Table of Contents
Week of 11/26/2001

Articles

Huelva honors Uruguay's 'Life'

 

Brit TV crusader Whitehouse dies

 

Pottermania hits Germany

 

Pathe's Kirchner retiring

 

Plotline predicament

 

Quality dramas come at a price

 

'Can't stand still'

 

HBO investigates hate

 

Showtime gets political

 

MTV ready to get 'Wasted'

 

A&E's history lesson

 

Boden's gameshow passion prevails in job quest

 

'Claus' coming to TNT

 

Cable industry trends forecast

 

Thesps on the rise: Bobby Cannavale

 

Thesps on the rise: Nick Cannon

 

Thesps on the rise: Brad Henke

 

Coming up on cable

 

Kelly Kulchak-Robinson

 

Michael Rooney, John Skipper

 

Spring Aspers

 

William M. Abrams

 

Michele Sinisi , Lisa Shab

 

Barrandov gets birthday boost

 

Filmex fetes 'Flower'

 

By (Boy) George!

 

Ribes looks to update Rond-Point

 

'Zero' adds Golden Alexander in Greek fest

 

U.K. lottery coin backs Franco pic

 

Catherine Babcock

 

Dan Philips, Ameake Owens

 

Scott Silverstein, David Safran, Robert Kaminsky

 

Michael Butler

 

Randy Bernstein

 

Chris Renner

 

Janice Arouh

 

Allison Bodenmann

 

Todd Slater

 

Geoffrey Weiss

 

Lee Heffernan

 

Annie Howell

 

Jeff Goldberg

 

David Shall

 

Cecilia "C Murda" McClendon

 

Keith bring pic to 'Enemy Lines'

 

Italy's Mediafilm grows theatrical distrib'n arm

 

British TV proposal

 

Bank debt call hurts Kinowelt

 

Consumer org urges FCC to keep ownership regs

 

Warner gets Word on Christian music

 

O.C. Smith

 

United Visions delisted

 

Vid Business to fete helmer Burton

 

Pressed to the brink

 

'Bedroom' snuggles up to feature award

 

Alphabet banishes 'Thieves'

 

DGA starts early on contract talks

 

'Medea' sets Standard

 

Off B'way takes train 'Downtown' for promo

 

Prexy Kridler exits nonprofit CAPA org

 

B'way thankful for B.O. uptick

 

Connelly cozies up to 'Hulk' co-star role

 

Acad taps professors for grants

 

CBS, ABC close gap with 'Today'

 

Inside move: 'Race' revs for 'Survivor' boost

 

Sena leads 'Normal Life'

 

Altieres to do job on 'Mob'

 

Ramet enters Stone Village as veepee

 

More Seuss juice for U

 

Full 'Dance card

 

Licensed for shoot

 

Peggy Chantler Dick

 

Big Easy has NATPE queasy

 

Fox still a 'Menace' to NBC demo hopes

 

Biz hoppin' with pop pics despite teen idles at B.O.

 

IBM inks Rights deal

 

SAG vote panel elects new counsel

 

Solaris options 'Witch'

 

Black List writes in Esperanza

 

'X-Files' star sees the 'Light' for helming debut

 

Duo will sow Oates

 

Biz mobilizes war panel

 

EU's competition czar explains media rulings

 

'Doubtfire' takes stage

 

Kino plays 'Piano' in U.S.

 

U Pix, Arenas speak Spanish

 

Wiz bang overseas

 

Powell powers Continental kudofest revamp

 

Prize patrol

 

EFA Weekend Agenda

 

European Fim Awards nominees in selected categories

 

TV-6 topper furious over Moscow court ruling

 

'Monty' players flash Queen

 

Admira, Venevision seal TV production pact

 

Liberty's German moves in doubt

 

DeAngelis Group drives 'Ferrari'

 

Duo 'Big' on Mexican reality

 

WB nixes 'Harry' ticket price rise

 

TV3 will pull plug

 

U.K. site format-friendly

 

Mexican fight takes on PPV

 

'Una' is fest's No. 1

 

CSA sanctions webs

 

Local pix find fans

 

Afghan scene stirs

 

NBC, CBS share Nielsen joy

 

Can B.O. postman 'Ring' twice?

 

EM.TV ousts fiscal topper

 

Editors make cut for museum series

 

Williams west as NBC sr. VP

 

Clayton takes on Sirius challenge as CEO, prexy

 

U pix tunes Cohen to sr. VP

 

PGA names hall-of-famers

 

Biz frets over patriotic games

 

Sydney calling

 

Co-prod'n sequels: twin-win situation

 

Mendes takes stock of Warehouse

 

Biz hoppin' with pop pix

 

Oz pic producers ponder biz

 

Featured Player: Ingmar Bergman

 

Featured Player: Gabriela Bacher

 

Satcaster dishes up new service

 

Honchos are heading for the Casbaa

 

BBC invests $56 mil in 2 digital kids nets

 

Revealing decision

 

Inside move: Juicy promotion

 

Bushnell gets bigger

 

Femme antiheroes stoke Korean B.O.

 

A tale of two blockbusters

 

Latin, Spanish biz b'casts network news at forum

 

Auds scream for horror hit

 

H'w'd resumes drive local biz

 

Shareholders bash pay of Village Roadshow Exex

 

Haber tunes up Trio

 

Brits a big hit at Int'l Emmys

 

Paul Krasny

 

Angela Bettis

 

Vasso Pan Meade

 

Zooey Deschanel

 

Al Thompson

 

Markiza co-founder sells half share to Kovacik

 

Macqua's black comedy to bow at Lanzarote

 

Favorites lining up

 

It's curtains for 'Jeeves'

 

CBC techs on strike alert

 

Fonda crowned Hallmark Channel's 'Snow Queen'

 

Docu org lauds 'Children,' 'Startup'

 

OpenTV flies to Jupiter for entry into Japan

 

'Betty' looking good in sequel 'Ecomoda'

 

Sony opens mixing theater

 

Intertainer ups Friedlander to sr. VP

 

Visual f/x house CFX ups Tankenson

 

Unions split on runaway prod'n plan

 

Inside move: Fiennes may see 'Red' for Ratner

 

Starstruck fest

 

Auds crazy for 'Carol,' CBS laffers

 

Switching channels

 

U slices 'Pie 2' for Fox, USA

 

Kurland ankles agency he co-founded in 1978

 

Univision's 'Cristina' daily yakker will end

 

Silver Pix names four to senior exec posts

 

Monahan 'Tripoli' spec lands on Gordon's shore

 

S'caster deadline delay opposed

 

Emmerich finds 'Peace'

 

Peacock net wants six more 'Sisters'

 

Fox TV inks mini pact with Artisan

 

'Jetsons' finds rewrite pair

 

Video-on-demand looks for help at Western Show

 

Alphabet sked hits skids

 

Busy Berry may Bond as villain

 

Par 'Guy' finds coin

 

'Lion' roars on road; 'Hoopz' waits in wings

 

ThinkFilm adds two pics

 

Levitan, 'Hill' duo team on Fox comedy for ABC

 

Stars pick up more than just baskets backstage

 

WB, Kinowelt abandon TV package deal

 

U.K. awards $1 million in development coin

 

Thieves' market?

 

One-time costs propel CineMedia to 9-month loss

 

Granada sees red

 

Pair of panels to grill Ergen over sat merger

 

TBS rides action pix to top of sweeps heap

 

Cable news net auds down since October

 

Copycat on prowl

 

Disc sales get big holiday push

 

Lots of News for Malone

 

Sci Fi's historical 'Epoch'

 

Bertelsmann online group topper exits

 

Crown Media Int'l ups trio of regional execs

 

Sunshine lights arthouse scene

 

Asian cablers navigating industry minefield

 

James W. Brochu Jr.

 

Norman Lessing

 

Ralph Burns

 

Whitten to top Liberty's China arm

 

Italy's Luce topper ankles

 

EMI licenses vid library to Newsplayer

 

CTV's McQueen heading for quieter pastures

 

Dinos phone in video promotion

 

PGA handing hall passes to 4 classics

 

Santa Barbara fetes Penn

 

Burnett's show soars, AFI toasts Cohn

 

Despite misleading name, NBR's picks pack punch

 

Celebs find copious couture choices at L'Ermitage

 

Critics orgs see things differently

 

AFI Awards set sail on different course

 

Early birds can't always zero in on awardees

 

How much is too much?

 

Award Season Launch

 

Costume Designers ball a perfect fit

 

Who, what and when of award-giving orgs

 

Craven, partner board WMA

 

Comerica names two new veeps

 

AFTRA launches local elections

 

'Sun' shines at Acad

 

Studios USA signs up 'Law's' Schindel

 

A lifeline, please

 

'Wedding' vow at Fox 2000

 

'Rouge' crowd talks to audience

 

Getting the greenlight

 

Screening 'Affair'

 

Pols push players on digi-TV

 

'Mac,' '24' clock full orders at Fox

 

Auds say aye to Eye

 

Chenoweth plays 'Music'

 

Newell mulls 'Jury,' 'Mona'

 

Mazin inks to pen 'Harvey' update

 

Court orders DeCSS removal

 

Ray makes UA moves, taps exex

 

Col ganging up with Moritz on 'Static' pic

 

'Net age statute plays Supremes

 

Hobbit huzzah

 

SAG vote set on smaller panel

 

U traps 'Ant' for Hanks' Playtone

 

'Zahara' saga sold

 

Appel ripens at NBC

 

Indican picks up pair of pix

 

Donmar stars eyeing B'way run for 'Uncle,' 'Twelfth'

 

Museum brings in 'Battalion'

 

Oz pic honors multiply

 

Euro kudos strive for respect

 

Prize party predicaments

 

Shedding new light on H'wood's rites

 

Indosiar changes hands

 

Canuck funder spools more coin into films

 

Globo produces sequel to novela hit

 

Mouse House in hole

 

GMM enters ring with first feature

 

Kirch focuses on nets, brand

 

'Monsters' ducat price cut for bow

 

Ad coin takes slide

 

Discovery, NTL link

 

Strix plants 'Farm'

 

DR TV gets topper

 

Film fund taps exex

 

U park packs 'em in

 

Abril cuts mag staff

 

DeVito moves into Miramax's 'Duplex'

 

O'Donnell to produce WGA awards show

 

Tommy Flanagan

 

Wells Prods. catches 'Sight'

 

Aaliyah label, U ink pact

 

National Board to fete Spielberg

 

Designer Riva plans something special for Oscar's debut

 

NAB blasts merger of EchoStar, DirecTV

 

Video producers York, Maverick to split up

 

EM.TV rebuilding prod'n unit

 

Loonland profits take big bounce

 

DVD pricing dilemma

 

Student pics explore 9/11

 

Hollywood charities to merge in January

 

Jonze and more move to MJZ

 

Nintendo GameCube scores biggest launch

 

Mouse House hitches up to 'Wagon'

 

Krumholtz back for 'Santa'

 

NASCAR's up to Speed Net

 

Spec thriller 'Air Rage' will fly at Mouse House

 

WMA's Fanning retiring

 

Fewer 'Roswell' segs possible

 

Acad PR board taps Levy

 

Perrier pours kudo

 

... and the Razzies go to TV spec with Nash

 

Inside move: AFTRA puts heat on SAG

 

Inside move: Pisano's against tariffs

 

Schneider circles 'Harv'

 

'GMA,' KTLA sweep to L.A. ayem wins

 

Frosh syndie strips slip in November's sweeps

 

Doris Silverton

 

Vidgame net to play on Comcast

 

Hal K. Biard

 

NBC wins demo derby

 

'Potter' parlay

 

'Anger' will get the best of Revolution

 

Acad poops party plans

 

Digital home is AOL vision

 

Zach Braff

 

Miramax 'Toy' ploy

 

'Life Saver' floated

 

Making the FTC grade

 

3LW

 

Michael Frost Beckner

 

Michael Chiklis

 

Alan Braun

 

A very 'Independent' preem

 

Beatle Harrison dies at 58

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
November 30, 2001

 

William Read Woodfield

 

Norman Granz

 

Alberta E. Siegel

 

Thanks for 'Something' and for many things

 

David 'Panama' Francis

 

Jerry Jerome

 

Michael St. Clair

 

Mary Whitehouse

 

Soldiers shave 'Harry' legs

 

Brits pay tribute to Harrison

 

Carlton raises $566 million

 

Kinowelt faces insolvency suit

 

Western pic helmer Boetticher, 85, dies

 

Fund down blunder

 

Gaga agog over results

 

Kirch unit blames soft ad sales for profit dip

 

EC OKs pubcaster takeover

 

Revs rise for Japan nets

 

ColTriStar laffer draws big auds

 

Viva nabs Brainpool

 

Senator's sales rise

 

Greece Nick bows blocks

 

Nat'l Geo hits Sky

 

Latino pics hit Havana

 

'Family' is top pic

 

Bloom booked for 'Book'

 

2nd 'Dune' mini to film in Prague

 

Imax in gear for pic on NASCAR racing

 

ContentFilm nabs thriller

 

Williams aboard 'Dozen'

 

'Family' a Bel-Air affair

 

Yakker set in Fox synergy deal

 

Awards to 'Amelie'

 

E! will give 'Eleven' an ocean of publicity

 

'Talk or Walk,' 'Power' stripped from syndication

 

Outrider picks up 'Falling'

 

Auds march to Peacock paradecast

 

Imageworks ups Hershey

 

Williams to swallow foundering iBeam

 

On the 'Fasttrack' to court?

 

Autonomy expands focus, operations

 

WB syndies powering up

 

Boffo month thanks to duo

 

O'seas enchanted by 'Harry' at $59 million

 

Film pioneers fete Rehme

 

Divine intervention

 

Balancing act tests film fests

 

'Strangers' gets pally

 

Showtime drops 'Ruby's Bucket'

 

Bushes, Powell attend Kennedy Center Honors

 

Canucks to continue filming incentives

 

CBC strike looms

 

Martin inks Touchstone laffer deal

 

HBO sticks with 'Arliss'

 

AOL TW's Levin to be feted

 

A quick dip cools hopes for a record

 

'Port' remains open

 

Castle Rock psyches up

 

Former prez urges SAG to move on

 

Howard, Grazer deliver odyssey of the mind

 

Inside Move: He's back, but who's got him?

 

Graff pitch a 'Keeper' for Disney

 

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