Table of Contents
Week of 05/07/1998

Articles

Telepics taps McLoughlin

 

Universal up again

 

Court's bail: $350 mil

 

Startup losses dent BSkyB qtr.

 

U. Studios Florida won't fund light-rail

 

Clark Prods. projects gains

 

Earnings at Imax go large format

 

Film, fashion team

 

Clear Channel splits stock

 

Hit pix bolster Cinemark revs

 

October grabs rights to Altman's 'Fortune'

 

'Frasier' hammers 'Home' a victory

 

Emmys go long

 

Oz exhib in Poland pact

 

Murdoch has eye on New Zealand's TV2

 

EU Commission rejects plan on German pay TV

 

Venice to market

 

Edwards into 'Dancing'

 

Benigni to be honored at Adriatic festival

 

Strong seals 'Pact'

 

Smith signs to helm Canadian miniseries

 

PaxNet taps Sagansky

 

Jefferson set to helm 'Fabulous'

 

Turner rips Rupe as NCTA confab closes

 

Bill Cable dead at 52

 

Real Ent. preps blitz for 2 new 'Springer' vids

 

Helen Ward, dead at 82

 

Fox revamps retail

 

Frank Kreigenhofer, dead at 82

 

Dresser Dahlstead, dead at 88

 

Liam Sullivan, 74

 

Heche, Moore join 'Psycho'

 

TCI digital dials up Sun

 

Fox garners 'War' spec

 

'Warlock' beguiles pair

 

Fox pits pol vs. lizard

 

B'way, locals clash

 

Industry vet Olsen retires

 

Post-prod'n subsids rolled into one

 

Scribes scrapped

 

AMC reports record $846 mil in revs for '98

 

'Springer' in step

 

News Corp.'s 'Titanic' quarter

 

MGM, DePalma in suspense

 

Exec Shuffle

 

HAL slates 1st 3 films

 

'Becker' calls Farrell

 

Sony ups Stringer, Calley

 

Amazon gains on giants

 

'Louie' leaps into book deal with Parachute

 

Polygram up for grabs

 

'Scum' only surface of rift

 

Hope to get regal 95th

 

Disney stock takes a tumble

 

Young's profits go downward

 

Univision beefs up homegrown product

 

NBC mulled purchasing WIC stake

 

AMPAS site up for city approval

 

Adventure's 'one-stop'

 

World Briefs

 

Sweden taps Ottosson

 

Mexican pix get fund boost

 

'Titanic' dominates Golden Week

 

Endemol, RTL ink TV deal

 

Viacom eyes U.K. exit

 

Godreche in 'Entropy'

 

Spain makes it plain

 

'54' docu slated for E! 'Story'

 

Horseshoe ramps up slate

 

Fields gets 'Evil' lead

 

Hallmark taps Holst

 

Ellroy to pen drama pilot for Par, NBC

 

WB scales down for 'Eve'

 

CQN to release art pix

 

Licht leaves Mattel for Fox homevid

 

'Seinfeld' renewal show heads for L.A.

 

AFI special has Web site

 

Summit to pitch WB pix

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Peacock's bogus sked hits the town

 

WGA boards OK tentative contract

 

'Godzilla' still a tough sell

 

Sony's smiling

 

ABC kids block tops Fox on Saturday

 

Williams reteams with Columbus

 

C'rights top U.S. exports

 

McCleary rejoins NBC

 

West 175, BBC cook

 

Nicholson relaxes post-Oscar

 

'Home' shopping

 

Tobacco butts out of showbiz

 

Bogus bargain for MCA

 

Kinder, gentler Springer

 

Anderson Prods. gets Foote's 'Man' rights

 

Lions Gate taps Strauss

 

'Box' wraps S.F. Film Fest

 

Fox tuner Faye dies at 83

 

De Palma, MGM mine 'Gold'

 

Digital Domain gets UA's 'Supernova' f/x

 

Idei promoted at Sony

 

Puerto Rican activists seek 'Seinfeld' apology

 

Steinberg retires from Sony

 

Stations to miss digital date

 

Ad buyers hold line

 

PBS early Daytime Emmy leader

 

'Son' books pic deal

 

Henson pacts kidvid duo

 

Wired Ventures sells magazine to Advance

 

Court rules against use of 'Elvis' moniker

 

Zakim ankles Universal pub post in N.Y.

 

H'w'd gathers at Lit Retreat

 

'Cavedweller' to Jaffe/Braunstein

 

King World eyeing Short talkshow

 

Screenzone bows trailer technology

 

Largo ups Elson

 

Shannon joins 'Analyze'

 

Int'l B.O. boost

 

Argentine prez spares $28 mil film subsidy

 

'West' shooting in Italy

 

Melissa Amalia Ziker, dead at 28

 

'Chicago' bow takes L.A. by storm

 

Adeline Goldsen, dead at 84

 

Esquire's family affair

 

Sondra Steele, dead at 84

 

'Beautiful' tops Italo Daivd noms

 

Telefe taps Yankelevich

 

Daniel Massey dead at 64

 

'Seinfeld' on record roll

 

Karen Laidlaw Beal dies at 55

 

McMurtry to create series

 

Bruce Reed, dead at 54

 

Fox in Dutch with SBS6

 

Seagram nears Polygram deal

 

Comet streaks to B.O. peak

 

Eddie Rabbitt, 56

 

Hallmark set to shoot Bible

 

'South' tops ABC telepix

 

Many U.S. pix can Cannes

 

Italy expands Oscar jury

 

Globocabo taps 2 exex

 

Cable & Wireless reorg eats '97 profits

 

Buckingham to distrib for Film Four

 

Canal Brazil programs local pix

 

China blasts Tojo pic

 

Chinese to be here shooting 'Be There'

 

Bergeron will host 'Squares'

 

Mamet's 'Prisoner' breaks to top of exclusives

 

'Impact' outstrips tornado

 

Barnes door open

 

Brody taking indie 'Oxygen'

 

RIAA shuts down Web sites

 

Scandi B'casting revs jump in 1st quarter

 

Marcus loses $32.9 mil

 

McFarlane gets 'Crow' line

 

Rowan set to 'Tango' for WB

 

UK orders 'Maury,' renews 'Springer'

 

'Days' time-shifts

 

Exec Shuffle

 

NatGeo taps Praver

 

Molina Eyes TV deal; Sorvino into battle?

 

Syndie 'Howie Mandel' rounds out prod'n staff

 

Pearson has S&S in sight

 

Early start for 'Seinfeld' exit

 

London to get 'Life' in fall

 

Steel Co. forges financing pact

 

Baseball cries foul over shift to ESPN2

 

'Terror' in ABC lineup

 

Lerner joins cast of 'Mod'

 

MTV's move groove

 

Euro B.O. droops

 

WB, Giant/Rev extend pact

 

Rodkey pitch to Interscope

 

WB gets Savage 'Valentine'

 

Goldwyn gets Serious for Aussie 'Accident'

 

B'way B.O. slump

 

Meat Loaf spices Fox's 'Fight Club'

 

B'way Notes

 

Parkinson joins Crawfords

 

'Ballyhoo' to hit small screen

 

Peacock plan stomps comp

 

Krebs may lease theater

 

MCA tunes in Mancini

 

Seagram, Polygram talks spin at 78 rpm

 

Bel Air blooming

 

Broderick, Everett gear up for 'Gadget'

 

Wiesenthal Ctr. objects to rap CD

 

Kirch, CLT move in

 

'Winter' to open Oz film fest

 

TeleMunchen prexy named to SBS board

 

Holding clears way for WIC, Shaw deal

 

'Titanic' tops Brazil b.o. boom

 

Williams, Tele Achat ink deal

 

Digital ITV2: original shows, younger auds

 

World Briefs

 

Copley, Katz new Film Roman team

 

Unger joins Heidrick

 

ABC names Jacobs to vice prexy post

 

AFI, Intel TV workshop

 

Comedy 'Crawford' combed out by WB

 

Rosaleen Rogers, dead at 64

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Thomas F. O'Neil dies at 82

 

James Christie Wagner, dead at 54

 

Gloria Belgard dies at 75

 

Henson, Hallmark bow family net

 

Emmett Shane dies at 77

 

Swayze gets 'Word' to dance

 

Street slips a disc

 

MainPix on 'Bullfighter'

 

Scandinavian MTG to sell film library

 

Lifetime OKs $160 mil for firstrun programs

 

Comcast down 32%

 

Tele-Cine OKs Todd-AO offer

 

Technicolor goes digital

 

Good Sein for NBC

 

Bohbot ready to uncover 'Conspiracies' for syndie

 

USA, Sci-Fi show advertisers new skeds

 

Bird deal won't fly

 

Donaldson to guide 'Guide'

 

Mostow/Lieberman taps Wolf

 

'Passion' may find Moore

 

WB toon drama set for June 'Invasion'

 

Behaviour bid locks 'Lulu'

 

New Line books passage on 'Titanic' spoof script

 

U, D'Works to launch 'Soldiers' promo blitz

 

Kingman sets script contest

 

BMI pop lauds EMI

 

Digital protagonist

 

Regency buys TV tennis rights

 

U's 'Mummy' unwraps

 

Blurb Emmy entry deadline June 1

 

McGinley joins cast of 'Dick'

 

Donohoe packing for 'Connecticut' telepic

 

Turner nixes Court deal

 

Edward Kinley dies at 82

 

Farrellys ink Fox deal

 

Shmuger to lead U marketing

 

Penn involved in Wellman biopic

 

Reviews

Witness to the Mob

Reno Finds Her Mom

Reno Finds Her Mom

Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town

Tori Amos

Largo

Woo

Chicago

Pete Droge

Mavericks; Derailers

California EAR Unit

Bulworth

Gunshy

Quest for Camelot

Cleopatra's Second Husband

The Pajama Game

Quest for Camelot

In That Land

Martha -- Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence

Swallowtail Butterfly

Following

Black Tears

Little Miracles

O.K. Garage

In My Father's House

Entangling Shadows: One-Hundred Years of Cinema in Latin America and the Caribbean

Divine Body

It's a Long Road

Unlucky Monkey

With or Without You

Satisfaction, or Your Money Back

The Redemption

Edge City

Immigrant Memories: The North African Inheritance

Starf*cker

Dead Already

The Bird People of China

Peter Benchley's Creature

Bad Sex with Bud Kemp

The Pajama Game

Saturday Night Fever

Bob

Anne

Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town

Follies

Waxworks

Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes

Ragtime

The Misanthrope

Peter Benchley's Creature

Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law

The Word Love Exists

Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence


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