Table of Contents
Week of 03/19/2002

Articles

Button taps Mika for CEO

 

Low ratings sink India's 'Link'

 

Teuton's Constantin targets U.S.

 

Mexican hit pix snub local kudos contest

 

La7 debuts in Italy

 

Strike looms for Radio-Canada

 

Tele 5 gets new life via TeleMunchen

 

Reality returns to the fore in ratings

 

'Tank' house profits rise

 

Trio make Laureus kudos cut

 

Counterpoint pacts with BFI for rights management

 

Multicast taps Schutzman

 

Isle of Man lands production fund

 

RTL buyout plan kaput

 

AOL TW, Intel ask U.S. to sit on piracy sideline

 

Lawmakers stirred

 

Sachs offering digital peace with b'casters

 

Guthrie skeds August bow for Miller's 'Blues'

 

Activists' anger at FCC to take wing at protest

 

Olmi war pic leads Donatellos with 9 noms

 

Sean Bean

 

Stan Rogow

 

Reed Steiner

 

JT Petty

 

Pamela Hochschartner

 

Cliff Roberts

 

Disney alters toon ops

 

CBS drools as 'Baby' preem wins timeslot

 

NBC Enterprises names Niemi, Nunes

 

XM stock slides 13% on auditor report

 

Par beams up Trekkie titan

 

Beauty Prep Time Essential

 

King Abdullah II meets Spielberg

 

Inside Move: Oscar taking a mud bath

 

MBAs make a calculated move on showbiz versatility

 

Inside Move: Sein of the times

 

Inside Move: The royal 'oui'

 

Inside Move: Agent provocateur

 

'House' gets Highway going

 

Malaysia to host Indian pic awards

 

Fest topper wants to go Hollywood

 

CBS gets an eyeful from spec

 

Basic cable takes R-rated route

 

Diaz says length doesn't matter

 

Exex mull Foxtel/Optus pay TV merger

 

Prisa banks on local heroes

 

B.O. weathers warm winter

 

B.O. up; 'Meta' 228g

 

Biz off; 'Phantom' $1.2 mil

 

The A List: Top slots await rising hotshots

 

'Talk' turns on Pedro

 

Studios survive rush hour

 

Inside Move: Royal pain?

 

Inside Move: Twin towers

 

Inside Move: (M)ass medium

 

Inside Move: Yo, 'Mama'

 

Inside Move: One for the money

 

Inside Move: 'Night' depository

 

Inside Move: Monster mash

 

Tax rebate drives Oz pic boom

 

B.O. flops put chill on FilmFour distrib'n

 

Unrest mars Cartagena pic-TV fest attendance

 

Shanghai breaks through

 

Shoot-first helmer's act hard to follow

 

New Beyond G.M. will come from beyond Oz

 

Webs take new attack tack

 

Vet syndies yakkers go silent

 

Channel V rocks MTV

 

Will Kirch unplug Premiere?

 

Firm on global hunt for production coin

 

Gonna dance

 

'Mama's' boys

 

Hollings howls over DOJ plan

 

Helmer Gray accepts new 'Job' at Par

 

Stars steered toward pilots

 

TBS to debut 'Worst' series

 

Gemstar shares off 26% as exec quits

 

Method Fest selects lineup

 

'Regis & Kelly' gets by with subs

 

Costume Design Oscar Winners 1948 - 2000

 

Berry ripens in 'Ball'

 

The Art of the Fantastic

 

Hot Rocks

 

Incognito

 

Rebel Yell

 

Sparkle Without the Risk

 

A Taste of the Timeless

 

Ageless Beauty

 

Period Plumage

 

Shake, Rap & Roll

 

Janty Yates

 

Tuxedo alternatives

 

Fashion Goes to the Movies

 

Theadora Van Runkle

 

Rita Ryack

 

Jewel of the Nile

 

With virtual net, GSN isn't only game in town

 

Golin, Scotts link

 

Inside Move: Kassar's IRS penalties not so taxing

 

Screen Gems picks 'Bone'

 

'Urinetown' hits road

 

Castle Hill has 'Next Big Thing'

 

Anthony Powell

 

Jeffrey Kurland

 

Jenny Beavan

 

Contract Players

 

Reign of the Cover Girls

 

Next big thing for Fox: 'Pop Idol' from Blighty

 

Style Teams

 

H'wood SAG votes down agent deal

 

Head of the Class

 

Sartorial Zeitgeist

 

Oscar Style, Then & Now

 

Helmer auditions Texas

 

Billy Baldwin rushes to Eye

 

Oscar's accent is on boffo B.O.

 

CAA nabs fest standouts

 

Rokos to pen Artisan's 'Liar' redo

 

Rice rolling to TV with 'Witching' trilogy

 

Magnolia puckers up for 'Lips' rights

 

Zachary Dean Wallis

 

Fiddler on the roof

 

'Folk' hero Harrison signs for 'Letter'

 

Lenser Guild taps finalists

 

Oscar Watch: Paul McCartney

 

FCC will hold Clear hearing

 

Canal Plus at match point for sports web

 

New Yorker receives most mag kudo noms

 

Oz studios banking on more biz

 

Premiere subscribes to job-cutting plan

 

'Andy' takes charge

 

Some syndies continue surge

 

Roy to program Hamptons

 

Comedy net nabs 'Conan' reruns

 

Fox, Mouse D.C. spin

 

Artisan devours VeggieTales pic

 

Par winds up 'Clock'

 

Time to 'Panic'

 

Tavernier's 'Safe' to open City film fest

 

Universal Focus shutters

 

Helena Bonham Carter

 

Dakota Fanning, Desmond Harrington, James McDaniel, Matt Frewer

 

Jake Tapper

 

Stevens wins praiser prize

 

Cannes' cash call

 

Frog's Kolb hops up to exec VP post

 

Castle Rock: Earning its keep?

 

EMI faces the music with restructuring

 

Capitol Hill puts a cork in NBC booze ads

 

New ArcLight to ban blurbs

 

Clarification

 

MTV, FX rookies' ratings rip

 

Fireworks TV buys 'Realms'

 

Grant primed for 'Love'

 

Minogue in vogue, EMI back in fashion

 

'Jim Brown' preems at the DGA

 

Stage exit

 

Acad feeling labor pains at new digs

 

Biz chief Brook exits Eye

 

New Line nets 'Butterfly'

 

Emmerich's warden of Col's 'Alien Prison'

 

Seagal's ex-partner out for justice

 

Fox puts focus on 'Centerfold'

 

'Wicker' horror war erupts

 

Zwart banks on Lion pic

 

U and Rock see gold in 'Helldorado'

 

Braugher behind the wheel in 'Hack'

 

Trio ready to go tell it on Miramax 'Mountain'

 

Anderson, Lifetime will ride 'Buffalo'

 

Revolution-ary change for Bernstein

 

'Boys' night out

 

Salonen plays 'Two Songs'

 

Nine net, Macquarie launch fund

 

Irish channel Tara to shutter

 

Fox Kids Europe turns $6.5 million profit

 

9th Days of European Film debate storytelling

 

'Knights' lensing begins in Prague

 

Gallic TV regulator gives political air time warning

 

Disney lights on Edison spec script

 

AIA cleared of audition-fee rap

 

Spain's RTVE inks AT&T carriage deal

 

Soccer goal for Televisa

 

Telemundo preps 'Todo'

 

Dutch to clog court

 

Mann's Grimme reaper

 

Ferguson tapped Loonland COO-prez

 

EM.TV names G.M.

 

'Madam' gets nom

 

'Ali' bow aids fund

 

Exhib buys Oz stake

 

Runaway prod'n meet leads to more talks

 

Cronkite campaign

 

Berlusconi's Fininvest parting with Medusa

 

Murdoch plays hardball on Oz's Foxtel

 

The Lido finds its leader ... at last

 

Pooh preps for court date

 

Oscar Watch: Close, Sutherland

 

'Apollo' makes giant leap

 

USC sesh finds a new Rome home

 

Fest charged up

 

Trilling tapped to make 'Porn'

 

H'w'd takes on techies

 

ITV renegotiation nixed by league

 

The secure cat in the maverick genius hat

 

35 pix slated for Gotham's Avignon fest

 

'Memento' sees Starz

 

SoapNet strips original

 

New direction for '$treet'

 

Avatar set to operate 'Tosca' pic

 

Crix may miss Bancroft perf

 

'Shrew,' 'Savages' set for Yale Rep stagings

 

Correction

 

Nightline to explore 'Mind' disease

 

Media stox socked by AOL's drop

 

Mouse seeing Starz!

 

Mojto ankles troubled Kirch for own venture

 

Gilbert: No ATA deal leads to 'Wild West'

 

Loews completes bankruptcy reorg

 

Don Carney

 

Sizemore Mann's man

 

Telepictures' Paratore adds duties

 

Dimension opens door to 'Spy' pic

 

Bardem tries on 'Nike'

 

Inside Move: Handicapping Oscars never been easier

 

Inside Move: 'The Kid' draws classy crowd

 

Lagardere's revs rise

 

Comic on yak pack track

 

Fox 2000 romances 'Life' laffer spec

 

NBC's 'Ellie' exiting, UPN laffers laff least

 

TV's wobbly legs

 

Olympic medalists spinning into NBC special

 

U ups Campbell to sr. VP

 

Producers trigger Rogers, Evans revival

 

Beineix flying with 'Earhart'

 

Tamahori preps to 'Die'

 

Ifans aloft in Aussie-set laffer 'Deckchair'

 

Bruckheimer's buccaneers to get a brush-up

 

Producers make most of micro-budgets

 

Frosh helmers ready for the big time

 

Docus tell tough tales with passion

 

Harnessing the hip factor

 

Show survives growing pains

 

Waters shoots from the 'hip'

 

Saturday afternoon players

 

U.S. pics down 8% in Europe in '01

 

U.K. likely to nix Murdoch terrestrial move

 

ITV Digital teetering on the brink

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
March 22, 2002

 

Rosetta LeNoire

 

Tracking the hot titles in the pipeline

 

Fest to explore new L.A. venues and options

 

'Memento' tops Indie Spirit Awards

 

Razzies finger 'Freddy'

 

BBC, Discovery extend alliance

 

'Blade' slices B.O.

 

Fox, Meredith ink deal

 

'Conspiracy' renewed

 

Col, Lesh tune up diskery Lapis Music

 

'Ring' rolling to China in April bow

 

De Agostini, Planeta wed

 

Sinatra's Oz fray in 'Day'

 

Syndie 'King' toon titan

 

Fireworks TV buys 'Realms'

 

Oscar almost ready for his closeup

 

Israel fest sets salutes

 

NBC adds TiVo play

 

Stahl ready to battle machines in WB's 'T3'

 

New Regency, MBST planning to 'Give It Up'

 

APG, StudioCanal end joint venture

 

Reynolds tapped for WB's 'Gap'

 

Booming broadcast stox draw warning

 

Scandal whacks bottom line

 

Loonland finds European success

 

Two Frog skeins croak

 

Odeon breaks even

 

IATSE's Brewer resigns

 

Radio-Canada staff walks out

 

EU to postpone H'w'd content quota overhaul

 

Signpost flees Great White North

 

'Evil' is good

 

The Times are changing -- and it's overdue

 

Fox, Blue Sky warming up assembly of 'Robots'

 

Lola gets cash boost

 

Marvel-ous movies

 

74th Annual Academy Awards Winners

 

'Inspired hearts can change things'

 

Banks may take control of KirchMedia

 

Kinowelt whittling down

 

'Drift' takes grand jury, actress nods at Nordic fest

 

Hollywood's high spirits

 

Kudos crown a rich run for 'Shrek'

 

Players praise heart of H'wood

 

Hypnotic links with Quality

 

'Married' weds cablers

 

CIS grows 3D arm

 

H'w'd hails return to its classic past

 

Pleased or not pleased with the Kodak Theater?

 

Berry, Washington score historic wins

 

Acad goes mad for 'Mind'

 

Gotham's low gear

 

William Witney

 

Carmelo Bene

 

'Mind' matters at U

 

'Beautiful' bounce is coming to mind

 

Global music market said down 10% in '01

 

A fetefull night for Oscar

 

Signpost yanks post

 

Gaul firms seek digital TV licenses

 

Mediaset, RAI budget cuts produce protest

 

Legal eagle ankles Par

 

Loews vet joins Century

 

Fox boosts Sternberg

 

Studios near D-Day

 

SAG's Pisano uploads plea for agent deal

 

Sound editors laud 'Black Hawk'

 

First Run fest shows student best

 

MGM uses Oscar to 'Land' more dates

 

Finneran tapped in IFP mart redo

 

Attendance bump 11% on B'way

 

Oxygen Sports reduces team

 

FCC sez lingerie spec OK under decency regs

 

Paul Miller

 

Steve MacDonald

 

Dan Merrell, Bob Starnes

 

Backend tussle moves to nets' front burner

 

Fox Sports Latam dropping from Sky

 

Canal Plus inks deal with Pathe

 

TV2 Sales reps NRK

 

German pubcasters set gala

 

New Cologne heads

 

'Ice' still mammoth

 

Joy abounds at post-Oscars Acad

 

Just for Laughs taps Charest

 

KNBC fires newsies

 

That's 'Life' for King

 

Corrections

 

Mamet makes tracks for ICM on pic side

 

Inside move: ABC terminates Bond

 

Inside move: Uncut 'Daddy'? Not on USA

 

AFMA open to distribs of non-English-lingo pix

 

Roy Rogers gets back in the saddle

 

EMI tries to keep a wandering Williams

 

Dick Sylbert dead at 73

 

Hurt to net 'Blue Butterfly'

 

Warners finding 'Fault' in Italo pic prod'n foray

 

Telecinco in fighting trim despite profit dip

 

Banks circle ailing Kirch

 

Sony prexy Lemberger to ankle

 

AOL TW braces for huge loss

 

Exec VP Golden exits Intermedia

 

Helmer scales mountains

 

Sony sr. VP exits Oz for L.A.

 

Goyer turns to 'Darksiders'

 

Revolution adds unit to buy indie pix

 

Oscar ratings hit

 

B'way subsidy trickles down to smaller orgs

 

Reviews

All Tomorrow's Parties

Talking Heads

Rob Zombie

Blade II

Throw Pitchfork

Flogging Molly

Talk to Her

J for J

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

The Blue Room

First Lady Suite

Trust

Project/Object

Ja Rule, Ludacris

Mary/Mary

Ali G Indahouse

Men With Brooms

Monica Mancini -- Mancini at the Movies

Sorority Boys

Oklahoma!

Clark Gable: A Biography

George Cukor: Interviews

Tartuffe

Richard III

Uncle Broadway

The Full Monty

Mambety

The Misanthrope

Ghost Of A Chance

One Leg Kicking

Away From The Window

Big Shot's Funeral

Reflections

Athens Blues

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering A Sense Of Place

Lolo's Child

Strawberries With Real Milk

Tenfold

Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge

The Last Place On Earth

Love Hurts

A Passage to Ottawa

Paz!

Clockstoppers

Burn With Me

Monsieur Batignole

Swing

Beverly Winwood Presents the Actors Showcase

Linda Eder

Cheval

The Bachelor

The Apex Theory; Lostprophets

Hearts

The 74th Annual Academy Awards

The Court

Roy Wood's Army

Ben Allison's Medicine Wheel

The Carpetbagger's Children

The Magic Flute

Pat Metheny Group

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