AMI settles piracy case

PGA announces Golden Laurels

Art directors draw prod'n design noms

Helmer Hiller to get DGA Aldrich Award for service

Exec Shuffle

Lear pushes to oust impeachment leaders

Chancellor stock rises after 4th-quarter gains

For the love of the game

Hoyts is on block

Stream dammed up

RAI bows sports net

Shapiro prez of TEAM

Televisa, Azteca pact

Italy's Stream lost more steam in '98

Hughes linking up

Overbrook is ready

Sony Classical, Lucas on 'Menace'

Schwartz pacts with Miramax

Peacock struts stuff in first sweeps week

X vs. X

Players

New Line ups Haygood

'Rangers' rocks kids

Low spirits at U

Herbert Kline

Cambern tops newly spliced editors guild

Sheen keen on TV skein

'Swingers' duo eye shot at 'Moon' pic

Pollack may walk on helm side of 'Fame'

Bruckheimer has award trifecta

Allen circles 'Galaxy' role

Valenti loves Europe

Nielsen plans tour for one-man play 'Darrow'

Talk a done deal

Bills back California production

TenPercenteries

Fox 2000 buys 'Virgin' spec

Inside Moves

ABC, Barbra raise ante with 'Mame'

Perez inks sitcom deal

Pitt, Paquin talk turkey with Crowe

Ware named head of operations

Thanks, Oscar

Tauzin, Kennard spar about low-power radio stations

Judge's refusal means sat subs will lose nets

Oscar Watch

Globo reveals $2.4 billion debt

Gotham fetes Friel

BMG ups Wilson to key int'l marketing post

Sklar tops Blow Up

ProSieben profits up

Maple Palm ups Gooding

H. John Ramos

Rodney Theodore Montague

Hugh Edward Conlon Jr.

J.C. Macgregor Scott

Coles Trapnell

'Jawbreaker' graduates

'Cigarettes' preem has crowd smokin'

WB revels in its past

U reaches to the 'Sky'

Exec Shuffle

Acad gets Yost interviews

Clouds for BSkyB

CLT-UFA rebounds with hefty profits

Vox gets $178 mil infusion

World Briefs

MTVE adds channels to U.K., Irish services

Kinderkanal to take in 'Teletubbies'

'Oklahoma!' on top

Roth sets up London base

Albert inks deal with Turner nets

UVSG joining Source

Behaviour logs off high-tech ventures

Cinemark loses $7.9 mil

Clark stock hit by 1999 outlook

Shaw gains from high-tech shares

Pierson to receive WGA's North Award

Song in key of FCC

Col TV taps Nichols VP

Danny Dayton

Martel honors given to BMG's Dornemann

Kaiser study looks at TV sex

Future Darn Good for ex-Fox VP

LMNO ups Paolantonio to exec VP

Costas to return for 'Later'

Maple Palm ups Gooding to veep of development

Gotham's IFP to rep U.S. for Directors Fortnight

BMG ups Wilson to key int'l marketing post

KW turns on Hong Kong TV

AFI to fete alum Leder

PMK buy confirmed

Brit CD sales rise 18% in '98

'Bug's' boffo bow

Shakespeare to get Ahmanson spotlight

'Stella' grooves at Image Awards

Jackson gets 'Shaft'; Fuhrman pitches H'w'd

BBC in pursuit of 'truth'

Spain's 'Miracle' to Buena Vista

Italia turns off the Stream on Murdoch

Brochtrup is 'Blue' regular

Publicists Myers, Zell vie for soon-vacant guild prexy post

KCET eliminates 16 staff positions

Oscar trailer going wide

WB's 'Bottle' rockets

Trilogy inks with New Line

Oscar boosts the Bard

U.K.'s Moss eyes Livent

Berlin fest picks up steam

ABC's 'Storm' aces 'Serve'

'The '60s' headed to VH1

Sony nabs o'seas right to U's 'Bone'

Cruz, Torres stay 'On Top'

Lifetime's first lady

Destination in line for 'Slut'

Edwin Rowe Jr.

Virgil Harrison Mitchell

Toney Mitchell

Frantisek Vlacil

McCarthy, Nimri get 'Citizen'-ship papers

Shivas, Film Four sign first-look

Publicists salute TV, pic campaigns

HBO buys Hamed fight rights

CNN inks WebMD

'Affliction' B.O. swells

6th annual Animation Expo to unspool

Evers to tinker in Disney

Sponsors in space

Pathe kicks in 34% to Lyon soccer club

Trimark rides DVD to profits

Financial Briefs

Lupone may raise the 'Dead'

Brits big on Williams in pop music awards

Court TV hires Dann for daytime

William Morris ups Nagle to head longform

L.A. Times story heart of 'Mystery'

VH1 promos net ABC Sonny-Cher pic rights

Copyright wrongs

Players

Evans proves he's still in the picture

U two tapped for British film board

Kolbe goes to VisionArt as exec VP

Pecker nabs tab

Editing houses splice, merge into 1 company

Dornfeld forms Custom Effects

3 research dept. execs upped at Col Tristar TV

Polygram axes 31 as staff cuts begin

ATAS channels new look

David Golding

British Columbia hits record in production

Argos, Arbol, Promo pact

Pubcasters win EC funding decision

Fantasy 'Kingdom'

Layoffs follow Fox 3% solution

U and Hanks going 'Wild'

Baldwin, Gilliam to UTA

Inside Moves

'Storm' weathers audience dip

Curtains for Mann?

Japan ad sales drop for first time in 5 yrs.

Fox's 'Family' time

World Briefs

With Oscar noms, 'Life' is boffo again in Italy

Sonnenfeld OK after Gulfstream jet crash

Oscar Watch

ShoWest to honor Madden

WB's Roth signs up 'W&G' co-creators

WCBS pays big, joins Jets set for preseason

Welsh 'Acid' reigns

Details' Golin promises a real men's magazine

Mammoth PR ups Weisberg

Tom Pomposello

Exec Shuffle

Oscar nom enlivens mood at Iranian fest

Snapper, Open City pact

Truffaut films given new life at Fox Lorber

Falcon taps Friedman exec director

It's 'Oh No' for 'Oklahoma!'

Weisberg takes on Mammoth PR role

'Art,' 'King' top Canuck legit season

B'cast of champions

Shochiku to post yearly loss

Kushner-Locke posts $5.9 mil quarter loss

'Jackie' thesp sez she's no 'Elizabeth'

World Briefs

Bennett to make 'Cut' as scribe, producer

Japan music sales up 4%

Oz film critics go dark with best pic choices

Czech license ruling put off

RAI prexy touts privatization plan

NBC's 'Nightly' nabs lead

ABC ups Catalane

At&T-TCI line clear

GC quarter earnings only half last year's

Weinstein 'Reindeer' producer

Inside moves

Palm Pics to fully fund 'Last' Norrington satire

Leguizamo's 'Max bar mitzvah

Oscar watch

'Eloise' comes back; Hill exits 'Supernova'

Artists claim Livent owes them big time

Cablers tout gains

Opening salvo fired

TNT suits up for 'Passing Glory'

Get jiggy with Willie

Horseshoe Bay vet Rosen now sr. VP of Fox prod'n

Sharpening Spears

$13.7 bil record biz in '98

B'cast titans plan meeting on minorities

Divney laughs last

Italo 'Life' breaks B.O. lingo barrier

Graham to be star at ShoWest

Thurs. sked, '60s' lift NBC

ABC, NBC scramble schedules

CMGI, Braun to start 'Net b'cast venture

Col taps Giannetti as VP

'Mifune' to Sony for less

Pacino eyes 'Sea' with Caton-Jones

Mamet's Ma. 'Marriage'

Evans to top Hallmark net

Lewis to top Teen

'Night' loses cast member

Workers strike CBC on job security, money

The New Bozena

Dirt

Blast From the Past

My Favorite Martian

Twin Falls Idaho

Splendor

To Serve and Protect

God's New Plan

Showtime Black Filmmaker Showcase

Unconditional Love

Get Bruce!

Office Space

The Artists'

Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?

The Misanthrope

La Traviata

When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout...

Captains Courageous, the Musical

Mifune

Breakfast of Champions

It All Starts Today

eXistenZ

Thick as Thieves

Buena Vista Social Club

Passing Glory