Table of Contents
Week of 09/09/2000

Articles

'Watcher' tops weak B.O.

 

'Perfect' synergy

 

Kirch sells 6% of feevee division

 

Hacker's pro-Napster rampage hits 100 sites

 

Win a date with SocialNet.com's CEO

 

DC2 goes Heavy

 

Saturday ayem kids race opens up

 

Crudup goes 'Gray' for Armstrong pic

 

WB grabs 'Xuxa' pic

 

Brad Garrett

 

Python alum Jones bows prod'n house

 

'Girlfight' KOs competish at Deauville fest

 

O'seas auds look to be scared silly

 

Shea urges showbiz to avoid strike

 

Red carpet changes

 

Backstage Notes: Emmys 2000

 

'Rivers' run in San Sebastian

 

Canadian film guilds divided on pay plan for low-cost pix

 

Fresh faces get lift from rule changes

 

Gallery taps Tedeschi for interactive

 

Emmy 2000 Winners List

 

Emmys' wild 'West' show

 

Lucys sport support

 

Susan Jacobs

 

From all sides, it's time for attack-a-flack

 

SBS goes for shows

 

Andrew Davoli

 

Sara Downing

 

Robert Wisdom

 

Chris Coppola

 

Good news, bad news for MTV kudocast

 

Glass to ink lawyer laffer

 

15 arrested in raids on bootleg CD distribs

 

Team countersues FFP

 

Mouse buys 500 graphics workstations from SGI

 

Council will lead ORT

 

Sports Net taps exec

 

TV, telecom execs meet to eye Brazil

 

Inside Move: Strikes cause A-list shuffles

 

Lot 47, Lions Gate busy in Toronto

 

Two Canuck media giants seek merger

 

Harvard yarn attracts Hyperion

 

Iran, U.S. pix top Venice fest

 

L.A. is striking out

 

Replay adding Coke to menu

 

Remaining six want out of the 'Big' house

 

Exhib sees stox slip

 

AOL's latin unit posts 55% rev rise

 

Striking sentiment

 

Emmy voters eschew top-rated shows

 

Do 'Will,' 'West' wins spell change for NBC?

 

FTC: H'wood violence targets kids

 

Fox, Par woo Caron skein

 

MTV kudocast gets wild

 

WGA honors Emmy nominees and strike

 

NBC goes for gold

 

Cattaneo gives cast 'Break'

 

Desmond Harrington

 

Daniel Brocklebank

 

Washington takes aim

 

L.A. Opera tunes into movie vets

 

Famous Players on a fast-food Chase

 

'Black 2' on the way, Jones tells Deauville

 

Escalante escalates

 

Law hits cable piracy

 

Spacey flips strike coin

 

Agencies, iFilm click on screening accord

 

Warner cues music for purchase on 'Net

 

U.S. Open ratings slip

 

Temple, 20th talk bizness

 

Demise dot.com put on auction block

 

Malkovich mulls Goblin

 

HBO looks at real estate for Garofalo

 

Inside Move: Mechanic making shingle

 

Endemol seeks a home in U.S.

 

Curt Siodmak

 

Bochco inks playwright

 

Inside Move: 'Good Morning' to Ford

 

CNBC rallies Rukeyser for election

 

Zeitgeist nabs rights to Varda's 'Gleaners'

 

Studios play it safe in reaction to FTC

 

Nocturnal shindigs - Emmy parties

 

ABC scores with sports, Emmys

 

Inside Move: Azaria still in limbo on pact

 

LMNO, Target set five-year U.K. pact

 

Imax bowing 'Jordan'

 

MTV has Dutch treat

 

Zee nets going feevee

 

Endemol Goes for new COO

 

NTL linking Bavaria

 

Granada buys into Irish TV3

 

Gaul lensers sue UGC over cheap pic pass

 

'60 Seconds' nears $100 mil o'seas

 

Presley tapped to join the MGM Board

 

Epsilon about gone

 

Yankees pitch $1.4 bil plan on MSG renewal

 

Mediaset profits soar

 

Emmys power ABC

 

Neufeld in control of 'Powers' for Sony

 

USA bones up for high school 'Class'

 

Koch's Box lunch at MS

 

Bluetorch lights pinkslips

 

Network Products CEO joins ShowBizData

 

Netco chairman resigns

 

Atomic Pop pulls the plug

 

Chipmunks sue U, charge brand neglect

 

Yakker ads 'em up

 

Good Machine scores 'Series 7' rights

 

Almodovar's English muted

 

Sherak joins the Revolution

 

NBC takes reality idea into orbit

 

Peacock hopes to lift 'Cursed'

 

Report puts MTV, the WB in high-risk zone

 

Telenovela net to woo Turkey

 

Gaul pubcaster: non to reality TV

 

Inside Move: Miramax offering up 'O'

 

Picture This! comes 'Undone'

 

'Cats' wraps purr-fect run on Broadway

 

B'way B.O. sinks 17.5%

 

It's union time at the Apollo

 

New coin to aid UPC growth

 

Spacey gives $100,000 to SAG relief

 

Exhib woes impact Village Roadshow

 

William Morris vet Kenis bows shingle

 

Wenders, pubcaster WDR team for digital film slate

 

Street's French dip

 

TBS Latam ups Urdaneta

 

Edward Anhalt

 

Televisa denies it will buy Starmedia

 

Telefe adds Azul duty

 

HBO nails deal with Ball for funeral skein 'Under'

 

Vincent Pastore

 

Trapped like a rat

 

Disney's new guidelines

 

Viler funds L.A., Russian operas

 

Fox licensing ups Ironside

 

Clifford tapped Buena Vista prod'n veep

 

New Line inks 'Boys' helmer

 

Davis will go 'Blonde' for MGM

 

Verizon hangs up on 'Dr. Laura'

 

Secure Digital Music org issues challenge

 

Eye races to reality 'World'

 

Roxio taps Gorog as prez

 

IVT moves into DEN quarters

 

Thesps call on Cheney to push negotiators

 

Revolution solution for Bruckheimer

 

Regency lands 'Middle' man

 

CBS completes TV exec shuffles in 6 markets

 

Online surge predicted

 

Legit 'Cobb' heads toward Lortel base

 

Landry to clone into 'Repli-Kate'

 

'Angels' fly with Krevoy

 

H'wood catches hell from hill

 

Jean Speegle Howard

 

Jonathan David Kleinman

 

Sophie Alexandra Lawrence

 

James Russo

 

Policing competish

 

Playmates toys with Jackie Chan merch

 

Producers get CEO

 

Global gives $1 mil

 

Portuguese Discovery

 

Schulte aids Firm push

 

Cyclist backpeddles on SAG vow

 

WGAW survey shows rise in o'seas airings of U.S. TV

 

Seagal partner Nasso hangs own shingle

 

ATAS adds governors to its board

 

Lifetime buys into femme site

 

EchoStar junk bond sale set

 

Lions Gate opens to Canuck partnership

 

Into the ring at HBO

 

Myrick in Shapiro's 'Salvage' team

 

Inside Move: 'Cherry' heads for USA Nets

 

Donoghue to help ExtendMedia expand

 

Frog's 'Baby' still bouncing

 

Disney: ad regs 'R' us

 

Valenti carries H'w'd flag

 

Arianna Elle Appleby

 

'Memento' set to launch Newmarket distrib'n

 

Ferrell struts into Par's 'Zoolander'

 

Yamada hits North Korea

 

Museum chisels Stone retro

 

Brit producer options Ballard's 'Cannes'

 

Barnes & Noble adds Fatbrain tech lobe

 

Ryan James Bunting

 

Zooey Deschanel

 

Joan Van Ark

 

January Jones

 

Bucking the pass

 

BBC1 gives Salmon a sporting chance

 

'Famous' opening for London fest

 

Gas crisis fuels Sky News

 

Solari named prexy of Locarno festival

 

Artisan spins web

 

Malone talks up AT&T

 

RTL ups Antena 3 stake

 

Aurum's Ramos goes solo

 

Catherine Patricia Gentile and Joseph John Gentile

 

SFX forms marketing team

 

Coppola banner adds pair of TV prod'n pacts

 

Doumanian serves 'Butler'

 

Platinum inks with toon Netcaster

 

Greenstreet casts 'Pinero'

 

Clean it up or we will, solons say

 

Stan Lee conquers Conan with stock offer

 

Stewart rolls out plan for classic rock TV

 

Chase takes 'Cursed' reins

 

Revolution finds 'Lost'

 

Fox 2000 goes whole hog for biker pic

 

'Crossing' to bow ad-free

 

Inside Move: Artisan wants Icebox's 'Wong'

 

Morie joins Creative Technologies

 

Sputnik7 lands deal with StreamSearch

 

Twentieth TV preps 'Police Chases'

 

Bravo spec to examine H'w'd, D.C. alliance

 

TNT to sling 'Bull' for full 22 episodes

 

NATPE to honor Seinfeld with Chairman's Award

 

Hollywood catches hell from hill

 

Music Latin class

 

'Noticias 41' tops in N.Y.

 

TW Japan cuts DVD prices

 

NBA, Intel team on interactive deal

 

'Bait' sets L.A. hook

 

Broadway waits for 'Women'

 

Pathe, Reservoir in digital channel bid

 

Rodriquez to head Filmax toon arm

 

Bertelsmann boosts profits, eyes growth

 

TF1's 1st-half profits soar

 

E&G tracks down ani skein 'Inspector'

 

SAG board receives 73 shots at 25 slots

 

Nelly remains in No. 1 slot

 

'Cleo' put on hiatus

 

Hispanice presence felt in H'w'd

 

Inside Move: Double dose of reality

 

H'wood's Walk of Fame goes dot com

 

Fandom.com gains CFO, director

 

Fox hooks 'Bait' for shared run with TNT

 

Latin Grammy Winners

 

Col digs dinos in August heat wave

 

SAG, ad biz back to the table

 

Col rolls back 'Spider-Man'

 

Li's 'Dragon' lands its lady

 

Latin Grammys bow with bland ratings

 

Lions Gate shoulders 'Weight'

 

Gabriel Herbert Wilde

 

Kenya Rose Greenburg

 

Gabriel Julian Klass

 

B'way on Sunset confab opens Sept. 23

 

IFP unveils producer panels

 

Femme for the Beeb

 

Brit board revamps movie content rules

 

TM launches European basketball tourney

 

Galaxy taps 2 for Mexico

 

Canuck report: more prod'n audits

 

Sony set to bow Euro DVD Center

 

Fleischer exits MP3.com iCast music post

 

'Power' grabs big syndie aud

 

Inside Move: Biz turns out for Demos

 

Paul Sorvino,

 

Honkworm nabs sr. VP of development

 

U.S. music market sings

 

Thomas G. Maney

 

Acad, UCLA set doc fest

 

FCC mulls crackdown on ads during kidvid

 

SEC: News Corp. unloads Echostar stock

 

Two new gigs for Mr. Big

 

Trio set to top 'Monologues'

 

China trade bill set to pass

 

CBS, American upgrade inflight programs

 

Gaylord, WB pact for films

 

Voss will play with 'Dolls'

 

'Mercury' rises at Universal

 

Fest fetes Italian silents

 

Mandalay Sports teams with Warren Miller

 

Chorion, SD Ent. partner for 'Noddy'

 

Broadway vets in line for 'Follies'

 

Busy Philipps

 

Ethel Crutcher

 

Jennifer Gareis

 

Doc drive heightened as IFP Market opens

 

TVA debuts debt plan

 

Fencer reps H'w'd in Olympics

 

EC ready to oppose EMI, Warner deal

 

Corrections

 

It's a Go for Mouse

 

Warners TV, LMNO extend prod'n deal

 

FCC OKs set-top content protection

 

'Today' widens ayem gap

 

Barron nabs Halmi's 'Thief'

 

U nabs cliffhanger

 

MP3.com pulls coded song

 

Nets no longer debating fall preems

 

FCC delays probe on Net open access

 

DC2 checks out CineBlast library

 

Lee to helm 'Newton' for BET

 

Bradman tapped CFO at Soundbreak

 

Disney fuels up Petro to senior VP

 

Spike avoids streaming trouble with RIAA

 

Ford matches Spacey's SAG donation

 

New Line crowns 'Princess'

 

Fox Searchlight revs up 'Crash'

 

Goldberg hosts Britannia Awards

 

DGA: Re-cut pic ratings

 

Ad biz, SAG still at table

 

U ups Berk to veepee

 

Sheika's tale on NBC radar

 

'Seussical' extended in Boston

 

SAG, ad reps step closer

 

Follow the Money

 

William Fichtner

 

Henry Simmons

 

Padma Lakshmi

 

Freddy Rodriguez

 

Reviews

David Gray

Wayne Shorter Quintet with the USC Thornton Symphony

Legends of Doo-wop

Duets

Best in Show

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

La Cenerentola

The Contender

The Circle

The Goddess of 1967

Directors Close Up

Oz Before the Rainbow

Mainly About Lindsay Anderson

JFK on JFK

Once in a Lifetime

In Flagrante Gothicto

Hamlet

Girlfriends

Nikki and Bobby

The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

Richard II/Coriolanus

Thin Air

The Weight of Water

Placido Domingo

A Perfect Circle

Jorge Ben Jor; Daniela Mercury

Marianne Faithfull

And God Created Great Whales

Anything Goes

Word And Utopia

Platform

Dr. Laura

Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor

Durian Durian

Son of Two Mothers or the Comedy of Innocence

Beautiful

Neil Young

Teeth

Buju Banton

Liam

The Man Who Cried

Tigerland

Our Lady of the Assassins

Memento

Holy Tongue

Roberto Devereux

The Far Side of the Moon

Strippers

The Hundred Steps

Ivansxtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood)

King Hedley II

Hendrix

Call Me Madam

Men of Honor

Louis Armstrong's 100th Birthday Celebration

Panic


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