Table of Contents
Week of 02/26/2000

Articles

Mob pic rubs out rookies

 

Japanese TV fulfills yen for 'Millionaire'

 

'Matrix,' 'Malkovich' hold biggest of ACEs

 

Evildoers beware

 

Inside Move

 

Carr will helm 'Hoedown'

 

Oscar Watch

 

Col Pix buys Franklin pitch for Murray, Cage

 

Nick, Oxygen team up for 'Roseanne'

 

Van Dien, King set for 'Titans'

 

WGA fetes 'Insider' scribes

 

Sweeps: big photo finish

 

Trio terrific o'seas

 

Intermedia nabs o'seas rights to Allen pic

 

Producer Baldwin a Franchise player

 

Bonham Carter set to take 'Novocaine'

 

'Kingdom' on Overseas slate with vet thesps

 

Myriad herds 'Goat' for o'seas distrib

 

Japan goes Gaga for 'Caravan'

 

Pax enters gamer fray with 'Shop'

 

CheckOut.com opens 'Games' in H'wood biz

 

NBC to slash Gannett payout

 

Kirch called to testify on Kohl scandal

 

Tangos at Cannes

 

UIP not releasing Leconte's 'Widow'

 

Filmax bows toon prod'n shingle Bren

 

CBS taps Cheatwood VP

 

WB publicity exec takes consulting job

 

AFI panels its board with 6

 

'Sky' wins for social values

 

DGA noms honor new docu crop

 

EchoStar adds Turner, Starz

 

Distrib Salsa bows Miami office

 

World briefs

 

Cartagena Fest celebrates anni

 

Televisa revs rise in '99

 

'Little Crumb' crumbles Dutch kid pic B.O. record

 

Rank's rocky ride

 

U.K.'s United pumps more coin into Internet

 

Showbiz stocks dip in dismal Dow week

 

Lion buys 'Barber' after close shave

 

UGC's 'Veil' snapped up

 

Germans cross Wilder for merit

 

Matukewicz exits post at Mandalay for StoneCreek

 

DGA honors helmer Dixon

 

HBO seeks younger auds with 'KO'

 

'Suburb' snags Rodgers

 

Satcaster merger

 

Players

 

BCE dials up $1.6 bil for CTV net

 

Distrib keys Kosse

 

Producers honor Spelling for career achievement

 

Designer Kudofest

 

'Tonight' wins; 'GMA' up 24%

 

Top cow turns to Seldin

 

Canuck pluck is talk of locations confab

 

'Planet' world preem

 

'Dancing' swings in

 

Irish screens are smiling again

 

Busy Johnson exits D'Works

 

Agents pact hits SAG snag

 

Noms are B.O. gold for 'Beauty,' 'Cider'

 

Universal is 'Driven' to Interlight thriller

 

U's indie jumpstart

 

Send in the clowns, it's an election year

 

Veronica Cooper Converse

 

Imax ready to rock

 

Nicholl coin up for grabs in Acad script competish

 

'Numbers' hopes for 'Millionaire' auds

 

Duffell bags kiosks

 

TW, AOL stocks up

 

Comcast aces Golf Channel web

 

German giant snags Stella

 

Frosh rush o'seas

 

Discovery People fades out

 

Digital 'Chateau' wraps

 

'Check' bows Freedom Fest

 

Shahs exit Screenland & Scanbox

 

High-profile indies in ShoWest Showcase

 

Franchise fires up Bui 'Dragon'

 

World Briefs

 

Where the money is

 

Trimark 'Cooking' at AFM

 

BHC, Viacom await ruling

 

Intertainment, Manga pact on pix

 

Actors set rallies for ad-pact talks

 

H'wood booster Welsh dies

 

Fast track linkup

 

UPC, Deutsche Bank reject Kirch's D-box

 

Kirch rival RTL picks up 49.9% stake in net Vox

 

BBC looking for partners for Web site

 

Fuji TV sets pan-Asian b'casts

 

Factor 8 adding new handle, coin

 

NBCi.com targets broadband users

 

Web set turned off

 

L.A. Opera taps White-Thomson

 

'Aftermath' gets rolling for Disney

 

Sony exec Notaro, 52, dies

 

Hettrick joins Video Biz

 

Writer Saul Shooting for long-term pic deal

 

SAG to sell off 'Dream' skein rights

 

Searchlight taps Gilula distrib prexy

 

Scully, Schimmel laff at Fox

 

'Stuart II' catches screenwriter Rubin

 

Oscar Watch

 

Sweeps win easy as ABC

 

Inside Moves

 

Par pair stays put

 

Cartoon Net revving up

 

'Million' follow-up in works

 

New York nurtures new-media boom

 

'Judy' sweeps WNBC to big February win

 

B'way hums along while 'Aida' sings

 

Starz cues up Spaulding to prexy of distribution

 

Miramax wins 'Paper' chase

 

The fab five

 

Acad voters offer surprises

 

Musically speaking, Was and Bacharach make an odd pair

 

To Vilanch, it's all a big joke

 

Oscar's worth more than gold to Academy

 

Zanucks preparing for unknown

 

Olgita DeCastro

 

Leonard Goldenson memorial

 

John C. Kuehne

 

Louis Pelletier

 

Norman Thomson

 

Doris Kenner-Jackson

 

BSkyB to bring TiVo to U.K.

 

French agency under fire for OKing Web ads on TV

 

Li clinches HKT deal with $36 bil takeover

 

Failed chemistry

 

Rental hike irks Germans

 

Inside Tracks

 

It tapes a village

 

Alliance Atlantis revs, profits up; stock surges

 

Imax to lense panda pic

 

Cinema Audio Society to fete vet Knudson

 

Osbourne slapped with second lawsuit

 

Goldberg, Langella split

 

Sag touts fine time

 

'Millionaire' paces ABC win... again

 

French films flat

 

Harbeck joins Netcaster IFilm

 

Former U exex go online

 

TNT ups DeBitetto

 

Universal ups Kahrs to executive veep

 

WWF pins record 3rd qtr. profits

 

Cash woes cast doubt on Behaviour's future

 

Business booms at AFM

 

Crystal-clear choice for host

 

Viewers dance with joy over loss of hoofers

 

Parties not limited to one night only

 

Acad credits risks in saluting Beatty

 

Hunegs No. 2 at WBTV

 

Kathie Lee calls it quits after 15 years

 

Agents consider options vs. SAG

 

Big Picture panels tap industry A-list

 

Nominations...by the numbers

 

Poland's history viewed through Wajda's lens

 

Big Four turn back b'cast erosion

 

Inside Moves

 

Oscar Watch

 

MediaOne's 4th-quarter income rev up

 

Spontaneity makes great TV

 

Endemol to buy up 2 foreign ventures

 

Gaumont '99 profits dip

 

France's TF1 reports profits up 47% in '99

 

Bertelsmann revs, profits skyrocket

 

Sim's City now Den

 

Warners finds new 'Friends'

 

Miramax tops February B.O.

 

Loud and clear

 

Time Warner vows no breaks for AOL

 

WMA forms int'l film group

 

E! taps Herman topper

 

Only one 'Wild Party' on B'Way this season

 

'Famous' finds NBC homes

 

APN News & Media profits rise 20%

 

'Teletubbies' to hit Russia

 

Preservation honors set

 

BAFTA bows to 'Beauty'

 

Players

 

Oxygen gets boost

 

NBC enters DEN deal, giving cash, ad time

 

News Corp. stock on rise

 

Silverman tapped Mouse toon VP

 

ATAS bows Cassyd diversity fund

 

Channel One Ritts redux

 

Salzman boards Enigma Digital

 

August inks with Pinema in early online rights deal

 

'Mister' fakes Melrose

 

TV ads hit record levels in primetime

 

KABC sweeps past rival KNBC

 

Frog web teen skeins hop to new timeslots

 

ABC may go 'Downtown' again in May

 

CAA clicks with commercials vet duo

 

San Jose fest: 10-year itch

 

CNA Talent picks up Empire

 

Oscar Watch

 

TenPercenteries

 

George Duning

 

M-Net ups its effort to air local programming

 

Cape Town coffer fat from film feats

 

Reporter axed in footage flop

 

Inside Moves

 

Harsh inspiration

 

Producers Guild gives 21-gun salute to nine

 

Grammys levitate 'Supernatural'

 

Thesps leap to online pic 'Quantum'

 

Deal gives Summit 'Closure'

 

Chang ankles Star TV

 

Holden ankles USA net to veep MSNBC promos

 

Col gives scribe Hatem 'Plum' assignment

 

DGA to bestow Capra kudo on Downey

 

Lot 47 is a Lipsky family affair

 

Kiwi seeks ad-free kidvid

 

Delany 'Good' for TV series

 

N.Y. moves on to 'Next Best Thing'

 

'Mona' nails suspects

 

U Pay TV sells titles to AMC

 

$2.8 mil settlement ends Vestron suit

 

Exex land VP stripes at WB network

 

Lee to sell b'casting assets

 

WB wants to try on Fox's 'PJs'

 

Washington in 'Training' for cop pic

 

Silberling set for punchy pic

 

'Witch' hunting

 

Kudos to Herskovitz, Zwick

 

Royal Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to New Haven

 

Castle Rock ups Osorio

 

DuVernay forms PR agency

 

Castle Hill grabs dates with Lazarus' 'Girlfriends'

 

Mirage Resorts rejects MGM Grand takeover bid

 

Telefonica rings up again

 

Finnegan trees poem

 

Cable nets slip in Feb.

 

Villard 'Spilling' a reprint

 

Rookie year

 

Deja vu

 

Films take license with facts

 

Novel approach

 

Rebel with a cause

 

Wadja mines Polish culture

 

Actors ride the range

 

Stage celebrates trio

 

Playboy readies to offer monthly subscriptions

 

Co-prexy Reid deserting Island

 

SFX buys out Philly Factory

 

Fox Kids Euro cuts losses as revs soar

 

EMI visualizes Web

 

Willis repays Perry's 'Friend'-ship

 

Inside Moves

 

DGA to honor Rindenow

 

WWF pins nets on 'Mat' blurbs

 

Johnson-Burnett bows film, TV unit

 

Nets season laffs

 

Cigs, drugs stir divided panel

 

Roth in talks for 'Tomcats' as first pic

 

Sky tops rising sun

 

HKT/Star unit taps Foxtel exec topper

 

TF1 adds theme-based webs

 

Lauren Cinemas talks alliance

 

Germany's EM.TV buoys Rothblum

 

German pols blast 'Big'

 

Riefenstahl injured in copter crash

 

TriStar Int'l pacts with C5, Unilever

 

Oscar Watch

 

Mousey on merger

 

Road Runner ups Gordon

 

ATAS names College TV winners

 

Fox Music ups Knobloch to VP

 

PGA fetes 'Blair' publicist

 

Daly coins Shockwave.com

 

Ignite has 'Inside' track on Turner's thriller spec

 

Franchise pix 'Nine,' 'Earth' to HBO Asia

 

Kids' WB catches sweeps win

 

Dave's hearty win

 

Peacock, Eye nets tie as ABC nails sweeps victory

 

Exhibs roll dice

 

TW, ABC take a timeout

 

'Toy's' Buzz Lightyear to TV

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Jolie gets set to raid Par 'Tomb'

 

Itsy Bitsy has eye on bigscreen

 

Pop.com woos top talent

 

H'wood vid eyes 'Net distrib'n

 

Homevid & PPV to wed at WB

 

'Vanya' may take off from American Airlines

 

H'w'd.com, exhib pact

 

Sorvino, Benzali will top classic's 'Naked' prod'n

 

Reviews

Happy End

Breaking The Silence

What Planet Are You From?

Dancing in September

Crimes of Honor

Grapevine

Chick Corea, Gary Burton and Origin

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Torch-Bearers - Star Quality Lights 'Torch'

Sweeney Todd

The Time of the Cuckoo

The Wild Party

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

The Beach Boys - 'Beach Boys' Heart Belongs to Daddy

Portuguese

Pandora's Beauty

Paradiso -- Seven Days with Seven Women

Of Women and Magic

Shadow Magic

Clouds of May

Could Be Worse!

Bad Guys

Film...

Jadviga's Pillow

Our Love

We Live Only Once

Damn You! Mosquito

The Foolish Pomegranate Tree

Little Vilma: The Last Diary

The Little Voyage

Pan Tadeusz

Glamour

Seaside, Dusk

The Closer You Get

What Planet Are You from? - One-Joke Premise in 'Planet' of the Japes

The Legends of Rita

Hippolyt

The Convent

Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals

Magic Frequencies

Urbania

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Ice Angel

Squonk

The Sinister Saga Of Making 'The Stunt Man'

Amel Larrieux

All My Sons

George Crumb

Spearhead

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Cover Me

3 Strikes

Rigoletto

Night Sky

Joseph Arthur

Korn

Kenny Barron

Catch a Falling Star

Life-Size

Run the Wild Fields

The Next Best Thing

Rigoletto

Night Sky

Joseph Arthur

Life-Size

Run the Wild Fields

Mild 'Thing' Means Well; The Next Best Thing