Table of Contents
Week of 06/25/2001

Articles

Splendid shores stox

 

Kirch mixes new Formula, adds units

 

Microsoft, Telmex in Yupi deal

 

No Roadshow for Miramax

 

Appeals court nixes Napster rehearing

 

A strike hangover

 

Williams battles fine by Equity

 

King reups at CNN

 

L.A.'s Center Theater Group opens arms to Culver

 

NBC OKs tape-delay for Games in West

 

Acad sets Oscar event sked

 

B'way bounces up

 

AFI taps vet O'Connor marketing exec

 

Legal woes confront Italo prime minister

 

Whiff of reality hits Cologne

 

Expo panelists in digital debate

 

ITV trouble ads up

 

Media Forum weighs scene

 

PGA to address producer abuse

 

Inside Move: Pix find b'cast deals scarce

 

Doumanian returns fire in Allen suit

 

Marsalis clan trumpets Armstrong

 

USA pushes for 'Smush' gamer

 

Rogers seeks Sportsnet control

 

Mouse veteran now a SAG man

 

Artisan in bid for Lions Gate

 

Studio pacts whacked

 

Al Trescony

 

Lou Fant

 

Edwin R. (Bill) Culver III

 

Shooting Gallery to close shop

 

Eye sets its sights on $1 bil at upfront

 

Dish: 'ER' doc cuts big deal

 

Net gain for freelancers

 

IBeam takes in $40 mil, partners with Williams

 

Virage inks to stream

 

Scour.com's parent lands coin

 

Par Domestic TV launches site

 

Mira Sorvino

 

Gus Gustawes

 

Mischa Barton

 

U Music speaks Latin in RMM acquisition

 

Court TV sets the theme

 

Inside Move: Slimmer ATG cuts two exex

 

RMO on fast boat to China

 

Alliance TV lifts 2 to sr. VP

 

Pandemonium gets 'Better'

 

Euro B.O. sweating

 

Big 'Ray' payday: $40 mil

 

Body is indie filmmaker Bott

 

Sundance, Hypnotic field 'Shorts Stop'

 

Benigni carves 'Pinocchio'

 

UKTV dishes up Food Net

 

Interest, sports net sink Atlantis' net

 

Corzo adds up as new sr. VP at Regency

 

Fiscal static shorts Emmis

 

Ticketmaster brokers PR veep

 

Napster's new AIM

 

Recruiter Levine broadens ops

 

NBC rides high with 'Spy,' 'Link'

 

Locarno to honor Chinese helmer

 

Emmy Watch: Michael B. Seligman

 

Berlin playing host to Int'l Media Week

 

Donald exits, Austin upped at DirecTV

 

Kids segments cut from Stossel's spec

 

SAG bans eight for crossing picket lines

 

Letter to the Editor: Tom O'Neil

 

'Sky' climbs highest at Method Fest

 

'Fast' revs up Cinema Expo

 

'Urinetown!' sets quick B'way splash

 

Teutons toutin' TV ties with U.S.

 

The billion $ problem

 

NATAS taps Hanauer exec director

 

French official sees digital TV switch in '02

 

Regs reform delay under media fire

 

Spain funds o'seas pic push

 

Beyond inks with IDTV

 

Prod'n pair spins biopic on Finnish patriot

 

Dhow bows 4th fest in Tanzania

 

Canuck co-prods eyed

 

Norwegian fund taps new chief

 

Denmark's Nordisk divides reins

 

What's Disney's Tomorrowland?

 

Inside Move: More fizzle than sizzle

 

Inside Move: 'Devine' madness

 

New Line's Tao will tune up VH1

 

Inside Move: Din in MGM den

 

There's no purging urge to merge

 

Inside Move: Delivering 'Baby'

 

Inside Move: Teuton tax taken to max

 

Inside Move: Czech-ing in action

 

Inside Move: Jive talkin'

 

China Film sees growing power outage

 

Indie overachievers facing dicey days

 

'Grace' bow boosts FFC

 

Scribe amends CBS, WGAW suit

 

Syndie biz in 'Millionaire' mindset

 

Whooping it up with hoop rates

 

Rice flexes Fox arthouse arm

 

Village gets heat over family pass

 

'Pearl' finds safe harbor overseas

 

Tax man drags heels on film deduction

 

Pentamedia widens its scope

 

Star salaries go celestial

 

B.O. off; 'Contact' 896g

 

Ireland's Abbey Theater taps two

 

Karen Cease, Brett Paul

 

Jennifer Nicholson Salke

 

Tom Cosgrove

 

Deborah Blackwell

 

Biz even; 'Annie' 864g

 

Chi winds blow straight to B'way

 

Jamie jostles the newsie

 

Toei B.O. spree celebrates its 50th

 

Interactive inactive at Asian mart

 

Disney preps channel for preschool set

 

Auds go for counseling

 

Douglas speaks his mind at award presentation

 

Inside Move: CBS takes 'Wreck' out of Stern's sitcom

 

'Truck' circles Fox 2000 lot

 

Nick picks 'Wild' thesps

 

Venice firm takes on two

 

Scribe spins NBC deal

 

New Line, duo reup for prod'n

 

Col TriStar dons Jersey TV for 3 years

 

Homevid deal means B'way goes to retailers

 

Producer in legal limbo; 'Geeks' guy a real 'Kick'

 

Pricey SAG digs at issue

 

Blanchett eyes Aronofsky pic

 

SAG talks stepped up

 

Suzanne Schiffman

 

William Nisselson

 

Robert Reson

 

Bert Kramer

 

Franklyn Lenthall

 

KRON plays 'Pyramid'

 

Intertainment backs out of licensing biz

 

Engels exits WB to join Cinerenta

 

'Sanam' wins at Jove

 

Denmark's TV3 anchor hits it big

 

Arena 'Hair' pulled in Oz

 

India's Vulcan looks local

 

Packer out of India

 

Henson taps Schultz CFO

 

RAI reports big drop in 2000 net profits

 

Gaumont-Pathe union approved

 

Antena 3 posts gross profits

 

H.K.'s Shaw Brothers show net profits

 

Claxson principals revise merger plan

 

AMC closures lead to losses

 

Fili-Krushel logs on post at AOL TW

 

All-'American' winner at Nantucket fest

 

Miramax taps pub vet Scheffey

 

D-12 hip-hops to top

 

SAG punishes 36 for crossing picket lines

 

Lifetime Abbott nod to Stroman

 

Gallagher, Lupone may make 'Noises'

 

Saban, MME pact for 'Scariest' skein

 

Arbol visits 'Doctor' for toon-up

 

ONdigital dinged

 

Mouse draws toon attention

 

Shooting Gallery on its last legs

 

'A.I.' heat grips Japan

 

Cooke seasons SAG talks

 

Haley's summer: 'A.I.,' camp and back to school

 

'Legally' fish out of water

 

Orgas, mechas mingle at 'A.I.' shindig

 

Latino laff fest to roast Chong

 

Corinne Calvet

 

Writers see buck bounce

 

'Heaven' beyond Europe for USA Films

 

Soccer latest crisis for Gori

 

Exhib lands vet Zeidman

 

USA takes risk with 'Banzai'

 

Peacock picks pair for TNBC

 

Pols say nay to cuts in ad rates

 

Comedian charged with committing lewd acts

 

NBC taps MSN to create Winter Olympics site

 

Barry Sonnenfeld

 

Morris Chestnut

 

Web design co. shuffles management

 

Erik Palladino

 

New dot-com tool for showbiz jobs

 

Noah Ben Jordan

 

Urban laff fest to bow

 

PMK/HBH scrambles the board

 

Exhibs fume at New Line's firm terms

 

Stone lives 'Single' life for ABC

 

The 'Cats' meow

 

Oscar winner Jack Lemmon dead at 76

 

Yahoo! in tune with Launch

 

Costly XFL sacks WWF in 4th qtr.

 

Vivendi U seeks StudioCanal buyout

 

Parize to lead CanalSatellite

 

Expo flies with 'A.I.'

 

'Witches' hitches U.K.-Russian team

 

Spain boosts Euro pic prod'n

 

Stars take 'Pledge' break with Putin

 

U.K. film minister's a fan

 

Oz studio site in dispute

 

Sweden pubcaster taps CEO

 

U gets rid of Loews shares in writeoff

 

New split decision

 

Sompol Sungkawess

 

Igor Barrere

 

Diana Bellamy

 

Bratt cops 'Cervantes'

 

Double 'Experiment'

 

'Largo' to sing on stage

 

'Kane' celebrates 60th anni with DVD

 

Johansen named 'Late Late' producer

 

Senator sets sights on vidgame biz

 

Miramax sues ex-exec Granat

 

WB seeing mecha-hit with 'A.I.'

 

Economy may snag SAG

 

CBS wraps eye-opening upfront

 

CNN vet Johnson ankling

 

Hollywood mourns loss of 'a great man'

 

AOL TW fund rewards firms for diversity

 

Lions Gate homing in on profits

 

Betty Mandeville Booraem

 

Paul P. Schreibman

 

Mario Torres

 

Velvet Channing Probert

 

Matthew Ansara

 

KW set to distrib 'Dr. Phil'

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
June 29, 2001

 

WMA ups agent ranks by 5

 

It's the wheel deal

 

New Line rings up JVC pact

 

Warners set to make a 'Match'

 

9 Yards buys Shapiro/Murray

 

Kuhn inks 4-year, 10-pic deal with Fox

 

Inside Move: 'Wing' writers' raises

 

Chinese TV eager for foreign product

 

'Big Bro' returning to Oz

 

Alphabet net enlists in 'Spy Wars'

 

How SAG and producers got to this point

 

Christina Kounelias and Richard Brous

 

SAG talks near deadline

 

Talks continue as deadline looms

 

SAG talks extended

 

Mecha movie moolah for 'A.I.'

 

Lions Gate TV taps exec

 

NYU sweeps DGA student kudos race

 

Hollywood fest sets noms

 

IFP will honor studio manager

 

ABC Cable taps Hollreiser

 

Cabler FX promos 'Die Hard' on DVD

 

NBC hands Hartman expanded brief in legal

 

Hot Spanish gun draws bead on shingle, oater

 

'Endurance' docks in U.S. with Cowboy

 

Asian action plan

 

Marla Sokoloff

 

Matt Dearborn

 

Tia Texada

 

Gregg Henry

 

BSkyB sticks with Kirch

 

Berliner fund pumps pix

 

'Neighbor' tapped top dog at Avignon fest

 

Endemol's new format

 

Czech Bonton seeks mate

 

Pour 'em a double

 

Italo kudos book 'Room' as best film

 

Gaumont union protests merger strike

 

Advanced swings to loss

 

Free V turns into feevee on Star

 

Nielsen experiments with a new system

 

U.K. film board takes knife to 'Raider'

 

Serreau tops France's ARP

 

Turner taps Latin America PR veep

 

Japanese trio band for digital

 

MTV rolls on in Asia

 

Telemundo buys Dallas station

 

Vivendi U climbs

 

Corrections

 

Drama team gets shuffled at Alphabet

 

Inside Move: Williamson in talks with USA Films

 

Allen's clarinet to trumpet 'Curse'

 

News Corp. to sell 4 Fox O&Os

 

Joan Sims

 

Mary Gurrie Rhoads

 

Jacqueline Balogh

 

Robert Willis

 

'Ball' to Roll later

 

Van Damme muscles Spago

 

Humanitas carries on

 

'Blue' ribbon event

 

Acapulco fest fetes caliente talent

 

Endeavor raises 3 to agents

 

Cole's credits questioned

 

Guitar virtuoso Atkins dies

 

Vivendi merges U, Canal

 

Pinewood polished

 

Kirch's Cup runneth over

 

'Clowns' revival sent in early

 

White Barn's union pact clears path for preems

 

L.A. prod'n pace high, set for plunge

 

Bean's 'Believer' tops Moscow fest

 

'A.I.' uploads record in Japan preem

 

Studios, actors close to a deal

 

Takin' a bite out of the Apple

 

Gilliam feted by Filmmakers Alliance

 

Christina Friedgen and Ken Koch

 

Stone beats 'Drumline'

 

Hall of Fame inductees Bowled over

 

Oz star is catch o' the day

 

Reviews

Tony Danza

Translations

Cabaret Jazz Hall of Fame

Class Warfare

Air

Weenie Roast

One Mo' Time

Gormenghast

Hank Jones Trio

Sondheim and Jazz -- Side By Side

Ocean Oasis

Mark Eitzel; For Stars; Mark Mulcahy

Baby Boy

On the Edge

Kiss Me, Kate

Crazy/Beautiful

Blue

Casper: The Musical

Pootie Tang

Ottmar Liebert

Evan and Jaron

Faster Pussycat; Betty Blowtorch

Fassbinder's Women

An All-star Tribute to Brian Wilson

Warped Tour '01

Hollywood Bowl Opening Night Gala

Cats & Dogs

Radiohead

Marat and Marquis De Sade


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