Biz dips; 'Hairspray' 828g

'Wicked' casts spell

Videogames try to unstick the joystick

Nets ogle google

2005: The mice that roared

Hit music from beyond the grave

Timely tomes tally $$$

Checking the pulse on Moore's 'Sicko'

Auds: A many-splintered thing

Newsies fit to be tied

No es TV, es HBO Latin-style

Producers get list-o-mania

Mighty Mouse double whammy

'Goblet' joins half-mil club o'seas

Quota fix leaves H'wood hanging

TV's hungry maw took big bit of pic biz

Hello and goodbye

Music eyes singles scene

Country scores fourth net

Year's a tonic for Teutonic exec

Midway through season, Eye's leading the pack

Why they aim for AIM

Kryptonite for comic pix?

'Rumor' fades justs as it starts

Into the Grey zone

Percenteries play it cool without a pact

Changing of the guard: New toppers, new tactics

B.O. off; 'Jersey' 896g

'Idol' hands out new aud record

Girl power rules local airwaves

B'way booms with familiar tunes

Benedict joins Variety

Comic cable lord

Argentina picking up the pic pace

AMC pullout signals Spanish exhib woes

'Water' flows back to source

Rowe to read news for Nine

No.1 in broadband

Satcaster sale slowed

'Munich' in the mail

Ratings through roof for Rossiya's 'Master'

Fur flies at B.O.

ASC lauds Wiseman

Aurum angst for Alliance

SAG slates kudos producers

Jeunet lands Gallic honor

Pune Film Fest kicks off

TFI mini a ratings winner

Amir Nasrabadi

Barbara Jones, Stephen Russo

Lucia Rangel

Trez Thoma

Neil Weiner

Nathan Stamp

Dr. Mehmet Oz

Still no brakes for 'Brokeback'

Peacock preening with iTunes presence

'Lion' is king of 'Kong'

Last of the red-hot anthems

Sony game for quizzer maven

Loews CEO lands Pioneer nod

Cabler names CFO

For movie musicians, home is where the art is

Altman resurrects 'Blues' in Blighty

'Manchild' matures

Spain woos Woody

Modern times

Two Chans and a 'Baby'

Fox Reality betting big on 'Nothing'

Gates seeing Starz

Par enrolls laff scribes

Televisa toons up

Kung fu laffer kicks in

'Prairie' opens SXSW fest

'Heart' beats at Rotterdam

Icelander in Scanbox

Anaya is Bard girl

ABC bowls over competish

The evasive Virgin

BBC tunes India radio

Cabler NTL mulls boosting mobile bid

Patrick Cranshaw

Mild wins for Viacom twins

Springer bounces terms

Eclectic pix mix in WGA doc noms

GE grappling with its H'wood adventure

VTR seeks stock boost with move

ABC bowls 'em over

'Doom' expanded on disc

Keaton shorts collected

Actors' Equity in Rat Pack spat

B'way has wow week

'Constant,' 'Luck' landing on DVD

Spade, Baldwin get 'Best of' discs

IFC in 'Holding' pattern

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Technicolor marks deal of the Century

Zannino lands Dow Jones gig

Globes see stars

Alphabet prez garners kudos

Disney expands downloads

WB, Fox share year's bounty

Create goes public

Fantasia to perform at Stevie Wonder tribute

'Monk' to unspool at Spiritual fest

Hearst editors donate to 'Closet Raiders'

Alliance's Kendeda winner to attend O'Neill conference

WorldLink, Interep make radio pact

HorseTV now largest Facilis installation in the US

Promax/BDA forms Chairman's Business Council

Indiana Jones trilogy to screen at Palevsky Theater

Ford Family Programs begin at MoMA

O'seas B.O. goes for a little dip

Moving Image presents Best of Stash '05

Univision wraps up radio purchases

Women in Film taps Holloway prexy

Next 'Ocean's' makes waves

Misher's in touch with TV

ESPN to test 'Fire' power

Exec clicks with News

Inside Move: 'Futurama' may get new lease on life

Studios high on high-def

Iceland invades Goteborg

Wong leads Cannes jury

Cabler cops Koppel

Orange Bowl juicy for ABC

PGA snubs big-budget titles

Guilds give nods to niches

Yoshimoto funds pix

Bhatt plans pic on London bombings

CTV nets sign up for more hockey

Quebec film market share climbs

Idina Menzel

Shelby Fenner

Spencer Garrett

Gillian Jacobs

ABC spells success

Concerted effort for Nederlander unit

25 pix set for H.K. co-prod market

Telemundo gains in primetime auds

Huffman hot on 'Transamerica'

'Vanished' on Fox's docket

BSkyB cries Woolfe

Fox shifting Brazil exec to Oz post

Scannell changes channel

Digital boom, CD gloom

ACE will salute editor duo

SAG to rap over residuals

'Marea' makes nifty Nielsen debut

Winning hands

Porn? Say please

New Year's 'Peace'

Hi-def DVD race is now on

Cuatro weds laffer

Wayne Newton

FFM picks up 'Nobelity' doc

Condos hit a crescendo

NBC affils close 'Book'

Cutters weigh many stories in one film

Study has faith in global B.O. bounce

'Chill' in air for thesp pair

USA climbs aboard to pilot 'Plain'

O'seas distrib for Sundance

Mean cuisine

Ear for the truth

Masses and commanders

Get a life

Designer dealers

Producers keeping 'Secret'

Wares and wires

Table manners

Canucks on a syndie crime spree

'Dust' dawns as fest's first

Mouse finds 'Missing Link'

Variety's guide to getting around Vegas

Music video tricks juice 'Dreamgirls' numbers

Digital upgrades boost Foley range

'Feet' team taps new techniques

Tokyo finds big trouble in China

Five things to see and hear at CES

Synergy-minded Sony takes united flight to Vegas

Biz inspects gadgets

Indies acting up

Is Stewart the right man of the moment?

History lessons intrigue DGA

Rose Bowl boffo for ABC

The marvelosity of blurb-meisters

Film femmes bow Hong Kong branch

Imax racks up Asian deals

Oz nets catch football

Technicolor is drawn to Ben Ammar

Canuck arts org extends prez contract

I-Cable leads Hong Kong feevee revamp

Claxson restructures, ups Haiek

Jackson entertaining position at ITV

Takeover's at risk

'Iluminados' leads Condor noms

Gaul box office down 10% in 2005

'Waves' to open Bangkok film fest

Sundance grows in Brooklyn

Cuddihy to Lightworks

Thailand film kudos dig 'Tin Mine'

Spanish B.O. takes dramatic dive

Weinstock to Screen Gems

Werner Herzog

Leslie Hope

Stephen Herek

Banyan Prods.

WGA lauds laff man

Prod'n awakened in the city that never sleeps

Smelling like a Rose

CEO hire heightens Daily News drama

More high-def nets loom at Voom

DirecTV boards FX pay plan

Branson taking a passage to India

Google turns Eye to video

Cummings to host cabler's 'Dailies'

Here! net veers into VOD

1971: Cannon fires at Preminger

Weekend Box Office Preview
Jan. 6, 2006

Par Classics flags Israel

Fantasy lands rooted in reality checks

Creating Champagne looks on beer budgets

Tooned in to their aural fixations

Pump up the volume

Grace Margaret Hopkins

Kate Elizabeth Deming

Sara Lucille Boyter

Double-duty duplexes

Tiptoe through the pedis

The libation librarian

Young Guns for good deeds

Get a life

Pimped-out pushcars

Pushy questions for…

Recording kudos set

TV Guide taps publisher

Tribune snares 'Idol'

'Doors' open for Lee debut

His 'Shining' moment

Time for screams, screens

HBO piling more 'Deadwood'

Shock jock locks up stock

Weinsteins back HD DVD

'Bernie Mac' creator on a laugh track

Fox takes to Liefer laffer

Biz buzzing over Pixar

'Geisha' gains ground

Peace prize for Sharon Stone

Berlin fest fetes Nobuo

Clickstar to distrib Freeman pic online

'Stars' aligned for ABC

Singer Rawls dies at 72

Mags skip syndie slide

Homegrown fare boosts ITV2 ratings

Ill host halts India's 'Millionaire'

U.K. sees slight dip in album sales

Korean group takes content stake

China touts tougher piracy stance

Idomeneo

Sunday Morning Shootout: The Best of Season 1

The Exorcism of Emily Rose: Special Edition

Rock 'N' Roll High School; Death Race 2000; Big Bad Mama

Four Kings

Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities

The Book of Daniel

Once on This Island

Candida

Wail Of The Conch

Improvisation

Kiran Over Mongolia

The Long Night

KZ

Stroke

Guerilla Marketing

Memory In Detention

Hostel

Autobus

Reaching Silence

Emily's Reasons Why Not

No One

Glory Road

BloodRayne

Grandma's Boy