Table of Contents
Week of 03/19/2001

Articles

Bandwidth auction guides set by FCC

 

Deborah Wagnon

 

Inside Move: Sandler pic storyline revealed

 

Searchlight finds Grey for prod'n

 

ABC scraps annual affil confab

 

FCC stays AT&T sale

 

Ann Sothern

 

Chuck Keehne

 

Solomon Lomita

 

BET net sets monthly romance telepic sked

 

Col TriStar names Reich senior veep

 

John Phillips

 

Arnold's political muscle needs some toning

 

ADL morality panel tonight

 

Combs after acquittal: Trial 'matured' him

 

Village brings civil actions after scam

 

'Miss,' 'Women' shine o'seas; weekend weak

 

USC unspools student shorts

 

Zelezny's ex blocked by court injunction

 

Private TV set for Austria OK

 

U shifts TV distrib, consumer divisions

 

Gusinsky back to prison

 

Doc fest spins digital meet

 

Studios seek digital heaven

 

U gilds 'Lily' with update of 1935 comedy

 

Rudner inks Las Vegas gig

 

Plié-ing with Ailey

 

Warner Music tunes VP

 

Victory Media, EM.TV still in talks

 

New Team team streamlines

 

Down but not out

 

So Young Park, Gloria Ehrenberg, Andrew Wise

 

Taylor, Green and Beals set for pilots

 

Eye hoops March on

 

David Stein

 

Myriad taps Foster prod'n prez

 

WGA, USA struggle

 

New Line hires two senior prod'n execs

 

Turner's Kellner KOs wrestling series

 

Woodbine, Troyer trust 'God'

 

Anders opts for Showtime 'Sun' run

 

Crowning glory

 

Boy band with clean, Christian message

 

'Design' gets update

 

Spanish pool party

 

Miramax's love Machine

 

Teen idol orders a double

 

'Froom' at the top for Canal, APG

 

Mass media miss the point on Web

 

India nixes nudity at French channel

 

A Look Ahead

 

Biz to fete SAG's Orsatti

 

Exhibiting distress

 

Stock tops Euro union

 

France's Cahiers prepping fete

 

'Calle' culls top nods in Mexican showcase

 

'Tiger' tops Hong Kong's crix list

 

Mostow/Lieberman tap creative exex

 

Sarah Paulson

 

Katherine Towne, Jared Padalecki

 

Pete Postlethwaite

 

Karl Bury, Catherine Dent

 

XM's Rock waits for Roll in orbit

 

TiVo ticks up on '60'

 

Disney ups vet to marketing exec VP

 

Grogin joins Fox as veep of publicity

 

Netcaster baptized

 

Perez set to weave 'Bob'

 

WB, Bel-Air hit 'Street'

 

Viacom wants to tip its cap

 

Corrections

 

Holly, Morton land pilots

 

King priming its 'CSI' pump

 

Marlowe woos WB with Ford

 

Lee, Bird fly high in Booz Allen posts

 

H'w'd prize fight

 

Flockhart goes to 'Philadelphia'

 

Kellner taps old friend for Turner program job

 

'Moulin' opens Cannes

 

'Gates' swing wide

 

Power out at RTL: Eyre stepping down

 

Soccer group nixes feevee rights sale

 

Seven opts out of Asia

 

Norman wins Bond tune libel lawsuit in U.K.

 

VOD tech gets Teutonic patent

 

Star taps Yap veepee

 

Indian toons expand at 30%

 

Brassel returns to Warner fold

 

Gamer, 'Practice' help ABC win demo, viewers

 

Michael Rosenbaum

 

Swoosie Kurtz

 

Sony, WildTangent pact on Web sites for pix

 

SBS commits to Web in wake of losses

 

BBC banks on thriving export biz

 

Toho, NTT team up for digital delivery of pics

 

Vanity Fair snares InStyle head

 

Family Celebration to honor Clinton, Ford

 

Diller dials digital

 

TriStar dons 'Mask'

 

NBC: Must try TV

 

Oscar Watch

 

SAG, producers utter dubbing pact

 

Peacock programs new deal

 

'Duke Nukem' & Dimension go to movies

 

Scribes eye date for return to table

 

'Hell' fires up FX rating

 

'Born,' 'King' & 'Gig' prime L.A. film fest

 

Producers pitch SAG for waivers

 

Prism Awards to salute NBC with Stewart honor

 

RTL may take run at Trib

 

O'seas fare spices New Haven fest

 

Spring buoys B'way but B.O. lags behind 2000

 

Lange mulls B'way 'Journey' with Falls

 

A Look Ahead

 

Execs grow sweet on cable jobs

 

Pic production floes in Iceland

 

Exhibs sharpen fight in slow market

 

Circumspect Gold Coast reigns in claims

 

Biz taxed to the max

 

Italo B.O. gets high-minded

 

Biz clocks in on strike time

 

Paging picsters

 

Louis Edmonds

 

Glenn Hughes

 

Paul Held Waigner

 

Ralph Thomas

 

Vladimir Voroshilov

 

BET pinkslips 50 in consolidation move

 

Streisand complements new 'Snow White' DVD

 

Evan Loren Grossman

 

RTL buoys Cohen, Chauvat

 

Feevee's not flying

 

Sky Perfect gives auds a World Cup free kick

 

Parsa posts Swedish fest win

 

Norwegian pubcaster taps head

 

Warners brands Aoki in Japan

 

HK pay player signs out

 

Broadcasting blame

 

A&E finds 'Forrester' in $6.5 mil film buy

 

AFTRA sounds out Chaitovitz for D.C.

 

Big creators transforming Sci Fi's sked

 

Helmers diss credit of WGA plan

 

Brand-Cast links H'w'd, Madison Avenue online

 

USC's Annenberg Center hosts Asian films

 

Ibidlive.tv, AMC pact for auction

 

Oscar Watch

 

Warner Music revamps arm

 

Original series segs key to Fox strike plan

 

ABC's 'Runner' off and running

 

'Dogville' leashes a lead

 

Tucci makes Marx for Eye

 

Former Variety editor, 88, dies

 

Francis floored

 

SAG branches get temporary reprieve

 

Pandemonium is on 'Money' trail

 

Newman-Tooley sees 'Blind' pic

 

Who gets Lecter's Lucre?

 

TV3 fumes at license Czechmate

 

Senate sets 2006 as digital TV deadline

 

The rights stuff

 

NBC game for Emmy

 

A Look Ahead

 

Stagehands picket Goodman Theater

 

Biz up; 'Fosse' 455g

 

Mary, Mary

 

McAnuff back at La Jolla Playhouse

 

Hot-slot hustle

 

Strike jitters unsettle network ad buyers

 

Nets give up in battle for teen viewers

 

Frosh shows vulnerable in strikes

 

O'seas auds crowd around 'Traffic'

 

H'wood breaks gold mold

 

Norma MacMillan

 

Peggy Converse

 

NBC on top despite a weak week

 

Media stox tumble after Fed fails to make its point

 

GC exhibits losses amid restructuring

 

Shopping elsewhere

 

Fitzgerald leaps to Lion

 

NEA budget contains no '02 cuts

 

Greenlight banks toon war chest

 

Rival exhib pursues Roadshow in court

 

UK's Film co. to sell Russell's 'Usher'

 

Amritraj takes Pride of India

 

Swiss Senate nixes tix tax

 

Asia TV sets offering

 

Maresca ankles Pittard to launch Rocket Brand

 

Inside Move: Couch potatoes firmly rooted

 

Berry to make merry at 'Ball'

 

Return to the 'Valley'; Morton unveils Madonna

 

Numbers add up for Internet pix tix

 

Warners toons Schwartz to top

 

Bravo lands eight Col pix

 

WB sets reality series in case of strike

 

Bucking the trend on bidding war

 

RTL shares fall on mixed result, warnings

 

'Tank Engine' drives Gullane sales, profits

 

'Contender' to TV

 

Antena 3 starts pic wing

 

KWI spins 'Wheel' to Vietnam

 

Toons take tributes in Teuton

 

ABC raises Wolters to exec veep

 

Fox reshuffles sales in Latin America

 

ETN's Teutonic animal reality

 

Koch tapped VP of CityWalk

 

Oscar Watch

 

Shaggy back on top; Clapton debuts big

 

McBrien spec sails to Escape Artists

 

Greg Germann, Patrick Warburton, Ken Marino

 

Merrin Dungey

 

Tom Hollander

 

ABC's light touch

 

Corrections

 

Magellan setting course for reality car-theft skein

 

Inside Move: UMG thinking Web duet

 

Inside Move: WGA discusses deadline

 

Disney buys into 'Mystic'

 

Mix of pix celebrated in D.C.

 

H'w'd junket funk

 

Nichols nails HBO deal

 

U builds Franchise around Feola

 

What a feeling: 'Flashdance' fever

 

Moritz stays at Columbia

 

From cops to talk, Wilkins tops ratings

 

New bucks bump Mex B.O.

 

Llosa fast becoming Peruvian go-to guy

 

Success from screen to stage for Soberon

 

CIE moves quickly in Brazil play

 

Argentine film biz flourishes

 

Chilean B.O. loves 'Sentimental' fare

 

Fox digital sports nets play ball with Charter

 

Sundance spins world film classics series

 

HarperCollins gets Lewis collection

 

'Heartbreaker' makes H'wood date

 

Honors for native son

 

Dress-up affair

 

U.S. backs ad caps

 

IRS blesses TV merger

 

Liberty bells Erickson overseer

 

Telco Auna shopping its Quiero TV stake

 

Telemundo teams for telenovelas

 

Disney to bow pic at Pearl

 

BBC, U Music ink music distrib deal

 

Argentinian fest endures tax flap

 

DTH guidelines given in India

 

King World ups ad vets

 

Scott writes up triple play

 

Ethan Embry

 

Rick Hoffman, Tom Everett Scott

 

Inside Move: Analyst gives Disney a boost

 

Fresh mags top menu of stale syndies

 

M6 hearing all of SND

 

'NSYNC's Timberlake gets down with 'O.Z.'

 

Streep in the 'Minority'

 

Cleese joins 'HMO' plan

 

Littlefield hops to Par for overall tube deal

 

Newmarket getting 'Mad' with Summit

 

Helmer Martel makes Bear necessities work

 

Globosat in the black

 

UPN makes bid for 'Buffy'

 

In the pipeline: Mexico

 

In the pipeline: Brazil

 

Love, 'Life' get Havana fest champ to change direction

 

Argentine subsid bucks economy

 

In the pipeline: Argentina

 

Brazil B.O. fire reignited

 

Weak signal

 

Brave new World Cup

 

'Perros' fetches profit for Estudio

 

In the pipeline: Chile

 

Latin music sites search for identity

 

Live one

 

'Carnivale' cruises

 

Friday gives Life to black niche films

 

Musical artists guild assails AFTRA

 

'Kids' spy theme park

 

5 workers injured setting up for Oscars

 

Toon titan, revolutionary Hanna dies

 

A Look Ahead

 

UCLA locks up De Sade manuscripts

 

Euros band together on Bornedal's 'Dina

 

Code Red finds 'Cure' for U.S.

 

'Big Brother' reigning in Spain

 

'Edward' crosses over in U.K.

 

Berlusconi leads in Rai stump time

 

Swedish Institute coins up pix

 

Double Dutch web

 

'Curtis' banging its last gavel

 

Marcia Aoki

 

Marc Juris

 

Judy Harris

 

Mullen, Eigner, Walker, Reardon

 

Ticketmaster pacts with AOL

 

Stars, Gaumont get with $15 mil 'Lucy'

 

Toon time

 

'Jailhouse' staging a legit breakout

 

Media heavies push for ownership freedom

 

Isao Okawa

 

Countdown to Oscars

 

Piscopo, HBO pact for Jersey mini

 

Attack ads get personal with measure

 

Gumbel signs CBS extension

 

Palm pilots 'Scratch' pic

 

Obst taps Hoffman exec VP

 

'Apocalypse' again

 

Diller's Trio plays way to deal on 'West 54th'

 

Rick Yune

 

Alan Rickman

 

Jodie Burke

 

Bone sues Capricorn, Walden over label sale

 

Michael Price

 

Down but not out

 

Pathe seeks Village Euro cinemas

 

Mediaset trumpets '00, stake in telco

 

Greece vs. pirates

 

Promo push irks producers

 

'Brothers': guys' night

 

There's genre bend in the road to Oscar

 

What are you going to wear?

 

Newsmaker: Isabel Raventos

 

Moveable feast with wireless wonders

 

Newsmaker: Josef Andorfer

 

Mart holds steady sans dot-gones

 

Yank series mixed bag for overseas auds

 

James T. Yee

 

Theme park bows 'Million'

 

Regulators OK two Teuton pay TV apps

 

Telewest sales soar; pre-tax loss up

 

CNN Mexico redone for Web convergence

 

Reality sets in on Indian TV

 

MGM, Zee mull plans

 

Asian digital fest bowing

 

EMusic IDs Napster tune file violations

 

'Video' game winner

 

Gold Stars reward rooted pix

 

Fistful of buyers detour onto 'Mercer Street'

 

RealNetworks bows platform

 

OpenTV bows updated version of Spyglass

 

Loudeye acquires Internet radio technology

 

ABC 'Job' slacks off

 

Oscar Watch

 

Waigner memorial

 

Peabodys tap director, host

 

Bertelsmann buys e-marketer Zooba

 

Til Schweiger

 

5 hurt as scaffold falls at Oscar prep

 

Bush pushes Muris for FTC

 

Lescure talking tough on DreamWorks deal

 

'Zorro' marks sequel

 

Striking an attitude

 

Hudson signs with Deston

 

Spanish book hookup

 

Newsmaker: Michel Denisot

 

Murdoch reveals Shine shingle

 

Israel Reed

 

Premier League PPV rights poised for sale

 

Tube still direct line to auds

 

Formats spawn next gen

 

Newsmaker: Fred Klinkhammer

 

EU backs artists, for now

 

Mixed signals

 

Profitable French b'casters brace for digital switch

 

Network debuts in air for Spain

 

Teutons max out on reality

 

Local p'gramming rules in Flemish Belgium

 

Magyars take to imports

 

Foreign ownership debate continues

 

TV battles take to the streets

 

Private webs on horizon

 

Foreign players angle for piece of biz

 

Competition heavy among Canucks

 

Hong Kong feels ad pinch

 

Nippon webs struggle with rights

 

Koreans go for tyke fare

 

Nords grapple with tech blocks

 

Newsmaker: Epigmenio Ibarra

 

Global TV braces for change

 

Italy's indies prospering

 

Dutch try multiplatforms

 

Nordic b'casters face digital delay

 

Eire pubcaster seeks support boost

 

'Big Brother' changes Swiss television reality

 

Greeks shop for features, sitcoms

 

Latins like ultra-reality

 

Formats survive five years in Oz

 

Local content battle rages on in So. Africa

 

B.O. 'Heart' attack

 

Oscar rises above the frivolous fray

 

The Oscar goes to...

 

Reviews

Port Authority

Design for Living

The Playboy of the Western World

First Years

Weezer

Nelly Furtado

Ike Turner

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Lloyd Cole and the Negatives

Leader of the Pack

Amphitryon

John Hammond

Titanic

The Lonesome West

Say It Isn't So

My Fair Lady

The Broadway Musicals of 1943

Acis and Galatea

Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

MXPX

Bat Boy

Gang Tapes

Promises

El Rey de Rock 'n' Roll

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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