Czech broadcaster folds, lays off 215

Almodovar garners Fipresci top prive

Mullan to wear 'Kingdom' crown

Deauville fetes 25 years

ONdigital scores

'Samson' opens opera season, Rosh Hashanah

EM.TV sells shows to pair of Swiss channels

Guber, Schaeffer join Iwerks board

Sony preps megacomplex

AT&T still on hold

France Telecom, Lyonnaise ink deal

TNT's 'Nitro' adds cartoon seg

Hill tops MTV awards, takes home four nods

Howard hot on 'Biography'

Players

Miramax, Tornatore partner on Italo film

Harris back in action

U.S. distrib bows with Latin beat

Bullock, WB reup prod'n agreement

Family TV programs honored

All eyes on Egoyan

Good golly: NBC sets Richard biopic

Inside Moves

'90210,' 'Real' sluggish

50 workers at KCAL-9 to join IBEW

Warners 'Arrested' by Maryland script

Mischer tapped for Olympics ceremonies

Vet thesps voice 'Rugrats'

D'Works in turnaround

McConaughey eyes 'Red' for Paramount

Showtime slate of 7

PBS prexy Duggan ankles

Alexie to helm novel at Miramax

Touchstone's tap dance

PBS tops news-doc Emmys

Shooting Gallery subsid to rent out Miami space

Noms out for Parks Awards

Nulman ankles CEO post with Just for Laughs fest

CTW taps vet Knell prez/CEO

Oscar home in Back Row

'American Beauty' is belle of ball

'Phantom' fantastic

'Menace' passes $100 mil in Japan

Hoyts names Johnson CEO

Loews plexing up Vienna, Budapest

Beatty as prez: Hollywood habits die hard

Sony's Family grows by 5 in development

Argentine 'Net firm launches U.S. sites

'Beauty' and the buzz

Deauville fetes 'Malkovich'

Panel OKs prod'n tax credit

Fox pulls 'You' from fall

MTV kudocast breaks cablers ratings record

Alliance Atlantis grabs Canuck helmers' pics

D'Andrea joins Bender Band

WB puts Hackford's 'Life' on fast track

Exec exits the ring

UPN signs affil pacts; Trib reups with the WB

ShowBiz Expo starts this week

Silver Cinemas taps Hohl

Web site goes to market

MGM begins push to sell new stock

In Demand for PPV

WB's 'Pokemon' pulls in kids

MGM visits 'Purgatory' with Voll

SAG opposition slate set

'Stigmata' bleeds B.O.

The mechanics of MS fund-raising

Chinese best at Venice fest

Variety Cups cap summer

Singing 'Dalila's' praises

Intertainment, Fox ink distrib alliance

Crushing arrivals get gong

Kelley double play historic, rewarding

Big winners lament TV's white ways

Backstage Notes

Kelley's legal eagles soar

Sony plays through

Village profits sink 60% for fiscal year

McCain bill raises O&O cap to 50%

SFX buys Swedish promoter

Diller stock sale worth $24 million

O'seas B.O. upswing

Bening, Beatty expecting child No. 4

Clan plan for Marley bio; fright pix resurrected

Malaysia satcaster subs rise

Oz org, music biz at odds

Widescreen festival fetes Brit pix

'Cup' to begin VIFF

World Brief

South African toon confab to kickoff

Telfonica Media taps Rios as prexy

'Traffic' cops day

Scripters in Ferrari achieve Destination

'Ryan' digs in for digital

'Giant' campaigning

3 short-lived sitcoms get new USA life

Netter taps Fukuto as sr. VP

'Beisbol' good for Unapix

Univision taps NHL's Solomon

Quinn, Harris play Paul, John for VH1

Watchdogs bark at Murdoch

'Mysteries' duo pact with USA TV

USA Films takes '59' rights

AFMA sets 1st confab on indie finance/production

Fine Line comes to its 'Senses'

Blackwatch sets up prod'n/distrib fund

Disney parking in Hong Kong?

CBS, Nava plan Latino dramedy

Kickoff classic

Two scribes strike it big

New Line's Al Shapiro dead at 57

Lions Gate stakes out Cage pic

Emmycast gets youth boost

Commentary

'Dance' card filling

DNA gets greenlight for lottery pic pair

ZD said wooing News Corp.

Disney Radio feels protest heat

Donaldson shifting roles at ABC News

Tony dispute heads to arbitration

Garofalo to bow Off B'Way

Emmy into the night

'Sugar' pilot spices NBC

US goes weekly: charts, graphs, editors...

'Epic' fails to stem B'Way B.O. dip

Star power drives Williams marathon

Fox target of Bochco 'Blue' suit

WMA prince of pix

Beyond posts $1.9 mil loss

Oz's Cinema Plus puts faith in Rochester

Hoffman exec director for U Home Video marketing

TW digital domain

Star TV ups Askew to exec veep

Oz's Becker posts annual loss again

Nat'l Geo taps O'Loan in interim

TW may sell CanalSatellite stake even as profit nears

Oz's Seven Network will cut 150 jobs

UIP scores with EC

Viewpoint taps Lundberg

Hurricane flushes cast from 'Safe Harbor'

Scribes enter Icon's 'Room'

Baseball biopic finds home

Oxygen inhales attorney Mills

Vitale tapped to helm 'Mean Men'

Floyd forces Disney to close

Asian groups join TV protests

Foster to be feted by Cinematheque

Syndie ratings run

Olsen twins in for vidgames

SAG posts list of qualified candidates

Dvornik dovetails

Quoss sr. VP at NewsNet

'Sense' producer Mendel shifts shingle to U's lot

NBC deal for Brit yakker sends sudser into sunset

Col TriStar TV prez Feltheimer ankles

ABC discovering Moseley

Nets' cap study a preemptive move

LeMel worldwide WB music prexy

Transition to digital TV an expensive joke

Patton in grid pic; Parker warms up

Film Roman on 'Patrol'

Sarkissian's Disney suit going to trial

Producer Daly, Tolner form high-tech distrib

KW delays Eye vote for closer look

Studios USA Strums up biz

Kudocasts, football drive week

Studios USA Strums up biz

Alliance Atlantis starts kids' label

WB promotes Whitney to sr. VP of pix advertising

Crescent Moon rising

Carsey-Werner hires distrib prez

Lion stalks pix pack

Hurd eyes Eureka prod'n deal

ABC pilots 'Blue Dress' black detective skein

Hearst ups Shriver to VP, head of communications

Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul

Brian Wayne Peterson

Pamela Gray

Elizabeth Hunter

Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi

Karen Janszen

Charlie Kaufman

Victoria Strouse

Fatima Jebli Ouazzani

Gavin O'Connor & Angela Shelton

Ten scribes to watch

Reel.com taps DeRuiter VP

General Cinema closes L.A., Chicago offices

NBC, ValueVision Snap up new handle

GOP hears net cry

MGM, Woo woo Cage for WWII buddy film

Harry Crane

'Beauty' gets high scores in college

Spanish buy for U

An 'American' kickoff for London Film Fest

U ups Sucherman

WB TV Animation shuffles exex

Siegel's promotion adds to his portfolio

Dixie Chicks rule roost for second week

Esicma swaps toppers as Spanish fest starts

Fox shuffles 'X-Men' and 'Anna'

Viacom vs. vagaries

Emmett/Furla holds Hopper for 'Ransom'

Canal Plus enters U.S. interactive TV market

Players

LeMasters signs up with Replay as CEO

Diller will Hawk WHOT in Atlanta

Pilots fly high

Variety ups Dunn, Roche

Studios USA taps into vid

East Coast biz floored by Floyd

Capturing 'Hogan's'

Fine Line caught up in 'Affair'

Cuaron gets drafted for 'War' duties

Tapestry teams with Intermedia

Launch of revamped set boosts 'GMA' in ratings

Stern's 'Doomsday' toon dawns at UPN

Spanish in Toronto

Howitt monopolizes MGM's 'Anti-Trust'

Fox punches up Ali bio

Film Forum gets a facelift

TW to rev up 'net access

TM3 scores with soccer b'cast

Viennale will fete O'Hara

Docu spotlights wag behind stars' gags

BAFTA-LA kudos for 4

'Streak's' arresting L.A. bow

Barnet ankles as Cahners prexy/CEO

Ruth Roman

Samson et Dalila

Big Band Alumni All-Stars; Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra

Love Stinks

Stigmata

For Love of the Game

Hope Island

P.T. Barnum

Samson et Dalila

Crazy in Alabama

Hope Island

P.T. Barnum

The Old Man and the Sea

Journey to the Center of the Earth

The 1999 MTV Video Music Awards

The 51st Primetime Emmy Awards

Hit It, Don!

Quartet

Henry V

Janis Siegel

Barry Manilow

The Elixir of Love

Iguanas; Dave Alvin

Mighty Mo Rodgers

Snow Falling on Cedars

Ride With the Devil

Fight Club

Mumford

American Beauty

Lies

Which Side Eden

Glenn

Julien Donkey-Boy

Sweet and Lowdown

Happy End

Jakob the Liar

The Last Yellow

Serpent's Path

Music of the Heart

After the Truth

Seventeen Years

I Could Read the Sky

The Wind Will Carry Us

Shower

Me Myself I

Holy Smoke - 'Smoke' Signals Return to Early Style

Snow Falling on Cedars

Greed - Mutilated Masterpiece Gets the Loving Touch

Judging Amy

Action

Properties of Silence

Gilberto Gil; Waldemar Bastos; Fantcha

Jesus' Son

Seventeen Years

The Third Miracle

The Best Man

Barenaked in America

No Scandal

New Waterford Girl

Forever Mine

Sunshine

Eye of the Beholder

Julien Donkey-Boy

The Venice Project

Iggy Pop

Ladies Man

Sealed With a Kiss

Family Law

A Slight Case of Murder

Judging Amy

Simpatico

Miss Julie

Black and White