Cuts lead to profits

Monster mash at Babelsberg

Germans pony up for pay TV

Pair ink news pact

'Rules' return rules Tuesday

'Tree' to grow at WB

Mmmm ... Ringtones

Midway sees EA cut into profits

Mouse opens e-commerce portal

Activision got game

No. 1 Outkast holds fast

Joanna Lee

FX U.K. channels HBO, Showtime

Austrian fest may add E. Europe pix

'Dark' marks Sitges fest

Bank exec testifies in Kirch case

Gaumont sees stars

'Rules' rules Tuesday

McCain, FCC seek input on payola

Sony, MTV heat up the digital music derby

'Matrix' bows to eager auds

Disney's funny fish makes a DVD splash

Chi crix blow off kudos in screener flap

Report: Programs not targeting young men

ABC finds a go-to guy in Wass

Pic profits power News Corp. surge

WNBC gives N.Y. to 'Jane'

Malone's eyes on Gallic cablers

Reps pressure speaker on FCC vote

Playboy revs up in time for anni

SAG's CFO quits, citing stress

Dino Alexander De Laurentiis

Azteca taps sales prexy

Dimension checking into room '1408'

Bunny will Hip-hop

WB Pix promotes music, marketing exex

It's true: Hughley's a 'Liar'

Sci Fi 'Lawyers' up via Zanuck series

CNBC-NBC vet Bolster set to bolt

Memphis plans to be king of rock parties

Leigh, Lynch are trying on 'Jacket' gigs

Duo pick 'Piccadilly' roles

Ferguson's on 'Fire'

USA oater ends up at Boot Hill

Bloom, Byrne, Paxton roles made in 'Haven'

'Hill,' 'Jake' stake claim

Pittman aboard vidgamer

CineAsia '03 to fete Toho

Selma Stoff

Gustavo Basalo-Sucre

Tong sees future in 'Past'

Fred A. Chulack

VH1 digs 'Buried Alive'

Comedy Central has Pryor commitment

Foglight taps Macdonald

Tupac tells own story

'Angels' takes wings

Tyrese wins MGM 'Verdict'

Emily Mae Jolley

FBI questions legal eagles in wiretap probe

Antonio Matouk Mansur

U is re-Imagined

A presidential party

Tenacious D on strike

Vegas yucks it up with kudos

Omar Sharif: AFI Fest Tribute 2003

AFI/AFM nuptials get biz blessing

Alums all over AFI lineup

'Monster' vaults AFI grad ahead

What to see? Ask the programmers

Fest intentions

AFI Film Fest moments

Country music rocks for CBS

Capitol picks up 'Dust,' 'Noel'

Jupiter mission next for Matthews

Tyro helmers boosted at Turin fest

Canuck lingo: 'Italiano'

'Alien Quadrilogy' specs revealed

Zeal appeals to U.S.

Vet toplines 'Leak'

China pix pact set

Oz org taps Bradley

'Grotter' grounded

BBC weds 'My Wife'

Meadows, Vegas team up for Beeb

Gondolier keeps job

RTL in 'Family' way after DLT deal

BSkyB investor backs Murdoch son for CEO

Local filming down from '02; TV pace up

Reruns ring up ratings for Hallmark

Discovering star power

NPR hails donation

AFTRA insurance offered to members

'Dragnet' arrested

London Film Fest finds 'Osama' worthy

Gotham ringing in holidays with Elf Day

A Sony-BMG duet

Pixar takes plunge

Martha's cream of crop

CMA nods win Eye-popping ratings

Bonus for 'Hairspray' originals

Illness nixes 'Town' sneak

Control issues for Rosie

Activision hits net loss

'Matrix' mints $43 mil in round-the-world bow

Command performance

NAB drafts fund-raiser ads

Can baseball's Billy Beane go to bat for H'w'd?

Kids mixed on new skeds

Third of Academy hasn't signed on for screeners

Optimistic crix now uncertain on ban

Comics to host kudos

Rocker Hatfield dies

Canada tunes in to b'casting revamp

Corrections

Long Island Corp. fetes studios

'Sex' seducing Fox

Lillian Amanda Luhrmann

Ava Miryam Tartakovsky

Jordyn Madeline Mehlman

Alana Corman and Andrew Crow

Beth Whelpley and Dennis Rosenberg

U.S. arms muscle up

CNNfn investing in radio's Dolans

Moffet doctors 'Sick' script for Imagine, U

'Tiffany' lights up

Hoffman takes 'Second'

Scribe cures 'Sick' script

Horror hijinks pay off for writers

Exec flies solo after leaving Ovitz

Rothman's ramping up tenpercentery

Inside Move: Anonymous email reveals salaries

Cast will ride King's 'Bullet' train

Mo Schmo: Deal inked with Spike

Grant grows into role of respected comedic actor

Weir 'Master' of cinema travels

Return to TV tempts Lansbury

Cinema's stories archived

The British revision

Stringer leaves broad mark on biz

Weekend Box Office Preview
November 7, 2003

Marks for 'Lenin'

'Dream' sale clinched

Eye shows have it on Thursday

Joseph McCaren

Are hits chasing Amy?

Neo's moolah

Inside Move: U, Imagine going steady

Biz off; 'Phantom' 956g

B.O. dips; 'Millie' 492g

Inside Move: Down in front!

Inside Move: Mini maelstrom

Screen Trade: Standout perfs for a young decade

Inside Move: Can a doc rock?

Inside Move: To 'Be' and to sue

Inside Move: Savoring a new 'Feast'

Inside Move: 'Kill' joy

The kids stay in the picture

'Alien' set is out of this world

Latest Wong Kar-wai pic nears wrap

Entera plans pan-Euro distrib op

Plexes on building binge

Will third 'Matrix' hold until holidays?

Levy launches Forecast for co-prod'n play

Babelsberg rebounds

Fox reaps Bollywood B.O. success

Winterbottom turns hand to 'Shandy'

Golden Horse noms snub host country

Will ESPN play hardball?

A handy guide to TV's demo delirium

Brit wit cables across the Pond

'Jerry' springs to West End

Off B'way blues

Curtain falls on the Canon

Crix' tally

Fresh refrain for online biz

The 99¢ solution

Mini-Me Murdoch rules BSkyB

Sony TV grows despite job cuts

Down Under and dirty

Coke has new deal in the can

Capit-al ida for cranking out shows

Asia media confab promises bumper year

Brazilians snub Latin American films

'Stokvel' sitcom mixes yuks and bucks

Neo's new world order

Moonves in Eye of 'Reagans' hurricane

AFTRA's attuned to diskery contract

VUE flat on way out

NBC begins revamp for union with U

'Wine' & Cleese for Food

Ailing exec prompts shuffle at Canal Plus

Ebert & Roeper defy Chi kudos call

Fox bows nat'l ticket program

Mexico may nix pix

Franchise goes 'Extreme'

Gardner set to try Plan B

New Wave rides tide to laffers with Katz buy

U sez it won't send screeners to retailers

Dibie to retire in May as lenser guild chief

McCarthy to host DVD Exclusive nods

Auds befriend Eye

NBC raises praiser Thomas

ABC smitten by Simpson for sitcom

Thomas has show designs

Italo prosecutors will do research in H'w'd

Danza, Buena Vista taxi for syndie yakker

Haimes tempted into Fox 'Block' gig

Velveteen 'Shooting' pic with Behr, Wynter

Synchro bows limit 'Revolutions' piracy

First Look enjoys 'Stateside' lovin'

McKellen's big night out

Shoreline lands Russian's pic pair

Buzz building at 70th Mifed

Supporting sobriety

Col gives Tennant 'Kiss'

Focus ready to sow seeds of 'Gardener'

'Bailey' bound for Alphabet

'Straight,' 'Queer' switch roles at Bravo

Gung-ho for green

Rosie polite in testimony

Helmers honor their own

Busch whacks lawsuit over 'Mommie' credit

Tony adds honors

Gen Art accepting entries

'Revolution'ary Oz bow

Rainstorm swear by doc

Frank Hannah

Eddie Izzard

Julia Sweeney

Chris Morgan

Seith Mann

Kristin Dattilo

Julian Morris

Gaga over 'Whore'

B'caster revs up co-prods

Constantin grows new arm

Henze heads unit

Sunday movies score

Fawcett's B'way debut shuttered

Casbaa confab ends upbeat

Roosters crow for Zhang's 'Hero'

Odeon takes over Nova

'Nuan' wins Tokyo kudos

Granada exec tops ITV sales

Hayek joining quest for snail in toon

Not a family matter

New Zealand ups coin to spur film

Christian net loses Kiwi license

Col restructuring strengthens ties

Fox feeds Prime TV

Canucks nixes more U.S. TV

WGA focuses on cable net residuals

Imax rides 'Matrix'

Mary Keach

Honey Sanders

'Matrix' leaves some wanting

Eduardo Palomo

Don Andrews

Jerome Gottlieb

Just Betzer

TV Guide ups price by 50¢

Buddy Arnold

Irv Kupcinet

Hal England

Williams will exit CNBC newscast

Neo, hobbits still at it for global B.O. mark

Comedy net helps gays go 'Straight'

Woodstock fest to unspool in Oct.

The rescue squad

Eye of the storm

'Liquid' team in the 'Dust'

B'way up with little help from newbies

New Mifed strategy unveiled

John Malkovich

Jewison, Switzer present Crystals

Fund fetes Redstones

Desert fest will fete Costner

Media 8 names four key execs

'Scheherazade' a tall sales tale?

Bavaria banks pre-Mifed biz

Frog picks up more yuks

'Opportunity' discovered

Par taps vet exec for HR post

Lifetime's new web of 'Deceit'

Lampoon puts moves on 'Lady Killers' pic

DiCaprio hires Killer exec

Scribe ready to fall on 'Samurai' sword

'Loverboy' hooks up

'Leisure' time for producers

Diablo in details?

CAA hires Xbox maven in bid for vidgame biz

Falco joins Mission control

American Splendor

The Barbarian Invasions

Big Fish

Cold Mountain

The Cooler

Finding Nemo

Girl with a Pearl Earring

House of Sand and Fog

The Human Stain

Kill Bill Vol. 1

The Last Samurai

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Seabiscuit

Pieces of April

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

The Missing

Lost in Translation

Love Actually

Mystic River

Open Range

Something's Gotta Give

Pirates of the Caribbean

The Statement

Sylvia

Thirteen

21 Grams

Whale Rider

'Candidate' on slate

Inside Move: WB to resurrect 'Dark Shadows'

Ex-WMA exec heads to Paradigm

Pair hatch family Hatchery

Thesp's back in Frog pond

Introduction: The Contenders

Language lessons

Real potential

Explosive category

Beating 'Nemo'

Maybe, maybe not

Oscar's foreign-lingo submissions

'Architect' builds following

'Violet' blooms together with Biltmore

It's Miller time for 'Caretaker' star

'Love' English style

Celebrating 228 years

DreamWorks holds open 'House'

Showbiz cats tip their 'Hat'

Britannia Awards roast, toast Stringer, Lansbury

'Grams' measures up

Trio unites

First fiscal flop

UIP, Teuton exhibs end battle

Football, CBS top Monday

'King' sold down river

Mexican filmmakers denounce gov't plan

BBC's bias monitor

'Samurai' docu sold abroad

Lucero loses spot

Cultura cuts staff

BBC blasted for missing indie quota

'Kill' kicks off Stockholm pic fest

Roadie site ain't Web pollution

ARD rejects plan to trim spending

'Achtung' gets Swiss auds' attention

Art Carney dead at 85

Mifed gives 'Bern' int'l sales boost

Bard strikes Irons

Goya deals for homevid inside Spain

Frayn play in Toronto

Is a new reality setting in for talent?

Flu season taking its toll on B'way

D'Works extends U distrib deal

Surging CBS demo darling

Unbudged on ban

Touchstone TV raises Williams

EchoStar sees shares dip 12%

Cablevision crunch

Store circling 'Rings'

CEO Rivkin ankles Henson

SBS sets record profits

Mensing scrubs up for Eye post

Actors' Equity hits non-union tours

Syndie shows see gains

IDT planning animation facilities spinoff

Cheap tix pack Cinemark's seats

'Dreams' gets Swedish state funds