'Dead' may rise at Belasco

Barbra skeds 2nd New Year's show

Financial briefs

Warner Bros. ups Hufford

'Access' inks for H'wood Stock Exchange segs

ABC raises exec trio to affil relations VPs

Mediaset's Gori to top web

Banff mountain do

Canal Plus has its i on news

BBC Worldwide inks deal with video-on-demand co.

Morning sked of Kids' WB! adds 'Black'

Turin Film Fest gets back to its roots

TV exex boost Monte Carlo mart

India submits 'Earth' to Acad

Glen Vernon

Palm Springs fetes Bening

Wenders' 'Hotel' opens Berlin Film Fest's 50th

Exec Shuffle

'Lost' bargain stunt attracts 5 stations

Investment game

Weisslers, SFX team to produce 'Seussical'

Satcaster bill grows

'Storytellers' uses unique online ticketing service

CTW promotes three

Producers' Guild will honor Jones, Reid

Alexis 'Wolf' Pack

Inside Move

Stratosphere gets 'Goat,' inks filmmakers to pact

Wolf fathers Fox TV deal

Oz Fox complex opening

Donahue will meet 'Match'

Sony bites into 'Sherlock' idea

Daytime soaps no longer cleaning up

WNBC nabs Gotham run

Fox shuffles key exex in finance unit

Stars topline 'Help-a-thon'

'Park' helmer Rozema signs 2-pic deal

Chron call NBC's blusters; bids still on

'Friend' going 'Metal'?

Touchstone skein bound for NBC sked

Disney downturn

Robert Linn

Minoru Chiaki

Stephen Roberts

Hugh Benson

Albert Whitlock

Wages of Fear

Polonsky Memorial

Destination goes 'Wild' for Christensen comedy

'Bright' day for Liman, Farrelly duo

'Giant' casts big shadow at 27th Annies

Panel sees Net gain for Hollywood

Jacobs scores Miramax deal

Players

USA kicks tires of Good Machine

Inside Move

Pay before play

'Stoop' on Endangered Species list

Nick commits to made-fors

Outlaw Prods. inks 'Salvaged' scribe

NBC, Turner share 'Crown'

Stone will be repped by ICM

Undertaking a dream

Kennard races into jam

'Greed' good for Fox

Nets in discontent

Crafting an empire

Russia's Lenfilm studio reopens, sets local pix

Euro Film best-feature noms bow

Oz radio duo targeted

Hicks, Muse and Telefonica settle Argentine asset split

Auds 'Sense' buildup

RealNetworks bows Take5

Weak fiscal 1999 drops Disney stock

Valenti, Biondi board Creative Planet

Chum TV ups 2 exex

Oxygen taps Conte sr. VP prod'n, names Caprio VP

'Senior' film project gets PBS funding

Blockbusters bloom o'seas

Gathering to create e-'Witch'

BSkyB buys soccer stake

News Corp. behind Euro Nasdaq

Auds 'Bone' up

'Annie's' Morton inks Alphabet talent pact

'Milgaard' dominates at Geminis

Rogan inks Fox sitcom pact

Salvaterra Fishin' with Silver

Media-Most goes cold

Cinram Int'l and M3P.Com in tune

Cowboy Booking hits trail with niche series

Hoofers enjoy record employment on B'way

Shorts fest appeals to new-media types

Studios deny 'Access'

'Cosby' scribe gets NBC order

SAG prexy winner aims to mend rifts

Castle Rock putting its 'Hearts' into King tome

Netcast spins 2 pics to Fox

Indie's co-founder is out

'Bachelor's' wows

For film buffs, silence really is golden

Fox Studios in Oz bows with big bang

'Darkness' lights up Tokyo

There's someting about Sherry

Vic Vallaro

Stuart Craig

Stephen Roberts

Thomas Durden

Bobby Willis

J. Haran

Jean Shepherd

Wall Street cred

USA Networks vet Brooks will ankle

Jury charges Telemundo $2.6 mil

Financial Briefs

Cablevision withdraws lawsuit

Maillard tapped at NARAS Foundation

Churgin builds career at digest

Bronfman to be feted at 'Stars' fund-raiser

MGM and Bullock team for 'Wildest Dreams'

Warbucks and cash

Kantne Roast amazingly stays clean

Sarna to helm 'Doomsdayer'

Albert Whitlock

Exec Shuffle

Boosting the brand

Musicians union protests 'Fever'

CTIT nabs LatAm distrib rights to 'Name That Tune'

TNN loads Winkler's 'Gun' in action block

Counting on 'Sense'

Inside Move

7 Arts ups Sandys

Hot helmer Peirce signs with UTA

Mischer's new banner to produce 'Net events

NYU to honor Broadway's Herman

USA takes stake in Web venture

U Music links with AOL, USA, MTV

Investors can cable Allen cash via Charter stocks

News Corp. clicks Web site for 911

Webs score victory in satcaster fight

Helgeland has $5 mil payday for Sony 'Knight'

Jersey TV revving up slate

Crystal heads over to WMA

U.K. to cut 'Club'

ESPN takes control of Brazil sports net

TV pact specifics firm up for Kirch Group, Murdoch

World Briefs

HSX: B.O. report will still be 'Access'able on TV

New media keep NATPE numbers up

Helkon to handle Col TriStar fare

Granada TV, NY Times set 'Science' docus

'Night' feverish B.O.

Rankin joins VH1 as reporter, producer

Marathon paces WNBC to aud win

L.A. bonder IFG taps Randolph for London

Deutsche Telekom to sell only 35% cabler stakes

De Laurentiis plex appoints two exex

Flexing Euro muscle

OPTA rules for Canal Plus

World Briefs

Walter Stone

Robert J. Quinn

Eleanor Breese

James Goldstone

George V. Higgins

DirecTV grows in Brazil

Sony Pictures ups 3 in consumer group

Canada mints $116 mil for TV/pic prod'n in '99

Telemundo's b'cast world expands to 5 more cities

U tunes web music

'Millionaire' makes ABC the winner

Cage's Saturn links to 'Chain'

A 20% rise for Allen's cable bow

Biz dough nuts

Rosenblum to oversee Warners TV

House won't fight runaway prod'n in '99

New Line on Niccol's 'Road' worth $3 mil

UCLA auditorium named for Bridges

Tribune expands Fitzsimons' roles

Tribune to acquire Qwest, creating Big Easy duopoly

'Reefer' smokes rivals at Ovations

New entrant in contest to make Joplin biopic

Local bird bill flies

UTA taps Day to head PR

Nets dance around ABC's 'Millionaire'

Cooper uber with Gerber

ICast casts out Braun

ABC picks up 'Exodus'

Carol gets 'Fother' of a deal

'Rain' pours Par coin to Murphy

UTA makes Day head of communications

MGM raises $721 mil from rights offering

AFI sets up next punchline: century's 100 funniest pix

Fox holds Jenny McCarthy

Credit line insured

Eye relaunching Sat. ayem show

Foster may yet dine on 'Lambs'

TNN goes bowling for viewers

Edward to channel daily talker on Sci-Fi

Inside Move

Scribe revisiting reality

'RKO 281' revives 'Kane' lore

Coven of distribs

'Idle' works to win top prize at Cottbuss Fest

Aussie pubcaster ABC taps Shier

McKeown takes on distrib marketing with itstv.com

Swiss nix digital box for Teleclub

De Torsiac joins HBO Brazil

Vietnam backs Bui pic

'Egypt': Rabbi-approved

H'wood launches digital fest

NFL ratings blitz

MSNBC drops Grodin talker

Quinn upped to GM, exec VP, TBS

Sony scores one-two punch: Rage, Carey

Miramax buys 'Serendipity'

Margulies nixes $27 mil; Vilanch back at Oscars

AtomFilms stocks up on PixelWave

Euro Disney to expand

Exec forfeits MGM stock

'T2' times two

Media's mega money

Objections fly around sat bill

CanWest shows can-do with boffo financial year

Inside Move

Stingy 'Millionaire'

L.A. welcomes 'Conan'

Hewitt in talks to topline WB project

'Net music service launches

Dr. Laura will bring her pop psychology to TV

New Line taps into 'Powers' of the 'Net

'Map' gets early rollout

'Millennium' adds talent

FCC sets duopoly lottery in 4-1 vote

Icon Prods. locks 'Box'

Koren, Zucker team at NBC

Park lands in Hallway as prod'n VP

'Tenacious' Black inks TV skein pact

Christina George

Buyers set plan to split WIC

ABC ups Long to veep

'Tumbleweeds' blow in

'Pie' scribe Herz to pen Peacock sitcom pilot

Licensed to preem

Two vet exex join Go.com

Weighing in on Welles feud

Meyjes deal cues 'Lindbergh' rev-up

Wow of a bow for Pokemon

Col taps exec quartet

Disney toons up DVD

Black inks G-J devlopment deal

'Betty's' rubbles

EM.TV increases capital by $258 mil

Nonprofit lifts off

Radio City's radical redo

Silicon alley-oop

Doing it her way

NFP world premieres on the wane

Gotham emerges as prod'n powerhouse

Eyeing the very big picture

Nova put in Czech

James Joyce's The Dead

Oxygen

Snow Days

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

The Jazz Singer

Eurythmics

Bill Frisell

Charming Billy

Bad City Blues

Wrong Mountain

Cranes

Antigone

Book of Days

Fuddy Meers

The Jew of Malta

Rendezvous in Samarkand

Woman on a Tin Roof

A Voice from Heaven

A Wake in Providence

Wirey Spindell

Guts

The Divine Ryans

The Book That Wrote Itself

December 1-31

Stuff

Just One Time

Black & White in Color

30 Days

Black Eyed Dog

The Glass Jar

Inter-View

The Thief of Saint Lubin

Thai Saheba

Two Ninas

The Poet and the Con

Rivers of Babylon

Rats

Trash

2 Minutes Silence, Please

The Past

The Call of the Oboe

The Silence of the Angels

Fatherless

The Bachelor

Super Chief

Pigeonholed

Mad Cows

Henry Hill

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Martyr-in-Love, Boota Singh

The Summer Moon

Dinner With Friends

The Big Split

Smack the Pony

The Early Show

Annie

Harry Allen Quartet

Liberty Heights

Pokemon: The First Movie

Leif Garrett

Mary, Mother of Jesus