Table of Contents
Week of 06/18/1999

Articles

Kubrick 'Memoir' shocks Spielberg

 

McCall upped at Discovery

 

'Man' raise Vary curtain

 

Discovery bulks up with Knowledge TV

 

Goldberg in talks with Glass act

 

AMG unveils TV unit

 

'Buffy' finale set for July

 

'R' for rejected

 

FCC weighs tax breaks to diversify telecoms

 

Buyback ups Stokes' Seven control

 

Bennett inks as prexy of Maverick Records

 

SFX to peddle tix online

 

News' book bagged

 

Character to toon 'Lizard'

 

Digital 'Menace' unveiled

 

Gray makes a 'Night' of Broadway

 

McElwaine named Trilogy Ent. prexy

 

Investors light $5 million equity fire under Ignite

 

Fox high on Hill, new sports TV czar

 

Fields hits back in Disney trial

 

Scour teams on Web music

 

Knicks, NBC slow starters in Finals

 

$17 mil hoop rebate

 

Labor board OKs union for DIC artists

 

Miramax 'Drowning' Craven

 

Bening will address UCLA grads

 

$10 mil puts Lawrence on 'Spot' for Warners

 

Eye's 'West' window gives $6 mil deja vu

 

Snider, Mulligan tapped U co-chairs

 

Bunny boss biopic set

 

Lyons inks first-look deal at New Line

 

'Terrasse' eyeing B'way

 

Glowacki nabs Nantucket win

 

'Rose' blooms as Munich goes Latin

 

'Lola' runs up German Film kudos

 

Medien Forum closes with eye to int'l future

 

Mary Campbell

 

Int'l trio back 'Bay' skein

 

Latin pix fot Munich fest

 

Players

 

Canucks jump on board for story summit

 

S. Africa taps new minister

 

Pandora, BBC Films raise Elton's 'Baby'

 

Flying and spying

 

Tomy's 'Phantom' goods to find rival in 'Monsters'

 

India Net, U.K. webs in talks

 

World Briefs

 

Bunny lovers to get lucky with Playboy's first expo

 

Ungerman eyes UPN post

 

Antioco's Blockbuster bucks

 

NABET nabs net pact

 

BV, Malone in pay 'Sync'

 

Johansen given reins over 'Martin Short'

 

Yahoo! tunes to Launch news

 

Sony Imageworks taps f/xers Legato, Thomas

 

Matheny upped by WB

 

Hollywood Festival to fete Caan

 

Eiseman taped museum curator

 

Big buys Kagan pic, TV online database

 

ABC 'Talks' to Sedgwick

 

Stiller inks New Line pact

 

Spec does 'Double Take,' sees Disney

 

Midem beats drum

 

Lewis opens Spielberg house

 

'Tarzan' well-swung at B.O.

 

Paquin suits up for Singer's 'X' team

 

BMI honors Santander

 

Feuerstein on 'Top' with Fox

 

MPH tapd Gerard veep

 

Horrormeister King hurt in mishap on maine road

 

Miramax ups Granata

 

Work team may ankle Sony Music

 

Valenti, guilds talk strategy

 

ABC extends 'Incorrect' run

 

His art belongs to 'Daddy'

 

TPS, Canal vie for soccer

 

Seventh Art cops 'Creature'

 

Intertainment stock up with WB distribution deal

 

Barwood options love with 'Romeo' rights

 

Disgruntled writer wants day in court

 

Atom-sized films get sizable launch

 

Clein ups Lillard to veep

 

Digital hits road in Mexican trucks

 

Galanti gets new U post

 

Inside Move

 

Hot seat avoided at 'Park' preem

 

Village will 'Turn'

 

Court denies Shandling request to defer trial

 

Astaire widow heirs view on bill

 

Gandolfini gets raise

 

Ottman adds helming to other duties

 

'Powers' flouts the rules -- and wins

 

Joan White

 

Jan Jaffe Kahn

 

Howard R. Cohen

 

Ray M. Stanfield

 

Clifton Fadiman

 

Yentob falls back

 

Technicolor adds to vid

 

CLT/Ufa applies for German digital rights

 

20th TV ups Euro chief

 

CIE hikes Argentine stake

 

Tucker in Oval Office; 'Rock' rocks pirates

 

Carey pulls strings for 'Gepetto'

 

EMI pours on liquid

 

Dream-beam deal

 

Canwest founder ups son

 

Supreme Court to review Playboy blocking law

 

Bernstein nabs 'Music' rights

 

No rebound for NBC

 

DeVorzon new S.B. Fest prez

 

Dekom joins Trimark board

 

USA taps Becker PR director

 

Sony Online ups Tice to sr. VP

 

EMI Music taps Faxon

 

Brokaw inks deal for next 'Generation'

 

Hollywood screen saver

 

Skywalker sound gains Kiser

 

E! inks deal with Tel-Ad for Middle East channel

 

Florida Fest doubles kudos

 

USA's write stuff

 

Inside Move

 

U high on Low to head studio's online efforts

 

Mouse dwarfs toons, sez exec

 

U, Par renew vows as MGM quits UIP

 

Henner heads to 'Chicago'

 

'Ripley's' taps Nelson as exec producer

 

CAA, Idealab! ink online pact

 

iFilm Web site to offer filmmaker's eye view

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Lion fills Fox den

 

Cusack, Allen check into 'Pierre'

 

O'seas B.O. slump casts pall on Expo

 

Miramax puffs Rice

 

AOL links up to DirecTV in $1.5 bil deal

 

Sparks stirs up 'Soup' for E!

 

School to honor Reisenbach

 

Femme Fest entries due

 

Caan, Lewis, Diggs in pic

 

UMG settles Phillips' lawsuit

 

'Music' house swells as Broadway burns

 

'Gepetto' re-strings classic tale

 

Saverio Lomedico

 

Ray M. Stanfield

 

Lynne Rae Kieser Stoutenborough

 

4 million households log onto TNT's 'Pirates' preem

 

Royals aid in MSNBC rates win

 

Focusing on affils

 

S3 acquires Rio-maker Diamond in stock swap

 

DT selling cable systems

 

Discovery names 2 for int'l co-prexies

 

MacMillan will chair Int'l Emmy Awards

 

BOL booked solid for Bertelsmann

 

Technicolor expands with international buys

 

Win in Knick of time

 

Teutonic TV group Viva may go public

 

Udell puts 'Self' on shelf

 

Sky PerfecTV to bow 2-way vid signals

 

BBC Worldwide sales up as Tubbies bubble on

 

Gallic soccer bidding reboots for Canal, TPS

 

UIP plans future

 

Slovak fest unspools

 

Haimovitz set to roar MGM cable venture

 

It's a jungle out there

 

Behaviour alters focus, cuts 10

 

Alpert, Moss eye U lawsuit

 

Shandling claims get new life

 

De la Hoya enters music ring

 

Industry taps Spinks COO

 

Addica, Oil will go to the 'Gutter'

 

Harris blooms for 'Roses'

 

Kubrick friend gives first eyes-wide 'Shut' review

 

U unwraps hefty vid plans for 'Mummy'

 

KCBS say si to Si

 

Panel protects rights of child actors and dead

 

Judge orders Singleton to make short

 

Viva el classic pix: TCM bows in Spain

 

Four Media adds on DSP for $7.2 million

 

Hopkins to narrate Siegfried & Roy pic

 

H'wood fest to fete Lemmon

 

'Net static starts to ring in radio moguls' ears

 

Brandt's 'Sugar' rush

 

Musicland pacts online with laff web

 

B.O. record broken

 

Col TriStar TV taps Askanas

 

I/D'S Bush taps PR execs

 

Players

 

Stern files countersuit

 

CBS boosts McClintock

 

Sarandon, Neeson among celebs on benefit roster

 

TBS snags 'Shagged' and Fox may be next

 

Downey reprise: Admits drug use, returns to jail

 

RKO taps Marko for TV VP

 

L-Squared encircles big pic pact

 

Ecco to publish Oates' 'Blonde'

 

MGM gets spring fever

 

Lopez after 'Angel'; Kumble surfs the Web

 

Senator looks west

 

Humanitas noms set for 25th anni show

 

BET Movies fest to bow 7 pix

 

Lifetime's pic trio

 

Ten join Tony committee

 

Rees keeps 'Lark' low-budget, local

 

World Briefs

 

Public, lawmakers seek to get word out on v-chip

 

Bravo ups Hensen, others

 

Auction house buy if a Brilliant move

 

Bugs hopping to 3D

 

'Sexo' spices Mexican B.O.

 

Hong Kong fest gets to heart of biz slump

 

B'caster corruption alleged by Indian prod'n company

 

'Gasoleros' tops TV's Fierros

 

ProSieben gets OK for news channel

 

Oscar must wait

 

Viva la musica!

 

Mouse, Mann and DiCaprio pact

 

Metafilmics options TV rights to Orloff's 'Sight'

 

Granada Ent. plants Root as sr. VP in L.A.

 

Columbia taps Zucker global distrib exec VP

 

'Homicide' life on the net may rise

 

Singh praised by Sony

 

Warner Bros. publicity ups Clinton to VP

 

Inside Moves

 

Trial eyes price of vids in China

 

Mario Soldati

 

Tech Emmys engineered

 

Ten Percenteries

 

Summer 'Thanks' to Eye

 

Boys' 'Millennium' top disc for 5th week

 

McCanlies will Ignite the 'Night'

 

'Springer' rebounds

 

History ventures into 'Summer'

 

Harvey adds bodies

 

Miramax, BGE ink film deal

 

Hindes picked pix editor

 

O'Brien tops prod'n unit for Peacock

 

Int'l house of Mouse

 

Francine Everett

 

Terry Gill

 

Reviews

Wiped-Out Footprints

Cibo Matto

Sons and Daughters: A Father's Day Trilogy

Heart

Big Daddy

Sons and Daughters: A Father's Day Trilogy

A Hotel Room in the Town of Nn

Angelique

Boston Marriage

On the Twentieth Century

Hay Fever

Dracula

Wonderland

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Tamaro: Stones and Angels. Mario Botta and Enzo Cucchi

Hand of Fate

The Journey to Paris

Requiem for a Romantic Woman

Lisbon

Havana Quartet

Bingo: The Documentary

The Creator

Mumu

Watani: A World Without Evil

Spank!

The Accident

The Sex Monster

Shadow Boxers

Avalanche

The Wizard of Oz

Kick

Paul Simon; Bob Dylan

KROQ Weenie Roast

Measure for Measure

The Ramainz

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Boys of Mariel

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

Dave Brubeck

Three Fish


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