The Morris code

'Yard' to bowl 'em over

Syndie tide. . .b'cast slide

The godfather of R&R

Terrorist pic sparks B.O.

Vaughn pushes ahead with 'U.N.C.L.E.' feature

Oz talent fee caps stir dispute

Intermedia revs up smaller pix

Thai DVD prices drop

Can reality feel good?

'Justice' for all in celeb-crazed times

Indie syndie takes on titans

Brits hit right note with tunes

Plot thickens in Teuton case

Buckle up, Brad, it's a bumpy ride ahead

Iger just a blip on trial radar

Distribs descend on Paris screening confab

No more blank checks for Italos

Coming out right in the wash

Time to move over, Mickey

B.O. slides; 'Q' near full

'Queen' proves royal pain

Closing the book on Viacom pubs

Mullis backs pix with global appeal

'Alexander' inches ahead, conquers o'seas

Kidpic most popular at Manila fest

MTV aids tsunami victims

Rough previews delay 'Vibrations' bow

Biz slips; 'Spamalot' 820g

Splitsville is hitsville for mags

Sundancers look for pic payoffs

Fest loses major sponsor

Rival nets reach for CBS' rank

Teutonic webs line up disaster skeds

Funder joins fight for share of Nordic webs

'Idol' hands success to Asia's channels

Two's company

Irish get peek at LeBute, Friel

Caught in a kudos crust

'Coach' dunks 'Fockers'

Oscars hitched to trailer

'Baby' wins Scripter nod

Inside Move: Ebersol slowly gets back into groove

FCC sets pay probe

Exit for Mouse man

Scenes from a merger

Bavaria laurels for Constantin

Ad spend up in '04

Celebs dress for Bush bash

Laffer catches 'Break' with U

Pic pirate pinched in Hong Kong

Fox, Sandler head to 'Grandma's' house

PBS cuts HBO pix to avoid FCC wrath

Lee's goal: doing the Brazilian soccer thing

Top TW Cable exex retire

Thesp talks to resume

S.B. fest hosts industry panels

Experts spar at Mouse trial

Celebs, exex nosh at AFI kudos bash

Voight lands SAG nom, RSVP not included

NFL Net sports spots

Globe trottin'

Celebration stirs stars' emotions

PGA makes credit check

Erinn Hayes

Dorian Missick

Daniel Letterle, Kaley Cuoco, Billy Kay, Danielle Harris

Lane Garrison

Foursome steady at overseas wickets

Globes put on an airshow

Nightmare for scribes

Dempsey revives 'Roberts'

Bank on Tyra show

Aiden Allen Rawls

Gabriel Kasper Tambor

Jess Alexander Tarnol

Correction

It's the money, honey!

Winners: Sudsers 'Desperate,' 'Tuck' plucky

Glamour glams film biz

New Endeavor for Interpublic

Fox, Fuller on dance floor with Clark

Fest advisers expand online

Alliance Atlantis rejigs specialty TV

Disney takes a 'Lap'

BAFTA noms: 'Aviator' soars

Portugal gets into fantasy

Premiere sails toward March flotation

Quinta toons up 'Dream' for France

ABC biggies bring down Globes

Scenes from a merger (full transcript)

Vocento mulls Portuguese pickup

TV, radio, cutbacks boost Chum

Mediaset on soccer team

Sealing their deals

TV revs up ad revs to $10 bil

Mexico alliance aids tsunami victims

'Coach' runs it up

Roadside Attractions spiced with 'Lavender'

ESPN playing ball with EA for vidgames

Golden Stars kudos crown 'King'

Fox goes to bat for DVD market with 'Sandlot 2'

Praisers publicize Weinberg noms

Legit icon stages exit

B'way plays unfazed in usually slow sesh

New Yorker Theater now the Panasonic

ABC's sked pokes Globes

Jackson back in Spirit

'Alexander' victorious with boffo o'seas B.O.

NBA on ESPN Int'l team

Tyro plays with 'Toy'

'Mitty's' Mayo dies at 84

Fox's reality check

Palm Springs boosts bodies

Rocker Richman sues label

Intel's Revelations

Berlin may get 'Hitch'

Gertz gains telepic gig of a Lifetime

Indie distrib banks on Laemmle name

Foster kids find a network home

After-party chaos: Who's soiree now?

Crystal clear deal

Phillips out of 'Borat' pic

Travis takes Col's 'Point'

Ho answers bell for LMU

Execs join I.S. Film's int'l unit

Bing does his thing at Sony

Anthology scares up more names

Fox sez good morning to VP

Spandex unspooling

Revelers wriggle through gridlock

Putting his own bucks into 'Bones'

Drama has its day at ABC

Mediaset sells Telecinco shares

'CSI: Miami' turns up heat

Fest hatches 'Hitch'

Kuwait looking large with 2 Imax screens

Freeview reaches 5 mil homes in U.K.

Toronto folds Africa in fest

Politics aside at benefit

Ruth Warrick

B'buster may sweeten pot

What TV needs is the best press money can buy

Oscar Watch: Brody on board for noms

Congress likely to take back indie pix tax break

Liberty's global spin

TV vet takes U prez post

FilmFlex bows VOD services

Public doubles up in Central Park

Sales outfit sings 'Blues'

Eye weighs anchor plan

DreamWorks taps production exec

Inside Move: Tuner hopefuls cue indie chorus

Bull's Eye targets Keith for studio pix

Yahoo!'s revs double as '04 Net blurbs pop

Gersh finds Bocco boffo for indie unit

A heroes' welcome

CBS pilot will take the train

Charter pulls CEO's plug

Biopix GLAAD to be nominated

Working stiffs

The Armstrong effect

Party animals

Michael Traeger

Lu Chuan

Slamdance gets 'Mad Hot'

Parallel universe

Fest vets return to action

Office stresses the 'biz' in showbiz

Matthew Vaughn

Ira Sachs

Greg McLean

Paul Dinello

Gatekeepers open up

Pawel Pawlikowski

Miranda July

John Harkrider

Fernando Eimbcke

Festival lineup

'Napoleon' complex

Hot properties

Everybody into the pool

Expanding reality

Not-so-new kids in play

Cinema Olympics

PGA noms finalized

Miami festival unveils juries

Spidey keeps H'w'd in the vidgame

'Quinn' wins over Comedy

Finance vet is found for Filmmates

Par spins 'Web' cast

Scribe duo getting romantic

'SNL' vet to stay up 'Late'

Hays offers new chance for film finance

B'way PR vets bow shingle

ThinkFilm puts money into doc 'Murderball'

Lifetime snares 'Hunters'

Fuse lights up original skeins

TV10s builds buzz on blurbs

Media distrib ops in Gotham

Thesps take 'Painkiller'

WB drama speeds up

Emmys overhaul?

Digital downloads get an upgrade

'Idol' bigger than ever

Berlin fest's sidebar adds local flavor

'Julia' producer hangs own shingle

Ledafilms to rep A&E, History net

Wadja prize to Tarr

Cold shrinks capital bash

U.K. prod'n tumbles

Globes and gridiron

Auds still worship at the foot of 'Idol'

Mouse to borrow bucks

It's a wrap for Ovitz trial

Same-day 'Sith' sought

Green Day keeps up sales pace

Sheena Easton, Charles Shaughnessy

Shannon Lucio

Lenser TV noms focus on 'CSI,' HBO

Where biz 'Dances with buzz

Judge jabs Marvel

Gonzalo Gavira

Jody Berry

Actor's org calls for Blue Man picket

UPN's urban ratings dive vexes exex

DGA finalizes Moore

Pilot has a Silver lining

Local biz on a steep rise

Kusturica heads Cannes jury

Barbara Pilavin Gelber

Strand tying up 'Tony'

Companies meet 'Match'

Wilson drawn back to 'Bright Lights'

Warner Music China topper ankles post

Access hot, daytime not

PGA honorees

Org fights for prod'n breaks

The truth is out there

HBO Stax sked with pic from Whitaker, Pearce

Femme flies to 'Fiction'

WB, Par share on 'Zodiac'

Friendly 'Assault' on H'w'd

Guild's glamour stays off-air

East Coast extension lures indies

AMC's 'Shootout' will roll to fest front

Inside Move: Acad shoots down 'Aviator' music

ABC stars at Paley Festival

'Carter' hoops it up

Media ad-ventures

Lewis hijacks kudos

Ratner gathers award contenders

PGA nominees

'Spaceballs' rolls to TV

Efanel goes live for XM

Women's work

'Brat' format in ABC's camp

Zwick feeds the 'Lions'

BBC U.S. doubles budget

Designer schools his aud

Celebs answer the call for help

Top tuners dominate Oliviers

Warner, Euro vet tune up for new gig

Fest plays politics

'Idol,' 'Lost' both shine

Lovering Discovery's London bridge

'Ray,' Usher lead Image noms

Plural's singular interest in Caracol

Disney, ProSiebenSat 1 extend pact

Peter Zeisler

Lamont Bentley

King World on a hit hunt

Equity, LORT to meet over resident pact

'Sundays' is special

Sayles nails WGAE's lifetime scripter nod

PGA Awards has chip giant on shoulder

Sony stock tumbles

Fry hitches ride as 'Guide'

A road to Morocco

Harrison's new Pramer primo

Datanexus shutters

NBC, ITV extend pact

Competitive spirit

Golden goosed

Forston on a Fine Line

Fox 2000 lighting up 'Darkness'

Hayden Christensen

Jesse Metcalfe

Kelly Perdew

Tom Sizemore

Dane Cook

British Columbia ups prod'n tax credits

Sony BMG forms Global Marketing Group

Stormy Sundance starts with 'Endings'

Cannes taps Camera chief

Evan Michael Schneider

Nathan Isadore Morhaim

Mia Jane Schrift

Eric John Cacavas

America back on Air

Pair hang law shingle

Here comes the 'Judge' at 20th

Weekend Box Office Preview
January 20, 2005

Comedy fest makes news

Center of discord

Everwood

Felicity

The Gilmore Girls

Smallville

TriStar, Plan B are both in the 'Running'

Sci Fi draws circle around 'Triangle'

Sony, Bing get Anglo on 'Beowulf'

Dawson's Creek

7th Heaven

Fontana, Kelley climb aboard

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Stiff wind in their sales

Network launching 101

Frog growth divvied into three phases

Fox preems TV classics on DVD sets

Bentley to haunt 'Ghost'

BBC exec will try Comedy

'Forsaken' seeking refuge at Gold Circle

HBO pulls up a 'Café' seat with Curtis

Eye contracting 'Universe'

Sony wishes upon a Star

Putting, pinot among Ancier's passions

No Emmy love

Station building: piece by piece

Pop partner

UPN also marking 10th anni

WB buys book of 'Love'

Youth will be served

Documaker on the gang plank

McBride occupies 'House'

'Soul' man shoots hoops with HBO

SAG/AFTRA reach deal sans DVD

FCC chief to sign off in March

Picture This! picks up 'Great Water'

Kyle J. Healey

Miramax takes fest bite

Badja D'jola

Warren Kemmerling

Ofelia Guilmain

Point Pleasant

Numb3rs

Supernanny

Bowling for Soup; American Hi Fi

The Gamester

Black Milk

Singing Forest

All Shook Up

The Arcade Fire

Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope

Ute Lemper -- Blood and Feathers

Love & Happiness

Before The Frost

Alone

Diary Of A Provincial Girl

Say Yes Quickly

Are We There Yet?

Peas At 5:30

The Last Mogul

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

Gomez

Keller Williams

When I'm a Star

Rakushka

Testosterone

Honey & The Pig

Swan Lake

Touch of Rapture

Oklahoma!

As You Like It

The Long Dark Night

The Bravery

Marathon

Dieter Roth

Branford Marsalis Quartet

This Year in Czernowitz

Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story

Come Into the Light

The Civilization Of Maxwell Bright

Everything Blue

Belfast Blues

Happy Endings

Monk

Fiddler on the Roof

Dhakiyarr vs. the King

Shakespeare Behind Bars