Table of Contents
Week of 01/15/1998

Articles

H'W'D LAYING LOW AT MIP ASIA

 

Redstone confirms S&S sale

 

Nordic giant forming

 

'Morning' stalking 'GMA'

 

Polygram TV adds 5

 

'X' ends Japanese run

 

Benched NBC spins football

 

Berlin fest sets 'Boxer' on first card

 

Col TriStar Int'l TV ups McMahon

 

Coppola wins DGA'S Griffith nod

 

Grundy has plans for Waterfront

 

'Versace' wraps case in Miami

 

Telepix cast Grant as Pimpernel

 

NAB backs sat b'cast package for local TV

 

ABC, ESPN defend NFL fee$

 

Winterland's spring

 

Sony music buys stakes in trio of European indies

 

TCI ups sat stake

 

'Titanic' tops pops

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Univision chair sells stock pile

 

Marriott reaps 'Farm' project

 

NBC going to movies on Sunday afternoons

 

PBS' 'Frontline' nabs Gold Baton

 

Sundance's new stance

 

Preem: 'Fallen' callin' partyers

 

Stallone ankles CAA for another go at ICM

 

Heart-stopping 'ER' deal

 

DeVito does double duty; Love troubles

 

Red Wagon hitches Hannibal to TriStar

 

Dickinson narrates 'Titanic' for blind auds

 

Griffiths parks at BMG

 

USA taps Rosenberg to head syndie arm

 

KCOP moves 'Vibe' to 11:30

 

Banner deal for Wyner's 'Mexican'

 

Jacobson to join Disney

 

L.A. crix heap kudos, honors on picmakers

 

Acad honors Donen with lifetime award

 

U TV pacts with 'Prey's' Schmidt

 

Tarter control: Snags Stagebill

 

Chi 'Sweet' on 'L.A.'

 

Scribe Black goes 'A.W.O.L.' for AFI

 

Foreman endows scholarship

 

Clinton, Eisner intro 'Ruby'

 

Promark, Mediaset to stamp 'Letters'

 

Births, Jan. 16, 1997

 

Broadcast crix toast Wise with lifetime prize

 

Daley bows White Rock sales, distribution firm

 

Brooks song suit settled

 

LeMonde wrapping pair of pics

 

IATSE, TNT ink 3-year deal

 

O'seas loses steam

 

Hall does 'Double' duty for WB

 

Alphabet soups up for summer

 

MPAA Ratings

 

Butler woes shut down 'Grace'

 

Italian exhibs raise price of admission

 

H'wood vs. adult-pic biz: Porn to be wild

 

Lensers guild elects Omens prexy

 

Mexico leads LatAm B.O. surge

 

Shandling hits Grey with suit

 

Eye web drama in transit

 

Spain's DirecTV hit

 

U grabs 'Gates' for Clooney co.

 

MGM Gold lands slot on Hong Kong's Wharf Cable

 

Rotterdam spotlights homegrown pix

 

'Arrow' tops Gemini noms

 

Sony bows Euro Hindu channel

 

Purvis, Wade to pen next Bond adventure

 

Gooding takes a pay cut

 

Cher takes 'Tea With Mussolini'

 

WB buoys Miller to theatrical biz prexy

 

Sony plans Tokyo Bay center

 

K-L eyes McCarthy pic co-distrib deal

 

Todd-AO taps Sanzo legal VP

 

Todd-AO taps Sanzo legal VP

 

Par stations order more Philips gear

 

Top WGA honor to Sayles

 

Tauzin tackles cable

 

Televisa coin bump not up to projection

 

Tough B.O. row for tyros

 

'Duke' of Detweiler sniffs out Keystone

 

Bening laying down 'Law'

 

Top WGA honor to Sayles

 

Castle grabs Jazz's 'Blue'

 

WB plucks Posey

 

Emmys enshrined

 

Indies' star search

 

Bowles brings Breathnach's 'Down' to TSG

 

Madatian joins Par as sr. veep, publicity

 

WB even with UPN in to-date average

 

WGA election pact near

 

Academy honors Iwerks

 

Tamahori gets Kiwi 'Die' job

 

Rediscovering Mexico

 

B.O. shipshape at week 5

 

Esiason subbed for Gifford

 

NBC weighs wins, losses

 

Sizzling B.O. abroad warms Jan. markets

 

KKR near deal to buy Regal

 

ESPN has Super Bowl more than covered

 

Gingrich dodges biz

 

Court no help to Trib

 

Spinoff from 'Seinfeld' not likely

 

Redford: Sundance 'rolling along'

 

Nick toons up sked

 

Bay inks for CNN's Entertainment Weekly

 

SAG body to vote on merger

 

Par Int'l TV ups Lucas

 

Biz buzzing at Sundance

 

Spirits high at NAPTE '98

 

U Studios ups Marder to VP

 

N.Y. Women's Film Fest expands scope

 

Fifield reups at EMI

 

New Alphabet Sat. duo in the soup

 

Matsushita allows stake in U to shrink

 

Stratospheric deal

 

Cablevision-TCI deal OK'd

 

Judge throws out Seagull suit

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Sat rule rewritten

 

'Ragtime' swings to B'way beat

 

NAACP nods set hosts

 

Toronto kids film fest sets pix for April bow

 

Mercurio's steppin' out with 'James'

 

'Life' leads Italo pic noms

 

Bond sets sights on Africa

 

Trade rep raps Bulgaria, Paraguay

 

King World, NBC O&O's ready strip

 

'Chicago' a smash in Olivier noms

 

Study: off-net runs dent web originals

 

Inside Moves

 

Midem opens with Latin beat

 

Kids, pigskin on Fox agenda

 

Golden Globes: Backstage Notes

 

List of Golden Globe winners

 

Sizing up the economics of Hollywood

 

Roadshow nabs 'Behavior' pic

 

RKO, Miramax hit remake row

 

Spacey headlining San Jose Cinequest

 

'X-Files' tops among syndie fare

 

Seventh Art is drawn to 'Honey'

 

'Kundun' serene atop exclusives

 

World Briefs

 

TW to bid for South Africa license

 

FX fills up on pix

 

Pearson reshuffles Worldwide exec team

 

MGM Gold inks for India

 

Bond, boat buoy B.O.

 

Midem's moment in the sun

 

King gets 'Meaner' option

 

Shuttering 'Sanders'

 

'South Park' may warp to bigscreen

 

Showtime hits big Woods

 

Hazel tops Blues Foundation

 

Jackson in 'Training'; Par plumps for 'Play'

 

Tough bash path for Globe revelers

 

Alliance gains Int'l rights to 'First Love'

 

Pacino warms to 'Iceman'

 

Live likes what it sees in Amenabar's 'Eyes'

 

Regal, UA, Act III to form megacircuit

 

Bidders storm 'The Castle'

 

King world splits up

 

Knowledge taps Simon as senior veep

 

Intel launches quick web system

 

Strong B.O. for 'Ragtime'

 

D'Works near Busby deal

 

Sunny report: filming on rise in state

 

Grammys sked all-star perfs

 

Golden ratings for Globes

 

Dante helms 'Estates' for indie Royal

 

MCA snares Ware as marketing veep

 

Writers Guild plans panel to bargain with producers

 

Producers Guild unveils noms for Golden Laurels

 

New Line takes Duvall for 'Wife'

 

Stefanos to guide 'Hands'

 

San Diego to host inaugural film fest

 

Carl Perkins, dead at 65

 

Cliffie Stone, 80

 

'Titanic' sails seas

 

Ralph E. Farmer dies at 90

 

Harling lands 'Ladykillers'

 

Full steam ahead

 

Rhys-Meyer 'To Live On'

 

Kodak focuses on new hybrid film

 

U.K. minister's Midem pulpit

 

Lifetime sets lineup of specials

 

Whoopi center of attention

 

Fox orders U 'Weird' pilot

 

Shochiku lops topper, son

 

Wolf at int'l door for 'Law'

 

Encore, Polygram in television pact

 

Strip touted by Roseanne

 

Exhibs in takeover tizzy

 

High-profile trio produce NBC projects

 

'Yards' of stars for Miramax

 

D'Works, Hicks book 'Brown's' Brock

 

Global conquest for NBC

 

U TV Group reups deal with Raimi and Tapert

 

Kornblau to top new U music/video division

 

TenPercenteries

 

Disney kids to play UPN

 

L.A. indie fest calls for pix

 

TNT's 'Jesus' complex

 

WB turns up the heat

 

With 'Eyes' wound, Kidman gets 'Practical'

 

Reviews

Prey

Goldfinger

Patti LaBelle on Broadway

Goldfinger

Prey

On the Line

The Gingerbread Man

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

Marcus Printup; Tim Hagans

Patti Labelle on Broadway

Abc Sunday Night Movie; Nightmare Street

Two for Texas

Two for Texas

Nightmare Street

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

Independent's Day

The Gingerbread Man

Sliding Doors

Ragtime

Great Expectations

The Man in Gray

Across the Lake

Tempest

Vassiliki

Xxl

Patti Labelle on Broadway

Island of Greed

Task Force

Things I Left in Havana

To the Limit

Beck 2

The Gingerbread Man - 'Man' Finds Altman Doing It by the Book

Olympia

June Moon

Intimates

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

Love, Langston

The Country Club

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

I Can't Remember Anything/the Last Yankee

Hamlet

Steel City

A Russian Romance

Ragtime - Nostalgia Trips

Kurt and Courtney

Montana

Half Baked

Dawson's Creek

The Big Lebowski

Pi

Kurt and Courtney

Montana

Half Baked

The Big Lebowski

Polish Wedding

Slappy and the Stinkers

How to Make the Cruelest Month

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart

The Real Thing



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