Table of Contents
Week of 01/01/2004

Articles

Lloyd E. Rigler

 

Orgs not Eye-to-eye

 

NBC: Viv U still on track

 

Comcast itchy to go

 

The comeback kids

 

2004 could ad up to big b'cast year

 

Hackett, house Cleve'd

 

New MSNBC talker for Norville

 

Dunne saw inside 'Studio'

 

Primetime pickle

 

Finn Kiernan Aversano

 

David Nicholas Eick

 

RTVE's revolution

 

Classics get a modern touch

 

Name game carries high stakes

 

You ain't see nothin' yet on TV!

 

Will it be anchors away in 2004?

 

Kassovitz breaks out of French fare

 

Filmmakers in shock as funds cut

 

Holiday boosts B.O.

 

'King's' ransom in o'seas coffers

 

Finalists due for WTC arts space

 

Inside Move: Producers seek clarity

 

H'wood asks: Has pop culture pooped out?

 

A pox on crix amid year-end pics

 

Inside Move: M'max Books' 'Funny' money

 

Inside Move: Redford in new light

 

Inside Move: Acad pulls fast one on ballots

 

Galaxy expands into pay TV. . . at last

 

Feevees fight ad ban

 

Politicos take an ax to pubcasters' coin

 

Saudis set to bow news satcaster

 

Staffers check out of hard-up Czech TV

 

Comics no longer king

 

Life after 'Friends' haunts NBC

 

Featured player: Ryan Seacrest

 

Road serving raw talent

 

Palestinian pic takes on sensitive family issues

 

Multiplex thrives despite strife

 

State org beefs up exports to U.S.

 

Biz OK; 'Hairspray' $1 mil

 

'Hedda's' up

 

Emerging on indie scene with 'Fei'

 

Inside Move: Two thumbs way up!

 

Euro standouts bask in the glee of Prix V

 

The incredible shrinking aud

 

No hangover for hobbits

 

'Splendor' in awards mix

 

Harold Gast

 

Charles 'Blackie' Hunt

 

Mouse parks perk up

 

Boll scores $47 mil

 

Stockholder ire at Media General

 

Scotts, Atari gear up for 'Driv3r' promo pic

 

Majesco goes mobile with Nintendo

 

'Theft' lawsuit heads to federal court

 

Jill Casagrande

 

Alex Fragen

 

Jeffrey Keyton

 

Julie Insogna, Stefanie Ziev

 

Darren T. Campo

 

Palm Springs to fete Watts

 

'Santa' hot, syndies not amid run-up to holidays

 

Bundesliga kicks Infront licensing ties for soccer

 

Distrib topper Blanco leaving Planeta's orbit

 

Most of China tunes in to radio

 

China's latest film net leaps on air with 'Tiger'

 

'Venture' goes Chi high

 

Award-winning helmer Gibson dies in London

 

House of Sand and Fog

 

Whale Rider

 

In America

 

Lost in Translation

 

Finding Nemo

 

Mystic River

 

Girl With a Pearl Earring

 

Shattered Glass

 

American Splendor

 

The Human Stain

 

Pieces of April

 

The Barbarian Invasions

 

Love Actually

 

Dirty Pretty Things

 

21 Grams

 

Seabiscuit

 

Cold Mountain

 

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

 

Master and Commander

 

Fine work makes a fall comeback

 

Talent team to telenovela

 

Hi-Def channel beams at Euro aud

 

Exhibs: Carrey, Kidman top draws

 

Frodo's pals are minting foreign gold

 

Netflix going strong

 

Fests swag it up

 

Praisers Cook up kudos

 

B'cast crix tap Weir, Eastwood for kudos

 

KTLA parades streak of New Year's wins

 

Star News gets 10-year India uplink OK

 

Mouse wore the top hat in flat 2003

 

Kirch to take on Breuer

 

TVE-1 dips, still tops Spanish market share

 

Org is RX for India docs

 

China seals b'cast tech deals

 

New Haven queues arts fest

 

ATAS establishes $10K scholarship

 

Prism Fellows rewarded for healthy writing

 

IndieScreens getting the word out

 

Gotham Latino fest planting film seeds

 

Showtime shakes up PR operation

 

Oscar's epic year: 1956

 

Popcorn for thought

 

Tragedy's catharsis

 

Finding room for 'Nemo' in best pic slot

 

Nuance over scale

 

A delicate balance

 

Artistic temperament

 

Goliath's revenge

 

Size matters

 

Not of this Earth

 

Seafaring films and Oscar

 

Sweet ratings for ABC's Sugar Bowl

 

Sandy signs off at Fox

 

PGA opts for big dramas

 

Taiwanese net yanked in Beijing

 

South African teens charged in piracy

 

EU: Scandi's dandy for Canal Plus nets

 

B'wood bounces back

 

CNN drops German-lingo newscast

 

Kundalini sets 'Opium'

 

'King' takes crown from 3 crix' groups

 

Scripps taps network exec VP

 

TiVo sues EchoStar to protect patent

 

Zelnick buys TW direct marketing arm

 

Charter names Huseby CFO, exec VP

 

Original strategy

 

Rick Van Santen

 

Michael Kamen's memorial

 

Etta Moten Barnett

 

Bill Morey

 

Sugar Bowl's ratings not so sweet

 

DGA lifetime nod to Nichols

 

Big studio pix catch costume designers' eye

 

Singapore sings for 'Idol' in 2004

 

Sound edit noms mulled

 

B'way starts year on high note

 

ABC puts moves on mom sitcom

 

Inside Move: B.O. figures don't add up

 

Inside Move: Jackson stirs tax rebate tiff

 

Study: Internet song swapping dips by half

 

Gemstar exex charged

 

Jack Brown

 

Overseas treasure

 

Scribe prexy faces rewrite

 

Ashanti dribbles towards 'Coach' role

 

Bradley's Jacko interview sullied by Times

 

Republicans contest anti-Bush ad

 

Italo enlists Civilian

 

Scribe sues over denial of 'Samurai' arbitration

 

Coppola puts his 'Heart' into hi-def VHS homevid

 

Springtime for U's hip 'Hitler'

 

Chrysler drives NBC's 'Apprentice'

 

Playtone, HBO combo for 'Love'

 

Living checks 'Reality'

 

Inside Move: CBS plays 'CSI' card

 

Lion stock uncaged

 

Cohn 'Presents' DVD set

 

Collette slips into 'Her Shoes'

 

Actress dark horses

 

Emma Thompson

 

Julie Walters

 

Holly Hunter

 

Miranda Otto

 

Marcia Gay Harden

 

Hope Davis

 

Charlotte Rampling

 

Evan Rachel Wood

 

Uma Thurman

 

Charlize Theron

 

Samantha Morton

 

Jennifer Connelly

 

Cate Blanchett

 

Bright young things

 

Hedge games

 

Holiday merriment

 

History Channel saddles up 'Tech'

 

Renee Zellweger

 

Patricia Clarkson

 

Shohreh Aghdashloo

 

Keisha Castle-Hughes

 

Gwyneth Paltrow

 

Naomi Watts

 

Nicole Kidman

 

Helen Mirren

 

Scarlett Johansson

 

Diane Keaton

 

Ellen DeGeneres

 

Zimmer zings Rifkin with countersuit

 

Dorothy Doloris Burr

 

MoCA plugs coax cable usage

 

Dutch glued to tube

 

Four vets and a femme

 

Scribe prez steps down

 

'CSI: Miami,' 'Fear Factor' rock Monday

 

Mouse renews deal

 

'Nanny' learns Spanish

 

Rotterdam expands lineup

 

'Nemo,' 'King' soften Gallic ticket tumble

 

BBC stands defiant

 

Frog's prexy to jump

 

Promax & BDA skeds Euro speakers

 

Jackson, 'King' top Dallas crix list

 

Industryites, get ready for some football

 

Zarghami named Nick TV prez

 

U.S. sales a Vertikal leap

 

Crooning candidate

 

Football flourish

 

Real preps player, tunes

 

IATSE redefines low-budget

 

Vidstore shares fall as DVD sales bite biz

 

Disney magic's back

 

DVD biz boom belies bigscreen blahs

 

TW shops plans to Street

 

Paul Keyes

 

Acad governors laud Greenfield

 

Cable scores via 'Sex,' football

 

Bat boy tale picked up by Peacock

 

MTR hosts 'Sex' marathon

 

'Nemo' finds Annie nominations

 

Santino Joseph Grey Bradner

 

Liam Thomas Chawke

 

Olivia Madison Ochacher

 

Garrett Landon Pasternak

 

Sean Penn

 

Ne'er-do-Mel

 

Star Gets Due

 

Fox cable nets going to NATPE

 

CNN's new news stew

 

Tell good stories, B.O. will follow

 

Berman ready for Fox solo

 

Supporting actor dark horses

 

Ben Kingsley

 

Paul Giamatti

 

Tom Cruise

 

Russell Crowe

 

Jeff Bridges

 

Robert Duvall

 

Bill Nighy

 

Benicio Del Toro

 

Sean Astin, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen

 

Ken Watanabe

 

William H. Macy and Chris Cooper

 

Jude Law

 

Inside Move: Honchos prep DirecTV plot

 

Fox News Live adds MacCallum

 

U puts slasher scribes on 'Spy Hunter'

 

Dimension double-dealing

 

'Cold' to open Berlin Festival

 

Jack Nicholson

 

Best actor dark horses

 

Michael Caine

 

Johnny Depp

 

Paul Bettany

 

Alec Baldwin

 

Tim Robbins

 

Albert Finney

 

Sunny Sumner sees gonzo '04 for Viacom

 

Allen eats cable crow

 

Lion, scribe 'Scrawl' deal for drama

 

Bravo styles 'Blow Out'

 

Bill Murray

 

Risk-free strategies

 

Big-ticket items missed their marks

 

HBO prepping for 'Sex' sendoff

 

Wrestling down but not out; 'Eve' hot

 

Makeovers, surgery dominate

 

Frosh titles earn theiir sked stripes

 

Anticipating 'Idol' chatter

 

A trail of modest moves

 

Reality returns full force

 

Giving notice

 

The Brody bunch

 

Music org tunes out suit

 

France pix up prod'n

 

'Last' deal for German b'caster

 

'SVU' hits season high

 

Swedes shoot for int'l appeal with 'Rancid'

 

Crunch in India over cricket series

 

More ITV fallout

 

Siva Devar

 

Music sales dip after holidays

 

Spain's pic admissions drop again

 

Variety sponsors Montreal sidebar

 

Spain exhib pacts for Imax retrofit

 

Spanish exec steps out for exhibs

 

Sweden film fest to screen 'Blues'

 

Hungary rebates a lure to foreign filmmakers

 

Radio tech tuneup's queued up

 

Off-lot pic prod'n sees December dip

 

Comcast ready for Rupe

 

Confab told game biz hot

 

ESPN revs up biopic on Earnhardt

 

'Pauley' taps topper

 

A nod to nonfiction

 

Equity sez salaries up

 

Touchstone biz exec upped to senior VP

 

Viacom hitches DirecTV carriage

 

The greed of so many in showbiz

 

Venice topper extended

 

Liberty takes control of UGC

 

Graham is Fox laffer's latest 'Development'

 

Peacock pulls plug on 'Lyon's Den'

 

PGA taps 'America' for kudos

 

Sony will Connect online

 

Par Classics makes exec acquisitions

 

Atkinson merits Recording Acad kudos

 

ASCAP raises pair of exex

 

Spacey's Fox debut is teen tycoon skein

 

Bravo 'Greenlight'

 

Nick's Noggin nabs sponsors

 

Girls night out

 

Cruise makes his mark in London

 

Easy access for USA

 

Mundorff off to Landmark

 

U plays scribe duo's 'Games'

 

Constantin ready to draw 'Blood'

 

Charter touchdown

 

Caucus announces award nominees

 

Trio team up to Prospect for gold

 

A killer night for benefit

 

Green picked as 'Kingdom' princess

 

'Seinfeld' scribe dogs nets with laffers

 

'Pacifier' pacifies director

 

Behr will bear 'Grudge'

 

FX to lense 'Meltdown'

 

'Dahlia' blossoms with thesp pair

 

Macrae to run TV Guide CE

 

Crossing swords in 'Libertine'

 

Showtime's voting for 'Candidate'

 

EchoStar sues Viacom

 

Fox is on air with JetBlue

 

The thrill of the 'Kill'

 

King of the noisemakers

 

Water whirled

 

Second chances

 

Lucky seven

 

Picking a winner

 

For pros behind 'Matrix,' 'LOTR,' what's next?

 

Whither Hulk?

 

Digital piracy

 

Threepeat feat?

 

'Simple Life' reunion spec on Fox sked

 

Reviews

Coming to England

Tasuma

Beyond the Rainbow

Nowhere To Go But Up

The Apprentice

Five Gold Rings

The Right Questions

Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!

Airline

Dragons

Chasing Liberty

St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet

Down and Dirty Pictures

The Producers

House of Dreams

The Last Five Years

Fleurette

His Dark Materials

French Wedding Caribbean Style

Voices From the Edge: The Favela Goes to the World Social Forum

Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton

When the Spirits Dance Mambo

Miss Manju -- Truck Driver

Rage and Discipline

The Trees Grow Too in Kabylia

The Nanny

The Roots

Old Boy