Table of Contents
Week of 12/16/1996

Articles

B.O. UP 11% FOR '96

 

TCI board adds 2 members

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Oscar, sled bought

 

McConaughey inks with WB

 

Abrams & Alward team up

 

L.A. pic crix laud 'Lies'

 

NUMBERS

 

Banderas set for 'Dead' pic

 

B.O. highlights

 

'MAGUIRE' CRUISES TO $17.5 MIL

 

'JERRY'-RIGGED PROPOSAL

 

Schwarzenegger, Shepherd share Golden Apple honors

 

Ovitz's strange route to Tommorrowland

 

Davis leaves Morris office to ink at ICM

 

Village Roadshow buys into Gross

 

KCBS biggest winner at Golden Mike nods

 

Births

 

Faced with bull market, Spain to lower pic prod'n

 

Grundy plays games with Latino 'Man'

 

Ripstein takes top Latin fest award

 

Fox gets initial OK for Aussie studios

 

CANUCK SHORTWAVE SAVED

 

CANADA

 

UNITED KINGDOM

 

Emery cops BBC COO post

 

Big Plus at German web RTL

 

SPOTS AT O'SEAS B.O.

 

Disney may be grumpy:French 'Snow' due dough

 

'Geraldo' upgraded

 

Jones Intl. names Gampp to CFO post

 

Howard Rollins

 

Richard Nelson

 

Faron Young

 

Stephen Schneck

 

Tenpercenteries

 

Globes tally record entries

 

Spencer for latenight hire

 

Nayor puts out own shingle

 

Promark TV sets summer 'Sweat'

 

ENCORE PLAYING BIG

 

MORE KCAL LAYOFFS

 

D.C. not blown away by 'Wind'

 

Okie exits 'Renegade' for 'Battleground Earth'

 

Samit new maven at U's new media

 

McNeal logs on at Edrive

 

SweetPea prepping role-playing pix

 

Sundance reading series opens with 'Losing You'

 

ACI cancels 'Scoop' strip

 

Ticketmaster qtr. revs jump 64% to $62.6 mil

 

Clinton taps Barshefsky, Daley

 

VIACOM'S QTR. NOTE

 

Carey claims victory

 

Shaq signs to produce Fox pilot

 

All American mulling a new 'Feud'

 

D.C. RATINGS BOOST

 

NEW LINE TAGS 'G-MAN'

 

Belushi abdicating as star of ABC's 'King'

 

SAG board OKs plan to merge with AFTRA

 

CORREX

 

Jones leads exec pack exodus from Cinesite

 

Gross to join Kopelson team

 

'Evita' savors decadent bow

 

Schlesinger to make 'Mirth'

 

Leonard Feist

 

A corporate reality check

 

Stephanopoulos in $2.75 mil book deal

 

Up-for-grabs E! valued at $500 mil+

 

SHOWBERT SPINOFF

 

TriStar names Lloyd exec VP

 

Clinton coy on TV code?

 

Jersey eyes Kaufman bio

 

AUDS SEEING STARS

 

Spielberg knows what 'Rosebud' means

 

La Scala joins Hunt Lowry as senior VP

 

Original ATAS site gets marker

 

Holman gets sound award

 

MANDALAY SUITS UP

 

MTM rolling '18 Wheels'

 

VERDICT FOR E!'S O.J.

 

Fox Kids beefs up ad, program wings

 

People's people picked

 

Hitched

 

Mainland's 'Sun' lassos six Horses

 

Granada names Morrison chief exec

 

Cairo fest expands scope

 

Ente draws Italo ire over Cinecitta ownership plan

 

GALAXY EXPANDING

 

Nickelodeon trio going Latino

 

Dogs have their day in U.K. amid hot int'l B.O.

 

Short Takes

 

Ave 'Evita' at Shrine

 

Edward K. Milkis

 

Joseph Zigman

 

'Shine' back to top exclusive

 

Favorable verdict for 'Judge Judy'

 

'Real TV' gets market boosts

 

Hoch, Cruz take gigs at Screenwriters Lab

 

Fried picks Piper as VP

 

L.A. 'RENT' DUE IN '97

 

Col TriStar taps Keeler interactive mkt'g VP

 

Viacom's consumer wing taps five exex

 

BLACK TO SELL STAKE IN OZ'S FAIRFAX

 

Fox TV ups Burke to exec VP

 

Touchstone ups Ros to senior VP of production

 

MadCap heads to GreeneSt.

 

Oscar watch

 

LAZARUS ON CLOUD 9

 

LINDE, GOOD MACHINE PARTNER

 

Inside Moves

 

INSIDE MOVES

 

Horvitz set to direct Oscarcast

 

Bygone 'Portrait' preem

 

Alien chic hits H'w'd at 'Mars' preem bash

 

Mirage building Wright feature

 

Pariser tops MTA lit arm

 

Cronenweth, d.p. on 'Blade Runner,' dies

 

4MC double-teaming editing process

 

'Highway Patrol' taken off duty

 

Xmas in H'w'd turns Tiffany to charity

 

Cinepix ups 3, hires 2 more

 

2 SYNDIE SKEINS BEING PREPPED

 

Balys enters 'Asylum' at Par

 

CORREX

 

Egerton, Weiner upped at NBC Law

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Injunction hits Sony in Stooge subterfuge

 

AMC'S ONTARIO 30-PLEX BOW SETS RECORD

 

AMC PLEX GOING EURO

 

'Baywatch's' Lee jumping ship

 

D'Works gets 'Amnesia' from Erratic

 

Faiman shifts Fox posts

 

INSIDE MOVES

 

INSIDE MOVES

 

A GRANDER U BRAND

 

Sensible 'Saint' turns to Volvo for wheels

 

Griffin celebrates good health, fat wallet

 

Spielberg repatriates Gable Oscar

 

SCRIBES EYE NEW IMAGE

 

SHORT TAKES

 

Cluff picked for pollution post

 

Willard Parker

 

John Duffey

 

Bennett Berman

 

Alvaleta Guess

 

Lois Armstrong

 

Lenita Hughes

 

BIRTHS

 

Clinton gets high marks with intellectual crowd

 

Hanson tops MTV Euro

 

New Italo film board set

 

ZDF TO PUMP 'CONAN'

 

ARGENTINA

 

Cable systems sold

 

POLAND

 

Third bird service hits French skies

 

Murdoch & Son take to the Sky in Japan

 

BRIT LOTTERY GLUT

 

Brits level digital TV plane

 

COLOMBIA OK'S PRIVATE WEBS

 

BOFFO YEAR ABROAD

 

On with the Showtime for Offsay

 

Peacock again rules rates roost

 

Fries, Berg to fly Leonard's 'Flag'

 

Fox Kids ups Hatamiya and taps Kriez, Riegel

 

HIGH-TECH HOLLYWOOD

 

Nick claims contol of 57% of kidvid aud

 

DTS F/X OUT OF THIS 'WORLD'

 

ITALY ADDS 4 MOS. TO TV LICENSES

 

Premiere breaks out, even

 

U.K.'s ITV sends millions to WB for pix, TV shows

 

LOTTERY DRAWS LOTS

 

TENPERCENTERIES

 

MCQUARRIE IN TUBE DEAL

 

CBS wins night with 'Unlikely' pic

 

BUENA VISTA TV BIDS 'SALLEY' FORTH

 

'Skin' heads to Constantin

 

Exec Shuffle

 

EXHIB UNDER PRESSURE

 

Aukin tapped Channel 4 film topper

 

Astral reports $10.7 mil loss, ups Bureau to chair

 

Fuller, Bourne teaming to lay down Law's story

 

Caruso back on TV in Showtime 'Gold'

 

D'Works Records takes double dose of Morphine

 

'REAL' OUTRANKS 'ACCESS'

 

NBC NABS McCARTHY

 

Keitel-vis in 'Graceland'

 

SHORT TAKES

 

LEE PLANS 'TO LIVE ON'

 

Hoffman hit on tax beef

 

Stallone 'Murder' at U

 

No blockades on TW cable box

 

WB sets 'Court' dates with NBC

 

RATINGS RAISE IRE

 

SAG Foundation gets $50G grant

 

BIRTHS

 

Pope meets with cast of TV spec

 

FRANCO PIX MIXED

 

Mastroianni's masterpieces

 

ACLU Bill of Rights dinner honors 3 artists

 

Aussies fund 5 pix, TV works

 

Canal Plus, NetHold link creates Euro pay TV giant

 

Disney's pic pack nabbed by Nethold

 

WHEN CHIPS ARE DOWN

 

HBO Pix taps Halpern

 

Hoffman suit near settlement

 

DBS retailers slash prices

 

BVI B.O. booty busts $1 bil

 

Promax Europe ready for Spain bow

 

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS

 

They're Globes, not crystal balls

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Emma Madison Lipstone

 

Mid-perf, flu-felled D'Onofrio cuts 'Tooth'

 

Sony picturing DVD spring

 

BRIDGES NOD TO MARRIOTT

 

IN PRAISE OF SHORTS

 

Grammy org to salute Phil Collins

 

CORREX

 

TCI PHONES FOR IPO

 

U.S. vid boosts Rank

 

PUB HOUSE LOOKING TO UP SAT1 STAKE

 

Club RTL clubs congloms

 

Financial briefs

 

3 Chabrol remakes in works

 

Sutherland at Variety

 

Clinton gala to Ticketmaster

 

Variety promotes Cunningham

 

INSIDE MOVES

 

INSIDE MOVES

 

INSIDE MOVES

 

DEMME HEADS FOR U

 

Texas crix hang star on 'Fargo'

 

Mastroianni dead at 72

 

Cahners taps Lieberman

 

Silver King annexes HSN

 

NUMBERS

 

INDIES, BIOS CIRCLING THE GLOBES

 

TV RATINGS CODE GOES LIVE

 

Biopic makes Helfgott 'Shine'

 

Reviews

Evita

Stand Against Fear: A Moment of Truth Movie

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story

Stand Against Fear:

The Line King:

Honeymoon

Ragtime, the Musical

I Licked a Slag's Deodorant

Musicals Great Musicals

The Brylcreem Boys

The Reel

Fallait Pas!...

The Line King: The Al Irschfeld Story

Next Mullennium Stories

Land in Between

Hit Me

The Hamster Factor

Private Life

Foreign Moon

Talk to Me

Kroq "Almost Acoustic Christmas"

Unlikely Angel

Black Crowes

KROQ ''Almost Acoustic Christmas''

Unlikely Angel

Timepiece

Counting Crows

Failure

Failure

How Do You Spell God?

How Do You Spell God?

Once Upon a Mattress

Honeymoon

I Licked a Slag's Deodorant

Helpless

The Border

Scream

Musicals Great Musicals

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Attacking the Skies

The Reel

Fallait Pas!...

40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australilan Cinema

The Delta

Ghosts of Mississippi

The Line King: The Al Irschfeld Story

Next Mullennium Stories

Never Too Late

Whistle Down the Wind

Insurrection: Holding History

Land in Between

Hit Me

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Family

Private Life

Sotto Voce

Foreign Moon