Table of Contents
Week of 11/11/2000

Articles

'Nicky' slipped a mickey

 

Internationalmedia declares $19m profit

 

Clark Prods. 1st quarter drops

 

Peter Coyote

 

Gov. OKs job training funds

 

Bullard to deal 'Card Sharks'

 

'Toy Story 2,' 'Fantasia' top Annie winners

 

USA spurns frosh 'Lover'

 

SAG talks with studios, nets to proceed

 

Bergeron gets the X

 

'Jones' spec flies to Phoenix

 

There's no more Miracle for Abramson

 

Boca to bow first Net series

 

Sony flips coin to India's DTH

 

HBO to sport Mouse in Chile

 

Peacock popping in ratings

 

Danish pic org brass blasted

 

Fox Cable in hotel rooms

 

Bertelsmann eyes EMI

 

Interactive ACTV reports 3rd-qtr loss

 

Razorfish taps Witteveen

 

Hoffman eyes Rampart scandal pic

 

Senat to retire from biz affairs at WB

 

Magnaghi hired as Italia 1 head

 

Hawaii pic fest hands out honors

 

Pic may flood Japan B.O. with tears of joy

 

'Charlie's' back on ABC

 

'Castle' keeps D'works busy

 

Minkoff in the moolah at Columbia

 

'Cobb' enters Gotham park

 

Cast gets cozy for 'Closer'

 

Three ink for gURL fest

 

Koenig dies scouting site

 

ABC triumphs, but Fox captures young vote

 

Alexandra Paul

 

Christian Oliver

 

Pols pump Young

 

Upgrades help Disney pull out of dive

 

Automatic, Bel-Air catch 'Catastrophe'

 

Sizemore tapped for 2 pix

 

Thesp trio step up for 'Confessions'

 

Par preps Maltin review/info show

 

TVA Intl. shuns prod'n for toons, distribution

 

Euro film database bows

 

Italy's Telepiu, Stream OK deal on boxes

 

Nick Latam nets 10 mil subs

 

Mediatrip's 'Lil' Pimp' takes flak for content

 

Indie label Unity sues MP3.com

 

Sci Fi taps Valentine senior VP

 

Clarification

 

Movie star-helmers feel that 'Bagger' sag

 

Environmental Media Awards names noms

 

Concern over Canal

 

Exec producers snag 'Hill' of a deal, pilot

 

'Grinch' preem sleighs 'em

 

Leigh Jae Manacher and Tom Schlange

 

'Angels' ascends o'seas

 

Justin Kirk

 

Ryan Alosio

 

Atom to bring shorts to exhib

 

Bound for Brazil

 

Connick trills with 'Life' sentence

 

Euro film database bows

 

Inside Move: Recount heads 'South'

 

Spanish film mini-mart tunes trio

 

Sony Digital goes wireless with PacketVideo

 

Mr. Rogers ankles neighborhood

 

ABC, '20/20,' Sawyer sued

 

Postal service cuts magazine rate hike

 

Corrections

 

H'w'd Video rewinds

 

CMGI ready to cast out iCast.com

 

Disney Internet Group clicks Flannigan

 

Zomba taps Liquid Audio

 

Napster not nappin'

 

Italy's Cecchi Gori TV deal probed

 

Studios recounting, too

 

Rhine Memorial Service

 

Sears moves to features

 

VH-1, reality 'Bands' together

 

B'Way polls show decisive B.O. victory

 

'Rhythm' strips beat

 

Miami festival seeks entries

 

Fest's main prize to 'State'

 

Fiona Captain

 

John Butkovich

 

A Look Ahead

 

Stella Gluscak Curly

 

Marilyn Reiss

 

Carly Reese Craft

 

Liam Osborne Drane

 

Brian Bloom

 

Scotty Leavenworth and Mike Weinberg

 

Jason and Randy Sklar

 

Hill nets 4 AMA nods

 

Scriptapalooza ups its cash prize

 

Oz biz has developing problem, report says

 

Film folk aid ambitious auction for UNICEF

 

Yahoo! Provides a shorts directory

 

UA Theater losses rocket to $58.4 mil

 

SAG slowly seeking Orsatti replacement

 

Moore, Lucas to rewrite laffer 'Love Crazy'

 

Scour.com goes up for grabs

 

Abrams to top Pearson TV Int'l

 

Eddie Cahill

 

Presley preserved footage to be aired

 

Kinowelt buys up a quarter of Village

 

Stirke fears drive L.A. prod'n up

 

'Spy' ring expands

 

Intermedia to fund Outlaw Prods.

 

Peacock to pluck CBS exec

 

Firm offer may rattle music biz

 

Wilde time for Miramax

 

Alphabet, Eye get family friendly

 

Frog shows legs

 

'Angels' aces Japan

 

CineVegas sets opener

 

Jackson to host ESPY Awards

 

U uploads dot-com

 

Geraldine Dreyfuss

 

Muriel Evans

 

J. Cole Powers Harris

 

Adam Jake Springer

 

Matthew Eli Rosen

 

Conor Boyd McKiernan

 

Jack Douglas Savant

 

Lin Shaye

 

Aaron Paul

 

Brand or bland?

 

Exchange of new ideas

 

Content in a corner

 

New Hollywood heavies

 

Special delivery

 

A man with a plan

 

Paying for the piper?

 

News at hand

 

In perfect harmony

 

The digital dilemma

 

Fans, freaks and 'Car 54'

 

In Film they trust

 

Fat pipe dreams

 

Radio's high infidelity

 

A battle for supremacy

 

Polish producers wage battle

 

Alli to ankle Carlton

 

U.K.'s Yes is more for Hong Kong pay TV

 

Miraculous ratings

 

Japan's Sky PerfecTV pacts with 4

 

India's Doordarshan gets greenlight

 

CineVegas' sets 'Vampire' as opener

 

Kodak taps Post's Tompkins

 

Regal exhibits woes

 

Nielsen investigates Fox News' ratings ad

 

Pollack eyes 'Peeper'; Gopnik books 'Moon'

 

Lobbyists deem Rogan's loss a minus

 

Acad reups Levy for PR duties

 

Celebs take on cancer causes

 

Agents org sets up panels

 

SAG taps Sloan to fill Allen's seat

 

Multi-ethnic orgs say diversity lags at nets

 

Inside Move: Canal Plus rumors swirl

 

Art chains unlink

 

Rumbalara, Kinowelt ink 4-year deal

 

16 markets ready to hear 'Ananda' yakker

 

SAG to honor Davis & Dee

 

Barrys plot 'Twisted' pic

 

New Line pays big for 'Genius' rights

 

Comedy fest to honor 'Living Color'

 

Time taps Isaacson as 2nd in command

 

Court TV ups Vorce to VP

 

Indian actor Rajkumar set free

 

BMG's Kelly tops charts

 

A Look Ahead

 

Moniker monitor

 

Anne Messitte

 

Laurie Younger

 

Dennis Swanson

 

Stop-and-go for Project Greenlight

 

All lathered up

 

Massive Media, iFuse in trouble

 

Trailer parked

 

Bowie bonus

 

Education station

 

You Goh girl!

 

Letter imperfect

 

'Jar Jar' blinks

 

Urban settings

 

Funny business

 

Virtual Fab Four

 

Diamond in the rough

 

Conventional wisdom

 

Interactive -- or inactive -- TV?

 

News site feeding frenzy

 

Baye to star in Gallic version of 'Ab Fab'

 

Satcaster Galaxy changes name

 

U Japan bows Web site to promote park

 

Indian TV under suspicion

 

Sub push drives SkyPerfecTV losses

 

SBS taps Tellenbach to lead expansion

 

Peacock, weblets rate well

 

Boeing, Affleck discuss digital distrib'n

 

Nick adds more 'Bill' playtime

 

'Heaven'-ly rating has Frog jumping with joy

 

Leeza Gibbons Ent. taps Lupariello

 

Kodak enters Asian theatrical picture

 

Pearce enters 'Time Machine'

 

New vision for Friedman

 

Rosen: RIAA Napster suit unfinished

 

Rhymer brings order to 'Chaos'

 

RealNetworks looks to Wolpert for advice

 

Karen Wang and Edward Lavelle

 

New ventures boost Hollywood.com's revs

 

HBO signs 'Six' team

 

BDE's 3rd-qtr revenues surge 36%

 

Linney drawn to 'Moth'

 

Harper ferried to Fox posts

 

U's 'Scorpion' stings Russell

 

Fox set to break ranks on polling service

 

Another tough Carmike qtr.

 

DirecTV no longer on Echostar's radar

 

ABC breaking ratings bank

 

Malone's home alone

 

Journos, solon and Reege enter Hall

 

A super celebration for Reeve

 

Lynn Cantor and Alec Bartsch

 

Isabel Grace Carr

 

Frank Pintauro

 

Jane Blaney

 

Oz reports film slate drop

 

ScreenCorp sails $30 mil 'Batavia'

 

Smithies tops Oz's Cinemedia

 

Brown on Germany's Intertainment board

 

AOL opens Latin American portal door

 

Ster captures Warsaw

 

Monte Carlo fetes Collins

 

Technicians OK deal with Univision's KMEX

 

Oz indie awards tap 'Innocence' 5 times

 

L.A. indie fest gets a fresh look

 

Jersey taps Klubeck to top post

 

Emmis puts off plan to align stocks

 

Nielsen demands Fox to pull news ad

 

Cirque breaks price barrier with 'O' tix

 

3 laff, cry for UPN

 

Prod'n prexy Epstein ankles Tribeca

 

Indelible cooking up 'Seared' for New Line

 

Shoelace ties Huston to pic

 

Dickoff gives life to death row story

 

Familiar answer for ratings

 

U Focus to 'Run' pic in early '01

 

Sontag, Philbrick award winners

 

'Shipmates' cruises for latenight slot

 

WWF settling the score

 

'In-Laws' redo brews; 'Nam calls Mel

 

Exec pair bid up f/x'er Rhythm & Hues

 

Etensity.com pink slips 85 in L.A.

 

Heckerling, Tori kiss Frog for skein

 

Vivendi nixes BSkyB swap

 

Ratings rewrite heats up

 

Comcast plays Country Music

 

CJ Arabia and Daniel Ceballos

 

UPC reports $1 bil net loss

 

Yale drama alums celebrate anni

 

Tix glitch stings B'way

 

Revs, ratings up at Mediaset

 

Woo to helm scribes' pitch

 

'Today' hits record

 

Marilyn Lennon and Chuck Braverman

 

Cameron Lea Katz

 

Private cash pot

 

Hong Kong whacks pirates

 

WGA orders no work at Sesame Workshop

 

Capitol spreads Beatlemania

 

Corrections

 

Kidnappers release Indian star

 

U TV names prexy pair

 

WSJ folds six sections

 

R. Kelly debut powers BMG rise

 

Sassa is Exec of Year, caucus sez

 

Teamsters hit Disney

 

Lew, Arteta create 'Kaos'

 

Disney lets dogs out

 

Send in the clones

 

'Dot Comedy' clicks with ABC primetime

 

Letter to the Editor: Cynthia Watros

 

Jack Philip Higgins

 

Nibblebox reaching out to college students

 

Virgin pacts with Music.com

 

Namer joins Space Media

 

Palm Springs fest founders

 

HBO trumpets its 'Sandoval Story'

 

Media-Most deal axed

 

Polish distrib takes 'Scary' ride to top

 

News Corp. mulling joint UPN ownership

 

'Unbreakable' breaks in

 

A Look Ahead

 

Ventura on XFL b'cast team

 

Cindy Montgomery and Rob Morhaim

 

Lily Stevenson Rubinstein

 

Chase Rolison

 

Mackenzie Morris

 

Harper Grace Fox

 

Justin Elliot Souriau-Levine

 

Leo Benvenuti

 

Capital hearings II

 

'60 Minutes II' to air Nazi revelations

 

Ontario nixes 'Rape Me'

 

Latenight laffers

 

Foreign press fete Pacino

 

Alcon books tyros' spec

 

Broadband Sports gains Action Sports Net

 

Uproar.com names 'That Tune' rights

 

Launch.com, RealNetworks pact for music

 

Voxxy.com to bow e-commerce section

 

Journos' taking whack at flacks

 

Favreau to pen pic for CBS sitcom stars

 

Fox seizes 'Ghost' from tyro scribes

 

Politicians call journos on carpet

 

H'w'd rush hour

 

'Angels 2' gets halo from Col

 

'Grinch' seems B.O. cinch

 

Gotham copper in Eye hopper

 

Clarin to acquire 5% of DirectTV

 

Sky bows Argentine sat service

 

Asian outlook good at CineAsia

 

NBC Europe, Kinowelt team for prime pix

 

Jospehine Hall Esterly

 

Euro Film Forum honors Berlin fest topper

 

Latam StarMedia inks pacts

 

McCall's relaunch is Rosie

 

Corrections

 

Helkon spells out post-Koening plans

 

Fox Cable ups Honeycutt

 

SFX taps executive duo

 

Sci Fi, Atlantis to fly two pilots

 

ABC skeins capture Wed.

 

BMG cues musicvideos for Net sites

 

AtomFilms to bow Thornton, Bates pix

 

Foster tunes up 'Popstars'

 

Law mulls 'Road' trip with D'Works, Hanks

 

Kinowelt USA cruises with 'Cap'n' tale

 

Morton pacts for Ramsay's 'Callar'

 

Major taps Greenstein as partner

 

Landscape ramps up Net ops

 

Gaylord to drive 'Off-Track'

 

Euro Film Awards boost TV profile

 

MTV Euro kudos tap U.S. stars

 

Fox Sports Net 2 adds 3 systems

 

Laughing matters at Jersey TV

 

Syndie shows surging as sweeps start

 

U Focus to 'Run' pic in early '01

 

Musicians gift Garden with 4-year contract

 

Urbanworld fest parent bows distrib'n arm

 

Thumbs up for friends in Gaul

 

'SportsCenter' en Espanol gets Si

 

Bratislava Fest puts focus on tyro helmers

 

Reviews

Michel Legrand

Stone Temple Pilots

What the Butler Saw

Il Mare/Ditto

The Orphan Muses

Bongja

Die Bad

Pickaxe

Mercy Streets

Café Ole

The Egg

Fugitives

Hybrid

Middlemen

Vampire Hunter D

Twelve Nights

Love Come Down

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Beyond Reason: A Friend on Death Row

Waydowntown

Singing

The Man Who Saw Too Much