Table of Contents
Week of 10/29/2001

Articles

UA buys new Leigh pic

 

Till sets up new intl. film co.

 

Murdoch sets up advertising & entertainment co.

 

BBC exec arrested in Hong Kong

 

Acad names Nicholls winners

 

Gotham fests in focus on MetroTV skein

 

Schmid, Taddicken honored at Hof

 

Valencia honors 'Sweet Dreams'

 

Hollywood on hold

 

A doubly Fiennes deal

 

Heston pic tries for Cannes bow

 

Gauls crown queen

 

EC probes sales

 

Jegeus crossing the Pond

 

Workers protest America TV cuts

 

Gaga goes for 'Ride'

 

UKTV calls Keeling

 

U ups Friedrichsen

 

CineStar Czechs in

 

Canada's AAC names Worsley

 

TVNorge is tempted

 

It's a wrap for SAG's races

 

Wakneen walks to DGA post

 

Pick your partners

 

Pingu swims in HIT kidvid deal

 

B'way Balancing Act

 

Disney Internet clicks Gordon

 

Screening out London

 

MCA cues up Snoop Dogg

 

Baseball wants to hit

 

Creative panel on hunt for runaway prod'n

 

Leguizamo's show delayed

 

Nets press war access

 

Col links up 'Spy' offices

 

Heavy, Midway team on game deal

 

MTV staff rocked as heads roll

 

Myriad backs 'Argentina' pic

 

Will feds dis dish?

 

Bows bolster B.O.

 

Trailer hitch

 

SAG's Pisano visits D.C.

 

Myriad, Zoetrope link up

 

Katzman booked at UCLA

 

Radha Mitchell

 

Jean Smart

 

Chad Michael Murray

 

Natascha McElhone

 

Taryn Manning

 

BAFTA/LA delays honors

 

WB puts on juvie 'Pants'

 

Mastering technique

 

Judge blocks AOL's 6.0

 

Martin to play 'Houze' with Latifah in love

 

CAA hooks Fishman

 

Agents: SAG skews opinion

 

Davis lights tyros' 'Fire'

 

'Lake' drained, 'Agency' up

 

From 'Fantasy' to NBC reality

 

Lopez is getting 'Gigli'

 

Penn will hang ten in 'Zero'

 

Warner marshals 'Warrior' kid pic

 

Pandemonium reigns with Complete deal

 

Soderbergh visits 'Solaris'; 'Core' shores up

 

Miramax takes 'Pretty' rights

 

Gilded Cage

 

UPC web unit logs on 500k subs

 

Sweden's 'Jalla!' eyes nom

 

BBC brings its Worlds together

 

Sanz sweeps Latin Grammys

 

All terrorism, all the time

 

Newsmags find auds tuning out

 

Rainbow sees pot of gold

 

Primetime retreat

 

Frosh shows left in limbo pre-sweeps

 

ITV Digital divide

 

SPH losses put plans on hold

 

Reality too much for Gauls

 

Rene Scholten

 

MTG topper rolls with the times

 

Who wants to be bishop?

 

Gov't vows to attack signal theft

 

MTG topper rolls with the times

 

'Big' battle in Brazil

 

Market will get facelift

 

AOL cracks China

 

Crown Castle looking for refund

 

Brenner enters Dimension

 

Bank grants Italo biz loan

 

Eagle feathers television, movie nest

 

Japanese honchos mull biz malaise

 

ITV Digital reviews pricey soccer pact

 

'Pokemon' on 'Toon

 

Hallmark inks pact

 

Bertelsmann backs its Napster relaunch plan

 

TV grabs bigger ad slice

 

ABC adds newsmag

 

Outrider buys 'American'

 

Kinowelt exhib gets new chief

 

SAG eases low-budget guidelines

 

A&E pushes Bio net

 

Fox splits Monday

 

Ryan ankles Macrovision Corp.

 

Cable auds return to normalcy

 

Buyers' Mifed has sellers leaving early

 

Copyright campaign

 

'Crime' pays in CBS win

 

Viv U boosted in 3rd

 

Roberts plays 'Dangerous' role

 

VH1 tunes up H&H space for musical show

 

Gov't puts teeth into anti-piracy battle

 

Media Asia rebounds 'Rocks'

 

Latest pix look east for inspiration

 

ShowEast kicks off

 

ShowEast confab keeps stiff upper lip

 

Indies dial wrong number for StudioCanal

 

Daring look at Oz's dark past

 

Prague Studios buffs new soundstages

 

TriPictures reels in film production

 

'Garcia' adds family member

 

Startz puts contract on 'Mob' for Miramax

 

Grunden joins Bickford

 

USA TV ups Karnes to sr. VP

 

NBC counts on 'Fear'

 

WB gives Johns VP stripes

 

'Black Hawk' down for Dec.

 

Inside Move: Terror concerns ground Boyz for Capital event

 

'Wind' lawsuit targets Turner

 

Ergenomics the new math on Capitol Hill

 

London meet market

 

CNBC, MSNBC trim costs

 

Life is getting 'Harry'

 

Another SAG snag

 

Wells takes pitch by 'Elliot' scribe

 

U turn could be in USA Nets' future

 

D'Works jams for 'Saints'

 

Teutons' fast fade-out pinches pic producers

 

Above the Line: Sheik Kamal Saleh

 

Inside Move: Boutique Mystique

 

Inside Move: Dynamic duo

 

Inside Move: Clubs out of sync at ground zero

 

Inside Move: Why in the sky

 

Inside Move: Gory, and proud of it

 

Betting the store

 

'Lector' takes Angelus prize

 

Inside Move: Wok in the 'Park'

 

SBS to buy two Dutch indies

 

Oftel probes BSkyB

 

Georgian conflict

 

Ciao to USA's Chao

 

Thomas tome for Pocketbooks

 

Patrick J. Connolly

 

BBC gives legal aid to HK exec

 

Euro MTV logs on

 

Col ups Hair to VP

 

Watchdog defeated

 

'Player' goes South

 

Sinclair to Match

 

Euro dreams team

 

Cowan ankles fest

 

Via1 pulls the plug

 

Corus gets Canuck OK to pick up Telelatino

 

Shier ankles b'cast post

 

Formula One, EU let it ride

 

TV Loonland grows on U.K.

 

Christy out at Reporter; SAG probe continuing

 

Literary battle takes the stage in 'Friends'

 

'Spy' sequel nabs O'Leary

 

Battista set to exit CNN

 

Latin exhibs blast high local taxes

 

Fox b'casting taps publicity veepee

 

Par TV ups vet Wood to senior veep

 

Scher returns, buys out Metropolitan

 

One 'Great' launch

 

BMA film series is 'Vital'

 

COLA winners bubble over

 

Jackson to TV toppers: quality over ratings

 

Correction

 

Fuzzy future of digital cinema

 

2 tapped AFI board co-chairs

 

Alliance's champions

 

Disney screamfest

 

'Jeeves' plum preem

 

Hotchkiss will start own firm

 

This preem had pop

 

Game Show taps Webster

 

'ElimiDate' romances syndication audience

 

'Shrek' team has a 'Dream'

 

B.C. looking to up industry revs

 

Report shows Canadian TV on the upswing

 

Brighter future for Ukraine's Molodist Fest

 

Baseball, Jordan score

 

Industry heavyweights sue blurb-buster Replay

 

UA ink now runs black

 

Variety, Moviefone team

 

ASC fetes Steadicam inventor

 

U, Jersey to Carrey on

 

Hiller given lifetime honor

 

CNN newsies are told to place blame on Taliban

 

At CBS, 'Agency' in, 'Baines' out

 

A fresh repurpose

 

Fireworks, Goldwyn get 'Me'

 

Film-Web vet enlists with Fox TV Studios

 

SAG's ballot snafu may derail election

 

Prolific producer Silver doing just fine without U

 

Maura Fay

 

John Springer

 

Eugene Jackson

 

Eugene W. Walton

 

Robert Rutledge

 

Glenn Super

 

UPC, Primacom still mulling merger

 

UIP renews Oneile, Cripps

 

'Producers' of coin

 

NAB backs off dual

 

Astral Media taps Bergeron

 

Globo bows 'Brazil'

 

Willis cancels London film fest visit

 

Plummer in telepic

 

MVS delays feevee

 

Ebisawa re-elected

 

Mediators help avert film-TV clinic strike

 

Fest's Teuton tonics

 

Thai police, MPA raid CD pirates

 

EU will eye pubcaster funding

 

FCC topper: Sat deal will be scrutinized

 

Noel Siegel

 

Kim Booth

 

Stephanie Shapiro

 

Didier Pietri

 

Teutonic film auds up 15%

 

Viasat, WB Int'l TV ink Scandi deal for content

 

McHugh ankles BBC to top Channel 4 unit

 

WB scares up top Oct. B.O.

 

Fox swings as Series stretches out

 

Arrow targets 'Echoes'

 

Content taps Tulley, Roban for biz posts

 

U.S., allies seek edge in war of words

 

Variety Club campaign features Mouse touch

 

Ballot controversy doesn't halt election

 

Ad dips rock network revs

 

Rivera heads to Foxhole

 

Bosnian 'Land' in Oscar derby

 

Exhibs bullish despite bullets

 

Slamdance fetes sci-fi

 

Sara Gilbert

 

David Burke, Melissa Crider

 

Ben Levine

 

Jackie Lewis

 

Court backs hacker

 

Kelly tapped COO at AOL to spur ops

 

Runaway bill sees backers

 

Power plays at Fox

 

SonicBlue's 3rd qtr. loss narrowed

 

Family foibles for ABC

 

Bubble Factory soaps up Solomon for exec VP gig

 

WB, Cheyenne greet 'Season'

 

Duo team on 'Dream'

 

Usher

 

Michael York

 

Ben Crowley

 

'Vishnu' to enter Arena

 

Inside Move: Emmys may pitch against Series Game 7

 

Steve Sandalis

 

YupiMSN, Zoom to partner

 

Tressa Di Figlia and Nicholas Brendon

 

Melissa Fenton and Frank Masi

 

Wendy Steinhoff and Steve Baldikoski

 

Ilisa Warner and Michael Pasternak

 

Kellen Judah Kahn

 

Jacob David Tartakovsky

 

Skylar Marcela Hertz

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
November 02, 2001

 

'Love, Janis' won't hold on after Sunday

 

BSkyB's digital switch leads to narrowed loss

 

Latin film biz readying for co-prod forum

 

U.S. spin for Teuton 'Rave'

 

EchoStar-DirecTV deal at risk, Murdoch says

 

Gilbert tops SAG election

 

$63 mil 'Monsters' mashes B.O. competish

 

Nick exec, wife joined at Hip TV

 

Cable rates on rise

 

Arts center planned at historic distillery

 

Azteca lands Reno affil

 

Pix delays stall Das Werk revs

 

Robert K. Goen

 

Grigory Chukhrai

 

Laura Hunter

 

Joe Di Muro Memorial Service

 

Sophie Tatischeff

 

Don Tayer

 

Geoffrey Dietz

 

Laszlo Halasz

 

Kim Gardner

 

Fox, NBC sweep ahead

 

Guild taps Miramax alum CFO

 

Exex seek Calif. job growth, tourism boost

 

W&A raises Brownstein

 

Fox puts 'Behind' forward in post-Thanksgiving slot

 

'Volunteer' effort

 

James Gang plots pic production slate

 

A subdued ShowEast

 

Buffy lives -- on the WB

 

DeBrino sues over 'Flatland'

 

Big pics rolling on

 

'Off' again, on again

 

Wright does right by mentoring program

 

Reheating shelters

 

Festival of Films first unfolding

 

SBT shuts 'Casa' door following injunction

 

MTC ponders 'Wonder'

 

Biz saving its best for last this Oscar season

 

Taviani film retro set for Gotham's MOMA

 

Kirch pay TV woes grow

 

Kiwi court backs DVD copyright

 

Argentina cable ad revs stable

 

Acad ponders 13 toons in new Oscar category

 

WOW inks to test gear

 

Murdoch, Westin rue insensitivity

 

GNT to host talk on doc business

 

Arab linkup mulled

 

Star eyes 'Weakest'

 

Indian ratings firms wed

 

Fest hails 'Bandits'

 

Liberty ends 525 Studios, consolidates

 

ABC's 'Patterson' is helpless

 

Inside Move: Rep. Hyde seeks H'w'd input

 

Inside Move: Foley exits Disney's 'Farm'

 

Emmys Arrivals

 

Kaiser: Arts needs a push

 

London greets 'Harry'

 

Newsies walk propaganda tightrope

 

Broadway's workshops are rivaling Santa's

 

Toasting troops, troupes

 

Emmys winner list part II

 

Hanks and HBO team on 'Adams'

 

SAG elects Gilbert prez

 

Emmys' third try's the charm

 

Security blanketed

 

AFI Czechs Chinese

 

Dancing under the stars

 

Emmygoers caught looking

 

Show finally goes on and TV biz takes heart

 

Streisand does her part

 

'Sex' appeal spices Emmys

 

Max Rocky Roedy

 

Imani Shekinah Alexander

 

Billie Morton

 

Marco Alexander Heinrich De Castro

 

Riley Fox Goldstone

 

Jackson Richard Grimes

 

Reviews

Oysterhead

Spiritualized

Live

Jane's Addiction

Keith Jarrett

Dracula, the Musical

The Irving Berlin Songbook

Xanadu Live

The Homecoming

Big River

While the Sun Shines

All the Queen's Men

Rare Birds

Uprising

John Scofield Quartet

Wonder of the World

Wasabi

Noises Off

311

The Man Who Sued God

24

I'll Sing for You

Nynke

South Pacific

Shallow Hal

Girls on Top

Festival in Cannes

The Ruling Class

Star Quality

Caught in the Net