Table of Contents
Week of 07/16/2005

Articles

Erratum

 

Nimax scores Really Useful deal

 

'Barefoot' beginnings

 

Biz slips; 'Wicked' $1.7m

 

B.O. down; 'Monty' $1m

 

Non-Equity shows hit road block

 

Old B'way's golden hue

 

B'way tuners: Fantastic 4

 

No escape from TV as Pixman hits streets of Singapore

 

Hosts win right to wear Muslim garb

 

New watchdog boss bites rivals

 

Nine hangs on as feevees gain

 

Supermarket boss snaps up bargain in Argentina

 

'Desperate' for ratings in Spain

 

More hard times at Teutonic web ARD

 

U.K.'s billion-dollar baby

 

BBC must learn its ABCs

 

CMT changes its tune

 

Fuzzy forecast for high-def lift-off

 

U.S. viewers still elude int'l newsies

 

Cablers' identity crisis

 

Studio tries alien toon

 

S.F. fest pushes political buttons

 

Helmer bows cult remake

 

U.K. grosses drop in wake of attacks

 

Maltese dreams come true

 

Indonesian production up

 

Redbus gets back in saddle again

 

Quebec pix wow locals

 

Mixed-up mandates

 

Pic biz took its cues as 'Singer' struck a chord

 

Shades of Grey give way to Berman's color guard

 

Billy Bob 2, 'Bears' 0

 

Cable's new rein dance

 

The last Don? Well, not quite

 

CPB research spurs Mann hunt

 

Amazon stars deliver

 

Everyone had mitts on 'Mitty'

 

O'seas auds howling for 'Castle'

 

Wake-up call at D'Works

 

Courtroom casting call

 

Rival studios hold back

 

Escape from limbo-land

 

WB's 'Chocolate' in the chips

 

NBC U turns profit despite Peacock fall

 

SAG noms now open

 

Federal kudo count

 

Sogecable kicks up heels over soccer pact

 

Skip City digital fest unspools in Sapporo

 

Icon 'Fastest' to grab Cannes pic

 

RTL travels to 'Rome'

 

Pramer's Garage sales

 

'One' conquers American Black fest

 

Fox unifies Web biz

 

Powell to retire from IATSE post

 

Team tapped for Emmycast

 

Imagine TV develops team

 

Acad adds new governors

 

Ben Foster

 

Benjamin Walker

 

Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott

 

Kevin Chapman

 

Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, Hill Harper

 

Matt Lanter

 

HBO hot for H'wood

 

Paramount draws a pair

 

Toon takes o'seas crown

 

TLC shifting focus

 

AFTRA prexy re-elected

 

TV Azteca departs NYSE

 

Televisa heats up feud with Univision

 

Confab a big fat geek wedding

 

'Wedding' ring-ding

 

Jocks rock sox off

 

H'w'd Czechs out fest

 

Wise Monkeys 'Leaps' to raise coin

 

Magic night

 

'Rain' and shine

 

Gotham gets plastered in Court TV campaign

 

Correction

 

Correction

 

Africa web sets launch

 

'Opus Dei' basks in 'Da Vinci' halo

 

Cuatro sets int'l division

 

Khan protests unspool

 

Strike threat at CBC

 

Ibero net set for the Americas

 

'Mission' heads to China

 

Par, Schwartz bake 'Alaska'

 

Grazer hoists heist pic

 

Weinsteins try 'Ninja' moves

 

Spike wields 'Shield' in big deal

 

Fremantle builds worldwide 'Runway'

 

Pic lit grows a new ICM head

 

Avalon TV builds L.A. nest

 

9/11 drama collars cop

 

Music maven tapped for Universal gig

 

IFC titles to Netflix

 

CBS dramedy pilot gives 'Boys' their say

 

Strand 'Dying' for release

 

Col's 'Monster' 3-D plan

 

Heather Levenson and Gary Goren

 

Sogecable grabs improved credit line

 

Fantasy tour for preem pix

 

Helmer fires first salvo vs. Vanity Fair

 

Chow returns to Hong Kong

 

Serkis, Fry crack 'Stormbreaker'

 

Gotham's tuner fest ready for 'Big Time'

 

Giffoni kids around for L.A. film fest

 

Nevins, Yari chair IFP nods

 

Gavin Lambert 

 

B'way continues to heat up in July

 

Grammys will sing on CBS through 2011

 

Revolution ups legal eagle

 

Final reel for WB?

 

Cablevision gets advisers for split plan

 

More sugar for B.O.

 

Another held in ARD probe

 

Klapisch sequel to launch New Montreal

 

Absolutely is rolling in money

 

Chum enjoys friendly financials

 

Jim L. Terry

 

Sci Fi net flies on Friday

 

Miriam Holzman and Jason Sharman

 

Cindy Baer and Matthew Irving

 

Esther Song and John Cheng

 

Talia Botone and Daniel Bernstein

 

Jessica Pilch and Mark Samuel

 

Dina Sebock and Tim Hillier

 

Chris Bunch

 

Ship shape

 

1956: 'Set' switch for Hepburn, Tracy

 

Laff net dials up 'Blue' humor

 

Loudermilk dies in crash

 

Geraldine Fitzgerald

 

Tele Munchen taps Bauer for b'cast

 

Cinemark adds ad arm

 

Rupe invades MySpace

 

Slow & steady wins race for critter pic

 

Long run for Ron

 

Feevee merger held up in Colombia

 

Janet Rolle

 

Karen Crawford

 

Mike Dormer

 

Laura Danford Mandel

 

Chad Greer

 

David D. Christensen, Matthew P. Smith, Heather Gore

 

Kathleen Hricik

 

Randi Cone

 

Peggy Fry

 

Richard Buchanan, Jim Hannafin, Tyler Leshney, Mark Girard

 

PBS untangles roots

 

Two at Touchstone

 

With Smellie gone, power shifts to Sony

 

Boland, Chai tapped for Variety Oz beats

 

Dancing to a new beat

 

Kerner, Nick on Smurf turf

 

Preem in the clouds

 

Abdul flashes 'Dance' card

 

Biz settles suits over pay

 

Ship-shape wishes

 

HBO road leads to 'Rome'

 

Fox, Loews to dial ringtones

 

Doing the Douglases right

 

Somers revs up for Broadway

 

Cocktails and campaigns

 

'Minutes' helmer clocks in

 

Gersh making change

 

TV program surge drives biz job gain

 

H'wood has finally mastered geek speak

 

Vinton redubbed Laika

 

Warners ups money man

 

Warners taps PR veep

 

A new link for Think

 

Televisa, EMI duet for record company

 

Fox News nails Hemmer

 

All-Stars score for Fox

 

Columbia reissues 'Storytellers'

 

Urban signs six-pic pact

 

Echo picks up West Coast

 

Bohannon upped to VP

 

A push for parents

 

Joe Harnell

 

Tauber, Horberg draw top posts at Kimmel

 

Pray docu draws fest

 

CFO designate exits Viacom

 

Trial musters Roman legions

 

Icing on the cake?

 

Crime still pays for Eye net sez Tassler

 

Saudi prince plans to take holdings public

 

Ottilie Kruger Laybourne

 

Toronto hits beach

 

Kaiser Chiefs on a roll with Mercury nom

 

NBC U taps two Teutons

 

Political blurbs lift Televisa, TV Azteca

 

China takes H'wood hiatus

 

Corrections

 

L.I. org to salute Sapan

 

Hudson likes 'Me' and U

 

Edward Bunker

 

Paradigm beefs up ranks

 

North South points west

 

FFA gets 'Genghis' going

 

RKO develops VP deal for Cornish

 

DVD growth gets stuck in slo-mo

 

Fuqua lands notorious gig

 

Remake an 'Omen' for helmer

 

Sibs ready to 'Rock' for Par, MTV pic

 

Exec exit strategy

 

ABC refills 'Dance' card

 

ABC enlarges laff team

 

King's ransom for queen Leah

 

Inside Move: Execs let crix fall where they may

 

UCLA Live sounds hopeful

 

San Seb fest focus: N. Africa

 

RTL takes Five in buyout

 

Distrib in the Works

 

13th Annual ESPY Awards

 

James Doohan

 

Soap 'Leal' ships to Spain

 

'Fantastic' rating altered for kids

 

Blighty TV convention gets keynoters

 

Guild votes for strike

 

'Obscene' pix banned

 

Rock's rolling away

 

'Thunderbird' out of gas

 

'Spamalot' hits the road

 

Steve Pink

 

Annasophia Robb

 

Tim Blake Nelson

 

Gerald McRaney

 

Anthony Mackie

 

Cast coming to Herzog's 'Rescue'

 

WGA to offer best-of list

 

Trial takes some turns

 

BAFTA/LA to fete Taylor

 

Viacom webs weave new DirecTV deal

 

Bush nom draws auds

 

'Dateline' on Moran's list

 

Yahoo! reports fail to wow Wall Street

 

FIAPF greenlight given to Losique fest

 

Jack radio jacks KIIS auds

 

Peacock tries for better hand

 

1956: Crosby on 'Fire'

 

Foreign exchange

 

Lark Elizabeth Yoder-Hall

 

Criterion toast of Telluride

 

Editor plucked for tough Times

 

Cirque circles Miami Beach

 

HFPA in a golden mood

 

Tassler tastes stardom

 

S. Africa film complex faces delay

 

TV Azteca expects flat growth in 2005

 

'Auto' erotic scenes bow to D.C. heat

 

Catherine Annamarie de Wolff

 

IFC, sibs own 'Unknown'

 

U enlists top soldier

 

UPN 'Mars' lands on sib

 

Geeks tweak biz with pirated DVDs

 

Think crowns the 'King'

 

All the 'Men' get together again

 

FX fete a mouthful

 

'Bears' roam the Park

 

'Hopeless' debut

 

NBC to reap midseason 'Windfall'

 

HBO's 'Last Days' goes long

 

Latinos flex Maya plex

 

Par captures crime scribe

 

Sperber to get dramatic at Mentorn

 

'Q' tipped for U.K. run

 

Abbey board ankles

 

Par Comedy stacking up on 'Stacked'

 

Venice crix pick 'Brick'

 

Dylan docu to hit BBC2

 

Euro Disney's Q3 gloomy

 

Exec VP stripes for Par's Hill

 

Success via WOMP and circumstance

 

Focus swoons for toon

 

Incentives keep rolling

 

DirecTV opposes Adelphia purchase

 

Liberty's Discovery starts Nasdaq run

 

Jeff Goldblum

 

Peter Boyle

 

Shawn Hatosy

 

Dana Delany

 

Isaac Webster

 

Familiar face gets tapped for Ferguson

 

Fox 'Dance' dazzles

 

Legal downloads rising

 

Irish comic kicks up fest

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
July 22, 2005

 

ContentFilm caps Fireworks sale

 

Malaga pic fest shifts to March

 

No child's play for Osment at Italo's Giffoni Fest

 

No SAG encore for Gilbert

 

GE Capital buoys Canal 40

 

ProSieben picks 'Numbers' for fall

 

Brit B.O. slumps in first half of '05

 

Warners books publishing vet

 

Correction

 

Will Willy Wonka get whipped?

 

Francis Clementine Suplee

 

'Ant' sets same-day Imax bow

 

Digital TV key to ending duopoly

 

Castalia tunes in new exex

 

Short set for IATSE

 

Villain loses WWE grip

 

This bicycle's built for you

 

'Penelope' finds leading lady

 

Me and my shadow

 

Chamberlain to top 'Pond'

 

Pushy Questions For...

 

AFTRA embezzler jailed

 

Maybach Magnificence

 

Finding Frette

 

If the Shuman fits. . .

 

UPN forges identity, befriends 'Everybody'

 

Young buyers aim high

 

Pair the picnic with pleasurable pinks

 

Beyond Dodger Dogs

 

Get a Life

 

Splendor in the grass

 

Par thirsts for 'Worst'

 

'Will' graces live episode

 

A new reality for Fremantle

 

Frog net runs 'Rings' around Emmy

 

'Development' push

 

Jury weighs Polanski's libel case

 

Indie taps a magic man

 

Both Montreal pic fests get accredited

 

'Jay Jay' toon jets in Latina character

 

'Apocalypto' now for Mel

 

Spain's TV ad spend spectacular

 

Bush taking fight to pirates with new post

 

Helmer bags libel victory

 

Cinematic shuffle

 

Paul Duke

 

'Obaba' opens San Sebastian fest

 

Hugo Boss’s 3rd Annual Gen Art Roof Deck Party

 

Mates lose key to Doors

 

WB seeks bigger aud, commits Frogicide

 

Reviews

The Fourposter

Othello

Bad News Bears

Over There

Out of Tune

The Blonde in the Thunderbird

Both

Proud

Bent

Nothing Bleeds Forever

Equus

His Girl Friday

Wicked

Sufjan Stevens

The Call of the River

Snowboarders

Basement Jaxx; Royksopp; Bossacucanova

Source

Fools in Love

Venus and Serena: For Real

Oklahomo!

Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odyssees) Parts I & II

The Beauty Exchange

District

Emmenez-Moi!

Year Zero

Camping a la Ferme

Festival

Rough River, Placid Sea

Next!

Super Agent

Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Dirty Soul

Freshman Orientation

Say Uncle

Movie Music of Woody Allen

So You Think You Can Dance

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