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TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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NBC U topper touts b'cast nets' potential
Cabler revenue, profits, share dividend up
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Fox feud trips Cablevision
Rainbow Media on track for 2nd quarter spinoff
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Mart leaves buyers wanting more
Sales steady but blockbusters were few
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Disney cues up Texas theater teacher pic
'Erin Brockovich' scribe to write inspirational feature
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TODAY'S FILM NEWS
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'Darko' director Kelly's next: 'Corpus Christi'
Richard Kelly will next write and helm the contemporary thriller
"Corpus Christi," a departure into a more traditional narrative for
the "Donnie Darko" director.
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Scorsese, DiCaprio reteam on 'Wall Street'
Martin Scorsese is back on board to direct "The Wolf of Wall Street"
with Leonardo DiCaprio starring in the long-gestating adaptation of
Jordan Belfort's memoir.
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Halle Berry re-joins 'New Year's Eve'
Halle Berry has re-joined Garry Marshall's romantic comedy "New Year's
Eve" and will portray a nurse.
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Madame Tussaud pic in the works
Madame Tussaud is getting her own lifelike reproduction on the
bigscreen: Stephane Sperry has come on to produce "Madame T," a biopic
of the famous wax-figure artist and revolutionary.
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TODAY'S TELEVISION NEWS
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Adrianne Palicki is NBC's Wonder Woman
"Friday Night Lights" thesp Adrianne Palicki is the next Wonder Woman.
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CBS on a roll with retrans coin
CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves has been fighting for years to turn the
Eye into a dual-revenue stream business. It looks like he's got what
he wanted. Moonves said Wednesday that CBS exceeded its revenue target
last year of $100 million for retrans fees by "a wide margin." He
would not disclose the total.
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Maria Bello to star in NBC's 'Prime Suspect'
Maria Bello is set to be cast as the lead detective in the NBC pilot
"Prime Suspect," a Stateside adaption of the Helen Mirren series.
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'Men' back to work Feb. 28
After having been on a forced hiatus since Jan. 28, production on "Two
and a Half Men" is set to resume exactly one month later.
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TODAY'S MUSIC NEWS
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'Now' comp tops U.S. album chart
Providing some momentary relief to the unsettled music business, the
37th edition of the hits compilation "Now That's What I Call Music"
arrives at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with the first six-figure
sales tally of 2011.
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'Glee' breaks Elvis' chart record
Fox's tuner series "Glee" has dethroned the King, having broken Elvis
Presley's record for the most single entries on the Billboard Hot 100
chart.
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Borders files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
A victim of changing consumer habits in the digital age, the
once-powerful book, music and video firm Borders Group filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb. 16.
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TODAY'S LEGIT NEWS
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'Spider-Man' might be calling a doctor
Broadway's webslinger may soon net scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, with
the writer said to be up for a stint as a script doctor on musical
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
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McKellan to play Chichester
Ian McKellen will take time out from playing Gandalf for Peter
Jackson's twin "Hobbit" movies to star in the world preem of "The
Syndicate" at U.K. regional powerhouse Chichester Festival Theater.
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'Cabaret,' 'Baker's Wife' set for Reprise
"Cabaret" and "The Baker's Wife" are on tap for the Reprise Theater
Company's 2011-12 season of musical revivals, with one more show still
to be added.
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'Dancin'' returns to Roundabout schedule
The postponed revival of dance-ical "Bob Fosse's Dancin'" and Off
Broadway stagings of plays by Stephen Karam and John Osborne have
claimed slots in the 2011-12 season at the Roundabout Theater Company.
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TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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Teuton global warming
Germany has become the country the global film biz can't live without:
More than 100 of the 385 worldwide films at the Berlinale were made
with Teutonic participation.
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Blue skies return to Ontario showbiz
The film and TV industry contributed C$964.3 million ($979 million) to
the Ontario economy last year, up $18 million on 2009 as production
rose to levels not seen since 2002.
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'Episodes' sold to 186 countries
The British-produced cult comedy drama "Episodes," starring Matt
LeBlanc as an exaggerated version of himself, has been sold to 186
countries.
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Distrib reels in buyers
As the European market unwinds, Matteo Lovadina's Paris-based Reel
Suspects is racking up additional sales across its slate.
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TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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Piracy bill gains steam
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee vowed Wednesday to pursue
legislation sought by studios, music labels and others to battle
piracy on the Internet.
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WB rolls out 'Inception,' 'Dark Knight' apps
Warner Bros. is looking to use Apple's app store to boost legit movie
downloads.
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Smart instruments
Ever since the invention of electric amplification, there's been
tension in the music world -- a perpetual stare-down between acoustic
and electric, amplified and unplugged, the immediacy of live
performance and the perfectibility of the studio recording.
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