Vivendi opens 'Net

Russian magnate takes stake in U.S.-owned CME

Bertelsmann, eyeing online growth, buys DealPilot site

Village, Net 10 pact for web

ASC to fete Fraker

Crisis on hold: Coster plays in RFK golf tourney

GE posts record quarterly profit

Mann headed back to Cineamerica

EchoStar stock soars

Fox, Sony pip posts

Crane tapped as prexy/CEO of music site

Disney characters get vidgames

'SNL' opener wins key demo

Sogepaq nabs rights to 2 Seven Arts pix

WB's pole position

Players

Berle plans to re-file defamation suit

Soccer boost for ONdigital

Orson's revenge

Zeta-Jones, Costner rolling on Stone pic

News Corp. mulling Russian coin outlay

Scott Caan makes Hef-ty script sale to Bruckheimer

Fleming set for 'Rogues'

Disney taps Joyce BV marketing veep

WB's alien skein flying as high as 'Angel'

UPN orders full season of two sitcoms

Spike Lee ankles ICM for William Morris gig

Keitel takes a hell of a role

Kurland pacts for three-year overall deal at Touchstone

Williams inks New Line deal

'Eyes' to close UPI slate

Buena Vista reups Jacobson, Garner

Blanchett puts on New Line's 'Rings'

Inside Move

Eye orders pilot deal from 'Law's' Balcer

Lively Mipcom winds up

Roman CEO tooned out

Comedy fest kudos taking political bent

Daly bread at CBS

'Ovations' for Chi

Off B'way League elects Routh prexy

Nice fest features Italo pix in Gotham, Frisco

Constantin in talks for toon house

Performance Works bows pic script in new theater

'Love' finds its way onto A&E

Oldfield to speak at Nebraska Coast Connection

'Letters' for Coyote, Kinski

'South Park' creators prove Python charmers

Scaring up a crowd

Hot for 'Chocolat'

Inside moves

Aussie Jackman jumps into Singer's 'X-Men' pic

Donahue set to don 'Boys' role

Sony strikes Strick deal for 'Glass'

New site covers H'wood

Col TV hoops it up

FX heads to 'Beach' for spring fling

Exec Shuffle

Shapiro remembered

'Flumpet' creator Farmer dies at 71

Mandalay ups Hermann, Spallina

MGM offering means 3-for-1 share swap

FCC insulates AT&T

EM preps for share issue

'Menace' milestone

High-profile dramas skid on Fox, ABC

'Hearts' trumped

USA Films elects candidate McCain

First-look for Netcaster

Kinowelt buys library

Big Easy kicks off film, vid fest

Dogma 95 film collective defends 'julien' choice

Fest's familiar feel

Top Japanese girl group Speed coming to a halt

Discovery taps Santos

Software firm sets $100 mil for buys

Fostering acclaim

Pay TV at core of French film dispute

Quartararo honored at Spirit gala

H'wood plans Y2K holiday

AMG looks to Gotham

'Pavilion' paving way for Mitchell

With Miramax green, 'Gangs' ready to rumble

Forrest Gump times two

'Pie's' big B.O. slice

Ballantyne on block as exhib ills take toll

Mansfield logs on to MTV online post

Good news Gannett

China pursues TV and ad violators

Euro toonsters pool

Lagardere poised to take Canal + stake

Kirch readies for profit push

Chinese producers' lawsuit alleges underreported B.O.

BSkyB taps Swingewood

Indie German distrib TiMe downsizes in tight market

World Briefs

'Sports' features Hillary-inspired story

Crichton has unique price; Lewinsky and 'Law'

Meyer Mishkin memorial service

Filmtown takes Mamet's 'Maine'

CTTV taps Rosenberg Sr. VP

Campbell has USA spy role

Disney Symphonies get static

'Practice' perfect

'Carey' simulcast will draw Web, TV auds

Davis firms cast of 'Girls'

Sheinberg gets a taste of indie life

Stop the subway

Phoenix applauds Clapton

'Giant' tops toon noms

Campos' Enquiring mind gig

Flanders in tune with pics

Raging over rave

IDA sets finalists for 3 docu kudos

Planet Hollywood will close 9 eateries

Sony Family taps Woolfork

Math teacher Giardi gets big numbers from Spyglass

SightSound taps Biondi

Lister to wrestle role in 'Nicky'

Oxygen suiting up

Coogan, Astaire bills signed by Gov. Davis

Arista's urban with Ridenour

Harpo takes a Halliday for veepee

Sony reups Honore as exec veep

Woods gets 'Dirty' just for Showtime

USA mounts 'Benny Hill' TV revival

Scott brothers back to Disney, via Bruckheimer

Imperial, Horwitz link for pic funds

Warner trots out shorts in online promo for 'Tango'

'Menace' gurus talk technique

Petrie tapped for Fries nod

Lifetime takes look at racism

Nick taps Kaufman senior promo veep

Milt Jackson

Baseball's postseason starts slow

Ambitious Amberlon

UA, Pathe find 'Kingdom'

Intermedia to launch Web site for distribs

Lagardere, Canal Plus in huddles

USA creates troika

Pathe bids for Virgin theaters

Weisberger signs on as sr. veep at Harvey

United taking U.K.'s ITEL

Viacom wires Heimbach as tech sr. VP

Igel revs fall short

France in 'culture' clash

Japan seeks digital unity

MacFadyen, Miller land 'Helluva' roles for Regent

NATPE topper Johansen reups

Leverence now top kudos veep

'Divorce Court' gets custody of 3rd run

NetAid reaches millions via Web, TV

Players

Sony Classics nabs 'Color'

Singh's 'Long Run' sets cast

iBeam braces cash

Parretti held by Italy on MGM indictments

Alliance Atlantis has U.K. 'Values'

Ex-Go exec pleads not guilty

Bruckheimer takes 'Therapy'

IATSE, producers reach tentative 3-year contract

Hurwitz lands 2 pilot deals

Fox, Cutler getting real with high school drama

Lion roars back

Unabomber brother pacts for pic of life

Norton birthing 'Motherless'

Inside move

Initial film push meets exec fallout

'Action' inaction

E! Online resets site

Disney Interactive brings 'Millionaire' to CD-ROM

Starz! commissions movie info series

Mizrahi going 'Undressed'

Pandora boxes pix o'seas

Fox Searchlight ups Pichirallo to sr. VP

Aussie docu confab lines up Apted, Hicks

Eye ups Davidson to VP

Exec Shuffle

Landau, Stevenson polish 'Shiner'

Wedded bliss eludes studio-TV marriages

BMG sues Jive to sink 'N Sync disc

Pay TV at core of French film dispute

Someone's watching

Creed stays in the lead

AFI fest draws top scribes

Interactive update

New Line taps Freericks

Oxygen gains insight aud

FCC Chair faulted

U Studios Online installs Low as prez

Mets spike ratings

Spyglass taps Dowd senior veep

Buena Vista Intl. keeps pic rights tight in Italy

KCBS rules for 'Judy'

Brickford, Bender bond

Winslet inks for 'Raquin'

Fox taps 'Amy' duo

Exec Shuffle

Ferrari drving force behind A Plus pix

Improving TV ties?

'World' gazes at Moon, not Par, for syndication

TNN changes awards partner

Peacock hauls in Foley

Parkerperks 'Women'; Gere turns on Fawcett

Sky Pix inks distrib pact with Fox

Fox arm nabs 'Titus' for U.S.

Levine eyes move to CAA

Will fulfills L.A. Phil's bill

Davidson's legit aim

Marshall shifts shingle to Sony from Universal

Miramax flips the lira for 'Omerta'

Bochco's blues

Cable drives TW past the Street signs

Wolf, Segal get comedy pilot wings from the WB

Webs whisk 'repeat' away

Chris-Craft stocks soar on sale spec

Hoffman to help raise funds for alma mater

Brooklyn site set for new prod'n space

Book awards taps 4 sets of finalists

Tribeca taps Maser for series

Dic pacts for series in Seoul

'Sufflosen' has Oscar hopes

Huston, Kopple, Tyson to receive Muse honors

New 'Aida' takes steps

'Trudy' pic according to Doyle

EC eyes BBC's fee

TV3 sparks review of RTE funds

Record number of pics set for MIFED

Shasta Mcnasty

Space

The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

Superstar

Space

Aristocrats

Shasta McNasty

Three to Tango

Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Story of Us

Uncle Vanya

Body Shots

Melanie C

No Doubt

The Pajama Game

Higher and Higher

Summerfolk

The Vagina Monologues

Mud/Drowning

Contact

Give Me Your Answer, Do!

The Strip

Shasta McNasty

Ryan Caulfield: Year One

Luminarias

Orfeu

Wheels

Jealousy

Erskineville Kings

Idle Running

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby

The Dreamcatcher

The Junction

Seducing Maarya

Till We Meet

Paris-Timbuktu

Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation

Maneater

Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman

Sydney: A Story of a City

S.O.S.

The One and Only

The Jaundiced Eye

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

Women Talking Dirty

Bye Bye Bluebird

Poppoya: Railroad Man

Postmen in the Mountains

Propaganda

The Best Man

Couples

Sophie's World

You're Dead ...

G:Mt

Hidden River

Pripyat

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang

The Strip

Los Lobos

Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

Amadeus

All the Rage

Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman