Table of Contents
Week of 01/29/2006

Articles

Cesar noms feeling 'Beat'

 

'Idol' judges tell it like it is

 

Teaming with ironies

 

Taiwan waits for watchdog

 

CNBC gives Germany's 'Sabine' a global gig

 

Yank skeins make gains in Spain

 

Nuptials chill hot netlet race

 

Shotgun wedding for print, TV

 

PBS ponders podcast

 

They exchanged vows: Now what?

 

Biz cools; 'Game' 383g

 

Korean B.O. tops Germany's

 

'Lion' roars to five-week winning streak

 

Brit comic's on top

 

Gonna pour now…

 

TV tuner trills tweens

 

Learning to crawl

 

And 'Baby' makes glee

 

CW deal floors confab's little guys

 

Al-Qaida chief kickstarts 'State'

 

Long view on a short

 

Big deals portend big power shifts

 

This merger's a mouthful

 

Overdue for a toon-up

 

Oz looks for more laffers

 

Sundance '06: The big chill

 

BBC4 draws big names

 

Cablers take the field

 

Denver remounts new play plan

 

Studio plays home to LaBute fest

 

Hitting the right mark

 

Pressure cooks for 'Dreamgirls'

 

Pics: Tune deaf?

 

Koreans cut pic quotas

 

H'wood tunes up Broadway's B.O.

 

B.O. down; 'Edna' 510g

 

Arctic fest sees record filmgoers

 

Will biz's Berrys get plucked?

 

Waters churning

 

Buzz pic rated 'H' -- for hype

 

Heartland hitched

 

Horror pics score a couple of hot dates

 

Springtime for Hitler?

 

Stealth club

 

Buyers raise acquisition ante

 

Exhibs' Chinese puzzle

 

ABC News pair injured in Iraq

 

'Momma's' cooking with $28 mil

 

Favreau tapped to host WGA kudos

 

S. Korea tix tax to console filmmakers

 

Oscar Watch: Sorvino to help unveil noms

 

Andy Serkis

 

Tara Reid

 

Julia Ormond

 

Tonya Newbould

 

Jonathan Tucker

 

'Munich' makes most of o'seas B.O.

 

ThinkFilm wrestles 'Half Nelson' rights

 

Lorne's laffs bump 'Chief'

 

'Think Tank' discusses new media

 

Afterlife takes a look at primetime

 

Big Mammas in the house

 

Fast track

 

'Country' hospitality

 

Cops bust bootleggers

 

Nets must spend on Canuck drama

 

Movie biz on the 'Bubble'

 

Spain's Goyas celebrate 'Life'

 

A night of camaraderie

 

SAG party crashed

 

Berlin chases Cannes and AFM

 

Sellers spy upturn

 

ABC relaunches Alma kudos

 

Katz to flesh out horror biz

 

ABC takes the 'Case'

 

Thesp, helmer dig Fox pilot 'Graves'

 

'Back' in saddle at Slamdance

 

Hot on the market

 

Records smashed as market unveils its new home

 

Directing dialogue

 

Irish spring for CBS shows

 

Beers bottles O'Merch

 

WB fields football tale

 

Helmer asks fans to show Love with cash

 

L.A. film shoots up 9% in '05

 

'Grey's,' 'Home' power ABC

 

Cancer claims playwright

 

Sanctuary cues $195 mil rehab plan

 

Arthur Bloom

 

Peckinpah closes Berlin

 

Stanley Ottenstein

 

Friendship has its privileges for brands, pix

 

Leaner Vivendi eyes bigger bite of NBC U

 

Download defense

 

Cumming tapped for Gotham awards

 

'Committee' meets in March

 

Warner pix tied for Teuton TV

 

Berlinale picks Turin for pics

 

ABC mulls anchor gap

 

Gallic film org sets 'Heart' on win

 

Globes get animated

 

Icahn enlists ally in Biondi

 

Comic cooking up laffer

 

Moss Mabry

 

B'way B.O. springs to winter warmth

 

'Devil' seduces Lionsgate

 

Filmax to distrib Lauren's homevid

 

Rotterdam fest debuts funded pix

 

Oz watchdog taps Chapman topper

 

Stu Linder

 

'Company' lands 4 Golden Eagles

 

Yahoo!, Oz's Seven bow Web portal

 

Fremantle Asia gets new topper

 

Fox Sports en Espanol hits the press

 

Kinowelt bakes Berlin's 'Snow Cake'

 

MGM builds Sands castle

 

WB TV taps biz chief

 

High note for music vet

 

Cable aims PR blitz at D.C.

 

Comic finds voice with Comedy series

 

Duo dealing on 'Demons'

 

Spike hones 'Blade'

 

'Kong' hits the street

 

New Line ropes rodeo spec

 

Warners goes on time trek

 

IDT drawing on Jones

 

Mideast heat wave

 

ICM's Stein off to related longform gig

 

Is Cinea a contender?

 

U's funky monkey

 

'Rock' rolls Sunset

 

Oh my!

 

Daly will raise 'Caine'

 

Another flight for 'Runway'

 

Femme pair to log 'E-Girl'

 

Back in the Fox den

 

Cruise cuddles up with Par pitch

 

Duo carries tune at WB

 

Par books 'Spellman'

 

Fox trying 'Patience'; ABC targets 'Mrs. Smith'

 

Tussle over treasure

 

Sony Music cues Caplan

 

Par picks Poku for VP

 

U.N. bridges cultures

 

Jackson's dream comes true

 

Stringing along

 

Sundance winners enjoy spotlight

 

Academy Award Noms: Oscar's western union

 

Madrid in spotlight at new confab

 

Small pix cook for Microwave

 

'Journey' tops Bugs

 

'Miami,' '24' top Monday

 

Noms stir dreams, screams

 

Italy celebrates 'Don't Tell' Oscar nod

 

Oscar oddities

 

South Africa sees back-to-back Oscar noms

 

'Sophie Scholl' continues award streak

 

Japanese B.O. down 6%

 

A major indentity crisis

 

God's messengers didn't smite 'Daniel'

 

Oscar honors two Gallic pix

 

Czech exec in hot water

 

MoonScoop touts Taffy

 

Gaumont gets 'Cashback'

 

Fans flood Hong Kong Disneyland

 

Gallic pix get leg up

 

Jeff Mayzurk

 

'Rabbit' tames Rotterdam's Tiger

 

'Flight' lands A&E record

 

Fox Sports catches Caribbean series

 

Sound guys know how to mix it up

 

MPAA reels in exex for LA

 

'Silence' is golden for Diaphana

 

'Fearless' punches with wowy bow

 

'Idol' still on a roll for rockin' Fox

 

Ruffalo joins 'Awake' cast

 

Angels back Off B'way

 

Balaban on board with 'Secrets'

 

Indonesia to enforce live news ban

 

Oscar buzz payoff

 

Live cricket hops to Doordarshan

 

B'way 'Fame' for Short

 

NBC U hikes exec quartet

 

Warner classics dance over to DVD

 

Pic piracy proliferating in Germany

 

Elaine Brooks

 

Ann Lewis Roberts

 

Acad's new tune for song

 

Topical typical for Oscar this year

 

Roadshow on a bank roll

 

Corrections

 

It's Time for more job cuts

 

Paul Clinton

 

Douglas Hines

 

Helmer takes 'Comfort'

 

Shooting caught on tape

 

Rebecca Ramsey

 

Henson taps 'Dark' lord

 

20th rings in 'New Years'

 

Israel warms to 'Munich'

 

Nielsen pinch-hits on 'SVU'

 

Legal eagle at Loeb & Loeb

 

FTC clears Adelphia buyout

 

APA adds 4 Gotham agents

 

Not gaga over Google

 

Frog in final sked flips

 

Battle royal as UAE rulers join Icahn's TW bid

 

Euro ups and downs

 

Springer gives up bid

 

Brit legit crix pick 'Billy' and 'Harvest'

 

Anchors doubling up

 

Brosnan recalls time with Taylor

 

Lynch takes lid off Lodz arts center

 

Pix feted with Arte France awards

 

Shochiku, Celluloid pair for 'Hana'

 

Univision taps talent for awards show

 

Endesha Ida Mae Holland

 

Layfield tapped as CBC director

 

Discovery finds Ausin

 

Kloiber joins CME bd.

 

Kent police seize counterfeit DVDs

 

King holiday boosts firstrun syndie strips

 

Moira Shearer

 

Al-Jazeera takes ventures into Pakistan, India

 

Idolmaker scores

 

Abigail Breslin

 

Gabriel Mann

 

Kathleen Chalfant

 

Pair tempted by 'Fate' pic

 

Intrepid hooks CFO, development veep

 

Nathaniel Sam Del

 

News guy leaves Eye for CNN post

 

U Music U.K. to cut workforce

 

WB up Rowe to sr. veep

 

Pathe takes 'Whatever'

 

EchoStar family tier not so retailer friendly

 

Mags, game shows score

 

Rogue faces 'Fearless' Li

 

Czech Lions noms hit social issues

 

Cheryl Buysse Lynch

 

Twentieth TV soaping up

 

Lifetime books telepics

 

Jay Wilson

 

Fox nets record aud for Prexy speech

 

Fox toasts roasts amid a trio of pilot pickups

 

Lifetime still on Dish menu

 

Teuton orgs fund 'Catherine'

 

Canuck's Globemedia boasts boosted revs

 

WGA docu nod to 'Enron'

 

Olivia Margaret Garcia

 

Steppenwolf stepping in

 

Casino slots 'Bojangles'

 

'Grind' gets going with double vision

 

Weinsteins mad for 'Igor'

 

Marshall Curry, 'Street Fight'

 

Ellen Perry, 'The Fall of Fujimori'

 

Jordan Roberts, 'March of the Penguins'

 

'Paul' treks to Mandalay

 

Jeffrey Caine, 'The Constant Gardener'

 

Merge maneuvers

 

Team spirit invades TV awards

 

Peacock has Webbed feat

 

Mag goes off script

 

Scribe union strikes an attitude

 

ABC springs for sked shifts

 

Par 'Wild' about Penn

 

Coixet dishes on her 'Secret'

 

Rosamund Pike

 

Gatta head into Millennium

 

Thesp hops to Beatrix bio

 

Conglom on a crusade

 

Michele Ohayon, 'Cowboy del Amore'

 

Alex Gibney, 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room'

 

Stephen Gaghan, 'Syriana'

 

Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, 'Brokeback Mountain'

 

Dan Futterman, 'Capote'

 

Josh Olson, 'A History of Violence'

 

Judd Apatow and Steve Carell, 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin'

 

WMA skates with the NHL

 

Noah Baumbach, 'The Squid and the Whale'

 

George Clooney and Grant Heslov, 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

 

Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman: 'Cinderella Man'

 

Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco, 'Crash'

 

A Public gathering

 

Pair catch Viagra pitch

 

DVD sequels firm at Fox

 

Next 'Narnia' shaping up

 

'Country' time for Coens

 

Layoffs trim 5% at EA

 

Rampling eyes Medem's 'Caotica'

 

WGA files reality complaint

 

Fox rocks on Wednesday

 

Swamped H.K. Disney park suspends tix sales

 

Paybox drops ball, kicks exec

 

Brit web sees 'Ghost' in future

 

Pathe plans 'Dirty' deeds

 

ITV drama chief Elliott to retire in '07

 

A Spanish skirmish

 

Italo trade org gives Ferrari a test drive

 

1966: A tale of two Julies

 

Kelly rides Soul Train

 

B.C. women hit celluloid ceiling

 

Lion posts Pryor as praiser chief

 

J. Schaech, R. Chizmar, Chesapeake Films

 

Rob Zombie

 

B.O. feels Oscar shift

 

Tatyana Ali

 

3 Blonde Moms

 

Chris Fioto

 

44 Blue Prods.

 

Comcast's profits receive busy signal

 

CBS beefing up news team

 

Col houses 'Random' pic

 

Mun2 relaunch pays off in ratings

 

H'w'd heat hits Russia

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
Feb. 3, 2006

 

Alcom, Warners renew their vows

 

Sayonara studio life

 

Hungary ups subsidies for local pix

 

Oscar Watch: Thesps added as presenters

 

Old-world spa-ahhhhhs

 

Grapes that pop

 

Pushy questions for…

 

Moving on up: penthouse apartments
in L.A.'s sky

 

Get a life

 

If you've got it, hide it

 

Pads, paws and claws

 

Sexy safety belts

 

Kevin Paul

 

Kudos focus on students

 

New Line puts up its Duke

 

Studios stake holiday dates

 

More for I-Acad exec

 

Fox locks up top slots

 

NBC picking up pair of laffer pilots

 

New act for Cowell

 

Jenson to grab NL's yule tale

 

'Lestat' bow pushed back

 

Tintori gets NYU chair

 

Endeavor loses game guy

 

The Street sees Hollywood as a dark alley

 

Aardman in Eye's sights

 

Oscar party at St. Regis

 

Tame game giant

 

More enroll in 'Potter'

 

Tribune pushes fast forward on 'Rewind'

 

Peacock ponies up for Mettler

 

Sirius Canada gets Stern

 

Pixar cooking 'Ratatouille'

 

Gore gives all for Emerging Lab

 

Irish eyes tax break

 

'Survivor' return lifts CBS

 

Otto Lang

 

Guild goes 'Beyond'

 

Bob Feldman

 

EW, AMPAS dive into pact

 

MacNair joins Misher

 

Misher nabs MacNair

 

IATSE gets 'Surprise'

 

China still after pirates

 

Scribe tribe rides with kudo favorites

 

Reviews

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection

Rebus

The Aristocrats

Knock!

Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection

Jesus Hates Me

Letters From Lehrer

The Escapologist

Homeland

Wood Brothers

American Sublime

Dionne Warwick 45th Anniversary Spectacular

The Orphan Singer

INXS

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