Table of Contents
Week of 04/29/2000

Articles

Brian Rogers

 

John Bryan

 

Rookies torpedoed

 

Max Leon Weiss

 

Biz Briefs

 

No more fun & games

 

New owners to wheel Ealing onto the Internet

 

Mouse hits year high on analyst's thumbs up

 

'Spoils' spots Meyer

 

'Erin' rocks U's April market share victory

 

Winter's 'Fever' hits Lions Gate

 

IFilm buys resource firms

 

Eurosport kicks off

 

CineMedia, BVI ink distrib deal for German-lingo areas

 

Holiday draws auds

 

TF-1/Telema partnership plans $30 million films

 

'Pals' gets pen pal

 

NBC to delay Pax time-shift of 'News'

 

Caan, Larter don 'Jesse' oater roles

 

Bordair, New Line cook deal

 

Landing the 'Big Kahuna'

 

Sciorra branches out in Italo-language feature

 

Willis and wrestler pack sweeps punch

 

Showtime steers 'Queer'

 

Biz sees MP3.com ruling as victory for copyrights

 

Plummer bites into 'Dracula'

 

Gotham indie strikes union deal

 

Stewart stews onstage

 

John Hardman, Jessica Pinto

 

Steve Smith

 

Akiko Kumagai-Kuo

 

'Love Story' Legacy: Better laid than never

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Wilson enters 'Glass House'

 

Inside Moves

 

Gutierrez rides to 'Manhattan'

 

Berlin Fest topper to ankle after '01

 

Warners jumps for 'Jack'

 

Gala will celebrate 'Modern Times'

 

AFTRA exec director ankles for pilots post

 

VH1 shows its age with classic rock digital net

 

Saltzman joins Akin Gump

 

Allure mag taps Grimes

 

'Music Man' bones up in N.Y.

 

AMC honors femme film with Streisand special

 

Millea joins Talk as editor at large

 

Exhib Silver taps finance vet Andrus

 

Minnelli cancels Chi gig

 

Gamount's Le Pogam exits

 

With strike hours away, unions ink interim pacts

 

Nicole Choper

 

Max Steelman

 

Randy Freer

 

World Briefs

 

DVD pumps German vid

 

Red-tape reduction

 

Kirch retaining German soccer b'cast rights

 

Indie PR Web site set

 

NBA playoff ratings dip for Peacock

 

Bill Woods

 

ABC inks journo reality skein

 

McDowell has keys to Paradise's Matter

 

Spencer plugs into Taper Leight show

 

Barker sez all right to 29th year with 'Price'

 

'Talk to Me,' 'Band' don't make ABC sweeps sked

 

'South' parks at Comedy cabler

 

VH1 greenlights telepic 'At Any Cost'

 

Microsoft betas on sound

 

Outer Critics spread the wealth in kudos tallies

 

Young warns of network hardball

 

Hasselhoff's show a no-go

 

Jacobson alone at top of BV

 

NBC rides out magic carpet

 

Unions take to the streets

 

Diaz will join Scorsese gang

 

Alphabet will take ratings hit

 

Ryan runs for 'Borders'

 

A boffo bunny hop

 

9 orchestrate 'Contact' letter

 

Gutierrez rides to 'Manhattan'

 

Tyro novel charms Hyperion

 

Larry E. Leshansky

 

Rose Weintraub

 

Arthur Morton

 

Dave Morris

 

Alfred Scalpone

 

Spacey lends hand in Clinton gag reel

 

Slamdance bows shorts Specials

 

Tokyo to preem Godard pic epic

 

Helkon, Fusion up pact

 

Eskenazi upped at Henson

 

SFX revs soar in 1st quarter

 

Ong to top Geo web

 

CTV calms shakeup fears

 

Berg inks HBO series pact

 

Nick Studios tap Aries veep of prod'n

 

Shared WB window

 

Blighty thrill pill

 

Programming chief ankles Oz's ABC-TV

 

Hastings' pudding: Alliance

 

Musician Young sued over alleged bio block

 

Sturm sets up shop

 

Inside Moves

 

Minghella joins Mirage with Pollack

 

Cable flap a mouse trap

 

New Yorker to fete anni

 

VH1 veeps Schwartz

 

WB11 to bow ayem newscast

 

WorldGate, Mexican cabler ink pact

 

TodoSport taps four exex

 

Online arthouse distrib lands coin

 

Sony, U to bow Web music service

 

Cable has Elian but no auds

 

Par ups Friedman to sr. VP

 

Warner Music taps Noble senior veep

 

Producers hit Stewart with Equity filing

 

S.F. film fest fetes Ryder, Iranian helmer Kiarostami

 

BMI crazy for 'La Vida Loca'

 

Scribe confab taps panelists

 

Nosotros calls for submissions

 

D'Works contends

 

Cloud wafts to BNC as VP, ent. mktg.

 

Idealab buoys Scout with funds

 

Tim Kiley

 

Inside Move

 

Ad world getting back to the blurbs

 

Eye has 'Big' summer plan

 

Martin, Carsey-Werner ink three-year TV prod'n deal

 

Perez is engaged in Beresford's 'Bride'

 

New Line ups Goss Robino

 

BAFTA to bestow honor on Spielberg

 

Lindstrom bids 'Good Day' to N.Y. as theater critic

 

Wolfe parries 'Party' pan

 

Carrie Stevens

 

Shadow on merger

 

Pols call for uniform entertainment code

 

Street ready to go

 

Scott segues from 'Gladiator' to 'Hannibal'

 

Larry E. Leshansky

 

Peacock halts ABC win streak

 

Dealing exclusively

 

Film Council commits to slate of U.K. pix

 

Oz TV pioneer, shows log Logies

 

Pearson will tell the 'Truth': Gamer a go for next season

 

Fox Sports Net ups Tracy Dolgin to prez

 

Hurd banners consolidated

 

Silver lays off 160

 

Nick to fill TGIF gap

 

Players

 

Williams assails MS org, drug firms

 

UCLA anoints D.P. Daviau

 

ABC back on Time

 

Eszterhas books return

 

Mouse House taps scribes Paul, Daurio to pen 'Yeller'

 

Arista sings Reid's praises

 

'Millionaire' stars dust demos, ratings records

 

Hollywood.com bows site for theater lovers

 

Sony Pix hikes Giaquinta

 

Corrections

 

Garcelle Beauvais

 

Connie Britton

 

Kerr Smith

 

W. Earl Brown

 

Susan Egan

 

Elise Horn

 

E! Online, Tribe pact to share content

 

AFTRA inks 1st pact with Comedy Central

 

Rose Weintraub

 

Arthur Morton

 

Dave Morris

 

Alfred Scalpone

 

Silvery screener

 

'Ogopogo' hatched by MBP, Barryfilms

 

CNN makes major move to launch in South Asia

 

'Scream' scribe set for Oz speech

 

Talent manager Schenck joins AMG

 

Zombie 'House' to roll

 

Teamsters join fray

 

Yet another record for 'Millionaire'

 

Miramax puts Tykwer over 'Heaven'

 

Fine Line hangs London sales shingle

 

'Gladiator' enters arena

 

ABC heyday offsets Disney studio dip

 

MGM, Atlas pact for pix

 

Petersen storms Medien

 

Gen Art fest taps 'Tully,' 'Mona Lisa'

 

Producers nix bow for 'Knocking' Off B'Way

 

'N Sync tops despite 'Heat' from Braxton

 

Televisa revs up

 

LL Cool J

 

Ronny Cox

 

Lauren Graham

 

Bryan Kirkwood

 

Jake Richardson

 

CDNow tuning up outreach

 

Insurance tangle

 

Metallica revs Web war

 

New Line ups Spiegelman

 

Players

 

'Seinfeld's' 1st dip

 

MTV Networks taps Diversity VP

 

HBO, Showtime go legit

 

NetAwards to download Aug. 2

 

Playboy Latam taps del Valle

 

Spain's Filmax scares up Balaguero's 'Darkness'

 

English film an 'Enigma' for Senator

 

Vox popular: CLT/UFA to buy it

 

Nick packs with Mattel

 

Twentieth taps Licht sr. veep for marketing

 

Netcaster Eveo taps Knoller music arm VP

 

Centropolis taps Roskin Veep

 

Murdoch exits BSkyB

 

Berg-Saccani, Neurotrash ink

 

D'Elia is up Kelley's 'Ally'

 

Roth goes 'Gangster'; Lucas eyes Anakin

 

'Graham' rocks town

 

Franks to fill dual roles at newly wed congloms

 

FCC blasts Time Warner for pulling ABC in sweeps

 

Viacom gets a go

 

New Yorker wins 3 Nat'l Mag Awards

 

Shubert orders up play for new site

 

Corrections

 

Absentee Twain wins top country music prize

 

Richard Voll

 

Telma Hopkins

 

Pair gets rights to 'Swimming'

 

Journo heavyweights consider 'Net & news

 

Jones wraps up Box Music post

 

Murdoch passes on Jerusalem sports

 

Toppers talk tech

 

Bieber pacts with QuickBand

 

United Artists cuts losses with screens

 

'The Weekenders' defeats 'Pokemon'

 

Inside Moves

 

Oldman added to 'Hannibal's' menu

 

ABC rides 'Millionaire' to big sweeps leads

 

Col marketing exec ankles

 

Miramax inks book deal with tyro scribe

 

Pixar plucks Bird, Roth

 

World Briefs

 

DNA taps Sternberg as chief info officer

 

Quinta backs 'Midnight' sequel

 

American Directors panel sets slate

 

Davis coin sought from record labels

 

ABC inks deal for Bullock's '28 Days'

 

Syndies sidelined

 

Rachel Hage

 

AOL, TW boast new lineup card

 

'Millionaire' skeds extra celeb shows

 

Rozells rings in as Liberty Digital CFO, exec veepee

 

Brewster races to U pic

 

CBS Cable, MTV Networks to be combined

 

Overseas gets cash infusion

 

Telekom inks Web deal with RealNetworks

 

Charter to roll out VOD for L.A. subs

 

Giacchetto arraigned

 

Fox 2000 shepherds 'Somebody' script

 

FilmFour sets Hopkins pic

 

Pricey, dicey pix

 

Windswept names Stone prexy

 

Comedy cabler joins 'Bots' battle

 

CBS News journo Brady cashes out

 

Cisneros' Cl@se to hit Argentina

 

TF1 chief at 'Home' with French remake

 

Tenors take seats

 

U Pictures ups Fox to production VP

 

Acad taps 31 student finalists

 

Corrections

 

Fincher, Col near 'Panic' pact button

 

'Love' bugs munch mail

 

Weinsteins keep their Mouse ears

 

Agents strike blow for SAG

 

U Music, pics power Seagram

 

Reviews

The Magic of Marciano

The Enchanted Interlude

Ani Difranco

The 3 Tenors

Platee - Silly 'Platee' Tugs at the Heartstrings

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust

Our Lady of Sligo

Hard Fruit

The Far Side of the Moon

Paragon Springs

The Music Man - All-American 'Music' Plays Sweet on B'Way

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

Geppetto

Take Me Home: The John Denver Story

Hollywood 101: The Film Industry

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx - Derivative 'Groucho' Puts Ducks in a Row

Seed

Pretty Devils

The Magic of Marciano

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

Just Messing About

Imagine: Surfing As Sadhana

Hotel Splendide

Fuckit

Chill Out

Around the Pink House

A Question of Taste

Kevin & Perry Go Large

X

Mask of Desire

Wisconsin Death Trip

Eeny Meeny

No One Sleeps

Red Dirt

20 -- Venti

The Enchanted Interlude

First, Last and Deposit

The Sexual Life of the Belgians 4: Pleasure and Hysteria

Jitney

Uncle Vanya

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band

Fiona Apple

Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce

The Seagull

Ute Lemper

What Happened to Tully

Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure

Culture Clash Anthology: A 15-Year Retrospective

Bill Graham Presents

Dirty Blonde

Ghosts in the Cottonwoods

Shut Up and Love Me

The Beginning of August

On Hallowed Ground

Geppetto

Le Manege

Cymbeline

Cupid & Cate

Jason and the Argonauts

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

The Rivals

Michael Jordan to the Max


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