Table of Contents
Week of 05/07/1999

Articles

Food net to Brown new fare

 

Centropolis taps 2 exex

 

Price set to give keynote at LFCA

 

Don McGuire

 

World Briefs

 

Balmur is home to 'Hippo'

 

SABC probes ANC influence

 

Geater quits post at HAL

 

Warner Home Vid eyes DVD push in China

 

Japan B.O. golden

 

Prez expected to take aim at NRA

 

Cora earns Mouse lift

 

Televisa takes Slim chance

 

Viacom files for Blockbuster IPO

 

TW places execs at sites along Web path

 

New Line now online

 

Wolf knocking at 'Side Man' door

 

Workshop for 'Wise Guys'

 

'Law' rules Nielsens

 

Thompson downloads 'Murder'

 

Lawler creative veep for Fine Line

 

Eagles show lands at Staples

 

Players

 

U sells stake in hot Web site to Hyundai

 

'Lambs' sequel fetches $9 mil

 

Zarpas to ankle Scott Free post

 

Regent plans to buy Showcase Theater

 

Col for Mr. Gray

 

U reaps $97 mil loss with pix's poor B.O.

 

Willis cons way into 'Ace'

 

Caine inks 'Quills' deal

 

Disney keeps defense as quiet as a Mouse

 

GC ups vet to sr. vice prexy

 

'White' collar job

 

MGM moves 'Affair' in summer shift

 

Pollock, Liss top list for ABC stations

 

Proyas, Hazeldine on Poe tale

 

Inside Moves

 

'Star' preem tix available

 

'Toughman' rights go to FX cabler

 

Ernest Gold

 

Albert Popwell

 

Howard Lowell

 

Thelma L. McInnes

 

Scaring up o'seas

 

Spain's RTVE steps up Latin Am role

 

World Briefs

 

RTL cuts back on acquisitions

 

China readies first animated pic

 

News Corp., Lend Lease pact for Oz project

 

Discovery taps Quattrone sr. VP

 

'Mummy' dearest for U

 

Novocom bows new division

 

Giant screen Imax reports 1st qtr.drop

 

Women's panel is upbeat on biz

 

Deal furrows brows

 

Financial briefs

 

What now for talk?

 

Inside move

 

Brooks making Gaines in new area

 

TV's Reed is 'Cheer' leader

 

Vet anchor Moret will ink multiyear CNN deal

 

Lions Gate taps Meyer as veepee

 

Tucker adds AMG to team

 

Kate Jackson back to 'Satan'

 

NARAS giving classical CDs to new mothers

 

Biz, violence & pols

 

Academy noms student pics

 

WGA names Stayton editor of Written By

 

Canal Plus near deal to join Working Title, U

 

Engel Prods. makes a move Beyond laffers

 

NBC slips on 'Frasier' fade

 

Disney, Lynch go 'Straight'

 

Perlman plays 'Hockey'

 

Dirk Bogarde dies at age 78

 

Oliver sues CNN, source in Tailwind mess

 

Craig wins SAG seat

 

Players

 

AOL taps Harris for broadband

 

A buzzworthy event

 

Party to the Max

 

Date set for Astaire Awards

 

'Diff'rent Strokes' actress dies of apparent overdose

 

Early 'Star Wars' reviews irk Fox

 

Putting it all together

 

Mike Nichols: Gotham's guiding light?

 

Lycos shares leap 18%

 

Buzzelli in as DTL's sales director

 

Comcast cobbles $73.5 profit in qtr.

 

Microsoft going wireless via $600 mil Nextel stake

 

Sharing in showbiz

 

Bobbe Brox

 

TV's be-all Endemol

 

Prague fest fetes best

 

Dutch SBS nets ink hefty output deal

 

World Briefs

 

Morricones join 'Rome'

 

Warners reups with Videocine

 

Istituto Luce profits flex on plex bows, higher revs

 

Torn rips Hopper coin

 

Prez urges biz to be sensitive

 

American embassy gets taste of Kosovo

 

Taylor stitches return to acting in film, TV

 

Fox Family programs Sorcher

 

'Minskey's' to bow at Ahmanson

 

Players

 

NBC's Spinoff.com

 

Ortner joins Proskauer powerhouse

 

Potter circling 'Mars'

 

Auds playing hooky

 

'Letter,' preems set for Asian film fest

 

Eisenman is All Girl veep

 

Subdued Baftas toast BBC

 

CNN looks to boomers with new ad campaign

 

Banderas has $12 mil 'Body'; U heating up

 

'Unicorn' gores NBC

 

U to open Islands resort destination

 

Theatre L.A. taps Hanson

 

Two books optioned for the Whole Nine

 

Destination to distrib 'Mona'

 

Miramax Int'l ups Jeanson

 

MGM calls out to Yell for exec VP

 

Family spat troubles Televisa dogged by family tiff

 

Cablers eye Dow

 

Fields traces Eisner's footsteps on bonus

 

Gramercy's Schwartz is game as USA Films prez

 

Eye pages telepix

 

BGTV ups Reilly and Traugott

 

Freeman tops Sundance sites

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Gonzalez gets La Red for $15 mil in green

 

Tivo taps Courtney and Roberts

 

Canuck hot docs picked

 

James G. Martell

 

Herman Miller

 

Stella Zucco

 

Words into Pics event adds writer-helmers

 

Nelvana nirvana

 

Rupe goes for goal

 

You've got mail, TV

 

Sesac bonds to fuel rights org's expansion

 

Sony Music online with Microsoft tech

 

Unitel to sell mobile TV unit

 

World Briefs

 

Manchete cuts deal with Omega Group

 

Newsworld sharpening news focus

 

Shel Silverstein

 

SkyQuest inks Spanish deals

 

NTL paying $57 mil in Gallic net gain

 

Aid groups horrified by Kosovo 'cleansing'

 

Rights costs hurt Brazilian exhibs

 

D'Works studio plan hit by activists suit

 

Col Tristar Film ups Ladestro

 

Arnett nets online gig

 

NBC changes 'Train's' cargo

 

Lawmakers target media violence

 

Pressured Valenti pitching self-restraint

 

Variety back at Cannes

 

H'Wood Fest to honor Goldsmith

 

USA Wrestling pins 'Raw' ratings record

 

Large lands in U.K.

 

Cassidy, Studios USA ink $6 mil deal

 

Goldblum, Hayek find 'Enemies'

 

Peacock rules roost in ratings

 

Wolper returns to docs

 

Awaiting judgment

 

Packer dominates Hoyts

 

Landmark, Thyssen team for business ride

 

New Line's new man

 

DirecTV nets ABC's 'Cleopatra' for PPV

 

Inside Move

 

Col TriStar ups Pierce

 

'L'Intern' pic peeks at world

 

Creative Domain has top pair

 

Forster tuner 'Barrels' down on Off Broadway

 

Rose grafts White Peach pic deal

 

Couture's allure

 

'Mona' finds Destination

 

Cumulus posts stormy quarter

 

Stewart Klein

 

Rudi Fehr

 

Louis Garelick

 

Carol 'Corky' Wolk

 

Zachary Bell

 

Edward L. Jeffers

 

Nickelodeon ups Greiff to veepee

 

Red Sky, Maple Palm pact

 

Kodak pushes pic image quality

 

Reel.com ups Rochlin to sr. veep

 

WB to air 1st 'Radio Music Awards' show

 

Argentina may toss out Ibope

 

World Briefs

 

German state relents on theater-coin cuts

 

Monogram inks TV deal

 

Mobilcom preps 'Net access tool

 

Oz biz under fire after two stuntmen die

 

A Window to cable

 

Hearst taps Harris as licensing topper

 

Chancellor, Capstar hit high notes; merger nears

 

Diller logs off of Lycos purchase; stox surge

 

Combined efforts

 

'Xena' drags feet

 

'Everest' hits peak for large-format vid sales

 

ABC clings to Tuesday demos

 

'Lenny' seeks Berkley's hand

 

ABC taps Filippelli VP

 

Thompson is 'Luck's' lady

 

Web music likely to lure pirates

 

Press Club honors Archerd

 

WB group nabs 'Pretender'

 

Grey seeks case dismissal

 

'Austin' tix power on to the 'Net with AOL

 

Reynolds to helm, star in 'Producer'

 

Cablers are cookin'

 

McGraw earns 'Place in Sun'

 

Zomba taps Thea sr. veep

 

Lash is upped at Lions Gate

 

Virgin site takes off

 

Stars besiege Bertolucci bow

 

Cup of 'Joe' for Stone; Phillips goes 'Bats'

 

'Phantom' flock to lock in record start

 

NBC extracts longer deal for Levitan laffer

 

Senate backs probe of showbiz, violence

 

Matsushita is game for Nintendo's deal

 

Hilfiger to back Spears tour

 

Court TV eyes cable rights deal for Fox's 'Cops' series

 

Reviews

Tequila Body Shots

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

This Is My Father

Enigma Variations

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

The Gimmick

Plenty

The Whisperers

Charlie in the House of Rue

Resurrection

The Cider House Rules -- Part One: Here in St. Cloud's

Morning Star

Joan of Arc

Belle Maman

American Passport

The Manor

The Ice Rink

Strangers

In the Rye

The Anniversary

Genghis Blues

Muriel Leferle

A Five-Minute Break

Forbidden Courtyard

The Little Thief

The Yellow Fountain

The Tough Ones

The Happiest Place on Earth

Verses

Life/Drawing

The Unspoken

William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream

The Craic

What the Butler Saw

Mike Ness

Our Guys

Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace

Shania Twain; Leahy

Aerosmith

Rocky Marciano

Three Secrets

Late Nite Catechism

900 Oneonta

Joan of Arc

Atomic Train

Double Platinum

Beck

Trippin'

To Love, Honor and Betray

The Barber Of Siberia


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