Table of Contents
Week of 03/04/2000

Articles

Coppola's pic deal gives UA new life

 

Rookies rocky in bleak week at B.O.

 

Tenpercenteries

 

Villard Books plans to reprint 'Spilling Open'

 

Syndie action hours OK'd for soph sesh

 

Fox, Warners sign Spanish TV deals

 

Biz Briefs

 

Four Media expands

 

Investors emphasize tech over content

 

Romersa, Cannon partner

 

E Pluribus nod goes to Frank Price

 

Behar nabs literary deal off F.E.D.S.

 

Sheridan Square shows ArtistEnt intent

 

Agents deal goes to the brink this week at SAG

 

PlayStation 2 launches in Japan

 

Venice fest retrospective to spotlight Balkan pics

 

'Toy,' 'Beauty' tops

 

Endemol, World in reality venture

 

BEC profits off 15% amid feature plans

 

Mexican pay TV OKs regs

 

Oscar watch

 

Morgan Creek inks deal for $200 mil line of credit

 

Scribes panel tops S.B. fest weekend

 

Friedlander tapped Fine Line VP

 

Second affil drops 'God'

 

UMG to go digital

 

Distrib-exhib links

 

Moviefone adds PC prints to online tix

 

Avary heading 'Mexicali' way

 

Caine set for 'Congeniality'

 

Sci Tech professionals honor Kodaks' Ryan

 

Col TriStar TV ups two, hires veep

 

Touchstone Pix sets Lemke to try 'Tripods'

 

Lot 47 buys 'Jack' rights

 

Inside Move

 

Jackson gets Innovative

 

Brosnan makes 'Blood' pact with Sinclair and Intermedia

 

NBC loses NAB board seat

 

'Matrix' team wired for prize

 

Top thesps set for Eye's 'Fail Safe' pic

 

Cooper paints Landscape

 

G.-J. pairs with National Video

 

House of Blues Digital, MTVi, RioPort ink deal

 

Castle Rock ups Osorio

 

Laurels to rest on

 

Friends rally around St. Jude's

 

'Walls' rock solid

 

Rumpus toys with 'Net pix

 

WGA ogles 'Beauty'

 

Culture warriors gear up for Super Tuesday

 

Teutons set up U.S. shops

 

Eight films competing in Mex fest

 

Showtime inks to bring Spanish content online

 

Cannes 2000 adds 2 days of tech talks

 

U.S.-Italo panel meets on ties

 

Itsy Bitsy upsies Enderle

 

SightSound to Netcast Franchise pix

 

Technicolor going big with CFI pickup

 

Lion leaps at Mirage

 

Leonard Goldenson memorial

 

Levine inks with Talk America

 

Euro awards to go global

 

Lions Gate pacts for 'Cheerleader'

 

L.A., Greek OK deal on rent/fix-up

 

Showbiz elite to back UCLA medical benefit

 

'Price' right on 'Net

 

MTR tunes in four new vice chairs

 

Oscar Watch

 

GOP calls to action

 

Disney vet Gillam to enter Mix

 

Twentieth TV prexy-COO Jacobson dies at age 48

 

English, Spanish pix mix in HBO Latino

 

Castro inks three-pic deal with Digital Mercury

 

Alcon skips to WB

 

Inside Moves

 

Agents urge SAG panel to salvage agreement

 

French helmer denies he plagiarized scripts

 

Oscar noms boost B.O. overseas

 

New Line taps Steinbauer VP

 

Payne studying 'Picture'; second trip to 'Town

 

Oscar ballets MIA

 

ReplayTV readies for its IPO

 

Cinar duo out; $122 mil AWOL

 

Clearance sale

 

Digital to the Imax

 

Madonna skips to 2nd place in weekend B.O.

 

TBS, TNT open windows on 19 Par pix

 

Outfest features Arthur Dong retro

 

Exhibs: Help us o'seas

 

'Hill' topper to laff for WB

 

Broadway Books lands mob book

 

Blomfield tops Oz's Foxtel

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Network News taps Suhonen for G.M.

 

Oscar goes postal: 4,000 ballots MIA

 

Wowow to carry Oscars

 

Colom tapped by Via Digital as G.M.

 

BSkyB powering up Open to boost online services

 

Cabler NTL to offer free 'Net access

 

MTV Europe, UPC link for 2 Polish channels

 

BBC World axed from Oz's Austar platform

 

Discovery dishes 2

 

Fox Family lifts Lifton

 

NDS, Microsoft ink interactive pact

 

'Dateline' wins Maine line

 

Reiner to emcee, Coppola to present at DGA Awards

 

Hawk boards ESPN for broadcast job

 

Mouse pledges duo's 'Sorority'

 

Four affils join anti-'God' squad

 

ABC's win streak hits 10 weeks

 

'Net ops cause a loss at Canal Plus

 

Dubbing dubbed OK

 

Players

 

La Salle to operate on 'Danger'

 

Regent crowns Krass for telepix

 

Hagen reprises 'Woolf' role in L.A.

 

MTV mixes Cola & Dix

 

Cinar stocks plummet amid news of scandal

 

Inside Moves

 

SAG to delay vote on pact with agents

 

TV blasts into 'Net

 

Oscar Watch

 

25 world premieres to unspool at LAIFF

 

Jacobsen to fight pirates

 

Slater heeds call for 'Graceland'

 

Panorama buys 'Secret'

 

Wibberleys to pen 'Spy'

 

Former WBTV exec Levine tapped Icebox.com exec VP

 

NBC quits, rips NAB

 

ClickRadio tunes in programming exex

 

Mueller tops biz for WBTV

 

Monroe films sewn to Oates

 

McKellar tops comedy noms

 

Disney bows digital 'Mars,' 'Dino' mission

 

Oscar spots scrutinized

 

Bliley's likely exit leaves House panel chair in air

 

U pairs with Burger King for 'Flintstones' tie-ins

 

'First Date' hooks up with KCAL

 

Acad sends out 4,200 new ballots

 

Miramax gives glimpse of slate

 

New Line reels 'em in first

 

Missing ballots prompt a Hollywood whodunit

 

HBO climbing another 'Walls'

 

Suppliers taking fliers

 

Pix tix get swift kick

 

Barron branching out with $61 mil

 

Muppets will return to TV, may have Euro stage show

 

RTVE extends WB programming deal

 

Tolan, Marshall on ABC's 'Mame'

 

Court upholds HarperCollins case

 

Just for Variety: Academy sets new mail call

 

Sony packs a punch

 

'Secret,' 'Family' struggle in ratings

 

FCC hears digital TV pleas

 

Kodak joins Qualcomm for digital

 

Ellen, Anne: 'We have a long way to go'

 

Bill Daniels

 

'Supernatural' stays No. 1

 

Tabmag rates pop up

 

Cecchi Gori wins ruling

 

Greater Union lessens Euro cinema expansion

 

NHK sets Kurosawa docu

 

U, Kirch clash over survey

 

Col TriStar Intl. taps sr. VP

 

Banned Murdoch to visit Indian pols

 

'Net convergence

 

Digital, subs goal set by Canal Plus

 

Exhibitor relations

 

Bronfman: U headed back to the black

 

Euro biz drives up SBS revs

 

Fox Kids Europe sees revs rocket

 

Players

 

Fox shows off Oscar nominees

 

'Mars' lands in L.A.

 

Festival fetes Pryor, Hopkins

 

Edelman hired on at TSG's online arm

 

Woolery upped at Idea Place

 

Friendly islands beckon prod'n

 

Trimark ramps up Web ops, taps DeLuca chief

 

Arquette to deliver 'Spot' for WB

 

Penn inks to star in 'Rush 2' and 'Kiss'

 

Par Classics is sold 'American'

 

Acad's hot over plot

 

ABC sending Ohlmeyer into 'MNF' huddle

 

Nets changing channels

 

Court TV, ABC pair up for crime

 

Cosmo claims victory in battle of circulation

 

Levinson wants Willis, Thornton on 'Outlaws'

 

Agents stall decision about SAG agreement

 

ReplayTV inks with Starz

 

Pilot light on for McGillis, Jeter, London

 

'3rd Rock' 3 solid

 

Alphabet rewrites news team to free up Westin

 

FX set to kick off pro football skein

 

FSG hears 'Narrative' by Anastas

 

Pat Notaro memorial

 

David Starling

 

Susan F. Walker

 

ASCAP pacts with Launch

 

Brilliant decision

 

AOL iBeams up streaming technology

 

Warners give lift to Sonic

 

Journal follows in Variety's footsteps

 

AOL makes its case

 

Microsoft sets bow of vidgame system

 

EM.TV revs up to buy stake in Formula One

 

Matsushita inks set-top box deal

 

Imagen fetes Martin, de Souza, Villalobos

 

Showtime pic taps Rhames

 

Lions Gate buys horror spoof

 

Thailand takes unkindly to island image in 'Beach'

 

Nibble nabs Bartis

 

Castle Hill leads with 'Followers'

 

Peacock flies to victory in latenight sweeps war

 

The monster mash

 

Leifer sets laffer

 

Cassavetes has heart for 'Q'

 

Hoffman will head Broder indie pix unit

 

Inside Moves

 

'Titan' tops Fox's 2000 titles

 

Weintraub calls it a 'Day'

 

WWF kills USA pact; Viacom may step in

 

Montecito signs Phillips to 2-year deal

 

McElroy files lawsuit against Southern Star

 

BBC star searchin'

 

Seven Network's profits up 361%

 

EC calls for Belgium to repeal satellite tax

 

Ratings way up for Telemundo

 

Gary Chazan

 

Late ABC Sports helmer Forte honored by DGA

 

Trio of NBC dramas hits renewal trifecta

 

The spirit of 'Rush'

 

Emmy voters can go couch-potato route

 

Advanced Medien's revs, profits rise

 

World Briefs

 

Euro titans link

 

Oscar-nommed 'Return' takes top Czech awards

 

South Africa will get 3 Imax screens

 

Journal zips Oscar lips

 

Pitt giving books look for Par & U

 

'Cider' is apple of Moonves' Eye

 

Mouse waives Barrys bye-bye

 

Hal Leonard buys Applause

 

Endeavor to rep Random House Canada

 

Residency program dishes coin to theater

 

'13' chosen for IFP's Visions

 

Music biz ready for a 'Revolution'

 

Antena 3 profits rise

 

Emmy Rossum

 

Teri Polo

 

Piper Perabo

 

Sanaa Lathan

 

Jaume Balaguero

 

Olga Malea

 

Gina McKee

 

JOURNAL ZIPS OSCAR LIPS

 

Edrie Jean Warner

 

Reviews

King of Cannes

My Movie Business

Korn

Kenny Barron

The Eternal Road - Ambitious 'Road' Revival

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife - 'Allergist's Wife' Brings Rash of Laughs to Stage

Squonk

Letters from Cuba

The Laramie Project

Enigma Variations

Poison

Sueno

Enchanted April

Secret Agent Man

God, the Devil and Bob - 'Bob' Moves Heaven, Earth to Win Yucks

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

L + R

Cut

Crazy

The Convent

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch

Just, Melvin

Asphalt

The Captain's Daughter

Otomo

Beyond the Ocean

Lush

Seven Songs from the Tundra

Bruiser

My Mother Frank

The Target Shoots First

This Is Me

Dead or Alive

Life Hurts

Cross-Harbour Tunnel

Through the Window

Mysterious Object at Noon

Bankrupt

Paper

Rent-a-Friend

The Lady of the House

La Carbonara

Family Secret

Cascabel

A Love

6ixtynin9

An Outgoing Woman

The Next Best Thing - Mild 'Thing' Means Well

Dora-Heita

Good Housekeeping

The Ghost of Marshal Tito

The Sea

Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains - Dynamic Doc Puts Human Face on War

Enter: A Film About Los Angeles

Saltwater

Bunuel's Prisoners

First Person Plural

Trixie

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Sound of Music

Erin Brockovich

Steal This Movie!

Good Housekeeping

Burt Lancaster: An American Life

King of Cannes

The Huntress

Secret Agent Man

Waiting for Godot

Metrano's Accidental Comedy

Filter

Diana Krall

God, the Devil and Bob

Shopping and Fucking

Forbidden Broadway Y2K L.A.!

Filter

Marc Anthony

Lifetime Live

Going Home

Nowhere to Land

An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf

The Wogboy

Joy Bogen - Weill and Lenya Centennial Celebration

Merrily We Roll Along

Raising the Mammoth

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Model Behavior

True West

Mission to Mars

Soft Toilet Seats

Seven Girlfriends

Raising the Mammoth

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Model Behavior


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