Table of Contents
Week of 09/09/2004

Articles

Bold indie move begins with pic & cash stash

 

Number crunching

 

Kaiser advocates arts pushing biz

 

ICAA lauds d.p. Aguirresarobe

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
September 10, 2004

 

On the spot: Nets taking new upfront tack

 

Ad recovery gives ITV money makeover

 

Fresh fall fare flat

 

'Cellular' vs. 'Evil'

 

Buyers brave a soggy start

 

The Black Eyed Peas

 

Deborah Joy LeVine

 

Justin Hochberg

 

A&E votes for presidential duo

 

Filmax has int'l distrib on 'Hypnos'

 

Suzy cued at Klasky Csupo

 

Sci-Tech statue contenders revealed

 

USA Net resurrects 'Dead' for 4th year

 

'Hazzard' picks hicks

 

FCC's kiddie warning

 

Par finds perfect fit for 'Area'

 

'Pleasant' times ahead

 

AMC gets the munchies

 

Judi Rosner memorial

 

Frank Thomas

 

Lions Gate leaves Lido with 'Three'

 

WGAW taps Bernstein

 

U replaces director on 'Doom' pic

 

Exhib UIC bows out of Japan

 

Barr, Leary lined up for laff fest

 

CNBC goes for more 'Miller'

 

'Dinner' sets solo place for Scorsese

 

MGM, Bronson pacting for homevid distrib deal

 

Canada goes to the 'Moon' for Oscar

 

'XXX' to mark start of summer '05

 

Trio launch indie Vox

 

Sony BMG lifts Anthony

 

Playwrights 'Memory' preem goes Wiest

 

Indie indigent revisiting 9/11

 

Irish eyes smile on DreamWorks' 'Ikiru' remake

 

MGM clock ticking fast

 

Shingle shifts over to Fox 21

 

VH1 gets more 'Surreal'

 

Scribe nesting with Fox

 

'Quest' adaptation on Radar screen

 

McG shingle taps Johnson tube topper

 

CBS Madonna concert doesn't materialize

 

U ready to explore 'Clark & Lewis' pic

 

Eisner's letter to Disney board

 

Eisner ankles Disney

 

Love is all around at Deauville fest

 

Castellito moves to two directors

 

S&P boosts Televisa credit rating

 

UGC flexes plex muscles in Italy

 

U.K. indie Diverse is sold to FBC

 

Furtado cops kudos

 

Palm picks up 'Palace'

 

'Passion' leads Fox to homevid heaven

 

Local pix pique H'wood interest

 

Fall season gets off to blah start o'seas

 

Picmakers move to ads

 

Valenti will always have Gaul

 

Four play heats up

 

Big pix break through the clouds

 

'Bayside' hit gets spinoff

 

Cinemas bring cut-rate pix

 

Sneak peeks under heat

 

Giants in sci fi muscle tussle

 

God . . . and TV's other unsolved mysteries

 

Wrestling on the mat as demo flees

 

Lackluster Tuesday shows may send auds to cable

 

Webs hoard ad rev windfall

 

Survey finds kids go for soaps

 

Biz bouncing back

 

Femmes join SBS' Club

 

At Old Vic, the Oscar-man cometh

 

Abbey on rocky road

 

Dodgers open doors to 5 Off B'way theaters

 

I heart 'Hamlet'

 

I say, that's not cricket

 

Greatest story ever told . . . in 3-D

 

Winning 'Idol' contestant's destiny

 

Cable TV takes to the skies

 

'Jassi' puts her stamp on soap celebrations

 

Rivals wrangling over Olympic tribute show

 

Soap puts health issues in the wash

 

Mini moves to 'Remote' isle

 

Biz off; 'Lion' $1.36 mil

 

Shows hit new B.O. lows

 

Inside Move: Hit or myth

 

Inside Move: All the 'King's' men

 

Inside Move: TF1 mind field

 

Old-school news singing the blues

 

Inside Move: Red & blue shows

 

Inside Move: Chile spice

 

Star-gazing, with little luck

 

Inside Move: Labor daze

 

Inside Move: Rupe's roost

 

Inside Move: Nets going deep for NFL

 

There's one porn every minute

 

In pic-to-DVD shift, 'unrated' rates high

 

H'wood's direct hits

 

Inside Move: Wall of sound

 

'Evil' scares up $24 mil

 

Toronto plays (very) nice

 

'Drake' takes cake in Venice

 

Jonathan M. Scharer

 

Michael Louden

 

Judi Rosner

 

Ashfaq Ahmed

 

Studios' DCI venture to wrap up sans topper

 

RealNetworks doubles online sales

 

Circulation squeezes Tribune

 

Lagardere profits up; raises targets

 

Canadian effects shingle on Radar

 

Gloom hits voom

 

No pop in Peacock

 

Inside Move: Beatles' suit could upset the Apple cart

 

Court mulls Messier bail

 

New MTV net gets busy

 

Eye gives next 'Race' a little breathing room

 

Boost in L.A. shoots

 

'Grace' gets Deauville nod

 

Madonna in Pole position

 

Third-act issues?

 

WB's mighty fright

 

B'way lyricist Ebb dies

 

Zwick, Herskovitz take '1/4' turn at Alphabet

 

Brian Dennehy, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee, John Leguizamo, Brad Renfro, Giovanni Ribisi and Lesley Ann Warren

 

Jon Tenney

 

Gale Harold

 

'Evil' also sparks with o'seas auds

 

U whips up genre spoof

 

Par books 'Corner' for Evans

 

New Line enrolls with 'Weirdo' laffer

 

A sporting chance

 

'Merchant' men

 

French kissed

 

Parisian rhapsody

 

Spinning out of control over Eisner's plan

 

Ryder tripping with 'Heathers' helmer

 

Obst, Peters up for 'Days' sequel

 

'Iraq' docu seeks Oscar

 

Brothers O'Connor will explore 'Lewis & Clark'

 

Hughley raises teaching bar

 

Film board taps Essel

 

Zaks to direct Spacey's 'Story'

 

HBO takes Emmys big haul

 

Time Warner axes MGM bid

 

Sony ponies up for Lion

 

Hot and Bothered

 

Roy Disney & Stanley Gold's letter to the board

 

Mouse dissidents still squeaking

 

Jerome Chodorov

 

Warners, Imax ink 'Deep' deal for underwater pic

 

AFI mixing humor with D.C. politics

 

Girls jump to 'Jack'

 

NFL's return scores touchdown for Fox

 

Pair earn stripes at Valhalla

 

He's the Mann for fest kudo

 

Clinton friends report on ex-Prez's recovery

 

E! inks deal for tech dealer

 

Toronto full of pickup artists

 

Lively panel has a Euro sensibility

 

O'seas B.O. listless

 

Net makes conference call

 

Inside Move: Simpson fresh as Daisy

 

Emmys making news

 

Dolgin batting for YES as CEO

 

Barnes email raises furor

 

B'way biz takes Labor Day break

 

Kennedy Center re-ups prez

 

Buyback debt dents Rogers

 

CinemaNow pacts for VOD in Europe

 

Distrib picks up Latino titles

 

Sci-fi guys fly to Eye

 

'Nerds' flag rising again

 

Docu laffer docks at NBC

 

Canuck canoodling

 

Helmers swarm around 'THX' museum bash

 

HBO revels in its 'Bonds'

 

Miyazaki's 'Castle' finds Tokyo fest slot

 

White right for fast-tracked WB spec

 

Fox nips 'Tru' in the bud

 

Scribe to light 'Torch'

 

ABC to 'Eat' Celador hit

 

Director Thai'd to English remake

 

Bridges crosses into 'Tidelands'

 

Filmax sets sail on ship thriller

 

Nordisk begins lensing Blixen doc

 

MMPA to fete H'w'd diversity

 

'Sea' sales swell

 

BBC slights U.K. pix

 

Music stops at BSkyB

 

Digital TV switch will flip in 2012

 

Harrington tapped Disney Intl. VP

 

HBO will be the guest of honor at ABC's party

 

Yahoo duets with MusicMatch

 

IFPI taps new chief

 

Lions Gate roaring

 

CinemaNow expanding offerings

 

Net in tech check

 

ASC taps Panavision's Moore for Prexy Award

 

Topper upbeat despite Viv U's big losses

 

AFI taps Estrin exec VP

 

ABC to play 'Primetime' Trump card

 

Nancy Fogarty

 

Par lifts Fowkes to veepee post

 

Lookin makes leap

 

CBS eyes new team

 

Orphanage home to 'Schizo'

 

Fest fare beating the Bushies

 

Peacock flies with 'LAX'

 

Dreaming of Bombay through the movies

 

Taylor segues to Lippin

 

HBO ups Heller to senior drama veep

 

Chetwynd hot under collar

 

'Survivor' thrives: CBS bows web show

 

End of era for Lion vets

 

'Law' suits N.Y. fine

 

Nets protest Dems' ad

 

Sirius teams with Madden

 

'Underground' hits the streets

 

Contrarian voices

 

Spike TV, TWC hit a spike in ratings

 

Restoring fairness

 

Oprah's car craze tops syndie preems

 

Tweens keen on new TEENick block

 

Contempo docs headed to UCLA

 

Foundation fetes producers

 

Usher dominates kudo noms

 

Reitman passes Canuck hat

 

Leo's big fadeout

 

Sony BMG taps exec VP

 

Morgan joins 'Countess' in exec ranks

 

Turner to the rescue on 'Blowback'

 

Touchstone makes Power play for comedy

 

HRTS starts lunch series

 

Inside Move: LGTV lets Jake 'Be the Boss'

 

Inside Move: '60 Minutes' under scrutiny

 

Canal might finally flow

 

Duo take over 'Medical'

 

DGA Honors sets presenters

 

Public screenings sell well at Toronto festival

 

'Doom's' day nears for U

 

'Alvin' to squeak again

 

London welcomes Leigh

 

RSC turns toward comedy

 

Kabel's bid for cabler kaput

 

BAFTA to alter voting

 

De Mol to program Dutch TV block

 

Kennedy Center names honorees

 

Joel Schneider

 

More indecency at FCC

 

BAFTA/LA taps presenters

 

Stewart surrender

 

Evan Cowitt

 

Margot Davis, Todd McNulty, Melissa Van Meter

 

Eddie Hill

 

XM uploads channels to Web subs

 

H'w'd Fest lauds Travolta

 

Williamson winds way up at WB Pix

 

Exhib Onex sells out of German loop

 

Writers will wait on pens and needles

 

Granada slates deals

 

Rupe's troops taking home plenty of loot

 

A country two-step

 

Cirque adds 4th prod'n in Vegas

 

Spielberg, Zemeckis fete USC's game lab

 

Web ousts 'Oprah' for sudser

 

'2046' to open Pusan

 

Early exits at Toronto

 

Snoop Dogg to host Spike TV's Video Game Awards

 

Sara Gilbert

 

Weather and Spike auds up

 

Lahti keeping busy for Dems

 

UPN moves lineup in exec suites

 

Oz Labor promises showbiz help

 

CBS defends Bush report despite flak

 

Inside Move: 'OC' trip slows trek to 'Athens'

 

Howard joins 'Monk' cast

 

Billy Zane

 

Vicellous Shannon

 

'Nightline' is all Walters

 

GSN names Hatcher senior VP, distribution

 

Left out in the cold

 

Latinos lead baseball docs

 

'Lennon' imagines B'way

 

Sayles races political satire to 'Silver' screen

 

'Sky Captain' battles nerves at liftoff

 

Thesps fly into B'way fundraiser

 

Mouse aims 'Shot' at H'w'd

 

MS fete going strong

 

U aces tennis debut

 

Westphal joins Sony TV

 

Carey eyes the 'Late' shift

 

AMMI salutes Travolta

 

New lineup at artsy banner

 

Franklin nests with D'Works on 'Big'

 

Duo docks at Anchor Bay

 

Fur flies with 'Cat' man vs. protesters

 

Dubai taps Canuck relations

 

Punk rock pioneer dies

 

Reviews

Film School

A Separate Peace

LAX

Idomeneo

Unfabulous

Wimbledon

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Slava's Snowshow

I Do (But I Don't)

20 Fingers

Kings and Queen

Delivery

Changing Destiny

Saimir

The World

Tae Kwon Do

Butterfly

The Crying Wind

Silver City

The Wire

The Benefactor

3-iron

Days and Hours

A Dirty Shame

I Heart Huckabees

Nine Innings from Ground Zero

Of Mice and Men

Dust

Creep

Shark Tale

Childstar

Ray

The Day Of The Falcon

Embedded/Live

Beyond the Sea

Haven

Embers

Brooklyn Boy

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

Sideways

The Black Keys

American Roots

Millions

Grandsons

Turtles Can Fly

Lila Says

Promised Land

Dias de Campo

Mirage

Land of Plenty

Beastie Boys

We Will Rock You

Red Dust

Throw Down

Free to Go (Interlude)

Vento di Terra

Oyster Farmer

The Limb Salesman

Suburbs

A Rekindled Affair

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry

Family Bonds

Of Thee I Sing

Mr. 3000

Stuff Happens

Remote Access

The Keys to the House

Snow Patrol

The Rosenbach Company: A Tragicomedy

Gunner Palace

Downfall

Hotel Rwanda

Donovan

September Tapes

The Parisians

Matthew Shipp Quartet

Torapy