Lightning strikes 'Tunnel' rights

Lions Gate finds 'Lost'

Senator admits guilt of U.S. 'Nixon' sales

Netherlands fest sets coin

Gallic cable deal nearer

HarperCollins, Harvey pair up

Warner U.K. goes online for promos

Workers protest because they Cannes

Salvatores studies 'Rules'

'Idol,' 'Bachelor' top Wednesday

Valenti doesn't backup 321

Wild Bunch adds punch

Telecinco picks up 'E-24' docu

U.K. TV blooms in '03

Pic 'Whisky' a go-go to distrib MK2

Kiwi reality show to pay hurt player

India fest homes in on Goa

Doc 'Architect' goes Gaga for Japan

SAG Awards calendar set

'Idol' hits high note

Manga fruit of IDT spree

Kazuaki Kiriya, Alec Newman

Alexander Witt

Scott Rice

Barry Gibb

Thrive on a feature kick

Pols press passage of Aussie trade pact

Greeks unleashed at the B.O.

Building character

RIAA exec spins to Viacom

Blues man pumped to prexy amid shuffle

Teutonic film group sinks on writedowns

Playing dress-up

Helmer faces 'Consequences'

'Bienvenue' en Cannes

Bangkok gets festive

NBC shuffles deck

TLC initializes 'Ugliest, 'Up'

Allergic reaction sends Kimmel to hospital

Golden Globe org gets 4 new faces

5 Scorsese titles to disc

Tony dates Nic

'Millie' set to close; new 'Shop' topliner

First Look, Think link on 'September'

Sogecable shakedown

Morena mixes genres

Agresti's the chosen 'One'

Element X marks int'l sales in Bridges pic

New Dimension to 'Grimm' distrib'n

Farm seeding Japanese pic fund

Reel Fish bite

TriStar takes flight again

Green takes novel route

'Face' value high as org picks up rights

Ex-Nat'l Geo exec on move

Lohan to host MTV awards

Fox finds 'Naked' scribes

Diller still lurks in NBC U labyrinth

'House' home at Fox

Buchwald nod to USC student

Weekend Box Office Preview
May 14, 2004

Carla Steiner and Rodney Liber

Celeste Holm and Frank Basile

Lisa Melching and Dan Vebber

Sanders punts his CBS gig

WBTV shuffles exec deck

Red Wagon raises Shane

Fox lifts latenight exec

'Tekken' beckons Dimension

Casting directors seek help from Teamsters

CBS mini bows down to the King

Revolution, Del Toro set 'Hellboy II'

'Scream' team gets romantic

Inside Move: Martha a syndie survivor?

Lopez inks Showtime deal

Lion in 'Love' with Usher

Godly sequel to 'Almighty'

Spice heads to Africa

'Eyes' to open in Japan

Sundance adds world cinema competish

Valencia fest seeks place in the sun

Happinet on 'Board'

Fiji draws toon studio plans

Redbus stops for Timberlake

Veland gets bill for Summit judgment

BBC Films takes its slate to the 'Dogs'

Tokyo skeds trip to market

4Way cooking with 'Meat'

'Frasier' finale draws 25.2 mil

Katapult launches film sales venture

MTV Films gains in Spain

Caviezel draws on comic

First Look's 'Lyme' twist

Fall AFM looks popular

'Shark' stars out for a swim

Festgoers' hands are bow-tied

Ledger, Rush sweet on 'Candy'

M'max honcho feels 'Fahrenheit' heat

Global backers help 'Christmas' delivery

Lions Gate open to Ichise's 'J-Horror' films

Fest's doc shock

Arclight opens Toronto office

Dimension taken with vidgame pic 'Tekken'

'Troy' trounces Cannes with preem

Valentia starts from 'Zero' with Luna pic

Bellucci mothers Blier pic

Izzard has 'Diva' fever

Indian pavillion greeting

John Whitehead

Dorothy Van Engle

Reine sharpens focus for 'Duelist'

Fest chiefs mull future in Cannes

London goes 'Lavender'

Von Sydow talks acting

U.S. rights to 'Ecstasy' sold to LG

'Dead,' 'Inside' in Focus

Owen revisits 'Brideshead'

'Marlowe' inks helmer Joffe

Banner day for protesters

'Blood' spilled at Moviehouse

Lanzarote has new winter home

Going global a mixed bag

'Fish' catches attention of Weaving, Neill

Van Sant goes grunge for 'Last Days'

Miramax rolling with 'Elf Strike'

AFMA changes its name

Antidote, This Is That fly together with 'Hawk'

'Beethoven' sales harmonic

Media 8 reshapes

Hybrid, Bulbeck & Mas partner

Cineclick networks 'Old Boy' pic

Moore not merrier

A Killer bill

Local pix ready to go abroad

Producers strategize in tough market

Sequels spice up 'Ginger'

Oz actors want piece of profits

Epic could tempt international auds

Cablers stick to original formula

TiVo tries to avoid becoming a footnote to history

BAM benefits bow

MoveOn at the Apollo

Psychic dogs gala

Inside Move: NBC & U in altared states

Inside Move: All that Baz

Cannes stew gets H'wood spice

A curtain call for TV's class acts

Inside Move: First the scribes, then…

B.O. slips; 'Lion' $1.4 mil

The aria is over

H'wood chases choosy teens

More glam, less gloom at Cannes

'Manchurian' is Par's summer antidote

'Van Helsing' takes big bite of o'seas B.O.

Exhibs battle financial woes

Small-screen fests feel squeeze

'60 Minutes' plans for life after the last Don

Ratings swing for the fences

'Troy' gallops into its bows

Cannes flirts with skirts

Inside Move: Solons, AFI salute Valenti

Inside Move: MGM, Trio knocking on 'Heaven's' door

Inside Move: Moore Cannes-ed heat

Inside Move: Muddled 'Mission'

Inside Move: Hot tickets at StubHub.com

Inside Move: Pic drives traffic to Iranian Web site

'Performance' hard to repeat

Inside Move: B'caster Victory strikes out

Biz up; 'Dreams' 766g

'Crowns' brings glory to Arena Stage

CRTC increases commercials to boost drama

Local pics dent U.S. reign in Spain

Union makes move from sport to news

Voice of America calls out to new region

Cuatro Cabezas taps demand for payTV content

H'w'd vexed by plex success

Biz abuzz at Tony tallies

Dialing up a sudser

Yari handles 'Overflow'

New Yorker warms to 'Embrace'

Hungary plans pic studio

First Look nabs 'Boys,' 'Willows' toon

Censorship inspires fear in filmmakers

Hold the mustard: Dijon hosts food pic fest

McAvoy cast in 'Chronicles' children's pic

Wellspring taps 'Tarnation'

Morton, Sutherland head down 'River'

Verhoeven booked for WWII thriller pic

Mifed, Kino Expo plan Moscow event

Styler joins board of pic producer ContentFilm

Redbus chews 'Bone' rights

Lions Gate to house 'Casa'

Fest's fave pest Moore beats the drums

Pirate powwow

'Raymond' returns

Greece is the word

Miramax ups Silfen to SVP

Showtime, Lynn go global

NBC U unit shuffles TV distrib exex

Lion lifts marketeer Shikiya to senior veep

Pegasus taken down peg after suit's nixed

SABC pursues breakup

Cinemark up on aud spike

Tentpole risks and rewards

UGC-U.K. snaps up 'Aura'

'Pan's' in Del Toro's plans

Cameo FJ opens shop

Peacock's psyched

Artsy Keating takes over BBC2

6 former Fox staffers charged with piracy

'Sesame,' 'Ellen' top Creative Emmys

A few more awards

For Tonys, latest often means greatest

B'way insider

Scribes at Work: Bryony Lavery, William Nicholson

Actors, start your epiphany

Past and present

Scribes at Work: Doug Wright, Nilo Cruz

Tube takes new track to the Tonys

Holiday from H'wood

Festival organizers rewrite their A-B-C's

Senegal surprise a crix click

'Wicked,' 'Wife' winners of top Drama Desk nods

'Shrek' trek

Chopard awards thesps

'Troy' opens at No.1, trumps 'Van' o'seas

Taye Diggs

'Mondovino' wines and dines

Dean Cain

NIFTC, helmer do lunch

Michael Pena

Natassia Malthe

Keys takes to high seas

U options 'Rex' for $1 mil

OutKast's Benjamin takes starring role

Fox scares up 'Ghost' spec

Inside Move: 'Restaurant' off May sweeps menu

Par psyched by 'Crazies'

Laugh track muted on NBC's fall slate

Frog dives into reality

'Scrubs' to clean up thru '06

ABC cuts down on yuks

Tarantino beached

Canal Royale

Pulling Focus

Village offers Variety at Cannes

British 'Blonde' B'way bound

Auds get plastered at London legit perf

Helmer Spiro debuts with 'Lara'

'Kill Bill 2' to fill DVD in August

Park the 'Only' one to get int'l rights

Optimum goes Wild with pix

Passion keeps producers going

'Daggers' flies to SPC

Content's got Scots

Capri, Seville share Canuck pix

'Brian Jones' gets satisfaction

Serbia thinks Pink to lure int'l prod'n

Candid shots of Valenti

U.S. 'Grand' plan

'Onimusha' sales in Focus

Greenlight gives go to bigscreen docs

Miramax takes 'Two'

Arcadia sets up 'Glory' and 'Victor'

Svensk stages stylish soiree

ThinkFilm garners control of 'Control'

Future, Hamburg back tax fund

Nothing pops on tight Sunday

Euro culture ministers gathering for confab

Peacock goes long

Wise's 'Dear' double play

Palais ballyhoo

Final 'Friends' lifts Leno

Robert L. Smith

'Zero' licensed to shill

Hamm helming Chekov charge

First Up takes U.S. pair

ARD, ZDF score Cup

Brits disbursing coin

SAG backs Oz industry against U.S. trade plan

'Maya' draws feature plans

Neville to eye Europe for Ten

Celestial sales for MCL

Singapore net to air in China

Helmer graduates from shorts

In rare feat for play, 'Raisin' hits top 10

Glitch in Drama Desk kudos: 'Human error'

Susan Gail Silkiss

Comedy collars 'Blue' 2

Last-minute pickups keep tube biz abuzz

Fourtou puts Viv on spot

Alliance again delays report

Qtrax inks deal to pay royalties

Viacom eyeing Viva

Shuttles scuttle fun

Legal downloads catch on

Sanitized analyzed

Subscribers flock to Foxtel Digital

'Troy' topples 'Van'

Producer pair partner on 'Ten' pic

UPC price hikes OK'd by regulator

Producers party at Variety bash

Col calls on Miramax vet

Ex-Sony VP goes to prison

Vroom to move

Moby to produce singer's biopic

Deneuve moves to 'Palais'

Moore goes to 'Light' for Rosenberg

Newmarket, Icon to shop as one

'Tragedy,' 'Wife' win Obies

Astin 'Caught' by President's Council

Yuks brace MS 'Race'

Comic wrangles comeback

Kudos no idle stunt

UA spikes its teen spoof

'SNL' anchorman Fallon signs off for pic career

Blood spills at 'Bill' fete

Wanted: An emperor to lead 'Rome'

WB, Zemeckis get a case of 'Measle'

Spezialy getting 'Desperate'

'Super Size' a Hart vid prize

Frog in big reality pond with Burnett

Lowery goes Underground

'Idol' maker gets labeled

Euro 2003 sales up for MPA members

Par all right for 'Fighting'

Seagal sets up laffer at Searchlight

Here's to Mr. Robinson

'Troy' team casts 'Spell'

ABC going to extremes

Zeitgeist does trick for 'Magicians'

Karlovy Vary sets Europe Now sked

Producers play in Sandpit

Inquiring minds at fest

Multifaceted thesp Tony Randall dead at 84

Senator's 'Hooligans' scores

Par Classics warms to Sternfeld's 'Winter'

New Line hatches Chicken deal

Int'l distribs agree trust a must

'CSI: Miami' hits series high

Risk-taking falls on TV shoulders

Exex gather for IFG get-together

Brazilian culture comes to the Croisette

Brando eyes role as self for Belhi pic

Fortissimo acquires Killer DVDs

Salles' goal: Fit soccer pic

Coin set for Marketing's pic slate

Indie finace the hot topic

Kiwis' '20/20' vision

James McAvoy

CTV called to 'Action'

Rotterdam fund dishes pic coin

Craig trims jobs at two stations

Liberty unit to purchase Noos

TV Azteca adding 5 U.S. affils, filling out to 38

BBC b'cast opens in N.Y.

Acad fetes students

Fox's 'Idol' ekes wins

Eye's 'CSI: Miami' peaks with 'New York' visitors

BMP tapping VP to stick to scripted

'Wicked's' Menzel sweeps up 'Dust' pic

Correction

Beware the new reality: They really hate you

Moore doc daze

AFI, AFM unite for bash

Marika Roekk

June Taylor

Anna Lee

H'wood hoping for a big green B.O. machine

NBC still in Arena ballgame

Rumsfeld hearings gum up syndie ratings

Par 'Insider' gets top 100 markets