SXSW fest lauds 'City,' 'Holmes'

Euro fests hit L.A.

RTVE signs 4-year pact with Universal

'Evangelio,' 'Bajo' top Guadalajara fest

Seven counting on Kinging

Sony Japan enters satellite music biz

Canuck TV's pluck

'Daily' ratings not funny

Warner Music taps Johnson

USC's First Look Fest opens at DGA in April

Spirits watch Williams

Emmy nom cutoff today

'Swing' to preem in Taos

Acad gives Kazan security for Awards

EchoStar reports losses; revs rise

Second good Four Media

Igel Media set to go public

Cana Plus=minus

Oscar Watch

Fermin tapped Fox VP

Fox adds hats in Todd pact

VH1 ups Flanagan to senior veep post

Spears heads for TV with Col TriStar deal

New Line boosts PR staff

'Rugrats' studio basking in glory, ups 2 to sr. VP

Disney, Col team for Williams starrer 'Man'

Variety Arts taps Glover

Oscar's windfall

Artisan, Aronofsky in tune on 'Requiem'

Weinberg, Simon unveil Untitled

Par's Harry 'Carry'

Berry in 'Fashion'

'Payne' no relief for Eye web

Indie music marketer bows soundtrack arm

KCBS news unveils brand-new segment

MGM inks U.K. PPV deal

Block talk clicks Divx, City stox

Carlston to top UPN affils

Par, Rudin to rewire 'Wives'

Oscar relocating

New Line in orbit with AMG on pic

Mandel's show may not return

Japanese hit kid CD goes vid

Kinowelt sees room to grow

JFK skeds for 2000

Toyota, Sony sites add color to Palette

Bloomberg to air Peacock weather

Mehta's 'Earth' moves

'Judy,' 'Lola' at MOMA

Parade powers Peacock

Oscar shows the Will to win

Origin of the species

A star is born

Send in the clowns

Spotlight on Cates

Cashing in

Glamorous rogue

Inner sanctum

Viacom Spelling out plans

Alliance cooks up stake in Sportscope's Headline

Kiwi's TVNZ on the rise

CBC pact avoids strike

Fininvest, Saudi buy Kirch unit

Premiere given greenlight

Par TV, RAI pact for pix

Franks cooking in Cybermeals venture

Oscar leads o'seas

'Hana-Bi' gets cultural kudo

ESPN Intl. taps Burkhardt senior veep

Bogota UHF gets Chummy

Dutch to go digital to vie with cablers

Debt-weighted Globo plans more cutbacks

Disney to bow 'toon channel

'Ryan' wins MovieFone nods

WNBC forecast: Bloomberg Radio

'Judy' judges online TV OK

Indian pix face politicians wrath

'Guinness' bow boosts Fox Friday

NBC, CNET get happy over Snap

Arcand casts '15 Moments'

Inside move

'Nature' nabs auds

U Homevid's Till tops o'seas

Fox Family believes it's fit for King World

Diller sez he ought to be back in pic biz

Obst ankles NBC mini; Di Novi in

Monica at Morton's

Uncertain lies EMI's crown

D'Works has Owen's 'Fever'

Grey case judge affirms Shandling sanctions

Webby Award winners honored

New distrib finds Brazil home

Video arsonists sentenced

Generations, Kazan divide NYC parties

Publitalia reports socko '98 profits

News Corp. bows in Beijing

'Ryan' nabs Golden Reel

Flaks fete Mechanic, Carsey-Werner team

'Gods' in good spirits

City of Hope to honor Quartararo

Crowds cheer on stars

Party on, Oscar

Foreign helmers tell tales

Brits honor nominees

Kazan takes Oscar with no apologies

Kazan award among show's lowlights

'Life' shows there's life for foreign pix

There is such a thing as a dumb question

Oscar's B.O. bump

Mini's major ad biz did the trick for pix

Benigni: Hold the Pope; Dench stole scenes

Oscar remembers 'Days' of the Holocaust

Oz upset over Blanchett's loss

Is pic biz out of characters?

'Lock, Stock' smokin' atop exclusives roster

Oscars cut into take o'seas

Tuning in new age

Firms tool TV pool

MGM, M6 ink deal

Miramax, Alliance reteam

Allen: It's hard to leave 'Home'

Sogecable posts '98 loss

Cisneros gobbles up HTV

Mayer logs on to BV Internet Group

Street says Yahoo! to Broadcast.com talks

Wide-eyed investors

Rock down as boomers buy other music

NL eyes '13 Days'; Rodman has 'Doctors' appt.

ABC promotes Sommer

Gumbel's prod'n firm books 'Reading Club'

NBC seeks to clean up suds sked

Van Der Beek rides 'Rangers'

Alcohol overhaul

Oscars don't push aud envelope

Comcast's pricey add-on

Southern Star's new course

SPE taps Hausch VP of digital strategy

'Susan' co-star Strickland dies

Paint the town gold

ABC will deliver 'Pizza'

Ice-T eyes 'Disciples'

U arm to Kornblau

Sportel America hits grand slam in Miami

Asian papers joining forces

Thuringia hosts 11th kidpic fest

Family selling Televisia stake

Judge Judy settles out of court

Doordarshan ad revs drop

White Way springs into higher gross

Exex in Oxygen's Net

Yulin helms 'Bower's' bow

India to pass TV regulations

Dalva upped to VH1 senior VP

Cinemaxx makes moves on reel rival Omniplex

Gabay to co-produce 'Plate' with Stages

'Shakespeare' marketed to the 'Max

'Whatever' OK for Courtenay

Granada pitches offer for Mirror's SMG stake

U.K. shuts down Kurdish satcaster

BBC spins schedule

Bonnie Enid Hoffenberg

Telewest bonding debt

NTL has eye on transmission net

Miramax leading dub-le 'Life'

Oscar win not enough to lift ABC for season

Puma picks pic pair

Valenti targets Asian movie market barriers

PBS asks Washington for funding

Acme, Paxson pact in small TV market deal

Jive taps McHugh VP

USA's Stein upped at Sci-Fi channel

B'casters kick over World Cup

Leaping to the Lion

U taps Finkelstein sr. VP of planning

Levin stock options now worth $300 mil

Inside Move

Reardon segs to Village Roadshow

Kemp, Tyson are sound for Disney

Thar she horns in

'Roseanne' undergoes exec producer change

Newman puts stock in KABC

HGTV to plant Villa as 'Restore' host

Canucks go global

Howard awarded $605,000 over rental house dispute

KCOP gives 'Short' shift

Weather head ends reign

TVT taps industry vet Benesch as senior VP

'Star Wars' preems to benefit kids

AMG turns on to TV

Pub Col

Exec Shuffle

La Fete exec ankles, opens shop

Indies score $2.3 billion, AFMA sez

D'Works-exhib spats hold up 'Forces'

Late deal gets 'Rollin' ' back on track at Kit Kat

Visual Effects taps officers for board

Sharkey links up with CTW

DD calls up Call to be senior VP

3 black indie franchises to preem on BET Movies

Exex in Playboy Web

Connor joins 3 Ring Circus

Just for Variety: Miramax dubbing 'Life'

Ronald E. Poindexter

Timothy Scott Fields

Oscar rates an 'A' for E!

Allen cast in Guerin pic; 'Fartman' revived?

Carson OK 5 days after bypass surgery

Viacom vows to buy back 1.7% of stock

DirecTV loses in House bill

Gumpel upped at U

La Jolla cooks up Hamburger deal

Lucas gives $1.5 mil to USC

Online auctioner sold on charity

Exex fed up with feds

Merger mates set terms

Bidding till it Hoyts

Oscar fave Bard wires the B.O.

The read on greed

Affils must do Wright, web warns

Kirch: Rupe, alliance not a good fit

A central change

Pair rapped for BSkyB ad ban

Norton goes off to 'War'

Oz's Packer wants media regs dropped

TWE to go on, Levin sez

CBS has eye on Internet growth

U ponders TV biz return

Kennard warns TV biz not to dally with digital

BBC, Spice guy bring act to Miami

PFE's Kessler shifts to U

Midem America aims at growth

End to ride-alongs?

'Mail' mans No. 1 spot for TLC

KNBC taps Heacox prexy

CBS captures 30 Sports Emmy noms

Gates sets sights on 'Net stock surge

D'Works, Park to rent 'Ryan' vid

Old concepts will be Web winners, say exex

Par may take U's UCI stake

Italy OKs pay TV soccer curb

Kinowelt profits skyrocket

Hachette's Premiere will spin off PBS docu series

Cripps quits at UIP

Five films in a flash

Rifkin bites into gig directing 'Munchies'

Stan Lee pacts with Pentafour

New day for 'Night' at Hayes

Magic bows music arm

Posner goes global for D'Works discs

Kwietniowski to push 'Limit' for Pressman

Gaven to MGM as senior ad VP

DeKoven reups as NBC's pic/mini topper

Inside Move

Via Dolorosa

Arlington Road

First Wave

First Wave

The 71st Annual Academy Awards

The Longest Summer

The Personals

30, Still Single: Contemplating Suicide

Suckerfish

The Real McCoy

The Pornographer

Beauty

Cabaret

Troilus and Cressida

Betty's Summer Vacation

Macbeth

In the Long Run, It Worked

First Wave

It's Like, You Know ...

The Norm Show

Mutiny

Annaluise and Anton

Lola + Bilidikid

The Little Girl Who Sold 'the Sun'

1997

The Man Who Would Live Forever

The Blue Monk

If You Only Understood

Three Bridges Over the River

Checkpoint

Love Inc.

Schpaaa

Ambush

Breaking Out

Hostage

Vietnam Girl

Yearning for a Life

Straydogs

Nice Guys Sleep Alone

City of Glass

A Hero Never Dies

The Tic Code

Zonzon

The Cherry Tree

Dealer

Star Sisters

Angel Face

Love in the Title

Efx

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Sugar Ray

Crashing Eden

Tenacious D

It's Like, You Know ...

The Norm Show

Pink Martini

Jeff Beck

Neil Young

Absolution

Asian Dub Foundation

Fatal Error

Reckless

Mutiny