Table of Contents
Week of 10/14/2000

Articles

B.O. 'Parents' trap

 

'Dancing With the Big Boys

 

The Party Is Over

 

Crossing the New Threshold

 

Web ratings gladiators

 

Scrambled Signals

 

Casting 'Guy'

 

Net Attention Deficit

 

Fans Can Be 'Freaky'

 

And here's the pitch

 

Click and Stack

 

The Web Gets Real

 

Scour goes Sour

 

Producers Queue Up For Online Issues

 

With Luck, Yuks Mean Bucks

 

Hello Streaming Video

 

The Day the Music Died

 

Season on the brink

 

In a Rush to Compete

 

Hollywood Signs

 

Zero Tolerance

 

Know the Code

 

Wide and Wired

 

The Box That Rocks

 

Printed Matters

 

File Under Good Timing

 

Change of scenery

 

Reel Estate Brokers

 

Big Game, Big Mistakes

 

Imperfect Harmony

 

Bucking Broncos

 

Mouse House locks duo's 'Security' spec

 

Lee set to steal into Imagine's 'Stanford'

 

Kenner, Del Toro gain 'Basic' instinct

 

DT takes Kirch research unit

 

Pols restore rights to musical artists

 

TMG, CineGroupe ink on pix

 

Lions Gates board grows post-merger

 

Mindy Johnson and Bret Plate

 

Revolution gets 'Lazy' for Perry

 

Striking actors zero in on ad convention

 

Eagle lands 'Night'

 

Szabo starts 'Taking'

 

Flanders fest fields 'Titus,' 'Mirth'

 

Wild Bunch to coin 3 Videofilmes pix

 

SBS, Kloiber will launch German net

 

CIVI taps Kines veep

 

Showtime digs up 'Black Iris'

 

Duo inks six-figure deal with Par/MTV

 

Disney Auctions bows today in eBay pact

 

Mixed Signal inks Pearson deal

 

KPE taps execs

 

Why is this man smiling? Because he's Harvey

 

NBC gives new 'Life' to drama adaptation

 

Cost-wary Sony TKOs 'Ali' biopic

 

Pair rewed for 'Uncoupled'

 

KRLA sold, Jackson looking for home

 

'Party' pair to create CBS pilot

 

Col, Singleton near deal to make 'Baby'

 

Stepping 'Forward'

 

Women rock for cause

 

'Lost Souls' finds way to L.A.

 

U's proud 'Parents'

 

Charlie T Hoffs

 

A Look Ahead

 

Berlin fest taps Mechanic

 

No longer lawless

 

Jackie Reinach

 

Ben Orr

 

John T. Florea

 

Correction

 

Waiting to exhale

 

Inside Move: Stars swept off 'Millionaire'

 

Imax stops search

 

D'Works preps longer 'Road Trip'

 

Games test syndie mettle

 

Kids' WB! orders more 'Chan'

 

NBC aces Thursday

 

Teens 'Mad' for Fox show

 

Beyond's G.M. ankles

 

Oz's Zealot tries U.K.

 

Exec Veep Cook exits King, CBS

 

'Hollow' fills o'seas tills

 

Scour balance sheet a liability in court

 

Rehme will go Deutsch

 

New U has boss beaming

 

APG flags 'V-8' actioner pitch

 

Thomas enters New Line 'House'

 

A moving tribute

 

'Falling' reaches top at Hamptons

 

B.O. data service bowed by Tribune

 

ABC takes total aud as NBC wins A18-49

 

Arthur W. Magee

 

Renee Orin

 

Film editor-helmer O'Steen dead at 76

 

Cruise crowd revels in showbiz glamour

 

FCC wants to revise b'cast regs

 

Lopez, Theron, Bullock feted

 

Fuchs, Spoto go to Loeb

 

Gordon Andes Hellman

 

Nixon takes ABC soaps' stories title

 

A.T. Montgomery

 

Lions Gate strongly backing 'Frailty'

 

Miramax, Tribeca cry 'Fowl'

 

News Corp. taps D.C. lobbyist

 

Inside Move: Berlusconi may float Fininvest

 

Ex-Citadel prexy Ranan on Landscape

 

Time has come for helmer Dey

 

Z.com halves staff, lands coin to extend life

 

AOL, Time Warner tap exex for finance dep't

 

Hartigan will top Murdoch Oz ops

 

Arista taps Kwak A&R VP

 

BSkyB's G.M. upped

 

Latin American net gets 'Sex' for pay

 

Germany's Pubcaster loss soars

 

Auds ticked at tix

 

UCI pulls out of plex project

 

U.S. blurb biz may flip over union flap

 

Oz Endemol taps Spencer

 

'King of Queens' co-creator storms castle

 

Subway strikeout?

 

Exec VP Cook ankles King World/CBS

 

Hannah sues Brit tabloid

 

Sextant Int'l taps Drisdell as veepee

 

Helmer Barros inks with Hookt

 

FilmsOn bows with reviews of online shorts

 

Farmclub pacts with Eveo

 

Launch Media taps Kirsch to VP

 

Bad news for HollywoodTicket, FirstLook

 

Stocks on rocks

 

Karim Prince

 

Debralee Scott and Traci Braddock

 

MC Gainey

 

Dov Tiefenbach

 

Alanna Ubach

 

AFTRA raises Weise to nat'l post

 

Bob Knight

 

'Gulag,' 'Tango' named winners by IDA

 

'Hollow' full o'seas

 

Film, theater critic Canby dead at 76

 

William Harrison Schiller

 

Inside Move: Sony, Mann can't revive 'Ali'

 

Eye bats Masterson

 

WB's 'Scooby' gets live-action greenlight

 

Warming trend among DGA, WGA

 

'Superfly' heroin saga takes off

 

Bochco, Delaney ink for legal drama

 

Wong upped to ABC sr. vp

 

DNA takes 'Potter' to the Web

 

Vartan to enter 'Photo'

 

Marketing unit dubbed Viacom Plus

 

PPV coin's boxed in

 

Bannister exits Beeb

 

Bedeviled star ponies up

 

Kirch, Lux Vide launch 'Crusaders' mini

 

Universal-Vivendi faces Street heat

 

Canton rides Darren's wave

 

Helmer Jaoui boycotts Viennale

 

B'way B.O. up, boosted by 'Proof', 'Allergist'

 

Heartland film fest positive on 'Titans'

 

IN-motion takes Trauma Records

 

Helmer Spheeris circles 'Posers'

 

Hawkins docu in prod'n

 

Michaels to ankle CTTV

 

A Look Ahead

 

Thursday stalwarts power NBC to victory

 

Lou Diamond Phillips

 

Robert Schwartzman

 

Luke Askew

 

Katharine Towne

 

NBC wins week with Thursday

 

Napster's Brooks snares iCast gig

 

J Records taps Wilson

 

Elektra ups Deutsch to exec VP

 

Global music biz up

 

'Amores' conquers Chicago Intl. Fest

 

Yoga event set Oct. 26

 

Corrections

 

Award crystalized

 

Brit TV war opens

 

Cinemas up for sale

 

Bertelsmann to sell auction house to eBay

 

Constantin, Intermedia pact for pix

 

Wind Dancer, Winchester pact on actioner

 

Pathe, Amuse pin Kaige's 'Killing'

 

Big cheese for 'Rats'

 

Inside Move: No knockouts in 'Ali' talks

 

'Crumb' picked as Dutch Oscar entry

 

Cheyenne roundup: 8 pix, 5 TV shows

 

Myriad takes 'Good Advice' for int'l distrib

 

Internet Pictures Corp. slashes staff

 

Bigvine becoming AllBusiness

 

Kerouac novel 'Emerged' online

 

New production prexy rises out of Lion's den

 

Yahoo! in the iMix with discs

 

Candid Rupe comes clean on down year

 

Miracle develops Glaize

 

Frankfurt booked for merger

 

Fox Family orders 'Grace' skein

 

'Gein' grabs top kudos at Sitges fest

 

WB int'l TV lifts Baxter to Euro VP

 

Canuck aud hits high in plexes push

 

TMC woos 2nd exec away from Mediaset

 

ONdigital will hit 1 mil subs soon

 

Peacock names Lukasiewicz

 

CanalSatellite profits

 

'Peace' preems in Middle East

 

Withdrawal pains

 

'Kisses' spec connects, with Col exex

 

Telemundo, Argos pact for 3-year deal

 

Murphy adds 100k to SAG strike relief fund

 

With pics, minis, USA fights Saturday sports

 

Fox finds 'Leisure' in laffer spec

 

Pan-African satellite net takes flight

 

McConaughey lights 'Fire' with Spyglass

 

Col throws bread at tyro's 'Swans'

 

Gersh inks WMA vet to head Gotham lit

 

Zentropa's Danish horror twist

 

Cresting strike support

 

Vivendi U team hails merger

 

ICM creates web unit

 

Comic inks ABC series deal

 

Norwegian telco ups media stake

 

Inside Move: Pols take swipe at H'wood

 

Struggling Loews revises bank loan terms

 

MPAA helps cablers recoup

 

Ex-NFL player Carruth trial on Court TV

 

'Chopper' tops Oz pic award noms

 

Ja Rule's top spot bow topples Radiohead

 

Imagine, U extend five years

 

Optimism for SAG, ad talks

 

Levin: This deal's real

 

Stiller faces 'Puberty' at New Line

 

Shorts prize coin taller at Murphy's

 

Fox gets 'Amores' for Latin America

 

Wright tops Sales Co.

 

Cinecitta taps topper

 

DD inks B4U pic deal

 

Discovery, Vijay pact

 

NTV makes a satellite move

 

Fox offers pols free airtime

 

AOL profits double

 

Doc org fetes Scorsese

 

4-time Tony winner Verdon dies at 75

 

CNN en Espanol ups exec pair

 

Wendy's wants out

 

Fox TV taps Gold, Wager for laffer leads

 

Imagine buoys Barbieri to pix veep

 

DeMartino to head AFI's New Media

 

FMiTV inks deal with SECOM

 

Julie London

 

Inside Move: How many hit films was Gandhi in?

 

Mifed tally at 457 films

 

All Girl whirls $250 mil

 

Eagle's $2 mil lures Bass to raise 'Lazarus'

 

Absolute, MGM ink 2-year deal

 

Tieche lands deal with Shady Acres

 

Bedeviled 'Bedazzled'

 

Scribes feted

 

NBC gives 'Life' to drama adaptation

 

Talking about 'Monologues'

 

Splendid TV pacts with TNT on 'Dean'

 

Plans under way for 2 Boston legit houses

 

NFL blitzes foreign web

 

Inside Move: WB's Levin upped to co-prexy

 

Kathy Hornbuckle and Mark Lipman

 

Randy Peskin

 

Robert Allen

 

Spanish TV execs take stake in pic prod'n

 

NTL passes on PPV

 

Granada taps Von Gagern

 

'Loners' triumphs at Warsaw pic fest

 

Shaw, Corus post year-to-year gains

 

Nickelodeon's Dunn takes on TNN

 

VH1 starts prod'n on trio of gamers

 

Ja Rule's '3' takes No. 1

 

Auds elect out of debate

 

GOP finds $ in showbiz

 

NMPA inks deal OK'ing MP3 service

 

Lee praised for 'Bamboozled'

 

TV Azteca inks with CTIT, Pearson

 

Chris-Craft doubles 3rd qtr. net income

 

Marcus is tapped for Montecito spot

 

QVC to b'cast celeb events

 

Rangel solicits payment probe

 

Web site launches for star-struck pets

 

OnAir taps Bogdan

 

Lockstream nabs $15 mil

 

Inside Move: Did they discuss rating?

 

Lane commits to 'Unfaithful'

 

Inside Move: Blue Train has Talent tracks

 

Fox nabs int'l rights to Cuaron's 'Mama'

 

Letter to the Editor: Rodney Liber

 

DirecTV adds KCAL, WWOR

 

Thesp Rex goes 'Greek' for laffer

 

Par, Rudin hit books for 'Orange County'

 

Franchise, Kirch ink Euro pic distrib pact

 

Britannia Award goes to Spielberg

 

Mieke ter Poorten and Jefferson Berlin

 

ABC, NBC tie in Wed. adult ratings

 

Fox ups Neeson to prexy of int'l distrib'n arm

 

A Look Ahead

 

Walter Shenson

 

AFI fest will feature scribe forum Oct. 23

 

Fox Latin Ent. picks pair to top channels

 

Tokyo film fest spotlight on Arnie, 'Charlie'

 

KWA takes 'Monkey'

 

Discovery gets distrib

 

Eddie Cahill

 

'Herman' turning on PorchLight

 

Castle Rock draws 'Bloods' for feature

 

Scribe Tolan turns to CAA

 

Agents org urges SAG to OK new pact

 

AT&T lobbies for end to cable owner cap

 

Fragile catches Fuller pitch from BVI

 

Race up for grabs

 

Col TriStar digs up 'Body'

 

Lee's set to try TV

 

Fox orders more 'Titus'

 

Actors union mulls new offer from ad biz

 

Grammnet rides up Phillips' 'Ramp'

 

Escape hatches

 

GMI, Intermedia pen 'Adaptation' int'l rights

 

WB 'Sabrina' spinoff brews

 

Musicland profits plunge 91%

 

'Spy Game' looks to relocate

 

London bridge for Bregman

 

'ER' exec producer ankles

 

Canuck authorities OK Vivendi/Seagram deal

 

Caroline Grace Bond Spencer and James Henry Bond Spencer

 

Madstone raising young helmers

 

Rome's Telepiu to honor Pasolini

 

Negotiations continue this weekend

 

Columbia's 'Ali' climbs off the canvas

 

Max William Keane

 

Mischa Barton

 

Nicholas Gonzalez

 

Semi-finalists unveiled for Sundance/NHK nods

 

ESPN, Fox team up

 

Norsk set to disband as prod'n outfit

 

Telemundo inks Brazilian star

 

Star TV, BBC pact on 'Minister' skein

 

MGM Latin ups Coltro

 

H'w'd books Deaver with 2-tome deal

 

Babyface tunes up

 

Thesp trio will travel Fireworks' 'Interstate'

 

Original Voices gets 'Special'

 

Santa Barbara Fest accepting entries

 

Tyros' spec 'Saved' by Single Cell

 

Revolution nabs duo

 

Lions Gate cuts staff after Trimark union

 

Reality right for TV vets

 

B'Buster's DEJ 'Snaps' up 'Love'

 

Col's $20 mil double dip for Lawrence

 

No Euro favoritism

 

UK's NTL to move its shares to NYSE

 

TiVo revs, subscribers rise; losses increase

 

Crusader snares 'Rat'

 

CanalNumedia funds AlloCine

 

Independent Visions gets 'Good Baby'

 

Media Most deals on debt

 

Goldberg tops Endemol U.S.

 

Escape hatches

 

Renaissance slates two

 

M'max finds 'Fairy' at F'furt fair

 

Col TV taps Par's Mazza prod'n prez

 

Thomas Edward Kempf

 

Busy Philipps

 

Tyler Mane

 

Reviews

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