'Idol' powers Fox victory

Banff fest bankrupt; event goes on

Norman Campbell

Softbank takes control of MTVI

C4 plans two more digital nets

Toho, Fuji TV film unit surface sub pic

Netflix Q1 sales up, losses widen

Gaul 'Passion' play

Cinar co-founder Charest dies at 51

Pax TV hopes to cash in with 'Balderdash'

Regal dividend a royal windfall for Anschutz

EU offloads downloads in weighing merger

Trib trips in first

Nat Geo revisits Titanic

Goodspeed skip Terris

'Education' trailer galls some

Palme piloting

'Terminal' jetting to Lido

Weekend warriors at the box office

Prevalence of PPV pic preems

Viacom toppers hit it big

Minnie Driver

Rachel Dratch

Matthew Goode

BVI inks Asian TV pact

Arnold's runaway pride

Connors to ankle MPA in Asia

Jackson scores for 'SNL'

Mark Torres

Mini planned for femme net

Burns hits the beach for Fox

Location managers building a guild

'River' coin dries up

Showtime tops Vision Awards with eight nods

Bruno bumped to supervising producer on 'Today' show

Denzel helping celebrate Apollo Theater's 70th

Disney Publishing decides 'W.I.T.C.H.' way to go

Olsen twins' laffer to tickle Family Fest

Penelope Ana White

Luke William McNulty

Madelyn Kay Campbell and Maxwell Elliott Campbell

Nispel digs in for Beacon

'Hammer' nails DVD

Inside Move: 'Avenue Q' pair led to U

'Ally's' Calista flocking to ICM

'Jersey' tunnels to cablers

Shannen Doherty

Warner TV programs a go-to guy

Toon titan in Fox den

Over the hill and far away for CBS?

U teams with trio in 'Dream'

Fall lands on 'Jupiter' for Outlaw

Oxygen's pact is set in Stone

Weekend Box Office Preview
April 16, 2004

'Apprentice' scores for Peacock

Sogecable kicks up profits

Huntington snares lineup

Easter week boosts biz

'Hairspray' hits Toronto

Avenue U

Hubby makes pic debut

CHUM/Craig first in predicted consolidation

EU newbie preps to go digital

Oz execs blame Sunday slump on DVD popularity

Asia bets on ad bartering

Televisa drawn into bribery scandal

Stations aren't giddy over new laffers

Viacom cablers young at heart

Easter bunny brings golden eggs to 'Passion'

The passion of the Copps

Gov't ready to consider pic ratings

H'wood hot for horse operas

'Passion'-bashing minimal

Biz problems target U.S. orgs

Zee toons kids net

Pub preps channels

Funder proposes new coin plan

Filmko opens 'Koma' thriller

Inside Move: Sony's 'Spanglish' lessons

Inside Move: Buried in a 'Whole'

Inside Move: Censors 'Feast' on horror

Inside Move: God in the aisles

Inside Move: Croisette crunch

Turning 'Idol' hands to rebuilding Iraq

Long-term limp hobbles media stox

Inside Move: Liberal left turn here

Inside Move: Writers' bloc

'30' Garners new fans

Book bash blooms

Mirren eyes Russian roots

H'w'd men get a grip

Gen Art fest is 'Saved'

B'way limps to the finish line

Mad Ave's firm grasp on reality

Monster moolah

Macho matchups

Mixed media marks

News revises board in move to N.Y.

Cabler tries local VOD

Ascent aims to take lead in digital post

MTV kudos try Miami

'Blues' Vegas-bound

'Bill's' better half

Broccoli backs kids' pix

Breitholtz's VP for Modern Times

Int'l Critics slot opener

Indian film star causes rush at pols

Argentinian soap makes 'Way' to pic

TV Azteca holds test on high def

Block of Buster pix

Chinese pic tops H.K. fest kudos

South Korea grants tax breaks

Robert Loggia, Angie Harmon, Colm Feore, John Heard

Faye Dunaway, Isaac Hayes

Debi Mazar, Samaire Armstrong, Monica Keena

Reese accepts 'Proposal'

Alphabet mindful of 'Days'

Coming up British roses

BVTV sells 'Jim' to half of U.S.

'Evil' apparent in USA's ratings dip

Bac vid biz lunch for Wild Bunch

Fireworks is fizzling out

The executive sweet for 'Apprentice'

Arenas to light up 'Nicotina'

Digital Cinema Society forms at NAB

Panelists talk shop at Digital Cinema Summit

HP firming up D'Works alliance

Unions piqued over pol's letter to U Pix

Pic mavericks fire up legal guns

Lost Valentino pic discovered

Outer Critics Circle taps 'Wicked,' 'Fiddler'

Preems poor o'seas amid spring cleaning

Beeb takes booty at BAFTA TV Awards

DVD coin dramatized

Urbanworld film fest cues MTV2 hook-up

Henry Barton Pincus

Gia Nicole Moreno, Ava Simone Moreno

Liam Wilson MacKenzie

Willa Amai Fogelson

J. Mack Slaughter

'Secret' shoots to DVD

Fox dons gloves in hot arena

Richardson, Hunt get Plum roles in 'Lucy'

Linklater's 'Darkly' adds producer, toon director

'Super Size' on the menu at Showtime

TBS hot for 'Outback' love

Thesps bound for El Camino

Anchor away: Brokaw locks Dec. farewell

Miami's 24-hour party people

Finding ideas that float

Establishing shots: SoBe hotel guide

Hope rides on state funding

Se habla telenovelas

Intertainment settles suit

Kinepolis auds off 3.1% in '04

'Jordan' crosses up rivals

Ploys of summer

Warners elevates Fortson to ops sr. VP

TV viewing studied

David Clarke

ProSiebenSat 1 takes lead in TV ad market

Radio cuts, TV revs deliver CHUM profit

Will Fowler

John Vlahos

Richard P. Kempster

Gito Baloi

Chile's box office high on lowlife pic

India thesp dies in crash

Berlinale winner hits Lola noms 'Head-On'

Pols want cleanup

Apple rebuffs Real's proposal to share iPod

Nokia hopes cell phone will engage market

Big brief in Spain

Novel take on ayem at 'GMA'

'Passion' still rules

ESPN's 'Dream' endures

Screen Media buys 'Whore'

Congloms to pols: Not a f***ing chance

Eisner knocked by Mouse faithful

Beware of the galled Gauls

Peggy DeCastro

Herb Andress

Guild tuning up with 'Year,' 'Party'

Fox's leftovers won't be reheated for summer

Queen bestows honor on Miramax's Weinstein

MPTF heads to Vegas for fundraising

Fox starts early 'Fire'

Kirkman at 'Loggerheads'

Walking a Fine Line

Par gathers Moss for third 'Mission'

Remar moves to 'Shore'

Samantha Nicole Stulbaum

An Easter parade for B'way: record $17 mil

Warner Homevid to bow Lifetime pics on DVD

Landau, Parfitt coupled

More force with 'Star Wars' set

VanCamp tries on 'Ring 2'

Gibson steps into Limelight

Millennium, Emmett reup deal

Tarantino moonlights for 'Kimmel'

Liberty, News Corp. talk stock-asset swap

Henson, Lion prime plans for pic pact

Media.net boosts dailies

Thumbs up for KOCE sale

Duo light up 'Fire' preem

Butterfly Ball takes wing

Shrink rally for 'Cure'

VH1 bets on 'Divas'

One 'Wounded' party

Mukta Arts branches into digital cinemas

'CSI: Miami' hot for CBS

Mouse meltdown

Alejandro Ferretis Elizondo

Pic's song off-key to clerics

Rodini takes 'Farm' to Cannes

EU reviewing plan to track digital rights

Williams scores 3 pix

Auds' 'Passion' fuels Mex B.O. climb

C4 exec stays true

Powell sticks to indecency guns

NBC punches ratings

Strauss orders 'Chinese'

Drama League unveils noms

Police: Pirate lair raided

Schatzberg, Beart on Tarantino's jury

Feds bless NBC-U wedding

Tim Burstall

Newmarket turning on light for 'Darko'

Anschutz groups film biz

IATSE makes Philly pact

Canuck cabler posts loss

UMG goes for on-demand vid deal

DirecTV sells satellite unit to Kohlberg Kravis

Pix give Sony a lift

Music sales on Net rise

Intertainment trial begins

Court: No need to stand on ceremony

RTBF lineup defended

Syndies stung by time change, 9/11 hearings

TV should shtick to the same old formula

Broadcast regulations: A big chill

Indecent proposals

Moving 'Targets'

Phenomenal voices

Correction

Air America seeks L.A. home

WB cables Lucas exec VP

Comic's a 'Catch' for ABC

Lions Gate reups Beggs

Koppel: Infotainment threatens news biz

Nantucket pays tribute to scribe Kaufman

Moritz to 'Jump' for Par

Real aims at online players

Shingle terminated

Helmer under 'Surveillance'

Perez preps for doc

Seidelman dates 'Sisters'

Goldberg probes new 'Frankenstein'

Miramax taps tyke trilogy

Thesps on El Camino ride

Scribe makes helming debut for Section 8

ABC's new top dogs

Cafe's open for biz in prod'n, distribbing

Revisiting Munich madness

New Line preps history lesson

'Heartbreak' for Sonnenfeld

Cannes makes nice with H'wood

Fox's '24' picking up steam

GSN to play with viewers

BBC's purse tugged

Gaul producer takes a passionate stand

RTL: Zeiler's staying put

Berlin Fest sets dates for '05

Star gets smart: 'Child Genius'

Fireworks bursts CanWest's bottom line

Blockbuster profits for vidtailer; revs sag

Highlight's revs up 72%

The house of Usher

'Tree' growing on auds

Distancing Diller

2 B'way plays to close

Scribe's 'Saved!' earns Gen Art top spot

'Six Feet' exhumed in June

Geffen plays it local

Trump up for confab panel

Securing Spyglass

Telitas gets line on Stateside mobile biz

Fox firms up fall

Gospel cabler's in works

Teens take the lead

Gere makes the hot list

Role suits Jesus to a tee

Melora Walters

Jacko case moving forward

Projects on Turner's burner

Producers pay for scheme

Jack Samuel Simon

Sony enters Lion's lair

Valenti: China must open to U.S. product

Film, TV composers score ASCAP honors

Owen's aboard 'Derailed'

No end in sight: WGA talks down to wire

Hayter shows mettle for 'Iron Man' gig

'Valentin' day at D.C. film fest

'Aviator' skies to Miramax

Globe grasps DVD explosion

'Grief' good for U, Platt

Ford back in his 'Element'

Pix fraud trial opens with budget talk

Report harps on lack of tube diversity

BMI swan song cued up for topper Preston

Royalty on the set not unusual

'Light' on Lincoln Center

IATSE to rep crew of film

The Talking Cure

The Punisher

The Squatter

Secret Agents

Spin the Bottle

Sixteen Wounded

uBung

Klezmer On Fish Street

Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer

Close Call

Laws of Attraction

Landers

Amigos

My Antonia

The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)

Trying

Family Plots

The Restaurant

Stereolab

Blondie

The League of Crafty Guitarists

The Bad Plus

Swimming in the Shallows

Gov't Mule

The Offspring

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Biro

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball

Senor Discretion Himself

Between Us

Man on Fire

Golden Chicken 2

Brave New Girl

Sacred Planet

Up for Grabs

Invisible Mountains

Donya

The Manson Family

Blind Horizon

Rectuma

Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8

Second Born

The Normal Heart

Broadway by the Year -- The Musicals of 1949