Table of Contents
Week of 08/05/2004

Articles

Granada mails packages

 

Flipping the bird

 

AmFar gala sets chairs

 

In a galaxy in Gaul

 

German police slay Internet 'Dragon'

 

Mexican cablers land Digital content

 

Oprah adds years to her show's life

 

Pixar moving toward independent future

 

FS Film, Hentula hang shingle

 

Legit pair exiting stage right

 

Kerry eyes a trimmer U.S. media

 

Will 'Collateral' Cruise along?

 

TV Guide on a slide

 

XM inks shock jocks, posts sub growth

 

Univision profits up

 

Case cuts Time Warner stake

 

Steve Younger

 

Mike Abinanti

 

Alan Cohen

 

Hubert Larenaudie

 

James Spottiswoode

 

'Seinfeld' DVD shows up...finally

 

Keep it 'Simple,' Fox

 

Rosie, HBO partner for ship-shape doc

 

'Ring' sequel springs to March

 

London vet set to play Carnegie Hall as a.d.

 

'Poppins' flies on anniversary DVD

 

'Brain' heading to U.S.

 

PBS reads up on Journal

 

Inside Move: Clinton fills bill

 

Jeremy Piven

 

Mimi Leder

 

John Steinbeck

 

CAA taps six young guns

 

Trump alum out late with Danza

 

Grammys love L.A.

 

'9/11' beef chopped

 

Eurocinema preps launch

 

Zieger makes Maverick move

 

States join forces vs. file-sharers

 

Exhib glitch no big deal

 

Hurt crowns 'King' cast for Content

 

Rich deal in order for 'Law' man

 

White hot 'Blue Collar' to Comedy

 

Inside Move: Backstreet bodyguard sought

 

Singer makes Warner move

 

Rori Peters

 

Cynthia J. Wornham

 

Weekend Box Office Preview August 5, 2004

 

Hendrix Exhibition To Bow In Blighty

 

Funk legend James dies

 

Cubs game a ratings win for WGN Chicago

 

Geraldine Peroni

 

Severed heads

 

Inside Move: Prexy race amping up

 

Inside Move: Paradigm shift for tenpercenteries

 

Inside Move: Pixar sketches own course

 

Power outage: life after the fall

 

Inside Move: 'Bunny' hopping to capitalize on X rating

 

Inside Move: Spudfest nixes Mormon massacre pic

 

Inside Move: 'Potter' author proves a wizard for change

 

Inside Move: Ouster leaves Italo TV star stewing over RAI

 

Chick it out: Femme faves flout crix with B.O. success

 

Big dippers haunt H'wood

 

Chan's next big stunt: Reinvention

 

Content saddles up 'King' in Texas

 

'Nemo' fans swimming to fishy doc

 

Biz wading through shaky time

 

'Spidey' decline makes way for 'I, Robot'

 

DVD biz boosts cinema tix sales

 

Peacock goes for the gold

 

Kids won't cotton to TV broccoli

 

Thursday looks for new 'Friends'

 

Murdoch goes fishing for subs

 

Ten set to nab No 2 place from Seven

 

Old rivals agree: Cut out sex on TV

 

Toon web Animax Asia minds its Tees and Quus

 

Pols stump up cash for tyke fare

 

Animators toon up the future at confab

 

Hats off to a sleeper hit

 

Biz even; 'Oz' $1 mil

 

B.O. steady; 'Millie' 983g

 

Acting up

 

Pop poli-tees

 

Coast to Coast 'Collateral'

 

Celebs make sport of X Games

 

Tom guns down 'Village'

 

Adelphia in pieces

 

Tapp tapped out at Canada's Chum TV

 

Merger failure sends Hollywood in tailspin

 

Playboy, Spice nets report falling revs

 

Newman, Logan draw fest honors

 

Party of 5 projects

 

Zedeck evolves into music agent at CAA

 

BV taps Thomas as exec VP

 

Al Shearer

 

Lisa Marcos

 

Fox mulls FX's Carlisle as marketing topper

 

WB's fearless factor

 

Iraq gov't shutters Al-Jazeera

 

Deals not all right

 

Andrews will return to her 'Boy Friend'

 

B'way to hit the beach for musical

 

'Gem' carves up cast

 

No soph slump for Smith's 'Robot'

 

San Sebastian mining 'Silver'

 

Merger makes MTV music's Teuton titan

 

Pro-Kerry doc in race

 

Northern lights up 'Incanto'

 

Cabler joins org in fight against AIDS

 

Goldstar celebrating diversity

 

Kazan, Swicord to chair award committee

 

Disney Channel out to 'Lunch'

 

Thesp's talents in 'Doubt'

 

EdgeTV picks Pocket

 

'Game' now in Par's crosshairs

 

Mouse ships out to Philly

 

'Ahead-line' touts vision of early news

 

Snider's twisted take on VH1

 

Details set for 'Sex' show preem

 

Oz producer dives into pool for fresh funding

 

Exhib going big with Imax

 

Upped exec to push warmer, fuzzier Sci Fi

 

StudioWorks 'Partners' up

 

Fox vid unit living in ''70s'

 

It's 'Spartan' fare for U

 

Prinze 'Legal' eagle; Quinn's 'Third' man

 

CBS sudsers rock the vote

 

Helmer goes on 'Retreat'

 

Fox alum on 'Shore' leave

 

Ready to recruit

 

Aping Mother Nature

 

Telecom titan takes over toons

 

CG stars get their showcase

 

Heavy users

 

In the pipeline

 

TNT takes Fremantle's 'House'

 

Italo producers protest final cut

 

Frank Maxwell

 

'King Kong' thesp Fay Wray, 96, dies

 

David Raksin

 

TiVo set to woo subs as competish heats

 

Charter hurt by sub dive

 

Imax posts gain, preps new theater sites

 

Cablevision: No Voom vroom

 

Sweet Liberty revs

 

Auds say aye 'Robot'

 

Whitney scales to top of '60 Minutes'

 

Bizzers whack Bush

 

Giving Hope at Oz confab

 

Ex-FX exec to lead Stern development

 

B'way highs & lows

 

'Graduate' decree

 

Caton tapped top Oz thesp

 

Inside Move: Academy elects officers

 

Cartoon to tackle tykes with humor

 

Gordon names TV topper

 

Mandalay, Mosaic team

 

Inside Move: Post joins in Miramax pinkslip predictions

 

GOP sought for 'Knot' screening

 

Dish dines on cable's subs

 

Corrections

 

Inside Move: Sloan, CBS discuss post

 

Fox shaping new reality for fall

 

Danson talks about 'Fathers,' 'Moguls'

 

SAG suit claims fraud, libel

 

Skater's game for WCBS

 

Docu DVD heating up

 

Easton Ellis' 'Frog' a prince at Intermedia

 

Deluxe reeling in Film

 

Rock rolls to Endeavor

 

Harden loves 'Hate' pilot at Showtime

 

FCC: 'Buffy,' 'Grace' episodes not indecent

 

Fox sports nets enroll in college games

 

Craven's booking 'Red Eye'

 

NFL gets a firm grip on 'Kickoff' spesh

 

Cuts, Italian style

 

Muppets to join local characters in India

 

Hamburg picks 'Brain,' 'Alexandria'

 

'Messiah' arrives at Digital Domain

 

No news is bad news for Gallic net

 

Bid process blasted

 

Latin pact's a first

 

Married to a mob

 

News net sat-isfied

 

CJ adds stake in Cinema, ups Korea pic pull

 

NBC News defends action

 

Choice scene for teens

 

'Deckchair' levitates at bow

 

Bow trades on card fever

 

Party fit for a 'Princess'

 

'Wedding' fine slaps Splendid

 

Italo, U.S. pix work short shift at Venice

 

Serge Reggiani

 

A mightier Mouse

 

'Men' at work for Eye on Monday nights

 

Fest bows 'Huckabees'

 

SPC snaps up 'Heroes'

 

Katz upped to Think veep

 

Frog adds members to drama club

 

D'Works takes bite of Hamm

 

Telemundo Games afoot

 

Viacom will unite global TV efforts

 

Games stoke syndie sizzle

 

Montreal recalls regulars

 

'Kimmel Live' jives with concert deal

 

USA originals leads cablers to Nielsens high

 

'Idol's' debut boffo

 

MTV to add channel

 

Plausible Nile ability for '9/11'

 

MPAA, 321 Studios settle DVD lawsuit

 

RTV revs fall

 

Premiere posts pretty profit

 

In the sat bird seat

 

TW marketing adds ad man

 

Roxio rocks on via digital music focus

 

When celebs talk politics, who listens?

 

USC taps gala producer

 

Correction

 

'Rayne' pours trio into vidgame pic

 

Panel OKs News Corp. reorg

 

'Booknotes' on final page

 

Fox nabs Mexican rights to 'Carton'

 

Emmy speaks for Homer

 

WBTV taps research topper

 

'Mother' moves into Royale

 

Revolution set to 'Fan' flames

 

Inside Move: Scarborough's fair game after stumping for Bush

 

Inside Move: 'Method' to madness? Stars ready to ankle

 

Inside Move: USA pursuing reality exec

 

Syntax has Hubble biopic on order

 

U 'Enemies' going like gangbusters

 

Scribe wings to Munich

 

'Stranger' redials

 

Fox TV revamps exec lineup

 

Aretha cues up own record label

 

WSJ reporters union ratifies contract

 

Sogepaq takes 'Roma'

 

Rupe's troops rule

 

Cunningham wins IATSE local runoff

 

Oz pic fests build auds, reps

 

D-cinema launch set with 'Robot'

 

TNT picks up 'Clean'

 

MTV Latam taps VP for R&D

 

Fox localizes feevee FX for Brazil launch

 

Film journos give $1 mil

 

No millions for 'Studio'

 

Simpson slips back into top spot

 

NBC U pockets gold

 

Recording Acad ups exec

 

Ensler brings her 'Body' to B'way

 

Par TV taps ex-ABC exec to top drama

 

B'buster opens mail

 

'Spouses' rousing

 

Microsoft deals bolster movie section

 

Judi Dench, Christopher Lee

 

Warner Music cues dealmaker Liles

 

Endemol cries foul in Brazil

 

Emily Deschanel

 

Bradley Cooper

 

Stark Sands

 

Choreography noms named

 

Lensers seek kudos entries

 

A.d. kudofest set for Feb. 12

 

Lauryn Elizabeth Scoon

 

Alexandra Holden Gurrola

 

Danielle Jianmu Balkin

 

Annabelle Asha DeVitre

 

Lula Barracano

 

Marshall sitting out Olympics

 

Acad elects familiar faces

 

Casting kudos noms revealed

 

Inside Move: Date flap has exex trading fax whacks

 

'Princess' primps at B.O.

 

Wolper, WBTV book Wallace rights

 

Liberty moves may lower bond ratings

 

Dinklage, Ivey in Public's political plays

 

Pact brings back Mets

 

'Springer' backers in budget battle

 

Andre Noble

 

Tale of the tapes

 

Drama series

 

Drama actor

 

Drama Actress

 

Comedy Series

 

Comedy Actress

 

Reality Competition

 

Miniseries

 

Comedy Actor

 

Oz slips in disc war

 

Par girding up for 'War'

 

CBS runs another 'Race'

 

Col crowning a queen

 

Initial gets cash stash

 

Fox making a 'You' turn

 

Warners game for big deal

 

Tatanka checks in on biker rally

 

Oater kudofest saddles up

 

'Loch Ness' team delves into secrets

 

'Intimate' opening hits close to heart

 

Museum bash turns over new stones

 

'Mean' plays nice

 

Reviews

The Ninth Day

Tiger Cruise

Singin' in the Rain

Natalie Merchant

McCoy Tyner; Dave Brubeck Quartet; Ramsey Lewis

The Day Emily Married

Intimate Apparel

Zorba the Greek

SCTV

Bubba Ho-Tep

Singing Forest

Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to the Sopranos

The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy

Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me

The Doll Master

Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board

Ice Rain

The Villa

Cheese and Jam

Iden & Tity

I Was Born, But...

Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Pop Music

Sex, Love and Betrayal

Crack

Keep Talking!

Aquitaine

Reprise

Michael Rother, Josh Klinghoffer, John Frusciante

Miracle Run

In the Jury Room

Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men

Bunny Wailer; Luciano; Morgan Heritage

Watch on the Rhine

Bea Arthur at the El Portal

Jesse Malin

Much Ado About Nothing

Dogora

Yasmin

Forgiveness

Absolut

How Arnold Won the West

Bad Spelling

Buffalo Boy

En Garde

Lisbela and the Prisoner

Ladies' Night

This Old Cub

Why (Not) Brazil

The Who

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Chicago; Earth, Wind & Fire

The Triple Happiness

Antares

Uncovered: The War on Iraq

Oh Happy Day