Table of Contents
Week of 11/04/2000

Articles

SAG board star-struck in election

 

Sara Parriott, Josann McGibbon

 

Paul McCrane

 

Rob Moran

 

$40M chick kicker

 

Barry Gross

 

Arrow Entertainment taps three for Gotham

 

CanWest funds Canuck docu prod'n

 

Sony Music Canada taps Donlon prexy

 

Silver Cinemas' tarnish

 

CanWest cleared to buy paper chain

 

Casting org honors its own

 

WGA Foundation to fete Weinberger

 

Winston, Revolution have 'Baby'

 

Holmes closes in on 'Abandoned' deal

 

WB's alien invasion

 

Baumbach bonds with Col TriStar TV

 

AFM spills over to Le Merigot

 

Marshall finds 'Identity' as exec producer

 

Poland bows plexes but attendance is off

 

Portugal Telecom buys top pic house

 

France fines UGC for pass

 

BSkyB nears subs target

 

O'seas box office lies 'Beneath' pic's spell

 

Callahan dives into 'Poolhall' pic

 

Medien joins 'Marlowe'

 

'Amores' conquers all at Tokyo film festival

 

Heavyweights don gloves for prison pic

 

One helluva mensch

 

BAFTA hails Spielberg

 

Fox's 'Honor' on the line in Hollywood

 

WNBC prescribes Doctor for news post

 

Pop goes the content

 

A Look Ahead

 

Nicole Avril

 

Corrections

 

Duo forms toon studio

 

WMA's Lee leaves to take CAA post

 

Ripe for plucking

 

Viacom looks to build up BET brand

 

HSX, Predict It merger deal off

 

Noggin adds new series to its lineup

 

Inside Move: DiCaprio misses 'Catch'

 

Film Roman ups Clifton

 

Skyy Vodka pours short pic awards

 

TBS Europe ups Johnstone

 

Latam TPA makes Spencer senior VP

 

Bravo buys Granada's 'Feet' drama

 

GCN bows Asian music outlet

 

C. Douglas Kranwinkle

 

Corp. giants snooze as stars up demands

 

Intermedia acquires Scandi 'Sleep'

 

Dr. Dre takes top honors at Radio Awards

 

Studios USA reups veteran showrunner

 

Peacock wings to top

 

Top execs bolt Bertelsmann

 

'Wife' gets new life

 

Fox sweeps young adults

 

'Dr. Laura' gets 2 a.m. time slot

 

Bob Longwell

 

John Rose

 

Canucks ink on toon co-prod'ns

 

Global TV bows B.C. docu fund

 

Channel 4 bows digital web E4

 

Sony bows Net biz for TV sports buyers

 

Light sheds on AOL-TW deal

 

MTG posts record profit

 

Milk & Honey eyes ramp-up

 

NBC Agency ups Manze to co-prexy

 

Turner ups Katz to sr. VP

 

Disney ups two execs

 

New Line 'Knox' on doors of TV stations

 

Justices to mull freelance appeal

 

Exhib org offers ratings olive branch to FTC

 

Inside Move: WMA to shift focus to L.A.

 

BAFTA-LA tribute to Spielberg includes Prince Andrew

 

Hawn's Cherry picks pix

 

Corrections

 

'Frasier' seg M.I.A.

 

Payback time in California

 

Disney invests in wireless TV signals

 

'Simpsons' Quimby the popular candidate

 

MCY.com pacts with Applied Digital

 

ClickRadio taps Rolling Stone's Berk

 

Dawn David and Genndy Tartakovsky

 

'Trip' helmer enrolls in D'Works 'School'

 

Series debuts nab key demo wins for Fox

 

BMG changes tune under Middelhoff

 

U.K.'s C5 program budget to rise 50%

 

East Germany's a digital arena

 

ESPN bows int'l site

 

'Suessical' previews begin; B'way grosse

 

A Look Ahead

 

Olive Elaine Bernath

 

Chase Rolison Watkins

 

Canuck film producer telling 'Tales' again

 

Tech investments boost Comcast's 3rd qtr.

 

Dynamic duo o'seas

 

Propaganda, Mandolin pact

 

'Angels' boost 'Today'

 

Tony kudocast taps McCann

 

Kinowelt licensing WB pics to ZDF

 

SAG, talent agents close to new agreement

 

Inside Move: Bertolli's different destination

 

Inside Move: Vivendi, Canal deny rumors

 

Alison Lorraine Scoon

 

'Trouble' in trouble: Swept off sweeps

 

Par to build on 'Crisis' pitch

 

Gamer net orders 'Mall Masters'

 

Milius to pen, helm WB's 'Conan'

 

Lucasfilm, AtomFilms click on 'Star' spoofs

 

Music site gets kick from Sony

 

TV dotes on votes

 

High voltage pact

 

Judge blinds Eye in global sights

 

Gotham lands Italo film series

 

Short fest pots Posey

 

German pub nets in fee fight

 

TriStar Int'l TV taps veep trio

 

Arista promotes Johnson

 

MTV ups Eskenazi, White, Lewis

 

Rebecca Leigh Gottbetter

 

Emerson Rose Wilson Orr

 

Sithengi film, TV market on tap

 

Air Media newest 'Net distributor

 

U ups O'Hair to veep post

 

Working Title inks Daldry deal

 

Barry Markowitz

 

Lisa Rinzler

 

Patrick Cady

 

Tristar Int'l TV taps veep trio

 

LG shows 'Shebang'

 

Popular pix nommed

 

Cinemark revs rise, bucking exhib trend

 

Intermedia taps WB vet new prexy

 

SAG and agents continue talks

 

Barbara Hershey

 

RTL qtr. results on target

 

IFC grabs domestic rights to 'King'

 

Inside Move: U takes 'Family' leave

 

'Sawyer' to follow 'Fever'

 

CJ Arabia and Daniel Ceballos

 

CNN's ground zero for election

 

Japan animator eyes IPO

 

Berlanti, Col TV ink skein deal

 

Pundits poll-vault on TV, 'Net

 

Atom Films, Schibsted strike syndie deal

 

WABC radio raises McCarthy to prez-G.M.

 

Talks with agents hit SAG snag

 

Media post-mortem

 

A Look Ahead

 

Tsianina Joelson

 

Erin Daniels

 

Lee Tergesen

 

Hallmark woos Asia

 

Her Films coin backs femme pix

 

Italy's Stream steams towards the black

 

Fox Cable taps Bartlett veep

 

India's Sterling bows DTH service

 

Matthew Libatique

 

Wally Pfister

 

Lou Bogue

 

Arista ups Johnson

 

Jean-Marie Dreujou

 

Mauro Fiore

 

Rogier Stoffers

 

Nancy Schreiber

 

NBC, TBS rev up races

 

France's M6 revs rise on ad sales gains

 

Bruckheimer inks tyro scribe

 

AOL Latam logs loss

 

New Line names Lorie int'l PR veepee

 

Lesli Rotenberg

 

WB TV sets 'Access' distribution plans

 

Streisand upset over election predictions, show

 

Miramax pulling off 'Heist'

 

Two snare 'Heist'

 

King's 'Curtis' gains from 'Laura's' losses

 

'Journey Home' is novel option for TW exec

 

Hawaii fest will fete Selleck

 

ABC keeps 'Line' up for 4 years

 

WB o'seas TV arm taps Kohler biz VP

 

CNN revamps 'NewsStand'

 

NBC wins first sweeps week

 

Lopez, Apted eye 'Enough'

 

D.C.'s morning after

 

Jay-Z shows music is Universal

 

Presidential race makes for riveting TV

 

Clay straps on sandals for 'Colosseum'

 

Jill Anthony and Byron Hudson

 

Angelica Bridges

 

Matthew O'Leary

 

Imax posts 3rd-qtr. loss amid exhib woes

 

Exhib plans Polish plexes

 

U.K.'s Pathe raises George

 

Crown lifts Ubinas to Latam post

 

TechTV preps launch in Asia

 

Indian actor still hostage

 

Film Roman ups Sigala to CTO

 

Rival sat radio providers go for Statistical

 

HBO, Nibblebox search for ace 'Dotcomic'

 

Diary of a breakdown

 

Canton, Senator buy Trojan War epic spec

 

HBO strikes a Nerve with sex dot-com

 

Nat Geo selects Schadler for series

 

Santa Fe fest adds to panel

 

New mouse in hipper 'House'

 

Rainbow, MGM merger stalled

 

Van Peebles marks X in 'Ali'

 

Biz wonders at bizarre election

 

Entrez to 'Rugrats'

 

Music org trumpets 2 veterans of its own

 

Go west you filmmakers for pix cost rebates

 

N.Y. Comedy fest kicks off

 

'Count' adds preem

 

A Look Ahead

 

Sundance's Gilmore to Warner Clasics?

 

CBC-TV's future hinges on Canuck election

 

Cherkas on Greenestreet for biz affairs

 

TV caucus bankrolls students low on coin

 

Turin fest readies

 

Election coverage encourages West Coast apathy

 

Hagman life on page, stage

 

Advanced, Petersen set Red Cliff pic slate

 

United, LWT linked to form U.K. 'powerhouse'

 

Corrections

 

Broadway tuner returns to Philly soul

 

New Japanese fest fetes Asian helmers

 

Cheryl J. Questell

 

Italy takes 'Steps' toward Oscar nom

 

Alwaysi.com pacts with Sundance net

 

Liquid drips lower 3rd-qtr revs

 

BDE, Simmons, Lahan open Digital HipHop

 

CinemaNow bows online feevee service

 

Mouse traps 'Men'

 

Buoyant Pixar dives into 'Nemo'

 

New Line of work for Kaplowitz

 

Galecki 'Sky'-high

 

Lichstein lands on Tenth Planet

 

Grammer ruling upheld

 

Sandler pic may involve Revolution

 

'Richards' producer exits show

 

Cronenberg eyes 'Basic 2'

 

News Corp. numbers dip

 

Stars at Mars bars

 

Sascha Seinfeld

 

Disney stock pummeled

 

Web's a mousetrap

 

Laser-Pacific nixes sale offer

 

Playboy ups English to prez

 

Germany's Chancellor Schroeder to attend screening

 

Second 'Au Pair' for Fox

 

It's deadline time

 

Two for 'Diablo 2'

 

CAA inks Luxxon Corp.

 

Echo nabs coin for streaming music site

 

Listen launches streaming audio from radio

 

'Silent Bob' on summer slate

 

Hackers beat music labels' encryption

 

Frog fills lily pad with shows

 

SAG tees off on Woods

 

Sexism is still alive and kicking in H'wood

 

Pol blasts newsies for election b'casts

 

Lisa Swill

 

Letter to the Editor: Darin Millett

 

NBC shifts 'Ed' sked

 

'That '70s' duo inks with USA for groovy deal

 

Microsoft stake OK'd by U.K.

 

'Today' gets votes

 

'Masseur' fleshed out for Indian actors

 

Online contest attracts 10,000

 

Japan's Telecom skeds IPO

 

Singer's injury delays Pantera's 'Steel' tour

 

Corrections

 

Mary Hunter Wolf

 

BMG eyes EMI deal

 

After two decades, Shaw signs off CNN

 

Arthur Roland Tovey

 

BMG, Provender flip coin to Urban

 

'2001' set for Berlin 2001

 

'Gladiator' DVD to hit U.S., U.K.

 

Vets Day weekend parades youth pix

 

Strike impact lingers in L.A.

 

Dolenz, Parlavecchio to star in 'Id'

 

Star shines on Pakistan

 

NBC dominates week as the WB leapfrogs

 

AFI Life award to Streisand

 

NeuroTrash managing leap into content biz

 

ICM pacts with LockStream

 

E-biz alive and kicking

 

Stringer defends H'wood from politicos

 

Mickey mishaps

 

Sowerbutts tapped by U.K.'s Channel 4 Intl.

 

India's Zee chair blasts caps

 

TV ad bounces to stage

 

India's UTV to cash up plans

 

Tally tackles 'Red Dragon'

 

Sci Fi falls for Valentine

 

Rick Jason

 

Reviews

Wild Zero

Barbara Cook

Rinaldo

Cursed

Little Nicky

Hollywood, D.C.

Ordinary Bolshevism

Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom

Nuclear Dynamite

I Am An S+M Writer

Straight From the Heart

Something Sweet

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine

Postmark Paradise

Alcatraz Avenue

Breath of Life

Homeland

The Opponent

Flick

Maze

Naked States

Everyting For A Reason

Chump Change

Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion

Sleepwalker

Reef Hunters

Saint Bernard

Aitanic

Wings of Glass

Can't Take My Eyes Off of You: 1 Man, 7 Days, 12 Televisions

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay: An Anthology

A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations

Fallen Angels

Keepers

Fiddler on the Roof

Big Potato

Arlo Guthrie

Remember Shakti

Joseph: King of Dreams

Solas

Red Planet

Contrasting Brilliance: The Music of Henry Mancini and Sly Stone

Chippendales Murders

Molly's Delicious

Karen Oberlin

Downstream

Napoleon

A3

Bad Religion

In the Beginning

The Miracle Worker

The Railway Children

Seventeen Again

American Tragedy

Tantalus

Mack and Mabel

Closer

The 6th Day

A Class Act


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