Table of Contents
Week of 05/21/1999

Articles

Southern Star in distrib deal

 

Ovitz bows online e-commerce site

 

20th tops in TV

 

Kiwis protest fund move

 

Dramatic turn at Screenings

 

'Chassis' rockets to Image Comics

 

Docufest calls for entries

 

Fox finds new face

 

Male call as UPN refocuses sked

 

ATAS designates Jellinek exec VP

 

AFI fest at home in H'w'd

 

O'Donnell explains Selleck confrontation

 

Marketing violence

 

High art pays low dividends for Cannes auds

 

Biz opens books for DGA

 

Seven drops shows

 

BBC units go Eclectic for 'Queen'

 

Menkes set for 'Heatstroke'

 

Levin lays out vision for TW

 

SFX turns up urban beat

 

The 'Phantom' crix

 

Oz may drop TV law for 10% local fare

 

Cable, sat viewing hit U.K. high

 

LaBute lures Flockhart for trio of one-act plays

 

Nick, TV Land plan major sked revamp

 

CBS closes gap on NBC in sweeps

 

Louis-Dreyfus noses back to TV

 

Loews defends 'Menace' hardball

 

Showtime bows digital nets

 

MTV-Liberty tune up

 

Senate passes local satcast measure

 

Kornberg reups at U

 

Mega-'Menace'

 

CBS TV stations prexy Klein to ankle post

 

Lucci has her day

 

Peres resigns from Reed Midem

 

Trimark pacts for Euro 'Delivery'

 

Exhibs analyze B.O.

 

NBC on brink of victory in May sweeps

 

Commercial TV tops in production in Gemany

 

Regency on hot streak

 

Valenti, CEOs talk violence

 

Caruso, Dutton 'Deadlocked' on TNT

 

Mickey's billion-$ boo-boo

 

Gilbert Millstein

 

Tenpercentaries

 

As seen on TV

 

From 'Soup' to Alphabet

 

Liberty banks on TW

 

Radio Centro may delist

 

General Cinema trims losses

 

Henry Jones

 

Vet scribes showcased

 

'Fantasia' signups get bigger

 

Lucci, Emmy meet

 

'Dogma' perks up Cannes distribs

 

Canuck French twist

 

USA exec map takes shape

 

Pax goes on 'Star Search'

 

John D. Robinson

 

Tina Kramer

 

Mitchell to bow as helmer with 'Deuce'

 

Donaldson nears Beacon's '13'

 

Farber exits MTV for ICast exec VP post

 

OR 'Steals' into features

 

Miramax goes to Austen's 'Abbey' alongside Granada

 

Thousand words' worth

 

Absolut fashion

 

Murdoch's Stream acquisition uncertain

 

B.O. high five for 'Phantom'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Phoenix, Nolte's Kingsgate team

 

Shirley Dinsdale Layburn

 

Lost Harrison track hits 'Wall'

 

Players

 

Fireworks inks deal with Canada vet Slain

 

Inside move

 

Col Tristar Intl. ups exec

 

India calls foul on b'caster

 

USA yanks 'Springer' segs

 

D.C. likes 'Dance'

 

Japan to push digital cable

 

Pay service Telepiu loses $165 mil in '98

 

Vanessa Brown

 

Iwerks adds Dave & Buster's pact

 

'Notting' up o'seas

 

High court handcuffs media on 'ride-alongs'

 

One last time, Acad picks Shrine for '99

 

Hoyts loses buyer and earnings

 

Vet McKay to preside over 'Judge Mathis'

 

Peacock crows early on sweeps

 

Sony drapes Gems upon Van Galder

 

Showtime picks up stars

 

Matthews to equip Raleigh

 

VH1 slates first original pic

 

Inside move

 

Diller's gentler 'Jerry'

 

Nevins no. 2 at Fox

 

Fox Kids keeps it in the Family with 'Addams'

 

Plummer comes to aid of Stratford Theater

 

WNYW, WPIX duke it out for 10 p.m. news

 

VH1 taps Sarnoff for biz VP

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Anthony V. Montesano

 

New digs, staff for Sony gaming

 

GLA buying Galaxy Brasil

 

Viacom revises bid for Spelling stock

 

Seagram touts stox

 

Russell to make 'Mitty'; Reiser's 'Mad' no more

 

'Mummy's' worth

 

New 'Flintstones' a true 'prequel'

 

Exex hear Valenti on violence

 

WinStar buys TV, vid rights to BMG library

 

'Millennium' million to Boys

 

Sunday B.O. a 'Star' sign

 

Violent 'Buffy' finale benched

 

Par, Obst top hill for 'Jill'

 

Bill Wendell

 

Ster Kinekor ups plex progression for Spain

 

SPE buoys Jacobson to veep controller

 

Peete's the one for sitcom

 

Migden, former SAG topper, dies

 

TVN inks for 'Cirque' PPV

 

'Honor' for Hanks

 

NYS&F forging 'Bond'

 

Corri, Herring in 'Ocho'

 

'Civil War' heading south on White Way

 

Digital TV wars

 

Disney vet plugs in at Macromedia

 

Helfant scopes out new Dimension as sr. exec VP

 

Johnson ankles Regency post

 

Azteca crowns 'Princess'

 

Zee TV to bow digital network

 

Channel 4's FilmFour reels in 100,000 subs

 

Confab honors musical legends

 

D'Works Records taps Walker urban arm's G.M.

 

Joel Lawrence

 

Green/Epstein taps Sattinger

 

Short pulls up at Gotham home

 

Labels OK album downloads

 

World Briefs

 

CNN, Int'l Data Group ink 3-year alliance

 

Peacock's news lock

 

AtomFilm secures Biondi, WB funding

 

Four biggies team for online media delivery

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Cushey comes to Harvey

 

A.E. 'Buck' Houghton Jr.

 

Andrew White

 

Rupe stream-ing

 

Fandango to initiate new chapter in books

 

King World getting 'Scared' overseas

 

Cable stox suffer 'Net pox

 

Peacock beats out Eye web's arsenal

 

Fox orders 3 reality series

 

Paradigm ups agent ranks

 

NBC skeds summer-switch lineup

 

Florida industryites fill confab with optimism

 

Roadshow crowns Krone

 

Film prod'n bills viewed

 

Lechner quits to write book

 

Portland Stage Co. raises coin, stays open

 

TriStar Int'l TV taps Eberts, Davis VPs

 

Virgin Japan bowing plexes

 

EMI's falling note

 

Parents' study blasts TV codes

 

'Juror' unveils unseen O.J. trial scenes

 

Tomei inks to topline in Lonergan's 'Lobby'

 

Eye adding 2nd dose of '48 Hours' weekly

 

Upfront blasts off with WB heat

 

Hollywood fest to salute public faves

 

Jones, Freeman find Bliss

 

Springer affils ?!#$

 

U's 'Bowfinger' pushed to August

 

'Menace' masters market

 

Scorsese, Tyler pin up Bettie Page biopicture

 

Jersey TV taps Landgraf prexy

 

Homes cookin' at CBS

 

Katz & Mouse over Disney assets

 

Connie McCauley

 

John McSweeney Jr.

 

Capshaw 'Loves' producing

 

Lieberman for factoring moral tone in TV license

 

Silents are golden

 

Court TV taking 'Cops' to cable

 

PEN West literary awards honor Roos, nine others

 

Daniel Cooke

 

Edward S. Vance

 

Block sues Morgan Creek

 

Imax takes giant step with o'seas UCI deal

 

Frances's MK2 launches pics, unveils Euro sales

 

Studios USA curtails 'Free Speech' strip

 

Lions sleeps alone

 

Citadel stock falls 5%

 

'Home' wrap gets auds

 

Wahlberg a headbanger?; 'X-Men' gets man

 

A mixed fiscal bag

 

RAI rev up, profit down

 

Nick heads for Africa

 

Cinema Expo fetes filmmaker Parker

 

Fox ups sales vet Mulcahy

 

RIAA spring vet Lewis to media post

 

AFI student wins first ASC prize

 

UPN's Passarella to top Multi-Video marketing

 

Abrams, Disney ink deal

 

Assembly hurries bills to stop runaway prod'n

 

B.O. turns 'Menace'-ing

 

Just for Laughs fest set for July

 

Shop At Home offers up stox

 

Sky satcaster posts 14% hike in Latino auds

 

Larry Markes

 

Charter buys Falcon, still lags in clusters

 

'ET' all Par TV's now

 

Spain to bow Screenings confab

 

TV Azteca buys into telco; stock falls

 

MTV Awards returns to N.Y. to rock the Met

 

Independent declares Henry

 

TNT buys Unapix horror pix

 

Soundtracks garner slot at Grammys

 

Katzenberg cracks wise at promo group's confab

 

NewStar buys overseas rights for 1st telepic deal

 

MTV docu to detail '90s movie 'Moments'

 

Presenter SFX is on Pace for Livent

 

Vegas rocks, runs for charity

 

Lucille Vore

 

Reviews

A Lesson Before Dying

Michael Landon, the Father I Knew

The Jesse Ventura Story

Barnum's Kaleidoscape

Collected Stories

The Love Letter

The Thirteenth Floor

Michael Landon, the Father I Knew

The Jesse Ventura Story

Moloch

Kikujiro

The Courtyard

Our Happy Lives

Who Plucked The Feathers Off The Moon?

Strange Fits of Passion

Summer of Sam

The Last Dance

A One and a Two ...

Private Lives

Fly Girls

Cranberries

The Straight Story

Dogma

Rosetta

The Author's Voice/Imagining Brad

This Lime Tree Bower

The Courtyard

My Best Fiend

Out of Depth

Swing

South

The Cup

The Passengers

Cannibal! the Musical

Felicia's Journey

Time Regained

Art, Politics Rock '30s-Era 'Cradle'; Cradle Will Rock

Our Happy Lives

Accelerator

The Limey - Soderbergh's Artistic Meller

Rose's

Dogma - Smith Swings Oddly at Religion

God's Wedding

The Straight Story

No One Writes to the Colonel

Kikujiro

Deterrence

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Charles Lloyd

Home Improvement: The Long and Winding Road, Parts II and III; Backstage Pass

Reefer Madness!

The Illusion

The King Of Masks

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Wilco

Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales

Inherit the Wind

Goodnight Mr. Tom

Jacky Terrasson

Seal; Joan Jones

Cherry

My Life So Far

Be There or Be Square



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