Ruling hits Philips

MovieFone sets e-mail service

Scott Koondel

Development title for U's Jenkinson

DirecTV commits: originals in

Revamped MTV taps Toffler G.M.

NBC, TNT hoop it up

Guillane hits U.S.

U Concerts veeps Jacobs

'CBS News' ties ABC for No. 2 rating

John-Andrew Charles Fenady

Hitchcock gets chair at USC

Viacom ups Harrington in licensing

Kodak's Cinesite ups two

Sony Music CDs to access AOL

Col TriStar 'Implicated' worldwide

Prints left behind

Jackson, Levy talk over Polygram's racial record

MTV's 'Beavis' to leave us

'Scarlet' cast sees red over bad reviews

DreamWorks, FreeZone team for online kids site

Bonton pushes back IPO

Cinematheque spotlights Italo helmer

Hispanic org blasts Disney hiring policy

Par accuses ex-employee of embezzling

'Vibe' yakker Sinbad firing up his lap-top

Gamer Edwards into pix

Sun rises on Japan DirecTV platform

Summit smitten by 'Love'

Smith talks shingle at U

Sony, Hunt teaming on prod'n pact

Eye catches NBC

Granada USA names Robinson senior VP

Warner Bros. TV hires Gunn

Fox nabs Dwek series VP

MS benefit taps Crow, No Doubt

Woundings' shoot starts

DGA to fete black women helmers

UPN looking to Spice up primetime with special

Hitched

Italo star heading 'West'

Bertolucci in 'Heaven'

More money on tap for Austrian pix

Int'l TV muscle

Chisholm trails off early from BSkyB

Canadian beckon

Milchan runs up Puma stake to 25%

KCAL to shake up L.A. ayem with 'Springer'

Cobb, NBC co-pilot drama

Daly tries pic prod'n

Int'l TV muscle

Canton reveals 'Secrets'

New life for 'Life' on PBS

Imax says nuts to 'Nut' cut

Sylvia Weinblatt Mazurki

Syndie specs heat up

Mase on top with 'World'

Tenpercenteries

'House to sell by room

Corrections

'Oprah' preps Gotham trip

U's 'Totally' into '80s pic

Live picks up 'Spitz' rights

Nunex Jr. rocks out in 'Fools'

Crawford inks ABC pact

Leno keeps chin up on competish

Daniels reups at Fox TV

U turns production corner

'Significant' cast set; Island gets 'Trophy'

Pops tart up "Oprah"

DeSantis gifts film program

William Alland

Charles Woods

Trio set for Green's 'Ground Control'

Davis re-buys Fox Plaza

HSN posts 3rd-qtr. gain

Lion's share is $20

'Geraldo' facing changes

Palminteri in 'Hurlyburly'

Powell talks TV liquor ads

CBS slot-swapping

Hicks picks pic tix, buys UA chain

ABC reups pair of dramas

DQI turns fanciful into run-of-the-mill

Falling back to TV

Indies AIM for Berlin

Sony o'seas exec shuffle

Stage workers vote for IATSE

D'works peddles bonds

Hard Knoxville

H'w'd to downtown

Telepix sells 'Love,' 'Heart'

UPN's inside moves

U frets over fallout from German TV pact

MTV Films buys 'The Wood' spec

WB makes Epic claim in vid-rights auction

Favreau hit for MGM's 'Marciano'

'Bloopers' buoys NBC

Pullman picks 'Alternate'

RAI bias charged

Taiwan toon pact

Locomotion bows

Channel V on tap

Col picks up 'Naked Man'

'Vibe,' 'Wayans' ratings rise

Kellison exits 'Vibe' duties

Criterion riding DVD wave with 9 releases

Bennett big winner at Oz nods

Exec Shuffle

Noah Maxwell Bogner

United to buy Silver station

UATC posts its first profit in two years

SAG entering Puerto Rico

Sass named Sr. VP of NBC biz affairs

Allen set for King spec

CableAce's list of presenters grows

Rookie trio to share Nick's new 8:30 slot

WB bites on 'Teething'

Lion's stock offering just scratches surface

Sony's B.O. blitz

Graham rolls into another 'Big Thing'

Bond preem set

News chat debuts

'Mattie' delayed

'Shady Grove' misses mark

The Walt Disney Co. has submitted plans

Cinesite poised for success

KCBS story: hard to swallow

Don Pietromonaco

'Wings' takes Miramax to top of exclusives list

Outlook for MIP poor after market, industry bumps

Stars set for animated tribute to King

Carey out at WCBS

Williams sails as 'Pianist'

Rush, Neill try 'Pudding'

Sony Classics buys Skoog's 'Whatever'

RTL, Disney in dispute

Valenti heads to Argentina

Lit picks: Patterson's prose

UPC, Telekabel to merge

Italy's RAI revamps, melds sales wing

Financial briefs

Last call for Telemundo: Bids on board by today

Sports net fracas

Canal Plus revenue climbs

SoCal exhib in int'l foray

East inches nearer to West in WGA flap

Vet biz lawyer faces suit

Terror in Toon Town

WB linking with Canal

'Lion King' shatters B'Way records

Stein steers Sire banner

Valenti hug breaks ice with China

NBC sets revamp for affils

CableAce Awards

'Jackal' hits B.O. target

Daytime Emmys tweak calendar

Leigh, Law headlining 'Existenz'

'Kids' does darn well in ratings

Gun dealers see biz beef in L.A. fire clip ordinance

Telefonica in rights biz

HBO leads CableAces with 32 nods

A complete list of winners of the CableAce Awards

Fund fetes Foster

Argentine gov't lauds Koplovitz

Something to 'Crow' about

Swing lists powerful young set

Richter to exit Springer

B.O. 'Resurrection'

Canal+, IMG score pricey soccer rights

NATAS smiles on Fridrich

Oz's Prime TV hits Argentina

TCI losses tumble

CBS earnings rise as spinoff plan is revamped

'12 Storeys' climbs to top of Hawaii fest

Pacific Title pacts for Olympic project

CNBC computes next move

Univision taps Corley PR veep

Winston, D'Works team for 'Hell Bent'

Besson's book buy

Rolston set for 'Rush Hour'

D'Works snags 'Diamond' spec

Ad wages increase for actors

Exec Shuffle

Commission's probe may delay BDB start

Padden will change tune on digital TV

Samuel Louis Kushell

The ride of 'Frankenstein'

'Star Wars' conquers new territory

Kaye gets leg up on 'Arm'

Shochiku adds two more sat channels

Oz's Galaxy loses court bid

BSkyB signs PPV deals with New Line, P'gram

Boffo bow for Fox's faux 'Joe'

Pair file suit over 'Liar'

Interest belts Belo profits

Imax earnings to max

Budget impasse puts Lee's 'To Live On' in turnaround

Mifed sees mid-sized crisis

Brentwood Associates backing Landmark deal

CBS News inks Internet pact

Senate OKs Kennard for FCC

Tribeca sets pic pair at MGM

Sony hands Halt VP papers

Vid catfight at Lion

Dunphy back on KCAL news

Jason Lee set to join 'Enemy'

Inside Move: Moonves: a pol wannabe?

SGI to cut hundreds of jobs

Inside Move: 'Power 101' tunes out Barry Diller

Corrections

Laughs, but not least

Garfunkel to sing for Presidential dinner

Senator blocks FCC noms vote

USA may snag 'Jag' reruns

Damon near 'Ripley' deal

Selleck, WB pact on pix, TV

NBC topples ABC Tuesday

Tokyo touting 'Titanic'

ATAS takes NATAS to task

Gates puts Comdex focus on image

Comedy Central takes a wild walk in 'Park'

Throwing the book at 'Simpsons'

Clean-up artists considered unsung heroes

Warner Bros. searches for boxoffice grail

Spunky princess challenges mouse

Zaentz addresses filmmakers

Tommy Tedesco

Samuel Fuller Memorial

John Dulin Jones

Births

AFTRA pact extension set

MPAA ratings

Nat'l Registry to unveil picks

U taking spin with 'Rodolfo

CineAsia adds major trio

Chaplin dead at 85

Avila sells trio stakes in Torneos

NBC, InterVU ink video deal

Dreamworks' Levy to chair Awards PR committee

UCLA to preserve indies

Carey out, Klein in as WCBS G.M.

'Mafia,' score pushes KCBS news over the top

Cosby's 'Kids' gets series nod

FCC's Tristani echoes chair

Clinton shmoozes showbiz crowd

'Mail' sends Ryan $10M

'Lion' new king of legit B.O.

Lee's 'Live' lives on at U

Singleton segues to TV

Partygoers get 'Mad'

Benefit fetes diskery duo

'Garden'-Variety crooner

Graboff tapped as CBS sr. biz VP

Disney TV ups O'Neal

Elizondo to host ATAS Hall event

South Africa passes biz support bill

Mideast battle heating up

Helmer Del Toro will cast 'Spell'

Generale enjoys major first half

Univision profits soar 124%

Street holds steady after a bumpy ride

King World wraps fiscal year with $36 mil profit

'Firm' grasp on No. 1

Col mulls syndie 'AXN'

Worth plans Davis biopic

Locations go downtown

Tenpercenteries

ABC not granting 'Wish'

'Earth' celestial, but 'Xena' rules

Dept. of Labor defers WGAW election gripe

Rental giant seeks unique studio deals

Series on record-low pace

Prod'n exex address Cineposium confab

Viacom's video virus

Did Seagram gaffe seal HSN-Ticketmaster deal?

Blacklist credits corrected

Diller's paper trail

Murphy sues Tarantino after talk show sesh

007 faces legal shootout

Computerized critters roam Web prairie

Springfield springs to life in virtual world

1997: The year of drawing dangerously

Postcard from the edge

Pixar's skin game

Online Ozzie Elf stuffs Will Vinton's stocking

Major investment bears fruit

Jethro fuels animators' budgets

Girl toons rule

A-list voices flock to Dreamworks' 'Egypt'

'Atlantis' sails on tech waves

Composers honor aural traditions

A navigator's guide to the Web's top toon sites

MTV Europe evolving into localized netlets

World Briefs

Dorothy Vivian Rottman

Deena Kramer

Hitched

Oz docus safe for now

Granada in green

Peacock to buy from Nye

'Alien' invading B.O.

Blustery weather hurts B.O.

AOL logs on 10 mil subscribers

TBS, Jones Intercable reach pact

Hasselhoff suits up for 3

Sky Mexico moves to lower its prices

Gates puts Comdex focus on image

Exclusives audiences take 'Wings' to the top

Short Takes

Mischer, Cates set CBS Israel spec

A&E signs 'Biography' books

Liberty profits hit $307 mil

SFP gets another stay

WB in orbit with Canal Satellite

Par following 'Leader'

Paquin joins cast of Rabe's 'Hurlyburly'

Seagal/Nasso trying to get into 'Trouble'

Regency TV, Joffe pact

007 faces legal shootout

Nanci Griffith; Crickets

Nanci Griffith; Crickets

John McLaughlin

Don King: Only in America

Nanci Griffith

Lee (Scratch) Perry

Medusa's Child

Face Down

Student Bodies

Student Bodies

Oliver Twist

Bella Mafia --- Parts I & II

The Lion King (New Amsterdam Theater)

It

Physical Jerks

Life According to Muriel

Rachel's Daughters

Time of Happiness

Year of the Dogs

Season Five

Chile, Obstinate Memory

Made In Hong Kong

Vive La Republique!

The Impostor

Biker Dreams

Tic Tac

Space Truckers

Cost of Living

The Jackal

I Love You, I Love You Not

Unmarried Couple

Barracuda

Sam and Itkeh

A Letter of Resignation

Hrh

Brutality of Fact

Defying Gravity

Houdini

Houdini

Proposals

Two Hands, Four Pianos

Incognito

Vonda Shepherd

Spiritualized

Spiritualized

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

What the Deaf Man Heard

Sex in Advertising

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

The Batting Cage

Let There Be Light

Marthe

Our Boy

There Is Always a Right Way

Stand-Ins

Upstate

Directors on Directors

The Red Door

The Winners

Every Little Thing

The Method

The Pelvis of J.W.

Other Men

Incognito

Onibi: The Fire Within