Tepuy, Prodigius ink to distrib telepix

World Series tops Tuesday

'Good Will' songwriter dies

Michael Bondelli

Sari Price

Berlin fest adds 2 marts

Pubcasters' double-dip is all wet

WB flexing plex muscles in China

'Evil' good for Dimension

Mifed shows moxie

Norway exhibs lose controls

Carlos Olmos

'Matrix' set for Egyptian screens

Parker pick for post

Raymond J. Greenwald

BBC kicks off series

BVITV inks pic deal

Soccer rights to duo

'Idol's' runner-up leads pack

H'wood fest gives heart to Europe

Jack Elam

Cable duo wrap strongly

Miramax's heading into 'Infernal' region

MTV names VP to news, pic arms

Trio serious about 'Duty'

Gemstar shines with interactive agreement

AFI goes Continental

'Seacrest' gets Armour

Matt Roe

AFTRA running low

EA plans stock split as earnings spike 50%

Good times for MTG as profit jumps

AOL downdraft

Duchovny working on directing debut 'D'

Lensers tap 11 to salute at 75th anni

Developing countries get pix forum in U.S.

Canada: Beef up satellite-theft laws

KWA buys 'Comandante' int'l rights

S.F. Film Fest keys on issues

Haenel new veep for 20th Century

'Blue' targeted for hiatus as 'Fire' bows

Harris starts indie prod'n, distrib team Rogue Arts

Pair team for Control

'Labor' day for WB Pix, Goldmann

Ella kudos sings Dion praise

Evanier gets WGAW nod as top toonsmith

The old college try at U

IFC rolls with 'Rock' tour doc

Lifetime net makes 'Choice'

'Scary' spoof bow

'Beyond' lavish bow

Comics yuk it up for Hackett

Thesps expound on 'Glass'

'Brother Bear' roars at Roseland

Buscemi's Plum assignment

Project ALS holds fundraiser

Col, Ziskin enrolling in 'College'

Short 'Chubbchubbs' is going long for Sony

Searchlight spots Lonergan pic

Helmer seduces MGM with 'Succubus' pitch

Reality bites as nets nix clips

'Rock' vet Kushell rolls to NBC

Reeves jazzes up latest landmark

Daughter drives Disney donations

Relationship issues

The First Note: Soundstage LA

Redcat experiments in the basement

The First Note: Living LA

The First Note: Sonic LA

Phil's newest programs lure younger audiences

Musical milestones

Steel curtain

Party goes on behind scenes at H'w'd Awards

Evans hallucinates

Fred Berry

Winchester CEO Smith ankles post

Strix strikes format pact

Baseball, 'Bachelor' top Wednesday

NATPE carries on TartiKoff Legacy

Southern Star sets Singapore site

Barron to hold on to reins at AFC

'Rosenstrasse' inks regional deals

Nordisk shuts Constantin shingle

Oz-U.S. culture clash

Oz's AEG sets up int'l unit in L.A.

Hope floats to slash sound VAT

Kid school prepping pic

'Mother' back on B'way?

CNN frames politics for Mad Ave

MPAA: Give peace a chance

Astral projects big earnings gains

'Gigli' really wracks Sony

Fox, ABC play nice together

Beware 'Scary 3' B.O.

Reynolds on deck to hit 'Pitch'

Cablevision takes nets for spin

Viacom spins record Q3

Ad bump boosts Mexican congloms

ESPN tackles Cox in cost dispute

A final merge lane for Univision-HBC

Valenti waves flag against digital piracy

Corus back in black on solid 2003

Actors blast screener compromise

PitchYourProject names participants

Tribeca seeks scripts

'Early' ayem riser

'Poland' in Siberia

Critics, niche units call ban plan unfair

L.A. Opera tunes up Sondheim's 'Music'

VP stripes for UPN's Hewitt

Disney Hall's first call

Inside Move: Carson still kidding at 78

Eve

Stephen Dorff

'Proof' partner in the pudding

Swofford's 'Jarhead' gets U's salute

New 'Horror' haunts

Inside Move: 'Exorcist's' head turns to Harlin

Holedigger fills in cast for 'Dying Gaul'

Diggs in to play 'Drum'

Kellison defects from 'Kimmel' producing post

Lathan tackles 'Alien'

'Borders' wages temp tantrum

Weekend Box Office Preview
October 24, 2003

MTV Latam toasts Molotov

Valencia takes 'Journey'

Euro producers slam Acad, MPAA

CBS tops 'em all on Thursday

Duo stirs up nitery brew

Cartoon's 'League' leaps and bounds

Spat over cheesecake on RAI

Auds cast an eye over 'Pop' clones

Animal Planet sharpens its claws

Azteca revamps slumping reality skein

Telco bows in cable market, undercuts rivals

Biz even; 'Wicked' 821g

Critix' tally

B.O. flattens after 14-year growth spurt

Gauls fume over Warners' access to prod'n subsidies for Jeunet pic

Redefined classics star at Dublin fest

Aussie sound biz sets up in Beijing

Cablers play poker to full house

MTV stews up Sunday prankfest

Letterman at loose ends as Leno boosts lead

Inside Move: Thrill Bill

Inside Move: Draft war

Inside Move: Mighty Mojto

Techies' quick fixes

Fest serves opening 'Cut'

ITV money men pinkslip Green

Broadband powering growth, sez Casbaa

Televisa calling it a 'Day'

Tyro digital net makes 'Whoopi'

B.O. slips; 'Phantom' $1 mil

Searchlight turns up the wattage

'Jinx' nixed by MGM

Exhib dips into feature funding biz

Eastwood and Tarantino divide Euros

Sounds of success

Totti sets pic projects

Potential projects flock to finance mart

Fuji mines TV synergy for contempo story

Striking statistics

Fall sweeps faces steep learning curve

Inside Move: Congloms trip on limp pics

Inside Move: Tainted love

Interest groups need to rebottle old whine

The tortured tale of the telcos

Inside Move: Gov love for Arnold

Dissonant music biz still reaching for high notes

Inside Move: Rough air for clouded Sky

All in the family?

Tale of the tapes

Singing for Cari

Spooky spoof raises the roof

Sithengi expands membership

'Olvidados' lands laurel

WIN fetes Donner, Jenson

Canadian film flies the coop

TW sends CD, DVD distrib biz up north

Rainbow's gravity

Cinecitta lot loaded with U.S. biz

Agresti commences 'Less Bad World'

Compromise in the works

Kiwi arts org in coin hole

Indian helmer plans missionary bio

Newlink lines up talkshow

Aussie firewalls

La7 replaces CEO

Sid gives Col giggles

CBS swipes must-see title

Screener truce draws new fire

Corrections

Spyglass adds new partner, prez

WGA launches labor-law probe

Inside Move: N.Y. Times taps Waxman

Inside Move: Disney nixes 'Ghosts' reports

HBO, BBC hail Caesar in drama skein

Par pix buy 'Feathers' A&E's nest

Myriad whim: 'Jim'

Autumn numbers fall for cable news

SAG gets AFL-CIO merger help

'Cruelty' beats foes in o'seas B.O.

WB sued for wrongful firing

'Boheme' bow pushed up

Slimming Vivendi sells mobile-media division

Radio b'casters lose Webcast ruling

1 mil PC iTunes d'loaded in 3 days

Gambling net bets on young men

GAO: Cablers good to go

Series finale clinches gains over '02

A name that sticks

Wellspring bites 'Gator'

'Fei' up first for Emerging

Sundance 'Lab' yields strange brew

Key Player: Nina Jacobsen

Key Player: Chuck Viane

Key Player: Jerry Bruckheimer

Key Player: Bob Cavallo

Key Player: Dennis Maguire

Showtime's standup guy

Bancroft speaks up for 'Spanglish'

Par rouses 'Sleeping' pitch

Focus on Zhang actioner

Sounds of H'w'd leave Disney Hall speechless

One-Two punch

Key Player: Roy E. Disney

Key Player: Oren Aviv

Cloud Nine

Global conquest

Key Player: Thomas Schumacher

Key Player: Richard Cook

Key Player: Harvey Weinstein

Key Player: Michael Eisner

Key Player: John Lasseter

Key Player: M. Night Shyamalan

Pix in the pipeline

Le Divorce

Dream weaver

Practical magic

Tooned in

To infinity and beyond

Opposites attract

There's gold in them DVDs

Wall Street sees Mouse in holding pattern

Disney timeline

Key Player: Bob Chapek

Key Player: Mark Zoradi

Key Player: David Stainton

Key Player: Robert Iger

Key Player: William Mechanic

Key Player: Bob Weinstein

Key Player: Armyan Bernstein/Charlie Lyons

Key Player: David Hoberman

Key Player: Steve Jobs

De Mol stakes out moppets

Gem of an offer

Thomson Thais up post lab

Mason ventures to C4

Football, movie power CBS

Eye extends 5 skeins

Artisan buoys library card at Lions Gate

Court tosses lawsuit vs. Hicks Muse

PrideVision adds a dating show

Vid imports banned

'Miffo' picked up

'Case' winning auds

Moretti's unspooled

Trapero hitting road

Mukta launches pix

Time for new distrib

Bill Sargent

Carlton U.S. picks pair

Pol-ka places 'Padre' rights

Foxtel finds bankroll for digital bow

GreeneStreet jazzed about 'Monk'

ABC's Wallace to Fox News post

Stations pick up Pauley

'Golda' gooses B.O. up on balcony

News Corp. COO Chernin ponders piracy

Nick's N teens gain 'Access'

Ad sales drive Chum profits

Good cable picture

Ted Goldberg

Studios face space odyssey

Alex Graf

O'seas B.O. all about 'Cruelty,' 'Bill'

Verity exec bops to Sony

Peck legacy lives on

TW enters the digital game

Fest's big 'Screen'

M6 revs up by 30%

VH1 'Loves' its ratings

Rod Roddy

Hannah Madison Zeiger

Sean Douglas Hage

SAG revises extras regs

Wildfires put major heat on TV, pic shoots

Dramatic developments driving UPN's 2004 slate

PS2 draws good sports

Elektra remixes CD marketing strategy

Pandemonium reigns

Tonys tap seven for nom panel

U goes 'Psycho' over comicbook

Spike 'Wild' man for U

Benderspink funding O'Reilly's Damage

Weitz bros. seek Grace for 'Synergy'

Stars shine at Hamptons

Clive's chart coup

It's judgment day for Rosie

Tyrese fires up 'Phoenix'

MGM will dive into 'Pool Guy'

U gunning for 'Man'

Kino nabs Venice winner

A tale of two openings

Inside Move: Tauzin may take MPAA post

Beaufoy's 'In the Pink' on Rev comedy

Cedric and Ratner team for 'Traces'

'Poetry' makes its way to L.A.

Liza with a whee!

Telecinco looks to the past with 'Alatriste'

CBS scores Monday victory

Toho, Toei team on multiplex

Donald G. Jackson

Leonard Shannon

Murdoch sat wins India OK

Kapur has his 'Mantra'

ESPN secures Spanish soccer

Sony Int'l on case with 'Simuladores'

China pacts on pix

Big bow for comedy 'Os' in Brazil

Grant Show

Julian Morris

Jason Beghe

Juarez will head Intuition unit

Gov't studio sale sees Loken exit

Mexico slaps limits on foreign crew

Toon time for Oscar hopefuls

Heavy-hitting Fox lineup takes lead

NAACP report finds mixed bag

Brown a hot 'Topic' for CNBC

Helmers receive museum retrospectives

Marketing costs hit revved-up MGM

NYC TV fashions new 'Look' with Style

Latin media org looks for star power

IATSE organizes 'Date,' 'Wheel'

SAG/AFTRA back new labor deal

Cox sees gains, loss in 3rd qtr.

Sony in delete mode

Tax break for biz

Pay TV's plundered

Record October for ESPN

Paul Wernick

Alexandre Aja

Delroy Lindo

Mark Famiglietti

Mouse pushes 'Alamo' to spring

U.K. networking comes to Gotham

Inside Move: Court rejects Polanski bid

Klein opens Apartment 3B

IFP/Chicago to hold confab Oct. 31-Nov. 2

Classic's 'Rudolph' to get more play

Ohlmeyer plants seed with mentoring program

The real outrage over Reagan

The compromise: Why we did it

Hall could use a little pizzazz

Fires nix forest filming

Emmy winner to receive AD lifetime kudo

CBS ups scheduling wiz

New reality for UPN's Barron

Peacock pulls 'Den' from sweeps

A National Society of provocateurs

Indies battle deep pockets amidst the awards flurry

'Alone' star at home

Bah! Humbug!

China turns on 'Matrix' day-and-date release