Table of Contents
Week of 12/17/2005

Articles

Biz slips; 'Sundays' $1.2m

 

B.O. up; 'Movin'' 756g

 

Kennedy Center space catering to kids

 

Preview touts Tolkien tuner

 

Westside wonders

 

Canadian Christmas show is no 'Idol' rumor

 

B'way pops its top

 

India draws 'em in for toons

 

EU's new frontier

 

Lifetime's 'Desperate' lesson

 

Will shakeups help kiss the Frog?

 

Sale rumors swirl around Univision

 

Family plan: Cablers' tiers of fears

 

Success bows with 'Sea'

 

Flute plays for love, not profit

 

Helmers bring immigrant vision to Euro pix

 

Oz fights back with ad campaign

 

'Potter' and 'Narnia' face off across globe

 

Argentine pic too hot to handle

 

Toon titles leave Par sitting pretty in int'l split

 

U ready to deal in wake of shakeup

 

Conspiracy theories grew with icon's legacy

 

Boomer auds coping with death in primetime

 

Vidgamers call the shots

 

Unraveling the plot

 

Brit comic joins the pod people

 

Harvey hitches ride to thrillville

 

For congloms, bulking up is hard to do

 

Grating spaces at WMA

 

Showing reel potential

 

DreamWorks delivers big plot twist

 

Hope & hype

 

Groening covets Brits for 'Simpsons' episode

 

ABC news loses war

 

Thesps rally for racial tolerance

 

'Little' in digital 3-D

 

MK in China hardtop

 

'Kong' crowned B.O. king

 

'Wicked' lands on West End in fall

 

French kiss for paybox

 

Nugent expands talent at E!

 

'West Wing' confronts loss

 

Brit Film's 'Hall' of fame

 

Laughing off insults

 

Revenge is sweet

 

Diverse auds stoked for 'Broke'

 

NBC rings in ad revs

 

Ape pounds chest o'seas

 

Mena Suvari, Jimmy Fallon

 

Brittany Daniel

 

Julia Garro

 

Jon Polito

 

Shadoe Stevens

 

Tribeca puts on shorts

 

Sony BMG lands vid vet

 

Fest gets Felicitous

 

Guillermo Arriaga

 

Noah Baumbach

 

Terrence Malick

 

Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

 

Woody Allen

 

George Clooney and Grant Heslov

 

Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco

 

Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman

 

Gill Dennis and James Mangold

 

Stephen Gaghan

 

Steve Martin

 

David Auburn and Rebecca Miller

 

Deborah Moggach

 

Michael Seitzman

 

Robin Swicord

 

Josh Olson

 

Jeffrey Caine

 

Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

 

Dan Futterman

 

Word wranglers' time to tangle

 

Locations update

 

Hollywood adopts Eastern ways

 

Passport to glory

 

Brit talent waits in the wings

 

Cross-border patrol

 

Project runway

 

Foreign Oscar dossier

 

Speaking in tongues

 

Only a win will do when it comes to the U.S. release of Oscar pics

 

Rules of the blame

 

RCA set to wax 'Nashville' winner

 

NBC U sends Harrison to a crime scene

 

Searchlight craves 'Food'

 

Gold Circle puts scribe in loop on thrillers

 

IATSE in tentative deal

 

Oz unveils banner for tax-free funds

 

Vid 'captain' faces mutiny

 

Stern clocks out at Infinity, looks beyond

 

PR firm throws bash

 

Lincoln Center fetes Fiennes

 

3-D 'Chicken' lands in Oz

 

L.A. exemptions in mail

 

Moore Sci-Fi at NBC U

 

TV Land adds originals

 

Inside Move: WB mulling partners but staying put

 

'Watchmen' shifts duty

 

Happy Birthday, Jake Gyllenhaal!

 

BSkyB hits subs target

 

Barcelona documart shifts to February

 

Six preem at Rotterdam

 

Express route to controversy in Atlanta

 

Fox, CBS top quiet Sunday

 

Digimart declines Montreal Filmfest

 

Blurb men's memoirs a study in contrasts

 

Beach Dickerson

 

S. Korean film exports, profits boffo

 

'Opal' to open Berlin kid fest

 

Jack Anderson

 

Potter memorial

 

Delluc likes 'Lovers'

 

Holiday rush, strike threat hurt B'way biz

 

Yahoo! picks pix in Japan

 

Shakira tops MTV Latin kudos

 

Telco tries showbiz

 

Doc mart shifts date

 

Rotterdam sets world preems

 

Signal to b'casters

 

Promax sticks to Gotham

 

Bill to plug analog hole

 

TBS picks up Sony 'Boys'

 

Cable dividend switched off

 

Youth is served

 

Carmike digs digital

 

'Brokeback' tries red-state breakout

 

Gorilla swings wide

 

Oscar Watch: Roy Christopher

 

Imax, Racimec pact for Latin America

 

'Mountain' tops 2 more crix' lists

 

Inside Move: Fox News: Sirius absence?

 

'Fuego' takes Coral at Havana fest

 

Univision joins Nielsens

 

James Potter

 

Download dilemma

 

Politicos boost Mexico's film industry

 

'Doubt' sets Euro debut

 

ABC midseason gets a Life

 

TW alum gets PW kudo

 

News exec VP ankling Telemundo

 

WB spreads 'Rumor'

 

Thursday 'Idol' threat

 

It's Malick's 'World'

 

Lifetime lifts 2 execs to new perches

 

Inside Move: Spielberg moves to mollify Mossad

 

Melville comes full 'Circle'

 

Mandeville touting TV

 

Gaga for film fund

 

Press Acad sends Satellite signal

 

Oceana makes waves

 

Judge rejects plea bargain

 

Lakers vs. Mavericks

 

Momentum hops on Potter

 

Preems a-plenty skedded for Berlin fest

 

CBS, NBC's 'Deal' top Monday

 

Rigg heads 'Honour's' West End debut

 

Ringing out the year with Popes and gladiators

 

Fox adds De Cesare

 

D'Works tooning up 'Gromit' DVD

 

Williams gets disc collection

 

'Cowboy' gets deluxe treatment

 

BVHE faces fines for French price-fixing

 

'Farm' cultivates Off B'way production

 

Oz media fund buys Taiwan cabler

 

Crackerjack deal at BMG

 

A forensic fortune

 

Icot launches 2 pic funds

 

Liberty Global sells local cabler

 

Decency a 'Big' deal

 

Lovefilm trying VOD

 

EM.TV taps kidvid

 

RTL board adds two

 

'Sunset' set at Steppenwolf

 

Sundance lab selects scripts

 

Peacock gameshow the real 'Deal'

 

Cold snap heats up ratings for yakkers

 

Sky One chief clicks on Interactive

 

'Virgin' berth

 

Wheels come off Gotham biz

 

Sales slump zaps videogame biz

 

B'way's 'Souvenir' to close

 

Eye keeps heat on rivals

 

Comcast, Bon Jovi duet

 

TV poll studies what viewers want

 

Yule fuels hot B.O. showdown

 

'OC' sees new slot amid Fox sked shakeup

 

D'Works releasing Korean 'Typhoon'

 

Toronto crix honor films

 

A small 'World' after all

 

SEC slaps Sirius trading

 

Correction

 

TW gives Google go-ahead

 

Miami fest goes Abroad for pix

 

WEA unit cues up reorg

 

Spec is tasty to Mandlay

 

Jacko eyes way to keep Sony stake

 

E! to toast host with big payday

 

Managers in murky waters

 

Fox News hails more Ailes

 

Crackerjack deal at BMG

 

Happy Birthday, Julie Delpy!

 

'Deal,' 'Heaven' top Tuesday

 

'Pride' of crix kudos

 

Bewkes' time has come

 

Blighty tax loophole for pix closed

 

Art Guild taps Tambor

 

Strike strains B'way

 

Colombia gems head to U.S.

 

Premiere loses big soccer play

 

Sony, Sky push hi-def

 

'Battle' for Japan

 

Solons delay digital deal

 

'Celebrity' makes noise but stays put

 

Sports nets challenge feeds

 

Toronto studio's greenlit

 

Cash biopic behind bars

 

Foreign Oscar pix lost in translation

 

NBC staff in AFTRA vote

 

Bobby Slayton

 

Sarah Chalke

 

3 'Idol' threats

 

Christina Ricci, Kyle Chandler

 

Scott Cohen

 

'Good Night' for star gazing

 

Fournier weighs anchor

 

DVRs measure up for Nielsen

 

'New' Viacom taps treasurer

 

Frances Seghers

 

Kavita Amar

 

Neil Mulcahy, Jim Burnette, Steve McKiernan, more

 

Cherie Marquez

 

Sue Stahl

 

Lon E. Bender, Wylie Stateman, Robert C. Rosenthal

 

Ilene Kennedy

 

Scott Andrews

 

Talia Ron, Karen Olin

 

Karen Robinson Hunte

 

Bill Buckley

 

Colin Willis

 

Oscar Watch: Conti, Puck return to Oscars

 

Film Society dance social

 

Casting for a contract

 

Multiplatinum discs down in 2005

 

Nick Douglas

 

Telemundo, too, to join Nielsen ratings ranks

 

Internationalmedia, Warner ink on pix

 

Eyeworks ups Emmering to int'l chief Austereo

 

BMG pact on music channel

 

India gets local film bond company

 

Kiwi pubcaster banks on new topper

 

Argentina Brunetti

 

ProSieben curbs product placement

 

Ricardo Garcia

 

Oz media org reviews tyke TV rules

 

'Nip' slaps cable rivals

 

Benjamin Rowan Maitland

 

Alonzo Sebastian Esparza

 

Nicholas Harrison Brous

 

Matthew Hunter Smith

 

Matthew Ryan Pincus

 

NASCAR pic in Bungalow

 

Alphabet has Star quality

 

Exhib pair plan selloff in six cities

 

Nets OK 'Heist,' 'Betty'

 

Brave new 'World'

 

Good 'Point'

 

'Super Bad' debut

 

Wide 'Awake'

 

Work of conscience

 

Three Stooges Festival

 

Europe gets tough with Microsoft

 

Goodspeed taps Hushion for Gotham

 

China opens 'Wardrobe'

 

'Idol' exec to exit ITV

 

Pols approve FCC nominee

 

1971: Stanwyck out of danger

 

'Clara' tunes up after rest

 

Strike leaves B'way bruised

 

Comcast's on family wagon

 

Star Jones

 

MLB interactive gets stake in WCSN

 

Jason Dottley

 

'Bible' to bow

 

'Wind' kicks off AFI season

 

UCLA establishes fellowship

 

American Cinematheque screen Marx Bros, Stooges

 

Directing Workshop for Women open for entry

 

Profile outlines prod'n issues

 

'Genius' heads home

 

Clark takes Fade In top prize

 

Correction

 

Pix overstuff Xmas stocking

 

Cinema spinoff set

 

'Lion' trumps gorilla midweek

 

Lauper's B'way bow

 

New Line renews Canuck distrib deal

 

Creatives are being priced out of Gotham

 

Get a life

 

China biz booming

 

Pols give P2P a pass

 

Springsteen on the 'Case'

 

Palm draws 'Art' rights

 

Cablers told to police content

 

Indie rounds bases for pic

 

Court hits pause on violent vidgame law

 

Inside Move: Fox will unspool heftier 'Heaven'

 

Inside Move: Israel backs L.A. official

 

Fox TV dines off 'Family's' DVD menu

 

Clara Bellar

 

Jerry Lynn Williams

 

Jerome Leshay

 

Peacock plucks MSNBC

 

Jenna Johnson

 

Ted Tulchin

 

Patrick Betz, Sr.

 

Reviews

Rumor Has It…

The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Videogame)

The Matrix: Path of Neo (Videogame)

The Frighteners

The Fantastic Four

The Wild Duck

Deal or No Deal

Nickel Creek

The Little Willies

A Barbara Walters Special: Heaven. Where Is It? How Do We Get There?

A Christmas Carol

Mrs. Warren's Profession

5 Days

A Child's Love

Bluffmaster!

Lassie

Ahlaam

The Importance of Being Elegant

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Fun With Dick and Jane

The Wind

Angel-A

The Ringer

Damn Yankees

A Dog's Dream

Dance of Love

Woman is a Tough Person

The Boy Friend

Desamores

Echoes of War

I Did Not Kill Gandhi

I Know I Am Not Alone

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