Table of Contents
Week of 01/29/1999

Articles

Cin-Groupe, Sony toon in 'Babies'

 

Pathe co-funds Branagh

 

Sharrocks joins WB Int'l

 

U.K. tix sales dip a bit

 

Cox, Miller on board at Ch. 4

 

Intermedia in Scandi

 

Mediaset moving to unify TV ops

 

Twiggy girds for role in Off B'way's 'Gertie'

 

ABC's vitamin pill

 

Sayonara, Itochu

 

Microsoft plugs $300 mil into UPC

 

SFX gains marketing yardage with ISI buy

 

Infinity board adds Sherman

 

North gets 'Equal Time'

 

Leno gets mechanical

 

Indian Summer

 

McGillivary upped to SPE facilities VP

 

2 words draw auds: 'Internet,' 'nonfiction'

 

Gems polishes luster for wider aud appeal

 

UMG reorganizes sales, distribution

 

Baranski entertains offers from writers

 

Rock the Vote elects duo

 

Pax cracks 1.0 aud share

 

Lewis Melvin McCreary

 

'Mononoke' airing sets Japan TV ratings record

 

Davidtz leads in Disney's 'Man'

 

'Porgy and Bess' will close Berlin film fest

 

ShoWest to fete Sandler

 

Disney sets pooch sequel

 

Disney to bow 'Bugs' video with outtakes

 

Inside Move

 

Oscar Watch

 

FL takes a 'Tumble'

 

Provincetown festival puts Waters on 'Edge'

 

Animators set expo for March

 

WGN to drop the WB for off-net series

 

Chilean officials seeing Red

 

Rutherfurd exits Morgan

 

UCLA to screen documentaries

 

'Sinatra' opens Paley fest

 

Hoffman scores again

 

Fujifilm bows new film stock

 

Newsday critic to N.Y. Daily News

 

NABET, NBC near deal early on pay contract

 

Academy committee bows to pressure

 

Oz pix pair wed best friend Sony

 

Loeb & Loeb gets TEF

 

De Niro, Burns seconds away from '15 Minutes'

 

Rivals target Super half

 

Merge vote flops in SAG final tally

 

A princely plan

 

Jack Warfield

 

Frances Bain Conley

 

Desi Geetsman

 

Sarah Delany

 

AFI offers Margulies award

 

Indie Feature Project picks pix for Euro Mart

 

Spielberg Berlin-bound

 

Face lifts Sprecher to VP role

 

Gibson in talks for 'Patriot'

 

October sweet on 'Sugar'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Teens like 'All That'

 

Prince's $600 mil P'gram plan

 

Williams, Hunt to present SAGs

 

Schaech has stake in HBO 'Caracara'

 

Cage: $20 mil for '60 secs'

 

Sunset in Utah

 

Smith tapped Rank Group CEO

 

'Boy' bow wows Oz

 

Italo soccer ownership limit for real

 

German net N-TV taps Jautz

 

Distribs in Hungary face tax hike

 

'Place,' 'Home' run

 

Ballantyne picture looks bright

 

Sony eyes online music sales plan

 

'Blast'-off swings

 

Pay dirt for 'Payback'

 

Casino Hall fetes Rogers

 

Crystal cashes in friends' chits

 

Shop at Home net puts itself on the market

 

DVD Express nabs equity

 

Speculation surrounds Jonas' future

 

Inside Move

 

'Providence' shows power

 

Bertelsmann to float Web book sale unit

 

Prinze is getting 'Down'

 

Acad docu drama

 

Kirch, DT seek electronic media tie

 

A matter of Equity

 

WGA East approves ABC pact

 

Plenty of sales but few breakouts at Sundance

 

Oscar Watch

 

'Theory' tops in Brussels

 

Miramax mag taps Watson for key post

 

Mediaset reorganizes; Tozzi resigns TV post

 

Thomas takes on 'Two Goldsteins'

 

'Roseanne' shifts

 

Jones joins NL's 'Magnolia'

 

When worlds collide: Managing the managers

 

'Life' lives atop niche B.O.

 

Sassa joins USC board

 

Time on AT&T's side

 

MGM unit is U.S. agent for Bond wares

 

Lawrence enters Creative Domain

 

Gaffney returns to 'GMA'

 

B'cast this, Clinton

 

'Homicide' plans online sweep

 

Eagles soar past 15 million twice

 

Distrib sr. VP Myers fired as Behaviour tightens belt

 

Bard lords abroad

 

Televisa to restructure debt

 

Hollywood Online taps Agoglia

 

Livent bailout plan opposed by creditors

 

Evans ankles TCI Int'l

 

Millennium means millions for headliners

 

Sinise roles naughty, nice

 

Fox gets touchdown

 

Tozzi will produce Medusa pix

 

Pyne lines Castle Rock pic

 

Blum work blooms; countdown to '13 Days'

 

Pix by HBO, NBC nab DGA noms

 

March at Col Int'l TV

 

AOL rings MovieFone for $388 mil in stox

 

Studios feel super after Bowl pix

 

Deegan really developing E! fiction shows

 

ShoWest to fete Farrellys

 

Pearson buys TV tooner EVA

 

SFX enters Nederlander turf

 

Bard lords abroad

 

Landmark prez to shift roles

 

Disney edges WB in ads

 

January B.O. solid despite dip from '98

 

Animation location

 

Oscar Watch

 

Laufer flies at Blue Sky

 

Senator Film up in public trading

 

Knicks-Nets score in ratings

 

Loan may save Russian pubcaster ORT

 

South African e.tv to sue over license conditions

 

Winter chills B.O. on Broadway

 

HBO Asia setting up shop, rep in Taiwan

 

Red Sox plan 80-game sked on 6 N.E. stations

 

Conde Nast takes care of Details, fires editor

 

Virtual Partners

 

Huntz Hall

 

Must-carry crux

 

Going wide in Germany

 

Vicuna's Impala banner offers slate of pix, docus

 

Italo Disney: 100K subs in 100 days

 

Prosieben sets news net

 

Thais urged to end piracy

 

World Briefs

 

No political acting-out at SAG Awards

 

Oscar Watch

 

8 pix honored at Slamdance

 

TBS, Philips pact house in Atlanta

 

Do the cable shuffle

 

Material Girl merchandising

 

Callahan to head up ABC b'casting

 

W. Hollywood OKs theater/retail proposal

 

CBS, UPN shuffle skeds, set new series

 

Fox gets nourishment from diminished Bowl

 

DGA noms line up

 

Packer cashes in on Internet stock surge

 

Connery tapped for ShoWest '99 honors

 

Premieres, 'Personals,' Poitier highlight film fest

 

Signal-handed aid

 

Good Machine in 'Love'

 

Woodcock named prexy of L.A.'s KCOP

 

'Roseanne' ignores slot shift thorns

 

Players

 

Eye dumps half its kidvid sked, stays with Nelvana

 

Nesmith prevails in PBS fraud trial

 

Clooney sitcom goes to HBO

 

Plexes vexed by cash shortage hex

 

Wonder to testify on radio diversity to FCC

 

Middleton sr. VP at Col

 

TNT, USA rule Jan. prime

 

CEO Beatty to ankle at CBC

 

Oz helmer McDougall 'Slap' happy

 

'Independence' daze lifts

 

Col has a 'Need' for Black & Blu

 

Liotta on pic binge, sets sights on indies

 

SAG airs probe nix

 

Agency sudser rolls on; Danes decides on CAA

 

Agency sudser rolls on; Danes decides on CAA

 

USA's hoop dreams lead to 'Milk' pic

 

Col, Monkeys drag out 'Hot' pic

 

007 foes beef up battle as trial date draws near

 

Latino scribes among Sundance/NHK winners

 

TCM still plans to run Bowery Boys marathon

 

Jack D. Moore

 

Mae Williams

 

Maurice J. McCall

 

Virginia Verrill

 

Peter Lance

 

Unapix's 'Voices' speaks in Gotham

 

Sedgwick, Touchstone pact to develop series

 

Players

 

WMA ups Queally; 'Spider-Man' in court

 

MacRae recuperating from brain surgery

 

Trib buys Premier DataVision

 

3 appointed to Loews board

 

WB taps Weiner as urban planning VP for ACMEcity

 

Writers Bloc sked to feature Leonard

 

Syndie TV ratings rise in morn

 

Brown dolls up the charts with 'Chyna'

 

TW revs, trips a bit

 

Oscar watch

 

Rollman rolls to prexy of Fox Family prod'n

 

Frank embarks for G.M., exec VP posts at Odyssey

 

Markus, Par TV pact

 

MSNBC's move ruffles key Peacock affils

 

Neighbors ankles DTS

 

Cesar's surprises

 

Classics get Latino push from Turner

 

Berlin to see stars

 

Winchester seeks $

 

Greek station closed

 

Latino homes embrace Discovery

 

Russia tunes to VH1 signal

 

Showing write stuff

 

'Punk' helmer inks for laffer

 

Century ups Shesgreen, Dittman

 

Lifetime gives birth to child care effort

 

Rainbow of songs

 

Producer mobilizes for shoot

 

A Rose for a Dame

 

ABC grabs U's 'Patch,' 'Pig,' 'Joe'

 

WB to taste 'Chocolate'

 

Earnings fall for Mattel

 

Producers to honor Bochco with Susskind lifetime award

 

ITV scores 4 skeins of NBA hoop roundups

 

'ET' leads mag pack comeback

 

Bigger TV viewer pie

 

As Sundance comes of age, fest steers to soft, safe

 

Carolina's push for lensing

 

Livent fires ad firm

 

Russian distribs fear tax

 

Reviews

I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts

Monster Magnet w/ Kid Rock

Sugar Town

Three Seasons

Trick

American Movie

Irma Thomas

On the Ropes

A Slipping-Down Life

Valerie Flake

Asterix & Obelix Vs. Caesar

Getting To Know You

The Suburbans

Traveling Saints

LaVyrle Spencer's Family Blessings

You Know My Name

Sisters 3

Rocky Horror Show

David S. Ware Quartet

Kisses and Hugs

The Invisibles

Getting to Know You

The Suburbans

Traveling Saints

Sisters 3

Rocky Horror Show

David s. Ware Quartet

Go

The '60s

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Speaking In Strings

Jawbreaker

The War Zone

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