Table of Contents
Week of 02/12/2002

Articles

Acad noms hobbit-forming

 

74th Annual Academy Award Nominees

 

Nominees delighted at recognition

 

ITV Digital up 46,000 subs

 

Possible contenders at home with the misses

 

Clear Channel sambas into Brazil

 

'Our Lady Peace' tops Juno noms

 

Dresen pic impacts fest

 

Hoyts wins round 1 in ticket flap

 

Thesps pack bags for Greenaway epic

 

B'casters get D.C. say on campaign

 

Broadway grosses

 

Hogwarts & Hobbits in global grab

 

Inside Move: Rx from 'John Q.'

 

Inside Move: Truce and consequences

 

Inside Move: The right vehicle

 

Reality bites Berlin

 

Helmers suit up for sports-themed pix

 

'Hands' across Baltic border

 

U.S. pics sizzling as B.O. heats up

 

Biz storms gov't over piracy war

 

Blurbsters mull breakaway from NATPE

 

Seven, Nine, Ten fight numbers war

 

Toon house BRB Int'l getting real

 

Crunch time for Kirch

 

Biz buzzes over 'Gold!' dustup

 

Update: Legit ticket-buying program

 

Road grosses

 

Inside Move: Prophet-minded

 

Inside Move: 'Gangs' meets 'Road' July 12

 

Inside Move: Enron: Around at AOL TW

 

Inside Move: Pop go the newsies

 

Inside Move: Digital demon

 

Inside Move: A little extra kick

 

Inside Move: Map flap

 

Banking on the Oscars

 

New Year rings in B.O. war

 

Blighty screenings falling down

 

Exec distribution trio unleashes Lightning

 

A hit celeb mag? Binn there, done that

 

Featured Player: Marin Karmitz

 

Imax making giant strides on mainland

 

Bonds, completion bonds, goose pix

 

It's sink or swim for ex-exex

 

Sweetening Lloyd Webber's 'Dreams'

 

Path to DirecTV union tangled

 

Netlets run, finally, on right tracks

 

Casbaa beats bush for advertisers

 

Consumers cut subs to cabler Globo

 

ORF faces competish

 

BBC World to bow new skeins

 

Foxtel making cents

 

Sony cuts workforce by 30% at Screenblast

 

Valenti fears pic piracy

 

Blockbuster stock up as quarter loss down

 

EU downloads Levy

 

Cox to go it alone

 

Berlin fetes Acad noms 'Beautiful Mind,' 'Iris'

 

ITV Digital plans to trim workers

 

'60s folk music pioneer Van Ronk dies at age 65

 

Diversity of Oscar noms to make for interesting show

 

Scardino's a Dame

 

Duo picks up 'Blackout' script

 

Star G.M. ankling

 

MPIA fights pirates

 

Paul Button

 

Zee backs 'Friend'

 

Oscar nom 'Elling' goes to First Look

 

Ivan Gavin

 

KAS Music & Sound taps exec creative director

 

BAMKids Film Festival to unspool int'l fare

 

CSA votes Zuckerbrod prexy

 

Senator goes with 'Dios'

 

PPV hammerlock broken

 

'Lake' adds new brass as 'Lewis' looks shaky

 

NBC plays Games for sweep lead

 

Scribe inks double deal

 

Yankees play hardball by inking deal with RCN

 

David Stetler

 

Kelley lawyers Fox

 

Perry lines up deal for two-part 'McBeal'

 

Joe Russell

 

Accusations fly in SAG campaigns

 

'Futurama' waiting to see if it has one

 

Letter to the Editor: Glenn Zoller

 

Cablers may receive time & punishment

 

Fox hires Ostrin's 'Nanny'

 

Viacom nears KCAL deal

 

'Rings' producers vie for credits

 

Pics, soft ads hit News Corp.

 

Bob Wooler

 

Jerome H. Stanley

 

Guy Stockwell

 

Jack Henry Abbott

 

Alexie's 'Fancydancing' popular at Victoria fest

 

Tonys create a downtown revival

 

Minghella, Pollack to 'Cheet' in Blighty

 

Harris and Moreno board pilots for Peacock, Eye

 

Section 8 ventures 'Darkly' into sci-fi

 

Trends emerge as Acad race begins

 

This year was one for the record book

 

Tracy Roberts

 

Magic launch for 'Potter'

 

Guild's gift bags distinguish themselves

 

BAFTAs bound for E!

 

Vivendi U takes over Italo paybox

 

KCAL duopoly money

 

Actors gather on runaway prodn's

 

Univision taps Delgado to top its L.A. stations

 

Telefonica taps prexy, Argentina

 

SightSound wins download decision

 

Revs drop at TV4 Sweden

 

Out of the past and into the present

 

Dyke: BBC more key in 10 years

 

Afghans OK private TV

 

Berlin fest sez 'Amen' to Costa-Gavras

 

Endemol's 'Operacion' makes Spain TV history

 

Scribes challenge Mexican tax law

 

'Subjective' judging soils Olympics

 

Herb Jellinek

 

James Blauvelt

 

Mark Aronson, Lynne Costantini, Bonnie Hathaway, Jeff Zimmerman

 

Griffith W. Foxley

 

Sony distrib ups Bruer

 

John W. Zucker

 

Raymond J. McCutcheon

 

Tim McGrath

 

Barry Ziehl

 

Evelyn Scott

 

Julius Genachowski, Dan Marriott, Dara Khosrowshahi

 

David Charmatz

 

John O'Connor, Catherine Flickinger

 

Vinnie Malcolm

 

Peter Baron

 

Pamela Speak

 

Leguizamo moves solo to HBO

 

History rules at Harry noms

 

StudioCanal sales shuffled

 

Gooding dogs 'Temptations'

 

CNN eyes 'Greenfield' for ax in primetime reshuffle

 

J Lo disc rides high

 

Oscar Watch: Lopez added to presenter lineup

 

Raymond, Pariseau, Yorke link for praisery

 

Thesps pay tribute to Strasberg

 

'Hart' fires 1st salvo

 

Cuesta pulls off 'Miracle' for UA, Cell

 

Spears at 'Crossroads'

 

Bay targets extreme sports with 70mm pic

 

Directors Guild reveals daytime, kids nominees

 

More pilots taking off

 

NBC votes for Brolin; Snow lands in 'Pie'

 

Minahan may be 'Flying'

 

Pol sides with SAG

 

Searchlight may save British pic 'Cromwell'

 

Digital gurus can't send in the 'Clones'

 

Guild Noms

 

Chambers' disguises defended democracy

 

Creative Planet morphs

 

Art of the cut lies in the details

 

Zimmerman, Neumann, Fink upped at VES

 

Magic year for makeup

 

Aratari upped as mOcean expands

 

Alphabet to keep 'Blue' on the beat

 

Brodie, Carr join Company 3

 

Toppers making nice as Viacom posts loss

 

Par names VP sales ops

 

Film Calif. First plan helps 'Palms' grow

 

B'casters cut pol ad losses

 

DreamWorks, Montecito book 'Grand Tour'

 

'Dogs' duo circle sequel, pony up to U's 'Chuckers'

 

WB's Man of Steel flexing his muscles

 

PGA zings 'Rings' credit

 

Three put up stakes for B'way 'Vampires'

 

'Underworld' at Lakeshore

 

Tuner 'Years' back under knife

 

Gomez isn't going away from Admira

 

Ryan: Campion's new champion

 

Singer Jensen taps Teebor prod'n VP

 

SAG bars election news

 

Brad Garrett

 

Bill Smitrovich

 

Josie Davis

 

Ladies night at the Wilshire Ebell

 

'Outlaw' Jennings dead at 64

 

Finland's Alma sees red

 

Scottish film studio planned

 

Film institute gets new head

 

Sirius finally takes flight with sat radio in 4 cities

 

Merchandiser acquires Secret

 

Latin music finalists set

 

Berlin fetes Cardinale

 

BBC refines culture

 

Donen's joie de vivre inspires

 

Campaign reform bill moves on to Senate

 

Slocombe's wide visual vocabulary

 

N.Y. cabler hobbled

 

DGA documents doc race

 

'Blackjack' dealt to C23

 

ASC's Poster child for new vanguard

 

Steadicam inventor's lasting contribution

 

Larson legit nods unveiled

 

De Niro to host spec on '9/11'

 

The Contenders

 

Oscar Watch: Tom Hanks

 

Games rev up NBC ayem

 

Academy parties for Oscar in NY

 

From Hungary with love

 

NARAS to salute Cliburn

 

WGA spokesman takes NYC post

 

Mitchell revs FilmEngine

 

AFMA honors New Line's Shaye

 

BAFTA/L.A. expands board

 

Davis goes to the extreme with 'Eyes'

 

ShoWest honors Lopez

 

Katherine Anne Moore

 

'Mamma' making second L.A. trip

 

Powell candid in MTV forum

 

Par Pictures ups Bakshi to exec veep

 

Splendid signs up Wilson

 

Stallone sues over Planet H'w'd stock losses

 

Pic quips stranger than fiction

 

Collins sisters respect showbiz obligations

 

Winikoff tapped prexy of Amin's Sobini Films

 

Fox puffs up talent for pilots, likes 'BS'

 

SAG election not paid off

 

Nick, THQ cross pollinate

 

New Line has 'Deal' on its Radar

 

Noms cashing in at B.O.

 

Peacock will skate past ads

 

Dick Clark dances to $140 mil sale

 

Endeavor nails hot directors

 

'Femmes' sells through Europe

 

Col aces tennis drama

 

Williams dogging 'Schnozz'

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
Feb. 15, 2002

 

Correction

 

Spanish pics to get Miami screenings

 

EMI ups Artaud, Chapeau in France

 

Cook upped to Mouse Studios chair

 

BAFTA kudofest glams up staid Blighty

 

Samantha Nicole Petulla

 

Amer Euro Waddell

 

Ethan David Howard

 

Dylan James Heist

 

Grace Carolina Burton

 

Jack Ralph Turner

 

Oscar forecasters get passing grades

 

No 'Room' at the Academy

 

Get ready to duke it out for ducats

 

Planners' Saturday night fever

 

H'wood's big gold rush

 

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Two share Berlin Bear

 

West Coast hosts kudo toast

 

Brits ignite 'Gosford' spark: 9 BAFTA noms

 

Masked ball

 

New strategies work for indie distribs

 

Medusa turns competish to stone

 

Kiwi pix: better than expected

 

New distrib ups competition for release dates

 

U.K. indies struggle to boost local pix

 

Calendar discussions continue

 

Org supports measures to bolster Stateside prod'n

 

New Line's slate

 

Strategies pay off for top genres

 

Local mob pics go gangbusters

 

Consolidation name of game

 

Local pix hot on Scandi scene

 

Boffo Gallic year benefits studios

 

Japan box office 'Spirited Away'

 

Teutonic market turns around

 

H'wood maverick Shaye still does it his way

 

Market virgins bring array of fresh pix

 

Boffo beach bazaar

 

Czech producers join Euro film promo org

 

Merchant, Ivory to receive Bafta Fellowship

 

U.K. box office up 29%

 

EMI ups Torneryd in Sweden, Johansen in Norway

 

Fox said poised to bring 'Pop Idol' to U.S.

 

'Q.' gets healthy

 

French crix fete pix

 

Land of Enchantment renews allure via bills

 

Real deal makes 'Net NASCAR gain

 

'Lagaan' lucre spurs pic push

 

News TV preps IPO

 

'Sea' salts toon co.

 

Taliban drama rolls

 

Indian gov't to simplify imports

 

Canal pay TV subs slide

 

Local players line up at Spain's TV forum

 

Eurochannel pay TV to be satcast

 

TVNZ plugs in toppers

 

Lions Gate stalking revenue

 

Steinbauer tops int'l distrib for Franchise

 

New wrinkle in the old power game

 

All's 'Fair' for Brits

 

Natural Nylon to go public

 

Cahners renamed Reed

 

Fine Line climbs 'Roof'

 

U Worldwide TV Group topper tips

 

Oz pix nab $63.5 mil at local B.O. in 2001

 

20th Century marketing exec ankles

 

NBC skates to Olympics ratings gold

 

SAG's Harper, Gilbert hold debate on radio

 

Disney looks to Cook

 

Corrections

 

Fox's 'Mad' looking good

 

Furor over cable fee

 

Leeves welcomed to 'Cabaret'

 

Thesps dive into pilots

 

Deakins, Del Ruth honored by lensers

 

H'wood asks Bush to stop DVD piracy

 

Sondheim putting it together

 

Stallone counter-attacked

 

UPC finds friend in Capitol

 

Industry elevates Bono

 

Night's debauchery has short purpose

 

Pols, biz reps powwow on job losses

 

Designs on display

 

'T3' to lense in Hollywood

 

'Eleven,' 'Monsters,' still rolling o'seas

 

Disney bets on Piglet's prospects

 

USA Net elects biopic of Giuliani

 

Cheadle chooses 'Blues'

 

Reviews

12 Hours

The Komediant

Go

War Live

A Charlie Brown Valentine

July Rhapsody

Minor Mishaps

Beneath Clouds

Wave

The Captain Beefheart Project

Nogo

Hukkle

The Matchmaker

Acts of Contrition

The Family Game

Kasey Chambers

The Vagina Monologues

Betty's Summer Vacation

Peter Cincotti

Crossroads

Return to Never Land

Tea at Five

Chacho Rom

Moonlight Tariff

Cassandra Wilson

God's Man in Texas

Bridget

Domestic Violence

My Mother Likes Women

Dangerous Corner

King Lear

Aida of the Trees

Amen.

Like An Airplane

Uncle Frank

Autumn Spring

Mike Yokohama -- A Forest with No Name

A Chronicle of Corpses

Jiyan

The Happiness Of The Katakuris

Smouldering Cigarette

Dummy Mommy, Without a Baby

Love Vertigo

Tender Souls

Tsatsiki -- Friends Forever

You Shoot, I Shoot

Grill Point