Table of Contents
Week of 01/08/2001

Articles

Jay Adams

 

Cathleen Murphy

 

Art imitates art

 

Road to best pic: An 'American' dream

 

UMG labels Lipman as Republic prexy

 

Telemundo ups two to sales VP

 

Wang, Ponce, Montanus ABC sales sr. VPs

 

Mergers, market mire mark '00

 

India's Popular preps plexes

 

Telefonica set to buy 60% of Manga Films

 

Sundance to showcase pair of live perfs

 

Liberty Livewire gives Soundelux new tune

 

Improv inks deal for dot-comedy

 

Aud comes into 'View'

 

'Leno' lands biggest aud in two years

 

Wiczyk goes to U as VP prod'n

 

Clarification

 

Nat'l Society crix laud 'Yi Yi'

 

A tech Oscar first for Pixar

 

Inside Move: Matalin out as 'Crossfire' host

 

Fox, licensees go 'Apes' for goodies

 

Cinematic treks around the world

 

Incumbents win AFTRA elections

 

Apple, Compaq to bow recordable DVD

 

New York Times online to pink-slip 69

 

Viacom will sell $1.5 bil in securities

 

SAG's internal saga

 

Lloyd gets return Col

 

Sony spins Spidey tale

 

Fox News taps Magee programming VP

 

Oz digital bow underwhelms

 

A Look Ahead

 

Goya pic draws duo

 

Gail I. Edwin

 

The Politics of Oscar

 

Eyes on the prize

 

Playwright embraces director's reins

 

Another stab at posterity

 

Kinowelt teams up

 

BVI, Sony top int'l

 

ARD, ZDF score soccer from Kirch

 

Star invests in DTH

 

HBO Asia picks 3 pix

 

French films falter

 

Caesar opens Oz fest

 

Talkers, mags lead syndies

 

'Today' hits record height

 

Clark's New Year show uncorks record aud

 

Gold to head DIC video wing

 

Firm suit vs. Sillerman

 

WB signs Schroeder

 

Escape buys 'Knowing' pitch

 

Your Friday answer?

 

SAG mails kudo ballots

 

'Unbreakable' tops in holiday-hit frame

 

Endemol prez lines up team

 

Oscar best pic list contains 242

 

Inside Move: Zwick abandons helm

 

Kramer enters Pandemonium as exec vp

 

Gandolfini reaches D'Works' 'Castle'

 

XM launches into satellite radio biz

 

Understudy for Oscar

 

Pre-strike jitters taking toll on Tinseltown

 

Fans applaud rebirth of a London legend

 

Rolling the dice on Xbox

 

'Buffy' a toughie for WB

 

UPN to sign affiliation deal with Chris-Craft

 

Fox exex try to avoid peril of 'Temptation'

 

Tee time for 'Pages'

 

MP3.com backs copyright fight

 

Cary Sachs

 

Dismal 2000 sends Web sites spinning

 

Katten Muchin Zavis hires six biz attorneys

 

Pax TV, NBC team up on 'Mysterious'

 

Col TriStar Home Video changes name

 

B'cast crix celebrate 'Contender'

 

Eminem sets PPV concert

 

Les Brown

 

Michael Stremel

 

White House screening room filled with 'Chocolat'

 

Lions Gate rejigs labels

 

BMG brass bails out

 

Swedish Bugs bite 'Songs'

 

Ad drop fears strike Viacom, Disney stox

 

Rick Yune

 

Vincent Young

 

HBO, sis add channels

 

Unbeatable o'seas

 

India pic financier charged, held

 

N.Y. Times sells its stake in TheStreet

 

Bernstein, Kok tapped by Fandango

 

Hollywood, Real team for digital rights

 

MTVi ups Alex to news veep

 

iM inks deal for Netcast compensation

 

Lennox tops U Canuck music

 

Eigendorff upped at MTV

 

Grooving together

 

Love joins 'Collinwood'

 

Fox's giant finish

 

SAG names Simmens to top gov't relations

 

MTV, grapplers get 'Tough' on reality

 

Aniston eyes 'Good Girl'

 

Lender duo to acquire ailing Silver Cinemas

 

Classy pitch to Revolution

 

Net pix in Sony sights

 

Exclusion galls chief of IATSE

 

Crusader, Par pic pact

 

Revolution ties up 'Rodeo'

 

Endemol makes Latin play

 

Joya Tillem and Jon Favreau

 

Turturro takes turn as Cosell in 'Mayhem'

 

Wind Dancer, Winchester pact

 

My funny Primetime Valentine

 

Broadway grosses tumble in New Year

 

Inside Move: Way cleared for 'Survivor 3'

 

Faith flies away with AMAS

 

Isle bet for Eye

 

Robin Sayetta

 

MGM Distrib taps Robino to promo post

 

MTV to go black for campaign

 

Four thesps join Gere in 'Prophecies'

 

Dallas crix pick 'Traffic'

 

ShoWest fetes 'Cast Away' writer Broyles

 

Jose Greco

 

Calmel to take over Cannes fest budget

 

Wandering 'Women'

 

Scarlet reels in Cinematheque post

 

Sweden's SVT crisis explained

 

Brazil's Globo toons in Nick

 

Lenny Bekerman

 

Still sees top of Warner Vision

 

Pair pacts to save kidvidder EM.TV

 

Rumpus lassos Muniz to voice 'Bison' toon

 

Intertops taking bets for reality skeins

 

Cartoon Net Online ups Register

 

MPA taps top tech exec

 

Edmonds launches music arm, taps exex

 

Crystal crystalizes as Imagine VP

 

Oscar Watch

 

Lakeshore buoys Denton

 

Dollars & scents

 

It's off to Werk for f/x house Centropolis

 

Vet marketing exec ankles U

 

Joy Parsell and Christopher M. Mills

 

Public taps Hurst Mng. Dir.

 

Alliance pans for cable 'Gold'

 

Inside Move: 'Bette' shuffles showrunners

 

A Look Ahead

 

Romanian wickets spinning faster

 

Late rally lifts wilted wickets

 

Rendezvous seduces non-Euros with bows

 

Guild and Studio agree to early talks

 

Crowds rally for TV Rebels

 

Tarzan puts Grinch in vidlock

 

Sidney Woloshin

 

Italo Christmas gift

 

Televisa joins 'Feud' family

 

Brenner made Loeb partner

 

XM launches service without satellite

 

Kore nabs Bukosky for VP business

 

Butensky joins eMadison

 

ABC goes bowling

 

Inside Move: Allen sans pre-strike pic project

 

Inside Move: Amazon caught in 'Traffic'

 

Brad Renfro

 

Inside Move: Orgs delay nom anouncements

 

Nomination ballots mailed

 

Lussier's take on history is novel approach

 

AFI taps 2000's top 10

 

'Division' arrests ratings

 

Jordan joins 'Kelly Gang'

 

French acad inducts Moreau

 

Fathom plumbs 'Earth's' depths

 

Depp, Clooney game for Barris biopic

 

Denver billionaire buys stake in Regal

 

A Look Ahead

 

Sony sees future minus Centropolis futurists

 

Epic-hungry Poles send B.O. sliding

 

O'Neill taps Viertel chairman

 

DVD offers tonic, but homevid's still ailing

 

H'wood orders Asian takeout

 

Sony's 'Tiger' hunting in Miramax territory

 

These four need no intro

 

Trailers park noms

 

Hype takes a holiday

 

Confessions from the crypt

 

NatGeo readies U.S. stampede

 

'Early' tide on the rise

 

Cheers for tears

 

Blizzard blights a record week

 

Walter Schier

 

Lee Tergesen

 

Jay Hernandez

 

Boffo B.O. run saves battered biz year

 

Gallic cinema tix sales up

 

BBC tunes in China

 

Fox, Cablevision battle over net carriage

 

Icon's Kamp decamping

 

Conspiracao, distribs ink

 

ShoWest lauds prod'n pair

 

Scarlet 'perfect' for top French film post

 

Globes spins set of trophy presenters

 

Citibank exec takes Harry Fox prexy post

 

Trans World Ent. sets buyback

 

Moguls mull NTG

 

GOP scales back party coin

 

Martin eyes inauguration

 

Berlin film fest slate set

 

Endeavor will rep Web video streamer

 

RealNetwork inks deal for more site games

 

Inside Move: 'Dharma' talks could be hard

 

Krasnoff climbs CTTV to new prexy position

 

Jennifer Esposito

 

Geri Halliwell

 

Orlando Bloom

 

Fox Family, Providence in tune on 'Amati'

 

Turteltaub, take 3

 

New exec in orbit

 

Lenders take lead in Silver bidding

 

Cusack makes quantum leap as physicist

 

Bellomo goes Further as sr. prod'n VP

 

'Temptation' nixes parents in Fox flub

 

TRW venture links locations

 

Clooney gets 'Life' sentence

 

DGA says scribes are wrong on rights

 

Feren takes new name, ups exex

 

Abernathy tapped exec VP, Fox News

 

Film Report Card: Walt Disney Company

 

Cable operators, nets brawl in '00

 

Syndie 'Dr. Laura' gets attention, not ratings

 

Election a newsie feast

 

'Wealth,' 'One' lead Goya noms

 

Pathe gasses 'Thunderpants'

 

U.K. primetime ratings war heating up

 

Teuton's RTL ditches 'Marry'

 

Poland discovers DVD

 

Full Moon goes public with Cimarron merger

 

DIC taps CFO, exec biz VP

 

Saperstein ankling Utah panel

 

ABC faces reality

 

Acad taps 7 for f/x bake-off

 

Corrections

 

NEA rewards Sundance, Taper with grants

 

Exhibition in need

 

Scribe Crawford tells H'wood history in 'Blacklist'

 

Lakeshore, Rai ink pact

 

IFC buys 'River' rights

 

Nicoll finds 'Shelter' as first Guerrilla title

 

Peacock plucks Brits' hit quizzer

 

Savage to produce for McG's Wonderland

 

Inside Move: MultiThematiques taps Garland

 

TW, AOL waiting at altar

 

Oscar Watch

 

ABC Bonds with MGM

 

All in the CBS family for pic

 

Brits bow at Melbourne

 

Star Choice crying foul over Telesat access

 

MSNBC, NBC sales to combine forces

 

Oasis in the desert

 

NBC tops WGA TV noms

 

Pinkslips at Peacock

 

Soft ads, strikes blur TV picture

 

Czech TV in turmoil

 

Germany's EM.TV urged to deal

 

Hardacre in as prez of Canadian union

 

Scharf to get Nymph

 

Spanish fest names Etxagibel

 

PGA Golden Laurel noms come of age

 

Fleischer ACEs as Eddie emcee

 

Beatles still rule No. 1 in post-holiday lag

 

MTV Films digs Cole

 

'Chuck,' 'Requiem,' 'Me' lead Spirit Award noms

 

Natural judgment

 

Shareholder plan adopted

 

Revolution buys Kendall pitch for duo

 

Pic stars go legit

 

Krumholtz, Burns team for 'Stupid Man'

 

Imperial's Rector to top Comerica

 

A&E in ship shape

 

Beacon cops 'Two Guys'

 

'Pledge' has an edge

 

Hallstrom on Hallstrom

 

'Dance' comes out swinging

 

Overseas regroups with new name, divisions

 

Isaiah Crosby Meadows

 

Young auds tempted by Fox

 

Competish hot for weekend B.O.

 

Finally, feds OK AOL TW

 

Disney buys Koepp comedy

 

A Look Ahead

 

Geffen taps Onagan Ent.

 

H'w'd labor pains began with SAG

 

Hatch tells labels to speed online licensing

 

Cisneros taps Haiek

 

Televisa ad sales increase

 

Valdes exits Bender-Spink as Renegade

 

Diller seeks exclusive talks on Rainbow bid

 

Caine busy, tired from full sked

 

Amanda Gibbs, Alexandra Carsia, Arlene Damasco

 

Susan Lewis

 

Lisa Goldstein

 

ThoughtBubble gets coin

 

PortalPlayer lands $22 mil

 

Napster v2.0 'Did It' for Dave Matthews

 

Palm, Sputnik7, MP3 ink deal

 

Court TV picks up SmokingGun, CrimeLibrary

 

UGC, Telema ink French distrib pact

 

Musicbank inks with Harry Fox

 

Outlaw buys 'T & A' laffer

 

Inside Move: SAG hits snag

 

Shooting for spring

 

Industry exits New Line deal

 

Two Beeb vets ankle

 

Myriad antes up $20 mil for 'People' pic

 

From 'Tiger' to U's 'Hulk' for helmer

 

Companies race for iTV space

 

Open TV software ahead of set-top boxes

 

Dennis Publishing to launch newsweekly

 

Prisa bows U.S. producer

 

Sogecable connecting 3% to CP Tech

 

Molly Jane Glinert

 

Winner seeks resolution

 

Distribs talk up genre's return

 

New to NATPE: PlanetFeedback.com

 

Cablers looking to close deals

 

Reality finding new life

 

Fox maneuvers change in landscape

 

Inhouse units offer homegrown benefit

 

Scandi helmer discusses his 'King'

 

WCW pinned down

 

'Basic' problem hits Intermedia stock

 

Trib adds Hearst barter sales

 

Bill Payer

 

David Lyle

 

Fandom to lay off 37

 

Producer Argos pacts with Televisa film arm

 

Warner Music ups Noonan

 

ShoWest to fete Dench

 

Distribs locking up syndie slots

 

Correction

 

Oscar sound editing nominees announced

 

Petersen hits beach at WB

 

Melissa Burton and Steven Melnick

 

Revolution's evolution

 

Quizzer ages ABC audience

 

Telenovelas still simmer

 

Advertisers test interactive arena

 

Mitchell kisses lead role in 'Hedley'

 

Anti-Defamation League lauds 'Chocolat'

 

Oz saw 2% dip at the B.O. in '00

 

Calif.'s Boxer liberalizes Senate panel

 

Jack Brady Saade

 

Ansley Irene McKenzie

 

Karina Angeline Hernandez

 

Sesame Workshop taps 2

 

Latin America program picks

 

Slots of reasons why Vegas numbers on record pace

 

Workshops, seminars raise learning curve

 

New to NATPE: iFilm

 

After-show hangouts

 

Seinfeld awarded org's highest honor

 

New to NATPE: Spiderdance

 

New to NATPE: Producers Guild of America

 

Gameshows, psychic enter programming mix

 

Dot-com downfall doesn't deter Netcos

 

Bush has little time to brush up on issues

 

Aud plays voyeur in dating games

 

Glitz, gab, games

 

Rollbacks key question for WGA members

 

Ted Shaker, David Friend, Elyse Weiner

 

Victor Collins

 

Charles Sommer

 

Rick Hankey