Table of Contents
Week of 11/25/2000

Articles

Green monster gobbles B.O.

 

Downey Jr. arrested for drug possession

 

Philip Levens

 

NBC gets out broom

 

Jessica Cauffiel

 

Andrew Dominik

 

T.S. Cook

 

Taylor Bradley

 

Anschutz has Kodak moment

 

IMagicTV's IPO raises $48.6 mil

 

Hearst's Cosmo girl

 

De Angelis slates 5

 

Miramax, Intermedia, BBC team up on 'Iris'

 

Inside Move: Rivals mull 'Survivor 2' sked

 

Showtime, Starz add multiplex channels

 

ABC Disney kid block revamped

 

Naumann said ankling Teuton post to pub

 

WBTV raises Hage to program veepee

 

Muniz bound for U's 'Found'

 

ABC News vows election redo

 

Clifton Collins Jr.

 

Federal judge denies Fox motion on 'Race'

 

Cable's new stable

 

Harris reigns at 'Pollock' preem

 

Indie pics picking up B.O. steam

 

Dot-com stalwarts sink on Nasdaq

 

'Angels' on high overseas

 

Morissette parts with MP3 shares

 

Palm Pictures, Sputnik 7 'Deliver'

 

U.K.'s Chrysalis in the black

 

Nintendo reports $235 mil net income

 

Moore to host sports awards

 

Teddy Rose Baker

 

'X-Men' pops DVD, vid lid

 

ABC stations talk up 'Iyanla'

 

A&E gets tougher with 'Heist'

 

Greg Bell

 

Supreme Court nixes cams for prez hearing

 

'Titanic' not hulking for NBC

 

Rayford K. Barnes

 

Mary Sinclair

 

David Frisina

 

Art Frankel

 

George Dzundza

 

EMI stox socked as exex downplay talks

 

Fox taps Kuo biz sr. veep

 

Tale of the tapes

 

Asian TV goes global

 

'Buffalo Soldiers' land in Karlsruhe

 

TriArts takes Bedford

 

Fox Kids ratings soar

 

Creatives stand by EU law

 

Splendid Medien pacts with Fox

 

Inside Move: UPN exex hit airwaves

 

Lynn Whitfield

 

DGA rips WGA proposals

 

Ant Farm taps creative head

 

Banderas circles role in 'Fu Manchu'

 

Urban banner gets sweet Showtime deal

 

Canucks tap winners of digital derby

 

Beatles return to top of charts

 

Fencing with agents, SAG prez is 'last action hero'

 

Phoenix plans 'Vacation' with Katzenbach

 

Indies keep coming, but who foots bills?

 

Turin kings 'George'

 

RespondTV enhances 'BattleBots'

 

Pearson/Rizzoli wins TV license

 

CineVegas to honor Rydell

 

Newsies court supremes

 

Warner Bros. takes 'Eraser' to Alphabet

 

Teuton Guber allies

 

Music labels battle former digital demons

 

Youth site swamped by changes, $ crunch

 

EU probes public b'casting

 

GE throws switch

 

Mouse ups Aviv; Ammer joins Revolution

 

Jacob Scan Genga

 

Frederick S. Clarke

 

Norman E. Gluck

 

Mary Jo Deschanel

 

Joe C

 

Canuck's Videotron exex ankle

 

Government urges NHK scramble

 

India names 'Ram' as entry for Oscar

 

Italy's Fandango takes on distribution

 

High-flying 'Angels'

 

Sony Pictures taps vp trio

 

Zalokar to head ShoWest

 

CanWest Global founder gives $13 mil

 

BBC's coining deal

 

Nine inks Balaji pact

 

Canada's CBC, Chum chum up

 

Tidying ebookcase

 

Guild trusts tap Hendricks

 

Lyle upped to exec VP, Pearson TV

 

CTTD develops B-to-B site

 

McCartney, John stand firm on net theft

 

Inside Move: Japan b'casters battle over Par

 

'Tiger' stalks Oscars

 

Weitz brothers go for Hornby's 'Boy'

 

Touchstone inks Beck for TV developing

 

WCBS loves input from TLC

 

U.S. Comedy Arts Festival to fete Crystal

 

Miller taps exec trio in USA revamp

 

Replay's rewind erases CEO, half of staff

 

Twain tops SOCAN kudos

 

B'Way thankful for holiday season

 

Supremes to allow tape

 

Hawke flies to Knopf with 2nd book deal

 

Fox takes 'Zombie' out of Icebox

 

Par seeing stars thanks to 'Trek' deal

 

NBC's broom at the top

 

Hannah Jude Hotchkiss

 

Star TV pushes foreign rules change

 

Nairi Gardiner

 

EU boosts film biz

 

Sub-superhero stox

 

Web service for filing music copyrights bows

 

Griffin ponders Downey's addiction, career

 

Jennings: No bias in his expression

 

Star turns to Teamwork for TV

 

Tijori seeks stars, co-prod for '1984'

 

India's Star TV in deal for DTH

 

Digital decoders OK in Italy

 

Canada takes prizes

 

Oz group into SCTV

 

UIP Australia promotes Selwyn

 

Asia's ESPN Star hires Kemp

 

UCLA builds on biz bigwigs

 

Nat'l snags legit kudos

 

SAG noms rise as deadline approaches

 

Doss is ready for 'Primetime'

 

Icebox board opens the door for Zelnick

 

Bowie dances with MP3

 

Threshold pacts with Barker to raise hell

 

NBC sails on 'Titanic'

 

Hughes finds home at WMA

 

Spotlight on 'Art,' 'Frame'

 

MTV keeps boy band '2gether'

 

'Orient Express' on track

 

Chi's DeRay snaps ABC deal

 

Touchstone laffs set pilots flying

 

Chicks, pic key to NBC demo win

 

'Ally' up with Downey

 

Network-AFTRA talks make progress

 

Eye pulls plug on 'City of Angels'

 

Fox takes flier on Fontana sci-fier

 

UPN, Endemol link for 'Chains' gamer

 

Sponsor one-stop shops with ABC

 

Regal fosters new kid 'Spirit'

 

Study finds S. Africa biz needing coin

 

The Fests: 'Last' takes first in Thessaloniki

 

Int'l Emmys a universal event

 

Writers say no to early negotiations

 

De Angelis ramps up prod'n slate

 

Merger saved

 

Prince Charles' tie

 

Japan sees 'Battle' over pic violence

 

'Tiger' yearning bright for Oscar

 

Arnold's action vies for traction

 

O'seas auds eager for holiday treats

 

Urbanworld adds acquisitions arm

 

Biz does splits over DVDs

 

Intermedia tries TV on way to L.A.

 

Pay TV won't ante for Western show

 

Boffo advertising sales in the sunset?

 

Sony's twice-told tales

 

Dutch treats

 

Antena 3 taps vet TV-Web exec topper

 

Report frets over BBC kids plan

 

Chum selects Switzer as president

 

Four countries clean up at Intl. Emmys

 

Biz slides; 'Tale' 364g

 

B.O. up; S.F. 'Mamma' bows

 

Endemol U.K. sets Initial exex

 

SBS nabs half stake in 2nd Dutch channel

 

TF1 eyes Pathe pic partnership

 

CanWest sees red amid expansion

 

South African Web ramps up prod'n

 

Poland's UCI, ITI open 2 plexes

 

Way to pay net piper

 

Tribune Ent. greenlights 'Mutant X'

 

Korea, Japan TV pact

 

'Rude' twosome ink Par, HBO pacts

 

MTVi taps Hirschhorn for online content G.M.

 

FTC's likely to stall vote on AOL/TW

 

Belateche building 'Demolished'

 

Platt ready to say the 'Word'

 

Hawke flies on 2nd novel

 

WB taps two for int'l prexy roles

 

'Beast' scribe inks 2 beauts

 

NBC blesses laffer 'Cursed'

 

Inside Move: Tale of BMG wrangling

 

New York Mag to fete Philbin

 

Trylon taps four

 

Toei sets price for IPO

 

Globo grows revs, subs

 

Tribe nets $6.8 mil

 

Blow Up's 'Love' lenses in Gotham

 

Katerina June Rose Millner

 

Alex Lee Powell

 

James Franco

 

Olivia Williams

 

Dave Power

 

Nets to aid in election probe

 

Peacock fits Metcalf into schedule

 

Pics top politics on Cairo fest agenda

 

Ukraine shakes off frost

 

The Fests: Rotterdam floats theme

 

EMI slowing the music

 

Producers, WGA poised for talks

 

Will 'Survivor' landing cause 'Angel' flight?

 

German marks spot

 

Writers' pride, pay to collide

 

Oscar nets record with 46 foreign pix

 

Legit near comeback at Biltmore

 

B'way stocking stuffed

 

Satcaster surge starts swim upstream

 

Critics' tally

 

The Cablers: USA, Burnett 'Combat' ready

 

The Cablers: Channel surfing ...

 

Stock market may leave cable short of goal

 

Dispatches: Endemol inks Shanghai deal

 

Dispatches: Star reaches out to ethnic auds

 

Dispatches: TV Azteca to dump Unefon

 

Dispatches: Clarin takes interest in DirecTV

 

Dispatches: Jupiter postpones IPO

 

Tuesdays get fall's top mark

 

TV coin both boon, bane to Spanish pix

 

Time for a reboot

 

Japan-Korea ties take Amuse-ing turn

 

Olympian gains

 

NetSat decodes loss

 

Stan Lee selloffs persist

 

CBC chair ankles

 

World Sport, Nimbus nab cricket rights

 

N.Y. distrib Unapix turns to Chapter 11

 

CSI pacts to distribute Rusic pix

 

Southern Star taps 2 int'l sales exex

 

UIP Australia promotes Selwyn

 

Tepuy taps sales exex

 

Downey subject of Thanksgiving thoughts

 

Org: Election fiasco pollster should get ax

 

Benitez offers stake in Boca

 

McDormand to 'Grace' TV

 

PlayersCharlotte Ayanna

 

Intertainer, Cisco team for stream

 

Liberate bows VC subsid for interactive TV

 

'Booty Call,' 'Animals' for U.K.'s Channel 4

 

Flipside pairs games, New Line homevids

 

Geographic maps new programs

 

Cirillo takes 'Drop' from Red Cliff

 

Veteran flack exits Warners

 

Fox hops 'Bunny' trail

 

Style sashays to Dish's program package

 

'Security' trails Dugan, Zahn

 

WB wafts Wigram to senior veepee

 

Icebox toons up, cuts staff

 

Cable news auds up

 

A Look Ahead

 

Rory Farrelly Gesner

 

Tia Texada

 

Michael Rosenbaum

 

Emmy Rossum

 

Agnes Bruckner

 

Boys back in 'Black'

 

SAG must ratify ad pact by Friday

 

SAG forms panel to tap exec director

 

Madonna, magician attract millions on Net

 

Morin tapped as Manex prexy

 

Canada's Quebecor subsids cut costs

 

Chancellor Schroeder speaks at 'Kindertransport' preem

 

Cates begins 'Mesmerist'

 

Intermedia drafts Dragotto

 

Phoenix shields 'Defenseless'

 

McGovern joins 'Soldiers' cast

 

MTV ups pair to exec veep

 

French C+ Tech tunes in Sony

 

Closer to V-U day

 

Meets to Melbourne

 

Tune org asks gov't for 'Net royalty rules

 

Delon tops jury of Paris pic fest with Italo accent

 

Malone cooks merger burger

 

Gallic cable and sat ads increase in '00

 

Paul gets new action gig

 

Go nears finish line for racing rights

 

Frog net strikes up its reality

 

Lions Gate profit soars on 'Psycho'

 

Gepgraphic maps new programs

 

Chile gets hot tamale: first legal porn pic

 

Dido does all righto

 

Cisneros TV inks deal for docus

 

BAFTA-LA reels in 'Fish'

 

Interactive exposes TV's unsexy side

 

Rock on a roll at VH1 Awards

 

Andrew Hunter

 

Jennifer Davis

 

Andy Gensler

 

Marc Bodner

 

Charlene Weisler

 

Dianne Doctor

 

Paul Bissonette

 

Matthieu Lauriot-Prevost

 

Sharlotte Blake

 

Ian Parmiter

 

Nancy Coleman

 

ABC, NBC take sweeps down to the wire

 

Sundance taps legit artists

 

Microsoft announces interactive TV deals

 

Fandom pacts with LaFong for online game

 

Virtual makeover

 

King's 'Plant' to lie fallow

 

B&N, Gemstar deny merger talk

 

Juno warms to TW, AOL cable access

 

FX, Comcast ink affiliation

 

Shows breathe life into Oxygen schedule

 

BV's 'Break' dance

 

'Santa Clause' 2 under TV helmer's tree

 

NBC's 'Downer' fills up with talent

 

TNN tackles rights to XFL games

 

Madstone selects first three helmers

 

PSN, Sportal team for sports links

 

MP3.com delays restart, touts U deal

 

Nets voting for changes

 

Pleitgen placed at the top of Germany's ARD

 

Giaquinta exits Sony post

 

Joyce is latest Revolutionary

 

India's Mumbai fetes Sippy

 

UCI, Polish ITI venture adds multis

 

'Madison' makes 'Dance card

 

Editor ankles Premiere mag

 

Big bucks redux?

 

EM.TV shopping for buyers

 

Cablers taking on phonies

 

Magic iceman cometh

 

Digital cuts Granada gains

 

Spirit Awards drinks in Waters as host

 

Nick orders more 'Dora'

 

Music kudos

 

Planeta taps Spinetta to top pic prod'n arm

 

Showtime's 'Folk' song

 

AOL's down time

 

A Look Ahead

 

Janice Miller

 

Julie Chamberlain, Azim Rashid, Dwayne McClary

 

Edvardo Bissiccio

 

Alicia Syres

 

Richard De Croce

 

Karen Miller

 

Adlabs sets float to fund Bombay Imax

 

'Oi!' helmers receive death threats

 

Japan pols blast helmer for violent 'Battle'

 

CNBC ups Cotton to Euro chief exec

 

Trio plans Berlin web

 

Sun gameshow a hit in India

 

Echo licenses Warner tunes

 

Feevees vie for 'Limit'; 'Seussical' under siege

 

Video event to fete trio

 

iFilm trims staff 10% following acquisitions

 

EMusic.com deals with Fantasy

 

Frank ankles Real Networks

 

ImageDirect bows download site

 

NBC 'Nightly News' sweeps

 

Rookies join vets in People's Choice noms

 

D'Works inks for 'Author'

 

Stan Lee cops coin infusion

 

Pricey monthly fees hinder Interactive TV

 

Pasha Elizabeth Wynant

 

Tiffany Shrier and Scott Howard

 

'Good Day L.A.' sweeps past KTLA

 

Century City new Lion lair

 

Miracle whipped by exits

 

Oscar trivia

 

DGA honors look stellar