Table of Contents
Week of 02/05/2001

Articles

Acad, VSDA to redo in-store campaign

 

SBIFF unveils preems

 

Feilberg for Danish film org

 

MusicCountry in tune

 

TAP taps chairwoman

 

EC makes Biz face music

 

France's UGC trumps exhib rivals

 

Wise Owl opened for business

 

Advanced dims rev picture

 

DGA noms 6 for telepic helming awards

 

MediaTrip takes up 'Time'

 

Cosgrove, Meurer are on the 'Ball'

 

Feds study impact of '98 residuals law

 

18 to vie for awards in costume design

 

Shooting Gallery, Starz team up

 

ATAS taps exec board

 

'Women,' 'Cast' top overseas B.O.

 

How one dream job became a nightmare

 

Paul Bettany

 

IFilm grabs $10 million in financing

 

Oscar Watch

 

Straight 'Sex' a tough sell

 

Rotterdam thinks young

 

Gershwin tuner fuels Goodspeed season

 

Tauzin takes on FCC

 

Merchant Ivory's lensing 'Mystic'

 

Cannes, Canal + reup

 

X marks Pramer fare

 

Czech skies are limit on 'Bourne' shoot

 

Ontario bows agency for media funds

 

Convergence urged

 

Hit preps for major takeover

 

Web site collects global finance sources

 

Das Werk bows Spanish prod'n co.

 

Warner Home Vid tops in VHS, DVD sales

 

Nets on auto pilot

 

Scribe sells 'God' in mysterious way

 

Banderas will find 'Femme'

 

Field ankles Interscope to sow own label

 

CNN addresses election mistakes

 

Peter Falk

 

Nussbaum to drive 'Truck'

 

Levy takes 2nd slice of 'Pie'

 

Rachel Hunter

 

Matt Schulze

 

Kristen Kreuk

 

'Caveman' rocks black film fest first

 

Warner will shift execs in homevid

 

Funny 'Valentine'

 

Peacock, XFL score

 

'Baby' on board

 

Making Whoopi for Westport's theater

 

H'w'd to Lieberman: Chill out

 

Simply irresistible

 

Texas tornado hits Hollywood

 

A semi-bold look ahead at 2001

 

Recalling a proper English gentleman

 

A Look Ahead

 

The zen of victory

 

Vivendi layoff buzz Gauls union reps

 

Warner Int'l TV pacts with SBS' Dutch arm

 

Heady competish

 

HBO puts English on 'F World' mini

 

Benson gets sr. VP stripes

 

Cinar losses at $136 mil

 

Animation Business Marketplace bows March 1

 

Ronald Reagan Foundation to meet

 

Frazen, Steinkamp ACE'd

 

Zentropa pacts with L.A. sister

 

Magic makes the 'Team' on hoop reality skein

 

Vidgamer enmeshed in 'Matrix'

 

Stars' split won't put hit on biz

 

Screens come to Screenland

 

Disney cranks on 'Frank'

 

Clarification

 

Inside Move: 'Incredible' return sealed

 

Disney earnings drop

 

XFL gives NBC lead in sweeps

 

A Look Ahead

 

'Pellet' garners Goyas

 

Stars seek c'right protection

 

U.K. fights for Cup rights

 

'War' opens major front in Prague

 

A B.O. buffet o'seas

 

Channel 4 spins division

 

AMC rejigs fiscal results

 

Distant grabs fright rights

 

Hopper, Watts buoyed at Fox

 

Razorfish pinkslips 400

 

GetMusic.com ups Thomlison

 

Progress signaled in WGA talks

 

Daniels sets DGA at ease

 

In the hen house

 

Teuton turns

 

'About' face lands Davis

 

Oscar Watch

 

CBS finds a big man on campus

 

Sub pic 'K-19' fired upon by Russian sailors

 

Schreiber adds 'Fear,' 'Kate' to acting roster

 

Inside Move: 'Traffic' scribe 'Abandoned'

 

Inside Move: Cannes to Foster new list

 

Inside Move: Barrett ankling ICM, eyes WMA

 

SAG warns actors to avoid agent 'contracts'

 

Inside Move: Discordant Note

 

Inside Move: Normal, Russia

 

Inside Move: Walk the walk

 

Chan's 'Spy' games sleuth big local B.O.

 

Fest fosters Indonesia art boom

 

RS Promo comes of age, leans to film

 

Producers pair up for Fame U.K.

 

Czech plexes feed growth

 

Spain sees drain in tickets

 

Playboy adds shade of blue

 

Mouse gives Go the heave-ho

 

Bare fact: Toronto news site is real hit

 

Likely Hughes deal may nix Sky Global IPO

 

'Swing!' stops, 'Opera' rocks

 

Purple Rose dawns as Daniels' Pleasantville

 

Pressures of the spin cycle

 

'Saigon' shutters

 

Fine Living home to Solomon

 

Copyright not tight?

 

Italo MTV gives Rete-A early release from pact

 

More sex on TV, but is it safe?

 

Hypnotic to distrib Slamdance shorts

 

3 join Fincher on Web

 

Capstone, Euro Arts team for pix

 

Inside Move: 'Caroline' red-lighted

 

H'w'd pix revive Euro B.O.

 

Thesps reverse lifetime ban penality

 

Duo shooting back

 

Conant tapped vp at Par TV

 

Spielberg, Schwartzman BAFTA/LA bound

 

BV puts 'Dwarfs' on DVD

 

Freeman to face 'Fears'

 

Kelley to get TV Guide honor

 

Cinetel to o'see library of Harvey subsid PM

 

Pressure is on Wells as scribe talks hit day 15

 

Long-gone Go casts shadow over Mouse

 

Laffer 'Igby' on fast track

 

'Terminator' morph

 

Powell: No reason to bridge the digital divide

 

ApolloMedia wings two stakes to Albis

 

Icebox melting sans cold cash

 

'Queen of the Cowgirls' Evans dead at 88

 

Net charges, soft ads cut into Fox pic profits

 

Asia to 'Tiger': kung-fooey

 

Congloms snared in din of spin

 

Inside Move: HBO Home Run

 

One-stop shop ready to pop

 

Serb cinema gets second wind

 

ABC sked stretches reality

 

Networks dash for young cash

 

Admen bank on boomers

 

Corruption row sparks protests in Peru

 

Creatives hot for TVN's made-fors

 

Sony takes reality shift

 

U.K.'s FilmFour pages quirky fare for pix

 

'Survivor,' Dave go Globo

 

Gallic crix laud 'Gleaners'

 

TV Tokyo gets makes for broadband

 

Bean sprouts toon for Pearson distrib

 

HOT clutches new Dutch net

 

Channel 5 climbs up with WB deal

 

Disney's California Adventure to bow

 

'Sopranos,' 'Wing' lead DGA TV noms

 

Warner musicvids enter Intertainer stream

 

Pittard Sullivan pinkslips 11% of staff

 

Business in Uproar

 

CNBC bolsters chair-CEO post

 

Shooting Gallery taps Tedeschi for its prexy

 

Brodbin to pen 'A-Team' pic

 

Dreyfus affair ends at ICM

 

Oscar Watch

 

Eye ups spex specialist Sussman

 

Telefonica taps Juarez as m.d.

 

Faris wheels in, 'Scary II' ready to roll

 

Startz inks with Miramax

 

Christmas comes early to Fox

 

'Girls' woo Latin America

 

Kerkorian to invest $325 mil in cable nets

 

HBO gets the Boss for 2-hour concert

 

Mouse eyes Adventure for more staying power

 

Murdoch dials DirecTV

 

Don't tell Mel ad biz looks soft

 

Par running the 'Asylum'

 

Synergy lights drama pilots

 

S&P 500 index channels Univision

 

WB ups Tannenbaum to sr. VP

 

O'Neill center goes national

 

B'way misses 'Saigon' as B.O. dips

 

Cambridge's Brattle goes nonprofit

 

'Allergist' tells tale of B'way profit

 

Karen Cahill, Sean Holzman

 

'Light,' 'Children' top DGA daytime nods

 

Rookies write on

 

Shaggy disc dethrones 'J. Lo'

 

Alyson Hannigan

 

Foreign prod'n picks up in Ontario

 

'Wife' tops Gaul short fest

 

Comedy fest to focus on indie, foreign pix

 

'Cool' hot in Sweden

 

Exec back at Oz's Becker

 

Oz film org in fraud probe

 

'Songs' takes 4 bug awards

 

Danish's 'Skagerak' set to roll

 

RealNetworks, Wavefly pact for digital delivery

 

eMusic reports net loss of $8.7 mil

 

Lieberman rips 'Jackass'

 

MTVi inks for U songs for Webcasts

 

CBS' Tuesday makes it three

 

High tide at Pearson

 

Don't underestimate Dick Van Dyke

 

Valenti set to play defense

 

Robbins believes in 'Truth'

 

ABC casts 'Line' to Wed.

 

Random House prexy Engstrom moves house

 

Teuton gatekeeper

 

Sony ups Spiegel to VP

 

Showtime pilots 'Calif.' skein from Col-WB net

 

Trump towers over billion-dollar baby

 

Cusack boards indie boat

 

Mark Rydell

 

Gerard Butler

 

Sony Classics pens 'Haiku'

 

'Miss' kiss worth $40 mil

 

Schreiber Studio salute

 

'Pacific' pair planned

 

MGM: Bon appetit!

 

Scott Glenn

 

Mark Webber

 

Ron Lester

 

Miko Hughes

 

GM Macolino exits Village Cinemas

 

Digital domination

 

Zel to chair TAP

 

CNN bows redesigned Spanish-lingo site

 

MTV Latin ups Jofre

 

Power is back at Scour.com

 

Recording Acad, IBM team for Webcast

 

Theater org launches award for road shows

 

Ledger wins ShoWest kudos

 

Inside Move: U flexes muscle with 'Mummy 2' shift

 

Edel Music expands to N. America

 

Country thrush gets 'Even'

 

Oscar Watch

 

Giacchetto gets the max

 

Good Machine gets big wheels moving

 

AT&T still dialing

 

E!, Style Net will b'cast fashions

 

Syndies' ratings sagging

 

Parker Posey

 

Eva Amurri

 

Matthew Marsden

 

Pandemonium buys 'Crew'

 

NBC links up to Blighty gamer

 

Bargainers may extend WGA talks

 

Lifetime orders more 'Division'

 

Miramax, Offline offer 'Taste' of France

 

Cal State Fullerton goes ape at fete

 

'Romeo' woos H'wood

 

Bertelsmann's buy fuels French scrutiny

 

Keri Bevan

 

Cable pix dominate DGA's list of doc helming noms

 

Canuck gov't promises more coin to pubcaster

 

NTV feels the heat

 

Oscar Watch

 

Par vet gets charity nod

 

Klavan lands in 'Fields'

 

TF1, Pathe drop merger

 

Ayem rivals kicking 'Early' around

 

Corrections

 

Chernin enlists publishers in c'right fight

 

Dream, Cinerenta pair for romancer 'Spencer'

 

'Law's' Haggis earns WGA's Davies laurel

 

ShoWest to honor WB's Wayne

 

Hoch retrieves rights to his 'Jails' pic

 

Oxygen inhales Oprah skein

 

Creative rights take spotlight in WGA talks

 

Mouse opens $1.4 bil theme park

 

'Island' breezes

 

Elijah Branham Rogers

 

Lara Powys Hawley

 

'Hannibal' distrib advises discretion

 

Mouse peeks into Calif.

 

Reality sets in for Emmy noms

 

Big bucks for 'Blair' pair as Artisan, Haxan settle

 

MGM meal ticket

 

SAG prexy's plea: Stop the fighting

 

Fortissimo will sell 'Chateau'

 

High-speed Net connections jump 148%

 

Richter, RuPaul projects fly

 

Bardem signing on with UTA

 

Code Red to distrib 'Ground'

 

Weitzenhoffer tries hand at Vaudeville

 

KNBC lowers the boom as anchors shuffle

 

Rock the vote to fete Santana, Blige

 

Homegrown 'Lie' tops at French box office

 

Lawmakers to name Czech TV director

 

Tele Munchen pay web OK'd

 

Pol points finger

 

Miramax ups Hutensky to veepee

 

EM.TV clears path to Kirch deal

 

Comedy Central nabs 'Kings,' 'Best'

 

RIAA crowns counsel

 

Young profit misses year-end forecast

 

AMC expands original slate

 

Disney orders more 'Lizzie'

 

'Toy 2' primes Pixar pump

 

Pols praise 'Most Wanted'

 

Schaeffer adds job as SFX creative head

 

Larson fund composes winners

 

Letter to the Editor: 'Tiger' scribe Schamus responds to article

 

XFL thrown for a loss

 

$58 mil: no chomp change

 

Reviews

Hannibal

Left Behind

Saving Silverman

XFL

AfterImage

Nobody's Baby

Wendigo

The Big Day Out

Exit Wounds

The Jayhawks

Le Costume

Jewel

Rain Dance

Black Days

The Trouble with Lou

Virgil Bliss

Manhunter

Delivering Milo

The Nixon Tapes

Broadway at George Street: The Musicals of Arthur Laurents

The Gathering

Pantera

Romeo & Juliet

Raw Deal: A Question of Consent

Lucy Pearl

Richard Ashcroft

Time of Favor

Play Dead

Jump Tomorrow

Enemy at the Gates

Beau-soleil

The Last Producer

Willis Alan Ramsey

Haven

These Old Broads

The Weir

Annie Get Your Gun

The Sleepy Time Gal

Kodo

Force Continuum

Jack the Dog


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