Table of Contents
Week of 10/22/1999

Articles

Hawaii will see 'Snow'

 

Telewest unveils digital TV platform

 

U.S.' Team hires Lentz as Teutonic division chief

 

Deadline looms for Disney's H.K. pact

 

It's Gray in the U.K.

 

'Sunset,' 'Praise' secure distrib pacts

 

Oz producers forums to have global accent

 

Wiene's complete 'I.N.R.I.' turns up

 

Chairman, prexy of Avid ankle after poor 3rd qtr.

 

TenPercenteries

 

'Tango' shorts a hit on WB's Web site

 

Blur opens new theme park division

 

Coin for copyrights slips through 'Net

 

CBS up in latenight

 

Celebs snap up photos

 

Affluent young adults watch 'Wing'

 

Granada USA taps Hamm as sr. veep, programming

 

Spyglass takes 'Tim' in pitch

 

Viacom's vibrant

 

Meyer Mishkin

 

Rimes tunes up for pic bow

 

Teutons dominate Mifed

 

Seagram Co. in red despite B.O. success

 

HBO punching up pix

 

Roth mulling 'Numbers'

 

'Fight Club' punches mid-week competition

 

Artisan buys 'Damaged' goods from Weston

 

Littleford gets the Big Ticket

 

Herek will helm WB's 'Metal God'

 

De Niro ready to 'Score'

 

McNamara inks MTV deal

 

WB revs tyros' 'Motor'

 

Fox Searchlight ups Lewis to exec veep

 

Inside Move

 

A taxing scenario

 

Studios USA taps Glawatz

 

Opener 'Slidin' among eight U.S. preems at Xeno fest

 

Dutch bank realigns to form entertainment arm

 

Stars, preems fall on Hamptons fest

 

Board tweaks Mag Awards

 

Karen Dare

 

Daniel Patrick Kelley

 

Fun, fear fly high

 

BSkyB close to inking for Premiere stake

 

Feud delays Brazil pay TV launch

 

India's Toonz pilots course to TV, film

 

Wages of Fear

 

Brazil's TVA looking to merge

 

Adhikari net aims to raise $30 mil

 

Canuck prod'n co. Motion Intl. posts profit

 

Dini wins WGA animation nod

 

Sony buys Harckom, Leone's robot pic pitch

 

Col ponies up for pic

 

Cirque, TVA on TV

 

Motion Int'l gets revenues moving

 

Kock upped to VP at NBC

 

M'soft, AT&T deals boost Rogers to solid results

 

Gibgot Tapestry prod'n prexy

 

CBS pink slips 'Work With Me'

 

New Line buys 'Mojo'

 

Filmmakers prove each other's 'Unmaking'

 

'Judy' judged best

 

Niche pic clicks

 

Players

 

Wilder time

 

'Princess' rules

 

AFI opens doors with 'Cider House'

 

Trimark filling 'Stalk' stable

 

Toonsters White, Tippe form firm

 

U.K. holds firm on TV license fee plan

 

KNBC finds more room for 'Health'

 

Paramount taps Ciccone VP for national publicity

 

Top Cow goes online

 

'Blue' funk: Tuesday but not til Jan.

 

Thursday, Friday rookies fail to make Nielsen cut

 

'Timeline': Par can't put it down

 

Horvitz will helm Oscars for 4th year

 

Yanks-Braves a ratings hit

 

Play group offers Brecht

 

Boston fetes Jewish films

 

PBS to ring in new year with int'l celebrations

 

Toon net starts new mag

 

Interlight snags 'Rubicon'

 

BV inks with WB for Czech vid distribution

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'Mrs. World' goes to Jerusalem

 

Henson ups Martell to VP

 

The directing game: It's still a high-wire act

 

New Orleans fest takes it 'Easy,' honors 'Pig'

 

Kirch unit crunch

 

Sodec prez Lampron joins TV5

 

World Briefs

 

UCLA fetes Lodz Film School

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Arte exex miffed at new French law

 

Jugendfilm exec ankles post

 

Ex-Oz feevee exec O'Halloran found dead

 

Brit study bashes TV content quality

 

Demme eyes 'Charade'; Hauer, Harmon hitch up

 

'Sopranos' to visit Italy

 

Yankee dominance dulls Series

 

ABC scoops up back nine of Kelley hour 'Snoops'

 

Greenfield memorial

 

Buena Vista Intl. dominates o'seas b.o.

 

Ex-Sony vet Olafsson is TW Digital vice chair

 

Cyber eviction plan

 

Galan ankles net, brings back banner

 

Discouraging ad sales, low ad rates punish TV Azteca

 

Stox find an Island

 

U taps Wilson VP of real estate finance

 

Levine joins CAA film unit

 

Turner ups Heller to prez of domestic distribution

 

Stream flows in new CEO, chair

 

Smith, Carey will tune up MTV's new 'Week'

 

Fischer reels in top Goldwyn

 

Johnston signs off Conde Nast mast

 

Artisan wedded to 'White'

 

Biz logs on to POP

 

'Blair' bewitches U.K. auds

 

Liberty tunes into radio

 

'Angel' blessed with WB order

 

Players

 

Interlight snags 'Rubicon'

 

Fox axes 'Ryan,' Carter's 'Realm'

 

Vet thesps go 'Mean'

 

Pearson, Endemol talk deals

 

Inside Move

 

Thesps see 'Ghost' coming

 

GTE suit targets AT&T, Comcast

 

Dekel powers to prexy of Saban's consumer range

 

Memorial set for thesp Scott

 

Rupe backs out

 

Telecom giant NTT to enter b'casting field

 

Pleasing Pusan pushes pix

 

Alliance Atlantis' Sports buy OK'd

 

Road romance rolls

 

Ella Mae Morse

 

Fox Kids lists stox

 

Jupiter orbiting to digital capabilities

 

Galaxy buys Brazilian sat pay rights to 3 HBO webs

 

Rent dispute closes Planet

 

Frears to helm BBC's 'Liam'

 

Mifed sees more Asian buyers

 

World Briefs

 

India lifts ban on Pakistan TV

 

Dow Jones industrials index averages in Microsoft, Intel

 

MTV spawns Nick online

 

Acad salutes scribes

 

Got a famous name? House OKs bill to protect it on Web

 

Carey is chirping 'Early Show' song

 

Col names Dick sr. veep

 

Hoyt Axton

 

White celebrates 50th anni in biz

 

TiVo's $20 mil loss hits stocks

 

NBC brings Sanctis to inner sanctum

 

'Bug's Life' gives life to Pixar profits

 

Capital stakes Kirch

 

Babelsberg beats bloc

 

Showtime scores with Tyson tussle

 

Stardust gold nets Newton

 

'Moesha,' 'Felicity' top Shine kudos for sexual health segs

 

Runaway prod'n barely a blip on D.C. radar

 

Tenpercentaries

 

DIC, Disney will toon up

 

Engel pacts with Fox TV

 

Riche & Ludwig's Eagle Cove puts eggs in one rock basket

 

Inside Move

 

Kelley's green

 

'True' to D'Works, Spielberg for $2 mil

 

Egg fostering 'Investigation'

 

Miramax goes ghostal with 'Arcanum' nab

 

Besson reconsiders Gaumont ties

 

Syndie sellers wait for NATPE

 

'Ally' gives Fox hope

 

Cabler TBS has a 'Pretty' good night with Nielsens

 

'Suddenly' swept

 

It's not brain surgery: CBS wants more 'Now'

 

Tarzan set for DVD

 

Fox taps Gingrich, Ferraro for election coverage

 

Motion makes moves on U.S. with Pietri pick

 

Digital Ent. names Ritts chairman

 

H'wood finally opens its arms to McDaniel

 

DirecTV changes Goldberg's duties

 

FXM to fete 'Young Frankenstein'

 

'Minelli' beats 'Beast'

 

New Zealand cinemas sold

 

Festive Hamptons

 

Festive Hamptons

 

'Blair' projects licensing deals

 

Van Arsdale France

 

John Otto

 

Shanghai views Holocaust pics

 

Euro study predicts cable, sat growth

 

Report under fire

 

Brown snatches Wallace

 

'Atlas' mini heads to TNT

 

Series ratings gains slip as Yanks keep winning

 

Rocking pic world

 

Duo create reality-TV shingle

 

Comic Mencia pacts with WB

 

Second 'Super' week for guitarist Santana

 

Scribe Polonsky dies at 88

 

Org backs media-savvy kids

 

AskJeeves.com, Ovitz groups pact on venture

 

Johnson/Burnett taps VP

 

Primedia topper joins amid loss

 

Bertelsmann buys piece of Kadokawa

 

SFX posts rise in rev, cash flow

 

Special Mouse move

 

Honor has Donen singin' in Rome

 

Alchymie picks Southworth to top U.K. distribution arm

 

Thoma to aid Cinerenta pix

 

World Briefs

 

Rookie helmer Alberts nabs top Viennale prizes

 

Hoffman on the 'Radio'; Col deal for Cohen

 

Fox feels 'Tender' for Fitzgerald redo

 

Middle Fork, TSG team

 

Jewel's debut reaches gem of milestone

 

Yen zaps Sony's Zen

 

DW-Aardman pact drawn

 

Daly's a Dodger

 

Drawing up a deal

 

Inside Move

 

Disney Studios ups Moore

 

Richter adding 'Women' to life after 'Late Night'

 

MTV toon will get plenty of Hype

 

Leed ankles as prexy of Wind Dancer

 

Film Roman to produce series for WB

 

Arquette inks for trio of pix

 

AFI tries to become 'Legend'

 

Fans bite for Tyson

 

Hachette buys other half of 'George' mag

 

Four student helmers receive DGA honors

 

Artisan boosts library

 

Weintraub takes ride on spec 'Love Truck'

 

Stuff taps Hollywood

 

Stuff taps Hollywood

 

Rosen to Ignite literary division

 

Frattaroli ties to Tucci with USA-based banner

 

Legit lawsuit looms

 

Big ratings make Lifetime's 'Day'

 

Jolson sings again

 

French 'East' sent to Acad

 

Searchlight ups Fragner

 

Reviews

Crimes of the Heart

Laurie Anderson: Songs And Stories From Moby Dick

Butterfly Collectors

Louis Prima The Wildest!

Saturday Night Fever

Bats

Louis Prima the Wildest!

Y2K: The Winter of Our Disconnect

Live

Time of Your Life

The Lion King (Lyceum Theater)

Ancestral Voices

Barefoot Boy with Shoes on

Look Back in Anger

Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song

Mozart!

Some Explicit Polaroids

The Odyssey

Company

O. Henry's Lovers

The Life of Galileo

The Newcomer

Mister Federmann

Dreams in the Middle of the World

Slow Fade

The Kite

The Crossing

Cremaster 2

Fanny and Elvis

The Intruder

Face to Face

Milk

Jaime

Park

The Sterling Chase

Swamp!

An Unusual Love

Where the Sky Meets the Land

Kaputt Mundi

Fans

Louis Prima:the Wildest!

Don't Breathe ...Love Is in the Air

The Anto War

Looking for an Echo

Original Diner Guys

The Knot

Lost Lover

Tuvalu

Uninvited

A Bench in the Park

A Pure Moment of Rock 'N' Roll

My Treasure

Ladies Room

Under Hellgate Bridge

Y2k: The Winter of Our Disconnect

Time of Your Life

The Staples Center

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang

Vanity Fair

Investigative Reports: The Junkie Next Door: Women and Heroin

The Memorandum

Sweetheart

Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Secret Affair

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Random Hearts

Thicker Than Water

Sting

Lost for Words

Roger Corman's The Phantom Eye

Roger Corman's the Phantom Eye

Lost for Words

Sting


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