Table of Contents
Week of 06/04/2001

Articles

Tony's red carpet roster

 

'Children' in with Zlin

 

Sex warms up Chile viewers

 

Foix's debut pic bows Jove fest

 

Martin Blau

 

Sue Bennett

 

Joseph Wagstaff

 

BBC's Lux to head C4 entertainment

 

HBO Latin America taps Torkington

 

Norway's TV2 license renewed

 

Shourie at Discovery India

 

Indian state sets tax holiday

 

Delyth Lewys-Lloyd, Mark Lieblein

 

Vince Giannini

 

Charles Stanford

 

Mark Lacter

 

Caroline James

 

John Spadaro

 

Jonathan Barzilay

 

Steve Cagle

 

Behind the scenes at the WGA

 

Denmark's Egmont closes portal

 

Danish prod'n house Thura folds 'Jewel'

 

TVNorge fires topper

 

Japanese distribs eye boffo summer

 

John Polich

 

Baldwin set to rev USA's arts net Trio

 

Anne Haney

 

Pilar Cerveris

 

20 years with AIDS and H'w'd

 

Sanctuary finds profits up 76%

 

Golden opportunity

 

Advertisers driven to NBC, TNT

 

Vivendi U may choose open market

 

Ste. Marie to lead VOD venture Intertainer

 

NBC Sports goes Here for hoops

 

New B'way season's slide

 

FCC fines station for airing Eminem song

 

Germans bankroll pix for Par

 

Koch tunes pub arm, taps veep

 

Stop! In the name of SAG

 

'Eyre' unmoored after lonely Tony trip

 

Timothy Busfield

 

Clayne Crawford

 

Boyd Kestner

 

Aaron Paul

 

USA arrests Wolf's syndie 'Trial'

 

Nick nabs more primetime for kidvid

 

Mags' face lift

 

Tonys up slightly, N.Y. tepid

 

SAG negotiations resume after break

 

Bloomberg in mayoral bid

 

Intermedia to coin 'Basic'

 

Ina Bernstein Sharr

 

Billy Higgins

 

Andrew Howard

 

Carole Kean

 

'Must Si' for NBC soaps

 

Claudia Cagan

 

Karama Horne

 

William Sloan Coats

 

Robin A. Reinhardt

 

Roy Ennis

 

Bruce Pobjoy

 

Lorrie Browning

 

Jeffrey F. Webb, Michael T. Anderson

 

Jeffrey L. Laytin, Mitchell C. Stein, Richard B. Verner

 

Gabriella Alaimo Thomas, Tina Whelski, Kristi Conroy, Amelia McPartlon

 

Lili Ungar

 

Claire Shipman

 

Erica Benson

 

Correction

 

Lowell to produce his Discovery show

 

Inside Move: 'Raymond' goes digital for noms

 

Lifetime taps Sternfeld sr. veep

 

Intertainment drops Imperial from suit

 

'Pearl' power ignites o'seas

 

'Jimmy' nabs licensee pack

 

HSI, Tomorrow team on 'American' tale

 

Dish: Stringfield scrubs up for 'ER'

 

Tony fetes glitter on both coasts

 

Neufeld in 'Secret' deal

 

De Luca to head D'Works prod'n

 

Hearings on SAG, agents in new delay

 

JumpTV.com wins hearing

 

EMI, Roxio pact on legit CD burning

 

Bertelsmann readies for IPO

 

Fox, New Line tap German funding

 

Patrick Desmond

 

Koch tunes up music publishing

 

Networks nix theatrical pix

 

Crown knights Keating as VP

 

Russell M. Saunders

 

Karlovy Vary fest enlists top talent

 

Exec exits plagued ABC

 

Canal Plus taps 2 exex

 

Oz's Gryphon Prods. heading 'Nowhere'

 

Spice Factory, Beyond team to tame 'Rogue'

 

U.K.'s Telewest losses grow

 

Mertz tapped WB Euro legal eagle

 

Danish p'caster's sales soar

 

Egyptian toon co-prod'n set

 

F/x shop VisionArt sold to India house

 

'Pearl Harbor' sets o'seas B.O. records

 

DIC taps Sharpe-Ross

 

Peacock slam dunks key demos

 

Steve Kent

 

Rob Woodward

 

Luis Bolio

 

RioPort, Best Buy to distrib tunes

 

Fox inks pact with Tricon for all nets

 

Aaron Brown

 

Phil Jones

 

Tavis Smiley

 

Tom Russo

 

Thesp talks likely to speed up

 

Express visa charge

 

SAG's divisive discipline

 

Correction

 

Cowboy ties up doc

 

Hughes exits Long Wharf

 

Strike fear springs May pic production

 

Messier: BSkyB stake not on sale

 

Recording Academy adds Grammys

 

BAFTA to salute Lucas at Britannias

 

Senate power shifts, Powell's unruffled

 

Kellner sez costs may bite reality TV

 

Pols shine, teachers decline in primetime

 

New Line ups Goodman to veep post

 

TF1's Sinclair ankles Internet post

 

Ruch tops for dox org

 

'Dennis' goes to B'way

 

Belles in broadcasting

 

B'way's rich get richer

 

Scribes seal deal with studios, nets

 

HBO: Best 'Feet' forward

 

Latin Grammys reskedded

 

Game Show Net taps Web head

 

Sony Family lifts Palmer to sr. veep

 

Fiorentino bares 'Time' suit

 

Ovitz files lawsuit against Drabinsky

 

Napster logs on with MusicNet

 

'Spy' sneaks peek early on Peacock

 

Teuton distrib sues Miramax

 

Levenstein ready to run 'Joan'

 

Tom Arnold

 

Sophi Joan Boylan

 

Salome Violetta Haertel

 

Karlovy Vary sets August 'Song'

 

'Pearl' pushes time limit

 

H'wood selling super-size

 

Bruckheimer dives into WB TV

 

Non-union work: It's not in the script

 

Duo makes 'Ultimate' sale

 

Energy crunch sidelines Brazil's soccer

 

Unusual collaboration puts 'Boom' on boards

 

'Brother' bother in South Africa

 

Inside Move: Really down 'Town'

 

Inside Move: Oz disconnect

 

Inside Move: 'Amelie'-oration?

 

Gaggle of thesps sign for 'Hoffman'

 

El Norte takes 'Two' step

 

In-house ad libs

 

Yan to Westernize local pic biz

 

Filmax goes Gaga over pic trio

 

O'seas lament: Send more b'busters

 

Coin subsid snags uptick on boffo biz

 

Discovery net gets the travel bug

 

Webs find ad buyers in no rush

 

B'way hits new high note

 

Action channel plans new adventure

 

Inside Move: Der furor over 'Pearl'

 

Inside Move: Something's off with Off Line

 

Mini-majors feel pressure of P&A

 

The Write Stuff: LaBute, Rudin ride 'Angel's' wings

 

Inside Move: Timberman fashions Studios USA TV team

 

USA reality revs up

 

Armitages set service for scripters

 

Ruffalo eyes 'Signs' for Shyamalan

 

UIP going it alone in Poland

 

Hit Entertainment revamps exex

 

Miramax, Phoenix pair for epic 'Shanghai'

 

U Pix trims job at int'l arm

 

Mainframe taps Novak CEO

 

Kinowelt target of trading probe

 

Staind still reigns; 'Moulin' rising

 

'Frasier' helps 'Kristin' bow with good ratings

 

E-Poll adding Edge partners

 

Mischer lured back again as Emmy exec producer

 

Lewis wings to Academy's director spot

 

Inside Move: Scorsese advocates HDTV

 

Bell taps ex-Global prexy

 

'Survivor' ratings drop

 

Macquarie hatches hunt for Imax funds

 

Going back to basics

 

X marks spot for WB Teuton pact

 

Levin: video-on-demand a go at HBO

 

'Sopranos' muscles onto CTV

 

Foreign Press has new prez

 

Vet Klein made VP at Fox TV

 

New Line ups Goodman to veep post

 

Felten teaching a lesson

 

Femmes set benefit perf

 

Stone sues over 'Instinct'

 

New Line to sing 'Ballad'

 

Pixar stocks cash for film financing

 

Villaraigosa supporters rally behind Hahn

 

'Follies' no longer here

 

Barker signs up for 5 more on 'Right'

 

TF1's Sinclair ankles Internet post

 

SAG invites ATA to confab

 

Sci Fi grabs Le Guin's 'Hand'

 

Going for the green

 

iFilm taps tech exec veep

 

Vivendi taps CEO for games division

 

Jones to head Excite@Home

 

Sega, Sony to network consoles for online games

 

Digital Groove holds student film fest

 

NBC to debut 'Downer' in July

 

Pardue baking up 'Son'

 

Global Animation taps Lovegren

 

Velle dons helmer 'Suit'

 

More layoffs at Pearson

 

Emmy performers: William Petersen

 

Jackson Emery Fazio

 

Emmy performers: Michael Emerson

 

Emmy performers: Sally Field

 

Emmy performers: Anne Heche

 

Emmy performers: Christopher Titus

 

Emmy performers: Marlee Matlin

 

Emmy performers: Andre Braugher

 

Emmy performers: Kathleen Turner

 

Emmy performers: John Corbett

 

Lion boots 'Basic 2' from 2002 pic den

 

Emmy performers: Mini, telepic standouts

 

Emmy performers: Fyvush Finkel

 

Emmy performers: Marg Helgenberger

 

Emmy performers: Craig T. Nelson

 

Crockett Mason Callaway

 

Jenna Rose Newman

 

Veronica De Mornay-O'Neal

 

'Anniversary' waltzes in

 

Chelsea Clinton chips in for 'Rent' benefit

 

Bizzzz on hold

 

H'wood's designing women

 

Emmy performers: Tom Cavanagh

 

Emmy performers: Chi McBride

 

Emmy performers: Lauren Graham

 

Emmy performers: 'Wing'ing it

 

'Swordfish' reels from guest influx

 

Emmy performers: Crix offer insight into perfect perfs

 

'Atlantis' surfaces

 

Music Center gala sings artists' praises

 

Hypnotic swallows Nibblebox

 

'Evolution' scribes to learn their 'Lesson'

 

Post-Woody world

 

Miramax pulls 'Fast' one

 

Pols renew pressure on H'wood violence

 

Hallmark starts mini 'Stranded'

 

Cecchi Gori contesting TeleMonteCarlo sale

 

Letter to the Editor

 

NATAS taps Povich N.Y. prez

 

TF1 lures Rousselet

 

Pathe, Sky tie filmmaking knot

 

Moscow fest unveils films

 

Brown pix bows

 

'Taxi' star Naceri may face charges

 

TF1 to offer 'Harbor' for Gaul

 

Oz's short filmers honored

 

ITV inks sponsorship deal with Coke

 

LWT harvests Garden in U.K.

 

MTV Latin unplugged

 

Complaint hits Kirch in Teuton

 

Zimbabwean gov't axes talkshow

 

Swedish companies get coin

 

PBS' fall sked means 'Masterpiece' move

 

Syndie weekday shows suffer dip

 

Napster takes on general counsel

 

Sondheim helmers tapped

 

Sheingold tops Eye sales again

 

'Guiding Light' beckons Dunn

 

Distrib kids around

 

Tony celebs fuel B'way B.O.

 

FCC head joins hip-hop happening

 

NBC shoots, scores

 

High-tech action pix bow

 

CNN settles Tailwind suit

 

Margolis, TNT back for SAG honors

 

Marks, Big Boy look at syndie

 

ICM names Lux sr. VP

 

Correction

 

SAG sez unity key as it drops case

 

'Center' of a storm

 

Inside Move: KTLA looking for co-host

 

French fete Rialto's Halpern

 

Inside Move: 'Godfather' comes to DVD

 

Vets pack 'Oooph!' for TV

 

Student fest seeks entries

 

SAG's soft touch

 

Oscar will have Kodak moment

 

Carsey-Werner promotes Weiss

 

Wolper winding down ... kind of

 

25 memorable moments in Showtime's 25-year history

 

Growth spurt

 

Original thinking

 

Distrib vet's kids bow firm of their own

 

New Line finds 'Traces' drama

 

WB, Silver go for a 'Walk'

 

Sony reprimands 2 in bogus-blurb flap

 

Italo mogul sued by wife

 

D-Day for HBO series

 

Beau Bridges, Nia Long, Miguel Ferrer, Gabriel Olds, Thea Gill

 

Heather Paige Kent

 

Samuel Isaac Klores

 

Alec Joseph Arouh

 

Cablevision to play exec team at Garden

 

Thesp, studio negotiators take break

 

Cablers go analog

 

Imax exex blasted by shareholders

 

VNU subsid sale delayed

 

TV toons tuning up pic licensing tie-ins

 

Gov't probe zeroes in on Gemstar

 

Unions face off over Moscow venue

 

Macpherson, Godreche will go 'South'

 

Helmers on police list

 

BSkyB's Sky falls

 

Judge stops Parana signal

 

Italo kids fest slates Stone

 

Norse filmmakers to get tax rebate

 

Health channel bows in Peru

 

U Studios popular in Japan

 

Star Plus makes 'Deal' in India

 

Microsoft TV launches in Portuguese

 

Thesp talks break until Wednesday

 

Pair's 'Perfect' fit

 

Big players finance DataPlay for $55 mil

 

Lions Gate ups DeLuca to VP

 

Argos bows thesp school

 

Weekday TV blahs

 

Hollywood Fest fetes director, composer

 

AMC tempts auds with multi-pic card

 

'ElimiDate' rates for syndication

 

Artisan in demand

 

VH1 offers destination

 

Channel One sets 2 shows

 

Sanders nurtures 'Rose'

 

Scribe's tapped, 'Cop' back in traffic

 

Lion, Landscape to tackle 'Tucker'

 

'Harbor' storms B.O.

 

Hal Holbrook

 

Ron Livingston

 

David Gail

 

'Shame' game at Malaga

 

Jersey hits pitch for Shue fit

 

'Anaconda 2' scribes inked

 

Agent trio to head lit at Endeavor

 

Neutron, Edel spin out deal

 

London lineup heats up

 

U Focus sr. veep Hardart ankles

 

Sony's seismic shifts

 

Senate shift puts focus on biz

 

Mouse hitches its trailers to Web spat

 

Cablers swim up stream in broadband transition

 

Crystal connection

 

Happy 'Anniversary'

 

Universal bear hug for U's Snider

 

Geffen Playhouse gives 'Six Dance Lessons'

 

Scribes get 'Over' on WB

 

Mark Taper celebrates 'Body'

 

'Pearl' attacks o'seas markets

 

'Atlantis' surfaces

 

A 'Midterm Honor'

 

Antena 3 extends film arm

 

Studio bow on Track 9

 

Roman holiday