Table of Contents
Week of 01/22/2002

Articles

Szabo to mentor Shooting Stars

 

ZDF gains Arab ally

 

Berlusconi faces flap over TV time

 

Investment in Brit pic biz drops 35%

 

Becker buys Globe Films

 

U.K. Film Council will fund art pix P&A

 

More news for TV-6

 

Duo plans toon pair

 

Cinar's case closed

 

Scribe pair writes pic pacts

 

'Rouge' rocks kudos

 

History month a WE event

 

Sprockets goes to war

 

Salsa moving to Paris

 

Sultry songstress Lee dead at 81

 

Midem attendance off

 

Ultimate TV faces reorg

 

Levin tapped Fox VP

 

Prisa disclaims report

 

Disney, AOL TW hoop it up

 

Miramax buys more 'Plots' rights

 

Lenser noms hail many genres

 

AMC cuts 3rd-quarter loss

 

Producers Guild to salute Pixar

 

Equity weighs pay scale

 

Inside Move: The final word on Talk: done

 

Inside Move: Bowled over with pic promotion

 

Inside Move: King-sized illusion

 

Who'll mind the mergers?

 

Fall TV takes dramatic turn

 

Inside Move: Booting up, at a theater near you

 

Local pix soared in 2001 B.O. derby

 

Slamdancers make a statement

 

Indie combo creates big league player

 

Toons losing plenty in the translation

 

Screen door open to second distrib

 

Endemol rings the changes

 

Teutons slog it out for o'seas aud

 

M-Net pops for another shot at reality genre

 

MediaCorp. cuts pay, axes staff

 

Too hot for 'Thermometer'

 

'Baran' brings cultural call

 

Nets catch franchise fever

 

Inside Move: Riverdale redux

 

Inside Move: Still wanting

 

Inside Move: Tough 'Luck'

 

Inside Move: Thinking inside the box

 

Inside Move: Fallen 'Empire'

 

9/11 dominates cablers tour

 

Gabbers grab for 10 p.m. timeslot

 

The grapes of Roth: a first harvest

 

Changing of the guard

 

Lively 'Dancers mix for pix

 

Fox failing to steal hen house

 

Making an Old World discovery

 

Film Council flips distribution coin

 

2001 a cracking year in China

 

New hope for beleagured TV-6

 

Sweet fragrance gets new formula

 

Bubbly for Benecio

 

Itch to pitch

 

BV, Fox video holding bag after Kmart's fall

 

'Tonight Show's' Vizard ankles Granada

 

Spending will ad up

 

Altman focusing on 'Voltage,' not Oscars

 

Atlantic tunes up A&R exec pair

 

ABC cable taps Dean

 

Viacom stock drops amid exec rumors

 

'Fear,' 'Ally' get jump on Eye net

 

Donmar to don A.D.

 

NATPE panel focuses on TV viewers

 

Holiday gives B'way B.O. a small boost

 

FCC may take b'caster side vs. cable

 

7 pix get look for makeup noms

 

Talking a good deal

 

Interactive group sees PC/TV convergence

 

Summerall ends Fox gig

 

Intertainer adds equity partner

 

Intermedia, BBC Films attract Willis to 'Me'

 

WB nixes 'Nikki' in its 2nd season

 

SAG picking up pace

 

ABC's Chung hops to CNN for own show

 

Planet creates new prez

 

CBS, Fox light pilots for Attanasio, McG

 

WGA to bestow Cox Award on Fontana

 

BAM Entertainment taps new prexy, COO

 

Pressplay expands offering thru MP3.com

 

Jan Glaser and Daniel Hurwitz

 

Diversity rules struck down

 

Allana Nadal and Kristoff St. John

 

Anjalika Mathur and Anjul Nigam

 

Morris plays 'Mind' game

 

Tie Sandy Dong and Dimitri Villard

 

Paula Devicq and Joseph Lyle Taylor

 

Christine Arden and Mark Borde

 

Angelica Castro and Cristian de la Fuente

 

Successful scores breathe life into animated worlds

 

WB tightens NATPE noose

 

Marketing push for tracks creates larger auds

 

'Rouge' redlined for Oscar race

 

Helmer hyphenates direct films down to the score

 

Song competish brims with pop power

 

Composer's 'Rhapsody' lies in small films

 

Magic lies in the methods

 

DGA digs its freshman class

 

Globes set party plans

 

Producers tilt to studio pics

 

Academy breakdown

 

AFI likes 'Lord' but needs stars

 

Challenging an Oscar taboo

 

Positive reaction to Oscar's look

 

Contenders say: 'I'll do anything'

 

Oscar spurs role-changing

 

'Gosford' gooses USA

 

Pitches put 9/11 on radar

 

Dawn's breaking at UPN

 

Mike Epps

 

Markus Redmond and Ivy Williams

 

Vic Kaplan

 

Hyman Robert 'Bob' Minkoff

 

EMI dumps Mariah Carey

 

Academy promotes Greenfield

 

Berlusconi's Canale5 beats RAI1

 

'Soft Shell Man' nabs 10 Jutras noms

 

Panavision pacting with PipeLine net

 

Events keep Eye, NBC high

 

Midem exhib numbers off

 

Dinocitta facelift

 

Co-prod'n lifts Italian pic biz in '01

 

Red ink dots 2001 books at Channel 4

 

Bertelsmann eyes China

 

H.K.'s Yes hears 'no' from partner

 

Oz biz unions in faceoff

 

Honorary Oscar to Poitier

 

Sony goes 'Mad' for Aranda pic

 

Vivendi U taps 2 admin exex

 

Disney goes Latin

 

Jackson's 'Drive' speeds to top of charts

 

CBS lights police pilot for Attanasio

 

Inside Move: Toons to Fox Kids

 

'Storytelling' time

 

Vegas bets wrong in 'Price' riot

 

Road grosses

 

Mancuso to sell some Lion shares

 

Mouse House springs passel of new deals

 

H'w'd mix at L.A. Crix

 

AFTRA backs state limit on contracts

 

Judge delays Napster lawsuit

 

DGA mails ballots

 

Wrestling pins int'l hopes

 

Berlin unveils Forum showcase

 

Sheldon Allman

 

Art directors honor Oz

 

Helen M. Rado

 

Lawrence K. Harris

 

Jersey shores up development staff

 

ABC revs 2 pilots, Fox sets 1

 

Pacino inks for 'Gigli' cameo

 

SAG-ATA truce holds as talks remain in limbo

 

Marion C. Kaufman

 

'X' appeal attracts IFC

 

UPN's mantra: Unity

 

Tinker inks with WMA

 

Circuit links film fests & sponsors

 

Profitless Channel 4 in nontaxing situation

 

Shaye to be feted

 

Crisis hits NATPE

 

Virgin sacrifices Carey

 

Wolpert crosses 'Sword'

 

Book deal rattles cag

 

Graden makes grade as new MTV maestro

 

French feel financial pinch

 

Chaplin comes alive at Savannah film fest

 

Magellan navigates script

 

Par trio has novel idea

 

Tariff petition backers hire leading law firm

 

Oz FFC CEO Hughes ankles post

 

Ex-Propaganda exec gets cooking at RAW

 

Happy 'Birthday' preem

 

Jeremy Piven

 

Fred Savage

 

Sharif Atkins, Jamie Denton

 

Steven Roy

 

Fox nears Levin successor

 

52nd Berlinale has German flavor

 

Welch in CNBC's 'Box'

 

BCE reports no lift from CTV, Ma Bell

 

Astral Media profits rise despite difficult climate

 

XM stock up on subs forecast

 

Enormous 'Planet' debut from Disney

 

Hersholt award to Hiller

 

Fox's 'That '80s Show' totally delivers demos

 

Knopf looks North to WGAW

 

Frosh 'Justice' prevails

 

WB wraps 'Rhea' deals; 'Justice' a go

 

Getting 'Max' exposure

 

TPS reups Gallic pic pact

 

Village Roadshow taps Reisenbach for board

 

New distrib Bodega to bow unseen 'Lear'

 

DirecTV boosts Balcerzak

 

Berlinale opens fest to film orgs' events

 

Hackman busy with islandic home

 

News org set to fete Brokaw

 

Comedy fest speaking up

 

Williams joins Barker U.K. costumer

 

Indian pic ratings planned

 

Tamil-lingo laff web to launch

 

SPC walks down aisle with Argentine 'Bride'

 

Trib hit by ad slump despite good 4th qtr.

 

Blackmun sports Anschutz post

 

SNTA mulling meet

 

TV reform revisits Hill

 

McDonnell takes seat in Shade at Warners

 

Cutting Edge pairing up for Splendid films

 

Inside move: Ovitz' reflections

 

Sheldon Turner

 

Julie Benz, Vic Kaplan

 

Inside move: SAG - It's business as usual

 

Mouse master of 'Illusion'

 

Ovitz hits Mark with new CEO

 

Carey ankles News Corp.

 

Bierko beat 'The Court'

 

Paley fest fetes Allen, Short, laffers, Cristina

 

New view on SAG debate

 

TechTV topper signs off

 

March sked makes way for laffers at UPN, Fox

 

Nets 'Tunnel' vision

 

Par picks pair for TV prexys

 

Banderas is B'way bound with 'Nine'

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
Jan. 25, 2002

 

Cruise-Wagner drafting 'Soldiers'

 

Helmers ganging up on Hughes

 

Acad to honor Redford

 

'Hawk' flies high

 

Thesp Baye to host Cesar

 

Peter Gzowski

 

Allen pix on A-Film list

 

Berlusconi reveals plan to privatize RAI

 

SBS B'casting pulls blue content on Dutch outlet

 

'Dancer' steps out

 

Globes help ring in 'normal' H'wood rituals

 

'Potter' gets hotter

 

Power play at 'Ball'

 

A swash-buckling affair

 

'Dancer' takes the floor

 

Inside Move: NBC on financing search

 

NBC drafts pair of pilots

 

UPN's Ware stays amid restructure

 

Showest honors Smith

 

Publicists fete top 'Wing' trio

 

Clarification

 

Correction

 

MTV tries its 'Luck'

 

Editors to cut nom chase

 

Furthur taps Polson for 'Up and Comer'

 

'Today' tops ayemers

 

New Line buys 'Door' from Wall

 

George will take to air

 

Hagen delays B'way 'Dance'

 

TV3 gains temporary license

 

Intermedia on a 'Mission'

 

SAG exec under fire

 

Anschutz pitches site for Emmys

 

Eye trims 'Ellen' order in cost cut

 

WB's Litvack will head new Turner TV studio

 

Chris Dorr

 

Fiur runs with the ball

 

Femmes flock to 'Walk'

 

MGM 'Powers' play dismembers title

 

PlayStation, faltering yen lift Sony zen

 

Fulfillment Fund on a roll

 

Persistent duo hang shingle

 

'Boston' baking at Par

 

Trans-continental soirees

 

The recipe for kudo 'bake-offs'

 

Nomination Process

 

Kudos' brave and secure new world

 

Award race clarified, confused by Globes

 

It's a tight race for foreign fare

 

Oscar's picks by cliques

 

Berlin perspectives sidebar to feature edgy pics

 

Das Werk, CFX take orders for $17 million

 

NTL to restructure $17 billion debt

 

BAFTA noms unveiled

 

Paris Film Festival gets Spanish touch

 

Constantin nabs 3 pix

 

Star christens China channel

 

ARD, ZDF fault cabler

 

Fest seeks entries

 

Big Mac for Asterix

 

HBO sets local web

 

Kirch talks to Murdoch

 

B'way gets 'Holy,' sees tiny slip

 

Lippin adds vet Gordon

 

ShoWest taps Hoyts CEO

 

CBS eyes familiar fall lineup

 

'Red's' rosy ABC bow

 

New West Records ups 2 exex

 

Oscar Watch: Gordon E. Sawyer Award

 

All-day SAG sesh yields changes

 

'Sky,' 'Spy' on high

 

Astrid Lindgren

 

Kinowelt sells v.o.d. stake

 

Ticketmaster narrows loss, ducat sales rise

 

Justice pact probe

 

BMI, Pressplay compose 4.5 mil tune

 

Short honors Marcus at memorial service

 

D'Works taking Helm

 

Word sounds off to FCC

 

20th Century Fox ups pair

 

Kopelson names McCarthy

 

AFI taps doc fest head

 

Conde Nast ups Beckman

 

Central City to build Oz film, TV hub

 

National Book Crix finalists unveiled

 

Maya Orly Horowitz

 

O'Reilly to moderate forum

 

Costumers dress up film, TV nominees

 

Inside move: Fox puts 'Chamber' on hold

 

MDP buys Gaghan's 'Havoc'

 

Football playoffs sack weekend B.O.

 

SAG, agents still willing to talk

 

Silverman returns to WB as prod'n VP

 

NBC auditions ethnic comics

 

Corrections

 

Full swing for spring recovery

 

SAG vote redo gets greenlight

 

Peacock picks up plum duo

 

Galaxy airs deal

 

ATAS unveils 2002 Emmy schedule

 

Reese rushes the net

 

U, Platt team for 'Nappily'

 

Taylor, Gould ink to change 'Baby'

 

Rudin books 'Genius' look

 

NBC returns to sitcom supersizing

 

Chante Moore and Kenny Lattimore

 

Christine Arden and Mark Borde

 

Reviews

The Graduate

The Roots

Britney, Baby, One More Time!

Texas

The Business of Fancydancing

Love Liza

American Experience: Miss America

Heartbreak House

Yellowman

Fidel

Stephen King's Rose Red

Slackers

A Walk to Remember

The Count of Monte Cristo

Hysterical Blindness

The Jimmy Show

Don Byron

Letters From Tennessee: A Distant Country Called Youth

Bloody Sunday

Pera Palas

Daughter From Danang

Kung Pow Enter the Fist

Paradox Lake

Only the Strong Survive

Rebels

Stone Reader

Willie Nelson

The Guys

Sum 41

Bad Religion

Masterpiece Theatre: Othello

Worldly Acts

Monster

The Emperor and The Wolf, The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune

The End of Cinema As We Know It, American Film In The Nineties

13 Moons

Thank You For The Rubbish

Teacher In A Bikini

The Other Side of Heaven

Skins