Table of Contents
Week of 07/16/1998

Articles

Lion links Via Digital

 

France's first sports news net kicks off

 

Kirch Group ups Hahn

 

BBC unveils '97 numbers

 

Two U.K. indie units pact

 

Kirch bid for Sat 1 rejected

 

Delany up for Star's new business

 

Nicholson, Castrow powwow in Cuba

 

Devore services

 

Neuman's new home is in Internet's DEN

 

Valenti's online alarm

 

Seagal Nasso preps two pix

 

Corbis buys Outline Press

 

Judge nixes net imports

 

CanWest circles Cox's Rysher

 

Marv gets back to the Garden

 

Jackson at 'Sea' with Harlin

 

Cable online boost

 

BMG ups Dale

 

'Gate,' A.J. and Quinns up; Madonna 'Down'

 

Swedish message

 

Haute spy couture

 

Forever tango with Duvall

 

An all-Time high

 

DGA reaches out with LBA

 

Depp to ride in 'Hollow'

 

Rhythm taps helmer Kroyer

 

A penchant for Merchant

 

'Iceman' may cometh with Spacey, not cast

 

London theaters blast $1 bil mark

 

Stars host Voices program

 

Asteroids rock

 

'Forget' forges ahead in slow syndie frame

 

Web site to run 'Mighty' trailer

 

TenPercenteries

 

Danes, Anderson voice 'Mononoke'

 

ABC dusts itself off

 

Praisery trio merge into one

 

McCaffrey back to drive 'Viper'

 

Indie veterans' day

 

Davis in 'Little' league for Col's Yule offering

 

Title readies 'Book' redux

 

De Bont's Blue eyes 'Horseman'

 

WGAW spells out goals to members

 

'True' scribe Croner tackles 'Palos'

 

Palisades nabs Bross film

 

Heyward says '60 II' won't be knockoff

 

Wm. Morrow taps Rusoff

 

Rosenfeld to board WCBS

 

Name that tune

 

WNYW buys 'Caroline'

 

Internet panel bows Gotham Plug in '98

 

CBS to air 2 ABL playoff games

 

HDTV sets lack cable connection

 

Michael Daniel Haller

 

Kosta Alexander

 

Jimmy Driftwood

 

Kay Thompson

 

Sheldon Tromberg

 

Irene Brafstein

 

Carey Wilber

 

Rival broadcasters seek out Indians

 

Dutch channel to focus sked on kids, women

 

Gemstar nixes bid

 

NBC revamps sales in bid for efficiency

 

Lopez top candidate for Televicine post

 

Chile gets plethora of plexes

 

Shareholder battles hurt WIC's earnings

 

Endemol ups van Bochove

 

Coscient shakeup

 

HBO goes 'All the Way' for Rat Pack pic

 

AMC earnings, cash flow get boost

 

Profits up for N.Y. Times

 

Wealden puts $5 mil into Legacy of pix

 

N.Y. schools get Seinfeld boost

 

ABC ups Taylor

 

A plex grows in Brooklyn

 

Fox ups Pawlak

 

WB hits the 'Spot' with Gordon bow

 

Fox picks 'Fruit'

 

Pic pair names Rhames

 

Ambitious TNT moves into series prod'n

 

C'right measure vote delayed

 

Paxson on minority bandwagon

 

CBS Saturday kids sked set

 

Tribune revenues, earnings surge

 

Artisan goes for 'Cruise'

 

One Mouse House

 

NL lands Buckley's 'Little Green Men'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Jacor joins National Media in infomercial firm interest

 

Meyers joins Seagal

 

Spanish duo inks Miramax pix pact

 

GE mulls USA, Viacom for Peacock partners

 

Westin thinks deep

 

'English' team joins 'Ripley'

 

Attanasio duo ink Par pact

 

Livingston grabs 'Big Brass Ring'

 

N.Y. showbiz law firms merge

 

Tune's 'Easter' gets new chance from Nederlander

 

'Vep' to be revived Off B'way

 

Wincer to helm Star's 'On the Beach' mini

 

New Regency taps Cramer, Milchan

 

Brits coming to Hollywood

 

Summer hits sizzling o'seas

 

New Line shoots for CBA TV deal

 

Howard on Liberty arm

 

Murdoch watching Italian TV

 

Librarians check out

 

Net stox skyrocket

 

NBC taps four for Snap! and skeds promo blitz

 

Vexed Madonna exits 'Violins'

 

'River' beckons Bridges

 

Siggraph confab tones down glitz

 

USA expands wrestling to bolster Sun. actioners

 

WB sitcom 'Stars' shifts to Castle Rock

 

Lichtstein named VP at Apostle

 

Fox, DiCaprio set for 'Beach'

 

Coppola revives Zoetrope

 

'Jesus' won't bless TNT

 

Pot pic pitch with Pitt stokes New Line

 

Roman, Fox pact for 'Family Guy'

 

'Seinfeld' suit to arbitration

 

'Party' creators seek significant Fox change

 

Size matters, Littlefield sez

 

PAX Net execs make apologies for print ad

 

'Moon' on the beam

 

'Zorro' wins lethal duel

 

Wolpert, gameshow a 'Match'

 

Bellisario in 'Dreamland'

 

Film fest to feature unknowns

 

Emmys' 50th anni to be no-host affair

 

Locarno fest to open with 'Mulan'

 

Coming out party

 

Sony digital f/x shop gets a 'Hollow' deal

 

Smack's back on 'Springer'

 

Blue Sky sees green

 

Zeitgeist buys rights to 'Teena' docu

 

CBS keeps Army-Navy game

 

Musicians ratify accord

 

Block those asteroids: Summer pix go low-tech

 

'Sex' sticks to exclusive B.O. summit

 

Mamet pair to tread Geffen boards

 

H'w'd fest offers biz experts

 

Helkon on wheels

 

Edinburgh fest packs high-profile pix

 

Pubcaster eyes German soccer rights

 

BSky revamps channels

 

U.K. likely to ease ITV's regs

 

Juicy transaction

 

VNU sells off VTM stake

 

Matthews aims for live presence in Las Vegas

 

Univision hits hot numbers

 

Lantos dives head on into pic producing role

 

Banderas ponders 'Zorro' sequel

 

ABC News vet Ensor joining CNN in D.C.

 

Pullman saddles up to 'Virginian'

 

Pix buoy B.O. o'seas

 

Canadian shakin'

 

Arista spins record sales of $420 mil

 

Paxson debt rating drops

 

Union's boom time

 

Persistent merging with Vision

 

Carlyle speaking to 'Angela's Ashes'

 

A virtual hit

 

Davidson gets 'Magic' gig

 

Silver goes into 'Closet'

 

Castle Rock nabs 'Wicked'

 

LaBute firms for trio of pix

 

Big gain for B'way

 

ShowEast honors to Par's Lewellen

 

Fox, WB to trade affils in Raleigh

 

30-second movies

 

Web site big 'Weapon' in marketing

 

Frat fright firmed; Munster movie mulled

 

Disney Hall hits $ goal

 

Inside Moves

 

Marshall, Morales top 'Doomsday'

 

TV Acad opts not to renew Loper's pact

 

Personnel shuffle at WAMI

 

Aronofsky draws on comic

 

Kennedy, Marshall ink CBS development deal

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Donner nabs 'Crook' book

 

Sheen signs on the 'Line'

 

Silverman joins Macdonald in Universal's 'Ballbusted'

 

'Mary' duo nabs 'Turnabout'

 

CBS News names West VP

 

TV Acad to fete hearing-impaired

 

Oz film booming without government aid

 

Accident halts 3 B'way shows

 

Brillstein-Grey inks Casting duo

 

'NBA Inside' inks anchor

 

Japan Internet TV prod'n halted

 

Broadway buys Richard's 'Ice'

 

Medavoy to key indie film confab

 

Bouygues seeks split from Bollore

 

France 2 revamps top exec team

 

Original thinking

 

UPN returns to Okla. City

 

Fox TV taps Lemchen VP

 

Granite's KOFY buy rock solid

 

Carmike collapse

 

B'casters at odds on 35% ownership rule

 

'Nikita's' Surnow pacts with WBTV

 

Freeman in 'Kiss' prequel

 

'Godzilla' wounded by 'Monsters' in Japan

 

Chips block that kick

 

Fests aren't dogging 'Poodle Springs'

 

Summer heat wilts Nielsens

 

'ET' sits out 'Private' preem

 

PFE says new releases will triple cash flow

 

Abramson to direct 'Springer' movie

 

Disney profits dip

 

GM strike slows TV advertising engine

 

IA will raze hurdles facing new members

 

Finley helms indie 'Kali'

 

House grants $98 mil to NEA

 

Rogers & Cowan taps Licata

 

UPN working on 24-hour cable channel

 

Cool J, Rapaport dive in WB's 'Deep Blue Sea'

 

Siggraph delegates bitten by bug motif

 

David to head Win Ventures

 

Bel Air nabs 'Pay' rights

 

DeMesquita PR sr. veep for WMA

 

Stallone enters 'Detox'

 

Music synergy

 

Pioneer Griffith feted

 

'Night' lands Off-Broadway

 

USA taps Carry-Swift

 

Stars set for 'Valentines'

 

'Elizabeth' bows in Toronto

 

Leaving the island

 

Anna Murdoch files for divorce

 

Roth fends off foes of Fox shows

 

Reviews

Krapp's Last Tape

Thorn and Bloom

Etta James

Gravity Kills

Twelfth Night

Kiki's Delivery Service

Saving Private Ryan

The Guerrilla

No Budget Story

The Revenge of Lucy

What I Did for Love

The Sea Was Waiting

Testamento

Kiki's Delivery Service

Poodle Springs

Cha Cha Cha

The Raft of the Medusa

Saving Private Ryan - Combat Viewed Through Visceral Cinema

Above Freezing

The Town

Crackers

Saint Joan

De la Guarda: Villa Villa

Oklahoma!

Savion Glover/Downtown

The Lear Project

Pot Mom

Risk Everything

Standing Stone

Present Laughter

Ain't Misbehavin'

Crooks

Plastic People of the Universe


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