Fitzgerald's race precluded major big-screen success.

For Asian-Americans, who are seldom greeted with open arms in Hollywood, the trans-Pacific route to big-screen success is an old one.

Ken Rother, TreeHugger's president, said he has declined buyout offers from newspaper publishers, among others, partly because revenue and traffic have increased at a breakneck pace since Mr. Gore's big-screen success.

There was a time when the actress - who found fame as a teen star in the '80s and rode her wave of critical acclaim and big-screen success for a good .

IS THERE REALLY SUCH A creature as a born television actor, a performer who can wrest stardom from the small screen yet can't quite reach big-screen success?

(A seventh ensemble member, Monkey, who plays the capuchin monkey Marcel, is leaving at the end of the season after big-screen success in the film "Outbreak.")

But while Marvel may have a bigger market share and several big-screen successes with Spider-Man and X-Men movies, it has not shared in profits of the films the way DC can as part of the Time Warner empire.

Buckley may join the list of those who have graduated from commercials to big-screen success - in recent years, the list has included Spike Jonze, Michael Bay, David Fincher, Tarsem Singh.

That may be why "The Break-Up" has been the only big-screen success for Aniston: the plot of the movie, which also starred her real-life boyfriend, Vince Vaughn, neatly mirrored her tabloid storyline.

Having conquered network television, Mr. Konchalovsky clearly still has his heart set on big-screen success.