Table of Contents
Week of 03/19/1999

Articles

SXSW fest lauds 'City,' 'Holmes'

 

Euro fests hit L.A.

 

'Evangelio,' 'Bajo' top Guadalajara fest

 

Canuck TV's pluck

 

Cana Plus=minus

 

Fermin tapped Fox VP

 

Disney, Col team for Williams starrer 'Man'

 

Oscar's windfall

 

Par's Harry 'Carry'

 

Berry in 'Fashion'

 

Par, Rudin to rewire 'Wives'

 

EchoStar reports losses; revs rise

 

VH1 ups Flanagan to senior veep post

 

Spears heads for TV with Col TriStar deal

 

'Rugrats' studio basking in glory, ups 2 to sr. VP

 

Variety Arts taps Glover

 

Indie music marketer bows soundtrack arm

 

KCBS news unveils brand-new segment

 

MGM inks U.K. PPV deal

 

Block talk clicks Divx, City stox

 

New Line in orbit with AMG on pic

 

JFK skeds for 2000

 

Bloomberg to air Peacock weather

 

Seven counting on Kinging

 

'Daily' ratings not funny

 

USC's First Look Fest opens at DGA in April

 

Spirits watch Williams

 

Emmy nom cutoff today

 

'Swing' to preem in Taos

 

Igel Media set to go public

 

Oscar Watch

 

Weinberg, Simon unveil Untitled

 

Kinowelt sees room to grow

 

Toyota, Sony sites add color to Palette

 

Mehta's 'Earth' moves

 

'Judy,' 'Lola' at MOMA

 

RTVE signs 4-year pact with Universal

 

Sony Japan enters satellite music biz

 

Warner Music taps Johnson

 

Acad gives Kazan security for Awards

 

Second good Four Media

 

Fox adds hats in Todd pact

 

New Line boosts PR staff

 

Artisan, Aronofsky in tune on 'Requiem'

 

'Payne' no relief for Eye web

 

Carlston to top UPN affils

 

Oscar relocating

 

Mandel's show may not return

 

Japanese hit kid CD goes vid

 

Parade powers Peacock

 

Oscar shows the Will to win

 

Origin of the species

 

Spotlight on Cates

 

Cashing in

 

Inner sanctum

 

Send in the clowns

 

A star is born

 

Glamorous rogue

 

Bogota UHF gets Chummy

 

'Ryan' wins MovieFone nods

 

Inside move

 

U Homevid's Till tops o'seas

 

Uncertain lies EMI's crown

 

Webby Award winners honored

 

News Corp. bows in Beijing

 

Viacom Spelling out plans

 

Alliance cooks up stake in Sportscope's Headline

 

Premiere given greenlight

 

Disney to bow 'toon channel

 

NBC, CNET get happy over Snap

 

Monica at Morton's

 

'Ryan' nabs Golden Reel

 

Crowds cheer on stars

 

Brits honor nominees

 

There is such a thing as a dumb question

 

Mini's major ad biz did the trick for pix

 

Kiwi's TVNZ on the rise

 

Fininvest, Saudi buy Kirch unit

 

Par TV, RAI pact for pix

 

Franks cooking in Cybermeals venture

 

Oscar leads o'seas

 

Dutch to go digital to vie with cablers

 

'Judy' judges online TV OK

 

Indian pix face politicians wrath

 

'Guinness' bow boosts Fox Friday

 

Fox Family believes it's fit for King World

 

Obst ankles NBC mini; Di Novi in

 

Grey case judge affirms Shandling sanctions

 

Video arsonists sentenced

 

Publitalia reports socko '98 profits

 

'Gods' in good spirits

 

City of Hope to honor Quartararo

 

Party on, Oscar

 

Foreign helmers tell tales

 

Kazan award among show's lowlights

 

'Life' shows there's life for foreign pix

 

Oscar's B.O. bump

 

Benigni: Hold the Pope; Dench stole scenes

 

Oscar remembers 'Days' of the Holocaust

 

CBC pact avoids strike

 

'Hana-Bi' gets cultural kudo

 

ESPN Intl. taps Burkhardt senior veep

 

Debt-weighted Globo plans more cutbacks

 

WNBC forecast: Bloomberg Radio

 

Arcand casts '15 Moments'

 

'Nature' nabs auds

 

Diller sez he ought to be back in pic biz

 

D'Works has Owen's 'Fever'

 

New distrib finds Brazil home

 

Generations, Kazan divide NYC parties

 

Flaks fete Mechanic, Carsey-Werner team

 

Kazan takes Oscar with no apologies

 

Oz upset over Blanchett's loss

 

Is pic biz out of characters?

 

Tuning in new age

 

Cisneros gobbles up HTV

 

NL eyes '13 Days'; Rodman has 'Doctors' appt.

 

NBC seeks to clean up suds sked

 

Van Der Beek rides 'Rangers'

 

Comcast's pricey add-on

 

Southern Star's new course

 

Paint the town gold

 

ABC will deliver 'Pizza'

 

Yulin helms 'Bower's' bow

 

Mayer logs on to BV Internet Group

 

Wide-eyed investors

 

ABC promotes Sommer

 

Alcohol overhaul

 

SPE taps Hausch VP of digital strategy

 

'Susan' co-star Strickland dies

 

Doordarshan ad revs drop

 

Exex in Oxygen's Net

 

Cinemaxx makes moves on reel rival Omniplex

 

Firms tool TV pool

 

Miramax, Alliance reteam

 

Street says Yahoo! to Broadcast.com talks

 

Gumbel's prod'n firm books 'Reading Club'

 

Asian papers joining forces

 

Thuringia hosts 11th kidpic fest

 

Family selling Televisia stake

 

Dalva upped to VH1 senior VP

 

'Shakespeare' marketed to the 'Max

 

'Lock, Stock' smokin' atop exclusives roster

 

Oscars cut into take o'seas

 

MGM, M6 ink deal

 

Allen: It's hard to leave 'Home'

 

Sogecable posts '98 loss

 

Rock down as boomers buy other music

 

Oscars don't push aud envelope

 

Ice-T eyes 'Disciples'

 

U arm to Kornblau

 

Sportel America hits grand slam in Miami

 

Judge Judy settles out of court

 

White Way springs into higher gross

 

India to pass TV regulations

 

Gabay to co-produce 'Plate' with Stages

 

Granada pitches offer for Mirror's SMG stake

 

Miramax leading dub-le 'Life'

 

B'casters kick over World Cup

 

Leaping to the Lion

 

U taps Finkelstein sr. VP of planning

 

HGTV to plant Villa as 'Restore' host

 

Howard awarded $605,000 over rental house dispute

 

KCOP gives 'Short' shift

 

'Star Wars' preems to benefit kids

 

Indies score $2.3 billion, AFMA sez

 

Late deal gets 'Rollin' ' back on track at Kit Kat

 

Visual Effects taps officers for board

 

DD calls up Call to be senior VP

 

3 black indie franchises to preem on BET Movies

 

BBC spins schedule

 

NTL has eye on transmission net

 

Valenti targets Asian movie market barriers

 

USA's Stein upped at Sci-Fi channel

 

TVT taps industry vet Benesch as senior VP

 

AMG turns on to TV

 

Pub Col

 

U.K. shuts down Kurdish satcaster

 

Telewest bonding debt

 

PBS asks Washington for funding

 

Levin stock options now worth $300 mil

 

Kemp, Tyson are sound for Disney

 

Thar she horns in

 

'Roseanne' undergoes exec producer change

 

Newman puts stock in KABC

 

Canucks go global

 

Exec Shuffle

 

La Fete exec ankles, opens shop

 

D'Works-exhib spats hold up 'Forces'

 

Sharkey links up with CTW

 

'Whatever' OK for Courtenay

 

Bonnie Enid Hoffenberg

 

Oscar win not enough to lift ABC for season

 

Puma picks pic pair

 

Acme, Paxson pact in small TV market deal

 

Jive taps McHugh VP

 

Inside Move

 

Reardon segs to Village Roadshow

 

Weather head ends reign

 

Exex in Playboy Web

 

Connor joins 3 Ring Circus

 

Just for Variety: Miramax dubbing 'Life'

 

Ronald E. Poindexter

 

Timothy Scott Fields

 

Allen cast in Guerin pic; 'Fartman' revived?

 

Carson OK 5 days after bypass surgery

 

La Jolla cooks up Hamburger deal

 

PFE's Kessler shifts to U

 

Stan Lee pacts with Pentafour

 

New day for 'Night' at Hayes

 

DeKoven reups as NBC's pic/mini topper

 

Exex fed up with feds

 

Oscar fave Bard wires the B.O.

 

The read on greed

 

Kirch: Rupe, alliance not a good fit

 

Oz's Packer wants media regs dropped

 

TWE to go on, Levin sez

 

CBS has eye on Internet growth

 

BBC, Spice guy bring act to Miami

 

Midem America aims at growth

 

End to ride-alongs?

 

'Mail' mans No. 1 spot for TLC

 

KNBC taps Heacox prexy

 

Gates sets sights on 'Net stock surge

 

D'Works, Park to rent 'Ryan' vid

 

Hachette's Premiere will spin off PBS docu series

 

Cripps quits at UIP

 

Five films in a flash

 

Rifkin bites into gig directing 'Munchies'

 

Inside Move

 

Viacom vows to buy back 1.7% of stock

 

DirecTV loses in House bill

 

Gumpel upped at U

 

Online auctioner sold on charity

 

Affils must do Wright, web warns

 

A central change

 

U ponders TV biz return

 

Kennard warns TV biz not to dally with digital

 

Old concepts will be Web winners, say exex

 

Italy OKs pay TV soccer curb

 

Magic bows music arm

 

Posner goes global for D'Works discs

 

Oscar rates an 'A' for E!

 

Lucas gives $1.5 mil to USC

 

Merger mates set terms

 

Bidding till it Hoyts

 

Pair rapped for BSkyB ad ban

 

Norton goes off to 'War'

 

CBS captures 30 Sports Emmy noms

 

Par may take U's UCI stake

 

Kinowelt profits skyrocket

 

Kwietniowski to push 'Limit' for Pressman

 

Gaven to MGM as senior ad VP

 

Reviews

First Wave

Via Dolorosa

Arlington Road

First Wave

The Longest Summer

The Personals

30, Still Single: Contemplating Suicide

Suckerfish

The Real McCoy

The Pornographer

Beauty

The 71st Annual Academy Awards

Cabaret

Troilus and Cressida

Betty's Summer Vacation

Macbeth

In the Long Run, It Worked

First Wave

It's Like, You Know ...

The Norm Show

Mutiny

Annaluise and Anton

Lola + Bilidikid

The Little Girl Who Sold 'the Sun'

1997

The Man Who Would Live Forever

The Blue Monk

If You Only Understood

Three Bridges Over the River

Checkpoint

Love Inc.

Schpaaa

Ambush

Breaking Out

Hostage

Vietnam Girl

Yearning for a Life

Straydogs

Nice Guys Sleep Alone

City of Glass

A Hero Never Dies

The Tic Code

Zonzon

The Cherry Tree

Dealer

Star Sisters

Angel Face

Love in the Title

Efx

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Sugar Ray

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Pink Martini

Jeff Beck

Neil Young

Tenacious D

It's Like, You Know ...

The Norm Show

Crashing Eden

Absolution

Fatal Error

Reckless

Mutiny

Asian Dub Foundation



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