Berlin fest sets 'Boxer' on first card

Grundy has plans for Waterfront

Telepix cast Grant as Pimpernel

ABC, ESPN defend NFL fee$

Winterland's spring

Sony music buys stakes in trio of European indies

Univision chair sells stock pile

Sundance's new stance

Griffiths parks at BMG

Banner deal for Wyner's 'Mexican'

Jacobson to join Disney

H'W'D LAYING LOW AT MIP ASIA

Redstone confirms S&S sale

Polygram TV adds 5

'Versace' wraps case in Miami

NAB backs sat b'cast package for local TV

TCI ups sat stake

Exec Shuffle

PBS' 'Frontline' nabs Gold Baton

Heart-stopping 'ER' deal

Dickinson narrates 'Titanic' for blind auds

L.A. crix heap kudos, honors on picmakers

Acad honors Donen with lifetime award

Nordic giant forming

Benched NBC spins football

Col TriStar Int'l TV ups McMahon

Coppola wins DGA'S Griffith nod

Marriott reaps 'Farm' project

NBC going to movies on Sunday afternoons

DeVito does double duty; Love troubles

KCOP moves 'Vibe' to 11:30

'Morning' stalking 'GMA'

'X' ends Japanese run

'Titanic' tops pops

Preem: 'Fallen' callin' partyers

Stallone ankles CAA for another go at ICM

Red Wagon hitches Hannibal to TriStar

USA taps Rosenberg to head syndie arm

U TV pacts with 'Prey's' Schmidt

Daley bows White Rock sales, distribution firm

Hall does 'Double' duty for WB

Alphabet soups up for summer

Eye web drama in transit

Spain's DirecTV hit

Gooding takes a pay cut

Cher takes 'Tea With Mussolini'

Tauzin tackles cable

Televisa coin bump not up to projection

Bening laying down 'Law'

Top WGA honor to Sayles

Indies' star search

WGA election pact near

Foreman endows scholarship

MPAA Ratings

Shandling hits Grey with suit

MGM Gold lands slot on Hong Kong's Wharf Cable

Todd-AO taps Sanzo legal VP

'Duke' of Detweiler sniffs out Keystone

Castle grabs Jazz's 'Blue'

Emmys enshrined

WB even with UPN in to-date average

Clinton, Eisner intro 'Ruby'

Brooks song suit settled

LeMonde wrapping pair of pics

IATSE, TNT ink 3-year deal

O'seas loses steam

Butler woes shut down 'Grace'

Italian exhibs raise price of admission

U grabs 'Gates' for Clooney co.

'Arrow' tops Gemini noms

Sony bows Euro Hindu channel

Purvis, Wade to pen next Bond adventure

WB buoys Miller to theatrical biz prexy

Par stations order more Philips gear

Bowles brings Breathnach's 'Down' to TSG

Tamahori gets Kiwi 'Die' job

Tarter control: Snags Stagebill

Chi 'Sweet' on 'L.A.'

Scribe Black goes 'A.W.O.L.' for AFI

Promark, Mediaset to stamp 'Letters'

Births, Jan. 16, 1997

Broadcast crix toast Wise with lifetime prize

H'wood vs. adult-pic biz: Porn to be wild

Lensers guild elects Omens prexy

Mexico leads LatAm B.O. surge

Rotterdam spotlights homegrown pix

Sony plans Tokyo Bay center

K-L eyes McCarthy pic co-distrib deal

Todd-AO taps Sanzo legal VP

Top WGA honor to Sayles

Tough B.O. row for tyros

WB plucks Posey

Madatian joins Par as sr. veep, publicity

Academy honors Iwerks

Rediscovering Mexico

B.O. shipshape at week 5

Spinoff from 'Seinfeld' not likely

Redford: Sundance 'rolling along'

Par Int'l TV ups Lucas

Fifield reups at EMI

Sat rule rewritten

NAACP nods set hosts

'Life' leads Italo pic noms

Trade rep raps Bulgaria, Paraguay

'Chicago' a smash in Olivier noms

List of Golden Globe winners

NBC weighs wins, losses

ESPN has Super Bowl more than covered

Bay inks for CNN's Entertainment Weekly

SAG body to vote on merger

Biz buzzing at Sundance

Matsushita allows stake in U to shrink

Judge throws out Seagull suit

Mercurio's steppin' out with 'James'

Study: off-net runs dent web originals

Inside Moves

Midem opens with Latin beat

Kids, pigskin on Fox agenda

Sizing up the economics of Hollywood

Sizzling B.O. abroad warms Jan. markets

Court no help to Trib

Nick toons up sked

Spirits high at NAPTE '98

U Studios ups Marder to VP

New Alphabet Sat. duo in the soup

Stratospheric deal

Cablevision-TCI deal OK'd

'Ragtime' swings to B'way beat

King World, NBC O&O's ready strip

Esiason subbed for Gifford

KKR near deal to buy Regal

Gingrich dodges biz

N.Y. Women's Film Fest expands scope

Exec Shuffle

Toronto kids film fest sets pix for April bow

Bond sets sights on Africa

Golden Globes: Backstage Notes

Roadshow nabs 'Behavior' pic

RKO, Miramax hit remake row

'X-Files' tops among syndie fare

'Kundun' serene atop exclusives

TW to bid for South Africa license

MGM Gold inks for India

Knowledge taps Simon as senior veep

Strong B.O. for 'Ragtime'

Grammys sked all-star perfs

Golden ratings for Globes

Stefanos to guide 'Hands'

World Briefs

FX fills up on pix

Pearson reshuffles Worldwide exec team

Midem's moment in the sun

King gets 'Meaner' option

Showtime hits big Woods

Hazel tops Blues Foundation

Live likes what it sees in Amenabar's 'Eyes'

Regal, UA, Act III to form megacircuit

Intel launches quick web system

D'Works near Busby deal

New Line takes Duvall for 'Wife'

Seventh Art is drawn to 'Honey'

Shuttering 'Sanders'

Alliance gains Int'l rights to 'First Love'

Sunny report: filming on rise in state

Spacey headlining San Jose Cinequest

Bond, boat buoy B.O.

'South Park' may warp to bigscreen

Jackson in 'Training'; Par plumps for 'Play'

Tough bash path for Globe revelers

Pacino warms to 'Iceman'

Bidders storm 'The Castle'

King world splits up

Dante helms 'Estates' for indie Royal

MCA snares Ware as marketing veep

Writers Guild plans panel to bargain with producers

Producers Guild unveils noms for Golden Laurels

San Diego to host inaugural film fest

'Titanic' sails seas

Harling lands 'Ladykillers'

Lifetime sets lineup of specials

Fox orders U 'Weird' pilot

Strip touted by Roseanne

D'Works, Hicks book 'Brown's' Brock

Kornblau to top new U music/video division

TenPercenteries

TNT's 'Jesus' complex

Cliffie Stone, 80

Ralph E. Farmer dies at 90

Rhys-Meyer 'To Live On'

U TV Group reups deal with Raimi and Tapert

Kodak focuses on new hybrid film

U.K. minister's Midem pulpit

Whoopi center of attention

Encore, Polygram in television pact

Disney kids to play UPN

L.A. indie fest calls for pix

With 'Eyes' wound, Kidman gets 'Practical'

Carl Perkins, dead at 65

Full steam ahead

Shochiku lops topper, son

Wolf at int'l door for 'Law'

Exhibs in takeover tizzy

High-profile trio produce NBC projects

'Yards' of stars for Miramax

Global conquest for NBC

WB turns up the heat

Prey

Goldfinger

Patti LaBelle on Broadway

Goldfinger

Prey

On the Line

The Gingerbread Man

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

Marcus Printup; Tim Hagans

Patti Labelle on Broadway

Abc Sunday Night Movie; Nightmare Street

Two for Texas

Two for Texas

Nightmare Street

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

Independent's Day

The Gingerbread Man

Sliding Doors

Ragtime

Great Expectations

The Man in Gray

Across the Lake

Tempest

Vassiliki

Xxl

Patti Labelle on Broadway

Island of Greed

Task Force

Things I Left in Havana

To the Limit

Beck 2

The Gingerbread Man - 'Man' Finds Altman Doing It by the Book

Olympia

June Moon

Intimates

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

Love, Langston

The Country Club

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

I Can't Remember Anything/the Last Yankee

Hamlet

Steel City

A Russian Romance

Ragtime - Nostalgia Trips

Kurt and Courtney

Montana

Half Baked

Dawson's Creek

The Big Lebowski

Pi

Kurt and Courtney

Montana

Half Baked

The Big Lebowski

Polish Wedding

Slappy and the Stinkers

How to Make the Cruelest Month

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart

The Real Thing