Table of Contents
Week of 06/18/1998

Articles

Salzburg skeds int'l lineup

 

Exec Shuffle

 

PFE Italy moves on

 

Apra joins Italo Cinematheque

 

Flanders to fete music

 

Sundancers play at S.F. gay fest

 

DreamWorks inks Hutchinson

 

WAMI draws Miami notice

 

McCoy wins entertainer of year at Country Awards

 

Sundance inks cable deals

 

Lamb chops issue

 

Warner Bros. Music taps Greenfield

 

Vision Awards focus on Milchan's career

 

Best showbiz Web sites top CyberAward noms

 

Mickey's montage

 

Anderson Prods. taps Kram

 

Content launched

 

Frank DeVaney dies at 58

 

Redstone pans gold at Gotham fete

 

Iranians kick over 'Daughter'

 

Steve Sanders dies at 45

 

A punchier Povich

 

Ralph Hammond Innes dies at 84

 

Tech buy makes Imax bigger faster

 

CNN targets net news

 

Aussies wiggle onto American TV

 

ITV's Granada invades Germany via RTL web

 

Teutonic TV trials

 

Esquire adds critic Marcus

 

Germany's Cinemaxx goes public

 

World Briefs

 

Kantarian ankles as Radio City CEO

 

Willis learns lesson about Farrakhan

 

Fisher inks for 'Gadget'

 

Holland Media downsizes

 

Spain hears MuchMusic

 

Hagans ankles ailing Optus

 

'Cherry' to blossom in Gotham

 

Eckerle ankles Fox B'casting

 

Ivey towers as NEA chair

 

'Homicide' gets Esposito

 

Cox ankles WB

 

Gersh grits teeth

 

NL's 'Dairy' up Kirstie's acting alley

 

Master P dominates chart for 2nd week

 

Pearce, Taylor down for 'Down'

 

Immortal drawn to death row pic

 

'Flight 180' airborne at NL

 

KCAL scores Lakers

 

Shandling to paint 'Town' with Beatty

 

Segan to Furthur

 

TBS to build new studio

 

Arnold is beau of the Ball

 

Burton eyes 'Hollow'; Rodman wrestles

 

'100 Movies' boosts CBS

 

Spelling will do her 'Trick' in comic pic

 

June sizzle makes syndie ratings fizzle

 

CIBC, Union Bank credit Village Roadshow

 

Somlyo new prez of Theater Wing

 

Bill would delay fee hike

 

South goes south on 'Melrose'

 

'Iphigenia' cycles to new audience

 

The Wedding Songs

 

Davis puts stamp on 'Ultimate' set

 

WNBC to dump news for Roseanne yakker

 

Lunden near syndie deal with Telepictures

 

Marqee taps Campbell

 

Kirch wants more Premiere

 

Carlton bids on CD operation

 

Lions Gate to buy Termite

 

News Corp. stock sold

 

Internet in chips

 

Canuck lawyer bows Muse

 

MPH rolls 'Rat' in Aug.

 

Cecchi Gori touts boffo B.O. revs

 

Goldwyn takes 'Nathan' helm

 

Egyptian edges toward restoration

 

Scottish to distribute for Barron TV

 

Woo pilot resurfaces on cabler

 

France's Spectacle cabler plans to shutter

 

Brooklyn studio town

 

Fox TV inks helmer Jackson for dramas

 

House panel approves digital copyright bill

 

Village eyes Golden

 

Willis 'repudiates message' of Farrakhan

 

UPN flat upfront

 

'H20' disturbs 'Behavior' release date

 

Keener nabs 'Being' role

 

Unapix preps docs for Discovery, Learning

 

ATAS awards National Geographic, TLC

 

Danza eyeing Broadway

 

Cinema Expo closes with splash

 

'Jar of Fools' picked by Aurora Prods.

 

Fox ups Hauser

 

TenPercenteries

 

Heche commits to 'Trixie'

 

Mouse modems Infoseek

 

TV pilot focuses on U.S. indie pix

 

Alliance, Viacom in loop

 

NEA funding threatened

 

Clooney cloned

 

El Duque pic in bullpen

 

SPE eyes Japanese feature production

 

Roiphe switches to the Free Press

 

'Cymbeline' crowns Goodman queen

 

Krone exec veep at Village

 

Polygram stock drops

 

Telescene seeing rev, product spurt

 

Telemundo finds Philly

 

Pay TV rules busy Midia

 

U Canada, Alliance form video venture

 

Flashpoint will manage in L.A.

 

U.S. firms want out of TVA

 

Asia's woes help fuel Discop's high

 

'Deep' $100 million

 

Lew Chudd

 

NBC ups Schanzer

 

Outlaw taps Litvak

 

CBS News nabs '98 Murrow

 

Six filmers take UCLA Spotlights

 

WB, Par marketing cited

 

VH1 to launch original shows, toons

 

Humanitas finalists announced

 

MPAA Ratings

 

Van Damme pic ignites

 

'Truman' suit retort

 

Kidman set to star in London 'Blue Room'

 

Schroder taking on 'NYPD' role

 

Midler midseason misses

 

Sudser 'World' stops bubbling on KRON

 

Up the wrong creek

 

Crystals fete femme filmmakers

 

B.O. goes to 'X'-tremes

 

'RKO 281' downsized to HBO

 

MacKillop fuels Rocket

 

Zuckerman pacts with Fox TV

 

WGA contract wins OK

 

New Line's pricey 'List'

 

Neeson, Watson in talks for 'Ashes'

 

Warners fires back at Coppola

 

Quality of kidvid takes dip

 

New Line ups Levin

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Pubbery kidding the U.K.

 

Nevins re-ups VP post at Peacock

 

Mandylor tagged for CBS' 'Martial Law'

 

Mandel talker debuts today

 

Fisher to topline ABC pilot 'Loop'

 

Franklin wins 'Trust' of UA

 

William Morris signs Malkovich

 

Fox Music ups Ginsburg to VP

 

Cut sought in Polygram price

 

Gersh exits Capitol; Lott moves into slot

 

Shrewd cross-promo breeds 'X'-ecrable paranoia

 

Jack McFadden

 

Sheldon Gunsberg

 

Norman Stuart

 

Armand (Army) Grant

 

Donna Coe

 

Theresa Merritt

 

Kelly Snyder

 

Suzanne Pettit

 

Helen Carter

 

Joshua Hanig

 

Jerry Neil Capehart

 

Angel South

 

World Briefs

 

Aussie pic fest fetes 'Radiance'

 

Film review: 'Gone With the Wind' revisited

 

K-L to bow Spanish pic cable net

 

Harvest delayed

 

It's coming undone

 

Karlovy Vary to fete Douglas

 

S. Africa grants $2 mil for films

 

Endemol hits Brit market

 

21 to see their stars on Walk

 

Random House in biz with Sierra Club

 

A broad book biz

 

'Sex' is on top in B.O. exclusives

 

Clintons trek to China

 

Gersh ankles post as Capitol prexy

 

Popular Arts expanding

 

U.S. match boosts Cup

 

Hutton nears 'General's' delivery

 

CBS may ax Molinari

 

ABC, NABET talking again

 

Media-Most plans to expand

 

Chancellor brings Martin into fold

 

Vogler turns in his Mouse pad for Nick

 

Laemmle builds Pasadena plex

 

U parks in Spain

 

Ross, Sindell team at U

 

Hontz upped to TV Editor

 

Levy leaving lot

 

Polygram price lowered

 

'Magic,' 'Forgive' see signs of hope

 

Gish, Maffia may be in 'Jeopardy'

 

DeGeneres may ink 'Love Letter'

 

'NewsRadio' goes syndie

 

Cruise may enter 'Void'

 

Carsey-Werner eyes 'Teenage Idol'

 

TNT launches Coast feed

 

Torry to take on 'Trippin'

 

Par captures 'Hogan's Heroes'

 

'Liberty' rings; femmes say hello, young lovers

 

Direct-to-kidvids set by Chesler/Perlmutter

 

'Slava' leads off slew of one-person shows

 

ABC sets cast for pilot 'In the Loop'

 

'Jacob' lenses with Busey, Ice T

 

Dark week on B'way

 

Urbaniak tapped for fall Allen pic

 

UA pays out for 'Trust'

 

Petersen enters music biz

 

Fox chooses 'Chicklets'

 

Back for more: Brill to reprint premiere issue

 

Smith eats up 'Breakfast'

 

Eye onboard for 'Payne'

 

AT&T rings up TCI: $43 bil

 

TCI deal may spur copycat ventures

 

Cable-telco acquisition met with mixed D.C. reaction

 

Nantucket fest falls for 'Faith'

 

'Everest' reaches peak

 

Prince Edward p.a.'s in L.A.

 

Canada competition

 

CBS has energy to spare

 

Filmline to travel with 'Jules Verne'

 

Cerezo eyeing U.S. deals

 

Hearst gets Turkish stake

 

Tussauds waxed up for sale by Pearson

 

Blockbuster might

 

Eye Web officially cuts Molinari

 

World Briefs

 

Focus on the family

 

PFE in a 'Snarl' with BBC

 

Advanced pic slate unveiled

 

Bonner now veep at USA

 

Winters tale

 

USA Net gets good look at 'Monkeys'

 

Low ratings mean woes at networks

 

ACNielsen EDI opens branches in Mexico, Oz

 

Ozzie & Harriet bio boffo

 

Lovitz to broadcast 'NewsRadio'

 

Jesse Dylan to direct 'Dead' at D'Works

 

Olbermann uses 'Big Show' for low blows

 

Burg breaks from Blackwell's Palm

 

Morris gets U Music nod

 

Woodstock redux

 

DW's 'Crew' turns around

 

Abbott to order 'Pizza'

 

NABET, ABC talks collapse

 

CBS, AFTRA reach accord

 

20 eligible for WGA board

 

Col accepts invitation to 'Party' with Mottola

 

WB lassoes 'Void Moon'

 

Malone's skills sent TCI to top of cablers

 

'Howie' bows with decent overnights

 

Beutel and beyond

 

Reviews

Groundlings: The Ride

Girls Against Boys

Michael Brecker

Three Cats From Miami and Other Pet Practitioners

Three Cats from Miami and Other Pet Practitioners

Girls Against Boys

Michael Brecker

The X-Files

A New Brain

Cubanismo

The X-Files

Out of Sight

You Never Can Tell

A Soldier's Sweetheart

The X-Files - File X Under Unexceptional

Fire-Eater

Daybreak

Gunshy

Crossmaheart

Three Cats from Miami and Other Pet Practitioners

Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badgers Drift

Lucinda's Spell

The Unknown Cyclist

Delivered

Scarred City

Out of Range

Gone with the Wind

The Whiteheaded Boy

Much Ado About Nothing

Lillian

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A Celebration of the Music of Judy Garland

When Trumpets Fade

AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies

Medeski, Martin & Wood

Needfire

Love's Fire

Sixth Annual Weenie Roast & Fiesta

Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postivos

Refugees

Steeltown

Armageddon

When Trumpets Fade

Dr. Dolittle

Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters