Southern Star in distrib deal

Ovitz bows online e-commerce site

20th tops in TV

Kiwis protest fund move

Dramatic turn at Screenings

'Chassis' rockets to Image Comics

Docufest calls for entries

Fox finds new face

Male call as UPN refocuses sked

ATAS designates Jellinek exec VP

AFI fest at home in H'w'd

O'Donnell explains Selleck confrontation

Marketing violence

High art pays low dividends for Cannes auds

Biz opens books for DGA

Seven drops shows

BBC units go Eclectic for 'Queen'

Menkes set for 'Heatstroke'

Levin lays out vision for TW

SFX turns up urban beat

The 'Phantom' crix

Oz may drop TV law for 10% local fare

Cable, sat viewing hit U.K. high

LaBute lures Flockhart for trio of one-act plays

Nick, TV Land plan major sked revamp

CBS closes gap on NBC in sweeps

Louis-Dreyfus noses back to TV

Loews defends 'Menace' hardball

Showtime bows digital nets

MTV-Liberty tune up

Senate passes local satcast measure

Kornberg reups at U

Mega-'Menace'

CBS TV stations prexy Klein to ankle post

Lucci has her day

Peres resigns from Reed Midem

Trimark pacts for Euro 'Delivery'

Exhibs analyze B.O.

NBC on brink of victory in May sweeps

Commercial TV tops in production in Gemany

Regency on hot streak

Valenti, CEOs talk violence

Caruso, Dutton 'Deadlocked' on TNT

Mickey's billion-$ boo-boo

Gilbert Millstein

Tenpercentaries

As seen on TV

From 'Soup' to Alphabet

Liberty banks on TW

Radio Centro may delist

General Cinema trims losses

Henry Jones

Vet scribes showcased

'Fantasia' signups get bigger

Lucci, Emmy meet

'Dogma' perks up Cannes distribs

Canuck French twist

USA exec map takes shape

Pax goes on 'Star Search'

John D. Robinson

Tina Kramer

Mitchell to bow as helmer with 'Deuce'

Donaldson nears Beacon's '13'

Farber exits MTV for ICast exec VP post

OR 'Steals' into features

Miramax goes to Austen's 'Abbey' alongside Granada

Thousand words' worth

Absolut fashion

Murdoch's Stream acquisition uncertain

B.O. high five for 'Phantom'

Exec Shuffle

Phoenix, Nolte's Kingsgate team

Shirley Dinsdale Layburn

Lost Harrison track hits 'Wall'

Players

Fireworks inks deal with Canada vet Slain

Inside move

Col Tristar Intl. ups exec

India calls foul on b'caster

USA yanks 'Springer' segs

D.C. likes 'Dance'

Japan to push digital cable

Pay service Telepiu loses $165 mil in '98

Vanessa Brown

Iwerks adds Dave & Buster's pact

'Notting' up o'seas

High court handcuffs media on 'ride-alongs'

One last time, Acad picks Shrine for '99

Hoyts loses buyer and earnings

Vet McKay to preside over 'Judge Mathis'

Peacock crows early on sweeps

Sony drapes Gems upon Van Galder

Showtime picks up stars

Matthews to equip Raleigh

VH1 slates first original pic

Inside move

Diller's gentler 'Jerry'

Nevins no. 2 at Fox

Fox Kids keeps it in the Family with 'Addams'

Plummer comes to aid of Stratford Theater

WNYW, WPIX duke it out for 10 p.m. news

VH1 taps Sarnoff for biz VP

Exec Shuffle

Anthony V. Montesano

New digs, staff for Sony gaming

GLA buying Galaxy Brasil

Viacom revises bid for Spelling stock

Seagram touts stox

Russell to make 'Mitty'; Reiser's 'Mad' no more

'Mummy's' worth

New 'Flintstones' a true 'prequel'

Exex hear Valenti on violence

WinStar buys TV, vid rights to BMG library

'Millennium' million to Boys

Sunday B.O. a 'Star' sign

Violent 'Buffy' finale benched

Par, Obst top hill for 'Jill'

Bill Wendell

Ster Kinekor ups plex progression for Spain

SPE buoys Jacobson to veep controller

Peete's the one for sitcom

Migden, former SAG topper, dies

TVN inks for 'Cirque' PPV

'Honor' for Hanks

NYS&F forging 'Bond'

Corri, Herring in 'Ocho'

'Civil War' heading south on White Way

Digital TV wars

Disney vet plugs in at Macromedia

Helfant scopes out new Dimension as sr. exec VP

Johnson ankles Regency post

Azteca crowns 'Princess'

Zee TV to bow digital network

Channel 4's FilmFour reels in 100,000 subs

Confab honors musical legends

D'Works Records taps Walker urban arm's G.M.

Joel Lawrence

Green/Epstein taps Sattinger

Short pulls up at Gotham home

Labels OK album downloads

World Briefs

CNN, Int'l Data Group ink 3-year alliance

Peacock's news lock

AtomFilm secures Biondi, WB funding

Four biggies team for online media delivery

Exec Shuffle

Cushey comes to Harvey

A.E. 'Buck' Houghton Jr.

Andrew White

Rupe stream-ing

Fandango to initiate new chapter in books

King World getting 'Scared' overseas

Cable stox suffer 'Net pox

Peacock beats out Eye web's arsenal

Fox orders 3 reality series

Paradigm ups agent ranks

NBC skeds summer-switch lineup

Florida industryites fill confab with optimism

Roadshow crowns Krone

Film prod'n bills viewed

Lechner quits to write book

Portland Stage Co. raises coin, stays open

TriStar Int'l TV taps Eberts, Davis VPs

Virgin Japan bowing plexes

EMI's falling note

Parents' study blasts TV codes

'Juror' unveils unseen O.J. trial scenes

Tomei inks to topline in Lonergan's 'Lobby'

Eye adding 2nd dose of '48 Hours' weekly

Upfront blasts off with WB heat

Hollywood fest to salute public faves

Jones, Freeman find Bliss

Springer affils ?!#$

U's 'Bowfinger' pushed to August

'Menace' masters market

Scorsese, Tyler pin up Bettie Page biopicture

Jersey TV taps Landgraf prexy

Homes cookin' at CBS

Katz & Mouse over Disney assets

Connie McCauley

John McSweeney Jr.

Capshaw 'Loves' producing

Lieberman for factoring moral tone in TV license

Silents are golden

Court TV taking 'Cops' to cable

PEN West literary awards honor Roos, nine others

Daniel Cooke

Edward S. Vance

Block sues Morgan Creek

Imax takes giant step with o'seas UCI deal

Frances's MK2 launches pics, unveils Euro sales

Studios USA curtails 'Free Speech' strip

Lions sleeps alone

Citadel stock falls 5%

'Home' wrap gets auds

Wahlberg a headbanger?; 'X-Men' gets man

A mixed fiscal bag

RAI rev up, profit down

Nick heads for Africa

Cinema Expo fetes filmmaker Parker

Fox ups sales vet Mulcahy

RIAA spring vet Lewis to media post

AFI student wins first ASC prize

UPN's Passarella to top Multi-Video marketing

Abrams, Disney ink deal

Assembly hurries bills to stop runaway prod'n

B.O. turns 'Menace'-ing

Just for Laughs fest set for July

Shop At Home offers up stox

Sky satcaster posts 14% hike in Latino auds

Larry Markes

Charter buys Falcon, still lags in clusters

'ET' all Par TV's now

Spain to bow Screenings confab

TV Azteca buys into telco; stock falls

MTV Awards returns to N.Y. to rock the Met

Independent declares Henry

TNT buys Unapix horror pix

Soundtracks garner slot at Grammys

Katzenberg cracks wise at promo group's confab

NewStar buys overseas rights for 1st telepic deal

MTV docu to detail '90s movie 'Moments'

Presenter SFX is on Pace for Livent

Vegas rocks, runs for charity

Lucille Vore

A Lesson Before Dying

Michael Landon, the Father I Knew

The Jesse Ventura Story

Barnum's Kaleidoscape

Collected Stories

The Love Letter

The Thirteenth Floor

Michael Landon, the Father I Knew

The Jesse Ventura Story

Moloch

Kikujiro

The Courtyard

Our Happy Lives

Who Plucked The Feathers Off The Moon?

Strange Fits of Passion

Summer of Sam

The Last Dance

A One and a Two ...

Private Lives

Fly Girls

Cranberries

The Straight Story

Dogma

Rosetta

The Author's Voice/Imagining Brad

This Lime Tree Bower

The Courtyard

My Best Fiend

Out of Depth

Swing

South

The Cup

The Passengers

Cannibal! the Musical

Felicia's Journey

Time Regained

Art, Politics Rock '30s-Era 'Cradle'; Cradle Will Rock

Our Happy Lives

Accelerator

The Limey - Soderbergh's Artistic Meller

Rose's

Dogma - Smith Swings Oddly at Religion

God's Wedding

The Straight Story

No One Writes to the Colonel

Kikujiro

Deterrence

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Charles Lloyd

Home Improvement: The Long and Winding Road, Parts II and III; Backstage Pass

Reefer Madness!

The Illusion

The King Of Masks

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Wilco

Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales

Inherit the Wind

Goodnight Mr. Tom

Jacky Terrasson

Seal; Joan Jones

Cherry

My Life So Far

Be There or Be Square