Table of Contents
Week of 08/12/2004

Articles

Pix in Progress at San Seb

 

Avary set to get 'Strange'

 

FCC fines Chi station

 

Beasts vs. beauty

 

Biz gains in Gotham giveaway

 

'Shore' wave crests

 

McEnroe gets prod'n ace

 

Letterman's hot summer

 

Mainframe tames loss

 

Internationalmedia losses rise sans pix

 

Kmart hooking up with E!

 

Col, Calley page 'Austen Book Club'

 

Lions Gate taps exec for Marvel DVDs

 

George rebirth planned

 

Inside Move: Silverman ankles ABC

 

'King,' 'Kill' kick up Alliance B.O.

 

Dawson Kai Wong

 

Steve Gawley

 

Michelle Rodriguez

 

Daniel Bruhl

 

Gregory David Roberts

 

Acad foundation returns board members

 

Foxtel finds its subs surfacing

 

Swedish exhib sells screens

 

Mexican auds not afraid of 'Fire'

 

China digital licenses OK'd

 

Oz trade pact a reality

 

Feola ankles as U home vid prexy

 

D'Works parks at NBC U

 

A Booming business

 

TV rerun deal is 'Mad'-ness

 

Fox classics land at TCM

 

'Love' for indie shingle

 

Stadler climbs to 'Roof' top

 

Craig's 'Late' exit

 

Peacock adding zing to 'Wing'

 

Capote bio makes play for Paltrow

 

Castle Rock lands laffer

 

Google's chat with Playboy may backfire

 

Alma Media profits set record

 

Museum votes for political pic series

 

Weekend Box Office Preview August 13, 2004

 

Fest names New Director line-up

 

Kirch sells off ProSieben interest to Saban, Verlag

 

Dutch pubcaster goes commercial

 

Famed chef Child dies at 91

 

Paul 'Mousie' Garner

 

Miramax cuts 65 staff

 

DGC announces kudo noms

 

Arthur W. Alsberg

 

Inside Move: House of Harvey

 

Inside Move: Burger blast

 

Inside Move: No leap for lion keeper

 

Bush's pop culture disconnect

 

Campaign takes hard right past H'wood

 

Inside Move: Beak preview

 

Inside Move: Beyond 'Blair'

 

Inside Move: No re-'Birth'

 

Political docs add fuel to Euro fest fires

 

Inside Move: Knitted Kashmir

 

That's how to rookie crumbles

 

Pioneering kung fu pic gets reissue

 

Lure of laughter grows

 

First novel gets pic play

 

Confab boosts biz optimism

 

Auds return for director's cut of 'Eiffel'

 

Allen may become ITV fall guy

 

Brazil preps 'Apprentice'

 

'I, Robot' dominates overseas screens

 

Endemol team led by new captain

 

Great wall of pix

 

Movies on the move at cablers

 

Close counts in horseshoes and TV ratings

 

Prexy campaigns push for pol position

 

Friday night flight

 

Spain gov't reins in p'caster's toadying

 

Sorry, wrong number

 

Thais style 24/7 news

 

Channel secures int'l landing rights

 

Online ratings group offers speedy service

 

After 'Choristes' clicks, Perrin dives into 'Ocean'

 

'King' rules Helpmann Awards

 

Hall takes another dip in Bath

 

Off B'way plays hop train to Conn.

 

'Lord' a-leaping

 

B.O. steady; 'Millie' 983g

 

B.O. slips; 'Q' 496g

 

Variety fetes Russian master

 

Stars rev up preem chariots

 

'Alien' invasion at B.O.

 

'Private' pulls Locarno rank

 

Stopping the swap

 

Rainbow ending at cabler?

 

DirecTV orbits into more local markets

 

TV propels Constantin out of the red

 

TLA reels in 2 tyro pix

 

Penthouse revamp ahead

 

Sam Edwards

 

Malinda Williams

 

Rachel Blanchard

 

Daniel Baldwin, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace-Stone

 

Sarah Carter

 

Avid takes over M-Audio

 

Olympics score high

 

Debate moderators set

 

Volleyball: Walsh is a Sirius step

 

'Bourne,' 'Robot' not playing Games

 

Eye on lookout for a Kilborn replacement

 

Two to lead AFI as a.d.

 

SAG seeks award entries

 

Sony TV ups Weiser to distrib chief

 

Fox TV taps exec veepee

 

Inside Move: Glickman makes rounds

 

Oz indies can exhib power in groups

 

Oz exhibs lukewarm on d-cinema conversions

 

Cole Christian Mortensen

 

Amanda Gruder and Neal Rothman

 

Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard and Jacobus Rose

 

Christine Schenley and David B. Harris

 

'Elliot' tuner takes its time

 

Peacock pumps 'Hawaii'

 

ICM taps NYC legit head

 

Thesp comes to Papa

 

'Spy' warriors psyched for a 'Psi-Ops' pic

 

Inside Move: Thesp's got a bone to pick with 'Nanny'

 

Woo-Chow powwow

 

New showrunner sworn in at 'Judging'

 

Containing fake 'Shrek'

 

Digital dawn in U.K.

 

Legal eagle Hirsch flies off, starts own practice

 

SureFire fund raises £7 mil

 

AFI fetes Penn clan

 

Frosh freshen B.O.

 

Making cable team

 

WB boosts legal pair

 

IFP/NY names grant winners

 

Hitco will take a Holiday

 

Azteca hits Gotham cable

 

Makena' lei Gordon Carnahan

 

11 seeking WGAE seats

 

Liberty's int'l trip

 

Japan distribs see bumper year at B.O.

 

NBC draws Olympic laurels Sun.

 

Hoffmann tops newly pumped MME

 

Real trying to take bite out of Apple iPod

 

Firm handshake

 

Indian kudos a 'Breath'-taker

 

Alliance posts rev gains

 

Cabler KDG narrows loss

 

Scandal socks it to Stewart's circulation

 

Zee nets cricket rights for 4 yrs.

 

Gayner enters Arenas as marketing sr. veep

 

CII backs TV mart

 

Stormy skies fail to flood B.O.

 

'Blue Collar' on the WB's hit list

 

Earley rising high at Fox

 

Correction

 

Timothy Ward

 

Kim Fowler

 

Cheryl Miller Houser, Maria Lane

 

Andrew Kerr

 

Samaha hears more bad news

 

David Liroff, Malcolm Brett

 

Juanita Palomino

 

Russell Quy

 

Orgs fit Emmy to a Tea

 

Indian film fest will hit the beach

 

Blair turning heads at WB

 

New 'Neighbours'

 

Hunter Hancock

 

Novela star accused of sex with a minor

 

Stars align for New Audience

 

Crudup's up to B'way gig

 

Ross plants flag at mtvU

 

Bomback hops aboard Fox pic

 

A very merry A&E

 

Inside Move: Boxer suit in ring today

 

Platinum deal for Valentine

 

Tyro gives his 'All' to D'Works

 

WB replanting 'Bad Seed'

 

Pair open up lit shop

 

'Lebowski' bowls over fest

 

Amour imbues Musicale

 

Arresting soirees

 

Fry pic burns 'Bright'

 

'Mean' hits screen in Gotham

 

Sporting look at 9/11

 

McKellen's 'Magic'

 

Italy adopts De Niro

 

AAV's Gregory to retire

 

Stan & Ollie in German? Darn Teuton

 

Indian cablers not playing Games

 

EC keeps its culture czar

 

B'wood trilogy 'Rising'

 

An ad vantage point

 

Toronto humming 'Songs'

 

Olympics brings ratings gold to NBC

 

Elastic bands ShoPro

 

Showtime sez 'Smile' to Beach Boys docu

 

Deluxe deal for Softitler

 

Telcos beat cable in broadband growth

 

Int'l, new-media revs surge at BMI in '04

 

AIDS film fest fetes Nichols

 

Suit shows Hirsch seams

 

Viacom's unkind cuts

 

When it comes to scribes, Bravo holds the applause

 

Lions Gate makes 'Room'

 

Stars shine for ACLU concert

 

Ismael Rodriguez

 

Olympics, hurricane whip up NBC ratings

 

Judge affirms ruling; Samaha will appeal

 

Peterson, Bryant cases boost gavelers' ratings

 

ASC lauds Koenekamp's lifetime achievement

 

'La Cage' locks in a cast

 

Relativity tunes up music arm

 

Infinity, Arbitron make up

 

U accepts 'Party' invitation

 

Bravo's parenting

 

Vulcan wraps 'Hard Candy' lensing

 

MTV, Grubman floor pedal on reality skein

 

Haunted hyphenate for 'Presence'

 

Neal Fredericks

 

Latino kudocasts set for nonstop fiesta

 

Lions Gate's 'Employee' gets a boss

 

Sony toon catches wave

 

U colors in Black & White

 

Stern going back to school for Spike skein

 

Tube trio trimmed

 

Disorder in the court

 

Viacom's unkind cuts

 

Buffett buy-in buoys Comcast

 

Olympics in HD

 

Dropping the ball

 

Spirit awards seeking submissions

 

Ross to talk shop

 

Steiger will tell 'Stories'

 

Bermuda shorts ok by Oscar

 

Melvin Endsley

 

Bob Murphy

 

Evie Wynn Johnson

 

Contender could knock out 'Champ'

 

Teuton B.O. rev up 1.4%

 

U rights resolution

 

U.K. push busts CD piracy

 

Tony Mottola

 

Shooting down TV strike

 

Shyne's unbarred success

 

Fionnula Flanagan

 

Tatyana Ali

 

Lizzy Caplan

 

Jason Lewis

 

Art Directors Guild taps Creber

 

Google set to click

 

Cox panel will mull taking cabler private

 

Star Group buys stake in Balaji

 

Globo sets Florisbal Junior TV duo solid

 

EM.TV, Premiere extend partnership

 

Foreign pix face delay

 

'Champ' unrestrained

 

TLC's Sloan keeping it real at CBS

 

Togo, Amick join hit skeins

 

'Champ's' cited law may get KO'd

 

'Paddle' tames the beast

 

Brit helmer blows smoke at bash

 

'Fair's Indian flair

 

V Life sets the scene at Emmy-nom party

 

'Kissing' star in ABC skein

 

Spacey sings the praises of Darin

 

No 'Hero's' welcome

 

Shorts suit Palm Springs

 

Film composer dies at 82

 

Isabel Sanford memorial service

 

HBO will mount 'Dew' feature adaptation

 

Rupe pumps News Corp. move in Oz

 

Viacom nabs ATAS kudos

 

Shifting Sands drifting to D'Works

 

'Victims' will get new life

 

DreamWorks drafts Colick

 

Inside Move: Jeunet engaged in Oscar race

 

Sony makes a Bard buy

 

Fleder floats to 'Coast'

 

Hobbit brouhaha

 

DGA talks may start soon

 

Russian 'Watch' man welcomed at Fox

 

Small roles yield big rewards

 

The other Emmys rise up

 

It's all in the cut

 

Sex, lies and lots of tape

 

Slick looks hook weekly auds

 

Lensers find freedom on cable's frontier

 

Reality vs. fantasy

 

Painting portraits

 

Score one for diversity

 

Vote tunes up controversy

 

'Lady' skips out on NYC

 

Reviews

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light

Private

Willie Colon; Los Hombres Calientes; Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Maureen McGovern

Alien vs. Predator

Letters to Ali

Mr. Bailey's Minder

The Night Season

West Side Story

Without a Paddle

Olympic Summer Games

Where's Charley?

Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival

Day and Night

The President Versus David Hicks

Cowboy Junkies

The Wildest

Phish

What If?

Mancini Musicale Honoring Burt Bacharach

PJ Harvey / Black Heart Procession / Jon Brion

The Cherry Orchard

Josh Jarman

Orange Love Story

Out of Body

The Promise

Survive Style 5+

McDull, Prince de la Bun

Le Ponts des Arts

Living in TV Land: Dick Van Patten

Blue Sky Black Sky

Van Halen

Andre Valente

Fucking Love

Hilde's Journey

The Syrian Bride

Stupid Boy

Tony Takitani

Paul is Leaving

Private Madness

King's Game

The Hunter

Fahimeh's Story

Local Call!

Roz Ryan -- All About the Music

Richard II


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