'60 II' slips down a tick

Mickey's movietime

Canuck panel offers ways to boost pic biz

CanWest shareholders approve NetStar deal

Samples tapped at Turner nets

Barbosa's Mann's man

Maguire joins 'Wonder Boys'

Fine Line 'Kills' deal; 'These' next

AFM screenings open to public ... for a price

WMA taps Schneider

Eye puts lid on Wed. comedies for sweeps

McCann in talks for PMK buy

Simon puts 'Dinner' on in London

Christopher to give Oscar his look

Crudup, Morton lead MacLean's soph try 'Jesus'

World Online fires, sues chair Schulhof

Kids WB! scores with 'Batman'

Jour de Fete snags rights to 'Relax'

'Nova' gets Gold at duPont/Col U kudos

Steiger, Taylor schmooze with Benignis

MGM, Brits bond

Panel ponders ethnicity on TV

Latent blossoming

Capuzzo's shark attack

WGA to give Cox award to Reisman

TW to buy back up to $5 bil of stock in 3 yrs.

Fox steals Zahn for news

Sats seek fee reversal

Edwards' new Broadway baby is 'Big Rosemary'

Not so Universal

Disney, 'Rushmore' duo deal

Viva Nava at NL

Chapman brings 'Junk' to Bel Air

PrimeStar deal looks promising

'Rugrats' up Nick to ratings record

Big snow for big show as Sundance unfolds

Black Film contest set

Par catches Colick pitch

Shelton ankles Marley pic

SAG's Napier opts to stay

L.A. crix' picks

Turner Ent. builds Levi to top of acquisitions

P'Star debt may bring regret

3rd Hispanic b'caster bows

Berlin buzz builds

New day dawning

Kirchner, George on path to Pathe

News taps Che for China

Midem stands online

Showtime adds 2 series

Rich twitching

'Still Crazy' about rock

Luque will develop Lola's English pix

Blanks gets 'Munchies'

Itsy Bitsy taps Gold prez, onscreen entertainment

Storm, Palm fund 'Criminal'

Fireman's to fund sale

Goyas go to 'Girl' at Spanish awards

'Rosie,' syndie skeins take '99 Nielsen

Fili-Krushel respells Alphabet at NATPE

DGA proposes new contract

'El Norte' returns

Digital video gains cache with filmmakers

Discovery Pix names production VP

Globes 'In Love' and war

TenPercenteries

Inside Move

Men take to 'Turks'

L.A. location shoots down year to year

Carrey expanding, Caine looking for work

Amid D.C. theatrics, H'w'd gets paranoid

Granada, LMNO Eye 'Surprise'

NBC orders 4 more segs of surprise 'Providence'

Euro B.O. sees duds

Turner revamps Asia

Insync.Media spawns 2 digital units

TBS greenlights 2 pics

Affleck, Miramax playing 'Games'

Return to 'Chinatown'

Steele, Scott tapped for Fox research

'Scared' & 'Rotten'

Tauzin works on FCC org. reform

'Date' picked up in N.Y., L.A.

Fox, affils shuffle kids programming

Fox Kids taps Poindexter program VP

'Varsity' tops for 2nd week

Pay-to-play fight overshadows skeins

Redford high on cinemas

Pic pickups pick up

Hoffman redressed in L.A. mag fashion suit

Regent taps Lambert

Cleese rates R role in Bond pic

CBS plans miniseries on Jefferson's affair

Spielberg's war memorial

Oscar Watch

BBC prepping for millennium tunes

Great '98 for Japan

Susan Strasberg

'Waterboy' carries Oz in weekend B.O.

Coke, U sign on dotted line

Bowl's last ad spot a Secret

Russo group in space biz

CAA draws line in sand for Ovitz

ABC speeds up effort to boost affil relations

NBC, affils wrestle over compensation

Matthews refers to Amazon

Kevin Boyle

3 Ring Circus to bow pix arm

Jones, Eastwood jam; pimp at Sundance

Yahoo! sez Fox folk

Col TV, Brazil b'caster laugh and play games

Backing off taxes

Globes ratings gold for NBC

Exec Shuffle

Pope spins out Sony CD

Phillippe, Cumming, LaPaglia join 'Man'

Film Bond Int'l adds vet Morgan

Latifah locks launch

Scrappy over 'Happy'

Nicholas J. Corea

MTV hits mark for homes across Asia

Smart move

Lerman tops Paxson's e-commerce unit

Digital dastards

Mets, WPIX in b'cast deal

NATPE becomes int'l must-see TV confab

Livent loses $4.6 mil since filing Chap. 11

'Ryan' notches trio of b'cast crix awards

Gomez dives into indie 'Drowning'

Panel mulls net loss

Spanning the Globes

Brian Moore

New legislation boon to Russian film biz

Time Warner in Oz tussle

'Heart' pumps exclusives

Ramstad in at Svensk after Edholm ankles

CAK to add TV securitizing

Downgrade tumbles Imax stock

Pathe-way blocked

'Station' screens at Museum of Tolerance

DGA combat-ready

CBS' McLean may top WGAW

Quartet hits highway with new i5 banner

ShoWest taps Zeta-Jones

Indie pix web spins disc deal

Bugs & Co. pact is Peking ducky

Behaviour out cash, exec

Broadcasters air grievances to regs

The days of Meir Rose arrive with partnership

NYT's Reichl top chef at Gourmet

Zucker pacts to sing lead role for Diva

Univision mixed in qtr.

Moroccan king follows 'Rules'

MTV ups Hricik

Loews to sell theaters in Chi

SFX sweetens deal

Miramax 'Happy'

'Shakespeare' doth nab 5 of SAG noms

WGAW turns table, picks McLean for top

Scotts in driver's seat

Inside Move

'Trick' pic treated to release by Fine Line

Fox pulling 'Brimstone'

Salles sells SPC next pic's rights

Cisneros TV Group buys Argentina's MuchMusic

Latin Discovery sets regional docu drive

'Shakespeare,' 'Seasons'among Golden Bear noms

Eclectic pix at Rotterdam

Loews, TSG pact to exhib indies

KCBS expanding afternoon news

AFTRA vote tally today, SAG Thurs.

Blue Sky's Brown off to green f/x pastures

PGA taps Stark for achievement award

'Dilbert' draws a crowd

Scorsese 'Kundun' doc to In Pics

Outerspace preps bios, true-life pix

TV is not dead yet

'Raymond' gets new TBS home

'Topper' may return

'Dome,' 'Lost' set clearance deals

Rupe ball deflated

The WB buys 'Pokemon'

Biondi buzzes in King World's ear

Pix nab ASC cinematography nods

'Man' of the hour

FX to show 1st animated series

Fox News nets Nelson for latenight yakker

'Globes' lift NBC to best week of season

Chrysalis goes Global at Midem

B'buster revs sharing deals

Seeking 'Adventure'

Oscar Watch

'Baywatch' has global restaurants on its menu

EMI rumors making rounds at Midem '99

Deutsche Col-Tristar pix up

Ticketmaster gets online competish

Sound editing's best vie for Golden Reels

GLAAD wraps 'Fox Files' seg

Lions Gate taps Segal

Shocker charges

Livent pair won't return to U.S.

Music, film arms boost Sony income

Allen's buying spree

Disney pix, TV, stores slip

NATPE: Buzz lite, lotsa grumbling

NL grabs 'Groupies'

Oscar Watch

N.Y.'s Mosher to helm 'Laughter'

Malibu plans inaugural fest

'Late Late' clears gate in Seattle, elsewhere for Eye

Proposed law would regulate managers

Rogue dead on with 'Kill'

John Gerard Heath Jr.

Frances Gershwin Godowsky

Charles Brown

TF1 reports big rise in '98 net profits

'Days' preem dawns

Ankone takes fashion Detour

B'way books Asahina

CTI ups Rubenstein

Penn brings 'Failure' to Actors' Studio

Biskind to edit H'w'd Nation

Alphabet loses heart in 'Cupid,' ends prod'n

Kamins tops ICM lit dept.

AFTRA members OK merger

Ron Montgomery

Jeff Belker

Italo Prod'n Stable

Variety bash focuses on cinematographers

Femme niche's to pitch

CCTV, Cinar set co-prod'n

Sutherland eyes 'Enigma'

Granite to sell affil

Ergen tells pols that EchoStar must grow

Syndie library boom

Lions Gate, Par TV pact on 'Cliff'

Mann circuit for sale

Producer Murphy gets Angry at Col

'Shawshank' lifts Eye

Sundance net sets up femme fest

Fallout aside, SPC buys docu

Tiger Aspect to get Rose

Catholic priest tops Manila film board

Showtime gives 'Girl' a whirl on Web site

Angels smile on feature pix, TV noms

Mihok registers at 'Felicity' university

Last CBS infomercial to preempt O&O feed

Ruling zaps Sony

Friedman tapped for Kids' WB

Much ado about Howard

'Kane' presses on at HBO; Gotham lits fret

Almodovar's 'Mother' to Sony Classics

Greta Shipman

Michael White

The Flying Dutchman

The Cryptogram; The Old Neighborhood

Cookie's Fortune

Can't Stop Dancing

Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment

Gloria

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

The 24 Hour Woman

An American Love Story

Dilbert

Ravenous

SLC Punk

Happy, Texas

Monumental Cruelty

Orgy

Orgy

Monumental Cruelty

Judy Berlin

Treasure Island

The Blair Witch Project

Joe the King

Minus Man

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

Joe the King

The Blair Witch Project

The Jack Monty Show

Family Guy

Heat of the Sun

Miss Julie

Guinevere

American Pimp

She's All That

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