Table of Contents
Week of 03/05/2002

Articles

Lawrence Tierney

 

John Thaw

 

Polish helmer Holland boards 'Janosik'

 

Warner buys 'Adam' for U.K.

 

Endemol looking to buy into Teuton prodcos

 

'Anatomie 2' in production

 

CBS, NBC split gold in Nielsens

 

Viv U plants Verdery in D.C.

 

Exhibs cautious over digital

 

Gauls collar H'wood, but leash their own

 

'Monsters' scares off local fare

 

Local filmmakers shine

 

Fox Int'l bows revamp as big lineup looms

 

Peacock delivers on Olympics

 

Priority: Saving 'The Job'

 

White house struggles with o'seas image

 

Digital cable packages are tough sell

 

VH1 changes its tune again

 

Gov't nixes a move for Abbey

 

Brits put on the ritz

 

Bob's big bow

 

Ray blazes way

 

Equity stakes

 

Pix stiffed as state subsid coin dries up

 

Building new buzz

 

ColTriStar eases into local pix

 

Federal fiscal woes undercut film fest

 

Majors snap up Korean pix

 

Road grosses

 

Broadway grosses

 

Biz mergers find Justice

 

RealOne final bowed with faster streaming

 

UCI buys 8 Ster 'plexes

 

FCC's Powell braced for a grilling

 

Procacci ventures to Oz

 

Mainframe downloads losses during quarter

 

SAG is set for board trims

 

CBC buys Devine pix

 

ABC can't get 'Chair' at Monday-night table

 

Moore aboard 'Phoenix'

 

Preisler and Ashley form Delfino Ent.

 

Landscape gets 'Lowest'

 

Foxtel, Optus to share programs

 

Oz ups rating on 'E.T.'

 

SBT picks up 'Island'

 

ATA board: SAG deal a go

 

NBC entering new Arena

 

Hayden symphony

 

'Good Day' goes all the way

 

MGM takes 'Croc' on wild side with exhibs

 

Fest ups the ante

 

Inside move: Sony nixes Jacko rumors

 

Solon to click on piracy hearing

 

The A List: Hot shots poised for top slots

 

Friedkin wraps difficult 'Hunted' shoot

 

Baldwin packs bags for CAA

 

Writedowns sock Vivendi

 

'Jury' verdict: Fleder

 

'Ranger' rides to Columbia

 

Disney's Kenny takes WB Int'l TV post

 

Blurbs boost pic tix

 

Arrival hosts announced

 

Southpaw preps pix from historical tales

 

B'way recycles its hits

 

$375 million studio to bolster N.Y. prods

 

Inside Move: Guild powwow looks to curtail pic exodus

 

Inside Move: Biz gets sympathetic ear on copy guards

 

Corrections

 

AFM: New ways to do old business

 

Delany lands Eye's 'Presidio'

 

Showbiz develops deja view

 

Inside Move: Banner days for USA, Viv U

 

Above the Line: Tony To

 

Inside Move: WB wooing Jeunet

 

Roberts ankles spot on ABC's 'This Week'

 

U saddles up 'Seabiscuit'

 

'Thunder' booms big for Burns

 

Sat overlap sends Via back to Kirch

 

News cruises on valuation

 

Doreen Waddell

 

James Cannom

 

Charlie Harville

 

Clock is running

 

Eurochannel gets Mexican connections

 

Whittam Smith ankles BBFC

 

HIT upbeat in interim

 

Endemol UK buys out indie Zeppetron

 

Welles to 'host' new TV series

 

Canuck Women's web redubbed, refocused

 

Film export revs head for record

 

Bandit pic to shoot

 

VIVApolska expands

 

Sportel mart coming

 

Claxson for Fashion

 

Diego ankles at Sky

 

New 'Millionaire' up

 

HBO plays 'Ball' with 8-seg order

 

L.A. schools study prod'n biz

 

WB takes U.K. rights to Brit 'Adam'

 

Fisher to host Britannia kudos

 

Games check top sweeps syndie 'ET'

 

Half of Netizenland no longer a small band

 

Swartz named USC tech topper

 

Jack Palance, Kelli Garner, Brad Renfro

 

Kristen Wilson

 

Stephen Rea, Francesca Annis and Daniel Craig

 

Masiela Lusha

 

Marcus Jean Pirae

 

Crix gripe over plexes

 

'Tubbies' titan Ragdoll taps 2 to top U.S. office

 

People 'Watching' dips

 

SAG Awards goodie bags on eBay

 

Location doldrums

 

Howe named MPAA'S CFO

 

Ozzy: Ratings iron man

 

Julie Miller and Gregg Gelfand

 

Gamer 'Chair' permanently benched

 

Roots tunes still strong

 

Terry Mitchell and Reggie Collier

 

M'max horror pact

 

WNET back for Tonycast

 

Lucas named USA Net ad sales prez

 

Blair infiltrates Jersey with sale of 'Spy Girl'

 

Costume Guild to fete Joffe

 

MGM cottons to 'Bounty'

 

Cassavetes opens 'Notebook'

 

HBO exacts 'Revenge' as book nears print

 

Oscar Watch: Diaz joins presenter lineup

 

Dolan won't say YES; subs asked to sat

 

Maryland org taps scripters

 

Interactive TV Emmy coming

 

Acad sets street closure plan

 

'Cromwell' finds coin

 

'Laramie Tour' makes Gotham stop

 

Bart gets role in CBS laffer pilot

 

Crystal keeps Oscar sense of humor

 

'Mata Hari' script lures U's Bickford

 

Pics' quick B.O. dropoff a concern to marketers

 

Imagine has cat for 'Hat'

 

U.K. pix pact near

 

Verhoeven checks in at ICM

 

Scribes float Col's boat

 

E! seals $50 mil 'SNL' deal

 

NL's 'Chainsaw' cut

 

Disney 'Cops' buddy kidpic

 

D'Works flies to 'Used Guys'

 

Bird bath on the hill

 

The gods are smiling

 

Stroman's the woman

 

Comic relief at fest

 

Berg 'Trucks' to Radar; Fincher on 'Mission'?

 

Baz busy with 'Ballroom'

 

Dot-commers reunion

 

Kirch misses loan payment

 

Stones story to get TV satisfaction?

 

Peter W. Geiger

 

Erin Lempriere, Jacelyn Swanson

 

Tracy Karagianis, Vitaly Tsivin, Warren Lenard

 

Drew Shearer

 

Gregory Noack

 

Evan Sternschein

 

Keith Luttkus

 

Rick Holzman

 

Paul Miller

 

Marla Newborn, Vida Pelletier

 

Lisa Wookey

 

Christina Miller

 

Jake Henry Noren

 

Josephine Shannon Marshall

 

Sydney Ryan Small

 

Murdoch India trip comes as caps end

 

Bavaria sells pic rights

 

Blighty's mightiest in Rose noms

 

Film toppers tapped in Oz

 

Namibia goes 'Beyond' for Jolie movie

 

WGA, Eye in Gotham talks over future

 

Teuton trouble hits Splendid

 

Col PR exec Sabado in Lion's lair as veep

 

Fox taps Hooper PR veep

 

Corrections

 

Hollings hits Powell for deregulatory bent

 

Oscar Watch: Tobey Maguire, Enya

 

Col extends pay TV deal

 

TiVo records narrower loss

 

Chiocchi's tapped by U as sr. veep

 

Eye spec marches to UPN

 

Thessaloniki Fest into reality

 

Low turnout at NATPE prompts hotel lawsuit

 

Keeping politics local

 

MoMA adds Russell pics

 

Tribeca fest filling juries

 

'Island' reunion a benefit

 

Sony's party atmosphere

 

U fostering Forster

 

Groth tapped to top CineVegas fest

 

Thesp trio ties the knot for 'Divorce'

 

New Line taps Murray Sr. VP

 

Some weighty issues

 

Admira goes with Gomez, cash at Lola

 

Kornberg ankles Universal

 

'T3' calls on Winston for f/x

 

Ritter ruler of 'Rules'; Sara's on road to 'Oz'

 

Inside move: Nets court Letterman

 

Lakeshore's Tannebaum dies

 

MGM makes vid wiz head of its 'Garcia'

 

Max Roman

 

'Candidate' for redo

 

'Producers' to fete Lane, Broderick

 

Harper will yak for VH1

 

Foreign-lingo Oscar bingo

 

Suitors circle Kirch

 

Sony Online CEO ankles

 

F/X preps pic on Flight 93

 

Scott shores up 'Tripoli'

 

State of union: averting work stoppage

 

Honoree Mann hails from TV's Golden Age

 

Telepics rival big-screen brethren

 

Black tie & berets

 

Taking action

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
March 8, 2002

 

Golden Trailers move to H'wood

 

DreamWorks taking Levin on a 'Date'

 

SAG taps Gilbert, take 2

 

No Angels, Seeed top Teuton music awards

 

Kirch insists ProSieben not for sale

 

D'Works' B.O. winner comes at right 'Time'

 

Equity delays strike decision

 

Judy Singer

 

Robert Demond Guillory

 

William 'Billy' Nagle

 

Milton 'Mel' Stewart

 

Mark Vann

 

Rent window wanes

 

Hook online as new prez

 

Grupo Televisa reaps $300 mil

 

Highway 'House' warming

 

Kirch takes hit from Springer

 

Barreto upped at DirectTV Latin America

 

NonStop nabs 'Bloody Sunday'

 

DirecTV nabs two sublicense pacts

 

Oscar Watch: Denzel Washington

 

Alan Manson

 

TVB pacts for FA Cup

 

Oz kidvid vet set to retire

 

Fests join for Latin view

 

Titans' Japan bout

 

A Mad Max moment

 

AFI taps NPR's Horowitz

 

Crow plays an angel

 

'Crucible' heats up

 

Saludo to Mexican pics

 

Christina Applegate

 

Pilar Lopez de Ayala

 

Katie Finneran

 

John Hardy, Andrew Sugerman, Mark Lvolsi, Steve Goldman, Judy Blume

 

Jill Savitt , Paul Maibaum

 

David Keith

 

Christopher Shyer

 

Rachel McAdams

 

Debra Jo Rupp

 

Natascha McElhone

 

Trib fosters fourth 'Feud'

 

Lit manager rises to new Crescendo

 

Arthur Lyman

 

Heavyweights don't flex muscles at B.O.

 

Directors show presence of 'Mind'

 

Wahlberg brings his 'Entourage' to HBO

 

Mulloy's 'Invasion' wins Tampere

 

Helmers kidding around

 

'Rings,' 'Six' sound right

 

Femme helms helmer guild

 

Messier crackdown

 

'Beautiful' looks good overseas

 

TV Acad aboard war on terrorism

 

FCC units get urge to merge

 

NBC still rules Thursday

 

Inside Move: Letterman words come back to haunt

 

SAG gets into act

 

Leo Ornstein

 

Miriam 'Mimi' Roth

 

High drama from HBO

 

Feasting on 'Benjamins'

 

ShoWest showers kudos

 

Rerun win may boost agent deal

 

Bronfman 'Dance' on B'way

 

Universal will play Reveille

 

Thesps react to SAG wins

 

MGM monies Muniz's mini-Bond

 

Ford, Intermedia reteam

 

Scribes put 'Words' into action June 7-9

 

Struthers, McRaney parent Fox TV laffer

 

Sony wires up Caraeff

 

Olivia Leigh Schwake

 

Creating Oscar's write stuff

 

Insiders' Oscar joke tips

 

Prize picking gets tougher

 

Noms flock to Public Radio

 

AMPAS's Highland fling

 

'Tereska' wins five Eagles

 

Borman named new Intermedia topper

 

Danish helmer Winding Refn lensing 'Fear X'

 

WB pilots U.S. 'Top Of The Pops'

 

British actors seal new film deal

 

Coppola to back int'l release of Thai epic

 

Kirch political punch

 

Fire guts TV station

 

Allen's a Greek God

 

Cheap CDs at issue

 

Discovery, Col pact

 

Senator Ent. taps Wachs as new COO

 

Dave still the Eye's guy

 

Mende Brown

 

Exhib merger pumps Gaumont's profits

 

Dances with Oscar

 

Publicists tap Beatty

 

AFTRA, agent talks move ahead

 

Firth charging windmills in L.A.

 

Curling laffer breaks Canuck records

 

Oz film buying duo dissolve partnership

 

Bravo big on skeins, pix, 'Larry'

 

Viewers swear by Knight biopic 'Brink'

 

Seinfeld busy despite exit from TV

 

Huge aud eyes Eye's '9/11'

 

Cablers on Par 'Clock'

 

AOL TW aids Latin unit

 

Osha probe sought

 

'Monsters,' Hobbits top Japan B.O.

 

'Sally' to stop talking

 

Irene Worth

 

Solons prefer 2 birds in bush

 

Francis sues Universal Music

 

Correction

 

Gelbart 'Lysistrata' pulled

 

B'way comes in like a lion

 

Abandon, Mythic pact on TV shows

 

Joseph Raphael Attwood, Madeleine Scarlett Attwood

 

Hattie Elizabeth Bilson

 

Claire Flora Abrams

 

'Standing' has room for four

 

Oscar Watch: Gibson joins presenter lineup

 

Exhib king rolls out Regal IPO

 

SAG gives tepid OK on agents

 

Tori kisses Frog laffer

 

ECM taps Jacobs as syndie head

 

Helmer rings Shore for Tolkien trilogy

 

Reviews

The Tracker

Firestarter: Rekindled

The Dazzle

Ode To Cologne: A Rock 'N' Roll Film

One Mo' Time

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Shopping

A Season on the Brink

All About the Benjamins

Our Times

I, Taraneh, Am Fifteen

The Time Machine

Wu-Tang Clan

Storm

Mary J. Blige

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Cirque du Soleil: Dralion

Hal Linden: Back to Broadway

The Crucible

I Am Dina

Boomerang

Friends in High Places

KT

Mutants

Fate as a Rat

Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary

Sogobi

A House Built On Water

Bemani / To Stay Alive

Heaven's Path

Our Times

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Low Altitude

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