Table of Contents
Week of 02/12/2006

Articles

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

 

Summer likes it hot in Oz screens

 

Pan-African bird set to take wing

 

Few bows managing to wow

 

'Lost' imitators go down the hatch

 

Oxygen's fresh air

 

P'time hits middle age

 

Helmer phones it in with cell-shot feature

 

Oscar noms boost 'Munich,' 'Mountain'

 

Shorts get coin boost during fest

 

Czech studios prep for crunch

 

Danes gain on neighbors

 

Berlinale looks for best Kamera angles

 

Risky, but liberating path

 

Studios in scrimmage

 

Platform flameouts ring studios' alarms

 

Disaster posed reel challenge

 

Conan kicks it up at the Finnish line

 

Toy biz rolls out heroes welcome

 

Net set plays the percentages

 

Cowboys on familiar trail

 

Prophet and loss in media

 

Rabbit back in its hutch

 

Did the 'Bubble' burst?

 

Pellicano case recalls old 'Tale'

 

Leo, meet the other Lion…

 

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When seconds count

 

Par's topsy-turvy tie-up

 

Oscar esoterica spells trouble for kudocast

 

Sony's Gem: the nouveau niche

 

Summer blitz marks another Dimension

 

Recharge of the 'Light brigade

 

New Miramax: Battsek begins

 

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

 

Mar del Plata takes 'Bow'

 

Teddys ready for 20th b'day fete

 

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

 

Cannes can't go Wong

 

Revolutionary 'Road' release

 

Yanks steal the limelight

 

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.

 

Costumes

 

Sound Mixing

 

Sound Editing

 

Visual Effects

 

Editing

 

Cinematography

 

Art Direction

 

Song

 

Score

 

Makeup

 

Animation

 

Foreign Language

 

Documentary

 

Adapted Screenplay

 

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'

 

Clout and about

 

TV set adapts to smallest screen

 

ESPN plans male delivery

 

Promises land still on hold for U.S.

 

Struggling to find a hit

 

Jamdat buy gets EA into the game

 

Shorts can still be a long road to features

 

Prize fighters

 

Foreman contenders

 

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

 

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

 

BAFTAs dig beyond national treasures

 

'Martha' adds to recipe

 

Alphabet laffs it up

 

Koren pitch bends ears at D'works

 

'Minors' matures with trio

 

Sex has auds 'Running' to film site

 

SPC boosts Leiner with new stripes

 

Big designs on pic pair

 

Gersh lifts 3 to agent

 

Peter Benchley dies at 65

 

SB fest brings vets together

 

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

 

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

 

Correction

 

'Chita' hoofs it off of B'way

 

'Piazza' hits road in August

 

Correction

 

Burton holds puppet strings

 

Doggy dish at preem

 

Fest plays up cool factor

 

MovieBeam's back

 

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'

 

'Nice' guys have a laff

 

Warner Music Int'l taps Vien

 

Fox hunts Brit laffer

 

'Brokeback' tries street campaign

 

Political pair at Random

 

New thesp hangout at SAG

 

Fox lands 'Starship'

 

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

 

Thomas A. Stevens

 

Essie Chambers

 

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

 

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

 

Pair of exex get Eye lifts

 

Acad denies 'Now' rumors

 

FX expands promo reach

 

Rhino 'Dreams' of stars

 

Swart tapped for DVD post

 

Will Bond resolve 'Royale' pains?

 

'24' runner on Fox clock

 

Oscar bear-hugs animal fx

 

Col, Benioff share Danish

 

Set sounds get bandwidth boost

 

No 'coattail effect' this year

 

Fresh funds for Ashok

 

Fox makes 'Unanimous' decision

 

Harmonic convergence

 

The nominees

 

Oscar zigs where effects org zags

 

Marathon's Ross opens own firm

 

Pic 'Subject' to First Look

 

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

 

Keteyian has Eye on news

 

Nielsen speaks Spanish

 

Isaac Webster

 

Jessalyn Gilsig

 

Big 'Boy' heads back to Oz

 

Ricardo Chavira

 

Ganz mum on 'Dust' details

 

Taylor Handley

 

Europe pours $8 bil into local biz

 

Brit Awards fete music acts

 

Rachael Leigh Cook, Max Thieriot

 

'Idol' runs rings around Games

 

Foxtel touts 20.1% share of homes

 

EFM head evaluates mart

 

Oscar shorts set release

 

Correction

 

The scoop that roared

 

HPA to launch kudos

 

Legal eagle in big pinch

 

Julia gets 'Alex' slot, 'Joey' jumps back in

 

Docu assn. prexy elected

 

Travis tries 'Life' at TBS

 

Cablers prep 'Human' doc

 

Thesp pair light 'Night'

 

Pichirallo moves over

 

New alias for 'Buffy' scribe

 

'Pi' guy getting into U

 

A pause in the action

 

Poehler scouting Nick gig

 

Jackson in action

 

A deadly diet indeed

 

Steindorff gets 'Life' line

 

On a crash course with Walden pic

 

A big building bloc

 

Inside Move: Warner woos Dems on H'wood tour

 

Sci Fi, Engler will channel broadband

 

New scribe tribe for 'Lost'

 

ABC dolls up 'Guys' pilot

 

Par discovers 'Identity'

 

NCI fires entire union work force in Burbank office

 

Extension for 'Bridge'

 

'Continuum' ends run for road

 

Sogecable posts profits

 

Cinecitta steps into promo role

 

Roos control brings actors up to speed

 

Cinequanon nabs 'Cloud'

 

Kinowelt pacts for DVD package

 

Festgoers grab das booty bags

 

From 'Go Fish' to to gay cowboys

 

Nova TV gets in on film action

 

China nabs French-Arab war pic 'Glory'

 

Schmid prepares for 'Storm'

 

RAI embraces English-lingo fare

 

Roach toon crawls toward prod'n

 

Daytrippers buy train ticket to ride

 

City island: Where Ishtar is a big hit

 

Saura tunes into Brazil

 

Croze's role is for the 'Birds'

 

At the Bau, it's not just about the highbrow stuff

 

Spain's On Pics gets a 'Scoop'

 

Rash of deals as mart winds

 

Canada biz hopeful despite downturn

 

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

 

Is 'Male' a tall tale?

 

Radio signals crossed at XM

 

Lewis keeping busy with 'Kapers'

 

Bond getting a girlfriend

 

Oscar Watch: Thesps added to kudocast

 

'War,' 'Kong' top visual effects kudos

 

Christina Milian

 

Tyler Hoechlin

 

Michael Ajakwe Jr.

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
Feb. 17, 2006

 

Teens make a holiday 'Date'

 

Paul Guyot

 

Karyn Smith

 

Barrie M. Osborne

 

Fox Sports Int'l taps execs

 

Nickelback rakes in six Juno noms

 

Huge growth for VH1 Latin America

 

Raider goes in reverse

 

Cheney chat rocks for Fox

 

Rise of telenovelas

 

Zimbabwe zeroes in on SABC news

 

New Line revives 'World'

 

London bridged by funds

 

Lewis telethon Vegas bound

 

ShoWest high on Night

 

Flag wavers return

 

Alex Pels, Gloria Medel, Luisa Varona, Nick Rodriguez

 

Mike Reid

 

Gary Stone

 

August Kammer

 

Marybeth Strobel, Michael Connors, Katrina Cukaj

 

Adam Stewart

 

Bruce Littman

 

Mark Barron

 

Gordon Adams, Ted Smith

 

Tuesday McGowan, Chris Gliebe

 

Suzanne Ross

 

Jacqueline Charlesworth, Michael Simon

 

'Love' collars leading man

 

Steve Turney

 

Gary Holland

 

Camille Bidermann-Roizen

 

James Sullivan

 

Jeff Pryor

 

Troy Underwood

 

Greg Lindahl

 

Monologues against violence

 

Pushy questions for…

 

Don't think, just drive

 

Man vs. Zillow

 

Batting above average

 

Craving hang-ups

 

Get a life

 

A pour man's game

 

Newman races to Pixar's 'Cars'

 

'Gore' flies at Open Sky

 

WB mobilizes to distrib cell content

 

Busy Burns on 'Holiday'

 

Touchstone reups runner for 'Rodney'`

 

Rhames makes the 'Man'

 

'Hero' worship for Eye's reality pilot

 

'Desperate' for more

 

Saura's 'Iberia' opens Guadalajara

 

Pix set bows in Brussels

 

Zhang rules at Met opera

 

Supporting Actor

 

Supporting Actress

 

Feisty roles leave little room for victims

 

Lead Actor

 

Lead Actress

 

On board with 'Baby'

 

Thanks for your support

 

City gives push for tax break

 

Pilots find their lights

 

Hansen ankles MTVNI

 

Sirius racks up 1 million new subscribers

 

Olympics prevail Thursday

 

John Belluso

 

Del Courtney

 

Busy TLA acquires rights to 'Calentito'

 

Dream cars for Dream Girls

 

Styles vs. substance

 

'Cajas' makes short circuit

 

Telefilm tuning up '27' doc

 

You are where you sleep

 

Buyers crow about 'Cockatoo'

 

Talent Campus wraps on high note with Warbeck

 

Schumann cops Camera prize

 

Teddys 'Blossoming' in kudos handouts

 

Baltic states battle over split rights deals

 

Let it all hang out

 

Toon tiff: 'Offside' takes sides

 

Distribs lock up 'Guantanamo'

 

Hustle and flow

 

TW, Icahn settle

 

Utah Ground

 

Georgy Zhzhenov

 

Macy headed to San Jose fest

 

Kerry Washington

 

'Noticias' nabs No. 1 spot in Gotham

 

Nimbus nabs India cricket rights

 

Canuck confab confronts problems

 

Oz committee seeks digital delay

 

No. 2 net heads north

 

MTV's Hansen ankles

 

Khan gets prison term

 

Here! feeling 'Trapped'

 

Berlin spreads out riches

 

Growing mart keeps focus on art pix

 

A different kind of Berlin wall

 

Bosnia pic tops Berlin

 

'Haunting' opens Fantasy Fest

 

Reviews

Dusty: The Original Pop Diva

A Prairie Home Companion

...Narcissus Blossom

Ghost Valentine

Blue Swallow

The Yacoubian Building

Grbavica

My Country, My Country

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Bye Bye Berlusconi

If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far

The Times They Are A-Changin'

The Seven

V for Vendetta

Sweeney Todd -- The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Cherry Orchard

Forgiveness

All's Well That Ends Well

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later

Lapislazuli: In The Eye Of The Bear

Love Sick

El Custodio

Man About Town

Glue

Tough Enough

Eden

The Free Will

Hotel Harabati

Heaven's Doors

The Kick

Kiss and Cry

The Perfect Life

Digging for Belladonna

It's Winter

Congo River, Beyond Darkness

The Perfect Friend

Lucy

Glass Tiger 2

Herminafield: Apparitions

Cut Sleeve Boys

El Triunfo: The Beat of the Streets

Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

Just Sex And Nothing Else

18.15 From Ostkreuz

4:30

1:1

Absolute Wilson

Invisible Waves

The Road to Guantanamo

White Palms

Orchestra Seats

The Shelter

Fresh Air

Karla

American Hardcore

Land of the Blind

Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture

Taking Father Home

The Great Happiness Space: Tale of a Osaka Love Thief

Baba's Cars

Frozen City

I Love You Because

Doubt

The Velvet Sky

Golda's Balcony

Rampage

Longing

Forgiving Dr. Mengele

Candy

Memories in the Mist

Barakat!

Matthew Barney: No Restraint

The Prisoner

The Red Cockatoo

Beyond Hatred

The Murder of Isaac

Cyrus Chestnut/ Eric Reed Duo

Victoria Clark

Offside

Forest of the Gods

The Prince's Respite

Comedy of Power

Knight School

Find Me Guilty

Little Red Flowers

Isabella

Offside

Humbert Balsan Producteur Rebelle

The Last Communist

Fanny Hill

37 Uses For A Dead Sheep

We Can't Go Home Again

Chariton's Choir

The Hamiltons

Acts of Men

Homesick

The Call Of The Arena

The People's President: Man, Myth and the Media

Hitchcock Blonde

Hairspray

Heddatron

Acts of Mercy: passion-play

Barefoot in the Park

Requiem

Vacationland

Milk and Opium

I Am

Date Movie

The Second Chance



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