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Week of 12/10/2001

Articles

Powell re-elected EFA chair

 

Italians love 'Potter'

 

Liberty, Telekom deal gets extension

 

More for Les with UPN

 

Netherlands taps topper

 

'Intimacy' achieves Gaul nod

 

Satellite Pole vault

 

Filmstiftung financing films

 

Women's TV taps Herman

 

Sky launches iTV package in Brazil

 

Sampras joins network team

 

'Six Feet' helmers return

 

Sony seeking 'Evil' posters

 

Former Long Wharf topper makes New Haven return

 

NAACP unveils Image noms

 

An ads subtraction

 

Asia TV tackling problems head on

 

Mechanic tools up Mouse House

 

ESPN to bow net in Europe

 

EMI taps Rose exec VP

 

WB bags 'T3' deal

 

Warners sneaks in to win 'T3'

 

Viacom, AOL TW hit hard as market drops

 

Jersey Films ups Abdy to exec VP

 

Laurence Olivier dies near London

 

Black Talent sets its return

 

Handful of tuners drive Broadway B.O.

 

Inside move: Security stymies screenings

 

'Pearl' harbors top sales

 

Global magic spell

 

MTV, Amaru ready Shakur doc

 

Jury cuts to chase

 

Harold Schwartz

 

'Ocean's' cast shines o'seas

 

Inside Move: SAG fells Sequoia for kudos

 

AFI kudos try scholarly tack

 

TRP to play for Par

 

Teuton fund to back Hollywood pix

 

David Shaughnessy

 

Dave O'Hayre

 

Brad Bessey

 

'Rings' lords over London

 

Michael Donovan

 

Joey Carson

 

David Spiegelman

 

William Jennings

 

Court TV

 

Howard Homonoff

 

Dene Stratton

 

Sherri York, Mary Ellen DiPrisco

 

Michael Wach

 

Jayson Jackson

 

David Snapp

 

John Costello

 

Lori O'Brien

 

Elizabeth Tumulty

 

Jim Tomlinson

 

Steve Friedman

 

Banking on the biz

 

BevHills' legal eagles

 

Showtime's 'Reagan' unspools

 

Hall of famers go ape over fete

 

McCluggage ankles Par

 

Mouse calls a Mechanic

 

Feds launch probe into Canadian biz subsidies

 

Decision on 'Levity' easy for Solomon

 

'Stomp' livin' large

 

Turner visionary retires

 

H'w'd wary of China's media conglom plans

 

Thornton exits WMA for CAA

 

AFTRA's chiefs OK pact for networks

 

Joffe plans feature on war in India

 

Canuck gov't to spend on television

 

E! Latin America slate will take a turn toward H'wood

 

Exhibs bow trailer contests

 

Sales honcho exits as Claxson revamps plan

 

Ryder appointed BBC vice chair

 

Will U let Diller dally?

 

Inside Move: Listing Badly

 

Original series boost Lifetime to top spot

 

Femme org to fete eight

 

Brazilian b'cast law up for vote

 

Eye lineup scores key demos win

 

Japan exhibs fete 'A.I.' perf

 

C4 channels topper

 

ASC to honor Brit Slocombe

 

Peacock puts Russert on 12-year 'Press' run

 

Gotham pic, TV shoots still haven't recovered

 

Innovative taps Hurwitz

 

Essence of 'Vanilla'

 

Art directors reup Roth

 

Kirch creditor calls in $410 million loan

 

VIP fund eyes pix, TV

 

Cable biz: FCC should redo aud share tally

 

Manhattan Theater Club sets plans for Biltmore

 

Williams set for honors

 

Jennings rings in spec 12-31

 

Miramax has 'Hope' for Majidi doc

 

'Alabama' begins lensing in Gotham after Sept. 11

 

Eye sez yes to 'Dear' producers

 

Levin denies blame for high expectations

 

Gurin getting in 'Tune' with two formats

 

Menemsha weds 'Bride'

 

Inside Move: Bandwidth of brothers?

 

Politicos mull nixing 2 licenses

 

Messier stands tall at Vivendi U

 

Diller home-shopping thriller

 

Exhibs double down in screen squeeze

 

QVC sails with perfect pitch

 

Tale of two territories

 

Advertisers fight to get blurbs heard

 

Broadway Grosses

 

B.O. climbs; 'Proof' 379g

 

Inside Move: Anti-Canuck pluck

 

Inside Move: For CBS spex, it's Jack be nimble

 

Inside Move: Wings, and a prayer

 

Pipes are calling content kings

 

Natural History evolves into multilayered unit

 

Eye's 'CSI' joins elite club

 

Col TriStar boosts distrib ops

 

Big players drop, small fry pop on exhib stage

 

Local pix eye global potential

 

Nation nourishes Hobbit habit

 

Teuton project trips light fantastic

 

Sondheim, Rudin in 'Gold!' feud

 

Bancroft back on boards

 

Vet producer Jacobsen teams with Mack, IMG

 

Web toppers strike out at TV program quotas

 

Liberty hopes fade

 

Telco hangs up on bid for GMA's Channel 7

 

TiVo-Replay fight heats up

 

American Online launches beta version of online music subs

 

DVD's not software

 

IFC 'Babys' Sayles pic

 

Nittolo, Mendoza bow new firm RAW

 

Grammys to fete star quintet

 

Top banana for 'George'

 

Biz buzz heartens industry

 

Par pic 'Pain' helmer's gain

 

HBO Jerry-rigs biopic

 

Helmer Amelio sets dramatic return

 

SAG picks Integrity

 

McGrath has Killer idea for Truman show

 

Radar taps Rosenberg

 

Ex-pat agent shakes up genteel Gallic book world

 

McGrath has Killer idea for Truman show

 

SAG facing fed suit

 

'Thumb' up for MGM

 

NBC's White takes long view as exec producer

 

Yglesias takes on 'Evil' in HBO series

 

'Shipping' shapes up

 

Musical mayhem from Muppets

 

EM.TV sued over Formula 1 deal

 

Cecchi Gori investigated for buying votes

 

New fund backs German-lingo TV, pics

 

Bill Coffman

 

Pix nab kudos, not distrib'n

 

Thompson steps up

 

SAG staffers protest terms

 

Rai scores Cup for Italy

 

CNBC flies with Paradies

 

Lincoln Center's film org sets series for 10th anni

 

Luisi elevated to exec VP in Miramax biz, legal

 

Oscar draws in nine

 

Vinciquerra joins Fox as network prexy

 

Boon for b'casters

 

Video Nets bows Indian channel

 

Joffe, Jhankar team for English/Hindi pic

 

AOL TW, Zee to pact

 

Offering, Boeing coin fuel radio satcaster XM

 

Corus sells Comedy stake to CTV

 

FCC decision gives Sinclair duopoly edge

 

Kirch nears sale of stake

 

Lampoon rides 'Van'

 

Planeta enters Int'l distrib waters

 

Brazil opens up to foreign investors

 

Litto chases case vs. Axa

 

Leno, Reynolds, Coolio look to lift military spirits

 

Slamdance bags a dozen

 

'Weathered' maintains Creed's reign at No. 1

 

CTTV, Pariah settle

 

Inside Move: Scorsese nixes Venice job

 

Chabin out as ATAS prez

 

NATPE firm: '03 confab in New Orleans

 

Roberts to host A&E 'Friends' doc

 

'A.I.' vid, DVD bow March 5

 

Trib goes 'Beyond' with skein to 48 markets

 

4 strips get sweeps boost

 

Fox marks 2003 spot for sequel to 'X-Men'

 

'Committed' to ABC

 

Yorns near Industry settlement

 

Canuck probe backers hit first gov't hurdle

 

DGA dials direct

 

Katz reigns over Turner buying ops

 

Demo dynamo 'Crime Scene' takes on 'ER'

 

Miramax making Noyce

 

Diller thriller keeps U on edge of its seat

 

Optimistic 'Majestic'

 

'Pinero's' poetic start

 

Getting 'High'

 

'Def Poetry' debuts

 

Wonfor exits Granada Content post

 

Ensler's new play hits 'Targets' for Off B'way

 

Roundabout eyes 'Dresser'

 

GreeneStreet raps to 'Sista'

 

Stodel takes senior veep reins for Fine, New Line

 

Inside Move: Darabont sounds off

 

'Traffic' duo spies CIA

 

Greening of Canada

 

WB hosts colorful 'Gray' preem

 

'Leopold' takes leap

 

Star-heavy, Starbright

 

Gay/Lesbian Center celebrates anni

 

Two champs fight for a cause

 

CityLive gives homeless hope

 

Nicole Stevenson

 

RoseAnn Shannon

 

Bill Lyons, Nicole Mussenden

 

Laura Masse

 

Corrections

 

BSkyB sell-off raises $1.5 billion for Viv U

 

MTV Europe awards Barcelona bound

 

'Mulholland' named NY crix top pick

 

Gaul exhibs brace for euro

 

Teuton TV gets religion

 

Greenberg's S-Curve swerves to EMI

 

Gosford Park

 

I Am Sam

 

AOL, Univision link up

 

New financial plan

 

Ali

 

Amelie

 

A Beautiful Mind

 

Black Hawk Down

 

Dresdner Bank extends $410 mil loan to Kirch

 

Maude Chasen

 

Bridget Jones's Diary

 

Charlotte Gray

 

Kristina Soderbaum

 

In The Bedroom

 

Chi media gets smell of musical 'Success'

 

RTL Group topper covets control of M6

 

Iris

 

The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring

 

The Majestic

 

Polish brothers set Reeves bio

 

The Man Who Wasn't There

 

Flashback: 50 years ago

 

Monster's Ball

 

Moulin Rouge

 

Ocean's Eleven

 

The Others

 

The Shipping News

 

Vanilla Sky

 

Visual Effects

 

Toon Time: Shrek & Monsters, Inc.

 

Documentaries

 

NBR honors producer Cohn

 

BBC axes marketer Taylor

 

Northern exposure

 

'Strange' in new world with Sci Fi pickup

 

'Duck' bound for Showtime

 

Gotham's off to see the Wizard with two tuners

 

'Jiggly' bounces to Streamline

 

USA Films ups vet Bowles

 

'GMA' stays hot on trail of 'Today'

 

Warner Bros. ups Pincus

 

ESPN & NBC vie for hoops

 

Peter Pearson, Leon Arcand

 

Patrick Paolini

 

'SNL' to stage Giuliani, DeGeneres appearances

 

Australia's Imax in focus under new management

 

Vidgame warnings

 

Buena Vista Game Studio taps Yanover sr. veepee

 

Rock Hall adds six inductees

 

'Potter' piracy threat nets swift China bow

 

Sundance selects scribes

 

Saldana snares 'Drumline'

 

Sean Patrick Thomas and Troy Garity

 

Susan Sarandon

 

Corey Holcomb

 

Marieh Delfino

 

Joanie Laurer (Chyna)

 

WB strategy for Moreno

 

Chase, Michaels plot 'Sons' twist for NBC

 

'McBeal' duo not extended

 

Cabler plays sales game

 

Feds OK probe delay

 

Scribe learns Alphabet for laffer deal

 

B'way booster shot

 

PSAs urge Americans to aid terrorist hunt

 

Inside move: M'max, Hallstrom snip 'Shipping'

 

Bickford sees 'Bounty' of POVs in adaptation

 

Spin the bottle

 

Vivendi ironing Diller deal details

 

UTA TV focus the real deal

 

'Sinbad' sails for Col

 

Dimension, U rebuild 'Man'

 

Gold Circle, Permut prep Eddie Griffin concert pic

 

Magnet, U split 'Atom'

 

Sprecher exits Lortel, preps 'Mr. Goldwyn'

 

Corbett, Russos to roll the dice with FX's 'Lucky'

 

AMG, TV-Loonland team

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
December 14, 2001

 

68th Anniversary Issue: The Contenders

 

Ashok Kumar

 

'Vanilla' extracts $25 mil

 

AOL TW pacts with Zee Telefilms

 

'Bedroom' takes LAFCA top kudo

 

Apollo backs $25 million 'Karate Chimps'

 

Janis Elizabeth Stein

 

Linda Dove

 

Barry H. Taper

 

Kyle Thatcher

 

Gunnar Hellstrom

 

Charles Cooper

 

Southern Star takes on drama, quizzer

 

Kirch meets with German Chancellor

 

Cinemedia's Marlow ankles

 

India's most expensive pic bows

 

SET to bow in Pakistan

 

German TV bows in U.S. March 5

 

Franco-Mexican fest nabs 23 distrib deals

 

Rhombus nabs 'Overcoat'

 

Telecom Italia to sell stake in Auna

 

Danish Film Institute saves 'Dogville'

 

U notches record with 'Shrek' DVD

 

Italian wedding off

 

Case against VCL rejected

 

SAG panel holds election hearings, will make ruling

 

'Access' opens with new distrib

 

H'wood makes up 'Mind'

 

Muse finds women

 

Thesps begin 'Affair'

 

Swinging with 'Ali'

 

Fox and Mouse hole

 

'Harry' conjures B.O. gold; 'Rings' set to shine

 

Winstar purchased, redubbed Wellspring

 

Mediaset close to deal for 9% stake in Tele 5

 

Alley oop for cable

 

Island Def Jam's label maker Caparro to exit

 

'Blind Date' hits trifecta

 

Boston takes a 'Drive'

 

DGA board seeks fast OK of new 3-year deal

 

Guessing shorts noms always a tall order

 

Exite@Home axes staff

 

'April' makes Broadway bow

 

Par charges for Electric

 

ABC heart-pounder

 

'Varsity' takes MTV's field

 

ABC O&Os function as Brady bunch

 

Fox throwing gaslight on 'League'

 

Tribeca fest taps Bowles

 

The week in review: parsing the subtext

 

NBC in pink after La Salle finale

 

'Harry' rules o'seas, surpassing $300 mil

 

Starz! tracks 'Riverman'

 

EchoStar provides instant synergy

 

Oscar's toon record a spotty picture

 

Toon beasts ready for the big race

 

Ziskin preps mother of all awards shows

 

Teuton arthouse tix sales dip

 

With student kudos, AMPAS invests in future

 

Acad archive finds new home

 

Kodak Theater custom-made for kudocast

 

'A.I.' submerged in awards season hoopla

 

Specialty pix shine bright amid iffy studio crop

 

Foreign lingo pix: when it rains, it pours

 

Adding categories a complicated affair

 

Seeking normalcy amid the madness

 

Messier: We will Barry U

 

'Hughes' to Castle Rock

 

Peacock plots a Playboy ploy

 

Germay's Studio Universal web set to air pix in English