Table of Contents
Week of 04/02/2005
Articles
Biz dips; 'Producers' off
Off B'way stages flex their plexes
Hearts bleed all over Humana Fest
Tuners take up space, prompting B'way showdown
B.O. big; 'Doubt' 338g
'Nightline' future on the line again
Stations mull inhouse programming
Exhib plans biggest plex for Bangkok
Gorky sale now up in the air
Saban sales arm set to hit Mip
Team takes on old problems at RTVE
Pridevision doubles up
India gets tough on obscenity
Content choice? Now auds call it in
Water, water everywhere
S'pore fest confronts censors
Czech event adds indie competish
South African villages get d-cinema network
Catching the indie spirit
Filmart becoming key spring mart
Oz exhibs stump for discount Tuesdays
Major studio complex set for Lithuania
3-D Vader's still waiting
'Robots' rusty in o'seas Easter week bow
A petit Grand Prix
Azteca zaps ads for auds
Play delay
Midseason malaise
Clues to future in TV's bones
Syndie's skein drama
Iger takes on the world
Silent majority speaks out for TV smut
Naked lunch for schools
Showbiz flogs blogs
International 'Baby' boom
Now, Paramount wants its MTV
August: A show of Hans
The rise of comedic oligarchy
Battsek's turn at bat
A new Hollywood ending?
Miramorphosis
Auds caught up in 'Sin'
Scaring up dinner
Color 'em Bollywood
'Glory' days on the road
U.S. welcomes kiddie fest
Spring sings
Echo repeats itself
Malcolm McDowell
Rob Brown
Scarlett Pomers
ITV bags Freeview slot
Hollywood stock surges
Stage 3 tunes in Mosaic
Pinewood steps in for Teddington
Sanctuary buys Elton's shingle
Fortissimo scores 'U-Carmen'
Mouse marches to top
Making healthy transition
NCAA semis score for Eye
NBC U promotes praiser
Sour over sentence
Gibson tunes up deal with U
People's pontiff was pop icon
Deal reached on copyright violation
U Motown names Nicks
Cable convergence
'Ring' sings o'seas; 'Robots,' 'Hitch' hot
ImaginAsian partners with Warner
Richard Kenneth Wright
Fluid flows with Nordisk
Maestro Muti sings La Scala swan song
Spain prod'n deal for RAI
Altman receives Sundance honors
'Dragonblade' is Fantastic
'Derby' goes Freestyle
BAFTA takes a ride with Volvo
'Eat' opens up Palm Beach Int'l Film Fest
WB Pix lifts market guru
Benjamin Joel and Elsie Melisse Cohen
Drama on the Croisette
Germany: Scripted series take center stage
Germany: 'Lindenstrasse'
Hungary: 'Gyozike'
Israel: 'The Ambassador'
Australia: 'Celebrity Overhaul'
Russia: 'Wait for Me'
China: 'Chinese-Style Divorce'
Mexico: 'La madrasta'
Argentina: 'Mosca & Smith en el Once'
Brazil: 'Her Own Destiny'
France: 'In the Mind of the Killer'
Spain: 'Aqui no hay quien viva'
United Kingdom: 'Desperate Housewives'
AETN enters format distrib'n
Fireworks delves into doc 'Girl Racers'
Cableready readies 'House,' 'Wealth'
NBD showcases Glastonbury highlights
BBC1 makes mischief with 'World'
Granada America touts telepics
Fremantle brings 'Fingersmith,' 'Jamie' to confab
Alliance Atlantis makes pacts for 'Lunar Jim'
Atlas lays out 'Examiner,' gameshows
Harmony Gold looking for laughs
Israel: New regs could boost commercial TV sector
Japan: Internet head looks to shake up the broadcast biz
China: More small-screen doors open to Western ventures
Australia: Seven rolls winning numbers with trio of hits
Canada: New channels open doors to broader programming
Mexico: Televisa, Azteca can both afford to cherry pick
Argentina: Buyers on the lookout for U.S. drama, telenovelas
Brazil: B'casters cheered by rise in ad revs and local currency
Holland: Buyers keep eye on de Mol's many movements
Poland: Ad coin grows while local prod'n gains coin from b'casters
Russia: Costumers mark top drama sellers
Czech Republic: Reality formats hot but drama able to hold its own
Hungary: Local fare, reality fill airwaves
Belgium: Pubcasters eye new product
Nordic territories: Big buys hit market
Italy: RAI, Mediaset slug it out over auds
Spain: New players wait in wings
U.K.: Channel 4 toons up nice rise in ratings
France: Digital webs shake up b'casters
Orton's a huge Hit in kid biz
Global price list
Local pan-Asian fare pulls big numbers
Movers shake it up
Format follows function
'House' checks into Ward
Reality goes 24-7 at new Fox channel
Turning a new page
Mouse filling gym shoes
Cablers in Crime conflict
Thesp's a good 'Listener'
Warner finds 'Maid' man
Scribes land Spielberg gig
'Home' has address at Castle Hill
WGA, CBS take break in new contract talks
Weekes works 'Secret Life'
Fabrication enters 'Conversations'
Lions Gate aims for HIT
CBS Par TV ups Weingroff
Inside Move: Eye laffer may hear 'Yes' again
'Trailer' parks Off B'way
April brings Avril Junos
IFC, AMC will get Spirits up
'Grey's' grows in second week
Aurum closes down int'l sales unit
WNBC wins Gotham Emmys by a nose
B'way gains after Easter
Pulitzer clout for 'Doubt'
'Grey' going strong
Producer RDF is taking stock in reality
Overseas 'Ring' leader
Televisa's 'Love' is real on DVD
Walden says 'Grace' with Apted aboard
U.S. to delay action on Brazil piracy push
Teaming up to vote
Wild Bunch joins pic team for soccer doc
New Mexico spices up prod'n incentives
Teutonic B.O. a trickle
Viacom slots Teuton Nick
Glickman stokes Frames
Sharman to parent kids BBC
Wine is fine for WB vet
Lortels casting 'Doubt'
Revolution buys into health
Gore finally cables up
French bread in oven
CEO Hill exits U.K. Icon Group
Gaydos wings to L.A. to oversee features
CBS discharges 'JAG'
USA pins down 'Raw'
Potts colors 'Red & Blue'
Fun with Dick and Jane
Correction
Comedy's best medicine
Shout out to 'Doubt'
Actors seeing stars
Depp dabbles with slime
Nugent joins the Corps
Sony ups consumer products exec
Legal eagle flies to Frankfurt
Indie 'Flyboys' takes off
Princely pay, royal bonus for exec pair
King initialing Warner pic deal
Fickman is night 'Man'
Tisch tips its hat to tyros
Exex shuffle raises hopes for single HD DVD format
Grilled Martha's hot over confinement
Britney bares all
L.A. Chorale to visit Davis' 'Rio'
'Super' role for Langella
Fox tapping top-tier censor
Granath to receive Rose d'Or
Netter nets Par's Lingg
WGA clash continues
Who Is Philip Anschutz?
Dramatic gesture
Festive feevee plan
Strix picks exec switch
Paris legit an Ende in itself
HBO Asia is ready to channel more
Canuck gov't finally puts focus on piracy laws
ZDF inks 3-year A&E docu deal
Quest for youth blurs search for standards
Fortissimo adds TV
MGM web goes NTL
Napster uploads surge in subs, revs
IFP Gotham topper emerges
Slam dunk for CBS
Public TV org taps ombudsmen duo
Yahoo! chief clicks on coin
Harris stars in Blighty 'Boom'
Auds find 'Groove' again
Davey hits DVD
AOL looking for extras
Mickey D's new place for DVDs
FCC chair softens stance
ABC weighs anchors as Jennings reveals illness
HBO's 'Warm Springs' Premiere
'Inside' job for U, Imagine
Miami fest delays start
Here! grows cable reach
MTV mavens make Miami kudos site
Loeb will get into 'The Spirit'
Malin O'Brien Denton
TiVo records deal
Auds living it large
Wired for conflict
Editor books CEO-prez gig at Miramax
Nobel laureate Bellow dies
'Gandhi' in Mideast
Redford horses around
Westwood film fest set
Center Theater picks 'Romance,' 'Lake'
19,000 Nights at the Movies
Boss Cohn
Fixing the Emmys
Redgrave taking Roundabout path
MGM homevideo to jibe with Vibe
U, Sommers in 'Proximity' on bigscreen
Sony exec carves path to top of Crystal Sky
Corman TV pic pack to reach Pinnacle
Myriad's it for Tag
Scribe pens a D'Works deal
Corbis buys famous faces
Helmer toys with D'Works' 'Transformers'
Inside Move: Fanatics laying it on the line
New life for Famke in 'X-Men 3'
Flower planted at Warners
TV bigwigs tout cable over telcos
Telemundo's top-tier switch
'Idol' rocks again; 'Office' edges up
A new India effect
CBS Par ups two execs
Lincoln film fest fetes Bachchan
Takeover to Hit deadline
Banff TV festival slates Q&As
It's Beck's best bow
Publisher keeps on Living
'Office' shows signs of life
Petrillo 'Inside' TV Guide
Teuton cabler adds more Russian
Kathy Baker
Babelsberg's IPO aims low
Simon Pegg
U.S. refrains from ratings interference
MTV puts its online plans into Overdrive
Monaco's Prince Rainier dies
AFI calls for fest entries
Yanks flying flag
Emmy reins in plans to alter kudos
Mixing up motives
Carsey-Werner visits 'Prison'
'Perfume' lures D'Works
Firm purchases lead to layoffs
Maxim puts the make on Hollywood
Linda Lorence and Stephen Critelli
Hermann Lause
SEC charges Team exex with fraud
Mitch Hedberg
Donald Carswell
Harold Juhnke
New show on Cirque circuit
Anchors away
Sonoma toasts pix
Richard Burdick
Lion's in big bind over next Bond
Regan turns new leaf with L.A. party
New deal for 'Steel'
'Sahara' son shine
Where there's smoke
Mobius sets crime scene
A helmer for 'House'
Creative shell games
Celebs get Current at NCTA
Brief work from Ovitz
'Lost' thesp found at ABC
Duffs are 'Material' girls
'Woodcock' nets thesp
Laff net to offer 'Daily' DVD
Nantucket nod to Martin
Exec warns Bollywood to clean up its act
'Idol' powers Fox's Wednesday
ITV preps for strike
Report sees spike in Latam revs, aud
Viacom sales arm to lead German push
3 playwrights on Horizon
Dan's still the man
Marcia Cross
Anne Meredith, Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein
Taylor Lautner
Audrey Marie Anderson
Berlin sets '06 dates
Lisbeth Scott
Fuchs finds Peace as exec veepee
Fox channels Luce library
Nick picks up Canuck's 'Sadie'
CBS taps publicity veep
Laserpacific taps CEO
Foreign holdings rev up CanWest
Another Warner subpoena
Jerez switches to Sogecable unit
Blockbuster blasted
Rich with Discovery
Florida fest saves 'Face'
Coveting 'Wives'
Mandabach makes way to the Beeb
Newsies converge on Vatican City
SAG exec leaves office after tumultuous reign
WB Pictures is bullish on 'Ten Bears'
TV begins critiquing Pope
Weekend Box Office Preview
April 8, 2005
First pix greenlit at Ciudad studio
New 'Garfield' climbs Hill
Spanish nets to air funeral
Scribe rejects South African honor
Report: Televisa a hit, Azteca not
TW, Comcast buy Adelphia
Cheadle sees a 'Ghost'
B.O. catches 'Fever'
Classic gains investment
Univision's in DVD biz
Big 'Night' for Weitz
Summer back in the 'Pink'
Disney in a romantic mood
Sony revamps its TV colony
'School' is in session for VH1
'City' haul for Russos
Holly, Elise land pilots
Warner on 'Thin' diet
Fox Searchlight 'Eyes' pic
CBS rolls to Thursday victory
Thailand considers boost to intellectual laws
Judith Weiner
Carolyn Coates
Rita Howard
'Grey's Anatomy' preempts 'Boston'
Reviews
The Notebook / The Proof
The Girl with Red Hair
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News and the Danger to Us All
Finding Neverland
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season One
The Eclipse
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Murder, She Wrote; The Hardy Boys/ Nancy Drew Mysteries
Kiss Me Like a Stranger
The Big Picture: The New Logic Of Money And Power In Hollywood
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy'
Fever Pitch
Wicked
Sahara
U2
The Wonder Bread Years
Mary Pickford
Purlie
Julius Caesar
Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
Melba Moore: Sweet Songs of the Soul
Ray LaMontagne
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Blind Boys of Alabama
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
Seoul Raiders
Steel Magnolias
Doctor Who
The Carpetbagger's Children
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Caligula
Broadway by the Year -- 1945
Living With Fran
Explosive City
The Gary Plays: Girl on a Bed
Pucker Up: The Fine Art Of Whistling
Forty Deuce
Whoopi: Back to Broadway -- The 20th Anniversary
Ed Harcourt/Martha Wainwright
The King and I
Dizzee Rascal
Tony Danza
Tierno Bokar
What of the Night
The Anniversary
Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America
Supervolcano
Electricidad
Smile
On Golden Pond
Before The Flood
Orange Flower Water
The Longest Penalty in the World
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