More than meets the eye in Tarses-bashing

Cornick joins Gallin/Morey

Am-Busch

Edward Lasker

Barbara Stroum

Par 'Rains' down new itle, date on 'Flood'

Exec Shuffle

Tenpercenteries

Short Takes

Chinese TV Net puts its exec team in place

Televisa power shift

Oz's Hoyts targets Latin market in screen buildup

MPA bows Moscow anti-piracy putsch

Fox's 'Roar' reduced to a whisper

Carmike strong, discontent

'Gary' grabs pair of thesps

Pitt eyes Mandalays' 'Gambler'

Travolta, Sony make nice

Turturro's 'Illuminata' pegs Walken to co-star

BVTV redraws PR stripes

UPenn kidvid coin to Unapix

Elliott joins 'Naked' set

Dove firms Lightstone duties

Eaton to VP at October

'Candide': No can-do

Pix, parks up Disney revs

Fox News wins Apple

'Gia's' Jolie shines in dark role

Ernie Brown

S4C lands U.K. digital license

KABC-Radio's Elder to fill in on 'Rivera'

Music's fiscal lift

'State' fair deal is reached

EMI ups Anderson to sr. VP

MCA adds Levin to mix

ShadowCatcher nabs novel

Jamiroquai tops MTV video noms

Seldes in new role at MGM

U pops for big Yeoh dough

Pearlman on WB perimeter

Solon's power play

Leon Tribune's new research VP

Corrections

Senate group OK's arts $

Sony Releasing prexy Blake gets 'E' for effort

Schumacher, Connery off Grisham's 'Jury'

TCI Music adds its vox to Box

Emmy rerun in works?

Morton X's out crix chat

'Air Force One' party fueled with star power

Par pix promotes Morales

Gauls stall 'Lolita' date

Arab viewers flip over Canal France's porn slip

Disney gets more flak from boycotting pack

Variety salutes AFI

Tyro thesp nabs mini role

Trio cast to head Eye's 'Twin' mini

Florence Maslow

Sodano to head Sorrento pic & TV fest

Fox Sports Americas ups Thau

U Home Video taps Katz sr. veep

Biz-friendly budget

Avital signs on for 'Fool'

Summit Ent. takes 'Flight'

An Osmonds strip search

Beckinsale near deal for 'Disco'

Yakkers talk back

Playboy to cite Internet ruling

Cal State chancellor tops Getty Trust

Douglas, Davis ready to carry out 'Murder'

Rupe ready to close book

MovieFone gets $22 mil in judgment

Disney's Spade Sting-along

Judge takes Larson side in 'Rent' suit

Dobbs settles beef with CNN

'Home Improvement' team tackles features

Prod'n co. born from Net game

Small screen scribe kicks habit, turns to big screen

Filmmakers take on distrib'n task

Native American turns bingo to budgets

Offbeat access TV

Post Briefs

Big Apple producers tackle Vietnam film

Melting wok

Finish line: Peers provide post

MeesPierson helps producers collect

Maine workshop a smart stop for tyro filmmakers

Lelouch's lush prod'n atelier

L.A. fest is indie haven

'Edgy' producer Chris Hanley knows how to work biz angles

DVD adds extras to tempt consumers

Studios, indies size up potential for DVD releases

Dallas animators turn to CGI

DiCillo finds payoff in skewering biz

Techies go against type

Ambitious slate from Cool Loon

CFP: The little distrib that could open films

Best places for filmlovers

Cool indie Web sites

Guest lords it over H'w'd

Org coughing up TV nods

Gauls stall 'Lolita' date

Legal eagles fly for Rivera show

New Line rejoins 'Jones'

MGM Grand eyes development $

Flint tapped chair of ABA

Brooklyn getting Crown 14-plex

Births

Tenpercenteries

ESPN Star inks Asia sports pacts

'Snow' falls on Latin TVs

Canucks greenlight foreign TV services

Japan station bilks on blurbs

Cable gaining in Spain

Alliance puts Red Ant on the auction block

Marquee buys tour booker

'Mod Squad' now Title-less

Hill moves to Channel One

'Black' music tops chart; femmes follow

Jamie, Stu pas de deux

Local issues still plague expansion

Hitched

Prod'n quilt

Newxcomer 'Maps' pic's success

Leary joins Spanky gang

Indies find a voice on cable film show

Producer reps finding their share of limelight

Indiana toon shop is Perennial in video

Tune licensing requires careful legal approach

Outgoing director helped streamline once-unruly biz

Profile: James Robinson

The Independents

Indie film's forefathers

Tempting name talent with a modest budget

Film biz turns to Web networking

Gallery: The faces of American independents

All the news that fits

Minnesota moneybags

Helmer Furie has seen all sides of evolving biz

Like Gotham, L.A. now gets a 'First Look'

Learning the cinema ropes

Hall is hot on N.Y. scene

Helmers lured to doc genre

Major alliances

Bonds, completion bonds

Erudite producer takes solo flight

Cardoso set to click

Arthouse chains making inroads

L.A. women canvass country in 'Anthem'

Support org changes with times, adds TV component

Egyptian redo will be open to bookers

Distribs who can help

Playing the money game

Halmi, minus a kidney, plans more pics

Corinne Bouygues takes a permanent holiday from TF1

Latin cable mart up

Trimark has U.S. rights to 'Burning'

Telco nabs Antena 3

Beal bumped into 'Keenen' slot

'Toy Story' is Disney preem

Stevenson sr. VP, MPAA

Carol Forman

Ben Ford Abrams

Philips' income, profits skyrocket

Fox mulling strategy for Magic show

Berman joins Clinton clan

Berwanger joins CBS Stations team

In a blink, Eye on People adds 3 major cable pacts

Long-timer Davis exits MGM

Brokaw reups at Peacock for $7 million per year

'Maps' charts solid bow

Koppelman, Levien sign Disney deal

U taps Hill to helm 'Red'

HBO bests Big 3 in Emmy noms

AMC, Planet H'wood team

'Eel' appeal: No electricity

B'casters face trouble in budget bill language

Short Take

Biz aghast at 'Friends' flub

David Fresco

WB's new tech digs

NAB irked by Ornstein

Regal's net profit up 36%

Televisa gets good news for 2nd qtr.

Big plans at Imax

Col hikes 2 ad exex

Par seeks big-city bids for Mandel talkshow

It's Miller time at HSNi

Lane, Zaks eye Island 'Man'

Fox talking new Arsenio Hall sitcom

Reeves biopic on tap

'Snake Eyes' split

Kennard gets FCC chair nom

Gay-themed 'Butch' to bow in L.A. Aug. 1

Panasonic taps lobbyist Fannon

Emmys must add excitement to familiar races

Phaedra gets to 'Kiss & Tell'

Free spectrum bill draws flak

Italo media in sync on digital standards

Premiere adds DF1 to digital platform

Americast slimming

White House urges support of copyright pacts

Study predicts boom in homevid purchasing

Red Ant hit with suit

Eye ropes 2nd country kudocast

Lawler joins femme org

Radio City, U flaunt grand times

India foreign TV ban temporary

Channel 5 surfs ITV

Scribes fashioning Versace books

Chasey sr. VP, Imagine TV

Toronto festival gets 'Eve's Bayou' preem

FCC nom calls views 'middle-of-the-road'

Stern prized by Czechs

British get down to Motown

Rocker rolling into new territory

Ullman going it alone

Stallone has bad feeling about 'Good' picture

How Sony got tony

Capitol gets back in black

Spelling grows 'Grass'

WB, Clooney take 'Kisses'

New Regency enters Fox den

'Force' feeds Sony's streak

Corrections

FCC flap flares up

NBC News locks in Williams till 2002

NBC Ent. ups Ungerman

French film students earn scholarships

Discovery goes shopping

World Briefs

$100-mil club grows o'seas

Galaxy TV & Foxtel agree on merger

Alliance, Movie Channel in pic deal

Hitched

Exec Shuffle

Indie maven Waters to be repped by CAA

PBS to explore Africa in mini

Bloomberg hits Latin America

Island offers insight on TV's impact on kids

Showtime awakens 'Snow White'

Exec Shuffle

'Dance,' 'Guido' lead-o exclu B.O.

GM putting up $300 mil for NBC Olympics pact

Singh takes on Brit war pic

Gene Francis Warren Sr.

Frank Perry Stepherson

Dorothy L. Wilde

Irv Berwick

John Angell Berger

Hal Uchida

Primestar to add channels

Top exex come, go at Oz's SBS, AFTRS

'Silence' reigns at Giffoni Film Fest

Crowds double over at Montreal laugh fest

BSkyB running into a bundle of trouble

China bows pic insurance

'Force' on mega-roll at $37.1 mil

Group blasts ABC promos

La Fete on 'More Tales'

Fox Sports News catches Terenzio

Seagull creditors file suit to liquidate group

Rising tide for DVD

Scandi B'casting tunes record profits

Sony shares hit new Tokyo high

Omnibus picks up pix

KW urges court to grease 'Wheel' deal

WB's Kellner takes shots at other nets

CBS sets Clark 'Doubt' vidpic

U.K. cuts Channel 4's tie$ to ITV

Book takes Col to war

Oscar regs on promos revamped

Eye drops $7 mil in 2nd quarter

Clinton high on 'Air Force One'

Fox fills coffers of pauper politico

Short Takes

Fuji feted at int'l NATAS meet

Stuart V. Jewell

Donna S. Isman

Brooks going to town with VH1 spec

FCC makes obscenities cheaper

'Mountain' moves to China

Canada TV prod'n fund broke

TNT retoons Aussie ops

TPS, Canal+ clash

Zeppelin gives Endemol Latin America passport

Sony gets Fuji TV tech order

'Good Day' means good week for KTTV

Tomei packs for ABC's 'Eden'

Fox Network getting Smart with Big Three

News Corp., Heritage sit on coupon merger

Disney selling ABC's Northwest to Lee

O'Donnell inks Par TV deal

MainPix launched in N.Y.

Phase 1 makes leap of 'Faith'

Disney consumer arm boosts Boyd, Osberg

'World' conquers Japan; o'seas B.O. off slightly

Schulhof shifts to software post

WWW.H'W'D.TICKED

Thrill Kill Kult

The Royal Opera: Palestrina

My Most Important Year

Son Volt

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

The Tin Pan Alley Rag

Sessions at West 54th

Nine Armenians

Proposals

A Celebration of the Glorious MGM Musicals

Chimps

Hostile Waters

Air Force One

Angela Mooney Dies Again

Operation Condor

The Butcher Boy

Love, Math and Sex

Bogwoman

Entwined

Leather Jacket Love Story

Uncut

Picture Perfect

187

Mrs. Brown

Pamplona Bull Runs

Airbag

The Three Penny Opera

Stargate SG-1

Umabatha: The Zulu Macbeth

Good Burger - Would You Like Fries with Your Laughs?

The Unseen

Jugofilm

Forgotten Light

Grace Note

Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt

Radiohead

Sergio Mendes and Brasil 99; John Mauceri, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

Brad