Table of Contents
Week of 02/26/1993

Articles

Tabloid mags hit syndie ratings gold

 

Handmade sues WB over promo funds

 

Indies strong at New Directors series

 

AFM '93; Valenti's EC quota call to arms

 

Fox, Rank face $ 300 mil vid suit

 

Who's who at AFM

 

Vision pacakge unveiled for market

 

WRC, WTOP to share resources

 

Geller to join TriStar Pix as veepee of publicity

 

H'wood enters Digital Domain

 

Acad rejects 'World'

 

Leipzig joins Interscope ranks

 

Cabler sells services a la carte

 

Tax credit may cover movies, TV

 

Lynch takes stand on 'Boxing'

 

Fox hitches 'Ride' from Boswell

 

Correction

 

W&A nabs 'Ballroom's' Mercurio

 

DGA bestows accolade on prexy Hiller

 

WGAE, IFP host confab

 

Robert L. Brenner

 

ITC shrugs off attack on Granada

 

Sullivan gets face lift for Letterman's Aug. 23 bow

 

Italo board again delaysTV-fate date

 

Births

 

Verdi ups several at NBC News

 

Penn & Teller pact with WMA

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'Simpsons' clear 7 affils

 

Ulysse Ent. grabs 'Treacherous'

 

ASCAP wins royalty ruling

 

CBS wins big with Grammys

 

Hughes serves dish bill

 

AIP renamed West Side Studios

 

Screenings

 

'Vicki!' facing sticky situation

 

Oscar set design is unveiled

 

Oscar watch

 

Blockbuster, CBS link up

 

AFM '93

 

Short Takes

 

Barnett tapped TPW sales VP

 

ABC verifies plan to shelve 'Shirley'

 

Deep focus

 

'Paradise' found for October

 

Jackson already on his 5th TV show of '93

 

Numbers box

 

Blossom of screen Gish dies

 

KNBC sweeps stretch

 

AFM '93; super mart surprise

 

Fox gets 'Kick' out of script

 

'Falling Down' rises above weekend crowd

 

Amblin sets sail with AMIGA F/X

 

Pic preservation tzx planned

 

Legendary Keeler dies of cancer

 

N.Y. stations back on air after blast

 

Basinger OK'd script, attorney asserts

 

Pomerance joins Rich as vice prez

 

Oscar watch

 

Adapt or die, arts orgs told

 

GH&P firm opens office in Zurich

 

Financial Briefs

 

Aries into chapter 11

 

NL boosts common stock offer

 

'Tomatoes''s sales slip in 3rd week

 

Old Globe unveils sked

 

Music News

 

Album Spotlight

 

'GMA' runs past 'Today'

 

Births

 

Cable TV production chart

 

MTV to air interview with Clinton

 

Photogs boxed out of court

 

PGA Lifetime Award to scribe Thomas

 

AFM '93

 

Thunderbird flies high on 'Hunting'

 

Spelling spreads 'Thinner' around

 

Correction

 

Italy's RCS sticks with H'w'd prod'n

 

Cinevisions, Miramax team for 'Manolete'

 

Hot titles

 

Fox, NBC cabling Latin America

 

Tensions resolved on 'Vicki!' set

 

William McDonald

 

International Briefs

 

Russia media power play

 

Yentob gets BBC1 reins

 

Hungary's TV mogul on rise

 

Seagal's 'Siege' hot item o'seas

 

Declaring a friendship

 

Variety, docus, daytime wrap DGA TV nominees

 

Short Takes

 

Video rental report

 

Video rental report

 

Crichton stands calmly in the eye of a showbiz storm

 

Much ado about Denzel

 

Numbers box

 

Domestic B.O. market shares

 

Innovation key at '93 expo

 

O'seas report

 

Fox enters Reagan era

 

Marconi inks deal with SBP

 

Artists' rights debated by AFM panel

 

MCA taking TV action

 

'TONIGHT' drops Ranks after slur

 

Cinema Line buys Wilk's spec 'Things'

 

'Down' is top draw on B.O. list

 

CBS, Miller brew up mutual 'Exposure'

 

Three layoffs at KTTV

 

Ex-VA. Gov. up for PBS chair

 

ABC sets 'Palms' dates

 

Col names Lomis, ups 3 to veep

 

Cruise set for NATO/ShoWest honor

 

Oscar watch

 

U.S. Box Office Report

 

Calif. Economy rocks Granite

 

Disney's Ducks skate into NHL

 

Financial Briefs

 

GCC's CEO cashes in on stock

 

'Visions' dominates L.A.; 'Olivier' bows big in N.Y.

 

BBC'S Birt in tax crisis

 

Vaughan named manager of Sunset+Vine TV distrib

 

Spanish web bowsm on ASTRA

 

NBC News ups Prince

 

Gaumont profits down but revs up

 

'Moo' moves; ABC renews

 

Russian anti-piracy law due

 

Turner pix sells o'seas distribs oncommitment

 

'Shadow' cast over AFM sesh

 

AFM '93

 

N.Y. stations mull transmitter shift

 

Twentieth inks Abugov

 

AFTRA, diskeries to talk

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Playhouse, SSDC end strike with 'terrific agreement'

 

Short Takes

 

Skouras, Par Home Vid pair to market 'Watch It'

 

WB sets Eastwood grant

 

Dish

 

Daily Variety film box office report

 

Oscar team wary after WTC blast

 

Nets move to ensure bottom lines add up

 

After brief rewind, homevid in fast forward

 

Film funding's day in sun is eclipsed

 

Dancing in the minefields

 

Foreign-owned firms slip into 'black hole'

 

Firing up a pic and not getting burned

 

Credit Lyonnais bank shot falls short

 

Basic-cable survives recession

 

AFM '93

 

Connery eyes 'Smoke' spec

 

IFE ousts top exec at MTM

 

MCP 'Chasers' nabs Hopper

 

CBS on top of the heap

 

Gartner out at NBC news

 

Country Music Acad ready to pass the Hats

 

'Helena' some mean role

 

ABC alters news mag formula with 'Day One'

 

Arbitron disallows KNBC's try to make Clinton 'anchor'

 

FCC opens discussion of Children's Television Act

 

Oscar watch

 

AFM '93; Vision's CEO drops prez title

 

CEMA mines back catalog

 

KCBS-TV to pull 'Feud' from key 7:30 p.m. slot

 

Cablevision posts higher revs for 4th quarter

 

Polygram up 13% in '92

 

Cox, Southwestern Bell Team in U.K.

 

Yarin jumps fence to Fox

 

WGA-CBS talks grinding on

 

ABC decides to return 'Home'

 

3 win music book awards

 

Friendly named Cineville Int'l head

 

Formal talks on Olympics TV rights skedded July

 

CNBC racks up 388,000 subs

 

DIC to animate 'Dragon' for TV

 

'Beethoven' earns Genesis nod

 

'Seinfeld,' 'Sister Act,' Crystal top comedy awards

 

Story credit prompts suit

 

ASCAP ruling may save TV millions

 

Births

 

AFM '93

 

Who's Where

 

Post Group sets up TV, pix F/X Center

 

Brown will top Ovation board

 

AFM '93; high tech crash course

 

New company to send H'wood classics o'seas

 

New World inks vid deals at AFM

 

AFM '93

 

AFMA sets June mini-market in Buenos Aires

 

Robert Arch Braithwaite

 

Changing channels

 

First Look inks Cox For 'Tiger'

 

Hoffman, Joffe among 1st Shanghai fest jurors

 

CIS to see ABC'S spots

 

Survey: CNN high in credibility

 

Share-shredding RTL 2 debuts Saturday

 

Museum funds no joke to lawmakers

 

Century Cable pacts with Digital Music

 

Gov. Weld wends his way through H'w'd

 

Numbers box

 

AFM '93

 

USSB pacts to beam Viacom, TW

 

'Warrior': that's snow biz

 

Lee gets a go for 'Crooklyn'

 

Goldman to head up 2 NL units

 

CBS holds aces, 'Queen' high

 

L.A. Arbs share wealth

 

'Roseanne' shifts exex

 

Platt third 'Musketeer'

 

'Pelican' scoops up Washington

 

Chlowitz G.M. of L.A.'s KLSX, KRLA

 

U confirms it's where the 'Action' is

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Greenbergs buy more Astral

 

GCC earnings up 18% in first qtr.

 

Chargeurs posts $131 mil net profit

 

Big losses for French cabler

 

Three webs set plans for May sweeps

 

Tech News

 

WABC at core of Big Apple ratings

 

Births

 

Actors win increase in LORT pact

 

'Engine' b'cast to fuel video sales

 

'Helena' tried to beat clock

 

Tom-Tom interview drums up flap

 

Lester Wilson

 

Wojno services

 

Bender leaves Arnolds for D.C.

 

Goldwyn buys 'Baraka' rights

 

Miramax buys 'Camilla' rights

 

Oldman to direct 'Lords'

 

Miramax does boffo int'l biz at AFM

 

AFM '93; Image, Edko pact

 

Canadian labor rift ends

 

Time Warner enters OZ licensing fray

 

WB, Aussie webs come to terms over prices

 

Spain's Tele Cinco posts profits

 

'League' sets its TV lineup

 

Backtalk

 

Short Takes

 

Ranks dropped from Rose Bowl bill

 

WGAE to fete Miller, Jhabvala, Suggs

 

On music

 

Talkers post big gains

 

Musicians sue five rappers

 

Sony celebrates noms, hatches next year's plans

 

Reviews

Abc Sunday Night Movie Not in My Family

Lake Consequence

Rio Diablo

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The Abyss Special Edition

Earth and the American Dream

Xiang Hun Nu the Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

Bad Behaviour

Last Call at Maud's

The Wedding Banquet

Mad Dog and Glory

Mustard Bath

Fifty/Fifty

Calendar

The Abc Monday Night Movie They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping

Nbc Monday, Tuesday Night at the Movies Bloodlines: Murder in the Family: Parts I & II

It's Edna Time

In the Spotlight the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Raffi

Cb4

Denis Leary

Tainted Blood

Crime & Punishment Simple Trust

Matrix Death and Taxes

Mother of the Bride

Campbell's Portrait of a Teacher

Great Performances Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Straight from the Hood

Larry King Tnt Extra Elizabeth Taylor

Steve Coleman Quintet

Self Portraits

Extreme; Saigon Kick

Swing Kids

Gyerekgyilkoss Gok

Gorilla Bathes at Noon

Kaerlighedens Smerte

New! Improved! Real Life American Fairy Tale


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