Table of Contents
Week of 04/09/2002

Articles

Bert Robert Briller

 

Frances Doyle Sheiffele

 

Charles Gillan Jr.

 

Harry O'Connor

 

Julia Lane Shelanski

 

RTL buys Intermedia pics

 

Scorsese to head Cannes' shorts jury

 

EMI restructures Recorded Music Switzerland

 

Brazil may amend pic-pay TV tax reg

 

Thompson speech set

 

Televisa shifts sales exex

 

Prisa music arm spins into Mexico

 

Cable TV adds Hindi

 

Cannes picks pic

 

DD deal doubles up

 

MAA TV launches

 

NBC reels in 'Years' auds

 

Copy doom looming

 

Variety Club to honor Regal chief Campbell

 

TLC, Lions Gate pin down 'Sideshow'

 

NBC calls on Gregory charm for 'Other'

 

Growth forecast for media tech biz

 

FullAudio scores Warner tracks

 

ESPYs warm to H'wood move

 

Col Records taps Devine

 

Nobu McCarthy

 

AMC screens pull GC logo

 

Kirch pay is in play

 

Maria Felix

 

New 'Street' for Rukeyser

 

WGF pens scribes for event

 

'Little Shop' plants roots on Broadway

 

Saccani tapped at Mad Chance

 

HBO casts yes vote for 'Journeys'

 

Sony's quest finds PlayStation 2

 

Ad giants stay away from FX's 'Shield'

 

SAG censures prexy

 

Stables reins in H&H post

 

Acad reviews the 74th Oscars

 

Catch 23 gets mitts on 'Life'

 

Yankee fans go to bat in Cablevision dispute

 

Coleman's mane man at Lion prod'n

 

ABC takes 'Popular' turn with Rue casting

 

Woodruff gets a taste of film directing on 'Honey'

 

ABC shifts 'Blue' back to 10

 

Foley artists sound out SAG on joining

 

IFP scribbles in 'Script' sages

 

Arden Blake Sher

 

Max Joseph Tuber

 

Buster Williams Whaley

 

Kai Harper Steines

 

TV makers juice push for digital

 

EchoStar courts NAB-goers

 

RTNDA offers guidelines for ethical coverage

 

Time Warner reboots AOL helm

 

Weitz stuff at Endeavor

 

'Day' dawning at Revolution

 

Interactive TV stuck in slow lane

 

RealNetworks intros sub billing service

 

MovieLink plugs into MPEG-4

 

Pacts keep Lion tamers in the hunt

 

'Anything' went

 

'Dinner's' served

 

NBC sets syndie synergy

 

Riley ankles Industry to hang own shingle

 

He's game for 'Real Deal'

 

Pitch perfect

 

Chrysalis taps Duncanson for Entertainment

 

Festa to fete De Laurentiis

 

Bob Talmage

 

Snared in Web fears

 

Ashanti disc downs Dion

 

Dhaliwal, Rubin open 'Wide'

 

TVA to keep hand in pic distribbing

 

Vivendi U denies UCI plan

 

'Clones' to preem at Tribeca

 

FCC gives Peacock a go on Telemundo acquisition

 

McGowan: Worst is over for b'cast, cable

 

Fox files to offer shares

 

AT&T puts stock split, merger to shareholders

 

Roadshow offers 'Eggs' on film menu

 

Lawmakers play videogames at promo

 

Cannes b'cast revived

 

'Thunder' booms in Prague

 

Alliance spices up Hispanic live events

 

WGA reups McLean for 5 more years

 

Oscars boost syndie mag ratings

 

Saluting Newman

 

Bill dramatizes playwrights' effort

 

Gilbert asks for civility

 

Buying mood at NAB

 

Cop clear in actor's shooting

 

Correction

 

Teamsters fund effort

 

Showtime steps 'Out' with gay program block

 

New Line will stand 'Alone'

 

Woody to wrap S.F.

 

'Spirit' wild at Cannes

 

More 'Geeks,' 'Glick' for net

 

Suit sez 'Spider-man' billboards don't ad up

 

Gaye's configured for 'Matrix' sequels

 

Eye net falls for Fehr, Keith as pilot co-stars

 

Turner swears by Swad for exec veepee, finance

 

UPN sends 'Roswell' into space

 

Hopkins fit for lit at Catch 23

 

Walberg takes game spin

 

Cherkis roped into 'Ranch' film

 

Hanks farms 'Ant' to 'Genius' helmer

 

Williams sheds vet rep in return to fold at CAA

 

'Italian Job' taps driver

 

Law, Izzard shows to visit New York

 

E! programmer hangs shingle

 

Sked smackdown

 

San Sebastian fete marks 50 years

 

Preem's the 'Thing'

 

Fine Line's 'Nature' calls

 

'Dead' is alive

 

Paris match in H'w'd

 

'Frailty' celebrates craft

 

EMI to sell HMV record chain stake

 

C4 extends 'Big Brother' contract

 

Canada's Fireworks, Tele-Muenchen partner

 

Thierry Pathe

 

Bridget Aschenberg

 

Danilo Bata Stojkovic

 

Chrysalis taps head

 

ElGourmet expands

 

Star TV cancels library pact

 

Oz's Oasis DVD expands

 

Italo call to 'Arms'

 

TVB affirms pay TV plans

 

Binoche, Boorman seek truth in S. Africa

 

Kirch, Spain's Via play ball on Cup fees

 

Big Apple nabs TV5 Etats-Unis

 

Viner takes to 'Air' with writer Brown

 

NBC lone bright spot in GE's glum first qtr.

 

FullAudio inks online tune deal

 

Axium Int'l buys software vendor

 

Warners ups Tsujihara

 

Josef Svoboda

 

Peggy Hewett

 

AOL clicks De Castro

 

Margaret Vandegrift

 

Carl Roup

 

Pic rights 'Spirited' by Disney

 

Harriet Joan Kelly Radvansky

 

Marvin Honig

 

Taper to spotlight Wilson's 'Gem'

 

B'way 'Amour' Legrand's 1st

 

Medusa plucks pix

 

Kirch feevee rescue

 

McCormack play will follow 'Targets' run

 

NBC, Court in syndie 'Trial'

 

Senator Int'l taps Kahane

 

Berry Bond-ing with Oscar status

 

All Sports net not a slam dunk

 

Sandy Scott

 

Benjamin Harkarvy

 

Luigi Luraschi

 

Bennett Byron Sims

 

Rene Assa

 

Caan sets TV series debut

 

Par on Burroughs' 'Mars'

 

'Goldmember' back in action

 

Guenter Hensler

 

AFTRA in deal with agencies

 

ABC's 'Lopez' gains

 

Intermedia extends its Outlaw deal

 

Fox firing up TV heat wave

 

Lewis Mishkin

 

B'casters' air raid

 

Capers' 'Mask' fits Lego

 

Zezza zooms to Visionbox

 

Warner to Ellen: Let's talk

 

New Line takes 'Queen'

 

Echegoyen in charge of Urban's planning

 

Ex-ATG prez sues Ovitz, claiming non-payment

 

Weekend Box Office Preview
April 12, 2002

 

Olivia Goodwin Roginson

 

Wyatt Alpert

 

Canal Plus minus top Vivendi exec

 

Southern Star's fortunes really rising

 

Plays do battle for crix, B.O. coin

 

Broadway grosses

 

Mother & child reunion

 

New pic standards set forth in Mexico

 

Edgy Blighty exhibition plan floated

 

Workshop to boost prod'n skills

 

Mart, fest pull off balancing act

 

Biz reels from Teutonic shift

 

Shows on biz mostly miss

 

Wrangle between cablers, operators hits new high

 

NAB sees bounce back

 

Prairie outfit lassos license

 

Decline of the profit prophets

 

Inside Move: Fox readies newsmag

 

Inside Move: Avoiding AOL switchover

 

Village of the damned for preems?

 

Inside Move: Vidgamer clicks with older aud

 

Inside Move: BMW savors 'Hire' education

 

Inside Move: Euro b'casters go native

 

Design for ContentFilm

 

TVAfrica scores with soccer Cup

 

Euro TV braces for shakeout

 

Kiwi pubcaster shocks producers with rev plan

 

Kidvidder will debut at Mip

 

Road grosses

 

New Humana nature at fest

 

Nippon prod'n slates see samurai pics, toons on tap

 

Madden catches 'Tulip Fever'

 

M6 marks 15th anni with higher ad revs

 

Yakker wars get dirty

 

Inside Move: Shaw doing 'Nothin' for runaways

 

Inside Move: 'Crossfire' vs. Fox News

 

Inside Move: Peacock puts on a game face

 

Inside Move: Westwood venues age, shutter

 

Inside Move: Paxson could be auction winner

 

Eurotrack: Messier does the math, finds too many minuses on Plus side

 

Correction

 

Brits are fest frontrunners

 

Weak o'sea openers bolstered by holdovers

 

Youthful host is M6's symbol

 

The A List: New reality dawns on tube

 

Crash registers at B.O.

 

Phoenix falls for 'Autumn' horror tale

 

Starlight's needed at Mip

 

BBC unveils bountiful series of int'l deals

 

Docs' health strong

 

Spain format heats up

 

'Oklahoma!' dominates crix noms

 

Nelson will head Euro outpost for DIC

 

Soundtrack going NonStop for STC

 

Asians show market presence

 

Gwen Leys Davenport

 

Robert J. 'Bob' Kolb

 

B.J. Baker

 

Chrysalis gets hunka Presley pub catalogs

 

Locations, location ...

 

ATAS criticizes Discovery credits plan

 

Bragman Nyman Cafarelli debuts licensing

 

Nickelback, Krall on key at Canada's Junos

 

Daily Sun set to rise in Gotham

 

'Panic' lifts o'seas B.O. in preems

 

Eastwood gets the 'Blues'

 

Journo sues Disney & N.Y. Post

 

AFTRA OKs ATA deal

 

Alierta firms hold on Admira

 

Stox gain traction

 

Chaos in Kingdom of Kirch has moguls fretting

 

Acquisitive minds: Jose Luis Roncal

 

South Korea

 

Australia

 

Latin America

 

Czech Republic

 

Italy

 

France

 

United Kingdom

 

Netherlands

 

Belgium

 

Austria

 

Japan

 

China

 

Canada

 

Switzerland

 

Hungary

 

Poland

 

Spain

 

Nordic Region

 

Germany

 

Acquisitive minds: Beatrice Rieber

 

Acquisitive minds: Sophie Turner-Laing

 

Brand brokers building bridges between TV, ad biz

 

Germany's H5B5 seeks exit from Neuer Markt

 

Euro union props up telco

 

Mip market seminars

 

Clear Channel queues up music exex

 

Le Pen loses bid for pic ban

 

Buzz heats up Mipdoc

 

Fox skein tempts the world to watch

 

Exhib lag offset by boost in buyers

 

Nets still dosing on reality

 

Top shows still fly first class

 

Foreign pix sweep Paris fest kudos

 

Date with Cannes not Venice snub, Allen sez

 

New Line closing 'Home' sale

 

Neufeld jazzed about 'Ragtime' biopic

 

More 'Mac' ordered

 

Bialystock gets the boot

 

Stars sit on 'Jury'

 

Fox Cable Nets prez heading to Gemstar

 

Farrow joins CBS' 'Julie'

 

'Tambien' star will 'Dot the I'

 

Star dust at Ovitz's AMG

 

Six CAA assistants mark move to agent

 

Acme sets Freiberg as agency lit leader

 

Inside move: Academy admonishes CAA

 

Inside move: Flu fouls Liz GLAAD tidings

 

Viacom pair drew bigtime paydays

 

Whoopi exits center square

 

Equity, Dodgers ink special '42nd' contract

 

Star News will headline Kohli

 

Cup rights licensed

 

MuchMusic extends

 

Mip bits

 

'Shanghai' reteams 'Dove' operatives

 

'Real World' team set self-parody pic for MTV

 

Paramount, producer in a family way

 

Angel 'Tito' Rodriguez

 

David Maximilian Greenstein

 

Dashell Lorcan Flynn

 

Kaitlyn "Katie" Alexandra Mumford

 

Paolo Warren Camon

 

Stringer, Ebisawa to receive Emmys

 

Mouse picks up kidvid series, movies

 

WWF inks int'l PPV deals

 

One more week's ops pledged to ITV Digital

 

Blacklisted: Hunting for truth

 

Randy Castillo

 

Almost quitting time for Quiero

 

M6 pair reunite

 

Pair ink on nature docs

 

Ragdoll sells tp Discovery Kids, Nick

 

Endemol Netherlands to pinkslip

 

Beta tests waters

 

Spanish-lingo nets prevail

 

Noe buys time to restructure

 

Romania is Playboy's latest feevee conquest

 

Sun TV buys China's pioneer

 

Reprise! casts 'Follies'

 

Universal bringing 'Mind,' 'Park' to DVD

 

Canadian guild salutes scripters

 

Korean 'Girl' wows Hong Kong auds

 

First Run Film Fest digs 'Wormhole'

 

Henry Slesar

 

Cabler Ish cuts staff

 

Fostering success

 

Cablevision goes public

 

Rionda brings 'Music' to news cabler

 

Brits, U.S. nab mountain of Banff Rockies

 

'Vinyl' to open Hot Docs

 

Kenneth Wolstenholme

 

Most shows dip, but 'Topdog' triples B.O.

 

Tribeca gets 'Divine'

 

Hughes up, stox down

 

Andra Akers

 

Jan Siege

 

Gurin catches U.K.'s 'Love Thing' for U.S.

 

Mojto's mojo working with eye toward H'w'd

 

A busy Viacom Prods. muscles up exec ranks

 

Woolf heads to Gerard Klauer

 

Strike up the 'Waltz'

 

Warning from FTC over Hollings threat

 

Schroeder can't refuse Cannes honor

 

Lapping up 'Meow' wow

 

Casting call

 

Sundance net lands 9 pix

 

MoMA makes much of Russell

 

Seinfeld doc hits road as Miramax inks deal

 

'Producers' plot thickens after axe

 

Baring all on Broadway

 

Boys will be boys

 

Ramis bonding with Levin's 'Friends'

 

Eddie McClintock

 

Marton Csoka

 

Maria Bello

 

Brian White, Dahlia Salem, Mike Erwin, James Laffert, Jordan Wood

 

Robert Urich, an American icon

 

SAG confronts its doomsday scenario

 

Fox TV stakes 'Buffy' runner to overall deal

 

Whitaker enters 'Twilight'

 

Disney plants magic Beane

 

Richardson to take her 'Medicine'

 

Dude, where's my sequel?

 

Inside move: TV's new first family

 

Vivendi's vertigo

 

CBS, Turner may pay $20 mil for 'Room'

 

It's all about a remake as Par preps new 'Alfie'

 

Mouse's 'Soul' food

 

AFTRA sounds off on need for new contract

 

Rod Rodgers

 

BAFTA laughter

 

Reviews

Humpty Dumpty

Dead Weight

A Couple of Blaguards

George Lopez

Kid Rock

ZigZag

2002 Mac Awards

3 Dark Tales

Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents

Andorra

Bush

The Best Day of My Life

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

Outta Time

New Best Friend

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Bill Charlap Trio

Billy Cobham's Spectrum

Memoir

The Dazzle

The Pilot's Wife

Swimming With Watermelons

The Glee Club

The Pirate, The Wizard, The Thief And The Children

Bedroom Farce

Bang the Machine

Last Party 2000

West 47th Street

Never Mind The Wall

PrizeWhores

Roaring Across the Horizon

My Brother Silk Road

The Mesmerist

Book of Love

Drive-In Movie Memories

Master Of The Game

Final Hope

Walking On Water

Dream Is Stronger Than Death

A Prayer For Hetman Mazepa

The Kingston High

A Map of the Heart

Pure Blood

Spirits

Murder By Numbers

Broken Silence

The Elephant Man

Once and Again

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The Thundering Herd -- Evocations of Woody Herman

Drowning Pool

Victoria Williams

Mercedes Sosa

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