Table of Contents
Week of 09/24/1999

Articles

Halmi talks tough in autobio

 

Nielsen to track 'Net ratings

 

Three exex upped at Litto Pictures

 

Allen will host USC honor

 

Sega's Dreamcast scores record bow

 

Fox sporting loss in Turner South case

 

German determined

 

Imax ups Ryan to exec VP

 

GC boosts Stolberg to sr. VP

 

AFI plays by 'Rules'

 

Inside move

 

NBA to bow 24-hour net

 

Risher bows femme banner at New Line

 

Williams upped to sr. VP at New Line

 

Spacek preps to sing 'Song'

 

Miramax Intl. taps Lindsay

 

Grey raps up Combs deal

 

'Park' kicks off Chi Fest

 

'Cheaters' attracting trio of thesps

 

Indies taking shape

 

Senate switches plans for culture committee

 

Kids' WB kicks Nick in seasonal launch

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Good sport Schwartz to AMG

 

Mouse ups vet Litvack

 

Richards will return to NBC

 

ABC slots sweeps with 'Millionaire'

 

George C. Scott dies at age 71

 

'Again' & again

 

Peacock web takes 'Wing' in demo fight

 

'Venice' evening coming to Carnegie

 

Digital players map futures

 

Serendipity brings life to 'Splice'

 

World briefs

 

Spain's Tele 5 bows prod'n slate

 

Stream forms division to fill new channels

 

Pusan Asian mart returns

 

Martin to beantown

 

Stokes, Ticketmaster pact for tix arm

 

Kramer, Kelley part

 

Goldwyn to renovate Warners' 'Handyman'

 

Beacon draws Newman into sr. veep role

 

NBC backs rookie dramas

 

Par picks up 'Pickett' pic

 

King takes rights to Heatter gameshows

 

Mergers and acquisitions prime Par for Mipcom '99

 

'Wars' still rages

 

Todd-AO acquires 50% of post facility 103 Estudio

 

Fox taps 'Princess' scribe

 

NFL kicks off online in 3 o'seas markets

 

Fox casts two in veep roles

 

DeAngelis bows prod'n arm

 

OZ pay TV wars to court

 

B.O. goes Judd, thud

 

Music site takes license

 

Sundance fest issues call for pix in 2000

 

ShowEast fetes Jewison

 

Bogner takes TNT VP post

 

DGA unspools Legacy series

 

WB's Labrecque to pay-TV veep

 

Museum council sets board

 

Oscar docs deadline Oct. 1

 

Cormier will rule Riot f/x house

 

Joe Shapiro

 

No place like home

 

Players

 

Col TriStar video ups Alperovich

 

New hits and misses

 

Par snags Davies pitch

 

Col TriStar, Johnson pact for TV deal

 

U.S. TV shows thrive o'seas

 

Annaud to helm 'Enemy'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Germans form toon fund

 

USA Networks taps Galinson, Mauri

 

Netter Digital posts losses, looks ahead

 

Web blurbs in boom

 

DirecTV readies launch of Spanish-lingo U.S. service

 

Hunka hunka stuff

 

'Dog's' bow a wow

 

'Crazy' for a good time

 

'Wasteland' bow is Standard fare

 

Inside moves

 

'Plum' pic suit settled

 

American works missing in action from theater slates

 

Zipprodt memorial set

 

Gauls victorious at San Sebastian

 

Coppola's Zoetrope bows DVD prod'n lab

 

USC skeds First Look fest

 

Marketing pix with eyes wide open

 

Charles Lowe

 

Hank Palmieri

 

David H. Solms

 

Sinise seeing red on 'Mission' shoot

 

Kirch to delay bond issue

 

Eye invests in women's Web site in trade for ads

 

Entries accepted for Prism Awards

 

Yahoo! sets 'Net fest

 

Blockbuster goes wide with DVD push

 

TW's big cash talk

 

Sarandon in 'Baby' talks; lit picks click

 

Reed Midem taps topper

 

RCS turning page

 

SBS, Col TriStar ink deal

 

CBS ups Gray to sr. VP

 

ZTL to buy out Star stakes

 

Brit panel fines MTV for program sponsorship

 

World Briefs

 

Mexico, H'w'd film reps meet on piracy

 

Peacock flying high

 

Mad Ave. marriage

 

Shooting Gallery taking aim at TV

 

Eye on Chen for 'Morning'

 

Golden girl for Intermedia

 

CBS firms on ethnic cop drama

 

Miramax acquires rights to 'Wheel'

 

Fox Interactive taps marketer Nuzzi

 

Schultz bows praisery

 

Sci-Fi picks 'Prey,' fires up 'Brimstone'

 

Standing Ovations

 

Record aud views NBC Ryder Cup broadcast

 

Boxer takes aim at guns

 

Trimark sees net loss despite 15% rev rise

 

Weeklies 'Amazon,' 'Relic' show muscle

 

ABC adds Webcast with Donaldson

 

Inside Move

 

Gartner will leap to Lion

 

Gotham or nothing

 

Players

 

Oscar rules force PBS to sub 'Club'

 

Regent, Moonstone pact

 

U hands 'Pie' guy the moon

 

NBC's Rogers takes post as Primedia CEO

 

Duo tapped to run U inhouse niche unit

 

Previews help push up B'way

 

CEO ankles Mirage Entertainment

 

Unions show B'way 'Spirit'

 

Writers Guild West honors Marshall

 

Tokyo film fest hopes 'Joan of Arc' sizzles

 

Brazil pay TV sees slight rise

 

Col TriStar puts Viva stake on block

 

Latin satcaster Sky refills exec ranks

 

EU to side with BBC

 

Variety TV scribe Katz dies at 33

 

Katzenberg gives $1 mil to MPTF

 

Licensing guru heads to Stan Lee

 

Col TriStar vid ups Shelton to director

 

Moratti ankles News Corp. Euro TV post

 

Edwards named head of D'Works legal unit

 

Eye-ing AOL service

 

Kinowelt buys distrib Jugend

 

'Net maven Patricof bows pic prod'n arm

 

Harvey set to acquire PM

 

Par TV inks Chenoweth

 

Peacock's win kicks off season

 

Daly, Semel to cement H'wood ties

 

Zanucks to produce Oscar show

 

Euro station groups call off merger

 

The green team

 

Inside move

 

NBC doubles 'Today'

 

Douglas, Russo sought for Warners' comedy

 

'Haunting' scares big auds o'seas

 

The Eye turns to D.C. for 'Millennium Gala'

 

Microsoft turned on by TV biz

 

Channing wings to 'West' role

 

AMG, duo to laugh it up

 

ABC wins 3rd qtr. news race

 

Saunders to top APA's feature literary dept.

 

Phoenix inks cast for 'Urban 2'

 

WMA taps Lubin for film

 

Hamptons sets '99 slate

 

Frankenheimer set for ShowEast lifetime nod

 

World Briefs

 

Hills named topper of Just for Laughs

 

Filmopolis buys 'Slaves'

 

USA Bowles over VP for publicity dept.

 

PR maven Klotz ankles CAA for Lauren's Polo

 

No simple answers

 

Phyllis Redstone exits National Amusements

 

IAC expands action

 

Biz, politix mix it up

 

Hicks joins Premiere in post vacated by Aaron

 

L.A. Phil sets 'Dream' fete

 

Combs wants to sink teeth into cyberspace

 

Warners fetes high rollers

 

Santa Monica celebrates Cirque

 

Euro Disney lining up loan for second park

 

Atom bows London digs, Euro short pix Web site

 

Disney's Hong Kong plans may stall

 

Channel 4's U.S. redux

 

A Foxy satcast deal

 

Canadian exhibs exex shuffle VP positions

 

'Zits' set up at U; unpubbed book looking hot

 

'Mother' of a closing

 

Music Center unites two operating orgs

 

WMA, SoftCom ink content deal

 

Slamdance seeks entries

 

Seventh Art gets 'Life'

 

Duke tapped ABC sr. veep

 

News Corp. ups James Murdoch

 

Biz VP Bersch named Fox Interactive prexy

 

SFX adds Lobel as sr. VP

 

DirecTV books plane flight

 

MGM bonds with MTV

 

AMC consolidating

 

D'Works' 'Semper Fi' hits the beach at NBC

 

Reality bites 'Law' format

 

Ethnic casting drops on B'way

 

WMA pinkslips 10 reps

 

Turner nets get 2 New Line pix

 

So-so cable debut for 'Once and Again'

 

A rocky 'Roseanne'

 

'Squares' pegged by CBS stations for 2003 season

 

'Kings' tracks only online

 

Nine Inch Nails hammers top spot

 

Studios USA ups Kantor

 

SFX plays ball with Tellem talent pool

 

Shamieh sets out new shingle

 

Players

 

Reubens game to host 'Jack'

 

Clooney, Lawrence split Maysville

 

'SNL' signs Dratch, sets guest lineup

 

U.K.'s Team plays in Germany

 

NBC set to spike 'Mike'

 

Disney amasses 'Fortune' from vet scribe Contreras

 

Col TriStar TV inks Brand-new pact

 

'Amy' judged a hit

 

Passport to fashion

 

'Three Kings' holding court

 

'Happy' relations

 

H'wood cheers its favorite son

 

Radio City Music Hall will host inaugural benefit gala

 

Almeida sets slate for millennium

 

CTW taps Diaz for licensing

 

Hearst will visit 'House' for A&E

 

Reviews

Fooling with Words

Stefon Harris

Third Watch

Freaks and Geeks

Jack & Jill

Snoops

The Boys from Syracuse

Stefon Harris

Fooling With Words

Chris Cornell

A Song From the Heart

Sirens

Freaks and Geeks

Third Watch

Jack & Jill

Cold Feet

One Man's Hero

The Big Kahuna

Snoops

The Boys From Syracuse

Simon Sez

Diamonds

Mystery, Alaska

Dralion

Goat On Fire & Smiling Fish

Volaverunt

The Children of the Century

Kimberly

Whiteboys

Ally

Cloudstreet

Drums on the Dyke

Furthest from the Sun

Fosse

Morning, Noon and Night

Temporary Help

Faith Prince: Leap of Faith

Carnegie Hall Celebrates Betty Comden and Adolph Green

Work with Me

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick & 'Eyes Wide Shut'

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The Children of the Century

Return of the Idiot

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When the Dead Start Singing

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The Slammer

Shikoku

A Woman of the North

Onegin

Pepe Guindo

Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors

Something More

Mystery, Alaska

Love in the Mirror

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

Goat on Fire & Smiling Fish

Kimberly

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