Growing pains in Hong Kong

Moscow game for plays

London child's play

Black theater blooms in D.C.

B.O. dips; 'Wicked' $1.2m

Biz slips; 'Purple' 591g

'White' noise on Broadway

Uruguay keeps it 'Simple'

Placing a bet on Premiere

Asian fest banks on Yank visitors

Tuning into Soweto TV

Sky HD high on hype, low on detail

Gavelers court Hispanic viewers

Nets ready to play the sked shuffle

Comfort food trumps caviar on program menu

New net mantra: Think BIG

Phantom scribe gets BIFA nom

Distrib goes on buying spree

Tornatore returns with noirish 'Stranger'

Bank bows Asian loans

Hearty 'Harry' hits U.K. record books

Singapore seeks media biz spotlight

Peter Jackson's King Kong

Hollywood gets gamed

Breaking up has always been hard to do

RIAA foes turn up the volume

'Roseanne' DVDs raising the bar

Radio play looks to ape 'Kong's' profile

Wall Street goes gaga for Google

Will Pod people rule Wisteria Lane?

Gold-mettle challenge

What's Eight minus two?

Studio consultants spread blurry vision

H'w'd finds world isn't flat

Auds do the 'Harry' hustle

B'way's 'Woolf' heads to London

TVNZ cancels 'Headliners'

'Selling' to conclude Berlin fest showcase

Madonna on a high with 'Dance'

Fox Reality goes 'Round'

Eye gobbles aud pie

'Alias' is calling it quits

Tax credits boost B.C.

V2 lands at Sheridan Square

Turnover at NZ On Air

AFI likes 'Look'

Stations sign on for gaveler

'Nordeste' wins at Stockholm fest

It's the wizard's world

Inside Move: Perelman in the running for Deluxe

Rigas scion admits guilt

Serious biz for 'Syriana'

Rupe reflects

Fraser faults Telefilm, CTF

German Screenings ready for biz

Fox Latam bows cell-phone service

SABC lands Warner pic package

Ricochet bounces to Shed

Mexico's Televisa reigns in Spain

Tube touts mobility

EC donating pic promo coin

Study: India pix scene splits on class lines

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Pat Morita dies

Olivia Thirlby

Paul Sparks

Andy Griffith

Queasy kids' stuff gives adults pause

Leave it to the birds to bring home B.O. gold

Box office isn't everything

A ton of clay a day keeps auds in theaters

They hate the word comeback. Let's call it a 'return'

When emails don't cut it

An actress holds the middle ground

Fighting together, staying together

First-timers look to edge out the repeaters

Many are called, only a few are re-chosen

How to lose control creatively

Onscreen talent goes off course

Several bridesmaids take the walk again

Jane Austen rocks again onscreen

Picking page-turners for pix

'Rent' turns into a 10th anniversary reunion

Legit stages a big-screen comeback

From Wisteria to Wilde, buzz happens

The lavender reel mob

Reese pieces together portrait

Not just the facts, ma'am

New rules for producers and tunes

David meets Goliath

Euro Players

Upcoming Europ pix picks

Scout's report: 3 pix poised for multiplexes

Jarre mixed ancient, ethnic and electronic music

Licensed to thrill

Nationalistic love will tear us apart

EFA list reflects far-flung talents

Cultural ID check

Acad, Brits a winning combo

Multitasking marvels

Same story, new stage

Foreign fortunes

Opportunity arisen

Cash advance

Creative collaboration

Category conundrum

Peddle to the medal

Few poker faces

A '60s defining moment

Many talents on show in Oz

Canuck commish gives greenlight

Beeb to help out with CBC archives

Coalition goes to the movies

Oprah honored

NBC gets Happy with laffer

WB unearths 'Gold' mine

AOL dials up 'Gastineau'

Cultural commish renews commitment

Rome's Cinema Festa unveils slate

Study sees demand for VOD growing

'Syriana' Screens

ABC hot, CBS solid Sunday

Donmar tops kudos

Pol spending comes into question

Seven, AFL head back to court

Film Council gives S. African scribes a chance

S. Africa worships 'Idol'

Russian ouster fans media flames

Polish film fest fetes Fiennes

'Polo' mini hits road

'Kath' kicks up Oz ratings

Stars aligned for 'Venus'

New Asian equation

A beautiful 'Life'

Sony gets hands on 'Rub'

Hall calls Black Sabbath

Webber gets real

'Wife' leaves London

TW, Second Stage team for new plays

Promenade not taking walk

B'way has a holiday feast

TiVo turning ad-friendly

Irving Ludwig

Spain readies La Sexta

Believe it or not, Par riffs on Ripley

Small pix with big ideas

Poster inks tube deal

Kieera Ryann Stevenson

Davis Benett Styne Marks

'Reunion,' 'Threshold' pinkslipped

GenArt draws Cinema Circle

Discovery rejigs ad unit

Inside Move: 'Prison' producers phoning it in

Stuck on Bruck

Super Bowl gets rolling

Caviezel has 'Deja Vu'

B'way's leapin' lizards

'Narnia' a kid chronicle

Rudd, Cooper join Roberts in 'Rain'

Cabler slates originals

Livestock flock to the movies

Miramax on 'Venus'

Giving thanks

E! reviving 'Simple Life'

Mickey makes Macy's parade

'Good' talk

Laughing out 'Loud'

Peacock in Baer market

ABC bakes Alaska laffer

H'wood boasts boost in showbiz jobs

Brit trio launch percentery Troika

Lion TV strikes it rich with format shows

'Idol' judged a Fox keeper

'Lower City' triumphs at Huelva

Big night for b'casters

'Whale' of a day at Spirits

Ten cooks up sked

Reg under the gun

Liberty sews up IPS

Another Freeview digital slot for Four

Political anger finds 'Homecoming' on TV

Fuji IG takes a walk with Lucas

Happy Birthday, Don Cheadle

Classic toons head home

'Flash' splash

'Archie' gets release date

'24' offers it all

MTV Networks India taps Jain

'Rock' tuner in the Vanguard

Crowe pulls in crowds for Oz kudos

Italo law change kills piracy cases

Mansfeld tunes in to TV-Loonland

Manic Monday for nets

Tusk gets task at HDNet Films

FCC's about-face

IFP seeing stars at Gotham Awards

CBS tweaks its 'Evening'

TiVo shares the pain

NBC to keep news guru

Canale 7 station flows to 3 Italia

BBC Worldwide promotes Telegdy

RTL, Prisa stoke stakes in Capital

Icahn playing board games

Par, Rudin prexy ink deal

Edwards memorial

Furmaniak at Maxim

Canuck raids target pirates

Inside Move: 'Flux' ducks screenings

Inside Move: Where there's a Will. . .

'House' call pricey for USA, Bravo

'Amazing' graces Spike's sked

New Line taps prod'n exec VP

Hitmakers compare notes

Thesp bonds with 'Blandings'

Fleiss subject of HBO docu

'Ballroom' moves

Matt Dillon: 'I don't like to settle.'

Noms list

Stranger than fiction

Manhattan mixer

Recall preps soundtracks

Serenading the Academy

An embarrassment of riches

A sheltered 'Youth'

A world where 'nothing is as it seems'

A writer's voyage of self-discovery

From the Crusades to fantasy land

Finding an elegant solution

Fox locks up classic kid tomes

Keeping 'Late' slot

Fox taps Tiki for talkshow

Dynasty scion scores a double

Collaborators kiss and make up

BBC geared up for racy show

Acad nixes 2 foreign pix

Nielsen sets Asian TV survey

Hell House lights Firm's fire

Costner sues Ascendant

Marrying Ludvig Van and Jane Austin

The 'Piano' man and the hedonist

The Malick conundrum

Giving flight to landlocked birds

Americana filtered through Argentina

This French cat's out of the bag

Behind the curtain: 'Kong's' dueling scores

Master class

You write up my life

The British Independent Film Awards

Sundance is streamlined

Thessaloniki revitalized

Love in an asylum, vampires stimulate helmer

IFP honors to 'Capote'

Night shift

Big Tuesday for NBC

M6, Sony cop French 'Starsky'

'Gardener' rakes in kudos

'Fire' charms China

Gaul galvanizes plan for 24-hour news net

Down to a System

Tribute back on track

Indonesia falling in 'Love' with pic

1970: 'Girl' waves goodbye

Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Taraji P. Henson

Marc John Jeffries

New home on right

'Loser' a sweep hit

'Spear' gets its point into 1,200 theaters

'Remember' collects top Brazil kudos

ESPN woos Casanova for Mexico post

Gauls give Gotham a go

Zenkel will captain NBC Olympics team

Lion king's new world view

MDAS announces new deals

Naughty vidgames in pols' line of fire

Rampling atop Berlin

E. Cardon 'Card' Walker

Slamdance asks 'Wassup'

Santa Clarita maps bigscreen 'Fun'

Doug Taylor

Jocelyn Brando

Marc Lawrence

Art directors fete Spielberg

Mass. OKs pic perks

Palm fingers a DVD label

Honorary Globes

Grundy TV loses lawsuit over thesp's firing

Looking back

Miramax goes with Jones

King series sets cast

Fox sitcoms simple enough for Richie

Duo 'Map' Henson course

DreamWorks, Christie digitally link

Disney ups toon exec

Navarrete tapped by Discovery

Cowboy love song

Change for the better

Matching wits with Woody

Everyone can click on Anyone

'The Kid' stays in the pic

Playing against type

'Mullally' adds stations

Weinstein gifts 'Presents' with eye to wooing Oscar

Icahn threatens TW suit

Wish list

'Daisy' gets H'wood welcome

Wendie Jo Sperber

Weir to steer Depp pic

Col has plans for 'Tonight'

Par TV's rich and famous

'Idol' spinoff now a reality

Fremantle taps Endemol program exec

Tube dominos fall

HFPA membership

Winner's circle

HFPA grant recipients

Pangs do their part for 'Darkness'

More than kudos

Global payoff

Thesp races open to a new mix of noms

Discovery channels

Songs and smiles

Same spot, same hosts, new company

Packing them in

Resetting the clock

Globes gropes with kudos glut

Helmers take hold of Premieres docket

Happy Birthday, Woody!

Alphabet tops Family Television nods

Mouse goes basic

'Rudolph' leads the way for CBS

Par raises awareness

'Chicago' smoothed B'way transition

Joe Jones

Museum recognizes distaff pioneers

Heath Ledger

Balhetchet to lead U.K. film femmes

U.K. high on 'Anatomy'

Giants taking a digital leap

Brit TV producer ready for regional

EFAs launch development program

Telemundo rides high on originals

Univision's mag 'Cristina' to fold

Jori Petersen

South Korea first in digital service

Frank Sutera

ABC's 'Chief' to rule Asia Pacific

'Blossoming' blooms at Asian fest

Ashley Jensen

Simon Rex

John Goodman

Julie Ann Emery

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Leonor Varela

Carol Yumkas

'Christmas' player toplines 'Inishmore'

Daniels' 'Apartment' opens to auds

Mills turns 'Golden' girl on tour

Kasdan wins WGA laurel

Singers to vie at Algonquin

15th Annual Gotham Awards

Acad guess of honor

Clint cops DGA honor

U pick prod'n sr. veep

Nets on unique paths to victory

Warner kicks heels

Folta's two folders

'Earl' a sked savior?

Weinsteins in biz with 'Equalizer'

Holiday B.O. in state of 'Flux'

'Jack' attacks at South Africa B.O.

Film Museum closes with free pix

Alphabet wins a diversity derby

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BVI TV pacts with Vietnam, Brunei

Sci Fi unleashes 'Triangle'

Ballhaus candid during class