Table of Contents
Week of 04/30/1998

Articles

Canada's Star prez ankles

 

Tiger builds a lair

 

'Sins' revises Miami TV image

 

'Annie' to return to West End

 

'Frasier' sweeps up

 

WB locks up 'The Brig'

 

Roses bloom for TV

 

Beatty goes for a Madonna look

 

Marchand goes to Portman

 

Depardieu says oui to TV trio

 

Telescene asks 'Are You Game?'

 

Head-turning gala

 

Aussies fear Kiwi influx

 

Clay celebs make 'Death' wish come true

 

German giants give in

 

Legal grey matter

 

Spelling bottom line gets boost from TV

 

US West unit posts net loss

 

3 upped at Writers & Artists Agency

 

WB bumps 'One' from Sundays

 

Paramount ready to take a spin with DVD releases

 

Lipnicki bites into 'Vampire'

 

Hudlin pacts with Canyon

 

Foxx set to topline 'Inconvenienced'

 

Buzz buy bickering

 

USA Miami venture to debut

 

After 'Scotch', actor hops over to 'Ed TV'

 

ABC's Pedowitz upped to finance, acquisition

 

Puffy preps for pics; 'Psycho' redo readies

 

Country kudocast gives posse of artists a boost

 

Fisher reels in 'True' role

 

MGM has room for 'Agreement'

 

Newman's '1001 Nights' kicks off 'Filmharmonic'

 

More ads, same kidvid coin

 

Nat'l nods tag top mags

 

Lion pounces on 'Last Dance'

 

Storytellers' weekend set

 

USA revs up in big way for 1st qtr.

 

'Home' spun out of slot by 'Frasier'

 

Ginsburg gets prexy post at Alliance

 

Viacom stock steams ahead

 

Galavision ups Bella to marketing veep

 

M-Net funds, buys local films

 

Soupy's on again with new films, deal

 

20th reworking 'Paula'

 

Jerrys rule syndie ratings

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Sound man sues Fox for old job

 

CNN to cut jobs after tech upgrade

 

Disney catches Starwave

 

Venora to light up new Mann cig pic

 

'Merlin's' magic

 

Miramax claims Sweeney's 'God'

 

Davis inks 'Oral Agreement'

 

Apostle, D'Works team up

 

Site spat engulfs 'Sally,' 'Maury'

 

Leslie Stevens, dead at 74

 

Cooke ankling KABC-AM

 

Prufrock gets Tilberis book

 

'Springer' punches pulled

 

Pax Net, WBTV ink TCI carriage pacts

 

U goes for 'A Walk' with Jersey

 

WIPO's tighter 'net

 

CJE keeps investment in D'Works

 

Interscope sets edgier slate

 

Chase takes live TV one shot too far

 

Mottola now CEO at Sony

 

Pathe goes into 'Light'

 

'Deep' dive for WB, Roadshow

 

Writers, producers near new contract

 

Hollywood Film Fest returning in August

 

'GMA' makeover bows Monday

 

Eye spies profits

 

Sinclair Group splits stock

 

Bertelsmann sales rise 2.3%

 

Lucasfilm defends Lego 'Star Wars' deal

 

EMI high on offer

 

BBC, Mediaset ink 3-year prod'n deal

 

Worldwide music sales hit $38.1 mil

 

DVD gets extra U.S., Euro push

 

Douglas enlists in submarine pic

 

Stations get a break

 

Cablevision adds ad unit

 

Fox ups Battista

 

Televisa 1st-qtr. profits rise

 

TenPercenteries

 

B'way TV bound in 'Live'

 

Cox posts 1st-qtr loss of $102 mil

 

Video Business ups Apar

 

Short new VP at WB pay TV

 

Nordisk builds up Danish dominance

 

Kopelson 'Knox' on new scribes' door

 

O'seas B.O. takes a dip

 

Crousillat tops Televisa int'l prod'n

 

Web trio sees Light

 

Greek piracy attacked

 

Sony ups Furnare to VP of post for digital ad unit

 

Carlton, Clark team on 'Hell'

 

Reynolds joins 'Dick'

 

CBS taps Kilborn for Snyder slot

 

Lakeshore reels in 'Monday'

 

Bellows to join papers' fold

 

Morgan Creek taps 2

 

Script contest deadline nears

 

Bonham Carter in 'Club'

 

'Sisterella' back in step

 

R&B star Usher sets pic debut

 

Soupy's on again with new films, deal

 

Court TV puts confab to test

 

Alphabet taps Addy for sitcom

 

'Ivy' grows at Fox

 

Cannell wins back rights to TV series

 

Comedians toon in for 'Dilbert'

 

BV back on its B.O. 'Game'

 

'Ideal' cast tapped for Wilde pic

 

Searchlight ups DeMarco

 

Rupert bags Baz

 

Fox embarks on 'Prom Date'

 

WB, Spelling: 'Love' lost

 

Thomas sells pic pitch

 

'Flawless' for De Niro

 

Mutual Film taps Pickering

 

WB to roll back output, cut down on event pix

 

April 'Spaced' out

 

Peet may taste New Regency's 'Vanilla'

 

Cablers celebrating as confab kicks off

 

'Seinfeld' momentum hikes NBC sweeps

 

Springer fights peace pact

 

Fine Line retools marketing team

 

PerfecTV, JSkyB join

 

Tony noms announced

 

Will H'wood potentates swallow Potency Pill?

 

'Two Girls' tops exclus

 

Magic Hour lines up coin

 

Exec search firms add vets

 

Africa telecom meet seeks 'renaissance'

 

A 'Shanghai' shoot

 

Microsoft to make TCI set-top box

 

Goodall finds role in 'Difficult'

 

Ness hopeful about cabler-station talks

 

Gates faces cablers

 

Income falls, profit takes tumble at Planet H'wood

 

USA goes shopping for exec promotions

 

Lion bites into retail

 

SFX extends reach

 

Farrell, Roffer climb to top of HyperFilms

 

Imasac to raise money for Cisneros

 

Cox revs soar due to NewCity buy

 

Heston fires off pic protest

 

WB TV ups Greenblatt

 

TCI adds clearances, content to the Box

 

Alphabet eyes vidbiz options

 

D.C. film fest fracas

 

Disney cuts it Close

 

'SNL' sets up Web site, goes online for Saturday show

 

TCI offers high-def tax plan

 

Fine Line taps Murray

 

Greenspan sets Showtime docs

 

Nick out of toon

 

Great Wall remains

 

Lion's Gate to fund 'Psycho'

 

'Don II' unspectacular winner for CBS

 

Christ inks for 'Ricky Six'

 

Cineplex to cut more than 100

 

Cibrian inks deal for CBS Norris pic

 

Thesps set to make 'Killing'

 

Trio stirs o'seas B.O.

 

WGA boards to vote on pact

 

DreamWorks' 'Spin' goes off-net for Par

 

Warners TV Distribution ups Greenblatt

 

News the news for fall skeds

 

Web trio sees light

 

Kinocenter at center of flap

 

Japanese war pic called 'shameless'

 

Hong Kong still a piracy problem

 

Inside '60 Minutes'

 

Landis has change of 'Plan'

 

Rosemarie Burnett, dead at 70

 

Robert A. Vanselow, dead at 79

 

Lillian Briggs dies at 64

 

Gene Raymond dies at 89

 

Fashion statement

 

Thomas set to adopt 'Baby' with Dieckmann

 

Trimark ups Block

 

Russell to do 'Mambo' for Phoenix

 

End of 'Access' road for Ender

 

RCA makes publicity moves

 

Pearson taps Abrams

 

CanWest buys part of Fireworks for $28 mil

 

Oz's 'Wiggles' ready to warble in U.S., Europe

 

PBS in sponsor hunt

 

Chilean telco ups cable op stake

 

Egypt launches state sat

 

Pittard Sullivan buys Tandem Intermedia

 

Czech's Kratky film faces bankruptcy

 

IATSE targeting post house 4MC

 

U.K. TV revs up in '97

 

Panel sees digital p'gramming costing public

 

Sat ops merge in Japan

 

Polygram ups Russo stake

 

Cox pacts to buy bulk of Vegas cable outfit

 

Gen'l Cinema, MovieFone ink

 

'Mr. Bill' in Family way

 

FCC digs in on digital

 

Fox's Fox upped to sr. veep

 

Streisand shoots down debate idea

 

Avignon/N.Y. fest kind to 'Strangers'

 

Col TriStar ups Higgins

 

NYPD arrests 43 in vid, CD piracy bust

 

'Group' duo exits

 

Jim Henson Prods. buoys exex

 

Kerr gets role in TNT's 'Legalese'

 

Madonna, Everett ink for 'Best Thing'

 

Light makes pic debut in 'Toscano'

 

Hoyts takes on partner for Germany

 

Valley biz prod'n on rise

 

TCI's Malone sparks HDTV format fight

 

Sony taps Billeci as Digital exec director

 

Trident goes int'l with 'Love'

 

Granada, Carsey-Werner battle over 'Earth Scum'

 

Sony has stake in 'Vampires'

 

End nears for Australis

 

NBC locks it up

 

'Titanic' floats German B.O.

 

Blair to WB Int'l TV, Canada

 

Showtime adopts homeless 'Lolita'

 

'Father' to close in Seattle

 

U lights up 'Groucho'

 

Banks nix loans to Kirch

 

Beatty to campaign for Dems in future

 

Reviews

The Judas Kiss

John Carpenter's Vampires

Les Paul

Africa's Elephant Kingdom

The Horse Whisperer

Black Dog

Filmharmonic

The Water Children

Storefront Hitchcock

Healing by Killing

The Last Don II

The Dinner Game

Storefront Hitchcock

Father, Son and Holy Torum

John Carpenter's Vampires

Deep in the Heart

Body Count

The Horse Whisperer - Redford Lassos Powerful Saga

The Long Island Incident

Kudzu

Nobody Dies on Friday

Let Me Live

Deep Space

Voices in the Dark

Monster

The Weir

Closer

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Cure at Troy

Ray Davies

Blink 182

Wynton Marsalis: Marsalis/Stravinsky

Wynton Marsalis: Marsalis/Stravinsky

Ray Davies

Deep Impact

Louisa May Alcott's Little Men


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