Table of Contents
Week of 05/28/1997

Articles

Optus clears its Vision of 100 workers

 

'Jump' judge backs Shelton

 

Interscope facing Trauma in $100 million lawsuit

 

FCC competish begins

 

Pressman catches 'Limit'

 

Lillard signs up for 'Senseless'

 

'Absolute' lacks o'seas power

 

Short Takes

 

Grammer on 'Block' in Canuck co-prod

 

Channel V aimed at U.K.

 

Judgment in Jo'burg

 

Cartoon Net launches Dutch feed

 

Hitched

 

Wow bow of $93 mil for 'World'

 

Spin Doctors, Miller settle suit

 

'Love!' still conquers all among L.A., N.Y. exclusives

 

Nelvana records off-toon quarter

 

ARC selling shares in Ballantyne

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Mouse House eyeing IFE

 

Evergreen plans merger fundraiser

 

Sega-Bandai merger falls short of game day

 

Scott joins 'Court' as exec producer

 

Live, Almond part ways

 

New Line snaps up 'Wife'

 

Primestar has News seeing red

 

Lee not 'Lie'-able for sex telepic nix

 

Povich-Chung pfft

 

Macy may get 'Civil ' with Travolta

 

'GMA' sez good night to Lunden

 

'Access' loses access

 

'Superman' un-Caged as 'Snake Eyes' rolls

 

Hundt's over at FCC

 

DreamWorks taps Cooper for prod'n

 

WB top TV show supplier once again

 

EMI reslices its music pie

 

'Titanic' on ice until Dec. in U.S., o'seas

 

5 stages of Xmas for Radio City

 

Spielberg adds joke to Japanese 'World'

 

WGA holds fast-track pact talks

 

From Beltway to the biz

 

Bruins honor Medavoy

 

'World'-class myths

 

Eszterhas has not enough money?

 

Viacom Prods.ups Lavin to VP

 

Tenpercentaries

 

'Day & Date's' King slips into KPIX anchor position

 

City of Hope to honor Reid, Edmonds

 

Hatta to pull strings on 'Shadow Puppets'

 

Showtime pic 'Faith' set to roll

 

Nantucket sets sked

 

L.A. pic permit flap irks exex

 

CBS, TBS & HBO to give games Goodwill effort

 

Indies make it to Golden Apple circle

 

Short Takes

 

Births

 

Fox/Liberty filling ranks

 

Kurfirst bows new U imprint

 

MGM Distrib'n sets exex in reshuffle

 

L.A. radio vet Morgan, battling lung cancer, to take time off

 

KDFW in Dallas has no access for 'H'wood'

 

CD-ROM biz on the rebound

 

Dylan cancels tour due to chest pains

 

'Casper' vid gets spirited promotion

 

Bubble Factory sets CFO

 

Politico calls for probe of Cablevision-MSG deal

 

1st-quarter Atlantis profits up

 

Nets lead ad gains in quarter

 

Padden takes reins at ABC

 

2 novices inked for 'Deedles'

 

Spice Girls top chart for third week

 

Garcia's 'Imagining' gets direction

 

Issues cloud Eye affil meet

 

Corrections

 

Radio City Music Hall ramps up for Tonys

 

'ER' plans lively bow

 

WGA holds fast-track pact talks

 

Crowe flying to D'Works

 

Pathe, Canal + in distrib pact

 

RCMH stage strands 'Titanic'

 

Short Takes

 

RIAA specs for DVD to bow in Dec.

 

Fiery debut for McCartney disc

 

WB gains rights to 'Bible'

 

Thomas James Mazza

 

Music Center partners with jazz institute

 

Rock tour adds club adjunct

 

Most mags lose altitude in May sweeps

 

Exec Shuffle

 

US West pulls out of Spain

 

Locarno gears for 50th fest

 

German payboxes reach for digital

 

Italo cities preserving pix

 

EU win for Turner

 

Italo producers pick topper

 

Canadian satcaster in receivership

 

Spain gov't wins round in soccer rights game

 

Almost clear vision

 

Azteca snags Ramirez

 

Canucks have yuks in row

 

Cinesa, Hernandez talk alliance

 

Sydney Guilaroff

 

Stephen Anthony Abrums

 

Jose Crespo

 

Marilyn Greene

 

Vinciquerra signs on at Hearst

 

IFP tags 'Out of Control's' Morris with Gotham nod

 

Hitched

 

Nantz nixes ABC offer, reups with CBS Sports

 

Duo boosted at U distrib'n

 

NBC Enterprises moves to Burbank

 

Scribe Becker inks 'Link' double deal

 

KMEX to be honored

 

Scripters' jamboree bows today

 

Hughes inks for role in 'Simon'

 

CalArts wins SGI tech support

 

Televisa, NBC ink biz news pact

 

Astral buys into Radiomutuel

 

Investors unhappy about TCI transfer of Starz! to Liberty

 

TV mart heats up

 

Doyle joins 'Ellen' staff

 

Def Pix reups at Polygram

 

Cohen 'Dives' into Fox thriller

 

'World' turns U to 2nd in market share

 

'Bridesmaids' proposed for Katz, Imagine

 

Nozik at Wildwood

 

Pressman, DeBrino connect on 'Vatican'

 

Douglas embraces Par's 'Daughter'

 

D'Works, Sony negotiating 'Diving Bell'

 

Gibson, Kaige may collaborate on 'Tale'

 

Sonnenfeld, Josephson narrow the field

 

CBS close to naming Gumbel producer

 

KW pilot may see midseason syndie launch

 

NBC treading more carefully with affils

 

Daly to join DreamWorks

 

MGM mad for 'Molly'

 

B'way plays get big boost

 

Redstone on the rack

 

Col 'Up' on Ephron pic

 

Jordan to CBS affils: Move on

 

Corrections

 

Allen making B'way plans

 

'Black' team inks at Disney

 

Culley back in PMK fold

 

Peyser, Marx sell 'Darkness'

 

Trimark eyeing 'Lolita'

 

Gray in talks to helm Fox's Ames pic

 

Two execs ankling Fox TV

 

Kopelson and Fox go 'Boom'

 

All the write angles

 

Pacino brews indie 'Coffee'

 

Angelou helms Showtime pic

 

Latin flavor highlights PAM direction change

 

Lee preps syndie 'Fashion' show

 

E! ups news focus in $50 mil overhaul

 

KCBS tops at Emmys

 

Madonna plays 'Chicago'

 

A Family scramble

 

Locarno light on laurels

 

PrimeTime 24 sues webs

 

Movies, cars boost upfront ad market

 

Hungary TV bids delayed

 

Italy passes residual law

 

Dargaud buys French tooner Marina

 

Jesus on trial in South African pic

 

'Lost World' wows Oz

 

Nat'l Geo inks Argentina deal

 

Short Takes

 

Rubin to top new Gumbel mag

 

Granada chief exec may be ready to ankle

 

Wells Fargo gives $5 mil to Disney Hall

 

U homevid arm ups Di Nonno

 

New 'Jeopardy!' chief

 

Di Novi bumps Wolf to VP

 

Geffen Records trims staff by 10%

 

Ex-manager Doggs rapper with suit

 

Packer leading Oz's mogul list

 

Jailbird gets credit for song

 

Liberal new prexy means glasnost for Iranian biz

 

Megapic mocked

 

'Inspector' helmer segues to pix

 

Bugs Bunny looks for greener pastures

 

Auteur as Terminator: the curse of Cameron

 

New shows don't wow ad execs

 

Tollin/Robbins tap Goldman to run new arm

 

'Bookie' marked at New Line

 

MGM does 'Dirty Work'

 

'Lost' bites into o'seas B.O.

 

Harrelson heads for 'HiLo Country' next

 

Cooper ropes 'Horse' role

 

UA VP goes another lap

 

'I Think I Do' to kick off Outfest

 

Hoops saves "Dateline' seg

 

Allen inks Barrymore, DiCaprio

 

Peacock affils not thrilled to air CNBC's NBA promos

 

Protest's no stunt

 

Sony Classics taps Prassis sales veep

 

Pending sale fuels IFE's stock price

 

EDI taps Penner as CFO

 

Moore prez of Fox unit

 

'Love!' the third time around atop exclusives

 

TNT advances Wischner-Sola

 

Grampian TV going to Scottish Media

 

Disney names Paxton veep in Hong Kong

 

J'burg news hire under fire

 

Viva Cinema moves into U.S.

 

Court halts Galaxy-OV deal

 

Norway's fix stays in

 

'World' props up slow B.O.

 

Rupert as Humanitarian

 

A music-biz necktie party

 

Uhry play again getting screen offers

 

Reviews

The Three Lives of Karen

The Three Lives of Karen

American Visions

The Street of the Sun

Prodigy

Orphans of the Storm

Dangerous Corner

Career Girls

Prodigy

Orphans of the Storm

Destiny

Welcome to Woop Woop

Bent

Private Confessions

I Loathe Love

The Life of Jesus

Marius et Jeannette

A Gun, a Car, a Blonde

Kicked in the Head

A Further Gesture

The Wide Oak

Collected Stories

The Devils

Post Coitum, Animal Triste

Faraw! Mother of the Dunes

The Friend of the Deceased

Lucky Star

Brother

Taafe Fanga

Goodbye America

Train of Shadows: The Specter of le Thuit

Inside/Out

The Wind's Echo in Me

A Brooklyn State of Mind

Murmur of Youth

Lewis & Clark & George

Buddy Buddy

Poe! Poe!

Love-Struck

Victory

Heaven's Burning

The Cross

The Opium War

Snide & Prejudice

Quiet Days in Hollywood

The Doll

The Steps of the Palais

Little Boy Blue

Perfumed Ball

True Love and Chaos

Retroactive

The Deli

Orbis Pictus

The Slab Boys

Pale Saints

The Thousand Wonders of the Universe

Love and Understanding

Lucky Lady

Marathon '97

Freak

Finian's Rainbow

Life ... and Stuff

Buddy

Con Air

Gone Fishin'

Poe! Poe!

Love-Struck

Bill Clinton: Rock & Roll President

How the Other Half Loves

The Only Thrill

Al Jarreau; Take 6


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