Table of Contents
Week of 01/22/2001

Articles

Bill Weber

 

Nicole Garb and Brian Spink

 

Fox Family to play ball, 'Rock'

 

Tony Awards sets date, eligibility deadline

 

Fenton Eng

 

'Famous,' 'Tiger' lead noms for Chi crix nods

 

Inside Move: Animated battle over Emmys

 

WB Online inks content deal with On2

 

Miramax kids with Chabon

 

CinemaNow set to bow PPV on Web

 

Transfer networks help productivity

 

Oscar's taste runs from scale to stealth

 

Five take 'Venus' reins

 

FCC may nix 'must carry' for cablers

 

At Sundance, buyers bear up

 

Searchlight sets sights on 'Troopers'

 

High-speed discussion

 

RealPlayer continues reign

 

Channel 4 in India nudity tiff

 

BBC to sink $450 mil into digital TV, radio

 

Inside Move: McDermott circles suspenser

 

Michael Goldberg

 

Jerry O'Connell

 

Brian Currie

 

Hart, Sharp seek 'Proof'

 

2 New Line pix will toe a Fine Line

 

B'caster up for breakfast with Powell

 

Warners taps Alcott for Silver's 'Wonder'

 

Year's trends in effects: Creation of virtual worlds

 

Virtual sets offer creative alternative

 

Fox OKs kid switch

 

Animation hybrids blur effects line

 

Pulling no pol punches

 

Rock 'n' Romans

 

Character counts with 'Amati Girls'

 

Schimmel laffer no longer in Fox mix

 

DGA pours a double

 

Valenti to Congress: Go after the pirates

 

Reality Pops into gear

 

New FCC chair vows war on TV regs

 

Digital f/x studio Mr. X bows

 

Netcaster nabs Ozzy

 

PGA to fete HBO's Albrecht

 

BMG tunes up exex

 

Cathy Saentz and David Kerr

 

AOL TW ups 'Net exex; news boosts stock

 

Quiero signs up for BVI, Warners titles

 

Tyra Banks

 

WGA West to honor former prexy Kirgo

 

'Cast Away' a shore thing in Oz, Spain

 

Warner Bros. TV nabs Freid

 

Crystal ball-gazing

 

What to expect in effects

 

TV Books to publish 2nd Survivor e-book

 

Publisher Crichton ankles Little, Brown

 

Petry: Talkshows will rise, while gavelers fall

 

ALTV backs must-carry fight

 

Revenue streams are growing; strike also hot

 

Tyler in the 'Talk' swim

 

Pols aim legislation at runaway prod'n

 

Fox's inhouse pact

 

Oscar watch

 

Alliance, CDNow reup pact

 

Music.com bows print magazine

 

Manatt ups legal eagle

 

All eyes on scribes

 

Nat'l Amusements buys Brit Bluewater plex

 

Ontario OKs film rating

 

Shakeup Italo style

 

Martin Donovan

 

Disney, Hynes link up on 'Honest Abe' pitch

 

Peacock, Instyle ink for specs

 

Seen and heard

 

Frozen f/x still in action

 

Cyberscanning opens options

 

Ten years of breakthrough films

 

News Corp.'s Chernin defends Fox's 'Island'

 

Editorial: Day of reckoning

 

Brits mob 'Snatch' hatch

 

Showtime's shindig

 

Freshman class outshines old yakkers

 

Mainframe to bring penguin tale to life

 

Film schools for India

 

Wodtke plugs into Sony interactive TV

 

Alloy pacts with Musicland

 

Wells Clark joins UPN

 

Bridges crossing to WB Music

 

Loew's revs slide 9%

 

Adeline Hanson

 

McG to helm Super Bowl short for CBS

 

Inside Move: Junk mail campaign stuffs Academy member mailboxes

 

WGA, studio making nice as talks open

 

Confab wakes up to Seinfeld shtick

 

'As If' up for grabs

 

Web presence questioned

 

'Caroline' reaches 60%

 

Berlin Fest plucks DiCaprio's 'Plum'

 

Urbanworld takes Pierre's 'Money'

 

Isabella Kathryn Coben

 

EU digital showdown

 

'War' is a Reel winner

 

Oz pix pick up; foreign films dip

 

Teutonic pact inked

 

Overseas auds crowd 'Cast Away' at B.O.

 

Sony pacts for vidgames

 

Clinton's life after the presidency

 

Peacock mines gold in Globes' Nielsens

 

Exhib UA eyes exit from bankruptcy

 

Inside Move: Big NBC laffers try sweep

 

Soirees circle Golden Globes

 

'Seussical' comes up Rosie

 

TNN names Zaneri to sr. VP post

 

No slowdown for U.S. Spanish-lingo nets

 

B'caster crix vote 'Gladiator' best pic

 

Formula for smash TV

 

Ad world should push ahead

 

'CSI,' hoops on Eye's interactive schedule

 

Attention to detail is the secret to reality success

 

Miramax 'N Sync for pic

 

French artists back levy

 

Pix cash hike in Blighty

 

Village Roadshow floats its airwaves

 

New $100,000 prize to honor Canuck legit

 

Mexican gov't names TV exec

 

Harris appointed GM digital specialty web

 

MediaTrip picks up 'Cow' to milk online

 

TiVo bows Entertainment Group

 

Frasco ankles William Morris for CAA

 

Weinman exits as NBC exec veepee

 

Exclusive clubbing

 

Mouse ups Lelyveld to VP

 

'Springer' reflects real life as theater

 

Boutique, Falls wing it

 

Mullen tapped by Tomorrow Films

 

Madonna, U2 lend voices to 43rd Grammys

 

Cuban eyes strategies for high-def

 

Boycott back on burner, Mfume warns TV execs

 

Fewer stars sprout at Brussels Festival

 

Scandal-ridden fest cleans up

 

Turner in group mulling NTV

 

Dixon to head museum in L.A.

 

Catch 23 will go 'Fishing'

 

NBC dons Dennehy

 

AtomFilms splits distrib

 

Carsey-Werner sued by Eye

 

Miramax aims to turn on TV

 

WB11, Fox take Mets pact to 2nd inning

 

Kirch to buy TM3 from Murdoch

 

Babenco 'Spider Woman' to kiss again

 

Warren grabs CNBC veep post

 

MSNBC opens mic for Albom talkshow

 

Tube topper Moore heading to 'Iyanla'

 

Digital rights a big-time issue

 

KCAL is L.A. home for U's 'Fifth Wheel'

 

AOL: You've got nailed

 

Nancy Ziliotto

 

East-West remote control war

 

Inside Move: Final answer?

 

Inside Move: Cutting back

 

New duo climbs Jacob's ladder

 

B.O. bubbly as o'seas auds uncork hits

 

B'buster warns biz: It's share or shrivel

 

Italos launch Berlin blitz with 10 pics

 

Oz exhib to leave radio at Road side

 

NBC sets fall drama pilots

 

Exec shuffle at CTTD

 

Telefilm Canada chief extends stay

 

Kram to Granada USA

 

Channel surfing

 

Williams fined in 'Music' flap

 

Winifred 'Renee' Perrine

 

NBC wins, Fox strong in demo

 

NBC West taps Stoddard

 

Disney to pay Brit publisher for c'right breach

 

USC honors 'Wonder' scripter, novelist

 

IBeam vows sydication manager service

 

MTV tunes Euro concerts

 

SAG taps negotiating team

 

Sullivan named sr. VP at Farmclub

 

French may boycott '02 AFM

 

Canton, Senator love 'unromantic' comedy

 

Into the TV breach

 

Kid biz eyes freedom from D.C. regulation

 

Confab still draws crowd

 

Bill Davidson

 

Magical history tour

 

Correction

 

Biz becomes Latin lover

 

Co-op effort ties Web sites to reality shows

 

'Montel' up amid slide in syndie talkers

 

Cecchi Gori's TMC checked

 

EM.TV sez racing part of package

 

VH1 tunes up slate for new season

 

Almeida's moving perf

 

B.O. up; 'Stones' 160g

 

Shorts win at Brussels

 

Murdoch swaps tm3, cash for Kirch stake

 

SNL hosts 'Dance Party' with the real Janet Reno

 

News Corp.'s Star to launch 2 webs

 

Santa Barbara Festival will fete Keaton

 

AFI goes for thrills in spec

 

Harris heads Canuck doc web

 

Euro Film Center taps chairs

 

Sputnik blasts off at Sundance

 

Cabler Shaw takes stake in Astral

 

Money on the table as WGA talks begin

 

Viacom stock rides higher

 

Cartoon calls 'Justice League'

 

Docu arena rife with ownership challenges

 

TV execs bemoan spectrum space

 

Why did they nuke-a De Luca?

 

Inside Move: Hotel show

 

Arts may blossom in first lady's care

 

Development woes

 

Limp laffers languish

 

XFL getting ready to rumble

 

Key demo blitz fires up Fox

 

MTV hits high note with 'Karaoke'

 

Sogecable sets TV slate

 

EU reviews b'cast regulation

 

Ondigital hits sub goal, future tough

 

E! develops royalty, Kathie Lee

 

No Putin problems

 

Sarasota fest honors Alda

 

Well-oiled Machine ups Ward to sr. VP

 

Eye hopes to buoy 'Early' with ratings

 

Museum peddles 'Traffik'

 

Cinematographers tap television noms

 

Blow Up Pix, distrib Lot 47 ink output deal

 

Indian DTH plans announced

 

Col promotes Precious to exec veep

 

Kalmback bundles up for Winter prod'n post

 

Pasetsky exits MTV

 

CBS joins ITV bidding

 

Sega vidgame plan goes tilt

 

ABC's pigskin pundits to return next season

 

CBS recruits CIA pilot

 

TV Azteca hits record

 

Ad mavens looking for new hooks

 

Nick awards dance to teen beat

 

De Laurentiis kudos

 

Discovery facility very effective

 

U.S. mogul Czech-mated

 

Virginia O'Brien

 

Tough issues

 

Book agents eye groups hugs

 

Inside Move: Museum piece

 

King-sized stretch ups holiday haul

 

Rotterdam ramps up 18-pic opening salvo

 

Alquimia anchors initial pic slate

 

Venture duo dips into pix up to $20m

 

Nielsen ratings extend to HK cable

 

Confusion over who runs pubcaster

 

USA steps into action with 'Pow'

 

TNN, Nick make plans for originals

 

Over at the Oliviers

 

Broadway grosses

 

Exhib ITI solos in Poland

 

'Trail' tracks record ratings

 

Fox News cabler wins inauguration crown

 

Galaxy buys plex in B.C. ramp-up

 

Oscar Watch

 

Apartheid pic released in Cape Town

 

Scandi co. Egmont's topper retires

 

Unrest hurts Manila Film Festival

 

RealNetworks inks to hold 'Rings'

 

The 'Whammy' wows

 

'K-19' on radar at Regency

 

New Line's turmoil tangles tomes

 

Jessica Cauffiel

 

Costumer wins career kudo

 

Slashing Nashville

 

Field pic gives Miramax 'Bedroom' eyes

 

Sci Fi yakker psyching out NATPE crowd

 

CanWest net earnings drop 16% in 1st qtr.

 

Ticket turbulence

 

'Dancer' does jig in Japan

 

MGM will rep NBC's tube product overseas

 

ShoWest nods to Elizabeth

 

Sandy Baron

 

Morris, IFC to relaunch skein 'First Person'

 

Drama department

 

Imax shares drop

 

Olivia Williams

 

Amigo sez saludos to Starline

 

Lifetime taps Hoffman sr. VP

 

Warren swimming near CR's 'roo caper

 

Sarsgaard circles 'K-19'

 

'Ali' team punches up Gaelic mob

 

SAG noms deadline

 

Fab four phenomenon forges on

 

A Look Ahead

 

De Hadeln screens fave pix at Berlin

 

Granat bows pan-media Empower

 

Big deals on big series: a big no-show

 

Gaylord goes for 'Mullet'

 

Letter to the Editor: Bill Richert

 

Inside Move: Dispute hits 'Pledge' brake

 

Hypnotic pics up Sundance pix

 

Reba McEntire

 

'Larceny' lures Armitage

 

Sundance: a fete-full fest

 

Ex-veep Seltzer-Lang inks Greenwald deal

 

Sony's pix tony

 

Lark Voorhies

 

IFC buys Renders' 'Love' from Fortissimo

 

News Corp. taps exec VP pair

 

Disney distribs Oscars to Latin America

 

Jones to launch tech training program in Africa

 

Acad offers branch to doc filmmakers

 

Bona Fide bookings

 

Griffin will roast 'Reality' in MTV skein

 

Netscape.com to become portal AOL TW

 

Pixar taps Catmull to new prexy post

 

Z, Icebox & H'w'd.com layoff staff

 

Sheridan to join Wolf's third 'Law & Order'

 

Publicist noms publicized

 

'Wedding Planner' walks down aisle

 

'Temptation' still hot

 

Jennifer Gimenez

 

Midem playing on as Net biz dries up

 

Veber pic opens strong

 

'Maelstrom' leads race for Quebec's Jutra

 

NBC, Hearst-Argyle in programming alliance

 

Correction

 

Talks dig deeper

 

Lena Elizabeth Golia

 

Savannah Eve Carren

 

Projects break out in wake of Texas 7

 

FX loads up varied slate

 

SDMI losing exec director

 

Smoked screens

 

Holocaust mini teams WB & NBC

 

Furtado, Barenaked take 5 Juno noms each

 

Tor gets Klavan's 'Man'

 

AETN taps Pollock for Europe

 

CNN reporters join list of pinkslipped

 

PlayStation.com turns into separate Sony arm

 

Helmer's No. 1 with 'Bullet' on Hypnotic

 

Acad to salute Lehman with honorary Oscar

 

WGA, studios focus on residuals

 

ASC to honor vet thesp Field

 

Rudin, Par travel down 'Labyrinth'

 

Italian antitrust panel endorses TMC takeover

 

Discovery Latin America/Iberia names VP

 

Teuton pix saluted

 

U.K. 'Funny' co-prod'n set

 

Rudin Prods. veep back to Random

 

'3rd Rock' shoots (final?) seg

 

AMC weighs site closings

 

Exhibs escape court

 

Fresh views clear air at Sundance

 

Sundance setting

 

Inside Move: Dot-coms punt on Bowl ads

 

Peacock reigns over inauguration

 

Universal adopts New Line's 'Boy'

 

Back on H'wood case, pols lay down law

 

Endemol grows in France

 

Deals hot as Sundance cools

 

Brian Lewis, John Moody, Paul Rittenberg

 

Slamdance mines individualism in pix

 

AFTRA nails Carpenter as nat'l b'cast director

 

Injury has Col in a 'Panic'

 

Revamped Ensemble Theater slots classics

 

'Only Wealth' tops Manila fest kudos

 

Scribes still talking

 

Ron Romero

 

Mark Humphrey

 

Chuck Field

 

Strand gets 'Burnt'

 

Correction

 

Japan sees B.O. slump

 

Wolf pounds Peacock for axing 'Law' seg

 

Hoffman storms 'Palace'

 

Return of Ray at Crossroads Films

 

Russian gov't seizes station

 

'Akira' revs for U.S.

 

Disney TV Latin arm inks pact with Sky

 

Disney taps sr. veeps

 

Strikers won't allow film crew to 'Pass'

 

INTV reanimates Pseudo

 

Byron Allen

 

James Dowdall

 

Willie Neal Johnson

 

Marc Zand

 

Al Waxman

 

Moonves moonlights with 'Restless' role

 

Susan Gross

 

Charlie Mitchell

 

Bryan Castellani, Thomasina Nista, Christine Ping, Randy Stearns

 

Al Borden

 

Andy Hann

 

Ed Hersh

 

Caroline Prutzman

 

Janet Rolle

 

Susan Hummel

 

B.O. bowl party

 

A Look Ahead

 

Reviews

Kool Keith

SnoCore Icicle Ball

Social Distortion

Radio Free Steve

The Book of Pooh

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Donnie Darko

Some Body

Passing Stones

Remembrance of Things Past

Jalla! Jalla!

Hunger

Black & Gold

900 Women

The Strange Case of Senor Computer

North Beach

Down Time

The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards

What Makes a Family

More Lies About Jerzy

Green Dragon

The Business of Strangers

Gossip

Macbeth

Battle Royale

Little Crumb

After the Reconciliation

Series 7

In the Bedroom

Sally Kellerman: More Than You Know

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

MacArthur Park

Enigma

The Deep End

Now or Never

Intimacy

Super Troopers

Lost And Delirious

The Invisible Circus

Double Whammy

Waking Life

Startup.Com

L.I.E.

The Believer

On an Average Day

Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine

Attila

Human Events



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