Summer likes it hot in Oz screens

Pan-African bird set to take wing

Few bows managing to wow

Oxygen's fresh air

P'time hits middle age

Helmer phones it in with cell-shot feature

Czech studios prep for crunch

Studios in scrimmage

Disaster posed reel challenge

Conan kicks it up at the Finnish line

Toy biz rolls out heroes welcome

Cowboys on familiar trail

Rabbit back in its hutch

Pellicano case recalls old 'Tale'

Par's topsy-turvy tie-up

Sony's Gem: the nouveau niche

Summer blitz marks another Dimension

New Miramax: Battsek begins

Biz takes dip; 'Out' 853g

Podcast links 'Women' to new outlets

Groundbreaking playwrights are a tough act to follow

Writer's block

H'w'd calls up phone confab

The rights stuff

'Lost' imitators go down the hatch

Oscar noms boost 'Munich,' 'Mountain'

Shorts get coin boost during fest

Danes gain on neighbors

Berlinale looks for best Kamera angles

Risky, but liberating path

Platform flameouts ring studios' alarms

Net set plays the percentages

Prophet and loss in media

Did the 'Bubble' burst?

Leo, meet the other Lion…

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When seconds count

Oscar esoterica spells trouble for kudocast

Recharge of the 'Light brigade

Russian TV heavy on lit classics

Win by a whisker

Down the rabbit hole

Adams tapped at ICA Projects consultant

Cinema for Peace kicks off with 'Good Night'

Canuck helmer teams with Greeks for pic

Italy's Eagle alights on pics

Korea's Mirovision spawns distrib unit

Buyers line-up for 'Wal-Mart' sales

Morena joins Ripstein's 'Carnaval'

Scandi sellers give a wow to the Bau

A 'Dolls' house

'One' vision

Pirates pilfer Oscar pix

Sellars sets out vision of artistic morality

ShoWest picks its femme star

Oscar Watch: Noms meet for eat 'n' greet

'Mongol' goes on rampage

'Particle' charged at shindig

Central Euro producers band together in biz

New Montreal fest folds

Films Distribution goes 'Home'

Greeenspan, SHIP sail into English waters

Spain's 'Heart of Earth' digs Guillory

Toei remains hair apparent in horror

Top Thai outfit bows int'l sales op, slate

Gaumont goes for hip

Yanks steal the limelight

Mar del Plata takes 'Bow'

Teddys ready for 20th b'day fete

Cannes can't go Wong

Revolutionary 'Road' release

Brits blitz Berlin

'Chief' off until mid-April

Olympics still game

'Capote' has the write stuff

Genius taps Mueller CFO

Mark Famiglietti

Tate Donovan and Josh Flitter

Costume corner

Tom Sizemore

All grown up

Lisa Ray

'Boston' at L.A. get hitched

Emma Heming

New Regency at the altar

Fest plays Santa with 'Father,' 'Noel'

Grammy good time

Real Oscar race is on -- for tickets

'Power' play in serial bowl

Oscar entries top o'seas B.O.

Sound Mixing

Sound Editing

Editing

Cinematography

Art Direction

Score

Makeup

Foreign Language

Documentary

Adapted Screenplay

Costumes

Visual Effects

Song

Animation

Original Screenplay

Director

Mad about the boys?

AFTRA has a deal on the 'Table'

IA's Aredas retires; Miller steps up

CCTA to close up shop

Seven in the game

Gauls go for 'Million Dollar'

Struggling to find a hit

Jamdat buy gets EA into the game

Foreman contenders

BAFTAs dig beyond national treasures

Koren pitch bends ears at D'works

Gersh lifts 3 to agent

SB fest brings vets together

Clout and about

TV set adapts to smallest screen

ESPN plans male delivery

Promises land still on hold for U.S.

Shorts can still be a long road to features

Prize fighters

U.S. front-runners get Brit boost from screener glut

Org's rockin' chair revamps Brit Acad's spirit

'Martha' adds to recipe

Alphabet laffs it up

'Minors' matures with trio

Sex has auds 'Running' to film site

SPC boosts Leiner with new stripes

Big designs on pic pair

Peter Benchley dies at 65

Yank pix woo Berlinale

Taiwan star Chou inks for Zhang pic

France's Huth responds to 'Hellphone'

ABC biggies top Olympics

Korea's iHQ brandishes 'Sword'

CMC's 'Silk' weaves into the global marketplace

New Korean quotas draw ire of Jang, Park

Torino Piemonte taps new topper

Russian producer preps war pic

Kinderfest grows up as kidvid gets hot

Sogepaq pacts with Italo Lady

'Pleasure' pic crosses GreenStreet's Pathe

Nowhere in Amerika? Net saves German pix

On Pic exec hangs out his shingle

Noury's take on Latino mafia

Strand lands Mexican pic

'Last' is first for Schepisi

Koreans cut H'wood coin

Russia curbs TV commercials

Bertolucci sings 'Bel Canto'

Five finally finds 'Love' with HBO

Olympics lift Seven

Local MTV to bow

Hammer hits Horie

Trigon follows up Emmy doc

Akira Ifukube

T. Mason, C. Brooks, L. Esparza, J.R. McCabe

Sara Rosales

David Leepson

Matthew Rodriguez

Adam Granite

Linda Abrams, Maury Leitner

Kathy Davidov

Alexander Carson Habeeb

Kate Margaret Seales, Jack Kelly Seales

Jett Francis Kirkland

Tom Amundsen

Comedy route for fest faves

Co-Prod'n Mart brings it all together

Fund puts the focus on hope

Global piracy bill is $30 bil

InterMedia, QED link up on four pics

It's 'Elementary'

Recalling America the dutiful

B'w'y finds coin in 'Hole'

Silver medalist

Correction

AOL cops Kutcher's Net skeins

CBC cancels 3 low-rated skeins

Composers sound off

Digital school to open in Estonia

Oz feevees fall short on local content

'Royal!' opening for French film showcase

Lunch bunch

Tech kudos to Lucas

'Stunt' act

Zeitgeist 'Mountain' comes to the masses

Par unit heats up over global warming

CW staffing creates waves

Foley feted with humanitarian award

NYU fest sets March Fusion

'Chita' hoofs it off of B'way

Doggy dish at preem

MovieBeam's back

'Nice' guys have a laff

Fox hunts Brit laffer

New thesp hangout at SAG

Fox lands 'Starship'

Benchley, novelist who wrote 'Jaws,' dies at 65

Correction

'Piazza' hits road in August

Correction

Burton holds puppet strings

Fest plays up cool factor

Taper tastes 'Cherry'

Trio feted for rights stuff

Thesp linked to the 'Past'

Layoffs on tap at Activision

Feds fill up praisers' tills

'Gangster' redux

Weinsteins plan 'Escape'

Warner Music Int'l taps Vien

'Brokeback' tries street campaign

Political pair at Random

Bay boards next 'Friday'

Olympics game on Monday

Rinkel, Neue Impuls cook up 'Recipe'

Valverde inks for 'Sandman'

'Birds' flies in Berlin

Nadira

Winterbottom's Revolution strikes deal with U.K.'s C4

DeAPlaneta trips on 'Shrooms'

Shorts jury shouts 'Never'

X Filme freaks over Celluloid pic

TLA joins 'Feed' frenzy

'Teenage' kicks into U.S.

Dutch 'Zoo Rangers' zip up distrib deals

RAI pours it on for 'Pompei'

Boespflug's not buying until case closes

EFEA opens new doors

Vinterberg: Forget the Dogme

One flu over the cuckoo's nest

Fortissimo goes Dutch -- again

Oscar host can't please 'em all, so why worry?

L.A.'s Italian fest pumped

B'cast ad revs losing ground to Net, pay TV

Latido racks up deals for Bauer's Falklands drama

Von Schiller: Pics click in Panorama

Mobile maneuvers

'Conversations' strike Lightning

'Water' springs pix on earth, wind, fire

Euro B.O. in the dumps on heels of boffo 2004

Tyro helmer on Campus

Brazil unveils promo push

Smith to unveil Sony's film web

K Sera Sera offering shares

Cabler ImaginAsian goes 'Green' with distrib arm

More shares issued Praiser for Chum TV

A lifestyle change

New 'Allah' doc ready to raise a ruckus

Endemol on demand

Houellebecq: This time I'm doing the film moi-meme

Pix pump up Conspiracao slate

Feds teed off at China

Darry Cowl

'Bambi II' dear on DVD

Sagging Olympics still lift web to win

ProSieben's not for sale

Roissy strikes up band with Israeli film pickup

Barrington Stage tunes up sked

TNT king with 'Kong'

Animated Shochiku

'Superman' toy line soars

Ferrari to drive Italo producer org

Market's a rootin' Teuton

Nielsen gives it the old college try

Dave Tatsuno

Focus fulfills 'Promises'

Phil Brown

Prison pic packs punch

Profit download

Mary English, Deb Miller

Jon Wank

Greg Patterson, Amy Larson

Eugenie Tsai

Sharif Ali

Jennifer Suttlemyre

John Rieber, Scott Bantle, Julie Fields

Cheryl Brink

Victoria Quoss

Essie Chambers

Thomas A. Stevens

History fans can happily Zone out

'Mack,' 'Magic,' 'Mother' and maestros fill bill

It's the pictures that got small

Putting past to rest

The son also riles

Kudo for Olympics bow

'Scrubs' guy will operate on 'Moms'

Stuart W. Phelps

Richard Shore

Rick Young

Kelly Butler

Wayne Goldstein

Movieguide fetes Boone

Floral Headdress Ball set for April 21

Euro Indie Film Fest slated for March 25-26

ATAS presents a night with 'Earl'

Streep feted with Coolidge Award

Rhose Island fest accepting entries

AFI enjoys 'Silence'

NASCAR, MagicDust calling 'Angels'

Genius to distribute Liberation titles

Pair of exex get Eye lifts

FX expands promo reach

Rhino 'Dreams' of stars

'24' runner on Fox clock

Col, Benioff share Danish

Set sounds get bandwidth boost

Fresh funds for Ashok

Harmonic convergence

The nominees

Pic 'Subject' to First Look

Bravo inks for Plum push

NATPE taps co-chair pair

Microsoft payment buoys Real

Wayne Kazan

'School' enrolls helmer

Stone has Homes all locked up

Mandalay 'Wild' about pic reteam

Acad denies 'Now' rumors

Swart tapped for DVD post

Will Bond resolve 'Royale' pains?

Oscar bear-hugs animal fx

No 'coattail effect' this year

Fox makes 'Unanimous' decision

Oscar zigs where effects org zags

Marathon's Ross opens own firm

Wide open 'Road' for Blighty pic

GoldCrest scanning fests

Warner taps PPW

MOMA to showcase Vigo winner pics

'ET' big in syndie ratings

Nash feted with PMDA Visionary Award

'Spamalot' moving in

'Idol,' 'House' smash Olympics

Here! tracks down 'Cheyenne'

Bauhaus vs. Ballhaus

Polish-German co-development fund hatches

East European buyers drawn to 'Yamato'

Istituto Luce won't say 'Goodbye'

Lionsgate touts 'First Descent'

Org aids funding for Teuton film biz

Bac takes 'Nightwatch'

Greenhouse under fire

Wise Policy swipes 'Candy'

Bond producers name a nemesis

Golden Bear for Wajda

Gondry, Becker field questions

Kosslick revels in fest's challenges

Prinzler feted with Berlinale Camera

Universum focuses on 'Earth'

Matabane continues trilogy

D.C.'s piracy barbs find mark in China

Panel explores Baltics co-prod'n

Puttnam to draw BAFTA's top nod

Mogul ups RDF stake

SPAA shifting sked

Kiwis, S. Africa pact

Cell hell for TV biz

Biz confab talking politics

Haggis survives 'Crash,' 'Shoot Out'

Rizoma, Control-Z team for pic

Andreas Katsulas

Mandate sees wonders with 'Mr. Magorium'

Producer, Talent Campus alum form LeeLee Films

Russian Nights fest gets L.A. berth

Cannes market head checks out the competish

Sky Perfect, JSat in merger talks

South American exhib quota proposed

Polish, Slovak film orgs join EFP

The monkey lands on top

Seven Net to build south Oz complex

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