Summer's big B.O. boost gets clone away

Par TV, CBS O&Os ink deals for Mandel

Jack Sekely

Bill (William) Pollock

Room for 'Marvin' atop Moscow fest

Japanese TV time down a bit

Syndie 'Witz' gets OK for 2nd season

Exec VP stripes for WB's Gruen

Nelson gets BV boost to East Coast pub VP

Castle Rock inks Gross to pen 'Graduation'

Tenpercenteries

'Garden' grows into Toronto fest

Cable programming deals inked during Jornadas

Lacewood to Paragon

Fuji TV names its price

Foreman remembered

A&E kicks off promotion for familiar 'Biography' subjects

Getty, Energy merge film units

UPN's fall lineup kicking off Aug. 25

Blaze scorches film archive

Exec Shuffle

Births

MPAA Ratings

Simon shifts to Polygram

Clinton pushes c'right issue

Tellem takes key CBS posts

'Crocodiles' nips thesps Law, Weisz

British countryside to house new studio

'Pastmaster' taps Hawthorne

TCI to stay in Argentina, sell part of Cable Vision

BFI firms Parker as topper

Italy set for digital TV

Becker picks up Dendy

Itochu takes stake in Via

Telco trio: Cablers hoarding programs

US West results mixed

Disney, Viacom networks vying for TW Cable link

'Raymond' creator pacts for $16 mil deal

WB catches pitch for 'Heart and Soul' music

Polygram Films taps 2 exex

Col TV taps Spector prod'n VP

Lawton makes 'Monster' deal at WB for Burroughs novel

Caravan bows 'Promise'

ESPN, TW playing ball

Barrymore exits Allen pic

Correction

Close, Streep team on 'Mary Stuart' pic

Mouse toons 'Hercules' in to TV

Budget pact holds boon for b'casters

'Preston inks to star in 'Holy Man'

ABC puts fees to fire

NBC scores another easy demo victory

Lion tyin' up banks

Touchstone climbs aboard 'Rushmore'

Russians converge on BevHills

Births

Justice seeks ASCAP ruling

Bash heeds 'Call'

Judge adjourns MTV show

Oz producer parlays flop into funding

'Breast Men' legs it to Dec.

'G.I. Jane' on the march

Fuller fete Friday

Lillian Wurtzel Semenov

Patrick McFadden

Eric Ashworth

Harold Spina

Hawkins joins SPE in London

'HBO Comedy Hour' loads up on Leary

Local stations hit Nielsen $

Live Ent. gives van Dyk VP stripes

Horrormeister does splits

Dodgers-Fox deal on sked

House OKs digital proviso in budget

Jones directs tech Emmys

SearchParty seeks recruits

Brazil license bids due soon

Globo moves to bigscreeners

Arabic alternative to CNN

Europe cutting in

Judge puts Chapoy back in soup

Canada extends pic tax-shelter program

Nets, syndies face uphill battle with rating combos

Univision profits take off

Seagull to fight Chapter 7 bid

Landmark decision

October Machine-ready

HBO nails rights to Tille's 'Cadavers'

'ER's' Manning inks WB deal

Jilted UTA seeks 'Ellen' cut

Miramax in talks with 'Debtors'

Combs disc bows at No. 1

'Springer' charges up syndie ladder

Whoopi twins bigscreeners

Nick Pix reteams 'Burger' kings

Garofalo, Stewart getting 'Romantic' for Touchstone

ABC's of the Emmys: 29 noms tops field

Pre-Mifed film camps duke it out in London

Fox TV inks 'Hope' duo to 3-year deals

NBC, 20th TV seek divorce

Eye boosts MGM , orders 'Seven'

Col in bed with John & Yoko

Olympic ad marathon

Donner's professionalism, warmth infectious

Stunts a blast for cast & crew

Learning not to kid a kidder

Vet helmer's long and boffo road

Tube the big screen's toughest training ground

Decade tills foreign soil

Jokers are wild on 'Theory' set

Eye solves 'Mysteries'

When the details compute

Charles H. Stein

When the details compute

Confab is vehicle for students' tech ride

'Titanic' in ship shape

Tech show warps to overload

Marvin the Martian, a 3-D pathfinder

Domain ads take big bytes out of industry

Anderson expands Blue Sky's toon horizons

Gamers go for magic mix of clay and CG artistry

CG is E-ticket for giant-screen ride films

Activating interactive arts

WB's Meyer tapped for bank boards

German webs paid $2.6 bil to privatize

E. Euro screen team

Cecchi Gori segues to toons with 'Seagull'

Toronto bows for 'Sea,' 'Edge'

Dutch aud battle on news front

Brachman on board Creek

'Big Sound' revives the big bang

Theron taking 'Wife' duties

Hitched

MGM's checkbook ends 'Witch Hunt'

Summer's actioners perfect art of overkill

Canal+ ups revenue 15.2% over last year

Johnson, Davids upped at A&E, History cablers

Fox ups Taylor to sr. VP-legal

Births

'Stargate' Showtime's home run

Exec Shuffle

Short Take

NBC gains Hartford O&O in Viacom swap

True North buys BJK&E

HSN b'cast growth disappointing

Cobb purchase ups Regal to 3rd in N.A.

USA gets Sept. date

'Robin' robs new timeslot

Fuentes to host 'Funniest'

Jackson not liable for spec

Warbler Franklin gets TV gig

Domain makes 'Titanic' cut

SAG brass set to fight for int'l Internet rights

QDE duo head for splitsville

USA, Sci-Fi brands new

Band Apart makes bond

Cinepix ups Rogers to sr. VP of distribution

Mitchell 'Closet'-ed

Disney gets Thomas for 'Christmas' pic

Carey switches to Gallin-Morey

Coleman in cahoots with 'Casanova'

'Friends' for 2 more years

Dobie ankling Useful helm

Corrections

'Thriller' tops in disc sales, Eagles topped

Yen zen achieved at Sony

Lorber to fly Phoenix into TV biz

Parent's new 'hood: U prod'n

Amblin's double play

Dunaway may ditch 'Class'

Ted, Rupe ready to play ball

'Widow' runs wild in N.Y.

Dublin has U2 seeing green

Clinton huffing over puffing

Here's licking at you

'Jane' holding out for cast

Fox Sports West 2 near key deals

Donovan cast in 'Roxbury'

Universal, Daybreak roll 'Black Rock'

Yancosek tops WNYW news

Hitched

B'casters battle in new Hungarian market

Births

Justice OKs Microsoft-WebTV deal

Plans set for writers' retreat

Vanguard stuck on 'Reef'

B'casters submit new rating code

Dreams elude Sony in Japan

Dendy takeover stirs up Oz arthouse biz

USA sponsors get demo info

Summer loses steam o'seas

Irish TV shows go to Beyond

America's Health Net lays off 161 staffers

Philips, Sharp and Sony team on bigscreen TVs

Penguin, Clancy pact

Powell nominated for FCC slot

'Wanted' finds U.S. home

Double-dip trips HBO

Burrstyn, Black set for 'Flash' telepic

Sony Classics nabs bigscreen 'Dancing'

Kelley named head of Trimark music

'Wayans,' 'Vibe' ready to join latenight fray

Lion mum on refinancing plans

Salerno signs 'Zodiac' deal

Shooting starts on Ed Wood pic

Mouse spoofs Mafia

AFTRA seeks trustees' help to cap SAG merger

KABC's Elder is old news

Graphics biz gathers at Siggraph

Correction

Gala fetes adult film luminaries

Sony pix power B.O. to record July returns

New owners ax 40 staffers at Live Ent.

U TV, Fisher forge deal

MGM aboard for 'Behavior'

UPN balks at Sinclair conversion

Record 'Force' hits B.O.

Winning the game by breaking the rules

'Boy Meets World' casts Lawrence

Lear near unloading Act III theater chain

Busy thesp Thornton lines up trio of roles

News Corp. to restructure HarperCollins

Clooney ices 'Frosty,' but goes 'West'

Kaplan near CNN prexy post

'Black' day o'seas

Correction

Dimension, Williamson team to make 'Killing'

U picks up 'Lost' pitch from 'Good Burger' team

Astin, Beckinsale set for Castle Rock's 'Disco' pic

Jones moves to 'Brooklyn'

Eye web sets season debuts

AMC ups Thyer to int'l VP

ABC sets 'Ridge' trial pic

Bailing out on UPN

Fox names Walker senior VP of music

Cheadle set for 'Sight'

Deal frees German pix coin

Big Ticket revamp

TV acads at odds over ad Emmys

CBS planning rapist telepic

New backers on board Credit Board

Cable quartet add Nielsen alternative

MCI, Progressive link for 'Net

TW sets small cable sales

Cinemark profit, rev climb in 2nd quarter

Davis inks Desert Inn deal with ITT

Viacom's pay or play

Weekend record for Aug. B.O.

'Company' corners exclusives' No. 1 spot

U.K. cabler Telewest, NTL talking merger

Via Digital taps Solomon

Voight set for Boorman crime biopic

3-D toons for Web unveiled

Will Dyke take a hike

Argentine cablers set for merger

William S. Burroughs

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Short Takes

Davine new Starlight prez

Tenpercenteries

Hitched

'Boy Meets World' casts Lawrence

Court TV, cablers team on teen public service pitch

Disney pilot may push license

New crop of crix can blurb with the best

Anzur joins Fishman at KTLA

'G.I. Jane' storms L.A.

Dunaway thinking 'Class' action

The Bean Team Anthology

Who Lives?

Weed

Spawn

Big Blue Hearts

Ben Harper

Lifebreath

Nothing Sacred

Somewhere in the City

House of Blues Smokin' Groves

Ordinary/Extraordinary

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

Air Bud

Pamplona Bull Runs

The Threepenny Opera

As Bees in Honey Drown

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Umabatha: The Zulu Macbeth

Good Burger

A Brother's Kiss

The Unseen

Jugofilm

Blue Heaven

Forgotten Light

Grace Note

Nick & Rachel

The Abraham File

Nick & Rachel

The Abraham File

Three Coins in the Fountain

Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail

Side by Side by Sondheim

Scratch the Surface

Trailers Schmailers

Asphalt Tango

The Sundial

The Street: A Film with the Homeless

The Absent One

Hauntings

Intensity

Sugar Down Billie Hoak

Conspiracy Theory

Liza in Concert

Intensity

The Lion King (Orpheum Theater)

The Gigli Concert