Table of Contents
Week of 04/09/1999

Articles

Y2K fears spread to performers

 

Papers seek suit access

 

Rock acts stack up for Woodstock '99

 

Dion postpones May concerts

 

Littlefield joins Launch Media board

 

Maeda exec VP at Gaga

 

Post-Oscars episode boosts 'ET' ratings

 

Imax's Italian job

 

ONdigital reels in 110,000 U.K. subs

 

Oplesch to enter German digital TV

 

Ringwald, Napier makes 'Cut's' cut

 

India to set sat rules as ban nears end

 

Sumitomo enters pact to make Japan @Home

 

World Briefs

 

Marin museum mania

 

Beer takes over Propaganda talent

 

Gunn loaded for 'Measure'

 

Monaco signs to U Records

 

Confab to put focus on online education

 

Leeds gets 'Honky!' in Regency debut

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Judge Judy's hubby to preside in 'Court'

 

Seagram stox rally too late for Bronfmans

 

Sony and U pact on 'Erin'

 

Media star wars

 

Alphabet soap spills on affils

 

ABC trims hard news reporting staff by 10%

 

'Love' pair ponder 'Bounce'

 

Cannes docu-drama

 

Cameramen to fete helmer Burrows

 

AMC first chain to raise ticket prices over $8

 

Tenpercenteries

 

Shadyac altar ego

 

Brit report bemoans state of TV exports

 

WMA ups Harris and Stollman

 

Disney turns page in pub biz, eye on youth

 

Takeover turmoil

 

Blockbuster IPO nears

 

Ad firms merge to get Creative

 

Stiller to receive show retrospective

 

Prinze, Danes fall 'Head Over Heels'

 

WB TV inks deal with Greenberg

 

Off Broadway's 'Killer Joe' makes room for Williams

 

British pic fest to open, travel

 

WPXN to preempt Pax for sports

 

Brazil tix sales see big drop in March

 

Cannes sets site on Web

 

Malkovich, DaFoe giving life to 'Light'

 

Russian Fest turns 40

 

B.O. bust in Europe

 

Spanish distrib sets sights studio-style

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Rupe red-carded

 

Cable ops reject Star rate hike

 

Hef to sell $50 mil of Playboy stock

 

Turner in 'Matrix'

 

Ross wades into indie 'Shallow End'

 

Col collects $32 mil for rights wrong

 

Herz clears 'Smokey' with U; Platt producing

 

Peacock re-ups 'Susan,' 'Grace'

 

Canon loaded with projects for West plus pix

 

Vet agent hopes his new firm will Bloom

 

Daredevil files suit vs. 'Extra'

 

MIschel to be prexy at revamped Harvey

 

Big pickup in 'Big D'

 

Net sked redos see so-so ratings

 

EMI online with Samit

 

MCA taps Lambert as sr. promo veep

 

New league fumbles

 

Foes form U.S. film commish

 

Players from Europe, Oz dominate Mip

 

Techno pops B.O.

 

Quinn, Pollack in new series

 

Error no sign of puppet strings, Edwards says

 

Livin' is easy at Mipdoc

 

Travolta waits to go in 'Room'

 

LinkShare Corp. clicks on Kern for CEO

 

Banderas' image: Lasting

 

'Home' closes up shop

 

Alma honors its own raza

 

Glatzer's film pitches basking in Sunshine

 

Solondz gives top NYU film awards to 2

 

Vision awards honor diversty

 

Bard and Queen top Brit film acad honors

 

CBS staffers vote on strike

 

George Lucas: The double feature

 

UCLA pays tribute to Vienna-set pix

 

Oz 'Matrix' preems brighten o'seas B.O.

 

TV Azteca posts poor 1st quarter

 

Music vet Stessel bows Trillium

 

Norman, Frank to join scripters conference

 

German B.O. down in 1st qtr., sez EDI

 

Italo agency to help TV sales

 

Quieting the critics

 

RC enlists Fox series in $20 mil ad effort

 

Real, IBM play Net duet

 

Adelphia buys Harron in spending spree

 

Eye goes H'w'd'.com

 

'Happy' duo go to the (royal) dogs

 

Regal's KKR bids on Hoyts' 900 screens

 

Herek digs Par's 'Tomb'

 

Hollywood losing grip on o'seas TV

 

HBO punts pic head

 

TV exex to seek total dereg

 

Ferrell sets 2 SNL pics; Curry in favor at Fox

 

Figures in on 'Out' sow doubt

 

Itsby Bitsy TV deal is big for Hasbro, Fox

 

Eye strike looming

 

Net setbacks put media companies in a spin

 

Prod'n space to open in Culver City

 

EMI confirms Net vet Samit online

 

End of the 'World'

 

Zellweger near 'Me, Myself' & Carrey

 

'Guy' gives Fox Sunday a hand

 

Foundation f/x takes Revenge with own pix

 

Noriega interested in Showtime pic

 

Lack of minorities on TV decried by HRTS

 

Edson's 'Wit' earns Pulitzer for drama

 

'Star Wars' L.A. benefit preem set

 

Hyperion promotes 2

 

Whomp(tastic), there it is, say Disney & UPN

 

Bill OKs nat'l parks filming

 

Rapper Eminem getting Famous

 

NLRB tosses Union beef

 

Pax has original 'Hope'

 

Buena Vista distrib ups Rodriguez to senior VP

 

Sport HITS a home run for ESPN

 

Babelsberg revives center

 

Berlin fest has Latin, U.S. flair

 

N.Y. library gets Robbins archive

 

Broadway sees B.O. Easter parade

 

Teuts get in tune

 

Japan studio cartoon boon

 

Italo Cinematheque opening theater

 

Cleveland jokes may be passe as city aids pics

 

Ratings home run

 

'Fosse,' 'Iceman' lead crix noms

 

TF1 hunts up 'Joan'

 

Fox Family bops to BBC teen series 'Miami 7'

 

Peacock 'Passions'

 

Prez ankles Galaxy

 

Liberty ups interest in digital TV firm

 

Infinity forms promo group

 

King World reports 21% gain

 

Chez Dreamworks

 

Southern Star stock falls on news of year's losses

 

South African authority bars violence on TV

 

Channel 4 pacts with U.S. pubcasters

 

Kirch topper sees content future for biz

 

Banff fest bows TV noms

 

Tele-Munchen's revs a record

 

Riordan's wife learns H'w'd ropes

 

Not in talks for C5 stake, BSkyB sez

 

Oz, U.S. 'Quest' for mini

 

'Dateline' depression helps Eye win homes

 

Rochester ankling Reading for top spot at Oz's Cinimagic

 

Eye lines up Dierdorf

 

Blazing pix bows

 

BoxCar Willie

 

Kid star law may grow up 15%

 

Baldwin at bar for TNT's 'Nuremberg'

 

Case for Internet

 

Wolfe rolls into 'Jelly'

 

Buyers eye int'l menu

 

'Titanic' preem surges for HBO

 

Good, U ink for 'Church'

 

Perry goes 'Whole 9 Yards' with Willis in hitman laffer

 

B'buster dip could give IPO the slip

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Street takes off-ramp

 

Cinematheque bowing theater

 

Martesko swept up at Rising Tides

 

Sobieski will visit Fox 2000's 'Earth'

 

'Horror,' 'Babes' piloted

 

Aspen: no shortage

 

Castle Hill on 'Wives'

 

PubCol

 

Alvanos heads Complete DVD

 

New Line cops 'Crawford'

 

Cinesite taps vet McAlister

 

MTV wants auds to be 'Scared' again

 

ESPN to fatten affils' wallets

 

Tooner Roman to exec produce Inglis' 'Garden'

 

Fields of male dreams for Petersen

 

Destination grabs 'If Only'

 

TV Land to power new cabler with 'Electric Company' run

 

Performers go Public for Nonesuch concerts

 

Jean Vander Pyl

 

Jesse Stone

 

Reel.com taps Alex Bond new CFO

 

BV Imaging taps Sweeney

 

Donations to bring medical aid to Kosovo

 

Davis digs 'Holes'; O'Connell orbits 'Mars'

 

Street plays rock 'n' Real

 

Tix selling quick for Ticketmaster Online

 

CBS/Guild talks continue

 

Paxson's new chief

 

'Baywatch' will wash to Papua

 

Italo competish

 

Uncanny Cannes kidnap escape

 

'Net music format unveiled

 

Ellipsanime tooning up Euro expansion, prod'n

 

'I am' sure is tops

 

Lee names prod'n VP

 

Schwartz enters Lions Gate

 

Stumpe inks TV deal with Castle Rock

 

Sony licensing site unveiled

 

D'Works taps Bridenthal as media czar

 

Eyre to helm NL's 'Roustabout'

 

Grant, Lovitz join Ullman, Rapaport for Allen pic

 

Zwick joins CAA

 

Disney toon project draws Stewart

 

Tuesday toons hum

 

'Pokemon' power

 

Events fund kids org

 

Growing L.A. indie fest starts with 'Entropy'

 

TW's Lion's share

 

ABC's 'Moment' cut in half

 

SBS outlines vision

 

Barcelona film biz gets $20 mil windfall

 

Germany signs off on Kirch/Premiere

 

Pink slips due at Polygram

 

'Fountain' a gusher

 

Lakeshore lands 'Living'

 

Players

 

Actor Newley dies

 

DiSalvo up to sr. VP & G.M.

 

Krasnow gets 'Short'

 

Love dances to teen beat

 

McVety, Knight, Lyons in McPherson's 'Tree'

 

'Life' of the party

 

CanWest reaps coin from Ulster TV deal

 

Hitchcock centennial celebration kicks off

 

Fox News inks Muller for ayem

 

Reviews

Meeting People Is Easy

Cinderella

Alanis Morissette

The Iceman Cometh

America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

Love Letters

Twin Dragons

Life

Foolish

Billy Joel

Marlene

Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

A Simple Heart

As You Like It

Tongue of a Bird

The Exact Center of the Universe

Among Friends

Card Boys

The Who's Tommy: Broadway in Concert

Susannah

Sex, Shame and Tears

Ave Maria

Juan, I Forgot, I Don't Remember

A Sweet Scent of Death

Life - Laughing Through a So-Called 'Life'

4 Seasons in Espigoule

Ferdinand and Carolina

The Jack Bull

Everything's Relative

Life

Murray Perahia

Built to Spill

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Built To Spill

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Cesar Rosas

Murray Perahia

The Jack Bull

A Certain Justice

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

Hanako

It's Delightful, It's Delicious, It's DeLaria

Hanako

It's Delightful, It's Delicious, It's Delaria

The Jack Bull

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

Korn; Rob Zombie

Morning, Noon and Night

Korn; Rob Zombie

Divas Live '99