Table of Contents
Week of 10/22/2003

Articles

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

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