Table of Contents
Week of 10/21/2000

Articles

Phil Erickson

 

Pops still tops

 

It's 'Cruelty' for Demme

 

SAG snags an ad deal

 

German dealmakers' charge continues

 

Spanish distribs put faith in output deals

 

Teen horror makes global rounds

 

Italians stage comeback with eclectic fare

 

Changes for 'Price,' loses Pennington, Alter

 

Clarification

 

Miramax books another big one

 

Corrections

 

'Tainah' wins feature prize at Fest do Rio

 

Primacom loses suit over net fees

 

Global TV names exex

 

Rickmeyer tapped EM.TV coin chief

 

Crusader snares 'Rat' for Kroffts

 

Miracle takes on 'Italian'

 

U buys Cedric's 'Preaching' pitch

 

Thomas finds home at Fox

 

Shoreline, Insane pack 'Asylum'

 

Downhome cookin'

 

Shuster will helm 'Skin'

 

AT&T hang-ups cloud digital picture

 

NBCi prexy ankles

 

U, Amblin, Toys R Us ink for 'E.T.' products

 

Rogers reaps coin as Videotron consolation

 

Loews unspools 3rd quarter loss

 

Renaissance ramping up

 

L.A. salutes cameraman Hall

 

Rogers & Cowan ups Berney to VP

 

Tribune suffers 20% profit loss

 

The mane event

 

How thesps put the brakes on the blurb biz

 

Inside Move: G.E. buys Honeywell for $45 bil

 

IEG mighty in Blighty

 

Catherine Archer Gottleib and Thomas Allen Brackey

 

Gene George

 

Sutherland Ellwood

 

Howard Polskin

 

Mitch Rotter

 

Web pix future dim

 

DNA sues O'Neal's Dunk.net over bills

 

Book editor Karp ankles for Rudin

 

Craven pilots new course for UPN

 

Mexico's on move

 

Equity Hurley-ed out

 

41 seeking to satcast

 

Toho sees Boffo 'Day'

 

FCC counterpart set

 

Hawkins docu begins prod'n

 

'City' spins top debut of off-net syndie strips

 

Hackett to host benefit

 

Canton embraces new 'Rappaccini'

 

Walters backs yakker

 

Acad foundation prepares fest grants

 

Florence Deprez

 

'Beneath' lies above, o'seas

 

IFC puts it 'Together' for Moodysson

 

Gaylord's Pandora thinks outside box

 

Remstar takes controversial pic

 

Stella Fridman and Dade Hayes

 

Series a whopper in N.Y., fouls elsewhere

 

NBC 'Providence' bow has 'Fugitive' on run

 

Mac attack strikes Fox

 

Scribe Tolan turns to CAA

 

'Yards' rolls into town

 

AFI's melodious bow

 

Inside Move: Gore takes whack at H'wood

 

Milan mart hangs on

 

A Look Ahead

 

Mets drive subway

 

Sony, Real pacting for software

 

Returning thesps celebrate ad lib day

 

George Lutsch

 

Deborah Kuryak

 

Senator, Calypso diving into horror

 

Vivendi ups 'Net ads

 

Mapping new areas

 

Sky PerfecTV stock bow a bust

 

USA explores combo

 

Gore, Bush get solo selling time on PBS

 

Turner buys rights to docu on Dietrich

 

Mets drive subway

 

WB taps Martin senior VP

 

Acad picks 5 for fellowship

 

SAG study to examine ageism in primetime

 

Flip Your Lid goes for Ridley's 'Darkness'

 

Paul Bettany

 

Spain B.O. possessed

 

AntEye, MP3 look for turns for new docu

 

Good Machine shows 'Backbone' in Latam

 

ICM will rep Hallmark's Maxine

 

Inside Move: USA Net getting real

 

PBS rings bell to revive 'American High'

 

Salt Lake dust-up

 

VCL munches Danish distrib Scanbox

 

Univision profits up, sees strike

 

Love inks with UTA, ankles WMA

 

Cinesite adds Fink for f/x

 

DGA college film fest taps 11 for final exam

 

Rubin will team up with Team for TV

 

ABC lifts Sewell to VP

 

Astral Media revs rocket after refocus

 

King's Cook the meal ticket at Fox syndie

 

'Toy 2' techs get an 'F'

 

TV scribes file ageism lawsuit

 

Messier won't sell subsidiary shares

 

Reggie Hayes

 

Johnny Knoxville

 

Stuart Townsend

 

Topher Grace

 

10 Actors to Watch

 

A Look Ahead

 

'Tucker' first frosh to fall

 

'Love' fest in Montreal

 

UIP shows its class

 

French Pubcaster revs soar

 

Cork short fest loves 'Brother,' 'Buskers'

 

Teuton pic finds 'Place' for Oscar race

 

Pentamedia buys toon house Film Roman

 

U bows trial service for music downloads

 

'Lion King' rules H'w'd jungle

 

Kudo show gives a nod to diversity

 

RealNetworks, Sony pact

 

Itsy Bitsy dials 'Net coin

 

B-to-B HSXResearch.com ready to bow

 

3rd quarter revenue up for SportsLine

 

Kerouac's 'Orpheus' emerges at Subrights

 

Yahoo!, iMix.com to customize CDs

 

Macy named Fandom's chief marketer

 

Banderas circles 'Ecks'

 

Vid helmer up for 'Down'

 

Pearson ups trio of execs

 

Reubens back as 'Jack' host

 

David Krumholtz

 

Italo film fest will unspool in Gotham, S.F.

 

ABC strikes up 'Music Man'

 

New labor daze?

 

Rick Hoffman

 

Kip Pardue

 

David Wenham

 

Chi McBride

 

Touched by 'Angels'

 

European indie distributors update

 

Fall of knight knocks 'Quixote' off its horse

 

Pact: Mikado on Rai

 

Gaul pubcaster even despite ad time drop

 

Sean Valentine

 

Jump in show total bumps B'Way B.O.

 

Carlton buys HTV from Granada

 

Hannover sets up fund fit for 'King'

 

Andrews making comeback? Not so fast.

 

Elektra taps Bobb exec VP

 

$2 million molders in playwrights' fund

 

Jon Seda

 

Par Home Ent. shifts Kanne

 

Nick kids pick Bush for prexy

 

Acad taps vet to head pic archive

 

AOL, TW merger deadline moves

 

Bowie serves up 'Ziggy' special

 

Scribe solidarity

 

Producers against EC probe

 

SAG strike fund adds $42k to top $1 mil

 

ABC ups Taylor to pic, mini VP

 

NBC wins 18-49 for 2nd week

 

'Voyager' scribe tapped exec producer

 

UA gets 'Romantic' with the Sales Co.

 

Chalk one up at Fox

 

Park Place taps Gallagher as CEO

 

Promoter CIE profits up 49%

 

What a croc: Sony kids book 'Lyle, Lyle'

 

Spanish group Prisa posts profit

 

Snuggling up to 'Kisses'

 

Hollywood feels heat

 

'Darker Saints' blesses Elliot

 

Bond market lifts Lion's share

 

C-2 finds coin for sequels

 

A Look Ahead

 

Lindsay Price

 

Jeff Byrd

 

Michael Weston

 

Shane Brolly

 

French indie producers pass on ticket fight

 

Jindal bows venture capital co.

 

'Armani' fashions Mifed bow

 

TV Land, ATAS talk up history

 

Medical org opposes milk ads

 

MTV wraps interactive ambitions in the Box

 

AT&T looks to split

 

Programming heads go for Gore 4 to 2

 

Juarez signs off as CEO of HBO Ole

 

'First' pic is foremost at Burbank kids fest

 

NBA finds the 'Beat'

 

'Net vid biz iPix shows $37.7 mil 3rd-qtr loss

 

Warner, Musicbank team up

 

Icebox.com opens doors to exec pair

 

Inside Move: Arnold makes the call

 

Green joins 'Sweethearts' with Crystal

 

Thesp quartet on board 'Rat' tale

 

Mac puts toe in Warners' 'Ocean'

 

Valenti lauds Jordan for copyright pact

 

Senator jumps in X Pool

 

No Love for WMA as thesp jumps to UTA

 

German coin drives multipic alliances

 

PBS gets 'High' from Fox

 

ICM will rep Hallmark's Maxine

 

All-girl comedy tuner 'Holiday' reteams trio

 

Via Digital secures $535 mil loan

 

Sony shakeup

 

Melora Hardin

 

Susanna Thompson

 

Ian Gomez

 

Monica Keena

 

Symposium looks to boost EU links

 

Australian Olympian to scale pic

 

French TV group objects to digital mandate

 

French gov't continues to protest tix

 

Cinar, Globe-X sign to restore $50.9 mil

 

WGAE to create animation writers caucus

 

Univision hires affil VPs

 

AT&T's upbeat tone

 

A scribe for 'Paris'

 

Nov. 1 deadline for certain Oscar noms

 

Digital Rim has global ambitions

 

Summit, Horizon pact on 3

 

Napster goes for Mac attack

 

Cartoon Net online taps Changnon veep

 

Inside Move: ABC to get overhaul

 

Inside Move: Leder won't helm 'Collateral'

 

WB points 'Grosse' to Sunday

 

DIC names Bomes as exec veep

 

Golden Globes set timetable

 

Sony shuffles deck

 

Queen Latifah to host Gore

 

Aidan Kirk Merrell

 

Sales aid Clear Channel

 

Syndie auds orbit 'Andromeda'

 

'Frasier' faithful follow skein to Tues.

 

Bizkit joins million-seller boys club

 

Par courting helmer Daldry

 

'Cora' corrals credits for PGA

 

'Star' thesp enters 'House'

 

'Bagger' to kick off Georgia fest

 

'Numbers' rolls

 

CBS to settle sex lawsuits

 

Witching hour begins

 

Banking on 'Blair'

 

'Tweenies': BBC brand booms

 

Stack to head Oz TV org

 

AOL banks on Spanish portal

 

U Int'l TV ups Smith to vp

 

CSA blasts sats/cablers for missing quotas

 

No curb on kid ads

 

Peck, Osment team up for MPTF

 

Epsilon gets Euro rights

 

Producers put helmers on label's Black List

 

Bravo to Shandling

 

iFuse nears short circuit

 

Flinch shows what Pop might have been

 

Hackman clan plan

 

Sony breaks out PlayStation 2

 

AFTRA ups two vet exex

 

SAG eyes scab discipline

 

WB cups Oz 'Dish'

 

'Dawson's Creek' garners honors

 

Karmazin: Ad sales solid at Viacom/CBS

 

'Today' 3rd hour tops 'Regis' in demo

 

Art directors to fete Scott

 

20th Century Fox TV inks Demme for development

 

Fox 2000 opens 'Diary'

 

Amir named senior VP of prod'n at Hearst

 

Daily Variety spotlights 10 actors

 

A Look Ahead

 

Sony Playstation2 bow empties shelves

 

Dubya visit buoys Dave

 

Adding a web deal

 

AMC posts 2nd-qtr loss

 

PGA offers to aid in union talks

 

ATA assures agents SAG deal is close

 

Tiger, Allan team for legit

 

British indie kudos fete Daldry's 'Elliot'

 

StudioCanal ups sales executives

 

Star TV names Smith

 

Sondheim takes prize

 

Rogers, Wink interact

 

Big aud share for Portuguese 'Brother'

 

Spring flows deal

 

House weakens FCC's plan

 

MPAA taps Popham duo as license team

 

NBCi beats Street

 

ASC fetes Britain's Williams

 

Caan to captain FX's 'Glimpse'

 

Tyro scribe fast forwards career

 

DreamWorks, Permut to recrown 'Kings'

 

Fox nabs Romans, CBS eyes FBI

 

UltimateTV readies for bow

 

McCann eyes post as Tonys producer

 

Par plays host to kids film festival

 

Friars to fete Belafonte

 

Dimension picks up 'Darkness'

 

Telemundo raises exec's sports spot

 

Televisa sales, sat subs up

 

Actors may return to work Monday

 

Amy M. Samuelson

 

Jeanne M. Murray

 

Chris Dobbs, Jeffrey Berk

 

Mitchell Messinger

 

Chris Saito

 

De Niro gets chummy with Clinton

 

Austin Fest taps honorees

 

Snyder looped in as Post Logic prexy

 

OZ pay's new ways

 

Sony Music changes keys

 

Baer, Skye to get 'Angry' onscreen

 

Cleese headed to WB's 'Harry Potter'

 

Corrections

 

'Letterman' rides Bush visit to bests

 

AFI fetes Lonergan

 

'Tempted' lures Oz helmer Bennett

 

Margulies escorted into 'Elysian Fields'

 

Owen 'Bourne' to kill for Universal

 

Stan Lee pacts with SciFi.com for 'Drifter'

 

Scout's Modo goes bye-bye

 

Revving up on coin

 

Win a recording session with Clinton!

 

MCY marketing encryption technology

 

Island Def Jam ups Lauriot-Prevost

 

Sci Fi series scoop

 

Egyptian Theatre gets preservation nod

 

Overbrook Ent. taps two executives

 

Sony feeling profit pinch

 

Peacock on USA's platter?

 

Par's Trekkie trio beams up price tag

 

Fox fires first salvo in summer '01 battle

 

Deals heat up despite euro's woes

 

Oz honors its own at ARIA music nods

 

Honors for Sorkin, Harmon

 

Sies set table for dinner 'Talk'

 

Sinclair posts profit despite dip in ads

 

Betty Hudson

 

Robert Norton

 

Kristin Apple, Kenneth W. Mullane

 

Leah Cain

 

Jacquie Perryman

 

Reviews

Lucky Numbers

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Peter Grimes

Ratdog

Balzac

The Vagina Monologues

Les Mizrahi

Radiohead

Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in the Land of No Alternatives

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, The History of the Disc Jockey

Joint Security Area

Cinematherapy, The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood

Tokyo Raiders

Napoleon

Plenilune

Wild About Harry

Level 9

Monarch

Red Ink

Cora Unashamed

Monkeys Like Becky

Rat

Pelswick

Yellow Card

Pitch People

Kasbah

Too Much Flesh

Pellet

Settlers

Quand on Sera Grand

I Didn't Know Tururu

The Adventures of Aligermaa