80/10 rule no guarantee of film success

Tator quits KTLA news slot

Haimovitz takes KW helm

Foes of SAG pact grow more vocal

EU reworks pubcaster lingo

'MTV Movie Awards' see ratings jump

Republicans tighten noose around NEA

Fox captures 2nd animals spec

Shephard ankling ABC

USA Net top among cablers

Optus Vision chief ankles

PBS to house 'Wimzies' in U.S. this fall

Finland Ch. 4 in signing spree

World News

London calling WMA exex

Canal+ Horizons' Tasca quits to focus on politics

Call issued to cancel Moscow fest

Fast start for Italo B.O.

Danes reject U.S. kids nets

Taormina returns to summer slot

Mexicans protest 'death' of cinema

Disney Channel gets 'Muppets'

HBO Pix sets 'King' cast

Tenpercenteries

Gersh taps Wuliger as VP

Asian fare on menu

Short fiction films focus of tonight's UCLA event

With Street's help, TCI gains key stock

Stone in for Fager at AMC

Paybox boom buoys Sogecable

Real Live synergy

Corrections

Sony sets Metreon on sites

Analog cutoff bill blocked

'Steel Pier' dismantling

NBC Ent. ups McCrory to VP

McGinley set in 'Flypaper'

NBC hoops it up again

Kitt tills Lee's 40 Acres

B'casters get reprieve

Gosnell tapped APA prexy

Benefit rub stalls SAG-AFTRA merger

DeBont won't helm 'Zero Hour'

'Golddiggaz' scripters ink pic deal with U

Report, Internet site inspire 'Babylon 5' calls

EC flashes cash at Euro distribs

Agoglia ankling NBC

BSkyB chief Chisholm hits the trail

McElwaine/Hayes up Creek

NBC strikes star Gorham from 'Union'

Zemeckis, Rapke wrap up DreamWorks deal

Stars pick spec, pic noms over series kudos

Cannes'd memories

Barney's hoofing it to media meet

Gay-baiting suit filed

NBC taps Marie for 'Union' role

Studio teacher rule disputed

Thomas eyes 'Affair'; Daniels in 'Martian'

Frudenfeld upped at BV

PRO TV wins bid for Slovak station

PerfecTV eyes summer subs

Giffoni sets titles for fest

Gallic quota at risk

Accion takes sports to Philippines

German weblets win bigger share of TV ad coin

Donald Horton Kelly

Michael O'Herlihy

Francine Kuney

Aaron (Red) Doff

Hal DeWindt

Court TV's Cochran to interview Cosby

Western stars to get Boots

Lifetime, AFI team for fest

TV Azteca denies rift rumors

BV homevid ups Koch

ABN towing New Line

Westinghouse revamps industrial spinoff plans

Hassanein sues Warner Bros

Oz Odyssey sets Bravo supply deal

Taffner, Beyond ink pact

Nelvana pushes films

Variety biz expo on the move in Oz

Premiere pay TV topper ankles

Sogecable, paybox Lobby for $11 mil pact

Fest fracas in Montreal

Corrections

ESPN and Olbermann part ways

Tax debt leads to Circle closing

MGM, UA up Relyea

KTTV sweeps all in demos

'Oprah' shot puts Carlisle in top spot

Keenen inks Par TV deal

Midler moves to Endeavor

Brook eyed for Agoglia post

Col TriStar TV may make latenight Salley

Cable upfront healthy

Fox Searchlight taps DeLoach

Sony, Cineplex mull merger

Berry faces music, closes EMI, Enclave

King World, Streisand talk TV pact

BSkyB is falling

German 'Conversation' has Berlin auds buzzing

Malick toes 'Line' remake

Paul cutting bigger piece of 'Pie'

Colpix has 'Party' for Kaplan, Elfont

Braga inks at Par TV

Pacific planning Bakersfield plex

Hughes tops Oz pic fund

Joel Tappis

Richard Jaeckel

Jay Ziskin

Brook, Petry get new titles at Peacock

Univision snags first Edward R. Murrow Award

Icahn the Marvel man

Reeves eyes 'Matrix'

ESPN anchor Olbermann on vacation

Gibson finds 'Parker' spot

DiCaprio moves into 'Room'

IFP fetes thesp Kline, scribe Jhabvala

Hollywood Specacular plan unveiled

New player pushes to enter Hungary's telecom market

B'casters get Gored

German paybox Premiere picks pix

Phase One buys 'Farm' thriller

Exec Shuffle

Engineering Emmys awarded

Aviv tapped sr. VP at Buena Vista

Cisneros TV Group completes buy of Imagen Satelital

ABC stages 'Cinderella'

Eye web taps Broyles veep

Baer, Siegel to top BGE pix division

'Batman' brings back old colors

Par ups Anderson to sr.VP

KCET gets funds for live 'Live'

BET on Jazz set for Stuttgart '97

Czech fest on satellite

H'w'd involved with Hong Kong handover

Roseanne lands NBC O&O deals

U.S. TV deals boom in U.K.

'Sylvia' to bark onscreen

'Hercules' looks hefty

'Wedding' rattles Bat cage

Sportschannel stakes sold

'Hogan's' Germany's TV hero

HK has lovely parting gifts

'Cats' laps up success with strut down B'way

'Tromeo' triumphs in Rome

Amalou opts for 'Plan B'

Showtime unveils new look

Exec Shuffle

Births

Par inking Mandel deals

Big ad boom seen for Japanese TV by 2005

Argentina cabler expanding

'Peace' in Hong Kong

Screen Works plans 15 U.K. plexes

World throngs to 'World'

Chan fete set for H.K.

Pirates jailed in Costa Rica

Gallic MKL partners part ways

CGT acquires Imagen

Lawrence Payton

Vittorio Mussolini

Bobby Helms

George E. Mather

Robert G. Hussong

Elizabeth McBride

Irwin Pizor

Pat Collins

Planet H'wood PR boosts 2

Jones Ent. plans docu film 'Genius' with A&E

Trimark vid unit taps Jones VP

Hitched

Harvey Ent. wins suit vs. ex-director

Court lets Icahn take Marvel

EMI stops spinning

Kirch Group '96 losses seen deepening in '97

Olyphant ready to 'Scream'

Two pics in 'Cards' for scribe Taylor

Luner, Ashby joining 'Melrose Place' cast

Scripps Howard, ABC draw 'Line'

Hawn spawn sets pic bow

King to helm Disney telefilm

H'w'd software hot

Murdoch, Packer pact on Australis

Corrections

Clooney in talks over WB's 'West'

Gingrich will block content bills

Permut lands Shames novel

Cineplex confirms Sony talks

Astaire clips OK'd

De-lovely De-'Little Things'

'Rabbit' redux revving up

Kubrick pic in home stretch

MSNBC woos Olbermann

Fountain of youth comes to cable

The rise and demise of David the Didactic

Dunaway in a 'Class' by herself

Short Takes

Tenpercenteries

New Line boosts bunch of exex

Bell exits Encore for TV Museum VP post

BSkyB wins $123 mil digital exit package

Ad$ spur News, Liberty to team on sports nets

Germany's ProSieben sets its share price

Douglas, Davis talking 'Murder'

Advance screenings for 'Men in Black'

'Ricki Lake' going on celebrity diet

Sci-Fi picks up U TV's 'Sliders'

KNBC veeps Bauer-Gonzalez

Peacock web taps Wallace for VP post

Kabak ankles ICM for WMA

Par says yes to Noto

Fox gets right to 'The Point' pitch

4 kids series top PBS lineup

Showtime aims at July for 'Gun'

Schiff to make 'Impact'

Burrows in indie double deal

Geffen sets play lineup

Katzenberg wins round vs. Disney

Walden has dramatic rise at Fox TV

Brogliatti in new WB post

Reed snaps up Disney trade mags

German digital truce

Mandel spins solo 'Dream'

Tarses teeters at ABC

Bulls bite syndies

Vibe sponsors black pic fest

Universal pinkslips tech support staffers

Kramer in for Lucy confab

Sitcoms lead syndie sweep

Ad spending looking better

Cableurope joins digital race

Mexico to auction bulk of sat interests

Russian TV channels face cutbacks

Dunaway's perf first-'Class'

Decline and Fall

Morphic Resonance

Up the Mountain

Up the Mountain

Mules

Living in Peril

The Four Lives of Marie

The Ruling Class

Fairy Tales

Always

Speed 2: Cruise Control

My Best Friend's Wedding

Crack 6-T

Company

When Cuba Opens Up

HEART AND SOUL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANK LOESSER (In His Own Words)

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Snake Skin Jacket

My Night with Reg

Clean

Life is a Bluff

Thank God He Met Lizzie

A, B, C … Manhattan

Loved

Face/Off

Men In Black

Men in Black

Dobermann

The Garden of Redemption

Shooting Porn

Some Prefer Cake

Violet's Visit

Seeking the Genesis

Jest a Second!

Forever Tango

Cooley High

The Game of Love and Chance

Fab!

Dare Not Speak Its Name

Singer's Boy

The Wandering Whore

The Wandering Whore

Bernadette Peters