Table of Contents
Week of 08/27/2003

Articles

BBC to provide access to archives over the Web

 

Austria's ORF bags 'Potter' pic

 

'Queer' sites tuned into Bravo show

 

Gemini, Tulip pick Stoelzl

 

Bird exec de Posch flies coup

 

U.K. defense sec'y: I didn't name Kelly

 

Fest head for Rotterdam

 

Zone opens up to special screenings

 

Italo soccer kicks in for Rupe

 

Home Ent. sees annual profits fast-forward

 

Sat, telco uplinked

 

'Clones' tops music charts

 

Curtain call for drama teacher Clark

 

U cable nets tap Saypoff sr. VP, CFO

 

Sundance to serve up 'Dinner'

 

'Hardball' rolling into CA recall race

 

Fox' claims surfing turf as 'OC' rides high

 

Liberty Media buying up own bird stake

 

SAG, AFTRA ad-amant about deal

 

Correction

 

HP makes Latin 'Conexion'

 

Reality buoys 'Matt & Ben'

 

Malibu film fest rides new wave

 

Packer piling up profits

 

Bronfman rips Peacock's bid

 

Contest open for f/x kudos

 

Jane New Dorsey

 

Woody wows lethargic Lido

 

Christian Leonhardt

 

RIAA chase goes high tech

 

Antonio Velasco Gutierrez

 

Inside Move: 'Brother's' big twist

 

SAG amends member rule for extras

 

Ruffling Lion's mane

 

'Jeepers' creeps out preem

 

Mystery surrounds 'Alias' game, DVD

 

Hughes off 'Hide'; De Niro's still in

 

Stars volley USA Net's tennis party

 

Pollack near 'Skate' date for Fox 2000

 

VH1 revisits the '80s with 'Strikes Back'

 

Inside Move: Fox: No more 'Juniors' yet

 

Inside Move: Another big bite of Tyson

 

Reno's right for 'Price'

 

B'way's Atkinson into 'Woods'

 

Friends bid farewell to Hope

 

'Moon' walks to thirtieth birthday

 

Pirate's life on 'Survivor'

 

Indian pic draws coin of $6 million

 

MPA urges piracy curbs

 

Cruise unsheathed

 

EM.TV sinks into the red

 

'Polleke' to open Dutch Cinekid fest

 

EU OKs Liberty's QVC takeover

 

Blockbuster buy-in

 

BBC's cozy gov't ties strained

 

Source's accuracy questioned

 

Marvel man's selloff roils stock price

 

Angelika unspools plans for Kiwi plex

 

Digital's future set in Kiwi

 

Indian thesps in politics

 

Gonzalez up Canal's p'gramming ladder

 

Radio org sues RIAA

 

B.O. labor daze?

 

Clarification

 

Back at the negotiating table

 

Org attacks Canada coin

 

Berney, P&F team up on marketing shingle

 

ThinkFilm harvest

 

Dave's party: Later

 

Court chokes off Pipeline's hopes

 

S'dance plans pic expansion

 

NATPE casts wider net

 

Oscar pic screening set for Gotham in fall

 

Sean Maguire

 

Danielle Panabaker

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
August 29, 2003

 

Par's on top of 'World'

 

Jinx Falkenburg

 

Telluride fest peaks interest

 

Transmission Films revs up P2P site

 

Elliott's 'Work' MTV vid winner

 

'Boys' club for Benderspink

 

Duo partners in Skouras

 

Double 'Bill' does the Oscar splits

 

World preems aplenty on N.J. stages in fall

 

FX, CBS seeing Spotnitz

 

INL snatches up Sky Network

 

3D film 'Anna' gets voices

 

Miami Int'l Film Fest loses sponsor

 

Celador casts 'Through The Woods'

 

Woods named Irish Film Board topper

 

Russian media magnate given bail

 

U.K. gov't spin-doctor quits

 

Vector parks flashy site just for clicks

 

Dutch homegrown pix grabbing auds

 

Politico looks to halt screening

 

IFC takes 'Void' rights

 

Filmart sked set

 

IFA opens to pleasant news

 

Luke Eli Rotenberg

 

Avalon Morrison Stone

 

Olivia Luana Martini

 

Henry Colbert Hallowell

 

Inside the Jerry-rigged machine

 

Inside Move: Le joie of being an also-ran

 

Inside Move: Miramax 'Bill' comes due

 

Arty 'Ark' sails to breakout B.O.

 

Inside Move: Dean maintains steam

 

Inside Move: WGA touts its greatest dialogue

 

Inside Move: Us sees shooting stars

 

Inside Move: The real ratings deal?

 

Inside Move: Fiction bites back on TV

 

Inside Move: How the 'West' was shown

 

Featured Player: Artur Brauner

 

They've learned their lessons

 

Greenaway speaks at Film Meeting

 

Horror fest scares up local fans

 

Sexy fare boosts limp B.O.

 

Overseas exhibs hope for brighter fall biz

 

Medusa aims to collaborate, not dominate

 

TES hits global trail

 

Scandis open up to pix from nearby territories

 

Finalists bid on studio

 

A crash course in divergent harmony

 

Primetime keeps on Bruckin'

 

Nets keep Saturday fare spare

 

'Week' gets tweaked as ratings hit bottom

 

Ball bawls out fat cat BBC

 

Producer rolls out across Europe, woos auds

 

$5 mil snafu spurs Sky's Maori offer

 

Cablers end strike over India content ban

 

Wall finally falls on Teutonic TV

 

Canal 9 boss seeks partner for marriage

 

'Whatever' goes on MTV prank spree

 

A compromising situation

 

Passion playing

 

Crosstown crisis management plan

 

Biz jumps; 'Day' 684g

 

B.O. recedes; 'Aida' 816g

 

'Heron' flies to Atlantic

 

New gigs for legit scribes

 

Bidding biz

 

Sundance bows right 'Side of Bed'

 

Venetian starters

 

'Boyz' night out

 

TV tee off

 

Miramax shops for new Spanish distrib

 

New confidence marks Euro selection

 

Canuck players show local colors

 

Maple leaf tops fall heap

 

Travel update

 

Fest nabs prime spot for new Centre

 

Faces behind the films

 

Event highlights

 

Ups, downs for Teuton twosome

 

U, D'Works log on to T-Online

 

Fest 'Parks' Clark

 

Russia gets down to business

 

And the sats go on

 

C4 knows 'Jack'

 

'Creepers 2' tops holiday

 

WGA's board room

 

RIAA: Piracy hits CD sales again

 

Liquid 8, Sidran plan to jazz up Nardis

 

Kidvidder Mar Vista formed

 

XM plans Canada expansion

 

Rupe selling off Perfect stock

 

PBS claims surprise Kelly

 

Brit gov't spin doctor exits over Iraq dossier

 

Italy alters film funding

 

Canal Plus inks trio of output deals

 

Par OKs out-of-court debt deal with Kirch

 

Moguls, artists talk shop at Telluride

 

Thesp Bronson dies at 81

 

CNN ready to unveil Cooper, Zahn shows

 

Venice fest hails De Laurentiis

 

WB Pix puts Shestack in the producers' mix

 

Lido ringing in new

 

Davis takes shot at pic biz

 

Chan pix return to cabler

 

Kudos for WB exec Fellman

 

VMA ratings strong but down

 

Daly gets third call

 

EU looks to boost homegrown projects

 

EMI on the attack to nab Warner Music

 

Seven not keen on 'Queer'

 

Bachchan inks for 'Tandoor'

 

'Sleepless' seeks Oscar for Egypt

 

Low-priced vids combats piracy

 

'Pirates' cashes in

 

Watson, Wilkinson in 'Woods' for pic

 

Syndie thanks a 'Million'

 

Pol's in Indian pic pickle

 

Tech fair fares well

 

Silver Lake fest set

 

Pricey tix pump pallid pix

 

Kyan Douglas

 

Najwa Nimri

 

Rare air at Telluride fest

 

Viv hot wires offer from GE

 

Five ups Chambers

 

Politics spoil Grammy party for Cuban stars

 

Labor festival gets 'Pretty'

 

IFC pic pickup fills 'Void'

 

SPC barges in to take 'Young Adam' rights

 

YES says no to cabler with lawsuit over fee

 

321 Studios a target

 

'Jailhouse' tuner rocks this spring

 

Grace in past with new ''70's' pact

 

Kilmer inks pact with Emmett/Furla

 

'Silver' digs Bello for gig

 

San Seb adds pix to Horizontes

 

Wenders hits the Road

 

U Marks Brit post

 

Nat'l Geo Intl. beefs up exec team

 

Endemol France Strixed again

 

Dutch fest's Platform lifts diverse pix

 

Veronica brand back in biz

 

B'way B.O. takes holiday break

 

Politics on the Lido

 

Berlin fest topper drops in on Lido

 

Classic gets big idea

 

Stars dress Elizabethan quartet for Classic run

 

Intertainment sales slide, losses grow

 

EMI preps takeover bid for Warner Music

 

NBC exec has Wright stuff for merger

 

Dimension's 'Necropolis' coming to life via Natali

 

Knopf captures Lynch tale for $1 mil

 

Seven Network to cut 250 staffers

 

'Scarface' gets 20th-anni re-release

 

Viv U reaches accord with Verrechias on UGC

 

SAG opens Actor kudo noms today

 

Grinberg ankles New Line

 

TV museum taps Carpenter

 

24 Hour Plays goes uptown

 

Kelly's death not accidental

 

Butt out

 

English twist for Latin shows

 

Berney, P&F team up on new shingle

 

mPRm revamps film side

 

Sogepaq pacts with Telespan pix

 

TV helps offset lull in L.A. film prod'n

 

WTSN digitally deleted from screens

 

Russia to pursue Gusinsky extradition

 

Ancine ready to ration film funds

 

Latin distribs pact for pix

 

Belgian ticket sales up 10% in August

 

NBC's upside and down in big merger

 

Femme lead makes splash for Anderson

 

Janet toots Horne for Storyline, ABC

 

Syndie calling to 'South Park'

 

A Newsman's war story

 

Peacock: Parlez-vous U

 

Mandoki moves into El Salvador 'Houses'

 

Husband hunt is hot

 

IATSE covers 'Vamps' pic

 

Alliance Atlantis puts its faith in trust

 

Pirate bounty: $700 mil

 

MPSE taps Bondelevitch prexy

 

Televisa ads tout videos

 

ESPN's confidential memo to Limbaugh

 

Recall runaways

 

Tube bias

 

Reviews

Anything Else

The Agronomist

Choropampa: The Price of Gold

The Thing About Men

A Place Among the Living

Mud

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Oscar Peterson; Dianne Reeves; Clark Terry

Jeepers Creepers 2

Bet On My Disco

Uncut

Julia, All in Me

Lefty

Scream Queen

Playing for Change

Wedding Day

Damaged

Destiny Has No Favorites

Valley of Tears

Greasewood Flat

Small World

The Eric Dolphy Project

On the Sunny Side

Hale Bopp

The Five Stages of Beer

Alex Lora: Rock 'n' Roll Slave

Thoroughly Modern Millie

The Game

Strong Shoulders

Secret File

Raja

Every Child is Born a Poet

Gaz Bar Blues

Once Upon a Time Johann Sebastian Bach

The Cat Returns

Minimal Knowledge

The Joy of Madness

Lost in Translation

The Assassinated Sun

Here

Summer in the Golden Valley

Dickie Roberts - Former Child Star

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

The Dreamers

Hanson

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Matchstick Men

The Human Stain

Twentieth Century

Last Life in the Universe

Zero Day

Erotic Tales

Zatoichi

Bed and Breakfast

Twentynine Palms

My Baby

Eila

The Rashevski Tango

The First Letter

The Tulse Luper Suitcase: Episode 3

Imagining Argentina

Godfathers & Sons

The Five Obstructions

Janis and John

My Grandpa

The Miracle

Les Sentiments

Love Me If You Dare

Luck

The Limit

Pornography

Movin' Man

In The Forest . . . . Again