Table of Contents
Week of 03/19/1999

Articles

SXSW fest lauds 'City,' 'Holmes'

 

Euro fests hit L.A.

 

RTVE signs 4-year pact with Universal

 

'Evangelio,' 'Bajo' top Guadalajara fest

 

Seven counting on Kinging

 

Sony Japan enters satellite music biz

 

Canuck TV's pluck

 

'Daily' ratings not funny

 

Warner Music taps Johnson

 

USC's First Look Fest opens at DGA in April

 

Spirits watch Williams

 

Emmy nom cutoff today

 

'Swing' to preem in Taos

 

Acad gives Kazan security for Awards

 

EchoStar reports losses; revs rise

 

Second good Four Media

 

Igel Media set to go public

 

Cana Plus=minus

 

Oscar Watch

 

Fermin tapped Fox VP

 

Fox adds hats in Todd pact

 

VH1 ups Flanagan to senior veep post

 

Spears heads for TV with Col TriStar deal

 

New Line boosts PR staff

 

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

 

Disney, Col team for Williams starrer 'Man'

 

Variety Arts taps Glover

 

Oscar's windfall

 

Artisan, Aronofsky in tune on 'Requiem'

 

Weinberg, Simon unveil Untitled

 

Par's Harry 'Carry'

 

Berry in 'Fashion'

 

'Payne' no relief for Eye web

 

Indie music marketer bows soundtrack arm

 

KCBS news unveils brand-new segment

 

MGM inks U.K. PPV deal

 

Block talk clicks Divx, City stox

 

Carlston to top UPN affils

 

Par, Rudin to rewire 'Wives'

 

Oscar relocating

 

New Line in orbit with AMG on pic

 

Mandel's show may not return

 

Japanese hit kid CD goes vid

 

Kinowelt sees room to grow

 

JFK skeds for 2000

 

Toyota, Sony sites add color to Palette

 

Bloomberg to air Peacock weather

 

Mehta's 'Earth' moves

 

'Judy,' 'Lola' at MOMA

 

Parade powers Peacock

 

Oscar shows the Will to win

 

Origin of the species

 

A star is born

 

Send in the clowns

 

Spotlight on Cates

 

Cashing in

 

Glamorous rogue

 

Inner sanctum

 

Viacom Spelling out plans

 

Alliance cooks up stake in Sportscope's Headline

 

Kiwi's TVNZ on the rise

 

CBC pact avoids strike

 

Fininvest, Saudi buy Kirch unit

 

Premiere given greenlight

 

Par TV, RAI pact for pix

 

Franks cooking in Cybermeals venture

 

Oscar leads o'seas

 

'Hana-Bi' gets cultural kudo

 

ESPN Intl. taps Burkhardt senior veep

 

Bogota UHF gets Chummy

 

Dutch to go digital to vie with cablers

 

Debt-weighted Globo plans more cutbacks

 

Disney to bow 'toon channel

 

'Ryan' wins MovieFone nods

 

WNBC forecast: Bloomberg Radio

 

'Judy' judges online TV OK

 

Indian pix face politicians wrath

 

'Guinness' bow boosts Fox Friday

 

NBC, CNET get happy over Snap

 

Arcand casts '15 Moments'

 

Inside move

 

'Nature' nabs auds

 

U Homevid's Till tops o'seas

 

Fox Family believes it's fit for King World

 

Diller sez he ought to be back in pic biz

 

Obst ankles NBC mini; Di Novi in

 

Monica at Morton's

 

Uncertain lies EMI's crown

 

D'Works has Owen's 'Fever'

 

Grey case judge affirms Shandling sanctions

 

Webby Award winners honored

 

New distrib finds Brazil home

 

Video arsonists sentenced

 

Generations, Kazan divide NYC parties

 

Publitalia reports socko '98 profits

 

News Corp. bows in Beijing

 

'Ryan' nabs Golden Reel

 

Flaks fete Mechanic, Carsey-Werner team

 

'Gods' in good spirits

 

City of Hope to honor Quartararo

 

Crowds cheer on stars

 

Party on, Oscar

 

Foreign helmers tell tales

 

Brits honor nominees

 

Kazan takes Oscar with no apologies

 

Kazan award among show's lowlights

 

'Life' shows there's life for foreign pix

 

There is such a thing as a dumb question

 

Oscar's B.O. bump

 

Mini's major ad biz did the trick for pix

 

Benigni: Hold the Pope; Dench stole scenes

 

Oscar remembers 'Days' of the Holocaust

 

Oz upset over Blanchett's loss

 

Is pic biz out of characters?

 

'Lock, Stock' smokin' atop exclusives roster

 

Oscars cut into take o'seas

 

Tuning in new age

 

Firms tool TV pool

 

MGM, M6 ink deal

 

Miramax, Alliance reteam

 

Allen: It's hard to leave 'Home'

 

Sogecable posts '98 loss

 

Cisneros gobbles up HTV

 

Mayer logs on to BV Internet Group

 

Street says Yahoo! to Broadcast.com talks

 

Wide-eyed investors

 

Rock down as boomers buy other music

 

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

 

ABC promotes Sommer

 

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

 

NBC seeks to clean up suds sked

 

Van Der Beek rides 'Rangers'

 

Alcohol overhaul

 

Oscars don't push aud envelope

 

Comcast's pricey add-on

 

Southern Star's new course

 

SPE taps Hausch VP of digital strategy

 

'Susan' co-star Strickland dies

 

Paint the town gold

 

ABC will deliver 'Pizza'

 

Ice-T eyes 'Disciples'

 

U arm to Kornblau

 

Sportel America hits grand slam in Miami

 

Asian papers joining forces

 

Thuringia hosts 11th kidpic fest

 

Family selling Televisia stake

 

Judge Judy settles out of court

 

Doordarshan ad revs drop

 

White Way springs into higher gross

 

Exex in Oxygen's Net

 

Yulin helms 'Bower's' bow

 

India to pass TV regulations

 

Dalva upped to VH1 senior VP

 

Cinemaxx makes moves on reel rival Omniplex

 

Gabay to co-produce 'Plate' with Stages

 

'Shakespeare' marketed to the 'Max

 

'Whatever' OK for Courtenay

 

Granada pitches offer for Mirror's SMG stake

 

U.K. shuts down Kurdish satcaster

 

BBC spins schedule

 

Bonnie Enid Hoffenberg

 

Telewest bonding debt

 

NTL has eye on transmission net

 

Miramax leading dub-le 'Life'

 

Oscar win not enough to lift ABC for season

 

Puma picks pic pair

 

Valenti targets Asian movie market barriers

 

PBS asks Washington for funding

 

Acme, Paxson pact in small TV market deal

 

Jive taps McHugh VP

 

USA's Stein upped at Sci-Fi channel

 

B'casters kick over World Cup

 

Leaping to the Lion

 

U taps Finkelstein sr. VP of planning

 

Levin stock options now worth $300 mil

 

Inside Move

 

Reardon segs to Village Roadshow

 

Kemp, Tyson are sound for Disney

 

Thar she horns in

 

'Roseanne' undergoes exec producer change

 

Newman puts stock in KABC

 

HGTV to plant Villa as 'Restore' host

 

Canucks go global

 

Howard awarded $605,000 over rental house dispute

 

KCOP gives 'Short' shift

 

Weather head ends reign

 

TVT taps industry vet Benesch as senior VP

 

'Star Wars' preems to benefit kids

 

AMG turns on to TV

 

Pub Col

 

Exec Shuffle

 

La Fete exec ankles, opens shop

 

Indies score $2.3 billion, AFMA sez

 

D'Works-exhib spats hold up 'Forces'

 

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

 

Visual Effects taps officers for board

 

Sharkey links up with CTW

 

DD calls up Call to be senior VP

 

3 black indie franchises to preem on BET Movies

 

Exex in Playboy Web

 

Connor joins 3 Ring Circus

 

Just for Variety: Miramax dubbing 'Life'

 

Ronald E. Poindexter

 

Timothy Scott Fields

 

Oscar rates an 'A' for E!

 

Allen cast in Guerin pic; 'Fartman' revived?

 

Carson OK 5 days after bypass surgery

 

Viacom vows to buy back 1.7% of stock

 

DirecTV loses in House bill

 

Gumpel upped at U

 

La Jolla cooks up Hamburger deal

 

Lucas gives $1.5 mil to USC

 

Online auctioner sold on charity

 

Exex fed up with feds

 

Merger mates set terms

 

Bidding till it Hoyts

 

Oscar fave Bard wires the B.O.

 

The read on greed

 

Affils must do Wright, web warns

 

Kirch: Rupe, alliance not a good fit

 

A central change

 

Pair rapped for BSkyB ad ban

 

Norton goes off to 'War'

 

Oz's Packer wants media regs dropped

 

TWE to go on, Levin sez

 

CBS has eye on Internet growth

 

U ponders TV biz return

 

Kennard warns TV biz not to dally with digital

 

BBC, Spice guy bring act to Miami

 

PFE's Kessler shifts to U

 

Midem America aims at growth

 

End to ride-alongs?

 

'Mail' mans No. 1 spot for TLC

 

KNBC taps Heacox prexy

 

CBS captures 30 Sports Emmy noms

 

Gates sets sights on 'Net stock surge

 

D'Works, Park to rent 'Ryan' vid

 

Old concepts will be Web winners, say exex

 

Par may take U's UCI stake

 

Italy OKs pay TV soccer curb

 

Kinowelt profits skyrocket

 

Hachette's Premiere will spin off PBS docu series

 

Cripps quits at UIP

 

Five films in a flash

 

Rifkin bites into gig directing 'Munchies'

 

Stan Lee pacts with Pentafour

 

New day for 'Night' at Hayes

 

Magic bows music arm

 

Posner goes global for D'Works discs

 

Kwietniowski to push 'Limit' for Pressman

 

Gaven to MGM as senior ad VP

 

DeKoven reups as NBC's pic/mini topper

 

Inside Move

 

Reviews

Via Dolorosa

Arlington Road

First Wave

First Wave

The 71st Annual Academy Awards

The Longest Summer

The Personals

30, Still Single: Contemplating Suicide

Suckerfish

The Real McCoy

The Pornographer

Beauty

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

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Sugar Ray

Crashing Eden

Tenacious D

It's Like, You Know ...

The Norm Show

Pink Martini

Jeff Beck

Neil Young

Absolution

Asian Dub Foundation

Fatal Error

Reckless

Mutiny


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