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

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