Table of Contents
Week of 09/17/2003

Articles

Edward C. Ternes

 

Gerard 'D.O. Cannon' Fields

 

London fest unspools new look

 

'Idol' worship continues

 

Russian producer CTB adds distrib outfit

 

Zein's new Pact

 

Saban fills out exec team

 

Constantin nabs Kirch arm

 

'Ritter' spec rules

 

'Good Boy!' paws around

 

Henson pulls strings, moves exex to prod'n

 

'Lenin' Germany's Oscar entrant

 

TBS 'House' hit with Kiwi suit

 

Channel 4 goes More4 digital

 

Teutonic firm alters forecast

 

Mayer's 'Heavier' bows at top

 

Warners, BMG set to seal merger deal

 

RIAA still in pursuit

 

Canuck lobbyist exits amid uproar

 

Italo reality show now in 'Fashion'

 

Nguyen rejoins Sesame Workshop

 

Bachchan settles with producers

 

Murdoch finds partner for Star

 

Baltimore to see Waters' 'Dirty Shame'

 

Time for name-dropping

 

Powell to No. 2 at 'Today'

 

'Nip' tucked atop cable ratings

 

Spike TV auds give 'Schmo' a go

 

ASCAP bows royalties monitoring service

 

Multimedia Voy targets Latino aud

 

Shelburne gets current at Fox TV

 

H'wood on the run

 

'Jumpers' set to jump to West End

 

'Fox,' 'Anna' in the wings as B'way book up

 

Telemundo taps senior veepee

 

Network presidents debate TiVo threat

 

Mill Valley fest fetes Coyote, Taylor

 

Pitney to sing on Vegas stage

 

Petruzzi is TBS PR veep

 

Bill Murray

 

Inside Move: Some clients to stay at Endeavor

 

Inside Move: Son may rise at BskyB

 

Warner targets Pendrill for niche auds

 

Phoenix buys Brit 'Skellig'

 

Fox takes international on Hyde Park 'Shopgirl'

 

Preem no dream for bashful Allen

 

Darkness rules 'Underworld' party

 

Thesps rally against the clock

 

Zeitgeist's dramatic relations

 

No 'Life' without tears

 

Favreau serves in 'Wimbledon'

 

Gotham loves 'Demon'-ic pic

 

Ribisi eyes 'Phoenix' role

 

Pol part filled in 'Candidate'

 

Blue collar reality

 

Fox, Cameron taking a flyer

 

'24' helmer finds time for Fox deal

 

Bratt making a feline bee-line

 

Trigger man drawn to bow Magnetic Pix

 

Photo exhibit bows at Acad

 

Garner Ted Armstrong

 

Report backs U.K. tax breaks

 

Docu dovetails with benefit

 

Ostrich Ink offers good fiction, slice of life

 

Oscar hopes bloom for 2 Italo pix

 

NRW Medien facing end of road

 

French, Japanese dominate Tokyo

 

Aussies see bleak image of U.S. aims

 

San Sebastian fest fetes vet Landa

 

Vosloo receives 'Forgiveness'

 

N.J. duo hang Chester shingle

 

A B.O. battle royal

 

'George' surge good ratings news at ABC

 

Kids desert Sat. ayemers

 

TW axes AOL handle

 

Cablevision seeks FCC OK on bird bid

 

De La Hoya vs. Mosley reaps $50 mil for HBO

 

Century revamps S.F. site

 

'Calendar' gets date with AFI Film Festival

 

Cardinal praises Mel's 'Passion'

 

Corrections

 

Matt Davis

 

Bill Elder

 

Errol G. Hill

 

John Griffith Hume Sr.

 

Jerry Fleck

 

Sheb Wooley

 

David O'Hara

 

Justin Long

 

Gotham's kudos stetson

 

Samantha Fay Albert

 

Louis Alexander Chader

 

Kathryn Alyssa Mann

 

Time has come at Fox for 'The Simple Life'

 

Violet Avalon Green

 

William Benjamin 'Ben' Powell

 

Andrew Kalani Pono Nakamoto Jacobellis

 

Bowman shuffles to 'Buffalo'

 

Meadows, Poehler play with 'Mean Girls'

 

Raw jabs at 'Pugilist'

 

D'Works money man exits after brief stint

 

Emmy ups ante

 

Fox TV holds on to O'Keefe

 

Boop B'way bound

 

DreamWorks dusts off Towne project

 

Inside Move: Gray is 'Match' maker

 

Teen cops on prep beat for Par, Frog

 

Waters, New Line get 'Dirty'

 

'Hard' time for 'Fight' duo

 

Vid helmer plucks 'Dead Birds'

 

Creature f/x aren't alien to vet firm

 

Back to bigscreen for Collins

 

Red carpet to reality?

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
September 19, 2003

 

Producers use their Intuition

 

'Ford' docu stalled

 

WGA West re-elects Riskin

 

Showbiz regroups as death takes a hiatus

 

Gov't breathes new life into vampire park

 

Benjamin Dacher Jacobs

 

Paul Homer Moses Wigand

 

Zwick pic shoots in New Mexico

 

WBTV needs to strike gold

 

Record promo coin targets off-air media

 

Nets look for laughs on Tuesday

 

Tuning up for more TV work

 

Ekho heats up Putin's media cold war

 

Goodwin 'Cleans' up on lifestyle TV

 

Record auds 'Idol' the night away

 

Kiwis dump blighty's BBC for U.S. fare

 

'Women' makes a stand against guns

 

Yanks sink bucks into foreign programming

 

New Disney 'Legend' is born

 

Lux soft soaps wannabe thesps

 

Stone leaves no throne unturned

 

Watchdog barks at RTL Klub

 

Quebec pix seduce auds

 

Chi shows off fall colors

 

Basque doc stirs up controversy

 

Thomas' distrib misstep

 

Ant faces uphill climb in N.Y.

 

Strands

 

Zwick pic shooting in New Mexico

 

'Pirates' still plundering overseas B.O.

 

Exhib re-strategizes

 

Confab concentrates on content

 

Vid stores battle Blockbuster

 

'Affairs' team packs action into next two pix

 

Warners: Reloaded

 

B.O. up; 'Nine' 7770g

 

'Blast!' resumes, 'Lion King' sells out

 

Gibson pic wins favor but no distrib

 

Name game or blame game?

 

B.O. misfires weigh on congloms

 

Studios go ape over gorilla $$$

 

Candidate's son on H'wood maneuvers

 

Vardalos manager digs in

 

CNN shuffle bolsters bureaus

 

Catching up with: Steve Case

 

Illusionist gets a rude U.K. reception

 

Teuton net clocks in a hit with timely '24'

 

'Scarface' toasts legacy

 

'Fighting' for su-preem-acy

 

Bistro ladles up celeb Deauville fare

 

Hitchcock sculpts a spot

 

Russia fetes plexitude

 

Vampires show bite at B.O.

 

Atari's game to settle its debt

 

File sharer iMesh sued by RIAA

 

Regal unplugs gory games

 

Join the video club

 

Falco touts NBC-U deal to investors

 

Rachael Leigh Cook

 

Jamie-Lynn Discala

 

Martin Mull

 

Gregory Dark

 

KaDee Strickland

 

Felix Alcala, Paul Holahan

 

Ruff Ryders Pictures

 

Rachelle Lefevre

 

George Gore

 

Focus finds B.O. niche for 'Lost,' 'Scarface'

 

Inside Move: Team Todd tests applicants

 

Federal court to hear recall delay arguments

 

Inside Move: Leno greets gov hopefuls

 

Audit points to EIDC revamp

 

MTV trusts Intuition

 

Saban, Karmazin join battle for ITV

 

Jackson seeking Watts as apple of Kong's eye

 

'Survivor' preem goes swimmingly

 

Konrad taps Nemes as veep

 

Sogepaq plucks rights to 'Eyes'

 

'911' connects at Col

 

Vinterberg preps for 'Wendy' start

 

Beeb, Greenlight reteam for doc

 

'Pirates' still unsinkable

 

S. Africa appeal lifts Sasani

 

'Roma' opens Europa Cinema

 

Complete list of Emmy winners

 

Emmy 2003 red carpet arrivals

 

Emerging filmmakers the focus of IFP mart

 

NYC tourist spending off

 

Backstage at the Emmys

 

French, Belgians rule at Prix Italia

 

Toon org eyes Annie entries

 

MADtv books George

 

Helmers set up int'l body

 

Lensers to honor Ondricek in Feb.

 

Correction

 

Indican smiles on Pan's 'Face'

 

Clarification

 

Moving Parts pacts with Peacock

 

Diversity nods find theme

 

Fest to surface with large-screen pix

 

Altman, Hanson top DGA Honors roster

 

Julia 'Closer' to pic

 

Gore galore in 2004

 

Inside Move: Sibs 'Dismember' dad

 

Brolin, Smith in Allen pic

 

Emmys start parties early

 

Tea time for BAFTA

 

Guber, Bart shoot it out

 

Lane, others bask in 'Sun'

 

An educational soiree

 

Brady best of bunch via bicoastal Emmys

 

Miller cast as host for Artios nods

 

CBS gets Emmy eyeful

 

Basic cable joins HBO in spotlight

 

'Raymond' wins stir up talk of another season

 

Emmy buddies love 'Raymond'

 

Saban stakes out Talit

 

Soccer pact still in play

 

Emmys down, still strong for Fox

 

Horror surrounds Sportka

 

America TV taps programming topper

 

Oz campaigns vs. H'wood

 

Producer takes Babelsberg reins

 

EC guide points way to digital TV

 

Make way for James

 

Bank fattens fest pot by $35,000

 

Spain's Oberon books int'l partners

 

Xuxa goes fairytale

 

FCC sez si to deal

 

Intertainment probed over insider trading

 

WMG's wooed again

 

David J. McKennan

 

WGA counsel to ankle post

 

Viacom shares down on weak Par results

 

SAG and ad biz play nice

 

B'way back at work after slow holiday

 

Sundance Channel gets 13 Palm films

 

'Lions' leaps to No. 2 slot

 

Content, Baldwin dive into 'Swimmer' redo

 

U ups Thomases to publicity VP

 

New Line back in 'Zone'

 

mPRm closing N.Y. office

 

Bill Hargate

 

Cuban docu 'Suite' nails distrib deals

 

Oscars eyeing Crystal glow

 

Todds join Revolution

 

Omar Epps

 

Chris Williams

 

Dat Phan

 

CNN's 'Zahn' embeds Pentagon's Clarke

 

Foreign treasures at the B.O.

 

Healthy Emmy rates dip

 

Fred Amsel

 

Controversial 'Park' cited by confab

 

Ellen Idelson

 

Katharine Hepburn memorial tribute

 

Simon West

 

Newmarket 'Stander' bearer

 

Judge mulls 'Poland' ban

 

Village hit in $96m pay dispute

 

Hallmark updates Dickens

 

ABC straightening 'Line'

 

Shorts festival long on kudos

 

Appeals court mulls recall postponement

 

Cable's reality deja vu

 

Lifetime seeks acquisitions chief

 

NBC keeps up with 'Joneses'

 

Kelley calls 'Witness'

 

Spyglass splits

 

Basic cable got a shot at 'T3' run

 

Lake in new waters at CBS

 

Inside Move: 'Wing' thesps settle salaries

 

Gibson tracking motorcycle gang

 

Emmycast's parties blast off

 

Slim Dusty

 

Pamela Gordon Wedner

 

Adelaide Laurino

 

Marc Olden

 

'Pretty' good year for Frears

 

'Bear' gets lion's share

 

New shows shine on Monday

 

BSkyB's Ball rolls

 

Got ads?

 

Another decades-old take on Schwarzenegger

 

Newspaper backs movie

 

Penguin plugging in TV unit

 

Jay Morton

 

Kenneth E. Hagin

 

Gordon Jump

 

Ralph S. Wilshin

 

Songwriters take case against piracy to D.C.

 

Ad contract talks on QT

 

CBS, Fox end NBC win streak

 

AOL settles with FTC over subs

 

Paddison to pinpoint promos at New Line

 

'Men,' 'Vegas' bow big

 

WE's netting 'Ned,' 'Truth'

 

Malone Starz!-crossed

 

King sends publishers 'Running'

 

Debate escapes Dow Jones-union tiff

 

Eye 'Guys' flies for Silver & Black

 

Chi to preem musical 'Masada'

 

Montreal topper riled at rival

 

Doc rights stay hot

 

Pathe antes up for Lee laffer 'Hate'

 

Dolby buys anti-piracy tech firm Cinea

 

SAG prexy returning for sequel

 

Wagner, Cuban buy Landmark circuit

 

Walsh prexy of merged union

 

NBC's nightly star

 

All eyes on Arnold at debate

 

Inside Move: TiVo talk troubles Kellner

 

Party time for indie bizzers at Gothams

 

Inside Move: Joey Pants, ABC poor fit

 

Emmy hangover

 

Inside Move: Sundance's Park City preem

 

Memo to WGA: Lighten up

 

Inside Move: Screener cease-fire

 

Elley erred

 

Deadline set for TV-Radio kudos at WGA

 

Lowry spot-on

 

'House' makes room for Badu

 

Focus grabs 'Land' spec

 

Judge keeps 'Poland' on map for Eye net debut

 

Fable gets Type A label

 

Grammys play L.A.'s tune

 

MTV changes its mind, axes 'New Tom Green'

 

'Lost' is found again

 

Bravo plays celeb card

 

Intermedia downsizes pic plans

 

Imagine nabs 'Magnum P.I.'

 

Oscar brings Billy back

 

Reviews

Dying at Grace

Antenna

The Boys From County Clare

Easy

Nine Souls

Valley of the Innocent

Luis

Jonna's Body, Please Hold

Stereophonics

Las Vegas

How It All Went Down

What the Eye Doesn't See

God is Brazilian

Wilderness of Mirrors

Madness and Genius

Sexie

Falling Angels

The Gospel of John

I'm With Her

Two and a Half Men

Liz Phair

Cold Creek Manor

I Just Stopped By to See the Man

Rhinoceros Eyes

Cheeky

Cleopatra

Alila

Imitations Of Life

Afro-Punk: The 'Rock N Roll Nigger' Experience

Vibrator

Testosterone