Table of Contents
Week of 11/05/1999

Articles

'Dead' may rise at Belasco

 

Barbra skeds 2nd New Year's show

 

Financial briefs

 

Warner Bros. ups Hufford

 

'Access' inks for H'wood Stock Exchange segs

 

ABC raises exec trio to affil relations VPs

 

Mediaset's Gori to top web

 

Banff mountain do

 

Canal Plus has its i on news

 

BBC Worldwide inks deal with video-on-demand co.

 

Morning sked of Kids' WB! adds 'Black'

 

Turin Film Fest gets back to its roots

 

TV exex boost Monte Carlo mart

 

India submits 'Earth' to Acad

 

Glen Vernon

 

Palm Springs fetes Bening

 

Wenders' 'Hotel' opens Berlin Film Fest's 50th

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'Lost' bargain stunt attracts 5 stations

 

Investment game

 

Weisslers, SFX team to produce 'Seussical'

 

Satcaster bill grows

 

'Storytellers' uses unique online ticketing service

 

CTW promotes three

 

Producers' Guild will honor Jones, Reid

 

Alexis 'Wolf' Pack

 

Inside Move

 

Stratosphere gets 'Goat,' inks filmmakers to pact

 

Wolf fathers Fox TV deal

 

Oz Fox complex opening

 

Donahue will meet 'Match'

 

Sony bites into 'Sherlock' idea

 

Daytime soaps no longer cleaning up

 

WNBC nabs Gotham run

 

Fox shuffles key exex in finance unit

 

Stars topline 'Help-a-thon'

 

'Park' helmer Rozema signs 2-pic deal

 

Chron call NBC's blusters; bids still on

 

'Friend' going 'Metal'?

 

Touchstone skein bound for NBC sked

 

Disney downturn

 

Robert Linn

 

Minoru Chiaki

 

Stephen Roberts

 

Hugh Benson

 

Albert Whitlock

 

Wages of Fear

 

Polonsky Memorial

 

Destination goes 'Wild' for Christensen comedy

 

'Bright' day for Liman, Farrelly duo

 

'Giant' casts big shadow at 27th Annies

 

Panel sees Net gain for Hollywood

 

Jacobs scores Miramax deal

 

Players

 

USA kicks tires of Good Machine

 

Inside Move

 

Pay before play

 

'Stoop' on Endangered Species list

 

Nick commits to made-fors

 

Outlaw Prods. inks 'Salvaged' scribe

 

NBC, Turner share 'Crown'

 

Stone will be repped by ICM

 

Undertaking a dream

 

Kennard races into jam

 

'Greed' good for Fox

 

Nets in discontent

 

Crafting an empire

 

Russia's Lenfilm studio reopens, sets local pix

 

Euro Film best-feature noms bow

 

Oz radio duo targeted

 

Hicks, Muse and Telefonica settle Argentine asset split

 

Auds 'Sense' buildup

 

RealNetworks bows Take5

 

Weak fiscal 1999 drops Disney stock

 

Valenti, Biondi board Creative Planet

 

Chum TV ups 2 exex

 

Oxygen taps Conte sr. VP prod'n, names Caprio VP

 

'Senior' film project gets PBS funding

 

Blockbusters bloom o'seas

 

Gathering to create e-'Witch'

 

BSkyB buys soccer stake

 

News Corp. behind Euro Nasdaq

 

Auds 'Bone' up

 

'Annie's' Morton inks Alphabet talent pact

 

'Milgaard' dominates at Geminis

 

Rogan inks Fox sitcom pact

 

Salvaterra Fishin' with Silver

 

Media-Most goes cold

 

Cinram Int'l and M3P.Com in tune

 

Cowboy Booking hits trail with niche series

 

Hoofers enjoy record employment on B'way

 

Shorts fest appeals to new-media types

 

Studios deny 'Access'

 

'Cosby' scribe gets NBC order

 

SAG prexy winner aims to mend rifts

 

Castle Rock putting its 'Hearts' into King tome

 

Netcast spins 2 pics to Fox

 

Indie's co-founder is out

 

'Bachelor's' wows

 

For film buffs, silence really is golden

 

Fox Studios in Oz bows with big bang

 

'Darkness' lights up Tokyo

 

There's someting about Sherry

 

Vic Vallaro

 

Stuart Craig

 

Stephen Roberts

 

Thomas Durden

 

Bobby Willis

 

J. Haran

 

Jean Shepherd

 

Wall Street cred

 

USA Networks vet Brooks will ankle

 

Jury charges Telemundo $2.6 mil

 

Financial Briefs

 

Cablevision withdraws lawsuit

 

Maillard tapped at NARAS Foundation

 

Churgin builds career at digest

 

Bronfman to be feted at 'Stars' fund-raiser

 

MGM and Bullock team for 'Wildest Dreams'

 

Warbucks and cash

 

Kantne Roast amazingly stays clean

 

Sarna to helm 'Doomsdayer'

 

Albert Whitlock

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Boosting the brand

 

Musicians union protests 'Fever'

 

CTIT nabs LatAm distrib rights to 'Name That Tune'

 

TNN loads Winkler's 'Gun' in action block

 

Counting on 'Sense'

 

Inside Move

 

7 Arts ups Sandys

 

Hot helmer Peirce signs with UTA

 

Mischer's new banner to produce 'Net events

 

NYU to honor Broadway's Herman

 

USA takes stake in Web venture

 

U Music links with AOL, USA, MTV

 

Investors can cable Allen cash via Charter stocks

 

News Corp. clicks Web site for 911

 

Webs score victory in satcaster fight

 

Helgeland has $5 mil payday for Sony 'Knight'

 

Jersey TV revving up slate

 

Crystal heads over to WMA

 

U.K. to cut 'Club'

 

ESPN takes control of Brazil sports net

 

TV pact specifics firm up for Kirch Group, Murdoch

 

World Briefs

 

HSX: B.O. report will still be 'Access'able on TV

 

New media keep NATPE numbers up

 

Helkon to handle Col TriStar fare

 

Granada TV, NY Times set 'Science' docus

 

'Night' feverish B.O.

 

Rankin joins VH1 as reporter, producer

 

Marathon paces WNBC to aud win

 

L.A. bonder IFG taps Randolph for London

 

Deutsche Telekom to sell only 35% cabler stakes

 

De Laurentiis plex appoints two exex

 

Flexing Euro muscle

 

OPTA rules for Canal Plus

 

World Briefs

 

Walter Stone

 

Robert J. Quinn

 

Eleanor Breese

 

James Goldstone

 

George V. Higgins

 

DirecTV grows in Brazil

 

Sony Pictures ups 3 in consumer group

 

Canada mints $116 mil for TV/pic prod'n in '99

 

Telemundo's b'cast world expands to 5 more cities

 

U tunes web music

 

'Millionaire' makes ABC the winner

 

Cage's Saturn links to 'Chain'

 

A 20% rise for Allen's cable bow

 

Biz dough nuts

 

Rosenblum to oversee Warners TV

 

House won't fight runaway prod'n in '99

 

New Line on Niccol's 'Road' worth $3 mil

 

UCLA auditorium named for Bridges

 

Tribune expands Fitzsimons' roles

 

Tribune to acquire Qwest, creating Big Easy duopoly

 

'Reefer' smokes rivals at Ovations

 

New entrant in contest to make Joplin biopic

 

Local bird bill flies

 

UTA taps Day to head PR

 

Nets dance around ABC's 'Millionaire'

 

Cooper uber with Gerber

 

ICast casts out Braun

 

ABC picks up 'Exodus'

 

Carol gets 'Fother' of a deal

 

'Rain' pours Par coin to Murphy

 

UTA makes Day head of communications

 

MGM raises $721 mil from rights offering

 

AFI sets up next punchline: century's 100 funniest pix

 

Fox holds Jenny McCarthy

 

Credit line insured

 

Eye relaunching Sat. ayem show

 

Foster may yet dine on 'Lambs'

 

TNN goes bowling for viewers

 

Edward to channel daily talker on Sci-Fi

 

Inside Move

 

Scribe revisiting reality

 

'RKO 281' revives 'Kane' lore

 

Coven of distribs

 

'Idle' works to win top prize at Cottbuss Fest

 

Aussie pubcaster ABC taps Shier

 

McKeown takes on distrib marketing with itstv.com

 

Swiss nix digital box for Teleclub

 

De Torsiac joins HBO Brazil

 

Vietnam backs Bui pic

 

'Egypt': Rabbi-approved

 

H'wood launches digital fest

 

NFL ratings blitz

 

MSNBC drops Grodin talker

 

Quinn upped to GM, exec VP, TBS

 

Sony scores one-two punch: Rage, Carey

 

Miramax buys 'Serendipity'

 

Margulies nixes $27 mil; Vilanch back at Oscars

 

AtomFilms stocks up on PixelWave

 

Euro Disney to expand

 

Exec forfeits MGM stock

 

'T2' times two

 

Media's mega money

 

Objections fly around sat bill

 

CanWest shows can-do with boffo financial year

 

Inside Move

 

Stingy 'Millionaire'

 

L.A. welcomes 'Conan'

 

Hewitt in talks to topline WB project

 

'Net music service launches

 

Dr. Laura will bring her pop psychology to TV

 

New Line taps into 'Powers' of the 'Net

 

'Map' gets early rollout

 

'Millennium' adds talent

 

FCC sets duopoly lottery in 4-1 vote

 

Icon Prods. locks 'Box'

 

Koren, Zucker team at NBC

 

Park lands in Hallway as prod'n VP

 

'Tenacious' Black inks TV skein pact

 

Christina George

 

Buyers set plan to split WIC

 

ABC ups Long to veep

 

'Tumbleweeds' blow in

 

'Pie' scribe Herz to pen Peacock sitcom pilot

 

Licensed to preem

 

Two vet exex join Go.com

 

Weighing in on Welles feud

 

Meyjes deal cues 'Lindbergh' rev-up

 

Wow of a bow for Pokemon

 

Col taps exec quartet

 

Disney toons up DVD

 

Black inks G-J devlopment deal

 

'Betty's' rubbles

 

EM.TV increases capital by $258 mil

 

Nonprofit lifts off

 

Radio City's radical redo

 

Silicon alley-oop

 

Doing it her way

 

NFP world premieres on the wane

 

Gotham emerges as prod'n powerhouse

 

Eyeing the very big picture

 

Nova put in Czech

 

Reviews

James Joyce's The Dead

Oxygen

Snow Days

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

The Jazz Singer

Eurythmics

Bill Frisell

Charming Billy

Bad City Blues

Wrong Mountain

Cranes

Antigone

Book of Days

Fuddy Meers

The Jew of Malta

Rendezvous in Samarkand

Woman on a Tin Roof

A Voice from Heaven

A Wake in Providence

Wirey Spindell

Guts

The Divine Ryans

The Book That Wrote Itself

December 1-31

Stuff

Just One Time

Black & White in Color

30 Days

Black Eyed Dog

The Glass Jar

Inter-View

The Thief of Saint Lubin

Thai Saheba

Two Ninas

The Poet and the Con

Rivers of Babylon

Rats

Trash

2 Minutes Silence, Please

The Past

The Call of the Oboe

The Silence of the Angels

Fatherless

The Bachelor

Super Chief

Pigeonholed

Mad Cows

Henry Hill

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Martyr-in-Love, Boota Singh

The Summer Moon

Dinner With Friends

The Big Split

Smack the Pony

The Early Show

Annie

Harry Allen Quartet

Liberty Heights

Pokemon: The First Movie

Leif Garrett

Mary, Mother of Jesus