Table of Contents
Week of 06/18/2001

Articles

Univision sets pacts for exclusive content

 

Syndie 'Millionaire' targeted to fall '02

 

John Monroe Waner

 

Reed Midem draws Zilk

 

Int'l team sets 2 TV docs

 

Kinowelt puts focus on restructuring ops

 

Film Gala to mark Gothenburg's 25th

 

Singapore duo backing 'Buddha'

 

Greece's Pradera picks up plex

 

Vivendi U expands

 

Norwegians resisting call of 'Temptation'

 

A&E, History Latin tap Itriago

 

Viv U fights rumors of ad implosion

 

AT&T sets date for Liberty split

 

Carrere gets toon-up on Paris Stock Market

 

Sogecable in DTT pact

 

Arista taps Raphael

 

Tree grows Gray branch

 

IFC to 'Mother' pic

 

'Major,' '42nd St.' keep B'way on roll

 

Beatty honors Sherak as 'Champion for Children'

 

Disney's Neumann goes to ABC

 

Chance of actors' strike dwindles

 

Helmers let out a rebel yell

 

Feature bows fuel USA surge

 

Cage locks tribute role from pic org

 

Action pix pack Starz Thursdays

 

AFTRA eyes TV talks date

 

Seattle fest fetes best

 

Wireless Webcaster iBlast locks $10.2 mil

 

'Harbor' in B.O. battle for Europe

 

ABC fires off July 4 'Independence' spec

 

Dish: Halsted has 'Sea' legs

 

Four score casting

 

Designer treads alien turf in 'Parasyte'

 

Inside Move: Fox forcing 'Star Wars' DVD bow

 

Scribes to morph 'T3' script

 

Glenn Ginsburg

 

Laura Laser, Dan Fiden

 

William J. Immerman

 

Jillaina Wachendorf, Bill Giorgio, Debbie Egner

 

Camila Ipinza

 

Mark Slavin

 

Jerry Solomon

 

Simone Pillinger

 

Robert J. Stephens, Abby Aronsohn, Fern Portnoy, Larry Hoffer, Timothy Ryerson

 

Fox 2000 elevates Kang to prod'n veep

 

Univision unveiled

 

Steve Werner

 

Edwin R. (Bill) Culver III

 

John F. Hamlin III

 

At 20, 'Risky' is still frisky

 

O'seas auds 'Harbor' reservations

 

Inside Move: Kinowelt crunch

 

Inside Move: Random acts

 

Inside Move: Last Kiss goodbye

 

Indie b'casters: Big world, backyard aud

 

Inside Move: Raising Capital

 

Film fest Shanghai'd by politics

 

Foes throw tacks on NBC road

 

Frog aims to be a prince

 

Studios put digital on fast track

 

Peacock's syndie unit tests wing

 

Nets tune up fall promos in song

 

Korea chop fest cracks U.S.

 

RSC says home is where the bard is

 

Storm tosses Alley shows

 

Pipeline to North America drying up

 

Steel to rep Korea's CJ

 

Word of mouth drives call to 'Arms'

 

Par keeps 'Godfather' family together

 

Karlovy Vary selects digital lineup of pix

 

Toho dances to toons

 

Changing game plan

 

Sony's Screenblast powers up the people

 

Digital cinema establishing a beachhead

 

Gorman Services

 

Lion, UPN deal to split ad coin

 

Hitchcock in 3D shines at Midnight Sun Fest

 

Unions eye Canal job cuts

 

Euro digital org debuts

 

'Blow,' 'Ghost' join Karlovy competish

 

ITV feels squeeze

 

Danish Film Institute exec Wolsgaard ankles

 

Swedish org funds trey of pics

 

B'casters make their case

 

CBC funnels federal funds to p'gramming

 

Fox net ups Kurgan to prexy of biz ops

 

NBC dunks competish in rate race

 

The 'Star Wars' saga ... begins

 

TF1 gets real with $300 mil deal

 

HBO turns up 'Reverb' to 4

 

Blair ousts Smith as culture secretary

 

Goodspeed tops Conn. crix honors

 

Italo flavor at Montreal fest

 

RTVE fights fiscal woes

 

Webs slug it out

 

Music biz mulls Knight's future

 

Peggy Cartwright

 

FCC waiting to hold court

 

Beth Bornhurst and Jim Preminger

 

Susannah C. D'Arcy and Kevin Allen Snyder

 

Del Toro break delays 'Hunted'

 

USA homevid taps Amodei

 

NATPE unveils reorganization

 

IFC doc a valentine to 70's

 

KMEX wins L.A. news sweep

 

Sorkin gets 2-year probation

 

'Residents' finds home in TNT's 2002 sked

 

Washington, Lathan, Houston collect BETs

 

Dramatic turn at Col TV

 

Match made in 'Heaven'

 

SAG branches stay open

 

Concert vids Coming Home to DVD

 

Rafelson does a 'Good Deed'

 

High-wire actors

 

Lieberman buzzes Bush to back bill

 

The Write Stuff: Sea change for scribe's future

 

China opening gates to more imported pix

 

Giraldi, Case launch shingle

 

Inside Move: Gotham O&Os swap syndies

 

Turner to offer restored archival U.S. film series

 

Fox in faux-fan fandango

 

Dodgers get 'Dirty'

 

Cameron under the sea

 

U.K.'s Tiger taps Weber for Stateside push

 

Helmer Serreau tipped to head Gallic filmmakers' org

 

Tim Weigel

 

Ponn Yinn

 

Lou Fant

 

Telefonica to exit cable

 

New image for culture channel

 

Tiger, Tigress team for U.S. ops

 

Serreau to head ARP

 

ITV union on hold

 

'Lion' king slipped a Mickey

 

TPS eyes premium channel

 

Canal + gets unions' OK on trimming jobs

 

Judge hits repeat button on MP3 suit

 

IFP fingers 6 for Open Palm

 

Blink-182's 'Pants' hits No. 1

 

'Go Fish' flounders

 

Woo, Digital, Mirage on 'Turtles' pic

 

'Hedley' set to abdicate

 

Miramax ups Hiltzik to VP

 

Levin bullish on AOL revs

 

'Journey' ends without Lange

 

Celebs urge end to FTC bill

 

Negotiators hunker down for SAG talks

 

Turner nets grab WB pix

 

B'casters get boost from key pols

 

Savva Kulish

 

Marketing, distrib prexies exit Lion

 

'Shrek' joins $200 mil club

 

Barron blazes new trail for WMA books

 

N.C. prod'n breezy in '00

 

Bradbury to adapt 'Illustrated' for Sci Fi

 

Fox Family ups Cosgrove to exec VP

 

Warner TV ups pair to head biz affairs

 

Diane in legit 'Vortex'

 

'Dean' scene preems

 

Miramax Zoe comes out of 'Closet'

 

Davis' '3 A.M.' wake-up call

 

'Raider' dolls for grown-ups

 

Yanks pitch cabler

 

Teens make 'Date' with syndie faves

 

Woods exits AMG for Immortal

 

Roadshow bids adieu to French exhib biz

 

TV helmer Buckland inks NBC deal

 

Brooks named prexy of DIC

 

Kodak pictures bigger Silicon Valley presence

 

Full stream ahead

 

'Cast Away' sails off shelves

 

Levy to leaven Laughs fest

 

Game Show's Cronin restructures

 

Taormina lines up troops

 

Loudcloud to manage Fox Web sites

 

Helkon leads group jumping into 'Pool'

 

MSNBC plays 'Hardballl' in push for auds

 

Clear Channel inks with Hiwire for Net radio

 

India's Rao revs U.S. co-prods

 

Stone Stanley picks Perler

 

Lions Gate plucks Aussie 'Lantana'

 

Peacock slashes ad rates for bigger slice

 

Dish: Dimension cages 'Ghost'

 

A.I.: A Spielberg/Kubrick prod'n

 

'Xena' rides into sunset

 

HBO lets 'Stranger' out

 

Blackwell lathers for SoapNet g.m.

 

'Doc' talks the talk

 

'Fast' starts engines

 

Joe Darion

 

Pathe prize puts 'Feet' on prod'n track

 

Russian film fest or famine

 

Talks on Hungary film law iffy

 

Korean exhib adds distrib Tube

 

C'right redo sought in France

 

Gallic studio, helmer settle

 

Melbourne 'Banks' on opening night

 

Sherman to top TW Cable ads

 

Warning: This column could cause dry mouth

 

European cabler invasion

 

Kloiber preps for talks on TMG sale

 

Young stock slides 18% after offering

 

'Flew' will fly away on July 29

 

Young auds 'Jack' up ABC ratings

 

Inside Move: Redstone reticent on exit

 

Mulgrew treks to stage

 

GameWorks prexy lauded

 

Jennifer Blanc, William Gregory Lee

 

James Marsters

 

Mae Whitman

 

Ronny Cox

 

Bill Engvall

 

UCLA extends screenwriting prizes

 

ABC, WB 'Carey' deal for $152 mil

 

'Pearl' preem blitzes Tokyo

 

'Fast,' 'Dolittle 2' rev up for young auds

 

Prez sez no to Joe

 

Levin to head two MGM divisions

 

'Division' scores new season

 

Mouse builds tykes a 24-hour Playhouse

 

Moritz, Matthews at 'War'

 

Kwatinetz, Green Firm up shuffle

 

ATAS members prep for election fight

 

TV's Archie Bunker O'Connor dies at 76

 

CNN throws 'Curve' ball in ayem race

 

TV'S $75 mil man

 

Actors quiet on set

 

Susan Hoffman and Jonathan Hyman

 

Politics, showbiz make strange bedfellows

 

Acad fetes CNN, Showtime

 

Bluesman John Lee Hooker dies

 

Henri Alekan

 

One WGA prez term enough for Wells

 

'Brother'-ly love rises at Cannes

 

U pulls a $40 mil 'Fast' one

 

Gaul's B.O. assault

 

Thai contingent visits H'w'd to learn

 

Slyngstad to top film fund

 

FullAudio turns up the volume with EMI

 

Scripps ponies up for Fine Living net

 

Frons adds to TVNorge duty

 

Discop 2001 to see record attendance

 

Liberty Intl., e-m-s pact

 

Cinar to reimburse Telefilm for shows

 

Gorin exits ICM for WMA

 

Animation kudos seek entries

 

Fehr slips 'Undercover'

 

Alliance sets 'Dirty' cast

 

Rochon Fuqua ankles skein

 

AOL TW inks for Toshiba digital tech

 

Ivers joins Sony as VP

 

SAG deadline looms

 

Acad tightens Oscar rules

 

DGA shows Shea the way to 3rd term

 

Adelaide (Pookie) Nimitz-Factor

 

Affils petition FCC to rule

 

NBC Studios shifts McCrory

 

Bouncin' 'Baby Boy'

 

Letter to the Editor: Bob Finkel

 

Cannon death prompts questions about NATAS

 

NARAS sings praises

 

Yankees to sport own net

 

NBC eyes real win with bow of 'Spy'

 

Correction

 

'Pearl' sails ahead

 

Hartley-Merrill gala honors scribes

 

BSkyB sets soccer deals

 

Lieberman lobs another lulu

 

'Buffalo' Joan

 

Vid toolmaker cops $25 mil

 

Fox11 rolls seven

 

Emmy not always a priority

 

Nets' ad sales plunge

 

Pic prod'n slowdown cracks craft workers

 

Scribes aim to change 'World'

 

Must-carry ruling clips satcasters

 

New Line TV's 'Knox' nixed

 

'A.I.' prime in Japan; 'Pearl,' 'Lara' jolly

 

Station reps AWOL from Promax meet

 

Disney facing a creative energy crisis

 

Dimension names Bear for publicity

 

Hallmark net sets series

 

Hamilton for Reed at AMG

 

Radical crowns Queen for 'Salami'

 

Samuel David Alcott

 

Caleb Henry Silverman

 

'Dummies' set for cable mini

 

Eye playing games

 

Nash will try softer side of reality TV

 

Col open for '24 Hours'

 

Reviews

Facing the Music

Go Fish

Beer Money

Playboy Jazz Festival: Day Two

Wango Tango, Day Two

A Walk Down Abbey Road

Hair

Widespread Panic

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Circumference of a Squirrel

Spy TV

A Servant to Two Masters

For the Love of Freedom

Neil Finn

The Comedy of Errors

House

Legacies

Another Life

Finder's Fee

Strictly Sinatra

Klea Blackhurst: Everything the Traffic Will Allow -- The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman

World of Mirth

Dr. Dolittle 2

The Fast and the Furious

Investigating Sex

Ghost World

The Accidental Spy

The Storm

Pariah

Plaster Caster

Edges of the Lord

Bang Rajan

Bonanza

Libera Me

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

Just Do It

An Impossible Crime

Don McNeill and his Breakfast Club

Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins / Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man

Among the Thugs

Closer to Heaven

The Homecoming

State of Grace

And Your Mother Too

Geggy Tah

Ron Sexsmith