Table of Contents
Week of 11/12/1998

Articles

Holocaust survivor's daughter tells story

 

MGM seals PFE library pact

 

Digital boom in Spain

 

ABC, IATSE ink pact

 

Carmike heats up

 

'Circus' to open Israel Film Fest in BevHills

 

Lost film makes scene

 

Planet Hollywood plummets

 

Pearson nabs Mastrofilm

 

Japan starts tests of digital b'casting

 

DVD push for the holidays

 

Shochiku will shutter theme park

 

Hawthorne 'reasonable' in Gallic-So. African pic

 

NBA lockout dishes out whammy to Diller's WAMI

 

Euro Commish to hear charges against BBC

 

Oz's 'Boys' enters Stratosphere

 

Nat'l Public Radio prexy search comes to Klose

 

Sony bows $140 mil PlayStation campaign

 

Corman twins TV segs for theaters

 

L.A. meets 'Joe Black'

 

Disney TV tops in toon award noms

 

TV safe from web for now

 

Panavision's 3rd qtr. loses aspect ratio

 

New Line goes with 'Flow' for Singleton

 

Brats day out

 

Blues lives lauded

 

Pig party pfftt!

 

Fox chase drives up biz stox

 

UPN's 'Dilbert' to bow Jan. 25

 

Fox 2000 takes second look at Bender

 

Barnett tapped as VP at Di Novi

 

Eye on households

 

Famous Players taps McCartney exec VP

 

Martin adds Miramax prod'n stripes

 

Comestone launches cosmonaut tale

 

Tarsem enters 'The Cell'

 

'Change' hasn't hindered but hasn't helped 'Oprah'

 

Mandalay pacts with Brit scripter

 

NBC singles out 'Trinity'

 

Mandalay's 'Sleepy'

 

Diaz turns 'Invisible'; Par picks 'Girls' sequel

 

Fox 2000 offers 'Executive' perks

 

Disney sells 'Waterboy' short

 

Fox B'casting ups Halperin to sr. VP

 

Lange departs 'Extra' after wife joins rival

 

Inside Moves

 

'Action' in legal state of Grace

 

Brisk Morissette sales launch holiday push

 

Clark finds Ways & Means for pix

 

'Ryan' beats Oscar retreat

 

Globes rule stands on foreign films

 

DreamWorks eyeing Egyptian for 'Prince'

 

BAM slams cinemas

 

Cactus, Elma pact for anis

 

Stern, Perlman are a duet in 'Violins'

 

Fox, Jugendfilm team for prod'n, distrib'n

 

Rotterdam film board quits over fund dispute

 

Swedish uprising

 

U.N. doles out its own kudos

 

Tyson back in PPV ring in January

 

'Enquirer' love child

 

Mediaset recruits Giovalli

 

'Patch,' 'Stepmom' unspool at CineAsia

 

Brazilian broadcaster Globo axes 480

 

New Italo digital biz channel

 

Doordarshan stalks sports rights

 

Canuck satcasters merge

 

Cecchi Gori shakes up TV

 

'Masada' musical to bow at Shubert

 

Primestar pumps up cash flow

 

News not so good

 

Lux's 1st slate tips McDonald's 'Hat'

 

ProSieben profits up 25% for first 3 quarters

 

Village saves 'Silverman'

 

Royal pics flush

 

Nelvana takes 'Puff'

 

Kidvid advocates set voluntary guidelines

 

MTV Euro kudocast spotlights femmes

 

Thomason sells 'Paris'

 

London arrives at Destination

 

Inside Move

 

Tyler signs development deal with MTV

 

Ober serving food

 

Tambor signs pilot deal with Peacock

 

Penn pals park pact at October

 

Icon invades U.K.

 

NBC holds slim sweeps lead

 

Canal +, Col jump Bridge

 

Summit 'Minute' waltz partner

 

U suits up for D'Works' 'Gladiator'

 

PanAmSat exex in orbit

 

Short film fest opens Sunday

 

John to score 'Muse'

 

Geffen Playhouse to host Mamet x 2

 

'Rugrats' turkey-day spec earns top marks

 

Pax TV taps Wang

 

'Babe' problems screened

 

Disney, cable co-op pact

 

'Salesman' goes to B'way

 

Next Generation dawns

 

Polygram to take viewers on 'Blind Date'

 

Alliance sets forum on SAG-AFTRA merger

 

Mouse mighty at Annie Awards

 

New age TV dawning

 

Jean Marais

 

Profits at CanWest jump to $129.2 mil

 

TCI profits shrink

 

Updated Livent P&L delayed again

 

IFC preems pic via cable modem

 

Bortone to senior VP, Fox Family

 

Trio launches indie Next Generation

 

Int'l mixed message

 

RAI reduces budget of international unit

 

Sky rockets past Galaxy in Latin sat race

 

Spanish judge questions Berlusconi about TV ties

 

Toshiba, VCL pact to rent Euro DVDs

 

Italo B.O. booming in '98

 

Caucus noms Hanks, Kelley

 

C-W to shop Peacock's 'Profiler'

 

Spyglass buys 'Ashes' spec

 

Bogart-bash boon

 

Par TV gathers Wood

 

Gunner buys Birns & Sawyer

 

Rtve taps Cabanillas

 

BMG joins onliners

 

Inside Moves

 

Sloss grows new arm

 

Wavering on waivers

 

SAG health plan to cover birth control

 

Karmazin keeps Eye open for opportunity

 

Van Damme pic may bow on USA

 

Guilds mull 12-hour work limit

 

'Waterboy' douses field

 

'Secret' out as ABC, CBS shift skeds

 

Cooper to helm 'Juliet' for NL

 

Fox nipping at Peacock's tail

 

Wuthrich, Worlarsky Scouting in Gotham

 

New Odyssey proceeds

 

Trimark on mark

 

Wired into re-inventors

 

'Springer' party shows off trashy chic

 

Book party is a wrap

 

Jackson mulls bond sale

 

Ster-Kinekor ups Euro plans

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Meet Joe Slack

 

Sidney Klein

 

Joseph Westheimer

 

Roman Cycowski

 

Arnold M. Auerbach

 

Robin Eickman

 

Martha O'Driscoll Appleton

 

Duny Cashion

 

Ronald Sylwester

 

Victoria Dushoff

 

Andrew Richter

 

BVI's modernization

 

'Elizabeth' reigns supreme; 'Life' goes on

 

Italo films get boost in Argentine market

 

Top Hawaiian ayes

 

Pegasus revs soar

 

Showscan shuffles exex

 

Clearview revenues up

 

SFX in tix synergy

 

NewStar's qtr. earnings dip

 

Singh halts 'Freedom' in search of perfect Mandela

 

Chile cable ops in the black

 

World Briefs

 

Africa fetes Malian pic

 

Eye rises with 'Angel'

 

'First Sight' gets holiday berth

 

St. Martin's nabs Lewinsky rights

 

'Moon' duplicates 1975 'SNL' set

 

Edgar at the wheel

 

Nat'l Film Registry adds 25 pix

 

USA widens 'Net'

 

Stones tour finds 'Security' indoors

 

Bowie sates 'Hunger'

 

Players

 

Leib bonds to Guarantors

 

'Truman' awakens o'seas B.O.

 

Wilson out at Donny & Marie

 

Hudlin on holiday 'Watch'; foul 'Jersey' err

 

Burnett's gift: laughing matters

 

Adelson makes 'Love' for CBS

 

WB puts Gray in 'Room'

 

AT&T threatens to hang up on TCI

 

Non-primetime AFTRA pact OK'd

 

U's little 'Pig' goes to market with G rating

 

SAG merger foes to rally

 

ABC, NABET agree to talk with mediator

 

Loesch on Odyssey

 

Inside Moves

 

Par TV ups Coben

 

Hockenberry gets yakker at MSNBC

 

Roth exits Fox TV; Herzog in

 

Shanti upped to VP at Leonard Hill Films

 

Retooled 'Pimpernel' leads Broadway surge

 

Retooled 'Pimpernel' leads Broadway surge

 

BKS/Bates picks team for 'D.R.E.A.M.' pilot

 

World Briefs

 

South African media giants bow film fund

 

Commission cooled

 

HBO Poland taps Roter

 

Harvey posts 3rd qtr. loss

 

Lion-sized interest

 

Allen's Vulcan stakes out Ziff-Davis' ZDTV cablenet

 

Closures hurt UA's earning potential

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Lithgow to tilt at windmills for TNT pic

 

Ban on sat carriage of TV signals re-examined

 

AmEx sets another Super Seinfeld blurb

 

Ephriam will rule over 'Divorce Court'

 

Unions urge safer, shorter shoot days

 

Redeemable, Chimera will have a 'Ball'

 

Cabler's new arm

 

Buccieri & Weiss roaring into deal with Lions Gate

 

WGAW challenges Burbank home tax

 

Plath TV pic possible

 

Inside Move

 

CBS keeps appointment with 'Becker'

 

Fox nabs 'Master' rights

 

FX forks over big for pix

 

Disney won't pay for robot

 

Livent eyes options

 

Lee steps down from Col

 

Storm splits Nielsen week

 

Fox TV goes with Herzog

 

News race heats up

 

ABC seeks injunction against NABET

 

USA goes with Pates' 'GvsE'

 

Pula the newest Mouseketeer

 

TenPercenteries

 

J. D. Sumner

 

N.Y. indie Haft has heft with busy prod'n slate

 

Exex get nod from Noggin

 

Nick vet joins Disney cabler

 

Amazon flows into videos, DVD, games

 

Murdoch makes pledge to black org

 

More segs set for 'Fox Files'

 

Theatre LA brings in da kudos

 

Roundabout in new home

 

Ent. Film in U.K. revs up prod'n push

 

B'way returns to Leenane with 'Lonesome West'

 

Gotham bows TV/pic group

 

Little, Brown's 'Fig' out to bidders; Cop nabs Penguin book deal

 

Exhib demo projects a video future

 

William H. Barney

 

Kenny Kirkland

 

Juanita Brown Zak

 

Rosamund John

 

Nathaniel 'Nate' Smidt

 

Robert E. True

 

Reviews

George Duke Band

In My Life

The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

American Cuisine

Randy Newman

But Not For Me

The Grandfather

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Little Me

My Neighbor's Daughter

Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop

The Great, Great, Grandson of Jedediah Kohler

Inspecting Carol

Of Thee I Sing

Enemy of the State

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

The Old Settler

Chicago

Little Me

The Memory of Water

Jackie Mason: Much Ado About Everything

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Evita

Ragtime

Galileo

Lizzie Borden

The Other Side of the Tracks

Marriages

The Color of Courage

The Falling

The Rugrats Movie

Mararia

The Girl of Your Dreams

The Freelancers

Enemy of the State

Max Q

Kathleen Battle

The American Experience: America 1900

The American Experience: America 1900

The Freelancers

Max Q

Rear Window

Winchell

Fishing With Gandhi

Better Living

Virginia Rodrigues

Brooklyn Funk Essentials

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