Suds fans bestow kudos

'Wind' catches Scott

USC bows biz, cinema-TV program

Seydoux has eye on TV web

Prisma's 'Great' deal

Davis' widow settles with Uncle Sam

Ousted CEO eyeing takeover of Harvey

Dolan, Mets play tag

AFM ends hit, miss

VIFX will do effects for 'End of Days'

'Judges' lay down law during sweeps

U Music taps exex in pub arm revamp

Waters to yak at Spirits

Redford snatches 'Napoleon'

Dimension, Interlight, Road pact

Inside Moves

New Line Int'l ups Hoxie to veepee

It's news to sweeps

Oscar Watch

Dick Clark bands with Darin son to produce Bobby biopic

Silver, Stiller bask in yuk fest buzz

Par nabs 'Temptations'

Par TV names Mischler exec VP

House panel approves DirecTV bill

Spain to get first look at Springsteen tour

Sony to bow AXN in Latin America

Shadyac's U turn

3 named to AFI's board of trustees

Kazan fete unamerican

Blurb kudos will whiplash the yuks out of you

NBC shocker lures demo

Ex-NL exec Goldman talks jobs with AMG

Monica boosts ABC to 2nd-place sweeps tie

French breakdown

'Bugs' reaches $300 mil

Reeves likely takes to field for Warners

Retevision, Carlton discuss TV alliance

India's Zee TV TW in talks over cable role

World Briefs

Running on EMTV

Televisa results climb

Prisma's 'Great' deal

MSG Metro to rock, roll

Tangled Web

Internet shows ready for convergence era

Music biz struggles with MP3

Personalized TV aims to be ultimate VCR

Post, prod'n merging

Info explosion comes to tube

Roman to new firm

B'casters, satcasters reopen signal talks

Mirror group selling Scottish Media stake

NetStar deal sealed

'Patcj

'Patch' ups o'seas

Spanish satellite merger talks crash

EC kicks up coin for Endemol tech docu

Kinowelt's TV revs leap

Lewinsky draws OK ratings in U.K.

BBC World seeks Indian prod'ns

Intertainment pic pact

Oz reviewing media regs

VIS on new Pathe

Scribes describe in Santa Barbara

'Thunder' starts fast in CBS bow

Newman named to MPTF board

Exhib Cinemark plans multiplex for Colombia

UA picks Pinkser

Movie tix venture teams ETM, ICON

Orr upped to Par VP

Cecchi Gori swims with Stream

Dion wins Juno's Heart with 5 awards

Aspen's laugh riot

Sandler to produce comedy

Lively debate focuses on biz now and then

Fox picks up two comedy pilots

Zonca's 'Angels' flies highest among Cesars

L.A. crix fete Polonsky

House-warming session in Las Vegas

Pitt off Crowe rock

Oscar Watch

TenPercenteries

New Line, Chan plan pic

Dahl finds Off Broadway Place for 'Wonderland'

Most back NABET-NBC pact

Nicoli next EMI head

Gaffes without laughs: big-biz boo-boos

Adelphia buys L.A. Century

Theaters surround Dolby EX

Adults take to 'This'

Helmers discuss craft

'Eyes' sheds tear

Stanley Kubrick dies

DGA picks Spielberg

House-warming session in Las Vegas

SAG tells Benigni 'Life' is beautiful

Heat of battle

Holy grail

One from the heart

Residual resentment

Filmmaker with a conscience

Guide to festivities

Show hands

Trivial pursuit

Cirque touring co. to preem in April

4 groups link to form European TV alliance

Turkish actors arrested

NAB, Satcasters warned

No Stone unturned

Distributing cuts

Alliance inks Spain deal

Hartwell buoyed at PDI

'Lock' barrels into exclusive B.O. lead

CBC union votes to strike pubcaster

Exec Shuffle

Allen wired for Charter public offering plans

Cable era ends as AT&T closes TCI buy

Cash for cartoons

Melodrama at Met

Docu hardly 'Elementary' for PBS, Christian groups

Sir Reel, Evil Twin team for Cuba fest

WIF accepting nominations

Richard Kiley

Oscars sked singers galore

Shue lands 'Man'; Gibson has 'Patriot' duty

B.O.'s youthful glow

Kids world fit for King

F/x house producing pic

Fox 'Bridges' Ratner for pic

TV ratings bouncing NBA's way

Hill tops Country Music Award noms with six

New Line's 'Sons' adds a Douglas

Bard, Mel sail

Brief is beautiful at Oscar nom lunch

Diaz, Banderas, Hayek nab Alma noms

Staples Center fire proves to be minor

Telemundo ups trio

Par Digital uploads Tragos

L.A. parks more film-friendly

Reitman, Pollock settle U dispute

Inside Move

Oscar Watch

RIAA adds 10 mil award

Globo launches int'l sat TV news service

'Force' fields 3 young stars

Out of this world

History catches up with Oscar

High export costs

Despite iffy 'Seasons,' CBS gets homes victory

DGA in manager fray

Lucasfilm files suit over 'Star Wars' book

DTS to launch sound channel

Hanks hospitalized for infected blister

Sony Corp. plans restructuring

White runs off to join 3 Ring Circus

Catalan scratch

Japan pol resign post

'Beauty Queen' tops Canuck legit lineup

World Briefs

Eddie Dean

Edwin Parker

Bessie Cohen

Billye Ree Wallace

Hal Hudson

Cinema Expo announces top distributor, exhibitor

Brazil broadcaster returns to TV sports

Gates of technology

Media addiction depiction

SXSW fest puts heat in 'Desert'

Warners puts its stock in dye tracks

Scorsese, De Niro to fete Kazan

Lycos leaps as USA deal seems less solid

AT&T rings in giant TCI

Blockbuster taps Zine as CFO

Pact produces post

Toon Disney goes Latino this summer

Egypt tix taxes may tumble for pix, legit

HMG inks deal with Buena Vista

German vid biz rebounds from '97 slide

Star Choice plans to launch HDTV channel

TV offering may pay for NetStar

Humanitas asks for entries

IFP, FAB plan 8 pix for Tokyo market

Iwerks, Warner will build U.K. large-format theater

Judy holds on to Cliff

'Sherman' marches & 'Force' mobilizes

A&E solves missing Poirot

Fox readies 'Monty' for B'Way tuner

ABC smokes week's rivals with tell-all

Pic biz ads add up

Moyer, Larson board for $40 mil 'Galactica' ride

Stefan Hatos

Disney takes a dip

All Saints marching into 'Honest' movie

WB sends Taubin up-market

Disney & Nick say si to Si TV

Epstein joins Propaganda

Seven to buy back stox in bid to boost network

'Box' reaches Destination

Humas go digital

Volume level for movie trailers to come down

'Shagarific' show

Home-ing in on deal

Universal venues

NBC ups Marks to VP

Fox toons 'Fathom'

WB taps 'Pokemon' power

Oscar Watch

'Entropy,' 'Ring' bookend L.A. indie film fest

Blackstone is headed for 'Divorce'

Inside Move

Ferren heads R&D, tech at Imagineering

Epic names Barnett for world marketing

Corbi shifts to Odyssey

UPN orders WB TV pilot from Silver

Femmes pix at Gallic fest

Kennedy adds D'Amato to struggling George

Rudin bows out of 'Kate'

Shorts fest to play six U.S. cities

Fest high on 'Acid'

Deutsche Telekom will spin off webs

Deane F. Johnson

Jack Atlas

Hal Hudson

Stanley Jones

Vanity Fair deems Lehman 'Pro'

TLC tops album chart, but Hill still climbing

Carlton buys Geldof's TV indie co. Planet 24

Pearson's programs

Panavision's results mixed

Canal Plus, Italy's RCS in pay TV talks

Stalling TV sales send Oz's Beyond into red

U.K. extends film tax break

Televisa to tape 'Rugrats'

Competitive spirit

Trade show lures foreign film orgs

Sheridan may open Sparks' 'Notebook'

Exec Shuffle

WB ups Bibb and Goldstein

Players

WBDTD ups 4 sales vets

Banking on 'Heist'

Helmrich to lead E! int'l arm

Senate offers relief to satcaster auds

'Charlie' gets union OK for unusual sked

Showest says Qui to shift

Mirkin pilots sitcom for Fox

USA programs 5 new exex

Bochco, CBS go forward

Future projections

Globes shift foreign pix rule

Hooks, Cube taking on Fine Line 'Pimp' duties

Asset sale looming for debt-maxed Pax

Dimension gets crush on 'Allison'

The naked 'Eyes'

U, Par parse homevid int'l partnership pact

Lurie to pen 'Set-Up' for Castle Rock, Blum

TNT grabs 'Pretender'

Oscar Watch

Henson picks up spec for next 'Muppet' pic

ATAS sets March 18 Lloyd Bridges retro

'Phantom' fades

Blockbuster pushes for tax decrease

Di Novi, Cristofer to 'Waltz'

Woods wraps 'Buddy Boy'

Shandling lawyers fined for 'irrelevant' inquiry

Where credit's due

Unhappily ever after

Block goes to Centropolis

'Suicide' wins Moxie! Award

Doctors blast '60' seg

ABC's flat 'World'

Levy exits roles as Pixar CFO, exec VP

Cinemaxx intake hikes up by 42%

Turner Europe moves toward localizing ops

Brits ask U to add disclaimer to pic

Inquiry clears Packer

Paraform pursues body-building plan

Annie Get Your Gun

The Color of God

Karnaval

Baby Geniuses

The Color of God

Karnaval

Total Recall 2070

Invisible Child

Cabaret

Dill Scallion

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Invisible Child

Total Recall 2070

Thug Life In D.C.

Rien sur Robert

Band in Berlin

Starr Struck

Legacy

Lauryn Hill

Fun Lovin' Criminals

Night Must Fall

Arsenic and Old Lace

A Walk on the Moon

Under California: The Limit of Time

Regret to Inform

The Source

A Beautiful New World

The Source

No Deposit,No Return

Strange World

Regret to Inform

Under California the Limit of Time

No Deposit, No Return

With a Song in My Heart: The Music of Richard Rodgers

Strange World

Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend

The Specialist

The Roots

Dianne Schuur

Replacing Dad

The Party Crashers

Replacing Dad

The Roots