Table of Contents
Week of 01/29/2001

Articles

Fern Orenstein and Karen Church

 

Louis Eales

 

Sheila Richman

 

Loew's running despite end of funding waiver

 

Japan's Sky PerfecTV clears debt

 

EC probes CD prices

 

Brazil mulls opening pay TV

 

Gugino to play three in 'One'

 

Garofalo, Thorpe score points with Slamdunk

 

Acad to honor Cardiff

 

Disney's MacBride rejoins FCC

 

Rudin's Karp swims back to Random

 

WGA talks expand

 

TVT Records settles lawsuit with Napster

 

'Mike,' 'Football,' '4 P.M.' airing on Sundance

 

Slamdance plants 'Hybrid' as best feature

 

Doug E. Doug

 

Oien moves to sr. VP, COO at MP3.com

 

Launch loses less

 

Carl King

 

'Tiger' springs to U.K. record

 

Hollywood hopes to beat around the Bush

 

Hanks cast aside B.O. competish

 

iFilm, Mitsubishi ink deal

 

AMG, Lukeman pact on lit

 

Throats clear for 'Powerpuff'

 

Sundance shows faith in 'Believer'

 

Fox in 'Deep' for $4 mil

 

New Line, Ice thaw for 'Benjamins'

 

Romeo Vincent Galasso

 

Zoe Eden Ziecker

 

Where does 'Survivor' fit on Emmys' island?

 

Biltmore bid runs gauntlet

 

Stat junkie's dream comes true on Web

 

A Look Ahead

 

'Survivor' has Super CBS sendoff

 

Powell's FCC agenda far from firm

 

Richard Loomis, Robert Stein

 

Shaw slumps as spinoff posts boffo qtr.

 

Tribune net income off 85% in 2000

 

Sky plans stalled

 

More Cinar woes

 

Rio mega-concert rocks 1.2 mil fans

 

Canuck TV viewing down

 

Accused Peruvian TV exec ankles

 

EU commish mulls digital rights limits

 

SAG places CAST on net

 

AFI joins fest form service

 

Music teachers endorse strike

 

TV museum skeds fare for festival

 

Audo Society to b'cast noms

 

'Un-Cabaret' laff fest finds alternative home

 

Rush job for 'Sisters'

 

U, Tribeca sweet on 'Sugar'

 

Mixed, Microsoft ink interactive TV pact

 

Brandy

 

OpenTV revs hit $8.4 million

 

Lourdes Benedicto

 

Woodard, Whitfield to voice novel on SciFi

 

AFTRA nixes SAG request to trim reps in talks

 

Monique James

 

Letter to the Editor: Lee Goldberg

 

Directors' day at Sundance

 

Taper hits a high note

 

'Sheep' finds shepherd

 

Zachary Theodore Halsey

 

Michael William Adair

 

U ready to open Japan theme park

 

Confab imagery

 

Disney's Go stopped

 

Mark Matkevich

 

'Others,' 'Harry' are Cesar faves

 

MGM, Tel-Ad in Turkish bow

 

CBC appoints pic vet Lantos to board

 

Berlin announces Panorama jury

 

Acad to honor Young with Sawyer tech nod

 

Correction

 

Sarkassian thinking of another 'Rush'

 

DGA taps Butler, Donovan for Aldrich award

 

'Cast Away' sailing

 

WB taps 20th's Miller as publicity senior VP

 

Infogrames completes $100 mil Hasbro deal

 

On2 closes $2 mil infusion

 

AsSeenIn.com inks with Carsey-Werner

 

Kicking up a storm

 

Beacon jumps 'Regression'

 

'School' play for Material

 

NAB sues over Web-royalty ruling

 

EMI courtship cools amid control issues

 

EM.TV suitor list grows

 

Agent-exec Littman dead of cancer at 63

 

Week 2 of scribe talks starts

 

'Maelstrom' tops Genies

 

Col TriStar ups duo on laffer 'King'

 

XFL ready to rumble demos

 

Newman will anchor Canuck news

 

Gotham mayor goes Grey

 

A&E taps Rubin for L.A.

 

Staffers at Metro ratify 1st contract

 

B'way B.O. holds fort as 'Saigon' flies away

 

Univision ups 4 exex in network sales arm

 

Alison Martin Brown

 

Chloe Dillen Satenberg

 

SAG noms zig-zag

 

Super 'Survivor' dilates Eye aud

 

Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke and Zach Braff

 

Michael Roof

 

Messier flies flag

 

'Steps' bags Brussels

 

ASC taps quintet for noms

 

Middelhoff: Napster to go pay this summer

 

Downey's lawyers to test evidence

 

AT&T announces 4th qtr earnings

 

New Yorker logs B&N, Microsoft for e-books

 

Mission to Moscow

 

Barney McNulty memorial service

 

Dick Whittinghill

 

Al McGuire

 

Bill Davidson Memorial

 

Inside Move: Louis-Dreyfus returns

 

Addy makes 'Time' for Wells

 

Keitel will take Spanish train to 'Nowhere'

 

Viv U has pink view

 

Fox will go 'Public' for 2nd season

 

Shelly Josias, Makiko Mitsui

 

Diller sports Internet deal

 

UPN pins marketing revamp, new maven

 

Satcaster Wowow plans IPO

 

Go is a goner

 

Newsies on notice for Tauzin election inquiry

 

A Look Ahead

 

Noises off: Second chances

 

News Corp. trims Oz net arm

 

Holighaus to Berlin?

 

Teuton 'Sing Along' test set

 

Looming strikes drain star power from Berlin

 

Finding fame in U.K.

 

Von Trier, Vinterberg take pix to Sweden

 

No decision on interim deals

 

Max Fine

 

Showbiz suddenly uptight about titles

 

Hollywood wizards in Oz

 

Grosvenor fund eyes Teuton tie

 

Pottermania lures H'wood to kids lit

 

Talk of the town: The Strike

 

ShoWest will honor Petersen

 

Buyers bundle up in Sundance chill

 

Hacker heroes bring in big guns

 

Media's strong perf

 

Nick ups Shapiro to exec veep

 

HBO takes 'Heart'

 

Tyro XFL racks up blurb time

 

Playboy, Venevision pact

 

WGA, studios ramp up negotiations

 

Streicker-Fine named topper at Fandom

 

Buscemi answers 'Domestic' call

 

Scribe twosome try on 'Thongs'

 

Oscar Watch

 

Madstone's mettle

 

Tory Kittles

 

Scarlett Pomers

 

Inside Move: Tomei, Graham talk 'Sex'

 

Inside Move: NBC folds 'On the Cover'

 

Inside Move: SAG, AFTRA deny rift talk

 

Lensers hand Heritage honors to Ettlin, Levy

 

'Buffy' boss vamps way to major stake

 

Handprint lands prod'n head

 

Prod'n wave rolls over Hawaiian isles

 

Inside Move: Way to do it Knopfler style

 

Manager mania takes the stage

 

MTC inches toward B'Way site

 

Togas, 'Tiger' top BAFTAs

 

A Look Ahead

 

HBO eclipses Starz in 8-year U pact

 

U.K.'s Granada to release 100 staffers at ITV

 

EMI finds Web Virtue

 

U.K's Telewest digital rises

 

Sony India gets real

 

Filmax kicks off Parello pact with werewolf film

 

Cash-hungry Kinowelt sells Atlantis shares

 

Hollywood's rushin' roulette

 

Name game movie pain

 

Lou Levy

 

Jean Pierre Aumont

 

Cinar sues ex-exex for $19 million

 

Time crunch sends big-money projects crashing

 

Newsies drool over possible strike

 

Fox blots out vice on 'Quills' Web site

 

'Dragonfly' wings it with BVI

 

Battered Belgrade fest rebounds

 

French move to limit pic passes

 

Vet returns to exec post at AFTRA

 

Malaysian prod'n booming thanks to kudos

 

Prince ups hotel, online stakes

 

Telescene inks with CineGroupe

 

Amazon.com reports loss, to cut jobs

 

HBO to bow interactive online arm

 

Victoria fest spins Atoms

 

Hypnotic.com acquires Berman's dramedy

 

Agostinelli becomes NeTune COO, CFO

 

Electronic Arts reports net income

 

Meter running on Fox Family

 

'Assistant' making it big; Hawn meets 'Zeus'

 

BMG's aim is true for Costello

 

Correction

 

TiVo gains in rev, deals -- and net loss

 

Craig takes villainous turn on Mendes' 'Road'

 

Michael Landes

 

Lifetime rides January juggernaut; USA dips

 

YOUtv pushes CBS buttons

 

Miramax finds a wife for its 'Shipping News'

 

Zeitgeist acquires 'Lumumba'

 

Revolution takes JAF's 'Switcheroo'

 

Red ink flows at General Cinemas

 

Inside Move: Body count at New Line

 

Inside Move: No relation to Loews

 

Inside Move: Strikers step aside for filming

 

Inside Move: Traffic police to track site

 

Above the line: Yuen Wo Ping

 

Cassidy, Smith to tour

 

Broadway grosses

 

25th Sydney fest on target

 

ADG names picks

 

Jennifer Aspen

 

Samuel Joseph Seidel

 

TF1 scores ownership of b'caster Eurosport

 

NBC leads in TV Guide noms

 

Oscar Watch

 

FCC's Furchtgott-Roth to go

 

Mouse ups Castro to VP

 

CNN makes 'Money'

 

Taking stock of Upton

 

Leoni joins Allen's DreamWorks project

 

Lakeshore's 'Hunted' chases after Del Toro

 

In game they trust

 

New role for Klein

 

Valenti tapped by DGA for honorary life award

 

Talk inks Giuliani to book deal

 

Lopez lords atop tunes & box office

 

January B.O. starts off year on record high

 

RoughCut gets the cut

 

Sega to provide games for Palm Pilot

 

OnAir goes off air

 

Loudeye nabs DiscoverMusic

 

ATAS sets exec committee

 

Kickoff for 'Survivor II'

 

'Ring' fits D'Works' digits

 

'Annie' gets Reba

 

Bushnell growth gets fund boost

 

News America promotes Constantine

 

Duo get 'Girlfriend'

 

WGA prez plants pre-strike 'Oleander' pic

 

Nava to ride with 'Zapata'

 

Italians seek heat

 

Showest to fete Osment

 

Leslie Mann

 

Rene-Charles Angelil

 

Samuel Ryan Levy

 

KirchMedia, Gemini join Prima Idee

 

Belgrade revels in Fest 2001

 

B'cast ignites political turmoil at Peru TV net

 

Pseudo.com reborn with pickup by INTV

 

Gori gets bid boost

 

Bare fact: News site a hit

 

Two film festivals laud Svankmajer

 

Library tunes in radio archives

 

Darabont stokes flames for '451'

 

Why Douglas was sent an 'Iguana'

 

Corrections

 

Academy noms deadline Friday

 

Warner Music, AOL duet on marketing

 

Ephron gets 'Married' at Showtime

 

DreamWorks ends its GameWorks play

 

Ahmanson drums up replacement '3hree'

 

Bross to helm 'On The L'

 

WGA talks may be extended

 

Clinton doc gets Craven touch

 

Staples nails arena award

 

'City' dweller Parker eyes 'World' of stage

 

Richards fosters 'Brother'

 

Prod'n designs draw noms

 

Long-awaited 'Jen XX' debuts on Voxxy

 

Sportsline revs up 57%

 

1st degree 'Burn'

 

Russia enters 'Diary' into Hollywood battle

 

'Mole' catches a peek of daylight in 4th week

 

Minority theaters get coin infusion

 

Dot com books pic directory

 

AOL's pic pipeline

 

Clinton set to keynote Front Row

 

A Look Ahead

 

SONICblue purchases ReplayTV for $120 mil

 

Fox Sports back on Argentina's Cablevision

 

RTL inks for carriage with cabler Primacom

 

Czech lawmakers to tap TV director

 

Sunbow shines for Olshansky

 

Costume Guild lauds Hargate

 

DGA ad kudo noms probed by SAG for scabs

 

Biz hits high gear

 

Isabella Hi'ilani Nakamoto Jacobellis

 

Oscar Watch

 

Play streams in direction of ex-parent

 

Campbell eyes 'Enough'

 

Davis signs up for WWII sub thriller 'Below'

 

Film marketers bow awards

 

U big on 'Giants' pitch

 

'Island' outfoxes others

 

Inside Move: NBC, ABC polish Thursday spin

 

Inside Move: MGM's cautionary ratings tale

 

Inside Move: Wells nourishes Killer agenda

 

Buckley stops here

 

Leguizamo reups with Miramax

 

Big-budget beast mauls French B.O.

 

Midge Sanford and Peter Broderick

 

Allen Epstein

 

'Survivor' tops Friends

 

Scribes' and studios' lips sealed

 

IN-Motion, Olsen twins ink on CDs

 

AOL Time Warner stock off 5% in wake of results

 

Lifetime boosts exec trio

 

Discovery gets personal with Latino bios

 

Russians seek upbeat scripts

 

Diller's pot of gold

 

Talking with Shirley Temple

 

Correction

 

Sides mum on WGA talks

 

Darabont gives Holden 'Majestic' opportunity

 

Luna Montana Hoetzel

 

Obst taps Montroy as VP

 

Almost famous blurbs: Best of year 2000!

 

Stowe eyes Gibson's 'Young' Vietnam pic

 

Dances with Wolf

 

Eye skeds new skeins

 

Propaganda powers up production

 

Pop.com shorts find a home

 

Davis ankles as Terra Lycos CEO

 

Avid's revs up 13%

 

Activision beats 3rd-qtr expectations

 

Lion jumps over cable Rainbow

 

VDI taps Hester, Nguyen as prexies

 

'Seagull' flies free, Mac readies N.Y. attack

 

Rebecca Carpenter and Alan C. Blomquist

 

Kelli Maroney and Alex Simon

 

Starz!, Shooting Gallery team up

 

CTIT to handle E! Latam sales

 

NBC names 2 to cover Bush

 

Showtime raids Icebox

 

TNT shows cast 'Door'

 

Writers Guild fete two special awards

 

Auteuil will take on 'Adversary' pic

 

Lenders block Loews payout

 

Dave Chappelle

 

Cy Carter

 

David Alan Basche

 

Bree Turner

 

WMA's Burnham heading for ICM

 

Negotiations extended

 

Cannes 'Panic'

 

'Survivor' fittest

 

'Wedding' leads a hearty B.O.

 

Producers, scribes to extend talks

 

Reviews

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