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France's first sports news net kicks off

Kirch Group ups Hahn

BBC unveils '97 numbers

Two U.K. indie units pact

Kirch bid for Sat 1 rejected

Delany up for Star's new business

Nicholson, Castrow powwow in Cuba

Devore services

Neuman's new home is in Internet's DEN

Valenti's online alarm

Seagal Nasso preps two pix

Corbis buys Outline Press

Judge nixes net imports

CanWest circles Cox's Rysher

Marv gets back to the Garden

Jackson at 'Sea' with Harlin

Cable online boost

BMG ups Dale

'Gate,' A.J. and Quinns up; Madonna 'Down'

Swedish message

Haute spy couture

Forever tango with Duvall

An all-Time high

DGA reaches out with LBA

Depp to ride in 'Hollow'

Rhythm taps helmer Kroyer

A penchant for Merchant

'Iceman' may cometh with Spacey, not cast

London theaters blast $1 bil mark

Stars host Voices program

Asteroids rock

'Forget' forges ahead in slow syndie frame

Web site to run 'Mighty' trailer

TenPercenteries

Danes, Anderson voice 'Mononoke'

ABC dusts itself off

Praisery trio merge into one

McCaffrey back to drive 'Viper'

Indie veterans' day

Davis in 'Little' league for Col's Yule offering

Title readies 'Book' redux

De Bont's Blue eyes 'Horseman'

WGAW spells out goals to members

'True' scribe Croner tackles 'Palos'

Palisades nabs Bross film

Heyward says '60 II' won't be knockoff

Wm. Morrow taps Rusoff

Rosenfeld to board WCBS

Name that tune

WNYW buys 'Caroline'

Internet panel bows Gotham Plug in '98

CBS to air 2 ABL playoff games

HDTV sets lack cable connection

Michael Daniel Haller

Kosta Alexander

Jimmy Driftwood

Kay Thompson

Sheldon Tromberg

Irene Brafstein

Carey Wilber

Rival broadcasters seek out Indians

Dutch channel to focus sked on kids, women

Gemstar nixes bid

NBC revamps sales in bid for efficiency

Lopez top candidate for Televicine post

Chile gets plethora of plexes

Shareholder battles hurt WIC's earnings

Endemol ups van Bochove

Coscient shakeup

HBO goes 'All the Way' for Rat Pack pic

AMC earnings, cash flow get boost

Profits up for N.Y. Times

Wealden puts $5 mil into Legacy of pix

N.Y. schools get Seinfeld boost

ABC ups Taylor

A plex grows in Brooklyn

Fox ups Pawlak

WB hits the 'Spot' with Gordon bow

Fox picks 'Fruit'

Pic pair names Rhames

Ambitious TNT moves into series prod'n

C'right measure vote delayed

Paxson on minority bandwagon

CBS Saturday kids sked set

Tribune revenues, earnings surge

Artisan goes for 'Cruise'

One Mouse House

NL lands Buckley's 'Little Green Men'

Exec Shuffle

Jacor joins National Media in infomercial firm interest

Meyers joins Seagal

Spanish duo inks Miramax pix pact

GE mulls USA, Viacom for Peacock partners

Westin thinks deep

'English' team joins 'Ripley'

Attanasio duo ink Par pact

Livingston grabs 'Big Brass Ring'

N.Y. showbiz law firms merge

Tune's 'Easter' gets new chance from Nederlander

'Vep' to be revived Off B'way

Wincer to helm Star's 'On the Beach' mini

New Regency taps Cramer, Milchan

Brits coming to Hollywood

Summer hits sizzling o'seas

New Line shoots for CBA TV deal

Howard on Liberty arm

Murdoch watching Italian TV

Librarians check out

Net stox skyrocket

NBC taps four for Snap! and skeds promo blitz

Vexed Madonna exits 'Violins'

'River' beckons Bridges

Siggraph confab tones down glitz

USA expands wrestling to bolster Sun. actioners

WB sitcom 'Stars' shifts to Castle Rock

Lichtstein named VP at Apostle

Fox, DiCaprio set for 'Beach'

Coppola revives Zoetrope

'Jesus' won't bless TNT

Pot pic pitch with Pitt stokes New Line

Roman, Fox pact for 'Family Guy'

'Seinfeld' suit to arbitration

'Party' creators seek significant Fox change

Size matters, Littlefield sez

PAX Net execs make apologies for print ad

'Moon' on the beam

'Zorro' wins lethal duel

Wolpert, gameshow a 'Match'

Bellisario in 'Dreamland'

Film fest to feature unknowns

Emmys' 50th anni to be no-host affair

Locarno fest to open with 'Mulan'

Coming out party

Sony digital f/x shop gets a 'Hollow' deal

Smack's back on 'Springer'

Blue Sky sees green

Zeitgeist buys rights to 'Teena' docu

CBS keeps Army-Navy game

Musicians ratify accord

Block those asteroids: Summer pix go low-tech

'Sex' sticks to exclusive B.O. summit

Mamet pair to tread Geffen boards

H'w'd fest offers biz experts

Helkon on wheels

Edinburgh fest packs high-profile pix

Pubcaster eyes German soccer rights

BSky revamps channels

U.K. likely to ease ITV's regs

Juicy transaction

VNU sells off VTM stake

Matthews aims for live presence in Las Vegas

Univision hits hot numbers

Lantos dives head on into pic producing role

Banderas ponders 'Zorro' sequel

ABC News vet Ensor joining CNN in D.C.

Pullman saddles up to 'Virginian'

Pix buoy B.O. o'seas

Canadian shakin'

Arista spins record sales of $420 mil

Paxson debt rating drops

Union's boom time

Persistent merging with Vision

Carlyle speaking to 'Angela's Ashes'

A virtual hit

Davidson gets 'Magic' gig

Silver goes into 'Closet'

Castle Rock nabs 'Wicked'

LaBute firms for trio of pix

Big gain for B'way

ShowEast honors to Par's Lewellen

Fox, WB to trade affils in Raleigh

30-second movies

Web site big 'Weapon' in marketing

Frat fright firmed; Munster movie mulled

Disney Hall hits $ goal

Inside Moves

Marshall, Morales top 'Doomsday'

TV Acad opts not to renew Loper's pact

Personnel shuffle at WAMI

Aronofsky draws on comic

Kennedy, Marshall ink CBS development deal

Exec Shuffle

Donner nabs 'Crook' book

Sheen signs on the 'Line'

Silverman joins Macdonald in Universal's 'Ballbusted'

'Mary' duo nabs 'Turnabout'

CBS News names West VP

TV Acad to fete hearing-impaired

Oz film booming without government aid

Accident halts 3 B'way shows

Brillstein-Grey inks Casting duo

'NBA Inside' inks anchor

Japan Internet TV prod'n halted

Broadway buys Richard's 'Ice'

Medavoy to key indie film confab

Bouygues seeks split from Bollore

France 2 revamps top exec team

Original thinking

UPN returns to Okla. City

Fox TV taps Lemchen VP

Granite's KOFY buy rock solid

Carmike collapse

B'casters at odds on 35% ownership rule

'Nikita's' Surnow pacts with WBTV

Freeman in 'Kiss' prequel

'Godzilla' wounded by 'Monsters' in Japan

Chips block that kick

Fests aren't dogging 'Poodle Springs'

Summer heat wilts Nielsens

'ET' sits out 'Private' preem

PFE says new releases will triple cash flow

Abramson to direct 'Springer' movie

Disney profits dip

GM strike slows TV advertising engine

IA will raze hurdles facing new members

Finley helms indie 'Kali'

House grants $98 mil to NEA

Rogers & Cowan taps Licata

UPN working on 24-hour cable channel

Cool J, Rapaport dive in WB's 'Deep Blue Sea'

Siggraph delegates bitten by bug motif

David to head Win Ventures

Bel Air nabs 'Pay' rights

DeMesquita PR sr. veep for WMA

Stallone enters 'Detox'

Music synergy

Pioneer Griffith feted

'Night' lands Off-Broadway

USA taps Carry-Swift

Stars set for 'Valentines'

'Elizabeth' bows in Toronto

Leaving the island

Anna Murdoch files for divorce

Roth fends off foes of Fox shows

Krapp's Last Tape

Thorn and Bloom

Etta James

Gravity Kills

Twelfth Night

Kiki's Delivery Service

Saving Private Ryan

The Guerrilla

No Budget Story

The Revenge of Lucy

What I Did for Love

The Sea Was Waiting

Testamento

Kiki's Delivery Service

Poodle Springs

Cha Cha Cha

The Raft of the Medusa

Saving Private Ryan - Combat Viewed Through Visceral Cinema

Above Freezing

The Town

Crackers

Saint Joan

De la Guarda: Villa Villa

Oklahoma!

Savion Glover/Downtown

The Lear Project

Pot Mom

Risk Everything

Standing Stone

Present Laughter

Ain't Misbehavin'

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