends 'ER' deal, 'Angel' stays aloft

La nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

Telluride turns thirty

Raising the gold bar

Fellini fascination

Return of the kings of Cannes

NBC struts its specs

Inside Move: Former AOL exec taking it to the Street

WB lassos scribe for 'Wonder' pic

Blighty's regular shoppers hold steady

Teutonic turmoil spawns careful newbies

Gallic distribs soldier on despite beating

Spain rains on distribs with toughest sell in Europe

Cannes Headliners: Where are they now?

Global economy puts pinch on Italy

Going Gaga over acquisitions

Brazil: let the buyer beware

Macquarie fund goes for new rounds

'Architect' deal on firm foundation

Vidgamers woo H'w'd

Payday for Ray

Peacock stirs its nest

Da Silva offers a peek inside Fortnight

Politics de rigueur at fest

Fest fleet changes course

'Bowling' for docu recognition

'Lupin' rides again

Boffo B'way bouffant

Watson ankles Celador Int'l

Edinburgh to host MTVE Music Awards

RTL II ties knot with Animal Planet

Constantin Film fights hostile bid

'Survivor' takes Sunday

Webby TV Nom: HBO Online

BBC makes division for commercial plans

Rupe's Italian dish

Auds to weigh in on classic DVDs

Lincoln Center to honor Hawke

Kirch probe eyes banker

Momentum propels int'l push

CP Medien launches coin fund

From pixels to pix

Disney ups goods guy

Chrysalis pre-tax profits up

Clear woos ad biz at 'Home'

WB, ad revs power Tribune Co.

'Destiny' rolls by author

Saban pal to sit out

Sky boosting health

'Long' lines at B.O.; 'Gypsy' goes on

Daniel S. Mark

Daly's doozy: Reups at MTV, adds duties

'Death' set for preservation

Music merger talk spins anew

Victor 'Vic' H. Guarnier

Tony nominee perfs outstanding

'D.E.B.S' casts Foster, Brewster

Pic tuners Kraft, Engel ankle Blue

Homes win becoming CBS reality

Crusader will put Hart into Rand's 'Atlas'

Thomas Caulfield

Pierson at USC podium

Price cuts hit vidgame biz

Streep, Peck join pro-merger celebs

UMG hangs suit on Bertelsmann

Mika tops o'seas sales

ABC producer Slavin atop news

Variety, Studio System unveil Vault

Pol pushes pic tax break

CAA enlists marketing maven

Fandango adding UA exhibs

FCC head tips hand on dereg

Whoopi's whoops is a hoot

Richard J. Sinnott

UTA gets upfront and center

13 enroll in S'dance labs

Tribeca fades out

Eye snags 'JAG' spinoff

ESPN gets 'Reel' with Reynolds

9 M'max pix to cable net

Dog and tony show at MS gala

Peacock refluffs fall sked

Sibling revelery works for WBTV, Frog net

'X2' storms Russia

ABC spells relief with laffers

Reality check: WGA sets factual forum

Dutch Film Meeting opens int'l doors

EMI beefs up board

CBS takes Monday

'Season' greets Hopper, Gershon

Senator to sell Eagle slate

Webby TV Nom: Nick.Com

Capitol, Henson producing 'Children'

Strand nabs rights to gay-themed pics

Panzer's 'Escape' from development

Bellucci's beauty stops the presses

New Vue houses SBC, Warner Village

Summit picks up 'Deep Throat'

Filmax announces 'Fragile' project

EuropaCorp kicks up soccer pic

Leigh joins 'Machinist' thriller

'Miss Potter' bags producer Medavoy

Setback for Saban

'Angel' flies to U.K.'s Five

Canucks get 'Brady'

'Seinfeld' DVD eyed

It's déjà vu all over again

War sinks profit at Saban's Prosieben

Bertelsmann sells trade unit for $1.2 bil

AOL ups Conroy in broadband division

ABC refits with wit

Dutch fest sidebar widens

Chris Borgen

U.K. B.O. dips

'Flower' blooms with 9 Leos

Garcia to star in Modigliani bio

Dubrovnik sets slate

Elvis org squashes tuner

Drama Crix pick 'Take,' 'Hairspray'

Newport calls 'Time' in

'Punisher' sizes up Travolta