Table of Contents
Week of 10/07/2004

Articles

Euro orgs launch suits vs. music file-sharers

 

WB taps Taylor for U.K. ops

 

'Lost,' 'CSI: NY' dominate again

 

In Oscar's embrace

 

Barzee, James to star in 'White Christmas'

 

Jennifer Chayo and Chris Fenton

 

Canal Plus plays hard in soccer

 

Azoff, Asensi team for tunes

 

Big despite baseball

 

Britney Spears

 

Anna Kournikova

 

Sirius goes stellar

 

Champagne for Welk over studio buy

 

Czech arthouses form Osa 9 alliance

 

Sec issue spurs downgrade for Azteca

 

American Songbook series moves house

 

Birds peck away at Charter's subs

 

Fallon, football ignite weekend

 

Mart morphs with TV biz

 

Judge drops rape charges

 

Nick Stahl

 

Chris Noth

 

Phil Gordon

 

Chelsea Football Club

 

WGAW covers Kanin with achievement

 

Correction

 

NBC adds racing delay

 

Fest set to fete film trio

 

Beeb to serve up entertaining fare

 

Holland has hand in new shingle

 

Helmer casts lens on 'Bend'

 

Rock is rolling on DVD

 

Union heads speak out

 

Nick's off to 'Nerd Camp'

 

CAA taking on Downey

 

'Dreams' maker gets laughs

 

Federal firestorm

 

Doc unearths 'Past' of pioneer massacre

 

Producer's on the road to Mandalay

 

Wacky 'Heart' banter

 

Diet tips scales at sesh

 

Weekend box office preview
October 9, 2004

 

Mohr's sore at NBC after 'Comic' canned

 

Thesps join voodoo tale

 

Spotnitz's Big Light shines on Fain

 

Gersh booking Gotham unit

 

News Corp. rejigs rules

 

'Idol' times for 'Shrek 2'

 

Siegel walks straight into Bar

 

Herbig seeing 'Ghost'

 

U, Shadyac build 'Block'

 

'Wedding' parties set second act

 

WB's coin will shore up 'Island'

 

Par has feel for 'Deal'

 

Shubert to rename sites for Schoenfeld, Jacobs

 

Moore to come

 

Fox to commit 'Misdemeanor'

 

An old friend's returning to NBC

 

Howard's a rising star

 

Heidi Marie Heller and Steven Gary Banks

 

Eye has it on Thursday

 

Bram Roos

 

NBC Olympics slate scores gold for GE

 

Jacques Levy

 

Hildy Parks

 

Mickey seems M'maxed out

 

Disney looks to rejig slate

 

H'wood's despot measures

 

Inside Move: Foreign-lingo pix won't make Oscar cut

 

Aroused over 'Kinsey'

 

Inside Move: PGA credit check

 

Inside Move: Ad whiz adds layer of confusion to U.K. pic

 

Inside Move: Drivers on the 'Job' for charity rally

 

Teuton pub finds right Touch with stars

 

Inside Move: Movie swap shop?

 

Inside Move: Adult vid leads biz to HD promised land

 

Inside Move: Guild contract conniptions

 

Stars turn Haskell hoedown fund-raiser into fun-raiser

 

Inside Move: India's gallows theater

 

H'w'd in a number crunch

 

The maverick meets the auteur

 

Alphabet gets souped-up

 

'Songs' row sorted

 

New dramas break the crime wave

 

Cablers split on made-for strategy

 

Bling-bling's back in

 

Upstarts debut at Mipcom

 

Fest tries to include Palestine

 

'Collateral' leads in tepid o'seas sesh

 

Vet exec Lorenzo puts himself into Drive seat

 

Staffers quit after tempers flare on air

 

Teutons warm to history lessons

 

Pay TV ops protest plans for gov't service

 

Gameshow king ready for new reign

 

Paybox wins rich auds

 

Island locale offers beefy rebates

 

1-2-3 TV bids for auds

 

Sat 1 sez goodnight to 'Anke'

 

Court plays umpire in cricket rights row

 

Brainbow launches with action laffer

 

New tuner takes a cue from 'Q'

 

Biz up; 'Town' 370 g

 

Australia sings again

 

Baard takes on trailers

 

B.O. up; 'Superstar' 482g

 

'Billy' times three

 

'Producers' a hit, but still in red

 

Rookies 'Shark'-bitten

 

Rukeyser off 'Street' beat with illness

 

Fox TV brings Elliott back into family

 

Eye-popping evening

 

Duo climbing cable 'Hill'

 

Mouse suits up 'Invincible'

 

Cablers bets on Mets

 

Incumbents top election at WGA East

 

Hollywood takes P2P battle to high court

 

It's Miller time on Univision

 

Tele Munchen slaps sib in pic dispute

 

'Alfie' avoids October crowd scene

 

Lucasfilm expresses interest in TV

 

AFTRA looks to nets for healthy coin hike

 

Scheinman shines at TWI

 

Quizzer confounded

 

'Mars' man gets green

 

Upstarts try to wrest fest from Losique

 

Scribe tribe ready to restart stalled talks

 

Oz vote swings mogul's way

 

'Shoes' walks off with Dinard nod

 

'Bride's' pride

 

Noche for marrieds

 

Van's BMI's man

 

Jeffrey Donovan, Bruce Dern, Samantha Mathis, Heather Matarazzo

 

Kal Penn

 

Alicia Witt

 

U.K. loves 'Bride'; fish swim o'seas

 

Pusan Promo Plan gets deals done

 

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Cameron Blanchard

 

John Skipper

 

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Scott Edwards

 

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Adam Stewart

 

Derek Maldonado

 

Kristen Buckley

 

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Kathy Flynn

 

Janet Robertson

 

Eryl Cochran

 

Shara Koplowitz

 

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Frank DeRose

 

Susan Cleary, Reny Montesinos

 

John Biondo

 

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CJ Olivares

 

Damon Whiteside

 

Richy Glassberg, Bill Rosolie

 

Ross Crowley

 

Randy Franklin

 

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Participant partners on 'Arna'

 

Maverick shores up Mirovision thriller

 

NBC 'Brooklyn' bound

 

'Voice' pair tunes up future projects

 

Duo goes 'Straight' at Col

 

Pair fit for 'Darwin' duty

 

'Motel' key for HBO, duo

 

Tambor joins 'Glengarry'

 

Sarah Paulson

 

Molly Ringwald

 

A taste of Tribeca

 

Italians say basta

 

Continental divide

 

A Man of Steel and honor

 

Priority for Focus

 

ARD, ZDF dominate Teuton kudos

 

'Desperate' dynamite again

 

'9/11' makes early TV date with Spain

 

Saban buys stake in Keshet

 

Peacock, Fox News in debate winners circle

 

Rio fest praises 'Contra'

 

Net sets 'Violence' docu

 

Red tape sidelines Chan

 

Last C4 founder, Scott, plans exit

 

FFF funds filming

 

Amritraj given kudos

 

Docu finds 'Solution'

 

Familiar face in Oscar seat

 

Polgovsky nabs Morelia doc prize

 

Viacom taps Brodsky, Weber for Nick posts

 

Satellite synergies

 

Media portal Orb bowing with content in its reach

 

Reeve remembered

 

'Shark' bringing bite to o'seas B.O.

 

Edward Morey Jr.

 

Richard Ellison

 

Gulshan Rai Sachdev

 

ARD, ZDF top German TV awards

 

'Housewives' cleans up for ABC

 

Orgs offer distrib support at Pusan

 

Dems' red carpet

 

Revamped planned for People's Choice awards

 

Ashcroft's army

 

AFM to reel out record number of pix

 

Give 'n' take on tax cuts

 

Dems rip Sinclair over plan for anti-Kerry doc

 

Another USA face joining Comedy web

 

Nancy Therese "Tess" Higgins

 

Producer sez 'Ten' delayed

 

B'way sails through Columbus holiday

 

Emi Zioli Schram

 

Touchstone inks Carroll

 

IFC, AMC lock and load Trigger TV division

 

Roman drawn back

 

Flowers delivered to Kidman

 

Green's amassing Power

 

Comedy net gets 'Comic'

 

TV queens slated for series

 

New empire for Roman, Fortitude

 

U, Terra Firma land 'Africa'

 

WIP, Odd Lot book Klein for 'Fishing'

 

Returning heroes

 

Fete toasts diverse bunch

 

U turns up the 'Lights'

 

Pelosi works the crowd

 

Being Bening

 

Producer says Uncle

 

Duo will travel on indie 'Road'

 

'A-Team' back in action

 

Peacock plans mini aftershock

 

Kopelsons' new family

 

WMA network post a solo gig

 

Bac spreads wings

 

Inside Move: 'Farm' fresh

 

'CSI: Miami' hot for CBS

 

Light ankles Victoria Theater

 

Hold the phone: A call for electronic etiquette

 

D'Works draws up IPO specifics

 

Copps blasts Sinclair

 

'Vibrations' on vacation

 

Ad boom boosting Yahoo!

 

'Pugilist' punching its way to 45 Below

 

Pols fire ad barrage at swing states

 

Mets going to bat with own sports net

 

Austrian ORF to air '9/11'

 

Gates 'Soft sell

 

HBO Latam yanks Argentine channels

 

'Raisin' to raise roof at 'Blast' bash

 

Court slowing RIAA

 

Universal Pictures grabs Teutonic coin

 

Bard goes out west

 

ABC Family fills out roster

 

Showeast to hail Zemeckis

 

Beeb auds big on H'wood

 

Judge O.K.s Ovitz memos

 

Oxygen's got search covered

 

CBS stakes out crime win

 

New Arc for IDT's DVD title hopes

 

A.C.T. to act out 'Schoolgirl'

 

VP hopeful tours L.A.

 

A home for 'Planindromes'

 

Weinsteins depart the Mouse maze

 

Scripps buys country net

 

Producer sez 'Ten' delayed

 

Payback stings MPAA czar

 

FCC ropes Rupe

 

Mel's millions to kid care

 

Ashcroft: Justice to favor rights holders

 

TV vet readies 'Ralph' for Fox

 

Hollywood's ethical mistake

 

London fog

 

Objectivity matters

 

Survivor: Tempe

 

Disney flips for scribe's 'Stick' spec

 

Fest will laurel Wenders, Reitz

 

U.S. sponsors follow Yao to hoop

 

Shoot Out eyes U.S.

 

'Shwas' seeks coin

 

WB wrings Beijing plex

 

Diehards hang on at desolate Mifed

 

Par for the course

 

TNT recruits crime-fighter

 

'Zone' plans for long run

 

Par rounds out its band of 'Brothers'

 

Sequel back to basics with funding

 

Ritchie spins 'Revolver'

 

Comic leaps into triple duty

 

More yucks for Bruck

 

D.A. builds case at ABC

 

Hawke lands 'Hurlyburly'

 

Baseball tops Tuesday

 

Scribes write off DVD

 

Lincoln Center making big impact in Gotham

 

Orgs offer distrib support at Pusan

 

4 bil watched Athens Games, IOC sez

 

EM.TV sues former exex

 

A home for 'Children'

 

Usen will go Gaga via $90 mil bailout

 

Music at Apple core

 

Sirius supplement keeps satco in orbit

 

Frosh syndie skeins pick up

 

Variety.com offers streaming service

 

Strait to the top

 

Michael McKean

 

Jeff Garlin

 

Reaching out to the Ten Commandments

 

Drug regs might delay U.S.-Oz deal

 

Ferguson to host Britannia Awards

 

StageRight to open 'Clara's Christmas Dreams'

 

Kudos for casting

 

McEntire, Mitchell travel to Bali Hai

 

Intralink pulls Curtin from Revolution

 

Major rivalry means major Fox ratings

 

O'Reilly sued for sex harassment

 

WB gets China foothold

 

'Danza' skein upgraded

 

Rich and Brenda Battista

 

Shingles link up for pic funding

 

Nolte coming to Hemingway 'Papa' project

 

'Reno' cops 3rd season

 

'Over' gets a second start

 

Schumacher rents 'Room'

 

HBO's lottery ticket

 

CineAsia fetes WB's Ireton

 

Dan Band takes stand on Bravo

 

Benefit amps up the beat

 

Col scares up a 'Grudge'

 

Police 'Team' aims its fire at MPAA

 

Payne pours it on

 

No debate over femme rights

 

Newmarket news

 

ABC makes 'Night' call

 

'Blonde' helmer does 'Dallas'

 

Convex wins over Flexplay

 

Governor's making his runaway rounds

 

DreamWorks duet

 

Koch-Stone tapped for Par production gig

 

ABC affils really love their football

 

U spices up 'Vice' plans

 

Walker Jae Beswick

 

Hayden Jack Blocker

 

Reviews

Hecuba

Paul Williams

Frankenstein

Lysistrata

Triptych

Letter From an Unknown Woman

Genesis

The Opposite of Sex

The Retreat From Moscow

Gang Warz

In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed

One Out of Two

Last Easter

White Skin

Light Hours

Team America: World Police

The Matchmaker

Night And Day

Cold Meat Party

Norah Jones and the Handsome Band

Genius: A Night for Ray Charles

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Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)