Table of Contents
Week of 03/12/2002

Articles

Acad welcomes 2002 noms

 

Italian producers issue Venice ultimatum

 

U.K. fourth quarter TV ad sales down 13%

 

'Supper' wins short award at Tampere

 

Canal accuses News Corp of aiding piracy

 

'Lion' sets L.A. close

 

WE buys 'Guys'

 

ABC to air Alma kudos in June

 

Epic spins gospel pact

 

Tom Warner

 

Isaac Kerlow

 

Kidman, Lee getting into the Spirit of things

 

Solon vows probe of FTC-DOJ pact

 

CBS spec towers over competish

 

ATAS graduates college kudos

 

John R. London

 

Jeffrey Barbakow: Lost & Found

 

Inside Move: Fox trot

 

Letter to the editor: Michael LaFever

 

Inside Move: Muddy waters

 

Grant vs. Goliath in summer gamble

 

Happy Together

 

Helmer passes 'Go' into home territory

 

Latenight's never-ending wars

 

Satisfaction from TV

 

Teutonic toon gets Yank boost

 

Arab stars show way to French box office

 

Celebs vs. civilians: Reality losing touch

 

Telco drops cable for broader view

 

Ads on the up, but can it last?

 

Channel bets on new name

 

'Big Brother' cleans up its act

 

Legit lord looks to the east

 

Broadway grosses

 

Inside Move: Dicey demo

 

Inside Move: No merge dirge

 

Silvio butters RAI, sandwiches media

 

Vlife: Familiarity breeds content

 

Inside Move: Long division

 

Not all in the family

 

Inside Move: Room to quibble

 

Inside Move: Bandstanding

 

Inside Move: New 'Chainsaw'

 

High price of peddling pix

 

Young biz players get political

 

Intermedia/Spyglass: A split decision

 

WMG hip-hops from Tommy Boy pact

 

Big boys turn up volume on sales

 

'Joy' greets Star's new channel

 

'Spies' gives 'em an Eiffel

 

In and out at the RSC

 

'Producers' waltzes

 

Road grosses

 

Salsa's toon sales hot

 

Multichannel TV makes inroads

 

Disney adds exec

 

Indian 'Wedding' delayed

 

Latin music sector sings upbeat tune

 

O'seas aid to Village

 

Disney cedes Oscar TV rights

 

Par Classics translates Lelouch into English

 

Beeb gets a shock

 

Par ups Floyd to sr. VP

 

TV set protester kills self at Philips HQ

 

Playboy TV to Simonize sales

 

Inside Move: Viacom pair feed off each other

 

SPC breeds distrib deal with Canuck Mongrel

 

Showtime to fund 9/11 shorts

 

Oscar Watch: Kevin Spacey

 

Lamarr's story coming to big screen

 

Teen queen to Seventeen

 

Sony shells out $326K for bogus blurbs

 

Overpowering 'Fear'

 

WNBC leads N.Y. Emmy rac

 

Nokia rings up RealOne

 

SoapCity nabs SPDE, Yahoo deal

 

Chrysler film contest reaches semi-finals

 

DVD shop Still in Motion joins Technicolor family

 

Oz pic peddler leaving Beyond

 

Shanghai to lead new distrib group

 

GMI, El Deseo selling 'Life'

 

Inside move: M'max plan foreign to rivals

 

Inside move: Bush bashes Springer again

 

'Taxi' redux hails helmer

 

D.C. punches in for boxing

 

Next Bond pic is 'Die Another Day'

 

An Oz bash for 'Crash'

 

Short reviles blacklist

 

'Season' on brink of VOD

 

NDS rips piracy suit by Canal Plus

 

USA Home Ent. swallowed by U

 

Animal magnetism at HBO

 

Pisano has dire warning

 

H'w'd energized

 

Miramax logged on

 

Emmett/Furla has new Millennium

 

Ninja saga on Threshold

 

AOL stock torpedoed by sputtering subs

 

Quaid joins Fox 'Grubbs'; Gelbart pilot adds trio

 

O Brother, Grammys goose sales

 

VNU up on disposals, acquisitions

 

Daytime Emmy noms announced

 

Arthur Kananack

 

Sprockets catches 'Rat'

 

Dogma director begins romantic 'Skagerak'

 

Celli bows at Venice

 

Soundtrack net expands

 

Gaul lensed a record 204 pix in '01

 

Premiere's survival may depend on Rupe

 

Oscar Watch: Randy Newman, John Goodman

 

USA ships Helen mini as quite a knockout

 

Kids' WB, Cartoon Net get closer

 

Feature spinoff ads to success

 

U.K. develop coin for 4

 

'Gang' is subsidized

 

Animal Planet bows in Brazil

 

India's first lotto launched

 

Roundabout books 'Look'

 

Lange well off at Weller

 

New Hallmark card

 

'Shield' has arresting numbers in FX debut

 

Auds walk from talk during Games

 

King talks talkers' future

 

DiPego trio head to 'Outer Limits'

 

WMA has new 'Ring' leader

 

'Potter' leads Saturn kudos

 

Miramax 'Loved' pic

 

Canal Plus-NDS link near before squabble

 

Danner drawn to 'Presidio'

 

TBS Latin shuffles ad sales staff

 

Village exits 3 exhib co-ventures in Asia

 

RCA musical chairs

 

Laura Molen

 

U.K. TV ad sales fall in late 2001

 

Kelsey Ellen Breuer

 

Siena Isabella Pinsker

 

Jedediah Smith Levinson

 

Davies gets aboard 'Solaris'

 

Fox 2000 game for 'Battle World' pic

 

Screen Gems streams 'Evil'

 

New Line going to prom with comedy spec 'Hal'

 

'Showtime' shindig

 

Grammy goose giving 'O Bro' a second wind

 

ABC's new mini major

 

Brooks upbeat on 'Death'

 

Artisan crafts Yahoo deal

 

$300 mil for NBC's 'Will'

 

Arnold back for 'Westworld,' 'Conan' redos

 

Walden will go on 'Manhunt'

 

Mandalay goes marketing

 

Tix hit ritzy roof

 

Cameron to helm 'Angel's' finale

 

Disney knocked out by Naval boxing pitch

 

Albee gets his 'Goat'

 

'Jessica' comes out in N.Y.

 

Williams to conduct symphony for 'E.T.'s' 20th

 

Grove entertainment complex bows tonight

 

'Ice Age' has a cold opening

 

Preem showered with 'Flowers'

 

Docu goes 'Underground'

 

Vidgame turned flick goes 'Evil'

 

'Millionaire' co. Complete posts record results

 

NDS said to have paid cash to piracy site

 

William 'Bill' Turner

 

Mildred Berkowitz

 

Nasir Hussain

 

PAG bags IPO plans

 

Berlusconi crony wins top post at pubcaster

 

B-TV eyes Kirch stations

 

Teuton gain for Oz exhib

 

Spanish films get boost

 

RTL widens scope of exex

 

Disney adds Gaul park

 

Country kudos saddle up

 

United nabs Ster screens

 

Intermedia parent stock up

 

Streamcast offers home to indie artists

 

H'wood skeds runaway meet

 

Bush honors arts veterans

 

Oscar Watch: Acad taps Hartnett to present

 

In film, where there's no smoke, there's a fire

 

VH1's 'Zach' a little light in latenight

 

Portugal's PT sees jump in revs

 

Paxson's preening

 

Oz rolls out rebate

 

Parsons opposes D.C. incursion

 

Thompson ankles CNN

 

DirecTV bows Argentina interactive TV

 

Ray English

 

Five-day Venice fest kicks off

 

More than 206 pics to unspool at Cairo

 

Larger Than Life a 'Friend' to Nick

 

Jason Ritter

 

George Stults

 

Cheryl Lynn Bowers

 

Fire convinces group to dine elsewhere

 

New Line pays 'Ransom'

 

Herman-Wurmfeld says 'Yes'

 

Hayden leads USA longform

 

Hannah, Liu fill Tarantino's 'Bill'

 

Williams, Stewart added to fall pilots

 

EMI to unveil mass job cuts, asset sale

 

Ring fling KOs rivals

 

Internet ruling enables cable

 

Lion licking its wounds

 

Gyllenhaal hauls in 2 pix

 

CAA signing puts race league in driver's seat

 

Carved in Stone

 

Merchant-Ivory celebrates 40th

 

Par-based Icon does the Fox trot

 

'Festival' favorite

 

SAG 'Master' plan

 

Hanley will adapt 'Karma Files'

 

Col's up to 'Speed'

 

Inside Move: Canal+ chiefs' attempts to calm staff

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
March 14, 2002

 

EMI to cut 1,000 staff

 

Faltering VH1 a top priority for MTV prez

 

Woolly bully at B.O.

 

Nets in the red zone

 

Complete profit blooms

 

Ad market hitching up to rising economy

 

'Memento,' 'Royal' top trailer mix

 

Lennon grabs pic, TV roles

 

Kirch creditor monitored

 

Studio mavens generate buzz in India

 

Disney awaits India decision

 

Col rolls Korean pic

 

Telemesse tries on new Cologne

 

Shop! checking out

 

Artisan crafts 'Barbie' deal

 

Canuck thesps reach ad deal

 

Inside Move: Quiero quixotically questing for savior

 

Metropolitan ups Forman

 

Ron Carpenter

 

Globo Cabo getting $650 mil bailout

 

Net pilots in liftoff

 

Strand nets 'Cockettes'

 

Coen's 'Man' wins Golden Lady

 

ABC comes out of the ratings closet

 

Pat Weaver dies at 93

 

GOP grabs payback?

 

'Royal,' 'Potter' grab garb kudos

 

ABC's latenight follies hit 'Incorrect' target

 

Miramax axes 14% in retrench

 

'Ice' melts Mexico with $3.8 mil in 3 days

 

'Mind' matters in Oz

 

Oscar Watch: Halle Berry, Helen Hunt

 

Cinar co-founders hit with fine

 

BBC exec in fraud charge

 

Tracy Karagiani, Vitaly Tsivin, Warren Lenard

 

Barry Ziehl

 

French mission takes pix to Kabul

 

It's showtime

 

Wine benefit for song

 

Oo-la-la it's Mickey

 

Prince will fill ABC bill

 

No waiting for Oscar

 

King's royal salute

 

Field day for press

 

Venice festers as execs walk

 

'Legend' rekindled by Arnold

 

Artisan, Falk go to 'Prom'

 

New Line lifts Matthews

 

Johnson exits SAG board slot

 

Who's ploy?

 

Dissecting the directors' competition

 

Intrigue runs high as Oscar votes due

 

Guilds spare on kudo clues

 

Saturday nights' all right for Oscar partying

 

Big events, bigger gifts

 

Murdoch, pubcasters eyeing Kirch sports rights

 

Campbell exits Ministry of Sound

 

Thomas Leahy

 

Rendez-Vous pumps up pacts, profile

 

Cannes man Moretti for Lecon de Cinema

 

Rupe out of loop in India

 

'Multiple budgets' key in hearing on Franchise

 

Oscar Watch: Nathan Lane, Hugh Jackman

 

'Soccer' scores at critics kudos

 

Azteca nixes pact

 

TV Globo taps exec

 

Comedy net plays Tennis

 

Arci's looks for new place

 

Silverstein to get Huston rights kudo

 

Previews prime B.O.

 

Synergy House hangs shingle at Cannes fest

 

Staging a comeback

 

Inside Move: 'Clones' gets Web bump

 

SAG election challenged

 

Filmax Intl. howls with Gauls

 

Andrews to launch imprint with HarperCollins

 

THINKFilm's Velocity up to speed

 

'E.T' anni plays perfectly at Shrine

 

'Ice' flows to boffo bow

 

Oz exhibs settle tix flap

 

Hallmark taps Schlosser

 

FX markets Carlisle as new exec VP

 

It's Revlon vs. Erica

 

Bass, Iovine woo Fox

 

Emotional appeals at SAG

 

AMC: GC deal about to close

 

Pilots land passengers

 

NBC grounds Sandler pilot over clause

 

Lott thought to block Dem pick for FCC seat

 

Folk roles in full Bloom

 

Monster pitch pay

 

Revolution revs 'Rider'

 

New Murphy haunt may be 'Mansion'

 

'Apollo' relaunch puts Imax in orbit

 

It's labor intensive

 

NFL calls audible to beef up 'MNF'

 

Role for Depp pans out in M'max's 'Neverland'

 

Reviews

Surviving Grace

Newport Jazz 2002

Neil Finn

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

'N Sync

Mary Todd -- A Woman Apart

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead; Those Peabodys

The Matthew Shepard Story

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Moms on Strike

Herbie Hancock Future 2 Future Band

My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star

Mr. Goldwyn

Arturo Sandoval

Public Enemy

Snow White: The Fairest of Them All

KT Sullivan & Larry Woodard

Race to Space

Boudoir Tenors

Sweet Smell of Success

Short Cuts: Introduction to Film Studies

The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan

The Dame In The Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, And The Production Code

Ice Age

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

The Nest

God's Bankers

Chicken Skin

The Wimbledon Stage

Bilalian

Kabbarli

Nowhere

Dance Of A Dream

Our Marriage Is On The Rocks

A Tree of Palme

Julietta

Hart

A Painful Pair

Standing By Yourself

Baader

Good Hands

War and Peace

Teknolust

The Trespasser

Alive

Andy Richter Controls the Universe

Lady Windermere's Fan

The Infinite Regress Of Human Vanity

Baby Bob

Death to Smoochy

The Rookie

All Tomorrow's Parties: Day 1

John Scofield; Radiators

RES

Panic Room

Killing Me Softly


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