Blanco to head On Pictures' TV sales

Schosser joins EM.TV tyke subsids

ARD to remain in 3Sat

Exec ups her slice of Pi

Gov't hit to Brit pix

'Lost,' 'Rudolph' shine

Canadian thesps protest CAB fare

BBC2 trains spotlight on Auschwitz docu

Spain TV regs protect kids

B.C. biz needs Canuck prod'ns

Local 'Idol' worship

Praisery pair hang shingle

Canada's Chum buddies up to Craig

Obst names exec pair

Viacom adds station to its portfolio

No quick fix on cap

U Music Publishing tunes prexy into CEO

Studios slow openers pace

Docmakers get Courage

Ken Hannam

Albert A. Dorskind

Teddy Ebersol

ABC's comeback kids

The Kid stages a Broadway biography

MTV extends Lachey honeymoon

Ken Jennings

Jessica Lange

Sophie Okonedo

Brian Geraghty

Brokaw exit brings in auds

Under the gun, on the defensive

'L&O' fee is syndie record

Weekend Box Office Preview
December 3, 2004

Eye tube unit taps production prophet

Philippe de Broca

People Meters sweep N.Y.

Daytime syndie ratings drop 3% for week

Canuck iTunes bows late but cheap

DirecTV vice chair signals retirement

Imageworks raises Denise to exec producer

Col taps Schwartz

New Line's 'Into' comedy

Metered response

PGA honors 'Rescue Me'

Napster founder goes legit on P2P

Hutton on Par 'Holiday'

VLife turns to Chalon

Golden Globes draw comedy, drama lines

'Wedding' bells ring for Kidman

H'w'd handouts

'Wicked,' 'Will' wend their way to Eye web

Working Title exports Clark

Thesps sign on for nets' guest lists

Columbus off to sea

Disney Pix strikes up the chorus

Tribeca taps Cohen sr. VP

Leder flies back to Fox for pilots

Fox gives in to 'Darkside'

Bale to weather 'Harsh Times'

'Spell' draws McCanlies

NBC wins suit vs. scribes

Carlotta Florio and Edwin Johnson

Jennifer Wharton and Brent Wiblin

Melissa Papel and Gregg Moscot

Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder

Indie trade org fights Sony-BMG merger

De Mol kicking off probe

'Terminal' starts Bratislava

Cineworld takes UGC

Stratton boards Jetflix Europe

'Apprentice,' 'ER' top Thursday

Discovery, MBC top Asian TV Awards

ARD won't exit Euro net 3Sat

Competish blinks as Eye wins

Yank exex take 'Peep' at BBC America

Couch potatoes rejoice over cable movie bonanza

Viva wary of Viacom takeover

At fours 'n' fives

Sign of the times for Ukrainian TV

Truth's more profitable than fiction

O'seas advertisers break into China

Digital plan irks cablers

DirecTV dances into doc prod'n

'Big Bro' battle heads to court

Raiding the boards

Landis wings to 'Bat Boy'

Holiday stuffs box office

Hiatus puts crimp on B.O.

Donmar's grand plan

Cablers bullish on telly belly-laughs

M'max buzz orbits bash

BIFA stokes awards embers

Indie kudos show Gotham spirit

Foxtel launches summer with a bang

Shingle celebrates X years

Send in the clowns

Biz penalized for clipping

Web skeds need to take leap of faith

BAFTA looks to stuff ballot box

Execs scramble for Sundance titles

Oh come, 'OC' faithful. . .

Long arm of Law is overextended

Diluting the French whine

New game in old media

Flying Dart pricks PMK

Fans put squeeze on 'Sponge'

Foggy knight stirs U.K. ire

Brits practice art of 'Seduction'

Warners works B.O. wizardry

U.K. tightens tax relief

Kiwi 'Indian' travels well

'Alexander' conquers smaller territories

Korean star causes frenzy

Fest draws crowds back

Sitges showcases edgy Catalan pix

UIP heads for $2 billion year

Pic causes local scandal

'Treasure' stays golden

Imax sees big picture from India expansion

TV ads poll gains in Q3

Slow exhib road to China

Beeb looking into Dow apology hoax

Recruiting, Playboy-style

McEnroe aced out of CNBC

Busted theatricals can thank their lucky Starz!

No rival slate at Disney

'Newsical' updates cast list

People's Choice nods add 16 categories

Reddin, Forsman take '24 Hour' jobs

Stars step up for the Kennedy kudos

Patriot Pictures sues Romero

Panelists slam WGAW for nixing mag article

Williams' solid start helps NBC keep news crown

CBS primetime pumps 'Late Show'

Tori Spelling

Jessica Collins

Norman Rose

O'seas B.O. in toon with 'Incredibles'

'Glengarry' gets Clapp

Gregory Mitchell

Latino artists get noms

'Retirement' Cornered

Horse fest piqued by 'Mountain'

Natalie Ivy Posner

Riley Noelle Madden

Kaden Russell Craig

Growing pains

Spitfire snatches 'Snitch'

Fox cops laffer duo

Telepictures grows cable with veepee

Touchstone picks Cherry

Dart back on board with solo shingle

AMC reels in 'Movie Club'

Helmer running a 'Fever'

Sony sees 'Girls' in syndie

'Moebius Strip' a twist for Fantastic

Rainbow connection

Mobius gets 'Cleaner' pic

Bull's Eye takes aim at 'Outlaw'

'Jarhead' picks Peter

School of unspool

One man's 10-year prod'n plan

Pick of the crop

Funding fundamentals

Catalonia: Just the facts

Lost in translation

Northern exposure

Leading European film fests

Waiting in the wings

Shining beyond borders

Former Soviet satellites struggle to maintain orbit

Russia on the rise

Common language

Strength in numbers

Introduction: European Cinema

Teutonic banker dumps film fund

MPA targets Asian pirates

All in family: Dramas top Gijon's fest

'Heaven' ascends for ABC

Hamburg making pic in English

Heading to a record

Threats bite Bollywood

Producer-agent fight fuels 'Mesrine' fire

Nike ad hits wall of bureaucracy

Sun City welcome less than warm

Ad spend forecasts revised up for 2005

Hard cell for Warner ringtones

In ratings 'Heaven'

New plays bow Off Broadway

As in past, B'way B.O. drops some

CFO: Ovitz never fit in

Parsons, TW globetrotting

Comedy net brays brand

Teamsters nix WGA vote

Sundance reveals pix on its shorts list

Docere, Palace team for nonfiction prod'n

Beatty, John among those hailed in D.C.

Caucus lauds Berman

Good but not great

Banff TV fest to focus on co-prods

Fox and friends talk

Bravo ups VP to bicoastal

'Incredibles' paces Annie field

Recipe for an effects bake-off

Coin of the f/x realm

Van Helsing

Spider-Man 2

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

The Polar Express

I, Robot

The Day After Tomorrow

Category may need to grow as effects work spreads

Invisible f/x tweak reality

U on Mission to put 'State' into pic play

Whistler fest up with 'Papal'

Midem to fete Lundvall

Oscar role for Seligman

Holiday scramble

CBS rounds up 'Young and Restless' for 5 more years

Harry Holmberg

SAG, AFTRA, studios launch contract talks

Univision sweeps clean with sudsers

'Hotel' check-in

'Sundays' in the park

'Pacific' makes B'way history

Eastwood brings 'Baby' into world

Travolta salute stayin' alive

'Merchant' ships to Manhattan

Kaufman's quirky Q&A

Ferguson gets in 'Late'

Balancing indie integrity

Fantastic voyage: Sitges fest revamps lineup

Endgame's 'Sky' high in distrib deal

Endeavor is Taylor made

'Darkness' falls upon Dimension

Avnet dates 'Prom Queen' with Lifetime

Moore was expected for online VOD bow

Moore mulls her 'Next' pic

Game for anything

New Line homevid arm raises 2 to senior veep

Blue Star snags another look

Foreign contigency gives race global feel

Performance anxiety syndrome

Foreign flavors

The take on takes

'A Certain Grim Pleasure'

Why I Hate the Hotel du Crap

First time's a charm

Voters lean on disability crutch

Thesp roulette

Family to fashion

Honor roll

Film philanthropy efforts top million-dollar mark

New blood hits TV acting pool

Voters likely to rotate comedy crop

Having found their auds, TV frosh now seek kudos

Songs and smiles

History shows scant hope for voice-over performers

A question of categories

Rule of tongue

Part II of the 47th annual Grammy Awards nominees

Grammy gets its groove on

Lisbon to host MTV awards

Euro stars cluster in Barcelona

Beeb blitz hits 3,000 staffers

Pigskin powers ABC

Gallic kudos leave 'Engagement' off list

Momentum's 'Down' in U.K.

Sky scours for subs

Asia digital venues screen out U.S. tech

Azteca holds on to Mouse

'French CNN' to bow in '05

Lucien Hold

Larry Buchanan

Playwrights talk at Berkeley Rep

Carlo Rustichelli

Martha gets Life term

Jury prexy for Montreal fest

Eye's holiday cheer

Horvitz helms Oscars again

Bahamas fest in swim

Columbia distrib gets name change

Nealon puts on poker face

Kudofest lineup kicks off

Tribeca fest set

Sony finds Solution

Spertus hosts 'Piracy'

'Judge Alex' takes the stand

Scenarios screen

Hutcherson honored

Harman finds Point of View

Clear Channel finds Center

William Sackheim

John Elsenbach

Society seeks subs

Music matters

Si scores seven

Poitier playing Mouse loyalist

Canucks try to lure biz

Arclight takes on Kidz

Dixie Jewison

On-demand on the rise for Comcast, Sony

CBS' sweeps win: Everything old is new again

ESPN given 'Sunday'

Sibs give Spike the business

ABC's new lease on 'Life'

Editors to fete 2 aces

WGA rewrites decision on postponing article

An Oscar myth debunked

'Spanglish' a melodic mix of cultures

Composer accentuates romantic obsession

Tandem Team

Tunes for toons

Leonard Bernstein hits high note

Power of pop

'Alexander' taps Greek roots

Gospel according to 'Passion' composer

Music for 'Merchant' defies boundaries

'Motorcycle's' soul fueled by melange of sounds

Composer's choir boys

'Birth' composer adds elegiac note to drama

Le Divorce

The family business

Passing the baton

James Caparro

Michael Smarinsky

Deirdre McDonald, Stuart Bondell

Dan Limerick

Brad Davidson

Todd Siegel

Joan Robbins, Janet Kirker

Tracy Nurse, Jennifer Blakeman

Rose Adkins

Peter Johansson, Nancy Gaelen

Nicky Parkinson

Fourtou steps back as watchdog fines Viv U

Hema Govindan, Eulis Cathey

Brandon Hogan

Mike Kiley

Chris Scully

Edward Huguez

Kurt Schemper

Shakir Stewart, Sandra Murillo Weber

John Moser

'Sundays' tix sets single sales record

EMI's Nicoli touts sales, downloads

Not a Sirius problem

Date for the 'Prom'

Toon maker pacts for 2 sequel pix

Par Pix, Nick letting 'Anybodies' get in

Farrell 'Scrubs' for TV

Fox locks Stations chief

Eurimages coin fuels co-prod'ns

Playtone jumps on 'Band' wagon

Disney steers 'Cars' to '06

Saban links to DirecTV board

Liberty, News Corp. in talks over stake

'Dreams,' 'Drac' drop

Regency, Pariah sign on the 'Ex' for laffer

Scribe soups up talkshow for Fox

The case for big-screen blurbs

Miami spice for UPN

Par finds 'Fit' for Sellers

MPAA ups Stevenson to planning exec VP

Walden has warning for TV

'Steel Magnolias' adds to B'way bustle

Music docs rock

David Bailey

Arnold's budget rundown

Rotterdam revs up

Jetix profits take off as revenues improve

Nets spread Tuesday wealth

Saban seeks new coin

Hamburg cuts its film subsidy

Bidders lining up for TV2

Grosse to head Perspective jury

'Alex' will end fest