Digital cinema is the future ... or is it?

John O. Jarstad

Pearson tightens Telefonica ties

UPN taps Ungerman for biz

Digital Origin taps Rosendahl for board

Staples Center owners snap up Forum

Exec Shuffle

IFP honors B'way vets Baker, McTeer

U Pix Germany toons up feature

Betts heads to Harper's

The House divided

Quest for survival

RTL reports record high with '98 profits

Variety fetes duo of dynamic decade

Discop takes a step backward

Col homevid ups Friedman

UTA taps PR vet Lazarus

Shue won't ankle pic for heel

Emmis revs rise 62%, beats expectations

Court exposes hidden cameras

RealNetworks eyes set-tops, vidgames

Par TV chairman reups

Canucks pluck biz bucks

WB nixes 'Matrix' sell-through

Variety bows charity org

BBC names Pearson's Dyke topper

Disney teams 3 for 'Tenn.'

NARAS skeds Latin Grammys for 2000

Crier to ankle FNC

Raft of stars lend voices to 'Fantasy'

ABC reuniting Moore, Harper on 'MTM' pic

Vet Haimovitz Lionized for digital deal

NL 'Powers' 8 to VPs of regional distrib'n

2000 plans for Jones, Stevens, Spielberg

Horton inks WB TV deal & gets 'Strip'

Miracle off Wall Street

O'Haver to bring in 'Trash' for NL

Fading Knicks cost NBC

Lane is femme at center of 'Storm'

Ballots for Emmys due

Katzenberg piracy expert blasted by Mouse House

Pellington gets 'Ages' pages

Stoppard's 'Thing' to B'way

Dench places 'View' on hold for ill spouse

Marie St. Louis

Constance Edney

Bruce MacDonell

Pat Davis

'Rouge' gets Leguizamo

Shandling saga shags more twists and turns

Helmer Cassavetes catches 'Cacciato'

'Climb' tops Temecula

Abbot fingered for Eye's 'Murder'

Uggams tops black theater fest in N.C.

Miramax takes flight on 'Top'

FNC developing Zahn show

Trimark takes 'Taillights' pic

Rallying the troops

Cook adds BVHE to his plate

Screenplay class fetes six scribes

PDI places prod'n studio under Thomas

Acad slates specials for Cukor's 100th

Players

World Briefs

Friend joins Turner family

Euros clear UIP distrib

'Devil' turns Golden at Slovak film fest

'Matrix' maps B.O.

CTV revs on the rise

Sydney Fest auds lauds 'Joe'

C'vision nets Mets

Exec Shuffle

Baur ankles ProSieben

Gang bows summer sked

A crude interest at 'Park' place

Murdoch wedding makes news

NBC 'Bytes' on Nash 'Net pilot

MPA taps Hunt for Tech

Emmis eyes Sinclair's radio station group

NBA Finals unliked sans Mike

FX nets 3 from Par

Japan's top studios enter plex pact

Defenders of the faith should stand at ease

Kidvid rules working, report sez

OpenTV taps Jackson, Conrad

'Big Daddy' drives June boom

TW, Viacom may merge book units

Nick, MTV in toon with pix

DGA proposes ratification

'Mummy' team to tour 'World'

Redford picks Pitt for pic

Grammy Staples L.A. deal

Minnelli denies rumors, sez she's healthy

Fox TV ups Grant to sr. VP Europe

Fisher going, going, 'Gone' for heist drama

Miramax taps vet Friedman

Seligman to top Emmycast for 7th time

Adler will top CAA's e-venture

B.O. boffo overseas

Shyer has 'Affair'; Schiffer has 'Enemies'

Pearce, Moss near finding 'Memento'

Hearst-Argyle shifts exex as Conomikes ankles top

Machine in gear with 'Aluminum'

Eager networks try to make room for 'Daddy'

D'Alessandro charts Variety future

Mandabach set to deliver Worldview

Russian political program pulled

Canal +, TPS to share soccer

Teutonic synergy

Big deal for Junior brand

Asian Forum seeks film coin

Exex shuffled at Russian Center-TV

Peterson sees the Interlight

Demos of babble?

Helmer Bay eyeing Col's 'Africa' trip

Cowan sells Initial stake to partner

Vegas' Mirage goes legit

FTC focus is promos, not scripts

In nomads' land

ABC, affils reach deal to defray NFL expense

Blacklisted Oscar-winner Tarloff dies

Mouse toon value touted

Settle, Heuring join 'Crowd'

Dench to miss more 'Amy'

SAG survey: Prod'n exodus vexes

Todd-AO East makes Sound move toward Euro gateway

Goldman departing as Sky Latam chief

Snap, Xoom just BuyIt

Of mouse and men

Broadway B.O. trims losses after closings

EIDC to team with tech org

Pax Net gets Nielsen spot

NBC policy ruffling feathers

Tudyk fits 'Proportions'

Granada launches German office

Through ups, downs, Carr loved the biz

World Briefs

Jones exits Carlton to hang out shingle

'Berlin,' 'Lives' top Avignon

Party's BBC booboo

St. Pete film fest swelters

Brits to loosen tax law for 'local' pix

Sony's one and only

Oh, Boys! 'Millennium' tops 6-month disc tally

USA pins TNT on mat

Global crises boost news cablers' ratings

Web has InZide scoop to help aspiring writers

H'wood Video plays Dreamcast vidgame

Littlefield taps Faltings veep

NBA Spurs NBC to top Nielsen ratings

CBS sets new Saturday ayem

NBC sez Yesss! to Albert anew

Studios, makers plan major DVD sales push

Players

Sony digital arm ups exex

Grammy officially at Staples Center

Back story of boycott a true 'Family' Circus

'Liaison' tied up with Open City

Grammy officially at Staples Center

Producer Carr dies at 62

United Global sets IPO for feevee Austar

Fox ups fee for Dodgers cablecast

Inside Moves

Pearl will 'Wheel'

Glass crosses market street to be BV pix VP

Runaway worries don't wring writers

Pic post toasty

TBS, Fox sharing 'Shag'

H'wood tag team

Ripp ropes top of TW's finance tower

WB puts 'Superman' into the Wisher well

'Jitterbug' hops to Neverland

CNN duo in for Dobbs

Navarre inks WMA's Ultimatum

Katzenberg targets license fees

Homer's still king as kids TV cleans up its act

Reid will get his big 'Break'

Col pix honored in L.A.

Time standing still

Gilman gives $5 mil to BAM

Kiwi pubcaster sells stakes

DWJ sets showbiz shingle

Peterson sees the Interlight

Orange County looks to retain area lensing

'Devil' in Deauville

French theaters feast on record ducat promo

Formula One's TV pacts run into EC antitrust laws

Village bows plex in Buenos Aires

Disney, Hong Kong still talking

Murdoch tunes into classical

World Brief

U.K. eyes release dates

Future of broadband debated at confab

CPH packs up Hoyts

Running carefully

Seven sets sale of last Optus stake

Goldberg, Rabkin to practice 'Law'

Franchise player

Leifer inks pact to join 'It's Like...'

Col deems Atlantis pitch see-worthy

Players

Encore dials U for docu on Hitchcock's oeuvre

Callner goes from TV specs to film

2 actresses near 'X-Men'

Brit producer Woolf dies in London at 86

Long-running London 'Saigon' will shutter

Murphy's voice returns

Kudocast reups rollicking Rock

Bizkit bow bumps Boys from top spot

MSNBC's 'Time' change moves North out of prime

TNN in the grips of Extreme wrestling

EMI likes Lott lots

Team slates WWII novel for upcoming miniseries

MGM taps Envision to find arena name

Robinson new 'Access' host

A wild preem heads 'West'

New Line's new line

India new star of Katz/Mouse show

Allcroft, Egmont link to co-produce

Smith eyes 'Moon' lead

Goldberg in tune with C&P capital

Severino eyed for CBS O&O top spot

Masius signs deal to roost with Peacock

News blues at Eye

Fox blocks Brit exhibs' 'Wars' plan

Bash

Island of the Sharks

American Pie

Mean Streak

Rogue Trader

Investigative Reports: Guns in America

Say You'll Be Mine

Terror Firmer

Mean Streak

Rogue Trader

Investigative Reports: Guns in America

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gordon Lightfoot

Sir George Martin; Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

Rites of Passage

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

The Trail of Her Inner Thigh

The Country Boy

Thwak

Tartuffe

Perfect Days

The Inmates

Rites of Passage

Let the Devil Wear Black

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

Fallen Angels' Paradise

Rogue Trader

Tempting Heart

Soft Fruit

Vigo: Passion for Life

Somewhere in the Darkness

Ballistic Kiss

In China They Eat Dogs -- Don't They?

S.

In the Flesh

Punitive Damage

Trouble-Shooters

Art Museum by the Zoo

Investigative Reports: Guns in America

The Hoop Life

Hughie

Carlinhos Brown

When Pigs Fly

Wild Wild West

Mary's Danish

The Master Builder

Starfire