Table of Contents
Week of 07/22/2000

Articles

'X-Men' lies beneath

 

Actors vow to step up campaign

 

Griffin checks in to New Line's 'John Q'

 

Greenestreet's Hall exits

 

'M:I2,' 'X' hit, 'Patriot' misses at o'seas B.O.

 

Fox dons 'Dharma'

 

MGM, Rentrak ink DVD rev-sharing deal

 

Star, Bloom talk business

 

Feds fight Toy ploy

 

Pic parodies reality binge

 

Media Park bulks up to hit Latin America

 

Fest future secure

 

Emmy noms update

 

SPI set to launch operations in Poland

 

Locarno Fest prexy dies

 

Baldwin, ATG pact for series

 

Bratt will play Pinero

 

AntEye inks Russell's 'Hernandez'

 

Variety taps Gaydos for London post

 

Second 'Santa' set for Disney, Allen

 

Eye to keep reality in check, prexy sez

 

Disney bags 'Boy' as vehicle for Karz

 

Wolpert washes his hands of Scour.com

 

RioPort raises $ for digital music delivery

 

American Eagle, Miramax cut clothes deal

 

CBS, Fox, Pax run with Paralympic Games

 

Script sneaks: Latest revenge of nerds

 

Networks putting on the Ritz

 

'Dead's' lively evening

 

'Loser' wins everything

 

Jacob Young

 

Dian Bachar

 

Amy Lyndon

 

Disney plans 3rd theme park in Anaheim

 

With no movement, SAG talks break off

 

Pacifica, Simmons wear comic 'Sable'

 

Young recoups after surgery

 

Correction

 

SeaCastle nabs poltical thriller 'Wing'

 

CIE revs rise 38% in 2nd qtr.

 

HBO hits mute button on Volume.com staff

 

MGM ups distrib vet Simi

 

Galaxy, BV ink PPV deal for Disney pix

 

Distrib Sunfilm rises

 

Sports site, AOL team

 

First boot gives 'Brother' a boost

 

Carlton taps Murphy chief exec

 

Fox, Holcomb ink for laffer

 

IMAX expands in Poland

 

Publicists protest ATAS' Emmy-pass ban

 

Surjik may helm 'Tree,' now at MGM

 

Disney to continue 'Air Bud' franchise

 

Artisan tunes up Shaggs

 

Softley touch sells Spacey

 

Eye defends Chen

 

Wynne, Bloom, Ganis added to UIT board

 

OnlineFilmSales tabs Bremer sales veep

 

Tommy Hinkley

 

Rodriguez ankles KABC

 

Confab sings of Napster

 

Messier revising plans for Canal Plus

 

VH1 baton to Marszalek

 

ABC nabs 21 Emmy news noms

 

TW-AOL merger now has Peacock worried

 

Ladd adds on to deal with MGM Studios

 

RTL is ready to expand U.K. base

 

Pol positioning

 

Disney stakes out Spanish satcaster

 

'Rififi' re-release sets Forum mark

 

J. Murdoch will address TV fest

 

Metro skeds 3 series preems

 

Telecom Italia in talks for TMC webs

 

Scahill upped to agent at WMA

 

Finlayson-Sitch tapped BFO head

 

Digital HDTV demo'd

 

BV offers fantasy pic

 

Amuse releases hit

 

Bugs nix Gotham concert

 

Mouse roars at Time-AOL

 

Neal Hitchens

 

Dutch seek subsidy cut

 

Kennard visits 'Garcia' set

 

'Patriot' loads up

 

'Thomas' preem attracts tykes galore

 

Corrections

 

Sales of 'Plant' wilt on King's Web site

 

Gallic helmer Sautet dies

 

Forman tops jury at Venice

 

Emusic, artists to share $10/mo. Fee

 

Lee Leon

 

Studios USA ups Bergman

 

Mouse scores scout

 

Fox calls for surcharges

 

Seven Arts, CanWest explode as Fireworks

 

F/x house ILM adds four director posts

 

Alphaville flips for laffer

 

Inside Move: Hunt on for 'Survivor' parodies

 

Sony taps Joblove for tech

 

Spears, Philbin back ad strike

 

Demme, Saxon to say adios

 

ABC scares up 'Beneath'

 

Frog net still seeing red, prez sez

 

Cassandra Group coffers near empty

 

Devlin gets 'Cellular' call

 

Diskeries quizzed by EC

 

Japanese exhibitors plexing muscles

 

Fuji honors 'Peanuts'

 

B'way makes sweet music at B.O.

 

Elektra taps C2's Reese

 

Palm pacts for Elwood duet with Napster

 

ABC trio triumphs to give net ratings win

 

Branding is Paramount for UPN

 

Dickie Rosenfeld

 

U deal to use Lugosi image

 

CBC trims 235 jobs

 

Art directors split design kudos categories

 

Frances Fisher

 

Marvel inks with iConnect.com

 

Kilmer tired of tabloid lore

 

ZDTV to team with Time Warner Cable

 

Honkworm to open division in Vancouver

 

Oz gov't sides with Internet providers

 

Mexican pol satire sweeps film nods

 

UCG's passes a go

 

Exec closes Open post

 

Momentum tabs Caplan sr. acquisitions VP

 

MGM Latam bows Web site

 

B'way has 'Love' affair with Stoppard

 

Eminem, 'N Sync top MTV VMA noms

 

'Springer' couple sought for murder

 

Oz's Griffiths slamdunks Ball's 'Under' lead

 

Gebbia greets 1st production 'Season'

 

Correction

 

Dream quirks

 

'Scary' scribes try teens

 

Romijn-Stamos is 'Roller' girl

 

USA, Fox will share 'Search'

 

'Sesame Street' spinoff set for S. Africa's SABC

 

A&E taps Mohamad sr. marketing veep

 

TV Azteca sales up; profits plunge

 

Benigni noses into 'Pinocchio'

 

Sorkin to nest at WBTV

 

Clare Kramer

 

Alphabet survives CBS, NBC

 

Hollywood.com inks with CinemaNow

 

On-Lion presence

 

Digital music outfits sour in 2nd quarter

 

Boyle to chair IFP unit

 

Intertainer.com taps Sonnenberg

 

'Hollow' kicks off 26th Deauville Fest

 

Posey joins the 'Party'

 

Harsh warning delivered to strikers

 

Chris-Craft/United TV taps Buccieri

 

LaMarre, Pras issue Warning with 'Ed'

 

Morgan taps Merrill Media banker Seibert

 

United sells trade mags

 

TiVo joins Nielsen, ASI to monitor auds

 

Inside Move: Gate swings on Harvey

 

New honcho at Telefonica

 

SonicNet clicks with Yahoo!

 

Tele Munchen preps for IPO as revs rise

 

Montreal laugh fest sees auds boom

 

Fox sues Viacom for Comcast sports deal

 

Nick elevates Rosenstein

 

Jerusalem fest fetes Douglas

 

Synditel's fate up to TCA

 

Fox's Summerall to retire in 2002

 

Survey finds fresh stuff on cable skeds

 

Music to RIAA's ears

 

Alexandra Holden

 

Stuart Stone

 

Jake Thomas

 

Artisan gets behind 'Bear'

 

Col TriStar sales ups Argentino

 

Vivendi runs gamut

 

WinFemme fest to honor Campion

 

'X-Men' comic scribes ink deal

 

Playboy Intl. Pacts with Venevision

 

'20/20' ups veteran producers

 

Nat'l Geo gets 'World'

 

AXN goes to extreme

 

Striking actors' rally shows solidarity

 

WB Pics ups Reina to sr. VP publicity

 

Machine maker Cintel for sale

 

Syndies in upswing after holiday doldrums

 

BigBrotherBlows briefly shut down

 

Go.com ups Goldstein to exec VP

 

Publicists get Emmys access

 

Gilbert jumps into 'Cars,' TV

 

Liberty adds to post house portfolio

 

Bello treks to China for 'Panda'

 

RTL stox debut in London

 

Sour note at Sony

 

Peterson ankles Random for S&S kids gig

 

Julie E. Villagram and Terry B. Zarchi

 

TBS 'Nets Wed. lineup

 

Time-AOL chills Diller

 

Mandalay's 'Borders' orders in Jolie

 

Urbanworld goes 'Backstage'

 

Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott

 

Damian Shannon and Mark Swift

 

Andrew Messick

 

Regina DiMartino

 

Carole Handle

 

Donna Harrison

 

Gregory Sneed

 

Maria Szakacs

 

Tony Dunaif

 

Publicists form events company

 

'True Rights' dances to festival win

 

UGC pass may draw fines

 

Kinowelt, Gemini in Russia distrib venture

 

Col, Montalban finally settle for good

 

Disney beams in local lingo

 

Loeb & Loeb picks up new partner

 

BSkyB to go digital sooner than planned

 

E-New and BDE pact

 

'Now That's' a debut; Eminem unseated

 

Gold Circle, Wenk ink on 'Wishcraft'

 

Scribe in the 'Dark'

 

D'Works plans reign for 'Joseph' vid pic

 

Universal Music inks with Musicbank

 

NBCi has double losses of last year

 

Uproar acquires Iwin for $100 mil in stock

 

'South' scribe sells pitch to WB

 

Col TriStar Int'l TV ups Iacono

 

Brody backs tyro scribes

 

Bond stirs MGM profits

 

Nat Geo web ups Wilk to exec VP

 

Telefonica taps Alierta new topper

 

Ben Savage

 

A visit from 'Klumps'

 

Par taps Wilson for 'Zoolander'

 

'Thomas' out on toot

 

SAG: Woods out of bounds

 

Intermedia taps vet Hausfater for key role

 

MP3 to settle with EMI

 

Justin Kirk

 

Nikolai Kinski

 

Howard Schacter

 

Carole Smith

 

Kim L. Pinto

 

William M. Shinker

 

Jason Weis

 

Kira Shanti Meers

 

Scott Pascucci

 

Carrie Trimmer

 

Gaumont in the red

 

India sat uplink gets OK

 

SAB linking with Turner

 

Advanced Medien, UIP pact for dist'n

 

Canal + Espana mull TV + pix shingle

 

Nine suing Oz newsmag

 

Plummer plays mini version of O.J. lawyer

 

Ad helmer Pytka sits out the strike

 

USA original series falter at the start

 

Ukraine's Yalta studio privatized

 

'Paris' craps out in Vegas

 

ABC calls on AT&T's cable

 

OpenTV posts 2Q earnings

 

HSX ups two

 

Moyes makes CFO at Veon

 

Danksi takes CFO spot at IVT

 

eClips taps Schoenberg as CEO

 

Warrant issued for 'Springer' guest

 

Disney embraces tyro scribe's 'Casanova'

 

InDigEnt forms for digital pix

 

Hunter crowned King in ABC telepic

 

Mia Meicai Dawson

 

Tech confab Siggraph wraps

 

EMI tunes to cost MP3.com $20 mil

 

WMA's Perman joins IMG sports as VP

 

StudioCanal, APG uncover 'Moss' pic

 

Par turns to Teutons to fund 4-pics

 

IN-Motion stakes out Myriad

 

U.S. pix miss the boat for Venice

 

Buddy Palmer

 

Thelonious JonDavis Cundieff

 

Connor Peters Ladwig

 

Russia's ORT set for ownership change

 

Shooting Gallery reveals fest slate

 

CBS to build 'Brickmaker' around Poitier

 

Eye's isle bet pays in ratings

 

Napster files appeal

 

Crown picks up net stakes from EM.TV

 

CanWest bags Endemol unit

 

CHUM sells MuchMusic to Rainbow

 

Net Brazil's Kanner heads to Globo.com

 

Mexico: Grupo Televisa issues 2Q report

 

Reg Grundy poised for A$50 mil IPO

 

WBTV, Stamos ink 1-year deal

 

Jacqueline Obradors

 

Danny Kopels

 

Oscar tech noms deadline Tues.

 

Animation vets bowing Webtoon site

 

Ent. Blvd. picks up Sullivan as CFO

 

WB to fund DiBella's 'Place' for Edmonds

 

Imagine eyes 'dot.compton'

 

Inside Move: SAG, ATA investigate agents

 

Feds ponder AOL-TW

 

For Stewart stock, living large is best

 

Fox soldiers on in Marine's 'Hell'

 

MGM finds 'Inner Beauty'

 

Woods finds himself in SAG's rough

 

'Blonde' has its Monroe

 

Revolution takes U turn to 'Stanford'

 

Shaw revs up, profits down

 

Miriam Milgrom and Lorne Morris

 

Rose Rebecca Shulman-Litwin and Max Jason Shulman-Litwin

 

Gigi Shapiro and Jay Kulick

 

Reviews

The Beating Of The Butterfly's Wings

Mysterious Ways

Angel on My Shoulder

A House Divided

Baby Blues

Stolen

Zoot Suit

Old School

Modern Comforts

Highway Melody

Skipped Parts

On Tiptoe: The Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The Atrocity Exhibition

The Lake

Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story

His Wife's Diary

A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

Hanele

Porno Film

France, Here We Come!

Vulcan Junction

Forget America

Private Lies

A Run for Money

La Bostella

Ants in the Pants

Brothers

Sex Out of Compassion

Fortress 2: Re-Entry

Policewoman

Sorted

The Pilgrimage of Students Peter and Jacob

They Nest

Hedda Gabler

Maraca

Linda Eder

The Huntress

Woman on Top

Eve 6; Goldfinger; Dynamite Hack

Sonic Youth

World Blues Party

The Trial of Othello

Full Bloom

Sheridan, or Schooled in Scandal

Spinning Into Butter

The Only Game in Town

Taking Sides

The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

The Man Who Came to Dinner

For Stars

The Guilty

Total Western

Girl on the Bridge

Live Virgin


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