Table of Contents
Week of 01/29/2005

Articles

'Blue,' 'Fight' top bulging Sundance

 

Trading places

 

Hit shows 'Lost' on Eisner?

 

Neo-cons give thumbs up

 

Ten years later, the 'Kids' are definitely not alright

 

Sundance: A 'hot scene' becomes overheated

 

New age aud in the 'Know'

 

'Sideways': When it reigns, it pours

 

Casting agents cast their lots with the Teamsters

 

'Sopranos' nears a syndie high note

 

Dean promo kit looks 'Giant'-sized

 

Oscar noms mean instant biz

 

'Ocean's' tops tepid list of overseas pix

 

Overseas openings well-timed for kudos bumps

 

Pickup pace quickens

 

Atkinson back with 'Mum'

 

Asia industry combines to fight piracy

 

Von Trier trilogy recruits Oscar nominee

 

Tromso showcases arty fare

 

Scribe turns helmer

 

Gorky targets outside investors

 

A glut in Vegas buffet

 

New FCC topper has work cut out

 

Can a show be too popular?

 

Fox 'Idol' worship continues

 

Everything old is new again

 

Egypt bows to religious censor

 

Not so 'Little Britain'

 

India plans first telethon

 

SABC chief exec ankles after run-ins with board

 

Web commits to Euro pix

 

Big 'Change' in tuners

 

'On' and off the 'Cirque'

 

Snow daze: B.O. off 16%

 

Biz slides; 'Spamalot' $1.1m

 

Vienna crosses B'klyn 'Avenue'

 

'Women' looks to tap 'Wicked's' girl power

 

Alliance crowns new scribe's 'Kings'

 

'Pacific,' 'Ocean' swallowed on B'way

 

Beverly Dennis

 

A dizzying 4 months for 'Forest' ranger

 

Booster shots

 

DGA makes Clint's day with top nod

 

Circulation scandal hurts Tribune profits

 

Peacock peers into future with 'Medium'

 

AMPAS to screen nominated short films

 

Madsen is in her 'Element'

 

Both sides have say

 

ABC gives birth to 'Adopted' pilot

 

Nets ask for reg reversal

 

Dave's Carson show

 

Bush puts tube onus on parents

 

Nielsen watchdog

 

Becker giving life to 'Voices' docu

 

Toho tops distribs in Japan

 

Sundance paints 'Blue'

 

Fashion makes statement at USC

 

'Numbers' adds up for CBS in Friday slot

 

'Aviator' flies o'seas

 

Spike guy takes hike

 

Luxor primps 'Hairspray' for Vegas

 

Focus picks up 'Brick'

 

Experience pays off at DGA chatfest

 

S.B. panels point to style, trials and big tribulations

 

Peter Falk

 

Jonathan T. Floyd

 

Christopher Marquette

 

Lauren Odle and Paul McGuire

 

Iya Labunka and Wes Craven

 

Megan Branman and Joel Goldstein

 

Annie Bierman and David Carradine

 

Damon has Foresight up and running

 

'Incredibles' tops Annies

 

Wasserman family values

 

Shaw Fest seeing red

 

Goodspeed has 'Amour' for Griffin

 

Juvie hall pic 'Outs' wins Slamdance

 

Sundance supersizes

 

Reid goes it 'Alone'

 

DGA recalls Reeves

 

Lifetime's Black gives back

 

Samuel Zachary Gurin

 

Siena Rose MacDonald

 

Ava Rose Redmann

 

Trevor Lorenzo Thompson

 

Art Directors tap council, board

 

'Reaping' meets its maker

 

Cort falling for 'Girls'

 

Lion Eyes taps Euro coin

 

FX recruits con man

 

Kidman initials prod'n accord

 

Spain's Goyas honor 'Sea Inside' in waves

 

Nordic giant adds MTV3 to empire

 

Build up to Berlin

 

Entertainment buys 'Hotel Rwanda'

 

'Home,' 'Magic' top Sunday

 

Tony and his henchmen go artsy

 

Gaul set to up coin for short films

 

Indie Shed goes public

 

Capitol snares 'Rabbit'

 

CEO outlines changes at C4

 

TV doubles up on 'Housewives'

 

BBC fare Thai'd up

 

Schupack sr. VP at AMC

 

Warner dials up mobile musicvids

 

Variety femme fest panel pushes passion

 

Patsy Rowlands

 

'Simpsons' scribe nabs WGA Selvin nod

 

Chuck Olin

 

On the Olympic team

 

Jacques Villeret

 

Video vexes Disney

 

Time Warner axis of cable universe

 

'Aviator' soaring o'seas

 

Danza gets daytime slot

 

B'way takes hit by storm

 

Paramount's sending off Lansing in V.I.P. style

 

Al-Jazeera public about private plan

 

TW Cable to carry Telefutura, Galavision

 

Boston niche nook shuts

 

Axel Springer interest boosts ProSiebenSat 1

 

NBC U slates Puerto Rican cable net

 

Frog kisses 'The Prince'

 

Brokaw pens book deal

 

Correction

 

U.K. 'Hotel' reservations

 

P'casters hook up

 

Rock photog finds Joy at biopic helm

 

'Fragment' late for date

 

Kennedy/Marshall eye B'way

 

ABC high on Heaton

 

Prod'n blueprints ready

 

'Access,' Fuse team

 

Levin launches laffer unit

 

Sony fetches pitch

 

Helmer sees U's 'Sunlight'

 

Matson hangs distrib banner, unfurls 'Tong'

 

Brock rocks as VP at Fox

 

Sackheim on 'Stalker' duty

 

Bressler to exit Viacom

 

Vet WMA TV agent moves to ICM

 

Nick nets lil' stars

 

Spacek, Harrelson sign on for Caro project

 

U romances 'Date'

 

'Raging Bull' gang relishes 25th anni bash

 

S.B. fest burnishes 'Aviator' star

 

Fashion displays designs on H'w'd

 

Campbell's Sundance kiss and tell

 

Legit does the timewarp

 

NBC U in VOD stream

 

Premiere boasts rev boost

 

'Medium' still living large

 

Slater preps West End return

 

Bennett, Williams plays win London crix prizes

 

Abbey taps McConghail

 

Day-Lewis in frame for Berlinale Camera

 

Market potential

 

Duo team for doc on global flight

 

WB's adding China plexes

 

AAC hosting pitch seminar

 

Japan's B.O. tops record

 

GLAAD for 'Kinsey,' 'Kevin'

 

Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor auds

 

Train kudos on Usher track

 

ABC spells success, sez Sweeney

 

Sony to fill its legal bill

 

Viv U's vivacious Q4

 

Ads boost Google's 4th-quarter revenue

 

Exec exodus puts TiVo on pause

 

Bill Shadel

 

'Jane' is plainly gaining

 

'Idol' elevates Fox

 

Par taps Bakshi to lead prod'n

 

NBC reups 'Daly' exec

 

Viewers cast ballots for Fox in Iraq election

 

Douglas comedy to air on Oxygen

 

U's $188 mil tops Jan. biz

 

'History' made with London Drama crix

 

Ephraim Kishon

 

Coley Wallace

 

Park City: 'Dance macabre

 

NATPE: plight of the wannabes

 

Dissent at SAG: Point and counterpoint

 

Topper of Teuton net RTL 2 axed

 

Movielink wins VOD suit

 

'Dreams' cut short in NBC wakeup call

 

B.D. Fox launches venture with 'Smile'

 

Mouse sets June bloom for Eisner replacement

 

Binoche hailing 'Mary'

 

Lion's last roar?

 

Owen owns tale of war correspondent

 

U books 'Holiday' trip

 

Barrymore's back at CAA

 

Col counts 'Minutes'

 

Inside Move: McBride gets 'Legal'

 

Shingle's the real deal

 

TV fest fosters new talent

 

Casters elect not to strike

 

Bruck finds 'Ring' leader

 

A brush with Combs

 

BSkyB bouncing with big numbers

 

Terra scouts WB's exhib

 

Country connecting

 

BBC dishes up Food to Norway

 

Fox towers on Tuesday

 

'Apprentice' to Martha: You're hired

 

Oscar Watch: Ballots are out

 

Piracy bills pass muster

 

Canal's dream deal

 

Docmakers focus on biz at Toronto meet

 

Cannes gala kids around

 

3 land development coin at CineMart

 

HK film noms do the 'Hustle'

 

Imax goes Dutch with Pathe 'plex

 

Chum TV cuts staffers amid reorg

 

Zee loses cricket-rights challenge

 

Crime boss back, Bollywood edgy

 

UTV tastes 'Orange'

 

Norway eating it up

 

Net stakes unloaded

 

Artemis amps up Glass role

 

Jimmy Bennett

 

Frances Fisher

 

Jennifer Rae Westley

 

'Evening' beckons for Eye guy

 

'Chicago' swaps leading men

 

Tune titans team for tsunami victims

 

Revs rev Rupe

 

Herzog role spikes

 

Loews Super Bowl plan widens

 

Par, UPN'S fallen 'Star'

 

New Cirque show swings into Vegas

 

Core feeling 'Invincible'

 

Focus on Li's new actioner

 

Napster going whole hop in marketing push

 

Thesps taste of Pudding

 

Ford pulls priest ad

 

Sommers sets scribes to join 'Airborn' unit

 

Stacking up Stamos

 

Pundit in prime at MSNBC

 

Jack gets some action

 

Parker on 'Launch' pad

 

'Taxicab' drives East

 

Gumbo soups up 'Schultze'

 

Kate's pal toasts new Cate

 

Phoenix paving 'Pathfinder' redo

 

A&E firms up its exec deck

 

Inside Move: Viewers can't get enough of 'Huff'

 

Sony, Par stepping into 'Ring'

 

Vidtailers in hostile territory

 

Eye, Peacock pack in more dramas

 

Kate date

 

'Happy' again

 

Legit plots 'Escape'

 

Life Achievement Award: Solid as a Rockford

 

Casting agents ready to align with Teamsters in union move

 

Getting started

 

Big 'Pain'

 

Party with a purpose

 

Escaping 'Sex' and Super Sunday

 

Globes downturn may affect TV deal

 

TV thesps tussle too

 

Eva Marie Saint

 

SAG, Acad on same page

 

Deal puts union at crossroads

 

Casting a wide net

 

Goffredo Lombardo

 

Scandi channel set to launch

 

'72 Meters' swoops on Russian Eagle

 

Bell Globemedia revs up in 2004

 

Passage from India

 

Palm grabs 'Ordeal'

 

X marks the cartoon spot

 

MPAA elects D.C. insider

 

True faith for 'Passion'

 

Olmo Teodoro Cuaron

 

Shell tapped program prexy at Comcast

 

Report: Canuck biz sinking

 

Correction

 

'Feed' fills up on fetish

 

Speech impediment

 

Giving credits where credits are due

 

Chum's City-tv gains new outlets

 

Dart targets Miramax vet

 

MPA piracy tack aims at vid shops

 

Josh Holloway

 

Film panel get funds

 

Thom Beers

 

Daniel Sackheim

 

Patrick Marber

 

Steven Banks

 

'Closer' closed shut

 

Filmstiftung passels out the coin

 

I-Cable planning pix

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
February 4, 2005

 

Steven Cohen

 

Studios play summer shuffle. . .again

 

Focus on Li's new actioner

 

Helmer falling in 'Love'

 

Super competition

 

Vidtailer topper ankles

 

Theater finds new home

 

Fox goes a little 'Crazy'

 

Spidey in portable preem

 

Scott Brian Mills

 

'Sex' will be Here April 1

 

'Pocket' jazzed for 2006

 

Halo, Hollywood

 

Chilling, charity rev Night Before

 

A 'Stranger' among us

 

'White Male' is locked up

 

'Royale' affair for Bond

 

SAG staying tuned to TNT

 

Disney orders 'Delivery'

 

Inside Move: Eye's 'Jag' clings to life

 

Best Picture: The analysis

 

Eye mandate ruffles rivals

 

'Navy Seals' enlists Disney

 

ABC lifts biz affairs exec

 

John Vernon

 

Split decisions

 

Oricon invests in Spain

 

'Happy Days' rocks for ABC

 

Davis, actor, producer and activist, dies at 87

 

Reviews

Reefer Madness

Aliens of the Deep

Romeo et Juliette

Counsellor-at-Law

Hit Man File

Pattaya Maniac

Lizard Woman

My Angel

An Enemy Of The People

Break Even

Odessa Odessa

Kings of Leon

The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Steal Me

The Clean House

Winterfresh SnoCore Tour

Dianne Reeves; Los Angeles Philharmonic

Shylock

Tift Merritt

Regina Spektor

Youth

The Last Day

My Space

Citizen Dog

Maid

Sagai United

SARS War

Aqualung

A New Brain

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

New York Doll

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

The Trap

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

Going Through Splat: The Life And Work Of Stewart Stern

2005 Nightlife Awards

Me And You And Everyone We Know

Unknown White Male

I See Fire in the Dead Man's Eye

Thom Pain (based on nothing)

The Armwrestler from Solitude

Kebab Connection

With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II

The Ex-Love of My Life

The Wedding Date

Anyone Can Whistle

The Emperor's Journey

Jane Krakowski -- Better When It's Banned: A Sinful Songbook

What is it?

Sharks 3D

Loverboy

Sabina

Good Vibrations

Sandor Slash Ida

Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys