Table of Contents
Week of 03/19/2006

Articles

Mouse House hires film head for India

 

TWI aims to bag Tiger

 

But is it opera?

 

Blue skies ahead for Blighty TV blurbs

 

Venue's second act

 

B.O. rises; 'Jersey' 997g

 

Biz up; 'Spamalot' hits road

 

B'way's kung-fu kickoff

 

Horizons expands musical range

 

Sexta throws bow bash in Spain

 

India's auds win right to pick bouquet

 

New dance craze

 

Arena set to score with soccer

 

Doc swaps black bag for crime kit

 

Koreans resist digital cable switch

 

Pols give BBC its daily bread

 

Filmart branches out

 

Televisa Cine says adios

 

Spring brings insights

 

Where reality TV's truth lies

 

Nonprofit orgs take on Spanish-lingo pic push

 

A potent 'Flavor'

 

'Crash' bounces back in Spain re-release

 

Hong Kong eyes bankroll

 

Back in the saddle

 

'Babe' helmer back with Beatrix

 

Silver in action, with a twist

 

Exhibs suit up for combat

 

Rights fight redrawn

 

Riding the tide

 

PGA veep checking biz's credit cards

 

Oscar divides and unites…

 

Topical heat wave

 

MPAA trips on math

 

Moniker meltdown

 

Basic deal brings fracas into focus

 

Martin hands media an indecent proposal

 

U sets doubles match

 

Scrutinizing Grey's anatomy

 

Is big deal worth the big bucks?

 

Grey's anatomy

 

Schedule of events

 

Online media crashes nets' party

 

Dick Wolf's telco testimony

 

Message gets massaged

 

Phoneman rings for H'wood

 

Masked man's mixed message

 

London calls cops

 

Confab catches Latin fever

 

'Devil' draws an art crowd

 

Diesel fueled up

 

Real man of La Mancha

 

Andrea Roth

 

Barry Bostwick

 

Lauren German

 

Ian Bohen

 

Kristen Johnston

 

Brian Krause

 

'Master' a go at Fortissimo

 

Guthrie announces slate

 

Killer sets sights on Hollywood

 

Thesps join in Bardathon

 

Gaga over gadgets

 

USC lands design cache

 

Martin explains indecency

 

Searchlight casts wider beam

 

'Host' finds Japan distrib

 

'Garpastum' wins Sofia fest

 

U.K. police in piracy raids

 

Site unites brands, shows

 

Human rights fest fetes pix

 

MPA, other orgs to fight Mexico piracy

 

Fox rolling out more d'oh

 

MPA hosting Beijing film workshop

 

Madness on the march online

 

'Pink' sinks 'V' launch

 

U.K. leads in DTV uptake

 

Sony's 'Boss' being remade at Caracol TV

 

Discovery Kids parts with NBC

 

Chris O'Donnell

 

Pan-Asian 'War' looks golden at FilMart

 

The clown prince of Gaul

 

Media Asia to bow slate

 

Weinsteins do bunny hop

 

Pacino back in the Wilde

 

New Line in 'Trout' pond

 

Zingy dials up cell-phone content

 

Animus fulfills 'Prophecy'

 

Bigfoot moves forward on 'Irreversi'

 

Par to carve 'Stone'

 

Thesps go to 'Town'

 

Par sells DreamWorks library to Soros

 

Hellman goes west

 

ATAS honors college TV

 

Miami bows to 'Queens'

 

Scanbox buys DVS

 

Sundream preps 4 pics

 

Asian biz seeks out new coin

 

U.S. takes stake in Livedoor

 

Bowen steps up to lead Sony BMG Music

 

Tartan takes 'Driving Lessons'

 

'Grey's' and 'Home' lift ABC

 

Quebec kudos just 'C.R.A.Z.Y.' for pic

 

Galled by language

 

Oz 'Lennon' exits early

 

Premier on a Euro TV kick

 

Arclight wins Wu's 'Waiting'

 

Coin heads to TV

 

Austrian web circled

 

The Donald excels at marketing Trump card

 

Ireland's 6 channels skeins

 

Playbill set to bow label

 

'Golf' tees off at McCarter Theater

 

Brits take on Off Broadway

 

Springtime for B'way boasts B.O. boost

 

Signature pens lineup for new stages

 

Producers rag on SAG

 

1962: 'Cleo' meets delays

 

Taking a whack

 

'Guantanamo' grabbed

 

'News' wins at Mar del Plata fest

 

Pellicano speaks up

 

Two taking pilot plunge

 

'Brokeback' vid date April 4

 

New Nelson, Gurney plays on the Horizons

 

Eye banks on Verizon deal

 

MTV2 dips toes in toons

 

Documaker will be Par's 'Every' man

 

Wolf sounds alarm

 

XM beams record deal

 

A starry ShoWest

 

Thesp joins 'Nativity' scene

 

Critters rule at these kudos

 

For the health of it

 

Partying in 'Sloane' zone

 

Pair pack pic punch

 

Ice, ice baby

 

Warner lifts Lin to sr. VP

 

Fox locks in Erwich

 

'Home' fire burning for U, Imagine

 

Adult Swim in bigger pool

 

Sony ups marketing duo

 

Producer sues Miramax over 'Chicago'

 

Style dressed to help

 

Colbert riffs put to paper

 

Toon shop parks coin with Goldman Sachs

 

Almodovar's 'Volver' loaded

 

BBC yanked from Japan

 

'Deal,' 'Christine' shine Monday

 

Spanish pix shine at Malaga

 

Anselmo Colzani

 

Bill Beutel

 

Oleg Cassini

 

Night of 'Cabiria' an event at Cannes

 

Mobilizing Content

 

Mip names finalists

 

Sprockets Next up

 

Target, HBO pin 'Pinochet' pact

 

DeAPlaneta topper ankles

 

Inside Move: Cincy in good 'Company'

 

Vik's on a Viv U kick

 

Correction

 

Tribeca's rocking

 

B'way 'Hour' draws near

 

Frosh flourish in spring fling

 

U.S. not hooked on mobile phone extras

 

Syndie mags reap post-Oscars boost

 

Oater docu lassoes a distrib

 

CW net signs 6 more affils

 

Gallic bill bites for Apple

 

Windows rattled

 

ESPN sports PR changes

 

New topper for Oz film institute

 

'Dusty' moves on for Sydney run

 

Cablers resist Verizon

 

Lionsgate pacts with Oz's Nine net

 

Andrei Petrov

 

Hartog to run Oz docu conference

 

'Exile' finds home at Lau's Focus

 

Pics, series pack Lifetime's upfront

 

Allyson Terry-Goldsby

 

Alan Bell

 

Roger Widynowski

 

Michael Reinert

 

Derek Chang

 

Randy Nellis

 

Ted Hong

 

Diane J. Almodovar

 

Gregg Liebman and Keith Berkelhamer

 

Carol Hinnant

 

Patricia Brown

 

Borja Perez

 

Matthew Cowan

 

Marc Brandon

 

Heather Baldino

 

David Eckoff and Tonia Lee

 

Jason Brown

 

Rita Street

 

Kerstin Guehne

 

Lucy Sabini

 

Mary Ann Wolf and Meredith Ahr

 

Ziba Kaboli

 

Jeffrey Shapiro

 

Robert Kaplan

 

Griffin Gmelich

 

David Weier and Tricia O'Leary

 

Dana M. Harris

 

Zeitgeist laps up 'Lunacy'

 

Thesp adopts Par's 'Dog'

 

Eye markets content to grocery shoppers

 

First Look drives to Ventura for $20 mil

 

U has 'Stars' in its eyes

 

Inside Move: Agencies no longer endeavoring to wed

 

U finds man of steal for 'Thief' feature

 

Gilbert boarding 'Bus'

 

'Refs' reaches New Line goalpost

 

'Hip-Hop' doc busts cops

 

Spike keeps 'Fighting'

 

'Hoot' scoots to May debut

 

Pair rise for 'Waketime'

 

Duo scrubs in at NBC U

 

ABC's May 'Anatomy'

 

ITV rejects suitor

 

Film pair get some 'Air' in China

 

ACT spells out 40th anni season

 

Hong Kong forum pumps coin

 

Fox's 'Idol' in overdrive

 

Loy Ann Hale

 

Sam Atticus Fink

 

Griffin Alexander Cote

 

Shelby Reese Allen

 

Justin Andrew Weiss

 

Sadie Tanner Rose Bernstein

 

Jones Arthur Dickerson

 

Stephanie Michelle HarrisonBirth

 

Brooke Langton

 

William Sadler

 

Josh Stamberg

 

John Griffin

 

Morgan Fairchild

 

'School' is in session

 

Blighty Universal deal in the Works

 

Canuck funder exits Paris

 

French pix head to China's Poly Bona

 

Culture, Shinseido link on disc stores

 

'Tsotsi' win can't sway funding org

 

Sogepaq makes 'Bed'

 

Troma will phone in horror clips

 

Sony BMG logs digital duo

 

IPO a peek into Bertelsmann

 

Blighty backs biz with tax relief plan

 

'Dove' takes flight again

 

MTV meets the press

 

Inside Move: ABC, CNN in prime Times

 

Lionsgate in its Element

 

Passage to India

 

Mets net in Verizon pact

 

HBO warms to 'Too Hot'

 

Channing Pollock

 

Dolan, NFL draft accord

 

NBC's in the Thicke of it

 

Investors to fuel India media boom

 

Eisner chats up Mouse exec

 

Glendale investigating runaway prod'n

 

Sarasota to fete Altman

 

Gersh makes play for pigskin biz

 

Bonds shifts his stance

 

Pitch perfect to New Line

 

This Land is your Land

 

Counting on 'Slevin'

 

Lee's 'Inside' story

 

Gotham jams with 'Jim'

 

Bristol pic is 'Fare' game

 

U backlot a hot property

 

Warners lifts homevid exec

 

Harden down for 'Drift'

 

Prince plugs '3121'

 

U, Lovefilm blaze trail in U.K.

 

Danish pubcaster taps Jensen

 

Grupo Pi falls for 'Amor' drama

 

'Others,' 'Requiem' chase Lolas

 

'Evidence,' 'Heist' open meekly

 

Britt Lomond

 

Nine, Sony ink for series, minis

 

Robert Carlyle

 

Jane Kaczmarek

 

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

 

D.J. Cotrona

 

Oliver Hudson

 

Peter Care

 

Columbus Short

 

Oz's Film Finance to fund more pix

 

FilMart sees record 4,000 buyers

 

Peter Myers

 

Gotham mulls artist aid

 

1973: Brando says 'No' to Oscar

 

'Vicious' witticisms a blast from the past

 

Burnett to present Miller nod

 

Cabler's newsies rise

 

Banff unveils speaker slate

 

Westwood leads Peltier supporters

 

Emmy life nod to Greenspan

 

Tribeca kids around

 

'60' surfs younger turf

 

MyNetwork makes new friends

 

Meyerink gets life kudos

 

B/W/R kicks off homevid unit

 

Crime rates falling

 

AFA gets coin

 

Univision boosters

 

Bleeding vidtailer cuts jobs

 

'Smoking' buddies ink Searchlight pact

 

The 'Inside' track

 

Febiofest starts tour in Prague

 

Execs check crystal ball

 

Pushy questions for…

 

Industrial-strength waterfront living

 

'Monkey' man back at CBS

 

Web distrib nabs 'Street'

 

Your chariot awaits

 

Get a life

 

'Def' players taking root at HBO

 

Universal does discs, downloads

 

Meat and greet

 

Eye's joining a 'Book Club'

 

Nickelodeon touts ties to Japan

 

NBCU lining up mobile content

 

DWI meets DWP

 

How to Wear: The tennis sweater

 

Spring's White Squall

 

Fox lifts Mashariki to VP

 

Heaton on track for Buena Vista yakker

 

Gold circles 'Fiance' script

 

The 'Farce' is with Jackson

 

'Celebrity Poker' plays New Orleans card

 

Woody runs to 'Walker'

 

Inside Move: Tome nettles TV biz

 

Stars flock to Boston play readings

 

ITV hopes riding on 'Con'

 

U gets going on 'Gangster'

 

Cast puts life into 'Dead'

 

Fox orders up more 'Bones'

 

Inside Move: Katzenberg waves bye-bye to bonuses

 

Inside Move: Ad pact extension likely

 

Icon, Infinity partnering on pic 'Push'

 

Poor sport or pitifully underpaid?

 

Helmer gets 'Dream House'

 

Swedish Institute taps Elwin

 

Lewis mixes Gambon into 'Baker'

 

Tight race on Thursday

 

Pio Leyva

 

Rex Partington

 

David Blume

 

Joseph Bova

 

Missing funds case nets 3 TV exex

 

RTL Group net profit up 46.7%

 

Scanbox snaps up DVS Ent. distrib

 

Record attendance at Adelaide fest

 

Vlasta Dryak Kankel

 

Rhoda Williams

 

Reviews

A Short Film About The Indio Nacional (Or The Prolonged Sorrow Of Filipinos)

Altman on Altman

Obedience, Struggle & Revolt: Lectures On Theater

The Film Snob's Dictionary

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography

Teachers

The Evidence

Heist

The Bacchae of Baghdad

The Best of Friends

The Taming of the Shrew

Swollen Tongues

The Pogues

As You Like It: A California Concoction

SXSW Music Festival

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Minimalist Jukebox -- the Orb

A Night in November

Not Clown

Children of a Lesser God

Slither

Cesaria Evora

Bukowsical!

Assassins

Akeelah and the Bee

Man From Nebraska

Company

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy

One Fine Day

The Women of Mount Ararat

Sentenced Home

El Cantor

A Year in My Life

Unanimous

Art Brut

The Stones

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Terry Riley: In C

Maxed Out

The West Wittering Affair

Bunker Paradise

American Dreamz

Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

My Best Enemy

Floor 17

Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads

Lili and the Baobab

Try Me

Fearless

Eugene Onegin

Lysistrata, or the Nude Goddess

Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King

The Caiman

My Brother's Wife

The Park Avenue Whirl

Cheech

The Peach Season

Do You Want to Know a Secret?

The White Planet

Ten Canoes

The Property Known as Garland

The Lord of the Rings

Girl of My Dreams

Finding Nemo

Stay Alive

Minotaur

A Chinese Tall Story

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

Tailenders

The Maid

The Walworth Farce


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