Table of Contents
Week of 01/22/2005

Articles

'Aviator' flies high with PGA win

 

Redford: Fest over the top

 

'Throat' doc shows wide cultural impact

 

Wheelin' and dealin' in Park City

 

The Smell of Money

 

Movie night fades to black in Spain

 

Sylvio plays the field

 

Tax 'evasion' boosts production in Brazil

 

Aprende TV is a learning experience

 

Churches get 'Divine' intervention

 

Brits getting 'Desperate'

 

Alphabet's dramatic turnaround

 

Eyeing ensemble cast

 

Halftime show cleans up its act

 

VOD could help save a 'Life'

 

Pix given pricey kickoff

 

Exhib considers low-cost cinemas

 

S. Africa puts emphasis on developing writers

 

Rotterdam flies young flag

 

Poland enjoys boffo year

 

Credit, what credit?

 

Awards contenders spread out abroad

 

Argentina boosts pic admissions

 

Panther roars again with Martin

 

Porn pirates go unpunished

 

Prozac nation inauguration

 

Gauls maul fallen stars

 

Rivals poach from In Touch hutch

 

Viv U awash in legal woes

 

Ready to thrash thrush

 

Philanthropy begins inhouse

 

Miramax by any other name

 

Warner in a corner?

 

Ratings dip hits SAG awards

 

'Death' in London

 

Stage Holding exec solos

 

Robison in the round

 

Biz up; 'Spamalot' 922g

 

B.O. off; 'Rivals' 323g

 

Big musicals score lion's share of Olivier noms

 

On the (rough) road

 

Kudos need oral surgery

 

Cure for the glitter glut?

 

Ice Cube melts frigid B.O.

 

The King: 1925 - 2005

 

Chichester fest plans to 'Succeed'

 

NBC U drives record GE earnings in 4th Q

 

SABC chief exec ankles after run-ins with board

 

Sony sets Italo debut with steamy 'Melissa'

 

Nalin's 'Flowers' blooms for Pandora

 

Shorter Berlinale forum still innovative

 

Meirelles' O2 in television pact

 

Tribune clicks 'Camera'

 

Boom on Voom doom

 

Agents join competitive crush at fest

 

Thesps in deal dilemma

 

'Aviator,' 'Kill' fill sound editors' bill

 

Newcomers aim to cash in on syndie biz

 

Euro auds warm to Sony's sexy 'Closer'

 

Peacock touts parity position

 

Reed Business prexy to expand his role

 

M'max playing 'Matador'

 

William Conn memorial

 

ABC in modest mode

 

West End opens door to B'way 'Salesman'

 

Damon shows Foresight

 

Cable reruns ramp up

 

Asia: Meet and greet session

 

Europe: Program potpourri

 

Canada: Wait-and-see game

 

Latin America: Benefits of insider trading

 

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Tartikoff Legacy honorees

 

Thursday, Jan. 27

 

Wednesday, Jan. 26

 

Tuesday, Jan. 25

 

When the confab closes

 

Wireless whizzes get show started

 

Tykes round the globe

 

Jackson juices debate

 

Court back in session as 'Alex' pounds gavel

 

So, will it play in Potsdam?

 

Safe selections

 

Money & models

 

It's a feisty female fray

 

Par execs 'Hustle' for hot pic

 

Fox films to ring up hard cell via Sorrent

 

Distribs pairing up on Jacquet's 'Journey'

 

Warner on 'Scorpion' tale

 

Madden takes Miramax's 'Killshot'

 

Lockyer endorses PGA push to limit credits

 

'Code' name's added

 

Vasco to top IFC facility

 

Clark rolls on 'Rockers'

 

'Choristes' deal sings

 

Strike, Gold Circle coil with 'Slither'

 

Connolly to tend 'Eden'

 

Gate pix open for syndie

 

'Love' and 'Keys' lock up Italo noms

 

ABC relaunches 24-hour news net

 

Cesars' 'Long' shot

 

Pigskin gives Eye a lift

 

Directing duo share Kinnaree kudos

 

Dick Gallagher

 

Oz '04 box office gross hits record

 

'Cinemascope' tops Canadian Jutra noms

 

TV scenes off the indecency hook

 

An Eye for numbers

 

B.O. has topsy-turvy feel

 

Napster loads up on cash in private sale

 

Oz's Anytime pacts on VOD with studios

 

Docu collection on deck

 

Two receiving DGA kudos

 

Corbin Bernsen

 

Essie Davis

 

David Millbern

 

Dupri tapped prexy of Virgin Urban

 

Beverly Dennis

 

Exhib's tsunami benefit nets $200K

 

'Lost' unmasked by Gallic show

 

Confab eyes biz harmony

 

'Blood' draws Von Garnier

 

Orgs to bow film fund under Raices

 

Parties jam 'Dance

 

Scientists, stars go 'Deep'

 

'Desperate' TCA ending

 

WB tunes in retro stars

 

'Hustle' and bustle

 

Asia biz bands against P2P piracy

 

Net gain for Netflix

 

Int'l TV Academy lifts Leclere

 

Topper exits TV-Loonland amid probe

 

Corrections

 

Acad arranging Carson tribute

 

'Bezhti' among Blackburn finalists

 

NHK prexy resigning amid scandal

 

Interscope, Merrill give Sirius advantage

 

Fox stations bank on Banks

 

Blue Note vet strikes Midem chord

 

Iya Labunka and Wes Craven

 

Virgin taps Lowenberg

 

Annie Bierman and David Carradine

 

Gabriel's to host N.Y. Oscar night

 

Buzz meter service hawked

 

Here wakes 'Unconscious'

 

Grazer gets fright flight

 

Thesp Schrader ready to take helm

 

Shoah doc eyes Ukraine

 

Drunk on Oz cheer

 

Brad William Henke

 

Oscar Watch: Last year's winners to present

 

Blizzard blankets B'way

 

Finery dresses up aid

 

Lit crowd commits to fete

 

Stiller goes for LaBute's latest play

 

Techies stay at home

 

Presidential bash fights frost

 

Ownership author Ferree ankles FCC bureau post

 

Bertelsmann ups finance vet to CFO

 

Fest beset by party monster

 

Weinsteins bullish on 'Matador'

 

Brad motors to WB oater

 

Walker ices 'Antarctica'

 

Laffer lures leading lady

 

Rapaport's off to 'War'

 

Inside Move: Phone number has a familiar ring

 

Google makes H'wood debut

 

Disney still orbits around LivePlanet

 

Satellite kudos hover on 'Hotel'

 

Washington, Walker link for 'Caesar'

 

Peacock gets more 'Loser'

 

Prod'n pair ready for Primetime

 

Cirque, Clear Channel take to road together

 

Oscar nominations by film

 

Oscar is a frequent flier

 

Just another work day for nominess

 

'Medium,' '24' stay hot

 

Oscar sings France's praises

 

Frustrated maven

 

NATPE panel looks at product placement

 

Swede Bugs bag 'Heaven'

 

ITV ratings beat BSkyB

 

Berlin's doc block

 

Topper exits TV-Loonland

 

NHK topper quits amid scandals

 

TV Globo inhales O2

 

RTL's CFO moves up

 

Oz B.O. up a record 5%

 

Exhib donates funds

 

Pigskin pumps up CBS

 

Cuaron, WB give thanks for 'Memory'

 

Carson tribute lifts Leno

 

Manga makers merge their U.S. license reps

 

'Rings,' Bond games boost EA Q4 revenue

 

ASCAP sues 24 over c'rights

 

Coalition of willing

 

Cel phones ringing up big business

 

Lions Gate sweet on 'Candy'

 

One final gold rush at Miramax

 

Globe trotting to Warner

 

Oscar's casualties

 

Diversity takes another step forward

 

William Phillips, Jr.

 

Mouse board finds friends

 

Music's role in film cues interest

 

Witches fly to Pantages

 

Citizen Sponge

 

The Real Howard Hughes

 

How television got smart

 

Local content examined

 

Disney, Playhouse bow in Thailand

 

Studios split hairs on distrib credits

 

ABC cuts Friday laffer 'Savages'

 

'Farscape' finds a home

 

In supersized era, congloms are us

 

Nominees flex plex

 

Luque sales to Telemundo

 

'Doubt' may head to Kerr

 

Inside Move: Reel publicity stunt?

 

Google coy on extent of vid content

 

Baldwin taps sr. exec VP

 

Scribes scrum for Cinergi

 

Par heats summer sked

 

Martha deals cooking

 

VOY Net gets two HBO vets

 

Inside Move: Searchlight keeps cooking sans Rice

 

Panel sez box Fox stox until study ends

 

Fisher ends Encores! Gig

 

Comedy docu will see HBO standing up

 

'Record' tour ends in July

 

Sogepaq adds docs to Berlinale sales slate

 

Edgy Brit getting U.S. gig

 

FilmItalia appoints topper

 

Woodward to exit Playhouse role

 

'Idol' helps build 'House'

 

ABC finds home for 'Eyes'

 

Lyle weighs in on reality TV

 

Berlin honors own

 

Israel bars producer in censorship ruckus

 

Shochiku marks anni

 

Gaul's TF1 eyes Turk TV platform

 

'Idol' lays foundation for 'House' aud

 

50 Cent comrade bolsters tune biz

 

Reiner back as DGA host

 

Indecent proposals

 

CNN to use 2 CNNfn shows

 

Fionnula Flanagan

 

William H. Macy, Sam Elliott, Adam Brody. . .

 

Parveen Babi

 

Sony takes page for Ubisoft's game plan

 

Stars out in force for casting vouch

 

Museum's Moving along

 

Sirius loss doesn't dent Mel

 

No biz like snow biz

 

Quills honor best in books

 

Rock on roll

 

Relax all the rules!

 

Film funding reaches new Horizen

 

Acad makes new docu decree

 

Video piracy heat up in Asia-Pacific

 

Salzman, Allen chat up NATPE

 

'Girls' behaves well for Sony

 

PBS pledges to be Clear about tours

 

Pair of talkers waiting for action

 

Fox digs 'Graves,' forensics

 

Lopez gets right back with ICM

 

Intermedia hears 'Thunder'

 

Bumble's making a beeline

 

Zemeckis checks new draft of 'Corrections'

 

Lions Gate rejiggers vid

 

Barrymore feels 'Lucky'

 

Col combo has liftoff

 

Biz rocks Party City

 

'Women' power

 

'Blues' belle

 

Lindo gets legal

 

Winfrey wows NATPE

 

Consuela Velazquez

 

Sundance vid line has stroke of Genius

 

Antena 3 invests $43 mil in Euro fare

 

Rotterdam drops van Gogh movie

 

Antena 3 revenues hit $1.06 billion

 

'Idol,' 'Simple' make it easy for Fox

 

RealNetworks almost profitable

 

Pirates under pressure

 

Thesps Ling, Potente join Berlin's jury

 

TF1 revenue rises 3.4% to $3.7 bil

 

Oz locals hit record low

 

'Town,' 'Angels,' 'Zorba!' get Reprise!

 

BAFTA/LA adds to its board

 

RTL 2 has to explain itself

 

Famous reduces prices

 

Blurbs provide best comedy of the year

 

Indie producers weigh-in on how to succeed

 

It's 'Simple' for Fox

 

Bird doesn't satisfy

 

Solons line up behind antipiracy legislation

 

Egyptian orgs up plex building, production

 

Writers tap six docs for inaugural award

 

Cody Kasch

 

Ashley Williams

 

Evan Peters

 

Less game EA cuts jobs at L.A. facility

 

Cap petition kaput

 

Buena Vista vid vet to VP

 

Seattle Rep getting 'Goat' helmer as a.d.

 

Pix try to scare up B.O.

 

Casting clash courts trouble for Teamsters

 

Reprise! heralds tuners

 

Canucks say oui to more drama ads

 

Newsies ready (or not) for Iraq election

 

Letts' 'Bug' recoups

 

Jobson cues funding for 'Winter' pic

 

Brook in residence at Columbia

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
January 28, 2005

 

Showbiz bolsters Sony

 

Fest Coming of Age

 

Slide takes away TLC's topper

 

Megan Branman and Joel Goldstein

 

Par Classics waltzes away with 'Ballroom'

 

Mandoki's 'Voices' finally heard

 

The prose and the con

 

TW exec: DVRs pose no short-term threat

 

CBS, NCAA play ball with online TV

 

Real's revs look good in off-black

 

Mezey, Fierberg on 'Location'

 

MTV, Lopez team for docu

 

Leary blows a 'Kiss' to book world

 

S.F. Fest to fete Allen

 

Outdoor net greenlight skein troika

 

International net looking toward Asia

 

Celebration gets 'Dead'

 

Storaro to be feted in Brookline

 

Clear Channel pacts with MY

 

SAG makes a date

 

Miami fest likes it 'Hot'

 

Media Distributors expanding

 

Shakespeare shipping off

 

Less game EA cuts jobs at L.A. facility

 

Fox stox offer's extended

 

Study: Web piracy costing biz $850 mil

 

Alterman upped at New Line

 

Indie trio very Co.Op-erative

 

Fox to spawn horror 'Tales'

 

Jolie flocks to 'Shepherd'

 

Mobsters mint moolah

 

Couples and money drive pilot orders

 

Nominees

 

Honorees

 

A guild guide to the feature noms

 

Peer to peer

 

Filtering fight

 

Marc Forster, 'Finding Neverland'

 

Taylor Hackford, 'Ray'

 

Clint Eastwood, 'Million Dollar Baby'

 

Martin Scorsese, 'The Aviator'

 

Alexander Payne, 'Sideways'

 

Fed's big tax bill pays for indies

 

It's all on the screen

 

Mumbai court stalls bombing pic

 

Circle inhales 'Smoking'

 

Galaxy extends reach in Hong Kong

 

'ER' sews it up for NBC

 

'Return' cops kudo

 

'Trainspotting’ helmer heads East

 

Philip DeGuere

 

Virginia Jonas

 

Elayne Blythe

 

Robert Dwan

 

Reviews

Green Chair

The Upside of Anger

Voices in Wartime

The Matador

Ethel Merman's Broadway

Dirty War

Murderball

Inside Deep Throat

The Dying Gaul

Forty Shades of Blue

Loggerheads

Little Women: The Musical

Hustle & Flow

The Gamester

The Rivals

Nutcracker

A Whistle in the Dark

Love's Labour's Lost

The Operator

The Overcoat

The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

The Shape of Things

Aida

Sniper

The Jacket

The Late Henry Moss

Why We Fight

Pretty Persuasion

Lonesome Jim

Pizza

The Squid and the Whale

Heights

Blues Divas

Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile

St. Elmo's Fire

The Immortal

Protocols Of Zion

Flight

Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

See Arnold Run

The Ballad of Jack & Rose

Rize

Game 6

All The Ships At Sea

The Exonerated

Grizzly Man

Kermit Ruffins

'Da Kink in My Hair

Bright Eyes

Hard Candy

Lackawanna Blues

Alone in the Dark

Expectations

Paquito D'Rivera, Sergio and Odair Assad

Death by Stereo; The Explosions

Pippin

Pompeii: The Last Day

Fascination

212

Hurlyburly

Duane Hopwood

Wolf Creek

Sergeant Pepper

On A Clear Day

Hide and Seek

The Shutter

American Dad

Rebel on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio Syster

Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood

Fallen from Proust

Oedipus

Macbeth

Three Furies, Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Born to Fight

The Judgement

The Fall of Fujimori

Thumbsucker

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

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