Table of Contents
Week of 09/10/1999

Articles

Czech broadcaster folds, lays off 215

 

Almodovar garners Fipresci top prive

 

Mullan to wear 'Kingdom' crown

 

Deauville fetes 25 years

 

ONdigital scores

 

'Samson' opens opera season, Rosh Hashanah

 

EM.TV sells shows to pair of Swiss channels

 

Guber, Schaeffer join Iwerks board

 

Sony preps megacomplex

 

AT&T still on hold

 

France Telecom, Lyonnaise ink deal

 

TNT's 'Nitro' adds cartoon seg

 

Hill tops MTV awards, takes home four nods

 

Howard hot on 'Biography'

 

Players

 

Miramax, Tornatore partner on Italo film

 

Harris back in action

 

U.S. distrib bows with Latin beat

 

Bullock, WB reup prod'n agreement

 

Family TV programs honored

 

All eyes on Egoyan

 

Good golly: NBC sets Richard biopic

 

Inside Moves

 

'90210,' 'Real' sluggish

 

50 workers at KCAL-9 to join IBEW

 

Warners 'Arrested' by Maryland script

 

Mischer tapped for Olympics ceremonies

 

Vet thesps voice 'Rugrats'

 

D'Works in turnaround

 

McConaughey eyes 'Red' for Paramount

 

Showtime slate of 7

 

PBS prexy Duggan ankles

 

Alexie to helm novel at Miramax

 

Touchstone's tap dance

 

PBS tops news-doc Emmys

 

Shooting Gallery subsid to rent out Miami space

 

Noms out for Parks Awards

 

Nulman ankles CEO post with Just for Laughs fest

 

CTW taps vet Knell prez/CEO

 

Oscar home in Back Row

 

'American Beauty' is belle of ball

 

'Phantom' fantastic

 

'Menace' passes $100 mil in Japan

 

Hoyts names Johnson CEO

 

Loews plexing up Vienna, Budapest

 

Beatty as prez: Hollywood habits die hard

 

Sony's Family grows by 5 in development

 

Argentine 'Net firm launches U.S. sites

 

'Beauty' and the buzz

 

Deauville fetes 'Malkovich'

 

Panel OKs prod'n tax credit

 

Fox pulls 'You' from fall

 

MTV kudocast breaks cablers ratings record

 

Alliance Atlantis grabs Canuck helmers' pics

 

D'Andrea joins Bender Band

 

WB puts Hackford's 'Life' on fast track

 

Exec exits the ring

 

UPN signs affil pacts; Trib reups with the WB

 

ShowBiz Expo starts this week

 

Silver Cinemas taps Hohl

 

Web site goes to market

 

MGM begins push to sell new stock

 

In Demand for PPV

 

WB's 'Pokemon' pulls in kids

 

MGM visits 'Purgatory' with Voll

 

SAG opposition slate set

 

'Stigmata' bleeds B.O.

 

The mechanics of MS fund-raising

 

Chinese best at Venice fest

 

Variety Cups cap summer

 

Singing 'Dalila's' praises

 

Intertainment, Fox ink distrib alliance

 

Crushing arrivals get gong

 

Kelley double play historic, rewarding

 

Big winners lament TV's white ways

 

Backstage Notes

 

Kelley's legal eagles soar

 

Sony plays through

 

Village profits sink 60% for fiscal year

 

McCain bill raises O&O cap to 50%

 

SFX buys Swedish promoter

 

Diller stock sale worth $24 million

 

O'seas B.O. upswing

 

Bening, Beatty expecting child No. 4

 

Clan plan for Marley bio; fright pix resurrected

 

Malaysia satcaster subs rise

 

Oz org, music biz at odds

 

Widescreen festival fetes Brit pix

 

'Cup' to begin VIFF

 

World Brief

 

South African toon confab to kickoff

 

Telfonica Media taps Rios as prexy

 

'Traffic' cops day

 

Scripters in Ferrari achieve Destination

 

'Ryan' digs in for digital

 

'Giant' campaigning

 

3 short-lived sitcoms get new USA life

 

Netter taps Fukuto as sr. VP

 

'Beisbol' good for Unapix

 

Univision taps NHL's Solomon

 

Quinn, Harris play Paul, John for VH1

 

Watchdogs bark at Murdoch

 

'Mysteries' duo pact with USA TV

 

USA Films takes '59' rights

 

AFMA sets 1st confab on indie finance/production

 

Fine Line comes to its 'Senses'

 

Blackwatch sets up prod'n/distrib fund

 

Disney parking in Hong Kong?

 

CBS, Nava plan Latino dramedy

 

Kickoff classic

 

Two scribes strike it big

 

New Line's Al Shapiro dead at 57

 

Lions Gate stakes out Cage pic

 

Emmycast gets youth boost

 

Commentary

 

'Dance' card filling

 

DNA gets greenlight for lottery pic pair

 

ZD said wooing News Corp.

 

Disney Radio feels protest heat

 

Donaldson shifting roles at ABC News

 

Tony dispute heads to arbitration

 

Garofalo to bow Off B'Way

 

Emmy into the night

 

'Sugar' pilot spices NBC

 

US goes weekly: charts, graphs, editors...

 

'Epic' fails to stem B'Way B.O. dip

 

Star power drives Williams marathon

 

Fox target of Bochco 'Blue' suit

 

WMA prince of pix

 

Beyond posts $1.9 mil loss

 

Oz's Cinema Plus puts faith in Rochester

 

Hoffman exec director for U Home Video marketing

 

TW digital domain

 

Star TV ups Askew to exec veep

 

Oz's Becker posts annual loss again

 

Nat'l Geo taps O'Loan in interim

 

TW may sell CanalSatellite stake even as profit nears

 

Oz's Seven Network will cut 150 jobs

 

UIP scores with EC

 

Viewpoint taps Lundberg

 

Hurricane flushes cast from 'Safe Harbor'

 

Scribes enter Icon's 'Room'

 

Baseball biopic finds home

 

Oxygen inhales attorney Mills

 

Vitale tapped to helm 'Mean Men'

 

Floyd forces Disney to close

 

Asian groups join TV protests

 

Foster to be feted by Cinematheque

 

Syndie ratings run

 

Olsen twins in for vidgames

 

SAG posts list of qualified candidates

 

Dvornik dovetails

 

Quoss sr. VP at NewsNet

 

'Sense' producer Mendel shifts shingle to U's lot

 

NBC deal for Brit yakker sends sudser into sunset

 

Col TriStar TV prez Feltheimer ankles

 

ABC discovering Moseley

 

Nets' cap study a preemptive move

 

LeMel worldwide WB music prexy

 

Transition to digital TV an expensive joke

 

Patton in grid pic; Parker warms up

 

Film Roman on 'Patrol'

 

Sarkissian's Disney suit going to trial

 

Producer Daly, Tolner form high-tech distrib

 

KW delays Eye vote for closer look

 

Studios USA Strums up biz

 

Kudocasts, football drive week

 

Studios USA Strums up biz

 

Alliance Atlantis starts kids' label

 

WB promotes Whitney to sr. VP of pix advertising

 

Crescent Moon rising

 

Carsey-Werner hires distrib prez

 

Lion stalks pix pack

 

Hurd eyes Eureka prod'n deal

 

ABC pilots 'Blue Dress' black detective skein

 

Hearst ups Shriver to VP, head of communications

 

Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul

 

Brian Wayne Peterson

 

Pamela Gray

 

Elizabeth Hunter

 

Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi

 

Karen Janszen

 

Charlie Kaufman

 

Victoria Strouse

 

Fatima Jebli Ouazzani

 

Gavin O'Connor & Angela Shelton

 

Ten scribes to watch

 

Reel.com taps DeRuiter VP

 

General Cinema closes L.A., Chicago offices

 

NBC, ValueVision Snap up new handle

 

GOP hears net cry

 

MGM, Woo woo Cage for WWII buddy film

 

Harry Crane

 

'Beauty' gets high scores in college

 

Spanish buy for U

 

An 'American' kickoff for London Film Fest

 

U ups Sucherman

 

WB TV Animation shuffles exex

 

Siegel's promotion adds to his portfolio

 

Dixie Chicks rule roost for second week

 

Esicma swaps toppers as Spanish fest starts

 

Fox shuffles 'X-Men' and 'Anna'

 

Viacom vs. vagaries

 

Emmett/Furla holds Hopper for 'Ransom'

 

Canal Plus enters U.S. interactive TV market

 

Players

 

LeMasters signs up with Replay as CEO

 

Diller will Hawk WHOT in Atlanta

 

Pilots fly high

 

Variety ups Dunn, Roche

 

Studios USA taps into vid

 

East Coast biz floored by Floyd

 

Capturing 'Hogan's'

 

Fine Line caught up in 'Affair'

 

Cuaron gets drafted for 'War' duties

 

Tapestry teams with Intermedia

 

Launch of revamped set boosts 'GMA' in ratings

 

Stern's 'Doomsday' toon dawns at UPN

 

Spanish in Toronto

 

Howitt monopolizes MGM's 'Anti-Trust'

 

Fox punches up Ali bio

 

Film Forum gets a facelift

 

TW to rev up 'net access

 

TM3 scores with soccer b'cast

 

Viennale will fete O'Hara

 

Docu spotlights wag behind stars' gags

 

BAFTA-LA kudos for 4

 

'Streak's' arresting L.A. bow

 

Barnet ankles as Cahners prexy/CEO

 

Ruth Roman

 

Reviews

Hope Island

P.T. Barnum

Crazy in Alabama

Samson et Dalila

Love Stinks

Stigmata

Big Band Alumni All-Stars; Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra

For Love of the Game

Hope Island

P.T. Barnum

Samson et Dalila

Quartet

Henry V

Glenn

Julien Donkey-Boy

Sweet and Lowdown

Happy End

Jakob the Liar

The Last Yellow

Serpent's Path

Music of the Heart

After the Truth

Seventeen Years

I Could Read the Sky

The Wind Will Carry Us

Shower

Me Myself I

Holy Smoke - 'Smoke' Signals Return to Early Style

Snow Falling on Cedars

Greed - Mutilated Masterpiece Gets the Loving Touch

Judging Amy

Snow Falling on Cedars

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Janis Siegel

Barry Manilow

Ride With the Devil

The Old Man and the Sea

The 1999 MTV Video Music Awards

Fight Club

Mumford

American Beauty

The Elixir of Love

Hit It, Don!

Lies

Iguanas; Dave Alvin

Mighty Mo Rodgers

Which Side Eden

The 51st Primetime Emmy Awards

Jesus' Son

Seventeen Years

Properties of Silence

The Third Miracle

Action

Gilberto Gil; Waldemar Bastos; Fantcha

Barenaked in America

No Scandal

New Waterford Girl

Forever Mine

The Best Man

Sunshine

Eye of the Beholder

Julien Donkey-Boy

The Venice Project

Simpatico

Miss Julie

Black and White

Ladies Man

Sealed With a Kiss

Family Law

Iggy Pop

A Slight Case of Murder

Judging Amy


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