Table of Contents
Week of 04/01/2000

Articles

'Erin' shows off legs

 

Willie Dahl

 

DeMarcus Brown

 

International Briefs

 

John G. McCarthy

 

Change drives Pesaro fest

 

Lifetime to launch 'Lights'

 

Euros buy 'Beauty'

 

London pic org to slash staff

 

Euro pix rep bulk of Turin gay fest slate

 

National playing Kino

 

D'Works hands Reel 'Chicken'

 

ITC docked $11 mil

 

Proskauer Rose ramps up entertainment arm

 

Toon house revs rise but Roman reports loss

 

Grupo Televisa to restructure debt

 

Lit agent Greenberg joins WMA

 

Inside Move

 

Kenneally ready to Replay

 

Up for the 'Count'

 

Pearson books buyout of Dorling Kindersley

 

Birch slides into 'Hole'

 

Kmetz, Par will play 'Tag'

 

D'Works backs Mendes' Donmar Films

 

Family Room guns for Hooks to helm 'Caliber'

 

USC unspools First Look Fest

 

Miramax nears 'Fake' deal with scribe

 

Players

 

TV exex ponder diversity plans for shows, biz

 

AntEye TV/film site makes a bow

 

Disney pushes deadline back as ABC, TW Cable battle on

 

ABC sees mixed results as 'Wonderland' bows

 

Fishy pulp fiction in France

 

Women in TV offer insight

 

Geffen gobbles up glitz

 

Gold in 'Road' bow

 

Lion reveals top salaries of exex

 

'Gangs' green for Grimaldi

 

Ice Cube sees 'Ghosts'

 

Koppelsons will Lyne up for 'Infidele'

 

Actors put off strike threat

 

Wary Euros, 'Net gains grip MIP

 

NYU fest lauds filmmakers

 

Critics fete Taylor play

 

Dweebs steal gleam from Dream Factory

 

Willie Dahl

 

DeMarcus Brown

 

Weblet soap ends: Viacom's got UPN

 

Gay org bestows media nods

 

Exec shuffle

 

Actors unions 'Net member support

 

York to ankle SAG unit for dot-com autioneer

 

A&E names Sabinson sr. VP, programming

 

Players

 

Random House 'Nets biz

 

Beyond moves to Gotham

 

Spartan audiences

 

2 in U.K. vie for Talkback

 

Rusic, Convergenza in 4-year, 20-pic plan

 

Local pix, imports tops at Finnish B.O.

 

Game net hits Madison Ave.

 

BBC budget boost

 

Italo paparazzi suing over Fellini photos

 

Fest puts femmes in front row

 

Nasdaq takes record hit in wake of Microsoft ruling

 

Magex secures coin for content

 

SoundScan pacts for 'Net numbers

 

NBC taps Bulka pic veep

 

CNNfn goes to 24 hours

 

Tonos gets talent hunt under way

 

WB's on the march

 

'Witch' to switch?

 

Wadsworth goes legit

 

Asterix to meet Cleo as French prep sequel

 

'Noon' strikes twice at Spyglass for 3 scribes

 

Donners party with NBC pact

 

Stars' finance guru charged with fraud

 

Telescene powering up

 

Kids' WB ready to take Fridays

 

Look outside the box, sez 'Net huddle

 

Dyke backs BBC Pix

 

Inside Moves

 

Acad to screen Oscar shorts

 

Soccer TV rights match kicks off

 

'Secret Agent' replaced

 

Alba finds meaning in NL 'Dictionary'

 

Orser drafted for 'Pearl'

 

Gersh ankles IAM.com casting venture

 

'Beauty' gold o'seas

 

H'w'd investors backing biz memorabilia company

 

Isgro pleads innocent to extortion

 

Kumagai-Kuo tapped by Sony

 

Mouse near sweep

 

'Dropping' and 'Urbania' bookend Gen Art Festival

 

'Bird' grounded after actor hurt

 

Bard back, 'Seagull' off

 

Coward tops legit slate

 

Hellinic fest to bow 'Safe'

 

South African b'caster alleges racism

 

St. Martin's fires up 'Yes'

 

Eisner plan pummels pirates on 'Net

 

Content king in evolution of e-business

 

Kennard looks into digital crystal ball

 

Show them the money

 

AOL's Case sees mergers of technology, content

 

Agent fights, split rights dominate film panel

 

Karmazin, Redstone say approval looks imminent

 

Industry strong despite, because of innovation

 

Patrick Muldoon

 

Darius McCrary

 

William Lee Scott

 

Tom Wood

 

Stuart Stone

 

Zuleikha Robinson

 

John Fugelsang

 

Shaun Majumder

 

Esteban Powell

 

Holt McCallany

 

Al Sapienza

 

Colleen Flynn

 

Dave Power

 

Ezra Buzzington

 

Melinda McGraw

 

Genevieve Maylam

 

John Patrick White

 

ABC matches longest streak in total viewers

 

Hoops droops to NCAA final's lowest ratings

 

Tech exec takes Shelter

 

Telepiu ends search for partner

 

Cable on the menu

 

SAG PR exex ankle amid internal strife

 

Cinesite taps four effects exex

 

CBS, Tokyo b'caster re-up

 

Astral, InterBox ink for Canuck boxing

 

Ticket to turmoil

 

ABC pacts 3 more years of 'Bloopers'

 

Tenpercenteries

 

Off to a fresh start?

 

Off B'way's top kudos announced

 

Inside track

 

Portugal Telecom buys pic producer

 

StarMedia survey shows Latino 'Net use increase

 

Italians near satellite deal

 

UIP vet Ashmore ankles

 

'Manic' first film for Agenda 2000

 

Walker strolls to Famous job

 

Constantin builds global rights for 'Stonehenge'

 

2 pix soar for Sky

 

AOL adds streaming vid, aud

 

Endeavor ups 4, in style

 

Fox taps Straub sr. VP

 

New Line promotes Frantti to veepee

 

Entertaindom toppers skedaddle

 

CBS names Thomas to new diversity post

 

Miramax catches pitch for Moore's 'Slugger'

 

More sugar & spice

 

Media public service hits $8.1 billion

 

Birth announcement

 

Mendel unlocks 'Prisoner'

 

Fox Home Ent. taps Feldman sr. veepee

 

Regal Cinema taps Westerling

 

Sy Weintraub

 

Paramount inks off-net barter deal for 'Moesha'

 

Sci Fi buys 'Babylon' Rights

 

Players

 

Sony, Di Novi touched by 'Trouble with Angels' redo

 

Helmer turns to 'Dust'

 

'Wonderland' flak

 

Laffer fest calls for entries

 

Noiret garners Cannes Fest award

 

Margo Kaufman

 

Fred Kelly

 

Joe Talbot

 

Erica Kerry Blohm

 

Milton H. Uhley

 

Ola Butler

 

Kenneth Marshall Peterson

 

Collins, country singer & songwriter, dead at 69

 

AOL makes its Case for access

 

EM.TV says revs will zoom

 

Televisa upgrading Mexico City cable

 

'Taxi 2' hacks up Gallic B.O. record

 

Italy sets decoder standard

 

Laemmle acts on Method Fest

 

3 TV anchors aweigh pronto

 

'Warrior' tops Imagens

 

Portal percolates

 

Org issues kidvid guidelines

 

Satcaster Sky subs up in Latam markets

 

U.K.'s Film Council gives $10 million to prod'n orgs

 

Lawrence to pen Alphabet laffer

 

Content takes aim at Hirschberg

 

ABC: 'Witch' way now?

 

Advertisers won't look at key issues, say actors

 

Inside Moves

 

Warner exec named interim CEO at dot-com

 

CNN ups Whelton

 

IFC, Mr. Mudd team for Web, print, TV & broadband

 

TBS renews 'Ripley's' for 2nd season

 

Creative Planet goes to the Source

 

Peppermint twist

 

Hong Kong kicks out ESPN, adds soccer

 

iFilm snaps up site

 

MPAA sues against 'Net piracy again

 

'N Sync's 'Strings' ties up top spot

 

Latin Grammys set for Sept. 13

 

State launches location-scouting site

 

Wynter married to 'Bride'

 

'Toy 2' mighty in Blighty

 

Brothers in a Conundrum; Rat Pack lives

 

Kelley sending McBride to the principal's office

 

InternetStudios buys TV site

 

Wolf ankles as Mostow/Lieberman prexy

 

Disney Int'l rocks its world exex

 

Thompson, Nichols to HBO's 'Wit'

 

Biggs digs into 'Prozac'

 

'Sense'-sational

 

'Falcone' doesn't mob CBS

 

Sayles gets on Hanks' 'Case'

 

Sony Music Int'l raises vet Bondell

 

'Enigma' skips B'way

 

'Rules' uncovered

 

'Return' engagement

 

Rembrandt to invest in e.tv

 

RAI Trade 1999 profits rise; soccer deals eyed

 

Spanish cablers form feevee, PPV company

 

World Briefs

 

German pay service nabs Kinowelt pics

 

Beresford cooks 'Pasta'

 

Canal Plus, Telepiu to invest in Italo films

 

Aurora, Voyager cook 'Lobster'

 

Man detained, released for Oscar theft files suit

 

Bulling on USA nets

 

Vivendi, AOL seek deal

 

DGA OKs agreements for 'Net productions

 

Nerve.com hits paper

 

Specktor joins Rightscenter.com

 

Ahmanson skeds revised 'Drum Song'

 

Dreyfuss content with Goosehead teen site

 

BMG forms deals with tech pack to take music online

 

WGA freelancers OK three-year PBS pact

 

CBS taps ex-Sony exec

 

Thornton slings blade to make Coens' barber cut

 

Web P.C. site goes Global

 

Reeves plays 'Hardball'

 

Cusack sweet on MGM, Trilogy's 'Success' pic

 

Warner Bros. signs Sellers

 

'Phantom' on video: $100 mil in 2 days

 

New Post master

 

Culkin prays at Foster's 'Altar'

 

Players

 

Miramax taps ballet saga

 

Miller joins H'w'd Software

 

Inside Moves

 

Benefit to fete CAA team

 

Just kidding around

 

'Immortals' thrills U

 

Pic backer gets $3.4 mil settlement

 

An Eye on renewals

 

Mediaset topper Carlotti may ankle

 

Loud names Lighty exec VP

 

Corrections

 

'Soul' helmer to tackle docu on H'wood nightlife

 

Cosby honored by USC

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'East' opens D.C. fest devoted to world cinema

 

'True Life' to launch MTV News & Docs unit

 

IFP taking act on road

 

B'Way's 'Dead' show will be buried April 16

 

VP, publisher Byrne ankles Daily Variety

 

Reviews

Bus Riders Union

Taxi 2

Rules of Engagement

Falcone

Rollin' on the T.O.B.A.

Sunday on the Rocks

Against the Glass

Falcone - Cbs Mob Knock-Off 'Falcone' Is Hit, Miss

Right Here Right Now

Cuckoos

The Comedy of Errors

Contact - Broadway Stage Makes for a Dazzling 'Contact'

House Arrest

The Hologram Theory

Venice

The Darker Face of the Earth

Celebration/the Room

The Great Man

Hollywood.Com

Artistdirect - Artist Starving for Info

License to Thrill : A Cultural History of the James Bond Films

Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing -- The Marketing of Culture

The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip - Masters' Mouse Trap Fails to Catch Eisner

Astoria

Female Company

The Miracle Maker

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea

Wildflowers

Rollercoaster

The Road to El Dorado

Sound and Fury

Keeping the Faith - Slick Show of 'Faith'

Rules of Engagement - 'Rules' Engages Plot But Not Characters

Appalachian Journey

Rahsaan Patterson

Down the Drain

The Cherry Orchard

Right Here Right Now

Faces of Evil

Hidden Blessings

Karen Akers

The Wonderful World of Disney: Angels in the Infield

Don Quixote

Ray Manzarek

Ready to Rumble

Dr. John

The Older Man You Always Wanted

Red Ink

Metamorphoses

Surfing For Life

The Older Man You Always Wanted

Ready to Rumble

Actors

Ray Manzarek

Metamorphoses