Fox, Rank face $ 300 mil vid suit

Acad rejects 'World'

Cabler sells services a la carte

ITC shrugs off attack on Granada

'Simpsons' clear 7 affils

CBS wins big with Grammys

Hughes serves dish bill

'Vicki!' facing sticky situation

Oscar watch

Blockbuster, CBS link up

Short Takes

Barnett tapped TPW sales VP

ABC verifies plan to shelve 'Shirley'

Jackson already on his 5th TV show of '93

Leipzig joins Interscope ranks

Tax credit may cover movies, TV

Lynch takes stand on 'Boxing'

Fox hitches 'Ride' from Boswell

Correction

WGAE, IFP host confab

Sullivan gets face lift for Letterman's Aug. 23 bow

Births

Verdi ups several at NBC News

ASCAP wins royalty ruling

Screenings

Oscar set design is unveiled

'Paradise' found for October

Handmade sues WB over promo funds

Indies strong at New Directors series

AFM '93; Valenti's EC quota call to arms

Who's who at AFM

Vision pacakge unveiled for market

WRC, WTOP to share resources

Geller to join TriStar Pix as veepee of publicity

H'wood enters Digital Domain

Italo board again delaysTV-fate date

Penn & Teller pact with WMA

Exec Shuffle

Ulysse Ent. grabs 'Treacherous'

AIP renamed West Side Studios

Deep focus

Tabloid mags hit syndie ratings gold

W&A nabs 'Ballroom's' Mercurio

DGA bestows accolade on prexy Hiller

Robert L. Brenner

AFM '93

Blossom of screen Gish dies

AFM '93; super mart surprise

Financial Briefs

Aries into chapter 11

Old Globe unveils sked

Music News

Cable TV production chart

MTV to air interview with Clinton

Italy's RCS sticks with H'w'd prod'n

William McDonald

Hungary's TV mogul on rise

Seagal's 'Siege' hot item o'seas

Much ado about Denzel

Fox gets 'Kick' out of script

Pic preservation tzx planned

Legendary Keeler dies of cancer

Basinger OK'd script, attorney asserts

Pomerance joins Rich as vice prez

Adapt or die, arts orgs told

Album Spotlight

Photogs boxed out of court

Correction

Fox, NBC cabling Latin America

Yentob gets BBC1 reins

Video rental report

Numbers box

N.Y. stations back on air after blast

GH&P firm opens office in Zurich

'Tomatoes''s sales slip in 3rd week

'GMA' runs past 'Today'

PGA Lifetime Award to scribe Thomas

Spelling spreads 'Thinner' around

Cinevisions, Miramax team for 'Manolete'

Hot titles

Tensions resolved on 'Vicki!' set

International Briefs

Variety, docus, daytime wrap DGA TV nominees

Short Takes

Video rental report

Crichton stands calmly in the eye of a showbiz storm

KNBC sweeps stretch

'Falling Down' rises above weekend crowd

Amblin sets sail with AMIGA F/X

Oscar watch

NL boosts common stock offer

Births

AFM '93

Thunderbird flies high on 'Hunting'

Russia media power play

Declaring a friendship

Numbers box

O'seas report

MCA taking TV action

'TONIGHT' drops Ranks after slur

'Down' is top draw on B.O. list

Calif. Economy rocks Granite

GCC's CEO cashes in on stock

'Moo' moves; ABC renews

Russian anti-piracy law due

'Shadow' cast over AFM sesh

AFM '93

Twentieth inks Abugov

WB sets Eastwood grant

Daily Variety film box office report

Artists' rights debated by AFM panel

Cinema Line buys Wilk's spec 'Things'

CBS, Miller brew up mutual 'Exposure'

Three layoffs at KTTV

ABC sets 'Palms' dates

Oscar watch

'Visions' dominates L.A.; 'Olivier' bows big in N.Y.

BBC'S Birt in tax crisis

Exec Shuffle

Short Takes

Dish

Domestic B.O. market shares

Fox enters Reagan era

Marconi inks deal with SBP

Ex-VA. Gov. up for PBS chair

Financial Briefs

NBC News ups Prince

Turner pix sells o'seas distribs oncommitment

N.Y. stations mull transmitter shift

AFTRA, diskeries to talk

Oscar team wary after WTC blast

Innovation key at '93 expo

Col names Lomis, ups 3 to veep

Cruise set for NATO/ShoWest honor

U.S. Box Office Report

Disney's Ducks skate into NHL

Vaughan named manager of Sunset+Vine TV distrib

Spanish web bowsm on ASTRA

Gaumont profits down but revs up

Playhouse, SSDC end strike with 'terrific agreement'

Skouras, Par Home Vid pair to market 'Watch It'

Basic-cable survives recession

Connery eyes 'Smoke' spec

IFE ousts top exec at MTM

Gartner out at NBC news

ABC alters news mag formula with 'Day One'

Arbitron disallows KNBC's try to make Clinton 'anchor'

Oscar watch

Cox, Southwestern Bell Team in U.K.

CNBC racks up 388,000 subs

'Seinfeld,' 'Sister Act,' Crystal top comedy awards

Births

Brown will top Ovation board

AFM '93; high tech crash course

AFMA sets June mini-market in Buenos Aires

First Look inks Cox For 'Tiger'

Hoffman, Joffe among 1st Shanghai fest jurors

Nets move to ensure bottom lines add up

Dancing in the minefields

Firing up a pic and not getting burned

CBS on top of the heap

'Helena' some mean role

FCC opens discussion of Children's Television Act

Yarin jumps fence to Fox

DIC to animate 'Dragon' for TV

'Beethoven' earns Genesis nod

ASCAP ruling may save TV millions

Who's Where

Robert Arch Braithwaite

Changing channels

Film funding's day in sun is eclipsed

Foreign-owned firms slip into 'black hole'

Credit Lyonnais bank shot falls short

Country Music Acad ready to pass the Hats

CEMA mines back catalog

KCBS-TV to pull 'Feud' from key 7:30 p.m. slot

Cablevision posts higher revs for 4th quarter

WGA-CBS talks grinding on

ABC decides to return 'Home'

3 win music book awards

Friendly named Cineville Int'l head

Formal talks on Olympics TV rights skedded July

Post Group sets up TV, pix F/X Center

New company to send H'wood classics o'seas

AFM '93

CIS to see ABC'S spots

Museum funds no joke to lawmakers

After brief rewind, homevid in fast forward

AFM '93

MCP 'Chasers' nabs Hopper

AFM '93; Vision's CEO drops prez title

Polygram up 13% in '92

Story credit prompts suit

AFM '93

New World inks vid deals at AFM

Survey: CNN high in credibility

Share-shredding RTL 2 debuts Saturday

Century Cable pacts with Digital Music

Gov. Weld wends his way through H'w'd

L.A. Arbs share wealth

Greenbergs buy more Astral

Chargeurs posts $131 mil net profit

Three webs set plans for May sweeps

Goldwyn buys 'Baraka' rights

Miramax buys 'Camilla' rights

Canadian labor rift ends

WB, Aussie webs come to terms over prices

'League' sets its TV lineup

Ranks dropped from Rose Bowl bill

Talkers post big gains

Numbers box

USSB pacts to beam Viacom, TW

Lee gets a go for 'Crooklyn'

U confirms it's where the 'Action' is

Exec Shuffle

Births

'Engine' b'cast to fuel video sales

Wojno services

Bender leaves Arnolds for D.C.

AFM '93; Image, Edko pact

Musicians sue five rappers

Sony celebrates noms, hatches next year's plans

AFM '93

Goldman to head up 2 NL units

Oldman to direct 'Lords'

Miramax does boffo int'l biz at AFM

Short Takes

WGAE to fete Miller, Jhabvala, Suggs

'Warrior': that's snow biz

CBS holds aces, 'Queen' high

'Roseanne' shifts exex

Platt third 'Musketeer'

'Pelican' scoops up Washington

Chlowitz G.M. of L.A.'s KLSX, KRLA

GCC earnings up 18% in first qtr.

Big losses for French cabler

Tech News

WABC at core of Big Apple ratings

Actors win increase in LORT pact

'Helena' tried to beat clock

Tom-Tom interview drums up flap

Lester Wilson

Time Warner enters OZ licensing fray

Spain's Tele Cinco posts profits

Backtalk

On music

Abc Sunday Night Movie Not in My Family

Lake Consequence

Rio Diablo

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The Abyss Special Edition

Earth and the American Dream

Xiang Hun Nu the Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

Bad Behaviour

Last Call at Maud's

The Wedding Banquet

Mad Dog and Glory

Mustard Bath

Fifty/Fifty

Calendar

The Abc Monday Night Movie They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping

Nbc Monday, Tuesday Night at the Movies Bloodlines: Murder in the Family: Parts I & II

Raffi

It's Edna Time

In the Spotlight the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Cb4

Tainted Blood

Crime & Punishment Simple Trust

Matrix Death and Taxes

Mother of the Bride

Campbell's Portrait of a Teacher

Great Performances Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Straight from the Hood

Larry King Tnt Extra Elizabeth Taylor

Denis Leary

Swing Kids

Gyerekgyilkoss Gok

Gorilla Bathes at Noon

Kaerlighedens Smerte

New! Improved! Real Life American Fairy Tale

Extreme; Saigon Kick

Self Portraits

Steve Coleman Quintet