Table of Contents
Week of 03/12/1999

Articles

TW, Viacom, Fox join in Dow surge

 

ABC, Learning pact

 

Eye OKs 'Kiss' pilot pending male lead

 

Inside Move

 

Reiner enters, exits laughing at tribute

 

Darabont to helm Castle Rock gem

 

Murdoch backs off in Europe

 

Seven Net's stock dives

 

Siegfried & Roy want Hopkins for pic project

 

Miramax, Dimension bow slates

 

Emmy taps Roseanne

 

NBC's latenight lineup shines

 

ABC sees Oscar touchdown

 

White Rose plans a bouquet of releases

 

Dimension, Loud team up

 

Poll warms to 'Winter' pic

 

Star of trailer wars

 

Onlining up buyers

 

Contradictory Congress confounding satcasters

 

Bobby Z launches Zinc record label

 

Jacobs exec VP to market Destination

 

Grammy grousing on playlist, legal pad

 

Venice looks to open 'Eyes'

 

All Oscar bets are off at London's Ladbrokes

 

Barker teams with Condon

 

VH1 picks up Twain special

 

Gaumont's profits up

 

World Briefs

 

Names join museum Hanks fete

 

Daytime Emmy Nominees List 1

 

Daytime Emmy Nominees List 3

 

Sales of Latin music expand 16% in 1998 despite piracy

 

Oscar Watch

 

Vine time at Disney

 

Vivendi posts gains

 

Burlage casts eye on Harvey

 

Daytime Emmy Nominees List 2

 

Howard Pine

 

Harry S. Franklin

 

Yehudi Menuhin

 

RTVE altering tack toward U.S. pacts

 

Caldwell in as veepee at Platinum

 

Stage, screen vet Kanin dies at 86

 

Exhibiting concerns

 

CFO-board member quitting on Paxson

 

Choice exec VP ankles

 

Chancellor chief set to ankle

 

Col, CBS book their 'Partners'

 

'Analyze' tops B.O. with $15.7 mil

 

Iceland reimbursements seek to heat up filming

 

Global Media to Cannes

 

Gibson draws in Oz

 

Comedy Central taps Stein for new show

 

Cowboy rides to 'Beirut,' finds 'North'

 

PubCol

 

MTV Films options 'Inferno'

 

Questions loom at Interactive Summit

 

Giving clothes off their backs

 

Paula gets her pound

 

'Ryan' nabs top editing nod

 

Oscar Watch

 

WNBC leads Emmy race

 

Quirky Quebecois

 

'Little Vampire' pic takes wing

 

Coote-Hayes lines up Alliance venture

 

Beers tapped at Mutual

 

'King' crew, Disney reach agreement

 

Brand new battle online

 

Itsy Bitsy, Krevoy team for family pix

 

Studios USA digs Sunset

 

B'cast webs win DirecTV rights battle

 

Nicita 'Night' moves

 

TW asks for sat revision

 

Field, Final Draft team on video script primers

 

Prime TV to quit Azul TV

 

'Lolita' passes Aussie censor

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Revs up, but Globo hurt

 

World Briefs

 

Universal Music taps new VP for Nashville

 

Trio claiming NABET bias

 

Emme emerges with ABC deal

 

Gist TV sets online plan: docs, classics

 

Telemundo nabs Univision researcher

 

TNT locks up Frankenheimer

 

Curtin cutting to U

 

Danes 'Head Over Heels' for U

 

Diller's back indie

 

Santa Barbara Film Fest; attendance up

 

Sony, NBC talk teamwork

 

Judge stands by Bond rulings

 

BSkyB's deal for United is cleared

 

Peggy Cass

 

Star claiming twice reach of MTV Asia

 

Rhombus itches TV 'Twitch'

 

IFP will honor Streep

 

LMNO names Davis veep

 

AFI to get AmEx gift

 

Arts contingent lobbys in D.C.

 

O'seas loves the bard; 'Bug's' invades Japan

 

Gayheart goes to heart of 'Wasteland'

 

D.C. fest to capitalize on foreign-film slate

 

Winter wonderland

 

Russia to curb TV immorality

 

'Dying' enlivens Spanish B.O.

 

Nurturing 'Nature'

 

Tauzin holds talks with Viacom execs

 

Dolan tapped ABC Radio Station's prexy

 

'Schindler's' puts NBC 1st in Nielsen list

 

Inside Move

 

Handprint imprint

 

Marathon runs past NCAA hoops

 

Star conceives party

 

7 picks buyback broker

 

MGM's library a treasure

 

Announcing Ancier

 

MGM presses stop on WB homevid deal

 

Del Toro brings horror comic to Disney

 

Turner Europe localizing ops

 

Harvard to honor Theater of the Deaf founder Hays

 

Laurents' HUAC play onstage in Jersey

 

Oscar Watch

 

Vid arsonists get long terms

 

Gems eyes Argentine femme net

 

'Lock' barrels to second top B.O. finish

 

Globo eyeing U.S. distribs

 

A national first

 

Chancellor cancels

 

Court ruling Oks Shaw to sell stake

 

'98 a record year for thesps' pay, SAG sez

 

Allen goes to Net with cash

 

'Dirty' deal divulged

 

NBC partners 'Law,' 'Crimes'

 

Phoenix going 'Urban' again with sequel deal

 

'Urkel' White 'Ups' to UPN pilot

 

Indian pix up against pols' wrath

 

The powers behind the power

 

Darby headed to Oxygen

 

'Shaktimaan' survives hoax

 

Swiss OK German access

 

India web to beam Asia-wide

 

Nelvana scores success

 

Players

 

ATAS eyes kids & programming at conference

 

Inside Moves

 

Stern to star in 'Partners'

 

Chum TV to launch two new channels in Canada

 

Nick Movies ups Pistor to senior veep

 

Schiffman hangs shingle in L.A.

 

Par Classics taps Zeidman as distrib head

 

MGM nabs 'Guthrie' for D/K

 

Oscar ballots take tourist route

 

Pols target oldie clones

 

SAG to proceed with election

 

Platform building

 

Cimino set to go back in time with '1500'

 

Olsen twins pact for Disney toon

 

The bell tolls for Monica & Ernest

 

Donnelly fits into Bikini fold

 

Hearn joining 'Together'

 

LAIFF exhibits honor on Laemmle pere, fils

 

'Hollow' fills up on Bacon

 

Heirs push image legislation

 

Exec Shuffle

 

H.K. cinemas dark to protest pirates

 

Loss masks Telewest year

 

Vokulich tapped FTS exec veep

 

'List' lopes past Eye

 

Telemundo sweeps flat

 

'Chucky' fathers new pic

 

Lewine quits Mann parent WestStar

 

Increased ad revs pump cable nets

 

Body by Fox & AHN

 

Oh what a 'Knight'

 

Oscar Watch

 

Bavaria takes stake in Satel

 

New distrib finds Brazil home

 

Noise draws crix

 

DT loses online ruling

 

'Tubbies' take to Tokyo

 

Platinum Parachute

 

E.U. panelists quit

 

Cohen shingle, Miramax pact

 

'Chief' pic for Freeman, Revelations

 

Chi will see revamped 'Aida'

 

Imagine TV 3 for 3 as nets pick up series

 

CAA's prodigal son

 

'Nightline' seg will feature Trumbo letters

 

Via Digital, U ink Spanish PPV deal

 

TenPercenteries

 

Dickins shines on Karma

 

England extends film tax break

 

Livent cash livens

 

Cinesite splits up over work

 

Kit Kat fight stops 'Rollin'

 

Buckley upped to WB sr. veep

 

Spean to build German multiplexes

 

Hunt for Harvey

 

October goes Furthur for yuppies

 

Miramax dances in 'Rain'

 

Eagles' Staples 2000 gig going

 

Shochiku to disband its foreign distrib

 

Lee Strauss

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Lowell Fulson

 

Yellow card for BSkyB

 

Prague fest loves 'Life'

 

Sutman appointed CFO of Universal Pictures

 

FCC gets an earful

 

Carey makes a case

 

Producers, Malick draw 'Red Line' over Oscar tix

 

Seymour to return in CBS' 'Quinn' sweeps telepic

 

DGA's Kazan dinner cooks up controversy

 

Trailing 'Wars' web bids

 

Stoney Stanley in 'Cat' toons

 

Fox, WB add to cast of pilot & series

 

'Crime' pays for Clint

 

Bruckheimer prepping TV projects

 

CBC journos sets strike date

 

'V.I.P.' Lee busts past 'Baywatch'

 

Walter Scott

 

A Premiere stake

 

Chan leads protest against H.K. pirates

 

Fine Line on George pic

 

Barwood comes to 'Light'

 

Oscars party like it's '99

 

NBC shares 'Passions' with Schilling

 

Fame hogs the light

 

Borsiczky Shiffs coasts

 

Sony Classics off to Encore

 

It's the end of the 'World' -- and 'Lateline,' 'Seven'

 

Col TV wants UPN guarantee

 

Cauldron bubbles

 

Iranians to get 'Taste of Cherry'

 

'Colonel' finds way to Cannes

 

Leisure nabs rights to 2 pix

 

UCLA archive taps Hanson

 

'FanMail' pours in

 

'Skulls' fulfills U's teen intentions

 

Oscar Watch

 

Sundance adds 'Dirty,' 'Floating' to premieres

 

'Moment' thesps set

 

Reviews

Payne

Wing Commander

The Corruptor

Red Handed

The Lion in Winter

Fatboy Slim; Dub Pistols

Sweeney Todd

Chicago

Jolson Sings Again

The King and I

EDtv

True Crime

Fatboy Slim; Dub Pistols

True Crime

Speer

Everybody's Ruby

The Valladolid Debate

The Drawer Boy

Kurt Gerron's Karussell

Hygiene de L'Assassin

Forces of Nature

The Debt Collector

A Fit of Rage

Marigolds in Flower

Rider of the Flames

Late Show

The Rage: Carrie 2

Adrenaline Drive

Trans

The War in the Highlands

Gendernauts

From the Heart

True Crime - Eastwood Shows His 'True' Grit

Solomon and Gaenor

When I'm Gone ... You'll Still Be Alive

Speedway Junky

Speer

Everybody's Ruby

The Valladolid Debate

The Drawer Boy

Kurt Gerron's Karussell

Hygiene de L'Assassin

The Debt Collector

Marigolds in Flower

Rider of the Flames

Late Show

The War in the Highlands

From the Heart

True Crime - Eastwood Shows His 'True' Grit

Solomon and Gaenor

When I'm Gone ... You'll Still Be Alive

Speedway Junky

Play Strindberg

Play Strindberg

Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band

Marilyn Manson; Hole

Marilyn Manson; Hole

Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band

Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly

Dear America: A Picture of Freedom

If You Ever Leave Me ... I'm Going With You!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day

Earthly Possessions

Love Scenes From Planet Earth

Road Kill

Palmer's Pick-Up



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