Table of Contents
Week of 12/17/1999

Articles

Teutonic titles recover B.O. ground in 1999

 

Laudadio to lead Cinecitta

 

World Briefs

 

Carlton, TF1 in e-venture talks

 

Canal Plus' Ellipse plans to launch German subsid

 

Four finds 'Friends'

 

TV Azteca takes 50% stake in Internet portal

 

Malone looks to Internet's future

 

Opening broadband

 

FCC commissioner issues call for digital standards

 

Nat'l Geographic teams for U.S. debut

 

Ex-'Net exec convicted on porn charge

 

Shirley Hemphill

 

Editors to honor helmer Cameron

 

Besson tops Cannes jury for 2000

 

Screenwriters Lab picks its feature film projects

 

Lawford's ex splits hairs over JFK auction

 

Telewest, Flextech's deal still unconfirmed

 

U, Konami to play interactive games

 

USA B'cast's Rosenberg to CFO

 

Gridcast grapple

 

TenPercenteries

 

'Dwarf' duo set for B'Way

 

Players

 

NBC's Olympic deal

 

Barry enrolls in new Hughes high school pic from Disney

 

Comedian Dick inks with LOADtv

 

Viacom beefs up development team

 

Hungry hearth

 

N.Y. crix tap 'Turvy' tops

 

'Fight'-ers climb in ring with New Line

 

Full slate for 7Arts

 

Jovovich joins 'Kingdom' for Winterbottom, MGM

 

Helmer Bui prepping 2 projects

 

Cruise in tune with 'Shaggs' project

 

Big family pix vie for weekend auds

 

Like Fox, NBC may ankle b'caster org

 

Phaedra captures Indian 'Terrorist'

 

Sarasota Fest slots 'Wisdom'

 

Film and TV fund prexy, CEO Haug ankling post

 

Showtime shows 'Soul'

 

Clark 'Lines' up for return to gameshow

 

Road grosses

 

Jill Craigie

 

Andrew Russell

 

Seymour 'Cy' Kaplan

 

David Schickele

 

On track for CATV

 

'Affair' deemed too racy for U.K. minors

 

Latin Universe 2000 bows with three Mexican pics

 

Nieto tapped to top Via

 

Berlin fest goes sci-fi

 

Greek gov't goes digital

 

Mexican film archive taps topper

 

'Little' mouse zings 'King'

 

Talented Weinstein survives a bumpy '99

 

London agent Latimer exits Wm. Morris

 

Spain bows Screenings

 

Overseas auds Bonding

 

Scribe Maguire set to travel through Crichton's 'Timeline'

 

Black fest picks 48 pix

 

Trimark's 'Net venture pacts for Webcasts

 

UPN revs monster trucks

 

Neve, Putnam win technical Grammys

 

Warner Bros. ups three in corporate planning

 

Ray-Art rockets on

 

Werner's young cablers see subs, ad revs grow

 

Eye O&Os say yes to Margolis yakker

 

Mickey at Carnegie

 

Inside Move

 

Telefonica, CEI reach radio, TV agreement

 

Telewest, Flextech prepping merger

 

Sinclair sales slump

 

Battle lines drawn in $10 mil Ministry suit

 

Troubled HMG's TV-radio topper ankles

 

A royal entrance

 

'Sunday' touches down in L.A.

 

Jazz saxophonist Washington Jr. dies

 

Globes' 'Beauty' pageant

 

Radio off the dial

 

GRB Ent. names Linton chief operating officer

 

Hank Snow

 

MTV's Web properties split into two groups

 

Irish org urges tax breaks for pix

 

Crossing the Danube

 

Grumpy Disneyland Paris staff vow strike

 

German kidvid shingle EM.TV secures coin

 

TPS keeps TV rights to French terrestrial nets

 

Helming debuts draw chirps in Canary Islands

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Col pix buoys Cavacas

 

Fine Line groups 'Grounding' prod'n

 

'Wiseguy' recruited by Court TV for 32 months

 

Special Slamdance

 

Berlin fest names Asian actress prez

 

Peacock flip flops

 

Cabler Eurosport to serve up Sanex femme tennis

 

Nick slimes 2000 with new 'Double Dare'

 

Col TriStar gains 'Suspicion' rights

 

Judge X's out 2 of Kaye's motions, one of DGA's

 

Spacey dreams of Darin biopic

 

Aardman's 'Hare' to run with Goleszowski

 

Disney keeps 'Aida' on drawing board

 

Earnings, weeks rise for Equity members

 

Moore Bonds with award

 

SB fest to honor Hopkins

 

DVD sales up but rental issues linger

 

BBC's coin rattled

 

ABC pulls plug on 'It's Like,' 'Grow Up'

 

RAI unveils 2000 plans

 

L.A. Indie fest seeks entries

 

Japan telecom gets b'cast OK

 

Nods surprise, satisfy

 

Banking on kudos

 

Foreign press doesn't have time for Sharon's watches

 

3 webs team on newsvid

 

Paramount to open its 'Tomb' for helmer West

 

Apes, 007 swing world B.O.

 

B'way's blue Christmas

 

Patrick Moten

 

Harold Jack Bloom

 

Doug Doench

 

James Logan Anderson Jr.

 

'Millionaire' Xmas

 

B'cast bill opens direct-to-home door

 

Monte Carlo market to talk up gamers

 

ONdigital adds Discovery nets

 

Mouse sees record subs

 

UPC buys out rival Intercomm

 

World Briefs

 

Farewell to the old millennium . . .

 

Pixar's payday

 

Viacom inks deal with Hoffman

 

Par Ad Services taps O'Connor VP

 

Moore makes sense to Disney

 

TW books fireballing teacher

 

Rival pix tackle soccer

 

Globe settles Arnold suit

 

Cowboy lassoes 'Greenburg' docu

 

Broadcast crix select 8 pix for Choice noms

 

L. Murdoch threatens Oz gov't

 

NBC's holiday gift

 

Hayek inks deal to live 'La Gran Vida' in Spain

 

Mouse gets going

 

TW Digital ups Marcus

 

Ovitz, others upload Micro Warehouse

 

Elvis citing: Songbook set for B'way

 

French auteur Bresson dead at 98

 

NBC pops U six-pack for $32 mil

 

Intermedia glows in 'Dark'

 

Merrimack Rep topper Kent skeds his ankling

 

U.S. grant to boost R.I. arts center

 

Thirteen cooking up 'Egg'

 

Cancom issues common shares

 

MPAA ratings

 

Gotham's Pier 59 gets three soundstages

 

'Shine'-ing through

 

Dion tops charts again

 

Trailer touts 2000 Oscars

 

Russian gameshow weighs anchors

 

France votes Gabin tops

 

Campoy takes Fapae helm

 

Joseph Glassman

 

Go.com signs with Terra

 

Greenwald Prods. taps HBO's Gill

 

Starz Encore promotes two exex to senior VP

 

CBC shifts priorities

 

Two rise at Industry to talent managers

 

Film rush hour

 

'Enquirer' adds Hill as co-host of mag

 

Freshman syndies avoid post-sweeps doldrums

 

Latin Group to merge with Univision parent

 

Sundance offers 'Trans' port

 

ValueVision in 24 mil homes

 

Sullivan is tapped SNL Studios COO

 

Kudos Dench mark

 

'Moon' landing

 

Kestrel buys SVE

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Spielberg encounters close choices to direct

 

Samaha places hopes in slate of A-list stars

 

Cablers take quirky approach to Y2K

 

Cablevision board OKs new stock

 

'Anna' release Thai'd up by movie censors board

 

Charles Earland

 

Marshall Wortman

 

Marion Worth

 

Joey Adams

 

Reviews

Another American: Asking & Telling

Waiting in the Wings

Morrissey

Tail Lights Fade

Tube Tales

Any Given Sunday

The Hurricane

Galaxy Quest

Hamlet

Twelfth Dog Night

Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory

Michael Brecker; Dave Liebman; Joe Lovano

Adventures in Time: The National Geographic Millennium Special

Play It to the Bone

Titus

Fantasia 2000


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