Table of Contents
Week of 04/30/2001

Articles

NBC telepic on 'Ground'

 

Showtime ups Gutierrez

 

Victory, EM.TV nix exclusivity

 

Yes rolls out HK pay TV program

 

Fininvest plans suit over article

 

Crown Castle inks for Italo RaiWay

 

TBS, Multicanal pact for Latin America

 

Sky Perfect sets tests with NTT

 

Discovery India taps topper

 

Nicita's novel ideas

 

Tie for best pic at Czech fest

 

Madstone taps Wrubel

 

Everett goes 'South' for $7 million laffer

 

Van Damme dons 'Monk' robes

 

'Cybill' suit dismissed

 

JoAnna Garcia

 

Ever Carradine

 

Swede TV4 may reap refund

 

Lion takes 'Hostage'

 

Eye gets 'Shafted'

 

Genesis for Major Clients

 

Kidvidder Cinar seeks deal

 

Inside Move: Music merger not definite

 

Vivendi has an eye on Scoot.com

 

AOL TW seeks NTL pact

 

Acad seeks scholarly projects

 

French pol slams local TV prod'n

 

Ealing goes Wilde

 

Jankowski joins TV Azteca board

 

Sky Latin interacting

 

Thomas Ian Nicolas

 

Shane Meier

 

Bush reups Powell

 

Inside Move: Net faves play waiting game

 

Inside Move: Thompson photos emerge

 

IFP West fest fetes 'Falls'

 

'Boheme' casting call

 

Peter Ganbarg

 

NYU scholarship established

 

'Mexican' heats up Oz; o'seas soft

 

H'wood plays possum with its turkeys

 

Thesp orgs make date

 

WGA talks down to the wire

 

NBC, CBS sweeping up

 

Syndie vet Kelly parts with Par

 

'Simpsons' gang sees d'oh

 

Revs angelic for Sony Pix

 

Horovitz set for Revolution

 

NAB sees flurry of deals

 

EM.TV posts $1.3 billion loss

 

Giaquinta firms up digital venture

 

Station sales prop up Hearst-Argyle results

 

A Look Ahead

 

ABC keeps good karma with 'Dharma'

 

April is cruel month for o'seas B.O.

 

EMI, BMG still hope to duet

 

Busch quits the Reporter

 

Stallone slides back to ICM

 

Bernice Coe Stavis

 

Leonard Grant

 

Jonathan Bixby

 

Bush mulls Ukraine piracy sanctions

 

Lions Gate sends 'Wash' to Pooh

 

Phoenix pushes up 'Elevator' remake

 

Nick/TNN tap Kay prod'n exec VP

 

FilmEngine revs up

 

Corrections

 

Neurotrash, MVD merge

 

Showtime ups Gore

 

Ambience inks Hannum Monkey, Corona

 

Shanghai grabs Tigar Hare for animation

 

DirecTV News good

 

Inside Move: Berlusconi's empire up for grabs

 

Cieply slipping from Inside.com

 

Bender inks 2 producers

 

New Domain for vet Levin

 

Sci Fi arms Hammer with prez post

 

Alliance Atlantis ready to 'Run'

 

No ratings gold for 'Pond'

 

Clock is ticking for scribes

 

Schreger ankles as HBO prexy

 

Eisners unveil family center

 

Buena Vista spies fall video date for 'Kids'

 

Hanks has 'Thing' for B'way

 

MGM inks 'True' scribe

 

D'Works inks fantasy trio

 

Auds dim B'way B.O. lights

 

Theater helmer Martin moves to Merrill

 

Outer Critics Circle kudos

 

MK2 hikes price on pic pass

 

Mel mulls 'Producers,' pic projects

 

EMI, Bertelsmann call it quits

 

C4 unveils record $1 bil sales

 

SFX drives into New England

 

B.O. up; 'Aida' hits 875g

 

'Impossible' wins at Sprockets fest

 

Indies flower at Argentina fest

 

Distrib Teodora backs prod'n

 

New Globo warming

 

Disney's 'Zone' hits Argentina TV

 

A Look Ahead

 

Show targets Latin music

 

India bows pavilion at Cannes fest

 

French love 'Loft'

 

Endemol ups van der Putten

 

Ken Hughes

 

Par Domestic TV pins Meidel

 

NCTA's high-tech rollback

 

Univision's profits down as Web bleeds

 

Showtimes tunes up for more 'Isaak'

 

Valenti tops Web talk

 

BevHills in a 'Panic'

 

April pic-TV prod'n grows

 

NBC 'News' hits 52 wks. at the top

 

Canal+ set to interact

 

Fox News ratings still prime

 

First weakness in Peacock's 'Link'

 

Harper books Leonard deal

 

DVD hackers appeal

 

Klemperer celebration

 

Max Lewin

 

Harold Abeles

 

Joseph O.H. Gagnon

 

Thursday boffo for NBC, Eye

 

LAByrinth gives 'Money'

 

April cruel to cable

 

No kidding: 'Spy' puts Miramax atop April

 

Baseball pic '61*' pitches in for HBO

 

'Laramie' gains Linney, Ricci, Buscemi

 

Showtime dusts off 'Wasteland'

 

Alloy, Evolution deal real TV

 

Lions Gate taps int'l co-prexys

 

Vid fete set for Capitan

 

Whoopie! for Whoopi, Coop salute

 

Image queues up scribe Kuhn

 

Gurland hoops it up with Rudin, Par

 

SAG charges violate law, sez attorney

 

Chronology of WGA contract talks

 

Report: 70% will have consoles by '05

 

WB bows classic animation site

 

Liquid Audio to pinkslip 78

 

Kobalt nabs Pepper, Krieger

 

Reality skeins set in at MTV

 

Street weighs in on strike

 

DirecTV talks motor ahead

 

TV vets form consult firm

 

Lopez clocks 'Tick Tock'

 

Roundabout way to B'way for 'Syracuse'

 

Berkshire fest goes for Lowe's 'Kill'

 

Save bucks by filming at 'Home'

 

Twain Prize makes Whoopi

 

'Producers,' 'Monty' lead Drama Desk noms

 

Disney preps PR blitzkrieg

 

'Pearl' divers toy with reality

 

Canuck watchdog growls at convergence

 

Summer champ Fox can take the heat

 

Celebs to revel in Cannes schizo-glitz

 

Bullock takes Teuton in soft sesh o'seas

 

Momentum develops under Kosse

 

Strong Root grows at BBC2

 

Lost & Found: Lucie Salhany

 

NBC saying goodbye to weak sked

 

Sweden boosts regional prod'n sites

 

Local biz gets some o'seas support

 

Producer self-distribs 'Killer' vs. big pix

 

Pic divisions back in Street's graces

 

VR stock on move after sale of screens

 

Troubled homevid biz gets rev sharing

 

With few rivals, Asia open to VOD

 

Publishers planning full-scale assault

 

'The Producers' plays in Peoria

 

'King' takes royal road to B'Way

 

'A.I.'s' artful intrigue on the Net

 

'Puppetry' proves a hit at Melbourne laff fest

 

'Rent' down; 'Fever' up

 

Cronin tops Game Show net

 

Carol Lee Keis

 

Ockrent shows move toward prod'n

 

'Wind' chill for digital carpetbaggers

 

Newmarket savors 'Memento' solo gig

 

WGA's scripted cliffhanger

 

Scribe shutdown shunted

 

Liddiment tapped for MacTaggart speech

 

Beekman hosts 'Pavilion' bow

 

Fox taps youth vote

 

Carlis lands on CameraPlanet

 

Keenan 'Cashin' In' at Fox

 

Oculus, Palomar camp in 'Red Tent'

 

Sundance's 'Snow' falls on Artistic

 

Spain seeks Italo release for Berlusconi probe

 

A Look Ahead

 

Splendid finds a GEM of an idea

 

Parsons tops gov't panel

 

Napster shrinking

 

Small syndicators unite sales forces

 

Charter's 1st-quarter loss increases

 

Animal taps Cascio exec VP

 

Universal Studios taps senior veeps

 

Nothing but ratings

 

Fox bows inhouse sales arm

 

TNN picks up Warner pics

 

H'w'd fights cancer

 

New Yorker dominates mag kudos

 

Orgs prep for strike aid

 

Peck to chair Silent Film Gala

 

Midler divines future with ICM

 

Inside Move: Turner's latest travail

 

WB bans 'Buffy' adieu

 

'Pearl' plays promo game

 

Venice fest is split into 2 competitions

 

'Tabloid' tops Park roster

 

'Hannibal' vid plans cooking

 

Lion pride on the rise as studio grows

 

Hart Sharp has English beat

 

Jackson 'All' over charts

 

Pearson TV united; exec ranks shuffled

 

Motion in 'Ocean'

 

APG, StudioCanal eye spy for rights

 

Talks of the town

 

Job is Milk & Honey

 

French gov't curbs exhib pass

 

U.K. Council taps Lousberg

 

French Fund appoints Miyet

 

Equity decries 2 shows

 

Astaire noms tapped

 

By Sondheim's side

 

Wraps off 'Mummy'

 

'King' courts Gotham

 

Cristal kudos

 

Oui, cabler bows 'Louisiana'

 

Gebbia rolls out 'Pretty'

 

GLAAD to give out awards

 

'Superman' DVD bounds into stores

 

Doing the Cannes can

 

'Apocalypse' new

 

Programmer seeks to add joy to fest

 

Bender nabs Cannes nod

 

Mart, fest team for efficiency's sake

 

La Vie en 'Rouge'

 

Cannes Residence homes in on new talent

 

Plans sputter for pan-Euro distrib alliances

 

Yakker indulges in 'Passions'

 

Dunaway hears 'Calling'

 

Satellite Films orbits quartet of directors

 

Beacon taps finance vet McWethy

 

Studios, writers still blocked

 

Boyle to helm $15 mil '28 Days Later'

 

Equity terminates film contract

 

Lygo leaving Channel 4

 

Wegelius sells 'Reunion' to China

 

Otis L. Guernsey Jr.

 

Martin Fabinyi

 

Eun Lee and Jae-myung Shim

 

Francisco Gonzalez Compean and Martha Sosa

 

Jon Finn and Natascha Wharton

 

Chris Bender & JC Spink

 

NBC struts stuff, wins Wednesday

 

New Regency will have 'Sex'

 

Mouse taps Mac for reform school visit

 

Woods takes Brando's 'Scary' role

 

NBC's in light of day

 

Cole Hauser

 

Daniel London

 

Mary Birdsong

 

Callie Thorne

 

Ben Goldman

 

Beth S. Adler

 

Canuck art bucks

 

BMG cops Karpin as Oz division topper

 

EchoStar subs, shares surge

 

New Salans 3 know showbiz

 

Ster-Kinekor cuts back

 

Loren begins 100th film with son

 

Inside Move: Psychics to rule syndie

 

Inside Move: 'Sabrina' on ABC

 

Fox distrib taps Toay amid redo

 

Par, NBC, NBA team up

 

KTLA's Beck out after 10 years

 

'Bad News' good for Phoenix

 

SAG mum on scribes

 

Mouse and Viacom will try Web VOD

 

Corrections

 

Robert Nathan

 

Philippe Bober

 

Danijel Hocevar

 

Jonah Smith and Palmer West

 

Debra Martin Chase

 

Joe Glennon

 

Bruce Greenberg

 

David Jacquemin

 

Jerry Shevick

 

David Forbes

 

Barry Frey

 

Reshelet Barnes

 

Therese Gamba

 

Joseph Gabriel

 

'Practice's' good legal standing

 

Kelley acts as judge, jury for series quality

 

Gaul amiable to 'Amelie'

 

Daytime's just dreamy, logically speaking

 

Script-to-b'cast a race vs. deadline

 

Quinn 'Stolen' for contest winner

 

Attorneys quick to offer reality check

 

Touchstone high on scribes

 

'Mummy' dearest: U looks for B.O. gold

 

Miracle makes a 'Killing'

 

Devlin plays new role as Electric man

 

Boyle dealing now for 'Later'

 

Scribes down the stretch

 

Kelley's heroes: Michael Badalucco

 

As former lawyers, writers on same page

 

H'Wood's new digital war

 

Watch your palm

 

Character driven

 

Cheap streams

 

Painting a bigger picture

 

Apple creates a titan

 

Larroquette's moment

 

Guests (stars) always welcome

 

Re-creating a Beantown feel

 

10 episodes that deserve another look

 

Kelley's Heroes: Camyrn Manheim

 

Kelley's Heroes: Kelli Williams

 

Kelley's Heroes: Dylan McDermott

 

Kelley's Heroes: Lara Flynn Boyle

 

Kelley's Heroes: Jason Kravits

 

Kelley's Heroes: Lisa Gay Hamilton

 

Kelley's Heroes: Marla Sokoloff

 

Crossovers create dilemmas

 

Kelley's Heroes: Steve Harris

 

Court is in session

 

Music accentuates dramatic moments

 

Four technologies to watch

 

Berlusconi may announce Mediaset sale

 

Felsberg L.A. bound

 

Telefonica mulls merging Web, prod'n

 

Kirch picks up U.S. World Cup rights

 

Harrison treated for cancer

 

BSkyB to shut Open's case

 

Writers, producers near deal

 

Writers, producers reach deal

 

Messier top earner among Gaul bizmen

 

Butz, Levering tie musical 'Not' with Bierko

 

Nine nommed for student Oscar kudos

 

CSA issues warning to M6 about 'Loft'

 

TV Assn. of Latin America sets confab

 

Legal eagles tap Brookman

 

Nordisk bows pic plan

 

Writers, producers reach deal

 

Navigate Cannes with ease

 

Fremaux flummoxed by Teuton titles

 

Kentucky Derby races for ratings

 

U's B.O. mega-'Mummy'

 

Marty Vagts

 

Brits: B.O. embrace beats French kiss

 

Correction

 

Dr. Spock birthing an empire

 

Panel tunes in concerns

 

Case files to sell shares of AOL TW

 

Brill cancels plans for Inside Content

 

UIP's Cripps garners Cinema honor

 

Cafaro, 333 talk numbers for U return

 

BMG taps Wong

 

Devin snaps 'Photographer'

 

Sudser 'Light' strikes Gold

 

Regency TV boosts Tatum

 

Bullish on De Niro, IFP set to fete him

 

MTV nets horror spoof

 

CAA Kenneally zeal

 

BMG not for sale, Middlehoff says

 

Seductive 'Melville'

 

'Pandaemonium' reigns at USA

 

Ball undertaking a series for HBO

 

Beer, Rudolph brew up film, music banner

 

D'Amato tapped to FourBoys forefront

 

'Bridget' pulls rank o'seas