Table of Contents
Week of 06/10/2004

Articles

Nick sponges spotlight

 

CCFA benefit on winning roll

 

Legit salutes pair

 

AmFar honors

 

Happy birthday, Poul

 

Video Island reels in coin

 

Investors pillory Primacom rescue

 

'Painful' restructuring gets Senator's vote

 

Fox Kids Europe pumps profits

 

Music loses its 'Genius'

 

Televisa sues thesp

 

Inside Move: Soul searching

 

Pegasus hit again

 

Golden Globe dates set

 

Canuck pols plan dereg

 

Can foes shave 'Harry' legs?

 

Road presenters stew over 'Q' decision

 

Event will focus on Verhoeven pix

 

Endemol taps Davis

 

Eisner suffers loss

 

Mariah Carey

 

Christian Slater

 

Brendan Fraser

 

Roger Bart

 

Hector Babenco

 

Melissa Rivers

 

Sam Heughan

 

Expo will honor Arnaud

 

'Italian Story' to be told

 

Big ratings boost 'Reno'

 

Geffen gets a makeover

 

Wizards, dog, 'Troy' boost WB

 

Pol aims legislation at pic-snipping debate

 

Trade groups may harmonize

 

Nielsen gets knocked

 

EC gets an earful over music merger

 

Moore power to ya!: L.A. fest gets '9/11'

 

Weitz made for Endeavor post

 

FX affixes Daws to new post

 

Roadside ties 'Knot' for U.S.

 

Library draws design sketches

 

ABC holds affil confab

 

An Asian film occasion

 

Inside Move: Fox mandates Sin City sans sin

 

Scribe spins 'Spiderwick'

 

Serkis act: Big ape

 

Spyglass' 'Spin' zone

 

'Wicked' lures thesp to play Witch

 

WB picks up after 'Maid'

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
June 11, 2004

 

Rieber, Duda roll over to WB's Telepictures

 

Olympic glory for 'Troy' boy

 

WB locked, loaded with 'Bullitt'

 

Amber Tamblyn

 

By the numbers

 

James Spader

 

Kathryn Morris

 

Ian McShane

 

Ratings dream or nightmare?

 

Julian McMahon

 

Daytime dilemmas

 

John C. McGinley

 

Writing the wrongs

 

Mischa Barton

 

Be our guest

 

Will Arnett

 

Character chameleons

 

Rock-solid repertory

 

Filmax revs top $111 mil

 

Net keeps hands on wheel

 

'MI-5' guy feels 'Pride'

 

Donald Trumbull

 

Mexico's chipping in

 

Endemol heats up new home in Chile

 

Execs sniff out biz at Cologne

 

Fox Kids get 'Sonic' boom

 

Channel 4 at sixes and sevens

 

Kabel's topper chases coin Stateside

 

Nick branches out beyond pay TV

 

Ad sales house loses monopoly

 

Org pulls five pirate cable channels

 

Overseas B.O. mints early summer gold

 

Upfront sales take a breather

 

It's Hammer time at USA Network

 

Oz producers split on hassles of co-prods

 

Toon pic has Euro attitude

 

Safe 'Sex' is a lesson in evolution

 

Phone promos tempt 'Potter' fans o'seas

 

Cablers toy with pint-sized reality

 

Taormina announces 50th sked

 

Latest Gaul hit sings happy B.O. tune

 

Fest welcomes banned Beijing Acad helmers

 

Magic conjures Manx pact

 

Tooning up new titles

 

Spider provider grows new legs

 

Inside Move: Not yet paying to play

 

Inside Move: Kicking around a gameplan

 

Inside Move: Playing hardball

 

Batman has his eye on you

 

Inside Move: Czech-ing political animals

 

Inside Move: Hitching up the team

 

Role of a lifetime

 

The Euro-Hollywood axis

 

Very profitable 'hidden' Dimension

 

Martin, Kuhn to visit D.C.

 

Jet-set 'Playboys'

 

Brits tangle with Tony

 

Biz off; 'Bombay' 670g

 

B.O. slips; 'Mamma' 645g

 

'Q' blitz tweaks Tony rules

 

The Brothers Grim

 

Diesel fumes choke wiz

 

Plug pulls in first original

 

Szabo's 'Julia' among U.K. showcase pix

 

Iranian pic tops Shanghai fest

 

AMC sees net loss trimmed

 

Mforma uploads $44 mil

 

Mexico exec exits Warner

 

EGV, Major Cineplex to merge

 

'Mother's' helpers

 

U's Charles biopic keeps date

 

86 Miramax pix color Rainbow

 

IFC joins with 'Everyone'

 

Sides in tune on royalties

 

Financial woes wallop Lauren

 

O'seas taken 'Prisoner'

 

Distribs heated over 'Fahrenheit' rating

 

L.A.-based commish selected by Ausfilm

 

Liberty shifts cabler shares

 

Koepp spins kudo web

 

Duty calls in Banff

 

Starz! gets Real via online service

 

Curtain's up on ads

 

A 'Martian' invasion

 

Picture clearing: Morris plans series

 

GSN sees lots of 'Action'

 

Atmosphere to engulf 'Overworld'

 

A&E staging a series intervention

 

NBC U TVS execs plumed

 

Wild pitch is just in 'Time'

 

King gets pirate's booty

 

AFI gets sweet on Streep

 

Zingers for Zucker

 

Ozpetek opens 'Windows'

 

A midsummer night's 'Dream'

 

The 'Best' of Italy

 

Bowled over

 

'Terminal' takes off

 

'Golden' night for docu

 

Spain's Pi Group sells 'Women'

 

Spain TV Expo hits Miami

 

Napster bands together with ntl

 

Midnight Sun fest dawns

 

WB's summer stunner

 

NFF Triggers '05 reading

 

Sundance picks doc fellows

 

S. Korea to reduce local pic quota

 

Archie Smith

 

Euro B.O. penalized

 

Col takes Walk to exec VP

 

Tonys spark B'way

 

PGA East pickers Picker

 

Warner Music buys share of Maverick

 

Org ignites '9/11' fight

 

Scribe pursues 'Day' in court

 

Dave Forman

 

Sergio Ramos

 

XM sees big sub gains

 

Spanish bank backs Telespan 2000

 

Echo's eroding orbit

 

Cron takes Midway helm

 

Reagan tributes continue

 

Dennis Clontz

 

Eye, Alphabet hit ad targets

 

Pegasus kicks sticks' nix in bird battle

 

Man held in scribe's killing

 

TV confab turns into election platform

 

Canada net puts NASCAR in first gear

 

Chile's PWI peppers production

 

Funeral fuels news nets

 

Corrections

 

Dog days at Animal Planet

 

East of Doheny flips for 'Flipped'

 

Director hustling to make fest one of best

 

Lights, camera, aloha

 

So many islands, so many filming choices

 

The inside dope on paradise

 

Sheri Sedlik and Steve Margolis

 

Audrey Elizabeth Banks

 

Ethan Cole Craft

 

Jett Evan Titus

 

Samantha Lauren Sher

 

Imagining a celluloid city

 

Charo, Flava getting 'Surreal Life' on VH1

 

Miramax raises 2 to marketing VPs

 

'Girls' good for Par sales

 

'Gay Secret' revs up

 

Frog aims 'Mix Tape' CD at its Target aud

 

'Ed' duo pilot NBC laffer; dramas moisten Eye

 

A bear market on Leo

 

Warners enlisting in war story

 

Scribe set for 'Salvati'

 

Tat mounts Horse for a reality date

 

Hollywood's edifice complex

 

The more things change...

 

How to play the 'spec' market

 

Take my anxiety, please

 

Where we live

 

Temperature's rising

 

Event highlights

 

Kate O'Brian

 

Brooke Bowman

 

Mindy Brown

 

Laurie Don

 

Mark J. Halacy

 

Dick Ross

 

Katie Miles-Ley

 

Michael Kay

 

Carol Dunn

 

Kris Coontz

 

Rene M. Garcia

 

Jim Pastor

 

Inside Hawaii: Fest highlights

 

'Poppins' leads kickstart campaign

 

Preem opens 'Door'

 

'House' party sings indie tune

 

It's a small 'World'

 

Kline gets Porter role under, all over his skin

 

U grabs tiger by the tale

 

Rolling 'Stones' into choice roles

 

Pisano asked to step aside

 

Janollari hops atop Frog net

 

'Primo' will open Cinema Jove

 

'Windows' needled

 

A. Ronald Lubin

 

Francis Brunn

 

Sands moves to rival exhib

 

Silvio loses pol position

 

Org critiques TV content

 

Soccer hits new heights

 

Hadlow ankles C4 for BBC4 post

 

Kudos for Webster

 

Sundance Theater Lab slate goes international

 

Endangered species: H'wood conservatives

 

Pols, polls add twists to '9/11'

 

MPAA fires a warning shot

 

Barbara Whiting Smith

 

Apple's Euro bite

 

BMG, Sony express faith in sealing deal

 

Charles Correll

 

Cablers, satcasters hit with patent suit

 

Telepictures names sr. VP

 

Discovery gets in gear with Lance

 

Globes dates shuffled

 

'Casino' a good bet

 

Competish tries to clip 'Angels' wings

 

Ferns hints at a Banff adieu

 

Green, Cine-UK eye UCI bid

 

Broadcasters face long odds for longform nods

 

Basic cable eyes telepic trophies

 

FX applauds exec duo

 

Telepics get new spin

 

Win one for the Gipper?

 

Hoops give ABC a bounce

 

NBA buries 'Six Feet,' other cablecasts

 

Harrelson moves to 'Ohio'

 

Org issues wakeup call

 

Viacom Prods. now part of Par

 

TBS toons in 'Family Guy'

 

H'w'd fest honors int'l pix

 

MTC gets 'Reckless'

 

Making art in tentpole times

 

Plugs in the plexes

 

Trumpeting 'The Swan'

 

Gotham goes gaga for Moore

 

Hot 'Date' rides out syndie dip after May sweep wraps

 

'Down Low' wins big at Gotham's NewFest

 

Hallstrom and U lasso oater

 

Laughing on the margins

 

Riding on sentiment

 

Kudo newbies aim to fill sitcom void

 

Are clothes funny?

 

New directions in comedy

 

Latenight limbo

 

'Delgo' gets Creatives rep

 

WGAW prexy to run again

 

Striking the right note

 

Scribes unabridged

 

Friedkin gets 'Bug' to film Letts' play

 

Goodnight, Freddy

 

Obst taps Nash sr. veep

 

Inside Move: Early reviews have studios stewing

 

WHV Germany draws up distrib deal

 

NFL Network huddles up

 

EasyCinema's 'Shrek' tag no bargain

 

Comedy Central cancels 'Show'

 

Ex-Granada exec tops Nat Geo unit

 

Toonsmith to lense live-action pic

 

Thematic unity marks Karlovy Vary slate

 

Viacom near deal for MTV Teuton rival

 

'SNL' chief marks Twain kudo

 

BSkyB investors spur Murdoch's board exit

 

Teutonic coin trim

 

Lensers tap Crudo prexy

 

Big Velvet goldmine

 

Style to strip 'Stewart'

 

Ad org joins melee over People Meters

 

4 mil try safe 'Sex'

 

Samaha slammed

 

EMI, BMG reach higher note in '04

 

Copied into oblivion

 

Seattle Rep topper posts June '05 notice

 

B'casters fed a mandate

 

MPAA lawyer takes new gig

 

Liberals lining up for 'Fahrenheit'

 

ABC scores with hot hoops

 

'Kranks' set transformed into studio for Revolution pic

 

Grushow shingle taps Big Ticket vet

 

D.C.'s dirty dancing

 

Think, Virgo spreading 'Lie'

 

Banff fest to return next year

 

Annasophia Robb, Jordan Fry, Julia Winter, and Philip Wiegratz

 

Michael Clarke Duncan

 

David Boreanaz

 

Humanitas contenders set

 

U gets physical with Fenady

 

Kudocast for Seacrest

 

Deadwood

 

Progress reported in actors' talks

 

Bush obtains 'Access'

 

IDT now a do-it-yourselfer in distrib'n

 

Alphabet's stripes

 

SAG takes swing at Pisano

 

'Rules' adds showrunners

 

Corrections

 

Tribune pacts with D'Works

 

L.A. critics pick Sheehan

 

Fox hurls out a sporting preem

 

Inside Move: Bylines bygone at WSJ

 

Inside Move: Knightley over knights

 

U.S. seeks to nix Chinese pic ban

 

'Superman' back in orbit

 

Skoll toasts new shingle

 

The L Word

 

Can the rest best 'West'?

 

Gone but not forgotten

 

Las Vegas

 

Screeners II: Rise of the disc machines

 

Marathon management

 

Nip/Tuck

 

Carnivale

 

The OC

 

Best of the best

 

No secrets for success

 

Joan of Arcadia

 

Inside Move: Par's 'Team' game plan

 

'Door' opens in Gotham

 

No more 'Yes!'

 

'Popstars' returns to South Africa

 

Fox stars enjoy Cabana bash

 

Comics yuk out of a jam

 

Waiting at the 'Terminal'

 

Egyptian aud makes 'Move'

 

Big day out

 

Reviews

The Stepford Wives

The Chronicles of Riddick

The Imaginary Invalid

See You in My Dreams

Stones in His Pockets

Mickey and Jan Rooney

Stefon Harris and Blackout

Garfield: The Movie

Revolution

Enter the Dragon

Quintuplets

Forbidden Christmas, or The Doctor and the Patient

Measure for Measure

The Shaughraun

Drifting Elegant

A Mother

Her Little House