Table of Contents
Week of 01/15/2001

Articles

Jay Adams, Abigail Marcus Boyar

 

Bob H. Bedford, Rick Abbot

 

Merger encouraging AOL-TW stox selloff

 

NBC's Wright confirms 5%-10% cuts at NBC

 

Lippin signs up to rep NATPE

 

USC's Scripters honor lit adaptations

 

Brian Van Holt

 

Evan Rachel Wood

 

Joe Chappelle

 

Fickle B.O. changes indies' focus

 

CIE takes 51% of Latino promoter

 

Canal Plus anxiety

 

BSkyB may face doling out to BT

 

Toronto simplifies prod'n permitting

 

Indian pubcaster Doordarshan seeks CEO

 

Sony TV names Venezuela-based Sabal

 

Warner Latin America taps Solett

 

Thais plan film push

 

Talk buys Chabon's fairy tale

 

A call for reason

 

Palm Springs smiles

 

ShowBizData, Microsoft to team at Sundance

 

Furnad ankles CNN

 

Showbiz jobs boom as productions rise

 

Matt Czuchry

 

Wendy Raquel Robinson

 

Ga. to fete 'Titans' scripter Howard

 

'Wing' trio feted at TV Caucus awards

 

ABC strays from script with reality-heavy sked

 

Halmi 'Pauper' in PPV hopper

 

Lelouch sets Malkovich

 

Fathom plumbs 'Earth's' depths

 

NATPE C-F

 

Nicoll shall find 'Shelter'

 

Krumholtz, Burns team for 'Stupid Man'

 

Logging on with Lion

 

'Dance' numbers spin record holiday frame

 

Shore thing o'seas

 

Golden Globes glee

 

A Look Ahead

 

Global warming

 

Catching up with Emmy

 

Charitable acts follow glitzy night

 

This joint will be jumping

 

Man of the moment

 

Artistic courage

 

Clear casting

 

The actor's actor

 

Enduring icon's unforgettable roles

 

Commitment to character

 

An actor's truth

 

Deanna Russo

 

Col Tristar TV shuffles distrib staff

 

Mental illness portrayal tops council confab

 

Brazil campaigns for Oscar

 

Sports grab top spots in Nippon TV

 

India's FTV faux pas irks gov't

 

RTL out of German-market Premiere

 

Dutch Zentropa exiting porn

 

Kaurismaki shoots on about Finnish 'losers'

 

WB 'Popstars' hits high note

 

Casting a B.O. spell

 

'Santa' pair circle 'Joe'

 

FCC's Kennard stepping down

 

Correction

 

Inside Move: Ice Cube eyes helmer Bray

 

WGA chiefs say talks hinge on rollbacks

 

Producer Mondo mines coin in 3rd round

 

California bows Web portal for filmmakers

 

Five chosen for Hypnotic $1 mil film fest

 

Fox Interactive to ink deals with publishers

 

Besson closes Gotham ops

 

D'Works nabs gridiron spoof

 

Dimension gives 'Hand' to Twohy

 

Inside Move: Eisner's bonus soars to $11.5 mil

 

TCM enlists Reiner for pic series

 

H'w'd heavyhitters plan Bush inaugural parties

 

TV studio exex feeling fatalistic about strike

 

Redford revs Che's 'Cycle'

 

Gauls plan indie meet

 

NATPE A-B

 

NATPE G-J

 

NATPE K-M

 

'Double' makes splash

 

Tempting twosome tickles Fox demos

 

Chris-Craft, UPN race to beat clock

 

Bryan Gregory

 

Familiar patterns in foreign field

 

Is the best song race showing some spine?

 

Peacock numbers grow for telecast

 

Toppers say it's all about taste

 

Europe takes cool stance on Oscars

 

Thrill of theater still beckons star

 

Production shingle for theater and film

 

Three pics slated for Pacino

 

Alex Rocco

 

Gaul targets PC tax

 

Standing together

 

Kirch rescue of EM.TV hits impasse

 

Heston visits 'Planet of the Apes' -- again

 

NFL playoff rumbles fumble ratings ball

 

Weinstein supports French film quotas

 

Satellites orbit USA's 'Traffic,' 'Betty'

 

James Carr

 

Moore tops Kohner lit arm

 

'Rings' fan jumps the gun on trailer posting

 

Canal Plus cutting back program fund

 

Auteuil to o'see French kudos

 

Brit news service ITN reups with CNN

 

Zentropa grabs Denmark native Gram

 

Feig eyes new view atop Summit pics

 

German action channel ready

 

Slater, Kilmer 'Trust'-worthy

 

Anderson, Pearson pact

 

Dinos roam in Japanese holiday

 

Coifman to get creative at Streamline

 

VH1 serious about series

 

'Maury' heats up syndie numbers

 

'Friends' beefs up for battle

 

Turteltaub tooning in

 

Writers bloc

 

Evan Joshua Pearlman

 

George of the Jungle

 

Guild by Association

 

Obituary: Stan Lee Media

 

Layoffs: Creative Planet

 

Layoffs: ReplayTV

 

Geography lessons

 

Layoffs: CastNet

 

Layoffs: WireBreak

 

Lessons learned from the net nightmare

 

Microsoft Gets Boxed In

 

Life after the dot-com pink slip

 

Online direct marketing comes up big

 

Back to the Future Shock

 

Secrets of the East

 

Intel introducing audio player

 

Blockbuster, Enron pact with Motorola

 

Captains courageous

 

Andrew Dominik

 

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

 

Baltasar Kormakur

 

Lining up signal file

 

A Look Ahead

 

Dominik Moll

 

Lukas Moodysson

 

Christopher Nolan

 

Daniel Minahan

 

Directors to Watch Alumni update

 

Helmer span globe and genres

 

Sundance chain plans short-circuited

 

After a decade, fest's Gilmore still focused

 

Comfort zone

 

Year of the auteur

 

Fest's Gen Y studios binds diverse cultures

 

Native Forum embraces indigenous voices

 

Class of 2000

 

What are you watching?

 

Bonnie Hunt

 

Patte Barham

 

Monique Morin

 

Disney's up for its Downtown bow

 

Cineartists postpones float

 

'Baltic Storm' will rage this summer

 

Brit feevee E4 to take flight on Sky Digital

 

German, Asian fare flavor Rotterdam

 

More Russian gov't raids for NTV

 

HarperCollins takes rights turn on Web

 

Format war rekindles as JVC rolls out D-VHS

 

Edwin Arnold Spacek

 

Journo Amanpour reups with CNN

 

SearchParty seeks indies

 

PlayStation 2 prod'n to be doubled

 

Tonos bows TC8 music service

 

Contest role in upcoming Kevin Smith film

 

Scot-based Moonstone taps panel

 

Neurotrash bags offline prod'n division NT Ent.

 

'Senegal' to Berlin fest

 

Spain's CAEC upping screens

 

Confiscated Indian pic back

 

Valhalla Pix ups Libowitz to prod'n VP

 

S. Africa's Singh feted

 

'Ed'ucated TV deal

 

Inside Move: GM mulls DirecTV sale

 

Upstart Napster makes waves

 

Nodance has 'Skeletons in Closet'

 

PBS incubates art to shell out

 

Bell Globemedia launches

 

Revolution ties up 'Rodeo'

 

Trillion reveals Unbridled passion

 

Charlotte Mae Boyette

 

Nasso, Cohen make theirs Manhattan

 

Obituary: AntEye

 

Company Line: RightsLine, Inc.

 

Tunes in an instant from Aimster

 

Layoffs: Dotcomix

 

Layoffs: StreamSearch

 

Layoffs: Quokka Sports

 

For a Muppet, It's All About the Performance

 

Local b'casters miss mark on Web

 

Peacock Parameters

 

Under the influence

 

Sports sites need to give 110%

 

Wim Wings to Web

 

The need for Speedcast

 

Like a rolling stone

 

Sports Center

 

Foster to head Cannes jury

 

David Gordon Green

 

Jay Chandrasekhar

 

Christine Lahti

 

UPN stayin' alive

 

FCC minority regs nixed

 

Hi-lo country

 

Dot-com invasion shakes out

 

Fast, cheap and in control

 

DiCillo a veteran of indie wars

 

Filmmaking labs strengthen ideas, build confidence

 

Moore than the sum of her parts

 

Channel takes awards wall to wall

 

Life after Sundance

 

John Turturro

 

Dorothea Ponce Verkamp

 

Dispatches: Kamp quits exec post at Icon

 

Inside Move: USA Films hopes 'Traffic' will jam

 

Culture Clash

 

Net set comes in from cold

 

Inside Move: 'Pearl' premiere planned

 

Merger OK'd, AOL-TW fears turf tussles

 

Foreign sales mavens see empires fade

 

Helmer lures thesps, kudos with character

 

Peacock web rules the roost

 

Studio sibs fuel renewals

 

Anthony Marcoly, Stuart Salter

 

David McCo

 

Michael Mullen

 

Rafe Oller

 

Chloe Carter Beardmore

 

Nathan Michael Brenner and Evan Jacob Brenner

 

Music biz grapples with new legislation

 

Sundance online strives to revive cyber pix

 

Road warriors cast hungry eye on 'Lion'

 

'Traffic' stops in Berlin

 

Intertainer adds A&E, EMI on demand

 

HBO gets 'Tough' with rock scribe Cohen

 

Winstar launches slate

 

'No Limite' to reality for TV Globo sequel

 

A change in the air

 

Creative at home

 

Black film fest lineup set

 

Tasca backtracks on computer tax

 

Forstmann buys Citadel

 

Spielberg to unveil Directors Guild noms

 

Castmaker.com bows

 

Vitaminic inks deal with Sony

 

GoldPocket pacts with TBS

 

H'wood film fest sets March 31 entry deadline

 

Canal Plus partners in Latin telepix

 

Taking best 'Shots'

 

U on top of 'Hill' suit

 

Par ups Gardner to sr. veep

 

E! to air Critics Choice kudos

 

Bodie returns to ICM roots

 

Black juices up 'Orange'

 

IFC Films adds 3 exex for Sundance

 

CNNfn prexy Coffey resigns

 

Mutual agreement

 

DirecTV stock up as subs, profits rise

 

Levine creative at MCP

 

Scripps trio gets prexy titles

 

Congloms take it to the Street

 

Skandia buys into FBC

 

Pax TV, NBC team up on 'Mysterious'

 

Jodie's jury duty a nod to H'wood

 

De Luca out at New Line

 

Evolution evolving prod'n

 

Indie Film Report Card: USA Films

 

Indie Film Report Card: Artisan Entertainment

 

Indie Film Report Card: Fox Searchlight

 

CNN shakes up staff

 

Fab Four remain No. 1 during slow sales week

 

Max's Rome built in a day . . . Almost

 

Baker's half-dozen may be imminent

 

Lens crafters

 

CGI, exotic locales point the way to next millennium

 

Film stock variations used as mood enhancers

 

'Chocolat's rich texture

 

Indie Film Report Card: Fine Line

 

Indie Film Report Card: Sony Pictures Classics

 

Indie Film Report Card: Paramount Classics

 

10 years of Oscar-winning costume design

 

Cristian de la Fuente

 

Lisa Marie

 

Media moments of 2000 worth forgetting

 

Martin Konigsberg

 

Canucks face reality

 

Format wars reiginite: D-VHS vs. DVD

 

Ailing Italo box office receives holiday gift

 

Nets celebrate after promo tour

 

Surging 'Tiger' stalks o'seas records

 

2000: Vid biz up, dot-com down

 

Pic clique packs parkas for Sundance

 

Canucks consider their options

 

Julius Epstein memorial service

 

Inaugural ball bill puts spotlight on youth

 

Women in Film fete Lahti, Lemmons

 

With Bush in, news nets snooze again

 

Midem mulls digital distrib modes

 

Fleetwood Mac helps bid farewell to Clintons

 

'Greenberg' lands in Cinemax ballpark

 

Rose blooms new boutique

 

Rock in Rio fest rolls up global TV aud

 

Telefilm Canada topper extends stay

 

Galaxy circles Cineplex Odeon sites

 

Oscar watch

 

Regent oiled up for 'Chippendales'

 

Goldberg, Brooks find 'Claus' cause

 

'Noon' ACEs with editors

 

Moon beams up Shatner

 

Rumpus taps Mischel acting prexy

 

New Line's new 'Ring' site generating traffic

 

Netcaster Eveo bows EveoPROs

 

eMusic taps Johnsmeyer

 

Inside Move: Walters' new lead-in worth $1 mil

 

B'way plays 'Jekyll' PPV

 

Inside Move: WGA invites SAG to sit in

 

Granada taps Kram vp

 

Top doc adds biz to hit list

 

MGM, Viacom go over Rainbow

 

Shepherd may cease flocking to 'Mars'

 

SAG buoys Nguyen to exec

 

Seltzer settles at Shady Acres

 

Fox News taps three for senior VP posts

 

Slight slump chills White Way wickets

 

A Look Ahead

 

Indie Film Report Card: Lions Gate

 

Future, past divide costumers

 

As d.p., Soderbergh hastens prod'n flow

 

10 years of Oscar-winning makeup

 

10 years of ASC vs Oscar

 

Eugene Byrd

 

Susan Weiner

 

Jonathan D. Mandel

 

Amy Taylor

 

Janet Rolle and Mary Kallaher

 

Preem pair propels Fox to demo win

 

Streisand urges attorney general nom rejection

 

ONdigital hits sub goal but sees tough future

 

Politically charged CSA choice stirs Gaul

 

Universal launches U.K. movie cabler

 

Cameron exits Carlton

 

France's Eurosport wins viewers

 

'Eu' expected score at Brazilian awards

 

Ted Mann

 

Cable series pop

 

Jersey wins 'Nature' story

 

Inside Move: Cruise staying busy

 

Pressman, Studionext team on Web skein

 

Helm duo on producers' 'List'

 

'Evolution' multiplies as Fox Kids toon

 

Milano fest plans 'Rage' screening

 

Broyles jumps into Deep River pact

 

Petrick leaps at Frog net

 

Peacock pumps fall pilot roster

 

New chief at New Line

 

National Dance Institute to honor Gennaro

 

New Yorker exec heads to G+J biz

 

Janney clocks in on 'Hours' adaptation

 

Onboard with kudos

 

NBCi lays off 140 employees

 

Dylan the quintessential 'Wonder Boy'

 

Auds flooding 'Island'

 

Cream of the crop

 

Scoring stages offer distinct features

 

Country artist Stuart takes 'Horses' reins

 

Midem fetes Foster

 

Napster goes global

 

A Look Ahead

 

Charlotte Ross

 

James Hill

 

Loew's cash blues

 

EM.TV sez racing part of sale formula

 

Blighty tix sales rise

 

Pressure cooking

 

E! inks royal doc package

 

'Street' fleet in A&E bow

 

'Glick' clicks at laff net

 

Amplified buys Checkout.com

 

Mullally goes to 'Stanford'

 

O'Doherty, Israel grounded at C-W

 

Lions Gate buys rights to pix on InDigEnt

 

Sony digital pacts with sci-fi Netcaster

 

UCLA goes global with ed

 

Biz dodges bullet

 

NBC, USA cabler stop for 'Traffic'

 

Eye floats 'Survivor' worldwide

 

English indies fill Berlin fest

 

Crix mix with picks

 

Sports Foundation rings in Ali's birthday

 

Macromedia stock slips

 

Vidgame hardware, software sales down

 

Goldderby.com predicts Globe winners

 

Paucity of candidates plagues musical category

 

Classical trump card favors "Tiger" score

 

'Night' music exotica strikes myriad chords

 

'Traffic's' sonic identity

 

Miles smiles on 'Forrester'

 

Tunesmiths teeter between safe and daring

 

'Dream' team creates moods for moderns

 

Gary Sommerstein

 

Matt Quayle, Stephen Majors

 

Rob Pumo, Joe Schwinghammer

 

Edward Mangum

 

Tom E. Paro

 

William J. Trambukis

 

Embattled topper Czechs out

 

Olivier nom to Lange, 'Sons'

 

Watchdog nixes Italo media deal

 

Claire Callender DuMont

 

Costumer nabs career kudo

 

Fox News buoys exec trio to senior VP posts

 

BKNI buys toon library

 

Feed film writer sells first novel

 

Fox Searchlight adds digital pic unit

 

Regent leases Dallas theater

 

Baer to fund Dillon pic

 

Scotts bow Top Dog for blurbs, vid

 

Cabler FX pays for Landscape's 'Sins'

 

'Mole' burrows a little, 'Sisters' bond

 

Heavy pacts with Arrow

 

ArtistDirect pinkslips 40, reorganizes

 

Runaway biz rising

 

Sundance fest slowly waltzes into action

 

U spirits away rights for 'Ghost'

 

Cameron's Lightstorm seals 'Coffin' for Fox

 

Slamdance loses Artisan opener

 

Entertaindom on last legs

 

NBC orders 3 more segs of 'Three Sisters'

 

'Best' deal for Butterfield

 

Inside Move: Hot bidding for Par sitcom

 

Inside Move: Unions preach teamwork

 

Megamerger could lead to megacutbacks

 

Inside Move: Fox sinks 'Island' promos

 

Inside Move: McDermott has 'Enough'

 

Amnesty presents 'Night' screening

 

AFTRA raises Capuano to o'see agents

 

Czech TV move disputed

 

Mexican TV laffer taking show on the road

 

Fewer stars will sprout at Brussels fest

 

Canucks to open film scholls for India

 

Oz pix up, foreign dip

 

Teutonic co-prod'n pact inked

 

Boy dies in accident at Oz Fox Studios

 

Packer out of Indian b'caster auction

 

Greg Wylie

 

Michael Williams

 

Nancy Parsons

 

Take a bow, President Clinton

 

Jaden Amanda Yonover

 

2 USA spots score grid goodies sales

 

Fla. group to sun at Sundance fest

 

Van Houten tops border post

 

AOL hires Conroy to head music division

 

Catch 23 snags exec duo

 

Connolly hooked for 'God'

 

Fiscal flexibility

 

H'wood Stock Exchange ups duo

 

Opion taps Boasberg VP biz development

 

English to helm her own rewrite of NL's 'Women'

 

Baldecchi looks 1st

 

Exiting staff at FCC issues edicts

 

Good Machine's Bregman gears up

 

Miramax elevates Brodlie

 

Lindo, Statham join Revolution's 'One'

 

USA, Ratner team up

 

NATPE high on reality

 

Nets tighten belt

 

TNT picks up 'Brockovich'

 

Greene anchored at KCBS

 

Peltz ankles CNN amid redo

 

Oscar Watch

 

Pele scores PSN partnership

 

Berlin fest plucks DiCaprio's 'Plum'

 

Duo stroll down '42nd St.'

 

Mexican gov't taps Televisa exec for telecom

 

Sundance Channel ropes four Cowboy pics

 

Lemon picks 'Leela'

 

Steve Tello and H. Read Jackson

 

Jerry Rajendram and Graham Fordyce

 

Bob Harris, Antoinette Del Re, Robin Strickland, Tracy Delgado

 

David Lewis

 

Fred Kremen

 

Francine Beougher, Marti Rider

 

Howard F. Hardin

 

Marcia Greene

 

Jack Abernathy

 

Don Levy, Gayle Farrell

 

Michael Cuccione

 

Golden Globes given

 

Dan Selig and David Tse

 

Mark Zand

 

Joan Robinson

 

Billie Clevenger

 

'Dance' doesn't miss beat

 

'Timberwolf' captured by Aiello banner

 

Sony Classics hits 'Jackpot'

 

'Brooklyn' unwraps Slamdance after all

 

Targeting Civilians

 

Reviews

100 Centre Street

Shakespeare's Villains: A Master Class in Evil

An Evening With Eric Comstock

Mortal Transfer

The Amati Girls

The Birdwatcher

Scorn

Merlin: The Return

Tatawo

Freewheeling

Cities of the Plain

Zone

Nickelodeon

WildBrain

Movie Bloopers

Pam TV

Nibblebox

Kleingold (Small Change)

El Nino

Marilyn Manson

Marian McPartland

Something to Remember Him by: The Music of Arthur Schwartz

Black Eyed Peas

Dave Alvin

How the Other Half Loves

Welcome Home, Marian Anderson

Constant Star

K2

Spinning Into Butter

Lizzie McGuire

Cat's Paw

The White Devil

Aeros

Girl, Your Hair's on Fire!

Henry Flamethrowa

The King Is Dancing

Le Nozze di Figaro

The Closet

The Caveman's Valentine

Seussical

Tamicanfly

A Girl Thing

Resident Alien

Crossfire Trail

Nneena Freelon; Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

The Wedding Planner

Children Underground

My First Mister

National 7 (Uneasy Rider)

Laughter on the 23rd Floor


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