Table of Contents
Week of 07/30/1999

Articles

Online restriction

 

Wink opens Fox's eyes to interactivity

 

Trimark taps Lorie VP

 

Brit Telecom to host video on demand

 

FX dials up DirecTV

 

Lions Gate reveals mixed bag for year

 

Low attendance hits Gaumont profits

 

Televisa fortunes wax while TV Azteca wanes

 

Dances welcomes 'Visitors'

 

U wraps deal for 'Mummy 2'

 

'Sea's' B.O. takes bite out of 'Haunting'

 

Luketic to walk a 'Mile'

 

New Line ups Prokop, snags Rysher's Shapiro

 

Hurd hears Craney's 'Whisper'

 

Inside Move

 

A comic Dimension

 

Oz's Media Services inks pacts with Packer units

 

Guest Column: Matt Stone

 

Zomba tunes in to success

 

Dimension 'Screams' again

 

Eye to launch 'Amy' in 'Angel' timeslot

 

NBC laffer surgery

 

CTV appoints Vale as VP

 

Kris and Foxx to play cat and mouse in 'Bait'

 

Levin scores Arena Football League team

 

Unapix gets $40 mil boost

 

USA kickin' assets

 

Reiser nuances deal with Col TriStar TV

 

Tyro helmers highlight Venice Festival slate

 

NBC to contact NAACP

 

Exec Shuffle

 

FX scares up first window for 'Witch'

 

Forstmann in 'Boys' lineup

 

Belafonte is 'Somebody' for NetAid

 

Austin honoring Brooks

 

Uncle Miltie sues over use of photo

 

Pols in prod'n report spat

 

'Boy' to hit Off B'way

 

Outdoor Life rides on Tour

 

Stonesifer to Eye board

 

Slate to fete Ulmer films

 

'Matrix' on market

 

Players

 

MTV moron-a-thon bows 'Beavis'

 

Urban Media establishes 'Net niche for black pics

 

Dimension 'Sunburned'

 

Seagram ups Gerson to veep

 

New Line kicks soccer pitch into goal

 

Penn, Polley weigh 'Water' for Bigelow

 

Variety on air with United

 

Martin's rise elevates other Latin crooners

 

'Runaway' tops record weekend

 

Fraser joins 'Wedding'

 

'Blair,' 'Bride' bewitch B.O.

 

Peace Arch raises $3.75 million in IPO

 

Maigret to develop for Centropolis

 

Century cuts net loss

 

Liberty buys stakes in 2 post houses

 

Emmis aiming for 'Net radio

 

Along for the ride

 

WB casting blacklist pic

 

Virus, germs and scamps on tap from indie Promark

 

Inside Move

 

Keitel leaves Morris for UTA

 

Bowser snags pilot orders for 2000-01

 

Monica will wing it with TV's 'Angel'

 

Bad timing for Wolf

 

Stokes takes charge at Seven as Mounter ankles

 

M6 revs, auds soar for first half of year

 

Bad timing for Wolf

 

Lasoff oversee Lee's future

 

KCET nabs Paltrow, coin for teleplays

 

Seiden takes expertise in f/x to new Cyclotron

 

'Stars' over rookies

 

CBS Telenoticias files for bankruptcy protection

 

Coalition preparing H'w'd protest march

 

Kinowelt takes stake in Alliance Atlantis

 

Auction to save archives

 

Stone unspools school

 

That's a wrap

 

Dial M for the master

 

Japan's Glay plays to 200K

 

Palm Springs Film Fest fetes Griffith's 'Tulip'

 

WGA adds vet scribes to residuals committee

 

Oren logs on at Disney

 

Auds say 'da' to 21st Moscow Fest

 

Russo producers honored

 

Kirch partners buy in

 

Brit blurbs on Web jump to $30.5 mil

 

That's a wrap

 

Meyer rises higher at WB

 

WB looking to Meyer, Horn

 

2 click at Sony Online

 

Digital set-topper TiVo taps exex

 

Rentrak on track for int'l distrib'n

 

Scour.net adds online radio

 

Fox tools tyke tack

 

Pearson profits, sales rise

 

Nelvana, PBS pact for Saturday toon block

 

ITV scores BBC's Lynam

 

BBC mulls fee, privatization to pay for digital expansion

 

Vet Minoli ankles Italo pubcaster RAI

 

Gaumont sheds TV

 

Harry 'Sweets' Edison

 

Thesp, agent had brush with murderer

 

Bolshoi leaps in to Vegas

 

Gephardt, other Dems to huddle with industry

 

DGA will screen pic by Mouse VP Weis

 

O'seas 'Wide' & 'Wild'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Study by numbers

 

'Friends' Greenstein signs deal with NBC

 

Time-tested team

 

NBC'S Olympian deal

 

This Gun for Hire loads up ad vid arsenal

 

Pic fund insures parents

 

Rudin counts 'Hours'; McTiernan high on Leo

 

Friedman to top 'Jeopardy!'

 

Tyro filmmakers ink 3-Dimension pact

 

U.S. pix help revive Italy's Taormina fest

 

Thompson 'Nets 'ScottLand' skein

 

Parsons looks like music man

 

July pix melt B.O. records with $917 mil

 

B'casters seek digital TV standard from FCC

 

Eye on roll as Infinity, TV revs rise

 

VH1 ups Lipsitz to series veep

 

Broadway B.O. holds to even keel

 

New investors boost HK's Golden Harvest

 

Acme TV sets $115 million IPO

 

Victory's first outing will be kiddie series for PBS

 

A-list talent voicing Col 'Fantasy' toon

 

Embrace 'Net or die

 

Talk is talk of the town, but what next?

 

Ex-WMA agent Gruber returns with CAA post

 

Players

 

Croncota joins E! as senior VP

 

IFP mag hire

 

Marguerite Cullman

 

John W. Rogers

 

Lisa Hill Schlonsky

 

Morgan Williams

 

Trudi Schoop

 

George Eugene Turner

 

Jack Wilson

 

Training on 'Station'

 

Training on 'Station'

 

Discovery taps Rodriguez sr. VP

 

Icon, WB ink homevid deal

 

Japanese 'Beast' hits Beijing stage

 

Aakeroy tapped SBS program director

 

HAL hails tyro helmer Cousins for comedy

 

Japan Advertisers probe blurb-skipping scandal

 

U.K. Channel 4 lands Discovery 'Shark' spec

 

'Planet' survives meteor shower of problems

 

Magazine Review

 

Studios will start using 'Net, sez Berg

 

McCain seeks sat bill blend

 

Street fighting men

 

SFX invades Europe with Apollo buy

 

H'wood Ent. cuts losses

 

Toronto adds preem pair

 

Crix nix pic friction

 

NBC leads primetime; Fox follows

 

Trimark Webbing up

 

Emmy Watch

 

Canning attains 'Stardom'

 

ValueVision shopper web taps NBC exec Goldfarb

 

Fox ups legal eagle Breslow

 

EC greenlights Euro venture Eureka

 

Carter tops Canton TV

 

Walker may journey into 'Squelch' role

 

NBC hit-switching

 

Janet Burrows-Tapia

 

Kirch takes CWL Telesport

 

Court: FCC policy vague on TV editorial responses

 

IRS OKs tax-free sale of B'buster

 

Weller, Scheider fall into spy pic

 

Fox's footage feud

 

Exec Shuffle

 

MGM Home Ent. sets sales under Davidow and Pollan

 

Thelen Reid taps Doner

 

TV Guide to start Spanish insertion

 

Cinderella story

 

Talk's party a freebie

 

Rock in role for WB toon 'Osmosis'

 

IFC aims digital lens at 10 low-budget pix

 

Pollack to head west with HBO

 

Gibson, Li reteam for a TV skein

 

Voting blocked

 

Toast is Talk of the town

 

TW taps tech exec

 

TW taps tech exec

 

Ruth Enders Tripp

 

Howard Portugais

 

Richard M. Pack

 

James Newman

 

Music biz drops effort to block MP3 Rio

 

Traffic and ads boost Westwood One income

 

Showtime taps McMillan sr. VP

 

USA Networks ups Clark to VP

 

TW taps tech exec

 

Thesps line up in 'Wings'

 

Virtual Celebrity nabs animation trio

 

Sinatra family may sue 'Rat Pack'

 

Seventh eyes 'Needles' for vid helmer Christian

 

Univision to mine Gems

 

TF1 takes in $969.4 mil in 1st half

 

Local pic may sink ship

 

Fox Latin inks ad deal

 

BBC Worldwide gets Gardner archive

 

Parker chairs Film Council

 

Keystone gets new directors

 

Photog turns camera on lensers for exhib

 

McConaughey up the Creek; HBO's 'Trinity'

 

August, Bale topline 'Mary'

 

JFK Jr. coverage boosts 'ET'

 

Int'l DVDs force release speedup

 

Martin to sing for Telemundo

 

Players

 

Weller says WTO should fight flight

 

'Giant' response draws online redux

 

L.A. outlook sound

 

ABC, WB set fall premiere dates

 

Hyde Park splits pix with Disney, MGM

 

Tenenbaum spinout

 

Fox catches kudos wave

 

'Iron Giant' takes whammo, concrete steps

 

'Strange' days for Viviano, Moritz at Sony

 

ABCNews.com taps Gershon

 

Elton spec on A&E

 

Music biz drops effort to block MP3 Rio

 

'Tales,' 'PJs' win Emmys

 

Fox Family cries 'Wolf' for 1st series renewal

 

TV to untighten

 

TNT bullish about Wall Street skein

 

Turnaround paving roads to success

 

'Jurassic' redux

 

Cable gets its first Q

 

Martinson upped to sr. VP at Nick

 

WB wheels promo deal with GM

 

'Rainbow' reels in new casting

 

Off B'way duo sets skeds

 

Signature signs up Fornes

 

Reviews

Moby Dick -- Rehearsed

Look Back in Anger

The Merchant of Venice

Chasing Monsters

Peggy Sue Got Married

Voices in the Dark

A Raisin in the Sun

First on the Rope

The Height of the Sky

Deep Blue Sea

The Sixth Sense

Wildfire: Feel the Heat

Kusah Hakwaan

The Ring

Screenplay

The Murder in China Basin

Dick - D.C. Follies: Kicky 'Dick' Pic Clicks

Not Afraid to Say ...

Whitney Houston

Thanks

Kenny Garrett

The Sixth Sense

Mystery Men

Iron Maiden

Allman Brothers Band

Wildfire: Feel the Heat

The Height of the Sky

Screenplay

The Murder in China Basin

Not Afraid to Say ...

Don't Look Behind You


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