Table of Contents
Week of 02/26/2008

Articles

Sky Italia wins Olympic double

 

Portugal launches DTT tenders

 

Warner boosts Bruijnen in Benelux

 

Chloe Moretz

 

Turturro joins 'Christmas Story'

 

Odeon survives rumble with 'Rambo'

 

North Korea sends Clapton an invite

 

WWE teams with MyNetwork TV

 

Europe rewards Oscar champs

 

'No Country' expands theater count

 

Moonves: Strike actually helped

 

Viewers sweet on 'Raisin in the Sun'

 

Overture nabs 'Sunshine Cleaning'

 

Controversial Indian film heads South

 

'Pigs' reels in a box office trophy

 

Trio book dance with 'Mao'

 

Lindelof, Cuse to speak at NAB

 

Prepping for a SAG strike

 

Thailand probes bribes

 

Disney launches VOD in China

 

Cerone leaves 'Dexter' for 'Money'

 

VOD is free on Eros' third platform

 

'Wire' files obit for newspapers

 

Tribute to bow Loach's 'Free World'

 

Magnolia's Magnet attracts 'One'

 

FCC auction called 'disaster'

 

Mostow, Virgin team on 'Megas'

 

Writers endorse new three-year deal

 

Showest bets on '21' cast

 

Correction

 

DreamWorks pushes back 'Dragon'

 

'Idol' wins over Oscar in ratings

 

Judge allows 'Dateline' lawsuit

 

Africa hires its own 'Apprentice'

 

SABC uses GPS to track fee dodgers

 

Florida forecasts production swell

 

Showcase fast tracks foreign talents

 

Kutcher, Banks producing ABC series

 

FX, Farrellys team to push 'Unhitched'

 

Sadie Leigh Kahane

 

Colette Zoe Lamoureux

 

TMZ to launch onto MySpaceTV

 

First Look takes 'Transsiberian'

 

'Macbeth' rises from the 'Dead'

 

Dwayne Johnson to play 'Tooth Fairy'

 

Disney planning 'Step Up 3-D'

 

Paul Rust to star in 'Beth Cooper'

 

Warner Bros. to serve 'Justice' in '09

 

'Pride and Glory' delay stirs up fray

 

NBC shuts down 'Las Vegas'

 

Shannon Guiniven and Todd Berger

 

Shebnem Askin and Charles Schreger

 

Film Group hails China film business

 

Emmys may add reality host award

 

'Wave Riders' takes Dublin prize

 

'Dragon Hunters' to open Cartoon

 

Central Partnership boosts revenue

 

Alicia Witt

 

EC hits Microsoft with record fine

 

Catalonia sets up $11 million fund

 

Johnson's 'Sleep' walks to the top

 

Audiences don't flip for 'Quarterlife'

 

Showest honors Christopher Nolan

 

Nielsen group taps Byrne

 

Sierra Boggess a child of showbiz

 

IMG, Tollin team for Slamball league

 

Dick Clark Prods. taps Orly Adelson

 

Relativity pacts big with Universal

 

Drummer Buddy Miles dies at 60

 

Porter tuner bowing at King's Head

 

Starz to air six original documentaries

 

Miami festival's global stature grows

 

AFI will receive $10,000 grant

 

CMT picks up 'Spouses,' 'Nanny 911'

 

Studio 100 to distribute EM library

 

'Golden Compass' is big in Japan

 

Writer S. Rangarajan dies

 

Fox 2000 picks up 'Wimpy Kid'

 

Magnolia gets 'Bigger, Stronger'

 

Goldberg renews O'Neill contract

 

Alex Frost, J.K. Simmons

 

John Patrick Amedori

 

Steve Byrne

 

News Corp and Liberty make swap

 

Films poised to make waves at GIFF

 

William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82

 

Texas honors ZZ Top, Mike Judge

 

Zucker offers insight to NBC's future

 

British public loves 'Bourne'

 

Disney joins 'Band' wagon

 

'Jersey' shores up Chicago run

 

Guadalajara to honor Bertha Navarro

 

Hancock headlines Playboy fest

 

Italy's animation fest draws on Asia

 

Directors team up for 'Detectives'

 

'Bienvenue' breaks box office records

 

Guadalajara's five-year plan

 

BBC collaborates with China for doc

 

Festival sets Soviet retrospective

 

EU ends probe into VRT financing

 

Musexpo comes to West Hollywood

 

CBS picks up three drama pilots

 

Morreale to host 'Can You Duet'

 

Mexican tube titans take to the theater

 

TNT, TBS nab pack of WB films

 

Film greenlights in limbo

 

Crackle gets new general manager

 

Fortissimo picks up rights to 'Gloss'

 

Mexican films in the pipeline

 

Local films look to mini distributors

 

Mexico's industry back from the brink

 

Major Cineplex profits leap

 

BBC taps trio of execs for India duty

 

Rose d'Or attracts record entries

 

Antena 3 to remake 'Life on Mars'

 

Fincham replaces Shaps at ITV1

 

Telecinco leads Euro broadcasters

 

Virgin reports increased losses

 

Facebook bans 'Untraceable' page

 

CME achieves best ever earnings

 

Craig Bierko

 

CTC sees profits rise by 28%

 

U.K. censor bans serial killer film

 

Dolan dismisses Rainbow speculation

 

Sony sells Potsdamer Platz site

 

Yahoo battling shareholder suits

 

CBS punches up Saturday nights

 

'Idol' cruises on Wednesday

 

London's 'Falling' blurs the line

 

Univision sells music division

 

Highmore to voice comic 'Astro Boy'

 

TV feeds into U.S. inferiority complex

 

Media partners create Fuse-AEG

 

New Line in Warner's corner

 

1967: Robertson ready to work

 

Viacom continues comeback

 

China producing TV glut

 

Hollywood puts focus on China

 

ShoWest celebrates Lee's Freedom

 

France Television feels ad loss

 

ABC renews reality fare

 

Jeff Melvoin

 

Tom Palmer

 

Karen Janszen

 

John Doyle

 

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

 

Toby Keith sets 'Beer for My Horses'

 

Italy names 100 film treasures

 

'Rent' to kick off a new national tour

 

Live Nation narrows 4th qtr. loss

 

Liberty Ent. to launch next week

 

'Semi-Pro' looks to score at box office

 

Critics decry Canada tax credit plan

 

Al-Qaeda takes aim at Dutch filmmaker

 

SAG sets date for action

 

Sony TV pacts with J.B. Smoove

 

Feds file WGA embezzling case

 

Spain's Cuatro high on U.S. shows

 

Fox importing two British sitcoms

 

Universal ups Goore, adds senior VPs

 

LA Phil director's 17th season is last

 

French Method right for India's DQ

 

Co-founder sells off A-Film stake

 

'The Deal' to open Sarasota festival

 

LA to host first Brazilian film fest

 

Korean film industry hot for sequels

 

NBC pulls the plug on 'Quarterlife'

 

Helen Rose McLean

 

Rebecca Greenberg and Jordan Rapp

 

Eli Jerome Gershovich

 

'Scrubs' skirmish

 

Memorial for Perry Lopez to be held

 

Apatow sets 'Five-Year Engagement'

 

Cannes premiere for 'Indiana Jones'?

 

Warner label signs 'Once' duo

 

Games, TV, telecoms lift Vivendi

 

Central Partnership nabs French trio

 

Hincks to head Endemol

 

Lelouch's 'Gare' adds to destinations

 

Kinepolis profits up 0.6%

 

Saffron Burrows

 

U.S. thrillers take aim at Europe

 

Jones grabs 'Flint' for Material

 

Capitol names Thompson exec VP

 

'Lyrics' hits highest notes yet

 

IATSE, AMPTP set negotiation date

 

Cockroach invades news show

 

NY Philharmonic visits North Korea

 

Schwarzenegger rewards students

 

Pakistan deals with YouTube fallout

 

Oscars cap an awards tally rally

 

Diablo's in the details on Showtime

 

Olympics, election to soften ad blow

 

Take-Two deal helps vidgame stocks

 

All eyes on Kimmel-Affleck video

 

Chinese writers voice pent-up angst

 

Prime minister debate reigns in Spain

 

Hollywood braces for June gloom

 

Show will go on for Shaye, Lynne

 

Actors debate their right to vote

 

Aussie documakers downbeat

 

Hong Kong in radio daze

 

Debates keep networks in Fox hunt

 

Australian films set for rebound

 

TV tangled up in web

 

Ultimate Fighting wins over audiences

 

Oscar could lift 'Country,' 'Blood'

 

Mumblecore goes mainstream

 

'Rose' kickstarts new wave of biopics

 

Canstage tries to kick misfortune

 

'Hydra' pits America against UK

 

EMI sings praise of 'Together'

 

Gershon, McCormack join 'Boeing'

 

Lure of TV saps Iranian film prestige

 

Bewkes addresses New Line staff

 

WWE stars make film crossover

 

Youtube block causes global outage

 

Iraq journalists union chief dies

 

Arab gov'ts accused of TV censorship

 

D.C. pays tribute to August Wilson

 

Bollywood gets its own TV channel

 

'Wicked' tops puny sales

 

Filmax lines up film credit

 

'Mermaid' fishes up decent numbers

 

'Misha' biography revealed as fiction

 

Briefs requested for Anti-Hillary doc

 

VOD revs set to hit $10 bil by 2012

 

Has Academy's vote gotten too rote?

 

Is Oscar showing his age?

 

Diller looks to vidgame universe

 

Mobiles dial up stage numbers

 

A 'Lost' civilization?

 

Majors vow to reclaim Oscar spotlight

 

Britian's Sci to lay off 25%

 

French distrib Bac scores four pics

 

Spain's Vocento posts solid figures

 

NBC Universal promotes Bohm

 

XM, Sirius delay merger talks

 

IM adds Prestel to exec board

 

Til's 'Knights' gets Bayern backing

 

'Beautiful' thesps win at ACTRAs

 

'Semi-Pro' dribbles to #1

 

Coldplay announces Japan concert

 

'Semi-Pro' soft, but nets top spot

 

Ellen Page drops out of Raimi's 'Hell'

 

Conway Twitty's children sue Sony

 

Tim Allen's 'Crazy' gig

 

Cotillard wins Czech Lion

 

495 Prods. taps Tappon

 

NEHST releases 'Running'

 

'Dark Oz' to be screen trilogy

 

Neve Campbell

 

Tom Sizemore

 

Master P

 

Jill Marie Jones, Earthquake

 

Post-strike TV production ramps up

 

Pellicano trial to begin this week

 

Oscar bounce renews 'Old Men'

 

'Jumper' still overseas champ

 

Fate of New Line films unclear

 

Rutles to reunite

 

Cotillard shares her Sept. 11 views

 

AFTRA takes aim at SAG

 

Sato named Kadokawa president

 

Japanese cops arrest porn censors

 

Chungmuro launches int'l competition

 

MPA pacts with Microsoft, tudou.com

 

'Daily Bread' sets house record

 

Dane joins 'Marley & Me'

 

ABC tunes in to Thune

 

Nick at Nite loves 'Chris'

 

ABC heads to 'High School'

 

Orange launches finance arm

 

Tribeca Institute folds in arts org

 

Cairo festival reinstates Dutch film

 

Media may gain from Russian shift

 

Canal Plus profits climb 12%

 

Virgin mulls channel sale

 

CP sells 10 Russian films

 

U.K. pirates would heed ISP warning

 

Amy Pietz

 

Napper to head Curzon Cinemas

 

Italy pays tribute to Magnani

 

Jason Isaacs joins Greengrass thriller

 

O'Neill Theater honors Simon

 

BBC: Hells Angels took aim at Jagger

 

Guitarist Jeff Healey dies at 41

 

Stars align for 'Idol Gives Back'

 

Comstock returns to GE post

 

Directors, cast set for 'Fear Itself'

 

'Big' start for Oprah on ABC

 

Pakistan takes baby steps to filmdom

 

Man to head Burnett Prods. Asia

 

EMI branches division arms

 

France 2 on upward swing

 

Exec shuffle roundup

 

TNT primes primetime originals push

 

Singapore TV group expands reach

 

Strike, ratings slip lead to CW layoffs

 

UTV's 'Akbar' nabs box office

 

TWC options 'No Woman No Cry'

 

Singer Mike Smith dies at 64

 

'Rent' hits the road

 

CMT reels in reality reruns

 

Albuquerque Studios in next phase

 

Coens' 'Burn' to open wide

 

WMA pacts for online investment fund

 

The Oscar contenders collection

 

'Hot Tin Roof' tops cooling Broadway

 

Sony's Blu-ray gamble pays off

 

MPAA canines to dog movie pirates

 

Redford gets ShoWest honor

 

'Trumbo' to open Full Frame Festival

 

Home video format war just beginning

 

TV director Herbert Kenwith dies

 

Emilio Ferrari drives 'For Love Alone'

 

Arthur 'Jack' Wodell Jr. dies at 79

 

Walter M. Windsor dies at 89

 

Lionel Mark Smith, actor, dies at 62

 

Sidney Beckerman, producer, dies

 

Lohman replaces Page in 'Hell'

 

ABC wants Crawford for 'Good,' 'View'

 

Patredis joins new agency

 

Hollywood 'Snow' scene

 

Warner adopts 'Beautiful Children'

 

Maverick TV closes shop

 

Raboy takes wheel of 'Tow Truck'

 

Alec Baldwin steps into 'Lymelife'

 

Paramount developing tenor's tale

 

NBC sets Sorvino for 'Last Templar'

 

Praiser books time with Portfolio

 

CBS snags 'Single White Millionaire'

 

'Away From Her' tops Genie Awards

 

Reviews

On an Average Day

Janet Jackson - 'Discipline'

Victoria Shaw: Under the Covers

Unhitched

Cat's Cradle

Cortex

The Bodybuilder and I

Forever the Moment

The Seed

Flipping Out

Cover

Guilty

Static

Military Intelligence and You!

Row Hard No Excuses

Artfuckers

A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

American Idol: The boys are back in town

Patapon

Missy Higgins

Vaclav

Half Life

The Last Emperor

Oprah's Big Give