Showtime on toes for 'Ballet' telepic

Fox spec has pyramid power

Clayton 'Peg Leg' Bates

Film Roman, Launch pact

Players

Cavuto named biz news VP at Fox

Murray to get Sturdivant at '99 ShoWest

Trimark, Eisen pact for genre vidpics

Sundance to honor indie Dern

B'way: Hare's David

Coscient Group reorganizes

Ship shape studios

Legal vet Eidel joins new firm

GC posts losses as old theaters close

Grove/Atlantic captures 'Fall'

Wilson ankles topper of lottery's Film Consortium

Lion to push Panther products with partners

AFTRA board OKs new TV agreement

Brooks, Dion rule

Oxygen expanding

Miramax, X mark spot

Sevigny nails 'American Psycho' role

Stephen ankles Film Four

Sony's AXN TV taps Tan in distribution

Dutch nets in rights war

BVI Int'l, RTL part of Super RTL's program

Senator Film, helmer pact

Digital deal drawn

'3rd Rock' off to rocky Tuesday start

Three to preem works at Salzburg

Commission reveals details of BSkyB's soccer takeover

'Brothers' to join UPN Tuesday sked

Lennon's image goes mobile in U.K.

Love fest for 'Shakespeare'

U Music Group: new giant of tune town

Inside Move

Inside Move

Quaid slithers into 'Iguana'; Hoch locked

Galavision goes for X spot

CBS earns $2.87 bil through Infinity IPO

Prufrock, NL team for 'Fall'

203 pix vie for Globes

'Black,' bacon fry U qtr.

Stringer ringer

'Outside' in on Discovery

'Believe it,' TBS says

Networks ready counterpunch to cable

Eye Brewster's TV place

Wilson talks 'Streak'

USSB stock soars on rumors of takeover

California, there they go

Stone Stanley ups Friedman

Greenblatt Janollari taps Bartlett

Nash moves from reality to laffers

Alcon revs up tyro scribe's 'Car' spec

Champion to weather 'GMA' gap

NBC Sports pacts for Ironman event

AT&T, TW close to phone deal

Rolando Alphonso

Bob Haggart

Johnny Roventini

Fire & Ice sizzles

Marvin Shapiro

WWII hot; Adler's 'Hearts' to flutter

Granada enters Oz indie circuit

Pay TV loosens in H.K.

Bavaria acquires prod'n group

Chinese pix boosted

TW and TCI swap cable systems

Ten: Oz law 'adverse,'

News Corp. taps Ginsberg

Mip deals still done

Saban taps Wineberg

Music will boot 3,000

Wall St.'s Infinity affinity

Disk biz drops digital guard

Allen allocates 35 pix, 5 docus for marketing

ABC carves new sked

Players

Nichols, Naughton join for Off Broadway tuner

Stillman, Vachon to team on China-themed 'Azalea'

Odyssey picks Jessel for pix

The Boss triumphs, blocks early album

Ganis chairs Governors Ball

BVI inks deal with U.K. firms

Witte wafts away

Kelley 'Snoops' for ABC

Singer Hill denies allegations

N.Y. Post bumps Barnes for Lyons

Trimark ups Elzer

D'Works, Fox do Spielberg-Cruise 'Report'

Exec Shuffle

Murdoch makes China charge

U takes a giant gulp

Marceau segs to Bond role

Brits, Cubans pact for film preservation

Evelyn Del Rio

Morley 'Buddy' Freed

Barbara Acklin

Joseph Conrad Thornton

Francis A. Perry Jr.

Jose 'Pepito' Figueroa

Rosa Turich

Michael Lawson Bagnall

Mary Servaes-Beij

Publicists re-elect Bollinger

Cable company

Smith, Jordan, King top Image awards

Net makes environmental push

Religious leaders blast TW Cable

Blackwell exits post at William Morris TV

Nick vet CBS-bound as nets alter kidvid skeds

Pair of pix under Simpson shingle

Palm buys Pri-mation, ups kidfare

Showbiz celebrates celluloid Cuba libre

BVI, 'Mulan' hit big

Canada streamlines TV funds

U.K. film, TV mogul Grade dies

Whelan upped at Sony unit

Green, Pressler lead revamped Disney Parks

Viacom gets out of studio store biz

Comcast goes Prime

Disney suits up Gorilla

'Star' power in Vegas

Boston critics cite 'Sight,' 'General'

Foundry spies 'Company'

TNT pins Sting for telepic

Trailer 'Wars' on Internet

Super Bowl boost

Allen to steer 'R.V.'

Jersey eyes Soderbergh

Nice guy Meyer must now play bad cop

NBC may dump two Monday sitcoms in February

L.A. Crix salute 'Ryan'

'Trek' tops, 'Bug' snug

NABET ordered to court

Fantasy rules Atlantis opening

Economic woes hurt Mip Asia

DeLine lands Levin pitch

Four staffers ankle bicoastal praisery

HWPC shines Golden Apples, fetes Archerd

Exec Shuffle

Louis K. Sher

Via Digital spends big on prod'n

Aperture names film finalists

Bard tryst 'Shakes' up exclusives

Seymour tightens 'Ties'

Mixed review on Brit pix fund

AMC buys 1st film library

Radio City to do Super Bowl

MPAA cracking down on camcorder pirates

Head heads TBS originals

Hasbro clicks Sony Online for Pursuit

Seagram's new tune

AT&T, TCI put local telephones on hold

MovieFone rings up record usage

Kubrick opens Kidman's eyes to B'way

Heyward reups as CBS News prexy

U flexes for 'Muscle' movie

Peacock gets plucky

HBO dances around gun control issue

New 'Bug's' bloopers look to hook auds

DGA promotes Adler

ABC, NABET spar over 'final' offer

Mechanic joins USC board

UPN caught 'Redhanded'

Telemundo to subtitle top shows

Sony Pictures, Telefe pact

SBS picks up pic rights, ITV series

Mexican law promotes pic prods.

Global blurb woes

Sony taps Alexander for sr. VP Latin post

Japan's Fuji TV sets up satcaster

Oz approves sale of transmission net

It's a www.go for Disney and Infoseek

Tele Munchen inks pix deal

Palm Springs fest to honor trio

Labowitz joins Coudert

'Net ads to surge in 1999

Dial 'D' for drama

Landmark inks N.Y. deal

West sends reps team south

Lizard stomps back to Toho

Birds of a feather

Thinking fit, Hopkins tells Brits its quits

'T3' moves ahead; Lopez snags cash for 'Nash'

Hoyts hires Murphy as exec consultant

B'Way 'Winter' cast set

Weil to host cable series

Camerimage fest honors vet lensers

Globo, top cartoonist ink contract

B'way on even keel

Byrd will fly from Canuck CBC-TV perch

O'seas B.O. a wild ride

Don Buccola

Blanche Frankfurt

David H. McDade

Lila Scheidlinger

Thomas J. May

Lee Kimber

Neil Roberts

World Briefs

Amuse's 'Anna' to bow in Japan

Newcastle soccer club confirms $265 mil offer

Peacock fluffs GE

Pearson spins positive

BSkyB inks deal to install sat dishes

Rai chooses Canal

C. Moray Foutz

DVD Express rushes 'Net shopping pacts

Four Media income rises

Auschwitz survivor lauds Benigni pic

Friedman in at Renaissance

Awards to boast Klausen designs

Awards to boast Klausen designs

Black radio goes digital

Praisery set for MITIC

'See You' sees top kudos as Mexico delivers Ariels

Telemundo picks lead 'Angel'

Log in, Latin America

October picks 'Bond' for Rogue

Lapdance next to prance Utah

RIAA denotes digital domain

Hi-profile support

Mann vet Davy joins Edwards

Four to get Crystal Award

Macdonald's ABC pilot adds Metcalf to the cast

Frankenheimer tapped as Loeb co-chairman

Business as usual

Slamdance balloons

TenPercenteries

ESPN scores rating TD

Writer bites ducks

CineVegas fest honors 10

Mandalay in 'Martian Race'

Trio pacts for pix distrib in Spain

'Phantom' not purloined

TriStar TV inks Adelson

USA sets tall telepix order

Sikowitz, Astrof back at WB TV

Segerstroms donate land for concert hall

Taymor's 'Bird' flies to B'way

Inside Moves

Wall St. mystified by U pix plans

Peacock squeaks out demo win

Prod'n central

Kilborn's 'Late Late' debut set for March

Fox halos Greenwalt

Cable credit report glowing

Russian 'Fishing' reels in video sales

Calling Dr. Kildare

Redeemable Features enrolls 'Mad Freshman'

Artistic License nabs Kore-Eda's 'After Life'

Little, Brown edits titles

Norman Fell

Michael Lawson Bagnall

Jack Petry

John Everest

Ana Sirola

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire

The Hitman

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

The Prince of Egypt

Star Trek: Insurrection

The Prince of Egypt

The Tempest

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Hard Time

Grace & Glorie

Fantastic Mr. Fox

It Happened One Night

Patch Adams

You've Got Mail

Wilford Brimley

Molotov

The Blue Room

Jonathan Richman

Journey

Ninth Annual Almost Acoustic Christmas

Handel's Messiah

Life of Crime 2

Placebo

Andre Previn

The Santaland Diaries

Radio City Christmas Spectacular

A Civil Action

Mighty Joe Young