Table of Contents
Week of 12/09/2000

Articles

'Grinch' a cinch, 'Tiger' soars

 

Corrections

 

Sundance to honor Moore

 

French pic acad taps Verneuil

 

Cabler Shaw nabs Moffat

 

Cup's Haffa empty

 

'Bowl' opens Palm Springs

 

'Undercover' to bow as HBO weekly show

 

Sundance sets shorts slate

 

Residual pressure

 

Protest over attempt to gag SAG report

 

Collision links with Dimension, Abandon

 

Legal eagles mingle

 

Quartet of pics shines in o'seas B.O.

 

Ase Simone Fisher

 

Apollo, union pact for Amateur Night musicians

 

'Dangerous' dealings

 

'Tick' does trick for scribe

 

'Malcolm' in movies at Regency

 

It's not always about Oscar

 

Herrick gives pix the white glove treatment

 

Rules reflect changing face of cinema

 

New toon category raises ante for creators, studios

 

Liquid enters bid for Scour's assets

 

Keying into the Academy mindset

 

Critics champion cinema as art

 

WPIX names Berlamino veep-G.M.

 

Kiss to hit Gold Coast

 

STAR goes to Shanghai

 

IFPI CEO adds 2 years

 

Kodak to do multiplex in India

 

Inside Move: ABC near 'Practice' deal

 

Inside Move: Who's behind 'Frasier' buzz?

 

'Disappearing Acts' appears

 

A Look Ahead

 

Stacey Dash

 

Kevin McNally

 

Werner Klemperer

 

Syndies go hungry holiday week

 

Power Up announces its board

 

Busy thesp adds two pix to sked

 

Televisa to market game, laffer formats

 

Radio stations hit hard in copyright ruling

 

Greenwald drinks in 'Whiskey' telepic

 

Silberling's 'Baby' nears Disney berth

 

Tauzin rebukes FCC

 

In the film biz, funny money is an old joke

 

Chopsocko U.S. bow for Sony's fantasy

 

Overbrook turns on TV

 

'Cast Away' joins fray

 

Showtime pumps up 'Heart'

 

Let 'Freedom' ring

 

Nicholl scribes gain instant H'wood cachet

 

Kudos race heats up

 

FCC: Merger ruling near

 

Loews in a state of grace

 

Russian piece plan

 

Col TriStar gets Oz Nat'l 2000 award

 

Discovery doubles Indian ops

 

Gaga sending out email 'Frequency'

 

Hot 'Traffic' jam

 

Col Pix will sink teeth in 'Vampire'

 

Technicolor sale's in black and white

 

The new U debuts

 

Jacqueline Obradors

 

Saul Williams

 

Ansen Mount

 

Jesse James

 

Guilds applaud peer peaks

 

Critics champion cinema as art

 

Hal Pearl

 

Leapin' lizards o'seas

 

Jack Shea slept here

 

TV caucus lauds Hill, Denoff

 

Garcelle Beauvais

 

Digital Planet secures Intel, Mellon coin

 

StreamSearch downsizing, not closing

 

Riffage.com closes its doors

 

'Dragon' toon fires up deals

 

CBS taps Isaacs sr. veep

 

Random House builds in Asia with new prez

 

All the Pretty Horses

 

Granada Int'l unveils post-merger structure

 

Latino TV to channel MVS

 

Aiello brothers park laffer at Fox

 

Almost Famous

 

Brainpool will offer outer 'Space' live

 

Glynis Ahearn and Patrick M. Lynn

 

S. Africa net blasted for violent sex pic

 

Before Night Falls

 

Wahlberg will handle 'Truth'

 

Columbia catches a code

 

Cast Away

 

'Cuckoo' flying in

 

Hill eyes 'Move' for Disney

 

Hellmuth rejoins NBA

 

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

 

Erin Brockovich

 

Media's Gusinsky arrested in Spain

 

At U pics, changes at the top

 

Miramax-imized

 

A Look Ahead

 

Madeleine Claire Jacobsen

 

Mehria Mustamandy

 

Norma Acland

 

Sadaf Cohen Muncy

 

DIC Ent. taps Brown to top creative arm

 

IATSE's Short urges talks

 

Film Roman ups Jung to VP

 

EMusic adds royalties to licensing deal

 

Imax sells digital cinema projector to T-Joy

 

ABC's 'Comedy' snatching up Net toons, pix

 

ABC 'Crossing' over

 

Downey hit with charges

 

'99 SAG earnings up

 

HBO opens Florida center

 

Paris Isabelle Levy

 

Foley may get 'Irish' up for Emmett/Furla

 

Scott Thomas finds time for '24 Hours'

 

Reality to rescue

 

WB, Wells on 'Hackers'

 

Baumohl takes over int'l for ECG

 

SAG exec director to exit

 

Dey ready for 'Showtime'

 

Cirque plans for new London center

 

Davies Diplomatic with ABC

 

Simpsons'-based Monopoly passes Go

 

Gaul veto victory

 

BBC suits up for pay digital sports web

 

Kinepolis set to unload stake in CinemaxX

 

Griffin 'Undercover' for U/Imagine comedy

 

Italo uproar over violence in 'Dinosaur'

 

De Mol, Lopez among Bambi winners

 

Billy Elliot

 

'Great' news for Canton

 

B'way B.O. continues swing shift

 

Chocolat

 

Hell's Kitchen puts up bread for 'Tesis'

 

RickMill taps Comedy Central's Katz

 

The Contender

 

Sam Fujikawa Murphy

 

Sarah H. Beatty

 

Dancer in the Dark

 

Finding Forrester

 

The Gift

 

Brits mull change

 

Lucas Moriarty Hobbs

 

Andrew L. Stone

 

French connection

 

Vivendi: Ready for your closeup?

 

Cleaned-up, 'Billy Elliot' in the works

 

Posting gains

 

O'Neill taps Viertel chairman

 

B'way busy spring delays 'Clowns' bow

 

NBC goes bowling for big dollars

 

New syndie TV group to develop, own shows

 

Univision nabs Diller's USA stations

 

Exhibs seek arthouse auds

 

Teuton cash crash can't sink biz

 

Smaller pix pique Spanish mart

 

De Laurentiis goes native with Zeffirelli

 

Reality bites high-flying Oz pic biz

 

AFI founds annual pix kudos

 

Yes hopes clients say yes

 

Syndies learn from lessons of Laura

 

Syndicators: 'ET' perf wins week

 

Morena, Produce in English-lingo TV skein

 

Trio packs punch at B.O.

 

2 deals down cold

 

'Dance' hauls in B.O. in South Africa

 

Swedish institute OKs kidpic

 

Denmark pubcaster taps exec

 

Luna staff may strike in Slovakia

 

WB bows in Argentina

 

Hallmark inks affil deals

 

Carlton's European Net plans dissolve

 

'Rat' catches in Slovakia

 

'Charlie' lights up Eye's Mon. lineup

 

In 2 burgs, Time AOL stands still

 

Tauzin still to probe journos

 

Thriller writer leaving agent; Le Carre talks

 

Valenti touts value of copyright biz

 

Kushner-Locke's overdrawn

 

B'casting recasting

 

Arquette on the 'Attack'

 

Story tailors 'Barbershop' in helm bow

 

CenterSpan snags Scour for $9 mil

 

Wonder Boys

 

Hip-hop site funds Hookt

 

Disney, Yahoo! partner for content

 

Documentaries

 

O Brother, Where Art Thou

 

Traffic

 

News Corp. adds James Murdoch to board

 

Pierce takes new role at Col TriStar TV

 

Overseas taps 5 for homevid

 

Medusa picks up next 3 Allen pix

 

EMI inks IchooseTV, Musicbrigade deals

 

Leeson guides 'Teckno' shoot

 

DGA honors trio

 

'Chocolat' melts in

 

Fired up for charity

 

'Dude' screening found

 

Disney's 'Emperor' gets in the groove

 

Stuck on 'Traffic' (N.Y. Crix Pix)

 

New U marketing plan

 

Fab Four floor Boys with '1'

 

A Look Ahead

 

Christmas in Florida?

 

TV biz's gay pride parade

 

Noises Off: Head of the class

 

Blighty faces yule blizzard

 

Revamped line-up leads to ratings rise

 

Media Asia Thais up deal for Chinese pix

 

Studios make high-tech power play

 

U.S. 'Grinch' green goes global

 

Sundance spectrum broad, often digital

 

SAG strays from spotlight

 

Peru welcomes back ousted station owners

 

Bertrand ankles Canuck b'cast post

 

Pathe wins 3 more yrs. of lotto funding

 

A&E, cablers will bow Canuck Bio channel

 

Maori lingo hits film in New Zealand

 

Zee gameshow spiked in India

 

India's AXN backs daredevils

 

Hoyts high on Perth

 

Mexico taps film head for Imcine

 

Grammys honor five

 

Murphy, De Niro team up for a comedic Showtime

 

NBC jumps to 8th win in key demo

 

Stars set for Pressman retro

 

Walter Isaacson

 

Marcarelli, Owens will present 'Gift'

 

20th does a 'Triple Take'

 

Morehouse back at Tribune

 

Shadow of the Vampire

 

'Normal' no more

 

You Can Count on Me

 

Visual effects and sound

 

Gladiator

 

Thirteen Days

 

Quills

 

ABC meets 'Beast'

 

Fox rises out of the rates hole

 

Front Row, Pathe pact on pix

 

E-M-S acquires advanced stake

 

Food Net, NBA hoop it up

 

N.Y.'s good, the bad, and the 'Pretty'

 

'Maelstrom' nabs Canada's Genie noms

 

Disney Int'l Japan preps for theme park

 

EBU to broadcast Euro 2004 soccer

 

Corus courting change

 

H'wood looks to work with Bush presidency

 

DGA's Nat'l Board OKs blurb pact

 

Dunst hits 'Spider-Man' web

 

Fox Family/Fox Kids ups Zakovich to VP

 

Slamdance sets fest slate

 

Microsoft pacts with EA for Xbox games

 

Musicbank adds EMI to its label roster

 

Window on world

 

Creative Planet cuts 70 workers

 

ABC drama for McQuarrie

 

Inside Move: Razorfish disavows ICM release

 

Tamara Mello

 

Inside Move: Ex-SAG prexy speaks out

 

Channel blocker

 

WMA donates to USC center

 

'Malena' moves in

 

Gusinsky battles extradition to Russia

 

Zooey Deschanel, Ashley Johnson

 

Lindsay Price

 

Terry Crews

 

Naomi Frisch, JoAnn Grigioni

 

Gary Thorne, Jan G. Schuth, Bernard J. Weiss

 

Sam Semo, Erica Rockler

 

Azim Rashid

 

Bob Koch

 

Joanne B. Modlin

 

Drew Hayes

 

Mike Lolato

 

Roman coin found

 

Carlton, Media Pro link for Spanish TV

 

Hong Kong's Star TV, CCTV in tune

 

Pearson ups 3 exex in Asia

 

Star ups exec VP Ali

 

India's TV Today to bow web

 

California cashing out

 

Disney pacts with Japanese toymaker

 

Bel Air taps Buckley for post

 

SAG OKs search group to fill nat'l exec post

 

Pub bids hit $8 mil for Hillary book

 

'Play Misty' remake on tap; ditto 'Jessica'

 

Fox Family orders 26 segs of Olsens

 

Prometheus finds gold in 'Hollywood'

 

Goodman tapped VP at WB

 

'Plum' picked for Berlin's film festival

 

Webcast studio adds real-time interactivity

 

Prince charms Studios USA

 

Borden on 'Rialto' marquee

 

'Dubya's' win puts H'wood in a spin

 

Starbright universe grows

 

Humana Fest schedules play lineup

 

U's 'Family' values

 

Scribes surf on WGA turf

 

Louis-Delluc enjoys Chabrol's 'Nightcap'

 

'No regrets,' Ancier sez

 

Peacock Zucker-punched

 

Fed loan guarantees available for indies

 

A Look Ahead

 

Victor Williams

 

Hugh Laurie

 

Helena Kriel

 

Marlee Matlin

 

Betty Garrett

 

Nick Cornish

 

Dennis Farina

 

Thora Birch

 

Richard T. Jones

 

Jonathan Brandis

 

Howard Weiner, Alan Bernstein, Paul Duong, Heather Sempertegui

 

Charissa Victors Gilmore, Sharon Liggins

 

Peter Halt, Simon Baker, Mark Rudolph

 

Jerome Le Grand

 

Tony Fox

 

Nancy Dunn

 

Judy L. Milrad

 

The Don Goes Digital

 

All the world's a posting on B'way

 

Experiments in Hanging

 

Distribution uber alles

 

Up Front worships idols

 

Celeste Alleyne Turner

 

Berlinale kid fest bows part of slate

 

Hoyt Curtin

 

Hoffman full of 'Molony'

 

BSkyB pix arm drops Fox for U.K. distrib

 

BBC vice chair named

 

Rywin will chair Canal Plus Poland panel

 

O'Donnell throws her hat in 'Cat' ring

 

MTV Nets promotes Browning

 

GetMusic taps chief for o'seas

 

'Love' finds int'l partners

 

NEA to honor artists

 

The fantasy sporting life

 

Movies.com, Fact City trivial pursuit

 

Leading man at ICANN

 

ABC reassigns Moran

 

ICM reels in a deal

 

Disney gets wish with 'Bonehead'

 

Stewart, Short to voice on 'Jimmy' ani

 

Felicitous ratings

 

Howe tapped CTO of Fandom

 

Fandango ups Warner

 

Streisand helps AFI set up her kudocast

 

Oz TV skein cuts Bana loose

 

Artisan, Alliance reup Canuck output deal

 

Pair will take over Helkon helm

 

Exhib Silver's salve

 

Czech TV axes director

 

2000 Brandies honor advanced placement

 

Ayem juggernaut shouldn't miss beat

 

Masters of their domains

 

FTC blesses AOL-TW nuptials

 

TV reporter launches suit against ENG firms

 

Interactivity gets naked

 

Let them entertain you

 

Viva el Web strategy

 

Blind ambitions

 

Pay here, get content

 

Community access

 

TV Loonland buys Korea-based distrib

 

A few words from our sponsors

 

Sign on the Dot-Com Line

 

Frozen assets

 

Boxed in

 

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