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MTV CHOOSES ALTERNATIVE
MTV begins a new series to showcase offbeat and alternative films and
filmmakers at alt.film@mtv, to be hosted by Chris Connelly. This series
examines the resurgence in popularity of alternative films, their impact on
traditional Hollywood fare, and their influence on pop culture and music.
The series will also explore how alternative cinema serves as fertile
ground for new talent both on-camera and behind the lens. The first episode
will include previews of two widely anticipated independent releases:
Basquiat and Trainspotting that looks at contemporary,
generally-low-budget, renegade films, and some of the stars and films who
have emerged from this genre, as well as festivals such as Sundance and
South By South West that support independent films.


NISSAN TO SPONSOR OLYMPIC WEB SITE
Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A. has agreed to become a sponsor of three
key areas in the NBC Centennial Olympic Web site (http://www.olypmpic.nbc.com).
Nissan will sponsor the following areas: NBC Centennial Olympic TV event
programming, Day-by-Day, Hour-by-Hour reporting of the Olympic Games and
the NBC Centennial Olympic Interactive Poll. The Nissan banner ads, when
clicked, will link visitors to Nissan's comprehensive home page
(http://www.nissanmotors.com). The sponsorship was arranged by Softbank
Interactive Media for NBC Interactive Media and joins other Olympic partners
including AT&T, IBM and Visa.


Paramount Pictures: THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BEAST
Filming has begun in Los Angeles and Prague for Paramount Pictures'
romantic comedy, The Beautician and the Beast, starring Fran Drescher and
Timothy Dalton. Fran Drescher is known for her role on TV's The Nanny, and
Timothy Dalton starred in The Living Daylights and License to Kill, two
James Bond flicks. The Beautician and the Beast is about Joy Miller (Fran
Drescher), a warm and funny street-smart New York hairstylist, and Boris
Pochenko (Timothy Dalton), the foul-tempered leader who reigns over the
Eastern European country of Slovetzia. Joy is pronounced a heroine after
rescuing some would-be beauticians from a fire in the makeshift classroom
where she teaches a night school beauty culture class. The notoriety brings
her a job offer--to tutor the children of Slovetzia. The folks in Slovetzia
think they've hired an academic to help westernize the president's
children and smooth the transition to a post- Communist world, while she
thinks they've hired a beautician. Lots of room for comedy as well as a
romantic interest between Joy and Boris.



Philips Media: NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE MURDER AND A LOT OF SEX
The combination of sex and untimely, assisted deaths, has maintained
colonies of fiction writers, TV and movie producers, for decades. Philips
Media intends to cash in on this genre of entertainment and they have
debuted Voyeur II. This title, which stars Jennifer O'Neill as Elizabeth
Duran, is for Macintosh and PC CD-ROM machines. You become the Voyeur,
peering through a video camera. However, this night your obsession finds
you trying to prevent a murder. You must piece together the story of the
Cussler family and save Elizabeth's life. Seems as though her colleague and
lover, Dr. Everett Cussler, has been murdered, and his will leaves his
biomedical research institute to her. She involves you as the Voyeur as she
risks her own life attempting to expose her lover's killer. You'll even
find actor Dennis Weaver appearing as Sheriff John Parker. You must manage
the resources in your isolated cabin, because one wrong move will find you
arrested as a Peeping Tom, or even as a conspirator to murder.There are
more than 80 minutes of video, multiple plot scenarios and an easily
navigable 3D environment. The game was developed by InterWeave
Entertainment.



Reuters: TOP 10 FLICKS AT THE CINEMA
The top 10 movies at the U.S. box office from The Reuters Business Report
from Friday, July 12 through Sunday, July 14.

 1. Independence Day $36.0 million
 2. Phenomenon $13.1 million
 3. Courage Under Fire $12.8 million
 4. The Nutty Professor $11.8 million
 5. Harriet The Spy $7.3 million
 6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame $6.5 million
 7. Eraser $6.0 million
 8. The Rock $4.4 million
 9. Striptease $3.2 million
10. Twister $1.9 million

NOTE: Some studios say Paramount's estimate for ``Harriet the Spy'' is too
optimistic, and it was more likely sixth.



Sega of America: PULLING IT TOGETHER
Once the leader within the console games industry, Sega has lately suffered
both financial and market share losses. Hoping for a turn-around, Sega of
America has now appointed Shoichiro Irimajiri has the company's new
chairman and ceo. Before joining the company, he was with Honda Motor
Company for nearly 30 years! Tom Kalinske, who held this position
previously, is leaving after six years to join Education Technology LLC,
and he will remain on Sega of America's board of directors. Bernard Stolar
was also named as the company's new executive vice president and he's going
to be the person responsible for product development and third-party biz.



SegaSoft: ON CLOUD 9
SegaSoft Inc. has taken another step to further their expansion in the
edutainment arena by investing in Cloud 9 Interactive. SegaSoft Chief
Operating Officer Gary Griffiths will join the board of the directors of
privately held Cloud 9 Interactive, a children's entertainment company that
is also involved in television, video and merchandising for children from
pre-school to 12 years old. Cloud 9 Interactive is currently producing
Wanna-Be A Fossil Finder, an interactive learning adventure that allows
children to explore what they want to be when they grow up. A second title
under development is How To Draw The Marvel Way, in which a Marvel artist
teaches in more than 90 interactive drawing lessons.



Universal Pictures: CARREY IS LIAR
Filming has begun for Liar, Liar, a contemporary comedy starring Jim
Carrey, for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. The film co-stars
Maura Tierney (News Radio) and a new face, Justin Cooper. Director Tom
Shadyac, who was responsible for Carrey's film debut in Ace Ventura: Pet
Detective, will work with him again. Carrey stars as Fletcher Reid, a fast
talking attorney who has a compulsion for lying. When his son Max (Justin
Cooper) blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has only one
wish--that his dad would stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish
miraculously comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset--his
mouth--has suddenly become his biggest liability. Both legal and emotional
chaos take place as Fletcher tries to keep his practice afloat and his
ex-wife Audrey (Maura Tierney) from taking their son and moving to Boston.



Universal Pictures: FRIGHTNERS ARE UNIVERSAL
Universal Pictures has launched an innovative World Wide Web site at
http://www.mca.com/universal_picturessite for the forthcoming Robert
Zemeckis-Peter Jackson film, The Frighteners. Universal has a newly
redesigned interface with a multi-level site that offers a 2-way
communication venue with a voice-enabled 3D virtual environment. Here folks
sample the latest movies on the Internet, such as The Frighteners, which
takes psychic con man, Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox), into the spirit
world to stop a supernatural crime spree. This site transports computer
users to the other side of the Net where folks will see ghosts appear and
disappear and experience haunted Web pages that have a mind of their own,
where graphics suddenly morph and melt away. There'll be three main
components: a preview section, a 2D interactive Web adventure that goes
into the world of the film,  and a 3D voice-enabled virtual reality
environment from OnLive! Technologies that depicts sets from the film.



VideoLabs: A PLEASING STING
More and more of us are becoming involved, on a daily basis, in the process
of full-motion video capture. We are using the resulting videos in a
variety of ways, from family motion albums, to multimedia presentations.
However, the price for such boards for the PC has been somewhat on the high
side. VideoLabs has now introduced their Stinger(TM) board. Designed for
the PCI bus and Windows users, this full 30 fps (frames-per-second) video
overlay board can capture a 640x480 screen in 16 million colors. The board
is compatible with MS 3.11, WIndows 95, VFW and supports AVI and DCI
drivers. You can also use Enhanced CU-SeeMe(TM) and other videoconferencing
software with Stinger. The unit also has composite and S-video inputs. And
the price for this puppy? The SRP is $199.00. There is more info available
at http://flexcam.com.



Warner Brothers TV: MONEY THICKER THAN FRIENDS
The cast of Friends has mandated that unless each of them receives $100,000
per episode, they're not going to be very friendly. Courteney Cox, Jennifer
Aniston, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc
signed five-year contracts for about $22,500 per episode when Friends began
two seasons ago. As a result of the raging success of this program, Warner
Bros. has reportedly sold Friends into syndication for $4 million per
episode, an unusually high sum, but the deal depends on the cast returning
for at least two more years to generate enough shows for reruns. The
ultimatum given by the six is that if the six figure salary isn't given all
the way around there'll be a strike...film at 11:00.