Table of Contents
Week of 02/12/1999

Articles

AMI settles piracy case

 

PGA announces Golden Laurels

 

Art directors draw prod'n design noms

 

Helmer Hiller to get DGA Aldrich Award for service

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Lear pushes to oust impeachment leaders

 

Chancellor stock rises after 4th-quarter gains

 

For the love of the game

 

Hoyts is on block

 

Stream dammed up

 

RAI bows sports net

 

Shapiro prez of TEAM

 

Televisa, Azteca pact

 

Italy's Stream lost more steam in '98

 

Hughes linking up

 

Overbrook is ready

 

Sony Classical, Lucas on 'Menace'

 

Schwartz pacts with Miramax

 

Peacock struts stuff in first sweeps week

 

X vs. X

 

Players

 

New Line ups Haygood

 

'Rangers' rocks kids

 

Low spirits at U

 

Herbert Kline

 

Cambern tops newly spliced editors guild

 

Sheen keen on TV skein

 

'Swingers' duo eye shot at 'Moon' pic

 

Pollack may walk on helm side of 'Fame'

 

Bruckheimer has award trifecta

 

Allen circles 'Galaxy' role

 

Valenti loves Europe

 

Nielsen plans tour for one-man play 'Darrow'

 

Talk a done deal

 

Bills back California production

 

TenPercenteries

 

Fox 2000 buys 'Virgin' spec

 

Inside Moves

 

ABC, Barbra raise ante with 'Mame'

 

Perez inks sitcom deal

 

Pitt, Paquin talk turkey with Crowe

 

Ware named head of operations

 

Thanks, Oscar

 

Tauzin, Kennard spar about low-power radio stations

 

Judge's refusal means sat subs will lose nets

 

Oscar Watch

 

Globo reveals $2.4 billion debt

 

Gotham fetes Friel

 

BMG ups Wilson to key int'l marketing post

 

Sklar tops Blow Up

 

ProSieben profits up

 

Maple Palm ups Gooding

 

H. John Ramos

 

Rodney Theodore Montague

 

Hugh Edward Conlon Jr.

 

J.C. Macgregor Scott

 

Coles Trapnell

 

'Jawbreaker' graduates

 

'Cigarettes' preem has crowd smokin'

 

WB revels in its past

 

U reaches to the 'Sky'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Acad gets Yost interviews

 

Clouds for BSkyB

 

CLT-UFA rebounds with hefty profits

 

Vox gets $178 mil infusion

 

World Briefs

 

MTVE adds channels to U.K., Irish services

 

Kinderkanal to take in 'Teletubbies'

 

'Oklahoma!' on top

 

Roth sets up London base

 

Albert inks deal with Turner nets

 

UVSG joining Source

 

Behaviour logs off high-tech ventures

 

Cinemark loses $7.9 mil

 

Clark stock hit by 1999 outlook

 

Shaw gains from high-tech shares

 

Pierson to receive WGA's North Award

 

Song in key of FCC

 

Col TV taps Nichols VP

 

Danny Dayton

 

Martel honors given to BMG's Dornemann

 

Kaiser study looks at TV sex

 

Future Darn Good for ex-Fox VP

 

LMNO ups Paolantonio to exec VP

 

Costas to return for 'Later'

 

Maple Palm ups Gooding to veep of development

 

Gotham's IFP to rep U.S. for Directors Fortnight

 

BMG ups Wilson to key int'l marketing post

 

KW turns on Hong Kong TV

 

AFI to fete alum Leder

 

PMK buy confirmed

 

Brit CD sales rise 18% in '98

 

'Bug's' boffo bow

 

Shakespeare to get Ahmanson spotlight

 

'Stella' grooves at Image Awards

 

Jackson gets 'Shaft'; Fuhrman pitches H'w'd

 

BBC in pursuit of 'truth'

 

Spain's 'Miracle' to Buena Vista

 

Italia turns off the Stream on Murdoch

 

Brochtrup is 'Blue' regular

 

Publicists Myers, Zell vie for soon-vacant guild prexy post

 

KCET eliminates 16 staff positions

 

Oscar trailer going wide

 

WB's 'Bottle' rockets

 

Trilogy inks with New Line

 

Oscar boosts the Bard

 

U.K.'s Moss eyes Livent

 

Berlin fest picks up steam

 

ABC's 'Storm' aces 'Serve'

 

'The '60s' headed to VH1

 

Sony nabs o'seas right to U's 'Bone'

 

Cruz, Torres stay 'On Top'

 

Lifetime's first lady

 

Destination in line for 'Slut'

 

Edwin Rowe Jr.

 

Virgil Harrison Mitchell

 

Toney Mitchell

 

Frantisek Vlacil

 

McCarthy, Nimri get 'Citizen'-ship papers

 

Shivas, Film Four sign first-look

 

Publicists salute TV, pic campaigns

 

HBO buys Hamed fight rights

 

CNN inks WebMD

 

'Affliction' B.O. swells

 

6th annual Animation Expo to unspool

 

Evers to tinker in Disney

 

Sponsors in space

 

Pathe kicks in 34% to Lyon soccer club

 

Trimark rides DVD to profits

 

Financial Briefs

 

Lupone may raise the 'Dead'

 

Brits big on Williams in pop music awards

 

Court TV hires Dann for daytime

 

William Morris ups Nagle to head longform

 

L.A. Times story heart of 'Mystery'

 

VH1 promos net ABC Sonny-Cher pic rights

 

Copyright wrongs

 

Players

 

Evans proves he's still in the picture

 

U two tapped for British film board

 

Kolbe goes to VisionArt as exec VP

 

Pecker nabs tab

 

Editing houses splice, merge into 1 company

 

Dornfeld forms Custom Effects

 

3 research dept. execs upped at Col Tristar TV

 

Polygram axes 31 as staff cuts begin

 

ATAS channels new look

 

David Golding

 

British Columbia hits record in production

 

Argos, Arbol, Promo pact

 

Pubcasters win EC funding decision

 

Fantasy 'Kingdom'

 

Layoffs follow Fox 3% solution

 

U and Hanks going 'Wild'

 

Baldwin, Gilliam to UTA

 

Inside Moves

 

'Storm' weathers audience dip

 

Curtains for Mann?

 

Japan ad sales drop for first time in 5 yrs.

 

Fox's 'Family' time

 

World Briefs

 

With Oscar noms, 'Life' is boffo again in Italy

 

Sonnenfeld OK after Gulfstream jet crash

 

Oscar Watch

 

ShoWest to honor Madden

 

WB's Roth signs up 'W&G' co-creators

 

WCBS pays big, joins Jets set for preseason

 

Welsh 'Acid' reigns

 

Details' Golin promises a real men's magazine

 

Mammoth PR ups Weisberg

 

Tom Pomposello

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Oscar nom enlivens mood at Iranian fest

 

Snapper, Open City pact

 

Truffaut films given new life at Fox Lorber

 

Falcon taps Friedman exec director

 

It's 'Oh No' for 'Oklahoma!'

 

Weisberg takes on Mammoth PR role

 

'Art,' 'King' top Canuck legit season

 

B'cast of champions

 

Shochiku to post yearly loss

 

Kushner-Locke posts $5.9 mil quarter loss

 

'Jackie' thesp sez she's no 'Elizabeth'

 

World Briefs

 

Bennett to make 'Cut' as scribe, producer

 

Japan music sales up 4%

 

Oz film critics go dark with best pic choices

 

Czech license ruling put off

 

RAI prexy touts privatization plan

 

NBC's 'Nightly' nabs lead

 

ABC ups Catalane

 

At&T-TCI line clear

 

GC quarter earnings only half last year's

 

Weinstein 'Reindeer' producer

 

Inside moves

 

Palm Pics to fully fund 'Last' Norrington satire

 

Leguizamo's 'Max bar mitzvah

 

Oscar watch

 

'Eloise' comes back; Hill exits 'Supernova'

 

Artists claim Livent owes them big time

 

Cablers tout gains

 

Opening salvo fired

 

TNT suits up for 'Passing Glory'

 

Get jiggy with Willie

 

Horseshoe Bay vet Rosen now sr. VP of Fox prod'n

 

Sharpening Spears

 

$13.7 bil record biz in '98

 

B'cast titans plan meeting on minorities

 

Divney laughs last

 

Italo 'Life' breaks B.O. lingo barrier

 

Graham to be star at ShoWest

 

Thurs. sked, '60s' lift NBC

 

ABC, NBC scramble schedules

 

CMGI, Braun to start 'Net b'cast venture

 

Col taps Giannetti as VP

 

'Mifune' to Sony for less

 

Pacino eyes 'Sea' with Caton-Jones

 

Mamet's Ma. 'Marriage'

 

Evans to top Hallmark net

 

Lewis to top Teen

 

'Night' loses cast member

 

Workers strike CBC on job security, money

 

Reviews

To Serve and Protect

God's New Plan

The New Bozena

Dirt

Blast From the Past

My Favorite Martian

Twin Falls Idaho

Splendor

Unconditional Love

Get Bruce!

Office Space

Showtime Black Filmmaker Showcase

The Artists'

Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?

When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout...

Captains Courageous, the Musical

Mifune

Breakfast of Champions

It All Starts Today

The Misanthrope

La Traviata

eXistenZ

Thick as Thieves

Buena Vista Social Club

Passing Glory


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