Table of Contents
Week of 07/08/2000

Articles

Urgent query: Where are buoys of summer?

 

Myers deepens 'Dieter' duel

 

'Scary' gets the gross

 

Malin: Studios must change

 

L.A. delays vote on shooting ban

 

TCA Briefs

 

Fox Family welcomes 'Freaks'

 

ClickRadio clicks Cannelli to VP

 

Threshold brings 'Metal' to Web

 

Curious Pictures to produce 'Net toons

 

Latino film fest offers Web b'casts

 

D'Works seeking cluck bucks via Web

 

Telefonica may buy Cecchi Gori channels

 

Russians press Gusinsky

 

Col TriStar favors Hayek's 'Gran Vida'

 

Spain: UMG, Prisa form Latin music label

 

Japan: Disneyland expands

 

Argentina gets pay TV pair

 

Riffage.com collects 1500 Records

 

TV Globo will bow 'Survivor'-like show

 

Mouse mulls sale of Teuton Infoseek stake

 

Seven up amid talk of Telstra takeover

 

Media scions get training on jobs

 

'Ratz' gets up to bat

 

CSA wants written answer

 

Noyce to hop into 'Rabbit'

 

Brazil Congress sets manifesto to lift biz

 

Reality results

 

Webzines merge for Automatic Media

 

Miramax, HBO 'Greenlight' indie bow

 

Messier message: Brave new U

 

Crix decry no-shows at press tour

 

CBS News, VH1 to work together

 

TNT shuffles hoops, pix

 

Estefan takes 6 noms from Latin Grammys

 

Galway bows fresh Eire

 

Kleiser enlists at USC org for VR study

 

ScreenFriends develops software thesps

 

Music firms form LibraryTracks megasite

 

MediaTrip offers Clinton to musicians

 

Summer's hits click overseas

 

Bill Maher

 

Festival Czechs in

 

Cohen joins Siegel as lit manager

 

SAG tars Bush for nonunion ad

 

Webb's 'Cardiff' rights to Fragile

 

Corrections

 

Spanish film vet exec Romero ankles post

 

India: CMM to air digital channels

 

UK: Dome could be BBC theme park

 

In Demand links promo to B&N Web site

 

Reed Elsevier taps Prozes

 

Fox Family enters reality game with 'Race'

 

Field opens house

 

Outfest eyes 'Tammy Faye'

 

'Brother' off to solid start to long summer

 

Alliance Atlantis ups Morayniss to exec VP

 

At CNBC, a bigger 'Business'

 

WGA horizon cloudy

 

Best Film, Kinowelt to bow venture

 

Variety ups Schneider

 

BBC to cut 900 more jobs

 

Myers sues U in 'Dieter' dustup

 

Keith Campbell

 

Czech TV pacts with Hrejbek

 

Holocaust doc firms helmers

 

UGC's latest discount draws distribs' ire

 

U.S. preem of 'Dancer' opens N.Y. fest

 

ShowEast honor set for Stock

 

BBC America to preem 'Mirrorball' in '01

 

IFC to show 'Nightmare' in Screams fest

 

NBCi licences 20 pix from MovieFlix

 

Paulson snares prison pic rights

 

LeBlanc giving his 'All'

 

Animal Planet lands at U parks

 

NBC soaps outsud ABC for women

 

New Line chalks up Moore for 'Cheaters'

 

Starz! grabs busts

 

BSkyB reaches for Open

 

'Cops' targets Fox

 

NeoPlanet adds MTV to browsing bevy

 

Marcus upped to sales VP of Telepictures

 

Malloys, Spyglass hang 'Ten'

 

AT&T calls on RespondTV

 

BMG ups Wilson to link marketing efforts

 

iFilm pacts with Palomar for online distrib

 

Excite taps McEachen as CFO

 

Webzines Feed, Suck fold into 1 Automatic

 

Promark navigates 'Styx'

 

Par, Nick to 'Father' pic from classic TV series

 

Eye likes what it sees with 18-49 demo win

 

Watchdog clears Kirch web merger

 

Closes drop B'way B.O.

 

Modern Times will beam into Baltics

 

U grabs 'Gray' rights

 

TF 1 kicks coin, scores

 

Film faves win kudos

 

Sahara bows pic acad

 

Diane Divers Blair

 

Casey Alexander Meyer and Thomas James Meyer

 

Devin Riley Landes

 

Gabriel Fate Kessell

 

Andrea Manuela Seibert

 

Steve Spignese

 

Catherine Mouttet, Chris Van Buskirk

 

Adam Sexton, Allen Grazer, Amelia Bryant, Mandy Barton

 

H'w'd Salutes Clintons

 

Hong Kong blockbusters set for U.S. vid

 

Taormina tested by game, history

 

H'w'd to hold goodbye gala for Clinton

 

UCI-Cinesa, Kinepolis exhibs pact for Spain

 

TV trio mix marriage-on-rocks cocktail

 

Russia reups Center license

 

Food Network to add six series this fall

 

Idealab animates cursor company Comet

 

Massive Media taps Radbel as CTO

 

Brilliant Digital appoints new execs

 

CBS puts 'Noon' in datebook

 

'Mission' successful o'seas

 

Jakob Dylan Markus

 

Trachtenberg psychs up for 'Buffy'

 

Strikers picket in desert & campus shoots

 

Rockwell lifts role in Mamet's 'Heist'

 

Animators create Internet agreement

 

'Dinosaurs' to walk again

 

Latin Discovery net inks deals for 2 channels

 

C'vision bows web access

 

Samuel Weintraub

 

Adam Jordan

 

Ludwin reups as NBC's lord of latenight

 

McCallany finds 'Freedom'

 

Two thrillers reach Shoreline

 

Moseley enthroned as Crown exec veep

 

Nelson leads war 'Zone'

 

Lane storms into 2 Par pix

 

Universal Message

 

Saving Par's Ryan: Affleck called in

 

Deutsche Telekom upgrades

 

BAM guns for Woo style

 

Fox's health improves with TW, Adelphia

 

'Pokemon' on march again

 

Bob Rolontz

 

Rene Reyes

 

James Kavanagh, Sheila Melody, John D. Eraklis

 

Fred Croshal

 

Eye rides a shore thing to victory

 

Kiwi exhib merger off after nix by gov't

 

Putin's remarks draws ire of Russian media

 

Pressure on Media-Most

 

Sci Fi springs for Corman's 'Scorpion'

 

Halmi puts princes to work

 

Cinematheque Ball fetes Willis

 

Senate hears music-downloading debate

 

Former Col exec Strauss inks prod'n pact

 

Striking actors target AT&T for union-busting

 

Galaxy Latam's DirecTV subs pass 1 mil

 

Discovery.com ups marketing maven Miller

 

Jersey inks deal with Tandem duo

 

Wirebreak.com breaks off staff

 

New Line ups Tuckerman to distrib prexy

 

Dixon to pen D'Works toon

 

Sorvino triumphs for 'Love'

 

Rewiring of TW

 

Miracle growth blooms with Sacker, Savay-Ross

 

WNBC to produce newscast for Paxson affil

 

TV bump boosts Mainframe

 

ABC taps DiMartino sr. VP

 

Luke Charles Tanner

 

Marquee vault a Team effort

 

Oscar makes home in Kodak Theater

 

Halmi's 'Prince'-ly projects

 

Indie 32 taps Barkan; Dorn forms Label M

 

Disney Latin net sets DirecTV bow

 

Moscow fest to bow 'Romanovs,' 'Life'

 

Stokes' Olympic webs get on

 

Comcast reels in Viacom sports net

 

Italo Mouse taps Malek CEO

 

Fox sports roundup

 

Granada ups war chest $

 

Seagate, Thompson to sell storage device

 

Warren joins Wahlberg for Fox's 'Visitor'

 

Hutton, Williams enlist in 'War'

 

Robards smart enough for Spielberg's 'A.I'

 

WB tunes up for 'Popstars' reality skein

 

Streaming21 garners $ for tech rollout

 

Wall Street sez hooray for Yahoo!

 

New pair on 'Frasier's' couch

 

WMA fired up over eBay script sales

 

Cameron won't be back

 

Karlovy Vary has 'Animal' in its cage

 

Endemol zeros in on Gaul

 

HBO inks Ambrose for 'Six'

 

'Goblet of Fire' pours 3 mil more copies

 

CelebSites.com offers online image control

 

Marvel's Daredevil on pic trail

 

A real 'Scary Movie': Summer B.O. down 3%

 

Merrick memorial at St. James

 

Schacter veeps SFX in public relations

 

Cinema Plus future shaky

 

Manhattan Screenings: Roof with a view

 

Moliere's 'Bungler' bows Wharf season

 

Regis tops all-stars

 

SAG in economy

 

Roeper takes 'Movies' seat

 

Rita Chandler

 

XFL Team pins down L.A., Coliseum

 

Eminem No. 1 for seventh straight week

 

EC OKs Telefonica/Endemol deal

 

Seagram snag rumors up Vivendi shares

 

Media Park seeks pre-IPO U.S. coin

 

Nat'l Geo ups Smith to veep

 

Triana tackles 'Bolivar'

 

Noah Emmerich

 

CA gov budgets prod'n bonuses for biz

 

Cinefondation taps talent

 

French love quizzer

 

SKY to offer 'Music'

 

Dunst enrolls in Disney's 'Seventeen'

 

Wells sets 'Time' with WB, D'Works

 

Evan Matthew Lorber

 

Revolution inks pact to join 'Family Firm'

 

Convention Tension

 

Smits, Lee join Episode II

 

Jersey taps Hardesty VP

 

'Shoot' to kill off-net run

 

CBC TV shuffles news dept. exec postings

 

Fox directive leaves bad taste for Bochco

 

Lisa Gomez and Jon Seda

 

'Buck' trucks in L.A.

 

NL snatches spec actioner 'Diablo'

 

Quebec audit uncovers tax credit abuse

 

Laurie Kantor and Seth Finn

 

Mary Temkin and Jeff Copeland

 

Mia A. Farrell and Matthew Kimball

 

Stephanie Otto and Michael Onaitis

 

Cristian de la Fuente

 

D.J. Qualls

 

Tomas Arana

 

Johnny Strong

 

Larry Miller

 

Marty Ingels

 

Corrections

 

Edinburgh fest probes alt roots

 

Reality, digital fare dominate IFFM slate

 

New Livent lawsuit

 

CinemaStar unspools more red ink for year

 

German auds tune in MTV

 

Humanitas honors 'Basketball'

 

Golden Boot Awards back in the saddle

 

Going by the books

 

Sogepaq nabs pix for Spain

 

Regional channels blossom in India

 

H'wood biggies spike B.O. 19%

 

ONdigital on target

 

Zee reaches out to Oz

 

Arcand set for U.S. release

 

Arkin makes move to A&E's 'Center Street'

 

Si TV says yes to Perez for its COO

 

Col TriStar TV ups Daniels

 

ABC skein 'Boy' meets Disney Channel

 

Gemstar closes TV Guide deal

 

Studios USA TV div. reshuffles sales exex

 

Oz, Canuck indies 'Saddle' up for skein

 

R'show taps Sullivan exec VP of business

 

Silvercup wins Eye's sitcom

 

Fox Family ups Feingold to senior VP

 

IATSE to rep staff at Roundabout Co.

 

Crowe's project gets title

 

Stossel talker is shelved

 

HBO jazzes up tour

 

Braga to captain Par's 'Trek' skein

 

Driver shifts to 'High' gear

 

Filmmakers drink in Karlovy Vary screenings

 

N.Y. uses 'Senses'

 

NBA taps Messick int'l sr. VP

 

U wraps up Hales to pen 3rd 'Mummy' pic

 

O'seas coin backs Singer slate

 

Bertelsmann reshelves book HQ in N.Y.

 

'Survivor' seg gets biggest aud yet

 

Wendy Schneider and Stephen Klong

 

Leo Fitzpatrick

 

Charles Shaughnessy

 

Scarlett Chorvat

 

Monet Mazur

 

Miller 'Focus'-es on Macy Film

 

Lifetime channel taps VH1's Brand

 

Swartzlander inks 2-year pact at ATG

 

Robert Brown Wright

 

RIAA files response to Napster brief

 

Inside Move: Crowe's 'Crash' course

 

PBS' reality check

 

Laugh web's ratings up

 

Acad to fete Murch as part of sound fest

 

Pressler parks atop Disney

 

Stan Lee, hip-hopper Blige to team

 

U exec exits for Napster

 

Prod'n studio Honkworm.com lays off 3

 

Neurotrash.com gets new VP, director

 

Vivendi reprices, stalls environment unit IPO

 

Sr. VP of ad sales tapped by MTVi

 

Chernin addresses the digital threat

 

Producers to bow Mercosul pay web

 

New coin for Sony net

 

Sharp, Pioneer pact

 

Tele5, BVI Spain pact to bow distrib'n arm

 

TV Globo to host Brazilian music b'cast

 

Festival do Rio gets three-year sponsor

 

Sony sewing up Cornwell pic deal

 

Carlton sells tech arm Quantel

 

RealNetworks finds a player in AOL

 

Slovenians boost pic prod'n

 

BMG Songs does hires, promotions

 

Teen dramas going digital with 'Manic'

 

Disney reups Bruckheimer for 3 years

 

Wiest will try 'Law & Order'

 

Fox, Blue Sky commit to computer ani

 

NBC Cable Nets taps Kelly sr. VP

 

Herbert Fox

 

Rose Marie Thomas

 

Logan Ramsey

 

Berman retunes with Par music

 

Spielberg, Lego to build young filmmakers

 

Imax stock jumps as investor sought

 

Court TV gavels in 'Profiler,' 'Forensic'

 

Alanis.Z.com bows, offers tour content

 

Broadband Sports, iFuse.com make deal

 

TW wears park suit

 

Word on the Street dissed Hollywood stox

 

Deutsche buys Swiss concert promoter

 

Fox syndie arm ups 2 exex

 

Hudlin skeins set for dot-com

 

Hi-def to bow in Dec.

 

Toon TV taps Edwards

 

'Scary' TV deals

 

Alliance Atlantis lands distrib Great North

 

Czech fest to close with bard pic

 

NBC touts Democratic confab coverage

 

'X-Men' opens strong Locarno lineup

 

Emmy producer Seligman returns

 

Ad rep: No formal talks

 

ATG serves up Dinner for series deal

 

Wass, Stein at Touchstone

 

Hoffman, Leitch set to 'Party'

 

Reviews

Survivor / Survivor Sucks

Big Brother

Icebox

History Lessons

Trade Off

Diana Ross and the Supremes

Orpheus Descending

Mr. Rice's Secret

Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

Miss Desmond Behind Bars

Numero Bruno

Elizabeth Rex

City Loop

Blinding Light

Orientations -- Christopher Doyle: Stirred Not Shaken

Low Self Esteem Girl

4:48 Psychosis

Jet Set

The Brian Epstein Story

Buried Country

Pippin

Wonder of the World

Elizabeth Rex

Orpheus Descending

The Crumple Zone

The Winter's Tale - Public Theater Cooks Up Mild 'Winter's Tale'

Icebox

Survivor

Opposite Sex

Nuremberg

Scary Movie - Wayans Not Afraid to Stretch Limits for Laughs with 'Scary'