Table of Contents
Week of 02/12/2006

Articles

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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