HK Disney theme park decision put off 'til October

Telefonica weds media stakes, taps commish

Via Digital inks Tornasol deal

Lloyd Webber reprises Kuhn

Nova's Czech sting

Trio of execs ankle

DirecTV, NAB ink local deal

June busts all over

Judge orders Stone, TW to La. court

Clinton reups FCC's Ness

Televisa to air millennial spex

Daly defends vid sales forecast in Disney trial

Access competish upped

'Summer' hits the city

KTVK Phoenix may go to Belo

TV study points up lag in Kiwi content

Valenti sets day to end studios-digital TV flap

Turturro sings for 'Sopranos'

Carrey throws 'Limpet' back

$40 mil for Renaissance

BSkyB sez no to Canal

Eastwood ties down cast for 'Cowboys' pic

Hasta la Playa Vista, baby

Post-prod'n house merger creates f/x giant

Media consensus

Bertelsmann revamps ownership

Stage, screen vet Sylvia Sidney dies at 88

Disney taps global license prexy

'Dateline' comes a courtin' online

NBC 'Passions' wane

Windswept up

Players

Shandling, Grey move toward suit settlement

'Wild' weekend ahead

Parfitt turns 'Diary' into Working pic

Kelley pins some 'Hope' on Hershey

MSNBC taps Sosnay VP

'Godfather' scribe Puzo dies after long illness

'West' best but 'Daddy' natty

L.A. location shooting continues slide in '99

Frosh series can't nip TV's summer slip

DirecTV talks local to nets

Nat'l Council cites union, producers program

BBC docu now under scrutiny

UPN 'Dares' skein from Nash

Producing trio picks up Rosenblum's 'Talk Show'

Fest features musicvid helmers

LACMA salutes Leone pics

Mediaset adds 15% to its Tele 5 stake

Miramax options tyro's 'Killer' novel

Preems, retros top 53rd Edinburgh fest

IATSE to rep ushers

Derricks in step for revival of 'Rainbow'

A dream deferred

World Briefs

Inside Move

Future Disney profits from India under fire

RT-SET names Nimrodi prexy

Ten Percenteries

Kiwi pubcaster sells stakes; gov't to see $38 mil payday

Constantin will go public, expand biz

Grey matter deal

InterLight taps Lappen biz affair VP

AMC's McEnroe to head Radio City TV

Col taps exex for ad spots

Fox net will stagger its fall preem sked

Sobieski inks 'Squelch' role

Germans see future in DVD

Clein & Walker adds Furstberger to ranks

Exec Shuffle

'Mummy' marches

WB net loads Cannon pilot

Globo makes soccer its goal as TV powerhouse

Sogecable sets IPO

Kino adds world sales

News Corp., Vivendi epact

Allcroft inks with Egmont for co-prods

USA brings 'History' to cable

Hollywood.com plans CD sales

Redford tapped Fox Family VP

Director Dmytryk dies

Star Spangled Stox

Youths check out Czech film fest

Flower blooms at Fox

Canucks chuck 'West' for homegrown 'Elvis'

Oz TV vet Melville ankles producer-distrib XYZ Ent.

Vox pays big bucks for 'Titanic' b'cast

Eureka resets date of debut

Tom, Nicole hop continents

Brecht ensemble to play UCLA

Gov't orders Slovak studio to refund $$$

Baywatch stirs Hawaiian suits

Nimoy narrates CGI Siggraph docu

Miramax feeds Lion's pride

Schwarzenegger pumps up pulp hero for WB, U

Hot Rock inks pic with Alcon

A&E pic lures Hutton

'Suddenly,' an Idle moment

Packer ponders purchase of Fox Sports Channel

Teutonic talkers get death threats

H'wood invades Sac to drive home runaways

Brazilian thesp Benecio joins 'Top'

Zwick & Herskovitz add 'Oooph!' to Falls banner

Miramax inks tyro actress

'Journey' to start Toronto fest

'Woodstuck' on drawing board

KGM inks on Wharton pic

Severino will top Eye O&Os

B'way feels heat as closings hurt B.O.

Cinemasound wraps ' Dust'

ValueVision signs on satcaster deals

Former mistress files suit for larger piece of Televisa

NBC affils pull back

Freebie ups ONdigital subs

ABC bones up on 'Dinotopia'

'Girls' comes of age with talks

Exec Shuffle

Record shorts to unspool at Palm Springs

Katz: No D'Works/Seagram talks

Go in tune with Entertainment

McCann exits South Oz film job for family

Advanced Medien plans IPO

Digital era decried

World Briefs

Maple Palm, MEG pact

Time Warner buoys Sumner to senior VP

Lower expectations

Martin's la vida loca set for Mandalay Bay

Young inks Par TV deal

Miramax gobbles 'Fig Eater'

Olney, Zavala get a 'Life'

Solid bow for soap

Beyond Online logs on IPO bandwagon

Katzenberg-Disney trial timeline

Behaviour, Remstar nix deal

World Briefs

'Significant' return

Exec Shuffle

Buoys in the brand

Trimark taps 2 to market homevideos

Committee OKs film, TV prod'n bills

Stock cars drive CBS' homes win

NBC, GE share Vision

Broadway dark on Dec. 31

'Daddy' team nurtures new project

Lyons joins Variety staff

Amazon beckons to helmers

Dances film fest waltzes in with unknown works

Hockenberry's talker out in MSNBC p.m. shakeup

Cinar boosted by education arm

Woodstock 99 adding pics to music lineup

Disney to merge TV prod'n into ABC fold

EIF fundraiser competes with VP

John Quinn

Cox rings up swap

Juarez tapped for HBO Latam topper

AMF plans online mall

Televisa toons up

Holland's 'Julie' takes first steps

'Cruel' scribe hangs shingle on Sony lot

NL taps Wood 'Rings' leader

McNamara in as Telemundo topper

Players

Museum to hail Hitchcock

Time for deal right for Disney & Eisner

Barnes & Noble site expands music store

NetFlix gets $30 mil influx

U.K. proposal advocates more pic titles for tykes

Path clearer for SFX acquisition of Livent

Capitol, Stratosphere ink 4-pic distrib pact

Fest fetes Schlesinger

Stanley Soble

Katz, Mouse settle suit

'Buffy' pops lolly trend

Fest finds 'Treasure'

'Ally's' new brief

Guy Mitchell

Glenn Eugene Anderson Jr.

Richard Thompson

The Hoop Life

Richard Thompson

The Taming of the Shrew

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

Widespread Panic

Bijou Phillips

Caetano Veloso

The Hunley

Saint Joan

Chicago

Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker

The Hoop Life