Table of Contents
Week of 10/14/1992

Articles

ABC sweeps week; baseball hurts CBS

 

ITA fallout fuels fires of mergers

 

Pleskow, Spikings partner for pix

 

Ex-ITA exex cut deal to move to UTA

 

Record-setting 'Siege' at peppy holiday B.O.

 

U.S. box office report

 

NUMBERS BOX

 

Pioneer cabler files suit over new cable law

 

'Lunch,' 'Leolo' to battle for top '92 Genie honors

 

Daily Variety puts its Pryor-ities in order

 

CORRECTION

 

'Peter' makes new friends at ShowEast

 

New Line draws 'Fire'

 

Republic readies syndie packages

 

Gotham's WCBS licenses KW's 'American Journal'

 

AMC forms arm to expand o'seas

 

CBS taps 'Bob' as 1st full-season pickup

 

3 indies, Reuters bid for beleaguered ITN

 

Exec Shuffle

 

NSB given new payout deadline

 

News Corp. looks for higher debt rating

 

AMC ups McDonald, Westerling

 

Friday judgment expected in Disney-MGM suit

 

Fortuin upped at Paramount

 

'River' runs roughshod over exclu pix; 'Stecchino' bold

 

WOMPI meet Oct. 18

 

Johnson on board at 'Current Affair'

 

Jackson suspect incompetent

 

Considine on board at Gossett's Logo banner

 

NBC confirms 'Perry' on deck for Fridays

 

TV biz hops on Orient Express

 

ITV renews Australian 'Home' in $ 35 mil deal

 

Irish join Eurimages, open door for English-lingo pix

 

Baskin TriStar staff pub

 

Grubman attacks Joel; files own reply

 

'Busted' busts out good ratings

 

Perot's prose could make him a TV series pro

 

Pic takes 'Shots' at pols

 

TriStar Pix kicks off 'Rudy' film

 

Warners close to putting on 'Pants'

 

CBS looks good in 3rd quarter

 

Greenberg tapped for 'Action' f/x

 

Josephson upped to exec VP at Colpix

 

U.S. cablers plugging into Europe

 

S.F. hall named for Graham

 

Blachly to head UCLA performing arts center

 

Rob Reiner snaps up Kodak Award

 

E! to carry CableACE noms live

 

AFMA braces for change

 

Cabler editorials blast Kansas rep

 

CBS loses 'Turn' for Saturday

 

Jacobs gets double duty in new WB job

 

Prod'n slide prolonged

 

Eisner addresses Euro Disney move

 

Westwood One slips further into red

 

Financial Briefs

 

Griffith 'Star of Tomorrow'

 

Rentrak PPT stretches to chain stores

 

ATAS board tackling Emmys

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Pan African Film Fest kicks off tonight at Laemmle

 

'Star Trek' season bows at warp speed

 

Supreme Court nixes Ozzy suits

 

'Stud' stunt may boost 'Assets'

 

O'Connor backs papal 'SNL' action with words

 

Access to Sagansky documents denied in suit

 

Cohen departing as BVHV exec VP

 

Births

 

'Aladdin' conjures a G rating

 

Indie distribs urge exhibs to push art films

 

Fort Lauderdale film fest weathers storm

 

IMAX 'Beavers' returns to L.A.

 

Syndication Briefs

 

Saralegui gets new deal

 

Par boosts Levy to exec director

 

Sony, Nintendo pact on player

 

CBS News ups Peyronnin, others

 

Dennis Rogers

 

John Hancock

 

Christopher Todd

 

Ben Maddow

 

Hughes Rudd

 

Robert (Bob) LaBrasca

 

Alvin Rosenfeld

 

Robert L. Myers

 

William Douglas-Home

 

Central unveils co-prod'n deals

 

Pubcasters set o'seas co-prod'n

 

Thames, Carlton in pix battle

 

TFI unveils French satcast service

 

'Ballroom' dancing to top of Aussie B.O.

 

Nicholl Fellowships offer writers the right to write

 

Burger King touts 'Goof'

 

Fargnoli brings PURE to L.A.

 

Jackson concert sets HBO record

 

Short Takes

 

Lemmons aid in voter registration

 

NUMBERS BOX

 

'Crypt' pix vault to silver screen

 

U taps Agin as veepee of biz unit

 

Disney, Goldwyn join in 'Program'

 

Report: Post road rocky

 

Rosenfeld, Ditrinco move to Gramercy

 

CBS eyes Brave new World Series

 

Reporter Kmetko to leave KCBS-TV

 

Eazy E sues Sony Music, others

 

Webs' sweeps skeds span Oprah to Sinatra

 

Fine Line, CTHV getting 'Naked'

 

'Goof' trips 'Batman' in key demos

 

Oscar timetable

 

Exec Shuffle

 

News Corp. overcomes Dow dip

 

Profit pictures grows brighter for UTI in '92

 

Financial Briefs

 

Carolco misses payment

 

Uhry to lecture at pic Academy

 

'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' resurrected on E!

 

Short Takes

 

Nostalgia net appoints Bush prez, COO

 

Hitched

 

Potts 'fried,' will quit 'Designing'

 

5 writers chosen as Nicholl fellows

 

Fox gets rights to a hammy 'Hamlet' script

 

Lightstorm clouds over Artisti

 

Births

 

Italy's RAI still a public matter

 

RAI-2 web may take 'Bold' action

 

'Beauty' sets London record

 

IFP West sets lectures for producers

 

Harrold Laswell

 

Ruth Vernon

 

Ben Cooper

 

Stephen F. Temmer

 

Johnny Carisi

 

Charles A. Reade

 

The naked truth: Monkeys would be funky in A&R

 

Farrow out and about at RCMH

 

Morris Agency engulfs Triad

 

'Siege' has choke hold at nat'l B.O.

 

News bonds don't all float

 

Josephson trims holdings in ICM

 

Friedberg exits as Loews chair

 

ICM's Lonner joining CAA

 

U TV ups deal-making pace

 

Spelling puts TriStar on 'Edge'

 

Diller, Par reports spark new rumors of NBC sale

 

KW greenlights 'Journal' for '93

 

WB pix pack priced to max

 

The prime defender of 'Offender'

 

Nirvana's next, Fleetwood's Zoo, Doobies' 'do

 

'Robin' among recipients of Spain distrib subsidies

 

France ups aid for industry to $400 mil

 

Debt seals Film Trustees fate

 

Smoke but no fire at Rank

 

'1492' discovering better B.O. in Europe

 

Aussie film awards strictly a sweep

 

Converter signals progress for HDTV

 

Roos spec script 'Boys' sides with New Regency

 

Kodak takes $ 140 mil charge

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Pioneer feels pressure from Carolco problems

 

Financial Briefs

 

CVS, TVN partner for new 10-channel PPV multiplex

 

CBS balks but Perot hits homer in Nielsens

 

Rubin may cover Kmetko's beat

 

Simon blazing legit trail

 

Miller prez of Turner Pix

 

CapCities' 3rd qtr. up; year weaker

 

TWI stays in black for 3rd qtr.

 

Riche moves to Hughes Ent. as prexy/COO

 

McEntire's show hits Times Square

 

Scorsese leads tribute to filmmaker Antonioni

 

Kodak processing site of H'w'd service center

 

World Series' Game 2 bats in win for CBS

 

CalArts touts fund drive

 

Judge denies H'w'd bid to intervene in consent case

 

Furlong moves into 'Home' with Bates

 

Zachary signs on at Reeves

 

ABC grabs sitcom 'Getting By'

 

KLOS sues KLSX over 'Funnies'

 

'Eyes' being prepped

 

Multimedia closing in on Hollywood

 

Cable spot ads up 25% in 3rd qtr.

 

Blockbuster net income rises 51%

 

'Siege' atop strong B.O. sesh

 

CBS slots movies to fill void in Saturday lineup

 

'Night' lights up N.Y. screen; 'River' still flowing

 

Rare Soviet classical recordings headed west

 

Prime Cut trims R films for vid

 

Film Info Council gives 1st mktg. award to 'Last'

 

Reading promoted via 'Storyline'

 

Blockbuster of a merger

 

H'w'd Supports seminars discuss HIV in workplace

 

Columbia Records fetes Dylan at Garden

 

MPAA settles c'right suit against N.Y. cabler

 

BVTV elevates Faust to veep

 

Bernstein hiked to Capitol veep

 

Baseball throws curve at day, night TV ratings

 

L.A. viewers get look at 'Damned'

 

Four Point has more 'Amore'

 

Webs deny request to hold early projections

 

Mary Anne Harrison

 

Perot buys 800G in network ad time

 

Suit filed to bar FCC OK of Univision sale

 

Robert Mitchell

 

Sky's the limit for BSkyB

 

Spain seeks to discover Columbus funds

 

CanWest buying into Oz's Ten

 

Italians protest years of TV nudity, violence

 

Short Takes

 

Dish; Taking stock of agency-merger build-up

 

UCLA to present film series on Mexican themes

 

Neufeld/Rehme undaunted by agency woes

 

Reviews

Barry Moses' Bar Mitzvah

Rip Sixth Anniversary Party

The Holy Terror

Blue Ice

Morrissey

The Pacific Century

Trisha Yearwood

Six Degrees of Separation

Nbc Movie of the Week Danielle Steel's 'Jewels'

Masterpiece Theatre the Best of Friends

Consenting Adults

American Playhouse Tales from Hollywood

Pure Country

Jethro Tull

The World Goes 'Round

En Vogue

Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted


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