'60 II' slips down a tick

Mickey's movietime

Simon puts 'Dinner' on in London

Fox steals Zahn for news

Canuck panel offers ways to boost pic biz

CanWest shareholders approve NetStar deal

Samples tapped at Turner nets

Sats seek fee reversal

Barbosa's Mann's man

Maguire joins 'Wonder Boys'

Christopher to give Oscar his look

Edwards' new Broadway baby is 'Big Rosemary'

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

World Online fires, sues chair Schulhof

Kids WB! scores with 'Batman'

'Rugrats' up Nick to ratings record

Fine Line 'Kills' deal; 'These' next

Jour de Fete snags rights to 'Relax'

Big snow for big show as Sundance unfolds

Black Film contest set

'Nova' gets Gold at duPont/Col U kudos

Par catches Colick pitch

AFM screenings open to public ... for a price

Shelton ankles Marley pic

Not so Universal

SAG's Napier opts to stay

Steiger, Taylor schmooze with Benignis

WMA taps Schneider

MGM, Brits bond

L.A. crix' picks

Panel ponders ethnicity on TV

Latent blossoming

Capuzzo's shark attack

Disney, 'Rushmore' duo deal

WGA to give Cox award to Reisman

Viva Nava at NL

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

Chapman brings 'Junk' to Bel Air

Eye puts lid on Wed. comedies for sweeps

McCann in talks for PMK buy

PrimeStar deal looks promising

Turner Ent. builds Levi to top of acquisitions

Granada, LMNO Eye 'Surprise'

'Scared' & 'Rotten'

P'Star debt may bring regret

3rd Hispanic b'caster bows

Itsy Bitsy taps Gold prez, onscreen entertainment

Tauzin works on FCC org. reform

Berlin buzz builds

NBC orders 4 more segs of surprise 'Providence'

Storm, Palm fund 'Criminal'

New day dawning

Kirchner, George on path to Pathe

Euro B.O. sees duds

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

Turner revamps Asia

News taps Che for China

Fireman's to fund sale

Goyas go to 'Girl' at Spanish awards

Midem stands online

Showtime adds 2 series

'Rosie,' syndie skeins take '99 Nielsen

Insync.Media spawns 2 digital units

TBS greenlights 2 pics

Fox, affils shuffle kids programming

Fox Kids taps Poindexter program VP

Fili-Krushel respells Alphabet at NATPE

'Varsity' tops for 2nd week

Rich twitching

DGA proposes new contract

Pay-to-play fight overshadows skeins

Redford high on cinemas

Pic pickups pick up

'El Norte' returns

Digital video gains cache with filmmakers

Affleck, Miramax playing 'Games'

Hoffman redressed in L.A. mag fashion suit

Return to 'Chinatown'

'Still Crazy' about rock

Regent taps Lambert

Steele, Scott tapped for Fox research

Cleese rates R role in Bond pic

Discovery Pix names production VP

Globes 'In Love' and war

CBS plans miniseries on Jefferson's affair

TenPercenteries

Inside Move

Men take to 'Turks'

Luque will develop Lola's English pix

Spielberg's war memorial

Oscar Watch

Blanks gets 'Munchies'

L.A. location shoots down year to year

Carrey expanding, Caine looking for work

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

BBC prepping for millennium tunes

New legislation boon to Russian film biz

Time Warner in Oz tussle

Great '98 for Japan

'Heart' pumps exclusives

Ramstad in at Svensk after Edholm ankles

MTV hits mark for homes across Asia

Susan Strasberg

3 Ring Circus to bow pix arm

Smart move

Jones, Eastwood jam; pimp at Sundance

CAK to add TV securitizing

Downgrade tumbles Imax stock

Lerman tops Paxson's e-commerce unit

Yahoo! sez Fox folk

Pathe-way blocked

Col TV, Brazil b'caster laugh and play games

Digital dastards

'Waterboy' carries Oz in weekend B.O.

Backing off taxes

'Station' screens at Museum of Tolerance

Coke, U sign on dotted line

Bowl's last ad spot a Secret

Mets, WPIX in b'cast deal

DGA combat-ready

Globes ratings gold for NBC

NATPE becomes int'l must-see TV confab

Livent loses $4.6 mil since filing Chap. 11

Exec Shuffle

CBS' McLean may top WGAW

Quartet hits highway with new i5 banner

'Ryan' notches trio of b'cast crix awards

Russo group in space biz

Pope spins out Sony CD

ShoWest taps Zeta-Jones

Phillippe, Cumming, LaPaglia join 'Man'

CAA draws line in sand for Ovitz

Gomez dives into indie 'Drowning'

Film Bond Int'l adds vet Morgan

Indie pix web spins disc deal

Bugs & Co. pact is Peking ducky

Behaviour out cash, exec

ABC speeds up effort to boost affil relations

Latifah locks launch

NBC, affils wrestle over compensation

Panel mulls net loss

Broadcasters air grievances to regs

Matthews refers to Amazon

The days of Meir Rose arrive with partnership

NYT's Reichl top chef at Gourmet

Spanning the Globes

Scrappy over 'Happy'

Nicholas J. Corea

Brian Moore

Kevin Boyle

'Shakespeare,' 'Seasons'among Golden Bear noms

Zucker pacts to sing lead role for Diva

Eclectic pix at Rotterdam

'Globes' lift NBC to best week of season

Chrysalis goes Global at Midem

Loews, TSG pact to exhib indies

KCBS expanding afternoon news

Rupe ball deflated

Univision mixed in qtr.

Moroccan king follows 'Rules'

AFTRA vote tally today, SAG Thurs.

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

MTV ups Hricik

Loews to sell theaters in Chi

SFX sweetens deal

Miramax 'Happy'

The WB buys 'Pokemon'

B'buster revs sharing deals

'Shakespeare' doth nab 5 of SAG noms

WGAW turns table, picks McLean for top

Biondi buzzes in King World's ear

Scotts in driver's seat

PGA taps Stark for achievement award

'Dilbert' draws a crowd

Pix nab ASC cinematography nods

Inside Move

Seeking 'Adventure'

Oscar Watch

Scorsese 'Kundun' doc to In Pics

Outerspace preps bios, true-life pix

'Man' of the hour

'Trick' pic treated to release by Fine Line

Fox pulling 'Brimstone'

Salles sells SPC next pic's rights

FX to show 1st animated series

Fox News nets Nelson for latenight yakker

TV is not dead yet

'Baywatch' has global restaurants on its menu

'Raymond' gets new TBS home

'Topper' may return

Cisneros TV Group buys Argentina's MuchMusic

Latin Discovery sets regional docu drive

'Dome,' 'Lost' set clearance deals

Jeff Belker

Italo Prod'n Stable

TF1 reports big rise in '98 net profits

EMI rumors making rounds at Midem '99

Tiger Aspect to get Rose

Catholic priest tops Manila film board

Deutsche Col-Tristar pix up

Showtime gives 'Girl' a whirl on Web site

Ticketmaster gets online competish

Sound editing's best vie for Golden Reels

Variety bash focuses on cinematographers

'Days' preem dawns

Femme niche's to pitch

CCTV, Cinar set co-prod'n

GLAAD wraps 'Fox Files' seg

Ankone takes fashion Detour

Angels smile on feature pix, TV noms

B'way books Asahina

Lions Gate taps Segal

Shocker charges

CTI ups Rubenstein

Penn brings 'Failure' to Actors' Studio

Sutherland eyes 'Enigma'

Biskind to edit H'w'd Nation

Livent pair won't return to U.S.

Music, film arms boost Sony income

Allen's buying spree

Granite to sell affil

Ergen tells pols that EchoStar must grow

Mihok registers at 'Felicity' university

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

Syndie library boom

Last CBS infomercial to preempt O&O feed

Lions Gate, Par TV pact on 'Cliff'

Disney pix, TV, stores slip

Mann circuit for sale

Kamins tops ICM lit dept.

Producer Murphy gets Angry at Col

NATPE: Buzz lite, lotsa grumbling

Ruling zaps Sony

Friedman tapped for Kids' WB

AFTRA members OK merger

'Shawshank' lifts Eye

Much ado about Howard

Sundance net sets up femme fest

'Kane' presses on at HBO; Gotham lits fret

Almodovar's 'Mother' to Sony Classics

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'

Fallout aside, SPC buys docu

John Gerard Heath Jr.

Greta Shipman

Frances Gershwin Godowsky

Charles Brown

Ron Montgomery

Michael White

The Cryptogram; The Old Neighborhood

The Flying Dutchman

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

Orgy

Judy Berlin

Monumental Cruelty

Ravenous

SLC Punk

Happy, Texas

Monumental Cruelty

Orgy

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

Treasure Island

Family Guy

Heat of the Sun

The Jack Monty Show

Miss Julie

Guinevere

American Pimp

She's All That

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