Table of Contents
Week of 01/29/1998

Articles

Par TV Adds Int'l Duo

 

Short Takes

 

ITE, Hugo expanding to Tokyo

 

B.O. boom boosts AMC

 

All American music sale

 

Robert D. Blue, dead at 50

 

Ballantyne posts profit

 

Joan Banks Lovejoy dies

 

Broadcasting helps Tribune profits soar

 

ViaSat, NetCom link up

 

Marianne Clarkson dies at 49

 

Business Briefs

 

George Draper Lewis, 89

 

ShoWest unspools arthouse showcase

 

Emil Sitka, 83

 

E! doubles up on Orbit deal for 3 years

 

Diller backs Brill mag

 

Marques to top Globo sales

 

Nintendo teams for sat license

 

Anchored at the top

 

Fox spec revisits Skategate scandal

 

Comic Relief back on track with troika

 

Oscar noms due Friday

 

Penn 'Lay Dying' at Phoenix

 

New Studio in First Stages

 

Spice Girls' PPV power

 

FCC Moves Fast on Free Airtime Regs

 

Clinton tide stops long enough at 'Creek'

 

Motown shuffle

 

FCC Delays Digital TV Assignments

 

Media Access nod to 'ER'

 

Crichton & Co. win 'Twister' lawsuit

 

Steve Heyer boosted at TBS

 

Leguizamo bandleader for 'Esquivel'

 

BBC picks up ABC's prexy news

 

Harrison to adapt 'Dune' for mini

 

Bakula 'Immortal' to lead own slate

 

Brit pic 'Swing' set to go

 

'Monty' pushes dinos from U.K. B.O. peak

 

WB TV inks neigher to pact

 

Laudadio details Venice fest plans

 

Hoffman, London join 'Patch Adams'

 

Marvel, Saban set kids shows for UPN

 

Pilot fails, but pic flies

 

Harper wins world title in Fox fold

 

Nick spots prove boon for Toon Net

 

Village adds exec

 

Searchlight picks 'Dates'

 

U's Barger, Gaynes take veep posts

 

Spillman Trimark prod'n VP

 

Inside Moves

 

Col TV, Anderson land 'Memory'

 

Benson into MTV rotation

 

Parker working Egg's 'Waking'

 

Williams 'Belly' up for Live

 

Santa Barbara fest unveils lineup

 

New Line in pact with Kahn Power

 

Lensers org unveils TV noms

 

Curry cooks WB sitcom

 

Japan's B.O. regal

 

World Briefs

 

Sony's biz profits off in quarter

 

Consortium eyes UIP distribution

 

Top Oz circuits join for property trust

 

Lithgow, Wiest hit 'Portofino'

 

Karlovy Vary set to play the market

 

'3rd Rock' bowls over 'Carey' on Wed.

 

French net stakes plan put aside

 

Swallow heads new U toon & f/x wing

 

Ergen: local hero?

 

Midem Latino mart returning to Miami

 

Rupe hits sat roadblock

 

Canal Plus spins French Web

 

TW gets an upgrade

 

Webs revamp skeds

 

Medicos' moolah

 

Norma Pike Taft dead at 75

 

William E. Brittan

 

Duffell exits Virgin Group prexy post

 

Reality setting in

 

Saban disputes SAG accusations

 

TenPercenteries

 

'Seinfeld's' George to meet his end

 

Craig segues to WBTV deal

 

Shapiro named sr. exec consultant for 70th Academy Awards

 

Estes catches Shadow

 

TMC bows romance films

 

Brooks, Burns get WGA nod

 

Martin to pitch in at Comedy Arts Fest

 

Disney and Barnes and Noble get together

 

TNT and Hallmark ink multi-picture deal

 

'Port Charles' nabs honor

 

Six-strings reaching for high notes

 

TBS trying monkey biz

 

'Capeman' hits Broadway

 

'Monty's' mystery unveiled

 

Foley having a 'Blast'

 

'Star' shines in bright field at Goyas

 

Klein joins Todds at New Line

 

Nets set drama pilots

 

Italy's parties pick new RAI directors

 

Everett on 'Dream' team

 

'Limpet' nets Oedekerk, hooks Carrey

 

'Soul Food' duo cook up Fox pix

 

Booze on back burner at FCC

 

'Titanic' sails to $300 mil

 

Eatons pass Baton, debt-reduction set

 

Lola tangos with Vine Intl.

 

Smooth sailing

 

'Rules' & 'Love' join NBC sked

 

'Titanic' Raising Tix Tab

 

AMC high on rumors

 

UCLA showbiz confab tackles money trail

 

Col, Tristar Global repact

 

Praisers set award slate

 

BVTV renews 'Honey' skein

 

Berlin Fest Award, Wajda lifetime nod

 

TNT, Hallmark ink

 

U Retouching 'Evil'

 

Fox 2000 buys British play 'Wife' for Ramis

 

Westfield-Avent joins MGM as VP

 

Playa Capital gears to put D'Works in motion

 

'Titanic' disc sets a high water mark

 

MGM ups Rosett

 

KCBS tops Mike tally as KTLA, KNBC nab key wins

 

Wolper's greats skein set for Eye on People

 

Alphabet's Iger staying put

 

Gang of crix knife 'Capeman'

 

Smith sings Rhythm & Hues

 

Citadel rebuilds deal with helmer Kaufman

 

British fest flies American flag

 

'Mail' Call for Chappelle

 

Steuer steers new mag Indie

 

Broadway Grosses

 

New guide to give the lowdown on Jersey

 

B.O. falls; 'King and I' 752g

 

Inside Moves

 

ShoWest sets up honors for Allen, Judson, Helton

 

New Motown moves firmed

 

U, Zucker redo 'Martians'

 

Buzz Flies to Pic Biz

 

Gary Nardino dead at 62

 

Media madness meets Monica melodrama

 

PerfecTV, JSkyB in satcaster marriage

 

Midler, Lane going 'Great' at Universal

 

NPR, PBS tip caps

 

USC Cinema-TV fetes Douglas

 

ShoWest sez Driver on road to success

 

ESPN Latin America tops 10 million subs

 

Murdoch goes after Galaxy

 

Col helps Steel break into pic biz

 

Sesame Street leads to Middle East

 

Cinema Expo to fete Clark

 

Digital bedfellows

 

Fox TV pix mix with Coke

 

Williams inks pact with Sogepaq

 

Gaylord shutters CMT Euro

 

BskyB chairman ankling

 

Berlin Film Fest names jury roster

 

$300 million and counting

 

Handmade's 'Sweety' shoots

 

Hachette taps Hughes

 

'Apostle' tops arthouse B.O.

 

College games: $40 mil tuition

 

Maffia drives on 'Route 9'

 

Trio lends voices to 'Sinbad'

 

States hit Gates

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Daniel Raskov opens Gate for indie pics

 

'South Park' pair script 'Dumber' prequel

 

Society Taps Sound Noms

 

Clinton No. 1 (news story)

 

Charne Top Dog at AIAS

 

Channing picks a pair of pix

 

Hatosy shares 'Joy' with Landau

 

Marketing veeps exit Viacom unit, ink deals

 

Attack of the Bobcat

 

Fox's 'Ann,' 'Carly' find home at CBS

 

O'seas pic sales hit by Asian cash crisis

 

Schube Climbs at Henson

 

'Bloopers' wins slot

 

Turner, NBC tackle football league plan

 

'Legend' greenlit

 

AFMA sales surge

 

Asia broadcasts woes

 

Sinatra rep fights unauthorized disks

 

BSkyB sues Carlton

 

Berlin taps Deneuve for lifetime honors

 

HMG chief reigns supreme

 

Global ties cable

 

Behaviour raises $21 million

 

CSD firms $400 million

 

Chilean auds warm to tennis tourneys

 

Clinton cable boost

 

Media excess lunch topic

 

PrimeStar's sat slot eyed closely by FCC

 

RAI, Mediaset filling out digital TV horizon

 

Carmike's Profits Drop

 

Disney unanimous on 'Split'

 

Mueller-Stahl hits 'Floor'

 

Phoenix/Rehme nab 'Defense'

 

Golden new CFO at Atlantis

 

Image reserves 'Table' with six digits

 

Half-dozen tyros dot DGA's tube nom list

 

Fox balances NFL, kids

 

Bogart made VP at Time Warner

 

PGA puts Marshall on its lifetime plan

 

Atlantis tackles network turf

 

U TV inks drama deal with 'Order's' Balcer

 

Par TV sets three pilots

 

NBC 'Shoots' ratings win

 

Boat anchors B.O.

 

Martin Gang dies at 96

 

Feola tops U Family unit

 

Going to Gotham

 

Sony Classics has 'Character'

 

Wallace into Stratosphere

 

Miramax fills prez post

 

Roger Stevens dies at 87

 

Moonstone bows distrib op

 

Cox aboard 'Alien Love Triangle'

 

D'Works shifts pix premieres

 

Alice Davidson dies at 86

 

Stone eyeing WB

 

Jack Woolf dies at 80

 

El Nino guests on 'Rosie'

 

An Online Hotline

 

Jones enlists at D'Works

 

Equity for East West

 

U ups Given

 

Marketing vet Gerson moves to Worldsite

 

WB Telepictures ups Hackner-Goldberg

 

Pacino and Crowe in pipe for Mann pic

 

Clancy Vikings' new lead owner

 

L.A. Fest to aid pix

 

Rookie thesp Yune joins 'Snow' cast

 

Weston Tripps over 'Madam Cleo'

 

TenPercentaries

 

Desert area blooms anew thanks to Madonna video

 

Reviews

The Lake

The Land Girls

A Price Above Rubies

Deep Rising

Some Nudity Required

Wicked

The Land Girls

Surrender Dorothy

Oasis

Oasis

Wicked

Some Nudity Required

Digging to China

Snitch

The Farm: Angola, USA

Dominique Eade; Don Braden

The Capeman

The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Love Letter

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

General Chaos: Uncensored Animation

True Friends

Princess Mononoke

Deceiver

Dangerous Beauty

The Farm: Angola, USA

True Friends

Snitch

The Capeman

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Talented Tenth

When Husbands Cheat

Less Than Jake

The Replacement Killers

Buffalo 66

2 by 4

Tomorrow Night

Modulations

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Salome

My Sergei

Johnny Skidmarks


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