Table of Contents
Week of 02/05/2005

Articles

'Sideways' bags SAG swag

 

Thesps react to kudos

 

Channel chases Nordic pix

 

Can you read me now?

 

Toon posturing gets animated

 

U lines up 'Deep' thinkers

 

Fox 'X' vexed by WB moves

 

Brandstanding pix hit new lows

 

Indie shingle comes a-Courtin'

 

Tome puts Mouse on a 'War' footing

 

Foxx on 'Stealth' radar

 

Banner day for Bushies

 

Ex-Par player walking in new shoes as solo act

 

Brits thriving in snark-infested waters

 

Yahoo crew woos H'wood

 

Pic rewrites WWII history

 

'Aviator' flies high on Oscar nom wings

 

Toxins poisoned crop of flops

 

Company enjoys crossover success

 

Latin Americans debate tax perks

 

Chinese reaffirm local focus

 

Spain ramps up docs

 

Mexican pic no habla Espanol

 

A&E's mob mentality

 

The red velvet rope

 

Off-the-wall idea?

 

Clear Channel gives left a voice

 

Weblets remain weblets

 

Blighty's bidding free-for-all

 

Kid shows are on the money

 

News gets fresh angle

 

Bull#$% fight for latenight in Spain

 

Bidders in line for Channel 9

 

ABC2 goes for a digital view

 

Filmax focuses on Latin America

 

B'way unmoved by 'Vibrations'

 

Boffo legit biz in Blighty

 

Biz up; 'Wonderful' 502g

 

Little change; 'Graduate' 487g

 

You can quote us

 

Leigh, Gambon return to National

 

Bay area stages play politics

 

Chain stores are an American idyll

 

'Boogey' scares up auds

 

Troika wins Tigers

 

Renaissance likes 'Pretty' pic

 

Fiennes feeling 'Disgrace'-ful

 

Russian gov't blasts C4 over terrorist interview

 

Jussi goes to 'Dog'

 

Fest fetes shorts on femme abuse

 

Skylar Reese Mindich

 

Santa Barbara jury cherishes 'Wife'

 

'Happy Days' here again at Alphabet

 

Jones joins fold at WMA

 

Oscar Watch: AMPAS luncheon

 

'Drake' takes U.K. cake

 

'Meet' greets '12' with o'seas steal

 

'Raiders' raid Dior for a good cause

 

Questioners get questioned backstage

 

Maria Bello

 

Craig T. Nelson

 

Carly Schroeder

 

Dougray Scott

 

Biz game for crossover (full transcript)

 

Biz game for crossover

 

Sweet charity

 

Shalom Golda!

 

Berge's benefit

 

TV pumps TW; film sags TV

 

Mohr set to host Eddie kudos

 

Agatha Claire Metsch Schnee

 

Three to share Nair's 'Namesake'

 

Thinks inks to fund docs

 

Rendez-vous ready

 

BAFTA's boutique

 

Cleaning house

 

Top tyros still climbing ladder

 

L.A.'s the place for ex-pats

 

Pre-Oscar TV party

 

Courting rituals

 

Restoration play

 

'Dead' gets distribution

 

Oscar scholars

 

New Line hops onto 'Journey'

 

WGA kudos lands host

 

Hitman's 'Contract'

 

Longoria on lookout for Fox's 'Sentinel'

 

TV vet returns to Mouse

 

Col adds 'Ghost' rider

 

Lemons & mermaids

 

Petty digs into 'Burrowers'

 

Pixar picks a producer

 

Sony fingers $3.5 mil for 'Thumbsucker'

 

Subs flock to satellite; cable stable

 

A&E preps U.S. Crime net

 

New Line hops onto 'Journey'

 

WIP, Heyday in 'Mighty' deal

 

Power Up plugs into prod'n with 'Itty Bitty'

 

Industryites prep for pampering

 

Makeup

 

Costume Design

 

Sound Mixing

 

Sound Editing

 

Visual Effects

 

Editing

 

Cinematography

 

Art Direction

 

Song

 

Score

 

Animated Feature

 

Foreign-language Film

 

Documentary Feature

 

Adapted Screenplay

 

Original screenplay

 

Director

 

Amelio unlocks Italo prize

 

RTL 2'S Teutonic tiff

 

Off The Fence peddles bike pic

 

Super showing for Fox

 

Good - but not super

 

'Turtles' flies off with Rotterdam nod

 

MTV builds African Base

 

Markab sets film/TV finance facility

 

Gallic homevid sales climb 16.9%

 

'Phantom' conquers Alex

 

Jeffrey Robbins Kane

 

Debi Genovese

 

John L. Tatta

 

B'way can't shake chills

 

Ebay guru clicks with digital cinema

 

CNBC on a road bound for revamps

 

Prexy named for Radio City

 

Vidgames based on pics lift bottom lines

 

Echo Bridge values view of Platinum catalog

 

Dan Lee

 

Delay doesn't stay in Oscar's new deal

 

Herbert Hauser

 

Working lunch

 

'Staircase' on the rise

 

Wells coin for WGA library

 

Endeavor pair make partner

 

She's going from 'Sex' to 'Soccer'

 

Peacock in a timeslot tizzy

 

Comedy net makes Mencia

 

'Fantastic' switch

 

Fest's lineup unleashed

 

Babelsberg to feed growth with IPO

 

'Dog' has his day at Jussi awards

 

Pirated discs seized

 

Banks back Berlin TV

 

Kingsley to be feted

 

European Film Market

 

Gruber gets busy with ICM

 

Virgin cues up marketing vet

 

Tykes crowd new Pooh pic

 

'Liberty' bell rings

 

'Earthquakes' felt at U

 

Republicans push for decent FCC voice

 

Ads having a hard time?

 

Exhibs dig 'Deep'

 

Judge nixes expense report on Ovitz

 

Starz! prescribes 'Prozac' for pay TV

 

One 'Beautiful' purchase

 

Reiner flies to 'Boston'

 

Ellis Isle, 'Hitch' Style

 

'Brooklyn' takes on Broadway

 

Hostilities run 'Deep'

 

'Rebels' belle

 

Serious pin spin at SAG

 

'March' draws 'Best' actors

 

News Corp. offering Fox stockholders 3rd chance

 

Hollywood's bankers

 

Top German films on the market

 

Local pix raise game

 

Berlin social scene

 

Gay pix pay way

 

Fest funds team up to boost world cinema

 

Market flexes muscles

 

Berlin for beginners

 

Topper rounds up talent and media posse

 

A star on the rise

 

Oscar noms do lunch

 

Hermann tapped by Nordisk

 

L.A. Crix like 'Caroline,' 'Music'

 

Cruz to star in Almodovar pic

 

Strong finish lifts Eye

 

Lavigne, 'Skin' smooth with 5 Juno music noms

 

Gallic artists blast piracy prosecution

 

India boots starlet, rocking 3 films

 

Lawman returns to 'Order'

 

Ofcom rejects gov't coin for U.K.'s 4

 

Bell, Rogers got Games

 

B.C. mediator to mull crews

 

John Patterson

 

TV vet has her day at WGA

 

Dreaming of Genies

 

Pair to chair Spirit Awards

 

Emmys: Hola to Espanol

 

C4 programs to spotlight torture

 

Fox bowls over auds

 

Almodovar takes Cruz

 

Goldwyn, Sony make big splash in 'Squid' bid win

 

Oz Film Finance ponies up coin for pix

 

Dark comedy wins Hungarian fest

 

Alan James

 

IFG's Weidman dies

 

Like true Americans, we're porn to be wild

 

'Mrs.' finds mate with Miramax

 

Media vet, fund team up

 

Dissidents dig in at Mouse House

 

Spielberg's Brain

 

Berlin lights up with star power

 

Dean discs mark star's anniversary

 

A Davos dispatch

 

The not-so-inscrutable East

 

Sarasota counts 'Millions'

 

Fox covers bases with Homer, 'Dad'

 

Agency adds to repertoire

 

Salonen fills Phil's bill

 

BV gets 'Danza' bonanza

 

FBI probes pirated 'Baby'

 

CanWest reshuffles, adds b'cast exec

 

'Throat,' 'Rwanda' make noise o'seas

 

Grayer shade to DirecTV 'Net

 

TNT aiming coin at All-Star hoops

 

NBC goes to Clear extreme

 

Duff, Hamill top DVD Exclusive kudos

 

Stiller to host Nick nods

 

Adventures in the design trade

 

Columbia chair adjusted

 

Zhang's eye candy

 

Expansion plans

 

'Jewtopia' recoups Off B'way

 

Anchor goes to the dogs

 

A long, strange 'Trek' it's been

 

'Race' runs in the family

 

Hayes swimming in Walden pond

 

Frog doesn't flinch over bus stop filch

 

Cooking up Menudo

 

Seven Arts' in the cards

 

Par, Nick mine 'Jewels'

 

The collector: Reynolds seeks a home for her vintage threads

 

Material girl: Sylbert's keen sense of story pays off

 

Merchant/Ivory synonymous with style

 

Global designs

 

A hearing of its own

 

Rocket shingle lifts off

 

ABC playing Trump card

 

WIP, Stratus lift the 'Veil'

 

Par hunting kid 'Treasure'

 

Ex-Venice topper annexes Montreal gig

 

VES nominees

 

Craft kudos cast wide net

 

A good cut can reel in a nom

 

Cooking show

 

Brit glass ceiling

 

U.K. to fade out analogue from 2008

 

Greenaway drawn to Rembrandt

 

Teutonic cell phone co bows full-length pic

 

'House' adds on audience

 

B'way's 'Woman' pushed back

 

Brit Crix uncorked

 

Indecent action

 

Teuton productions pumped B.O. in '04

 

Pathe preps 'Descent'

 

NBC U inks Japanese distrib

 

Guadalajara fest plays 'Dirty'

 

U.S. gives Azteca reprieve

 

'Documentary' has the Game in play

 

New Line taps Goore VP

 

Bad is better

 

Sub growth spurs revs for Napster

 

What the doc ordered

 

Kellan Lutz, Jason Olive, Kimberly Williams

 

Beau Bridges, Lou Gossett Jr., Mitch Pileggi

 

Adrienne Barbeau

 

Biz org presses U.S., WTO on China piracy

 

Mel swells Sirius content

 

Courtroom drama

 

LIN wins bid for two Viacom UPN affils

 

Lions Gate swinging

 

WB ready to 'Wed' laffer

 

Scissor Sisters make the cut in Brit kudos

 

Univision says hola to new prexy-COO

 

Hrebejk pic rules Czech Lions

 

Inside Move: ABC 'Secret' weapon: New Jacko doc

 

Inside Move: Dr. Ruth takes on Media Summit panel

 

Mandalay ups exec DiRaffaele

 

Tenpercentery 2-step for duo

 

Spielberg's 'War' set joins U park armory

 

Fox casts Kaplan upward

 

MSNBC swings both ways with new pol talkshow

 

'Potter' tops Saturn nods

 

'Yours' truly for Russo

 

'Heights' takes fall

 

'Johnson' winds up Here

 

Pilots 'Book' talent

 

Ma adds bang to bow of Strathmore Center

 

Is museum idea kosher?

 

Venice draws Miyazaki

 

Digital rollout to start in 2008

 

'Women' easy cell

 

SBS acquires Cmore

 

Carat forms brand unit

 

WGAE will honor Auerbach

 

Sophia Marie Vinciquerra

 

Raboy gets slice of 'Bread'

 

Roundabout gets topper

 

Thesps enlist for 'Warrior'

 

Duo has taste for 'Spices'

 

Newmarket makes new 'Passion' play

 

Will Sony's 'Shield' wield rerun power?

 

Bull's eye working magic

 

Par, C/W join 'Patriots' act

 

'Lackwanna' lifts off

 

DVD Exclusive dolls out nods

 

B'way's 'Bee' buzzes

 

'Runway's' day at the park

 

Bel Air booms 'Sideways'

 

The DJ of 'The O.C.'

 

Star light

 

Bulking up the bash

 

Bound for glory

 

Brewing the return of Ray

 

Doing it Pat's 'Way'

 

Flags of independence

 

Tunefest to TV?

 

Made for these times

 

TV fine-tunes disc sales

 

Launch pad

 

Station remains with TV Azteca

 

'Idol' doesn't miss a beat

 

Quebec fest fracas

 

Wachowski-produced 'V' taps Teuton coin

 

Brit censors firm up rules

 

Euro Film Acad chair Balsan dies at 50

 

Hoyts loop cuts HQ workers

 

Blighty rules int'l TV formats

 

Expenses eat into Canuck TV coin

 

FCC favors cablers

 

C4 spinoff E4 bumps program budget

 

Chorion books Chandler rights

 

Spacey takes on the Bard

 

Endemol launches cell comicstrip

 

Ministry sacks film censor board

 

Lee's films to unspool in Colombo

 

Fest shines in rain

 

Roundabout's out of League

 

Pixar plans Mouse-free

 

'Producers' pair will 'Couple' on B'way

 

Promax Latin American confab has hope

 

'DisneyWar' rushed to stores

 

XM subs surfacing

 

Lion Taylor-made

 

Jerrie Speed Schlueter

 

Humbert Balsan

 

Frank J. "Frankie Lester" DiVito

 

'Hitch' looking for lovers

 

Investors intend to buy up VOOM service

 

Pic museum plans revamp

 

Stratford fest's Monette retires

 

Meg Ryan, Nick Cassavetes

 

Loews, American Express strike deal

 

Sheetal Sheth

 

David Schmidt

 

Tom Hertz

 

Neal Israel

 

Denise Quinones

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
February 11, 2005

 

Bunch swings 'Iberia' Japan rights

 

Corrections

 

India.Arie

 

Butler helming 'Dead'

 

Mount nabs Moscoe for 'Car' re-write

 

Plexi turns on 'Radio'

 

Thesps spending 'Days' together

 

Miramax, Disney acting like buddies

 

Laugh fest snowballs