Financier Forstmann forges foray into film

Shooting in town

Melody makers

Loews hits 95 with a Big Apple bang

Gaga for Gotham

SAG exec director fetes silver anni

Docu series shines light on Apple

Living large in the Big Apple

Brooklyn slates Keitel retro

Rivals reveal revs

Financial Briefs

CNN streams $20 mil to InterVu Webbery

Loews taps Pekowsky

Fox exec questions sharing film rights

Ukraine election takes to the streets with TV

Oz project's IPO delayed

Poitier to be honored by SAG

True believers

Spears tops Euro MTV

Gelbart flexes 'Power'

Miami's sour note

Sobieski served up $1 mil with 'Glass'

NBC charges Goldberg's 'Battery'

VH1 greenlights 7 series to delve beyond 'Behind'

Littlefield can as laffer 'Can't' greenlit by NBC

Gwendolyn Gordy Fuqua

Brause upped at Studios USA

BevHills Christie's will offer H'wood treasures

Encore puts its faith in 'Dogma'

Disney restructures its Latin operations

'Millionaire' munificent

'Early's' lazy Eye

Players

Fox, NBC drive NASCAR

'Wild Party' plays vie for prominence in same season

Lucas, Bochco, Mechanic being served WIF Martinis

Powerful 'Pokemon' B.O. punch

Judd jumping to 'Dexterity'

'Toy 2': day & date digital

Attanasio pens series for ABC

Parseghian, Planco set own shingle

Reeves will go 'Fishing' for WB

Williams' 'Storm' brewing controversy

Producer P.O.V.: Ed Pressman

Bob McCarthy

Esther Wolff Margoluis

Lester Bowie

Betting on the Web

CAA and Drkoop.com ink multimedia deal

Players

Fox Family goes off-net for 'Edition'

Lensers org fetes Beatty

Viewer's Choice ices NHL deal

Nelvana earnings animated

Staples Center promotes Goldwater to new-biz post

Industrial Light ups Malooly to VP

E-ticket shopping

'Fight' boxed o'seas

Exec Shuffle

Latin America confab wraps

Dutch Europlex buys Metrocine

'RoboCop' will patrol TV again

TBS lays out 'Land,' 'Sinkhole' for 2000

Warner bullish on rookie Lavender's spec

D'Works plays in Playa

Columbia TriStar TV signs scribes

Fox News nabs WMUR prexy hopefuls

Inside Move

Legal eagle Putnam takes flight

ABC pulls shocker

A newcomer plunges into talent guild wars

'Poke' pockets monster B.O.

MTVi bows redesigned Web sites

Playboy plans lingerie Webcast

U.K. set to investigate cable, pay TV mergers

Acad's exhib shows off screen styles

H'wood is 'Toy' crazy

IFilm taps Paul CEO

Reality factory punches it up

Irked Echo unplugs subs

Buena Vista TV hands Marinelli prexy reins

VH1/Vogue awards hosts set

Astadourian tapped VP

Disney's 'Net logo must Go

William Fineshriber

William Winter

Mary Chilton Andrews Carlton

Florida fest fetes indies

Berlin basks in Bambis' glow

Quota conundrum

Mexican censorship fuels French fest furor

Kidman injured on 'Moulin Rouge' set

'Aida' previews continue after weekend accident

B'casters can now file duopoly apps

King-sized closure

UA Theater Co. sees net loss

Liberty posts 3rd-qtr. loss

Viacom inks for Nielsen data

Allen set to 'Smile'

Showtime skeds Tyson for Jan. 15

Destination lassos Neverland's 'Cowboy'

French vidgamer nabs GT Interactive

B'way 'Beast' tuner slims union crew

West pursues 'Prisoner'; Spielberg scribbles

Harvey loses $1.5 mil in qtr as plans unfold

Vine guy and ghosts get B.O. o'seas

Players

Inside Moves

Considine, others 'Access' new roles

Low duo on a high

U ups Bario to prod'n VP

Leo reads De Niro 'Miranda' rights

MGM picks 'Best Man'

Spelling strikes Gold

Hunter joins Col's 'Time'

New Peacock wing

It's Grushow's show now

'Millionaire' mints big ABC ratings win

Hollywood tears down Great Wall

NBC's sked shuffle sees laughers nixed

Cost to shift Disney's Go logo: $40 mil

'ER's' Wyle scrubs for pix

'Conan's' L.A. shows score

B'way biz buoyant

Showtime pays homage to black entertainers

Kaufman will bow legiter based on gay beating case

TBS' Turner South reins go to Rudolph

Trimark marks earnings boost

Three German webs form Kirch-controlled corps

Yakuza in the hood

Hewitt supplies real 'Insider' info

'Honour' is Iceland fest's first winner

Business alliance

Net Tokyo B'casting in satcast deal

Drudge walks, Fox threatens suit

Judge denies Disney bid to block injunction

Ex-Sony topper joins showbiz law firm

BBC millennial bash: virgins, priests, ice

Zampatti tops Oz pubcaster

EM.TV exercises its option, raises $66 mil

Sturm's deal to buy Ascent falls through

TNT buys 'Psi' & Web site

Buena Vista TV toasts Marinelli as prexy

HBO Films taps exex

Warner Music topper will retire

Comcast collects

Wherehouse inks deal to CheckOut the Web

Sogecable edges out of red

Young loves KRON

ATAS logs new-media group

KCOP nabs Chambers

ABC adds to riches: more 'Million' airs

Labels turn tables

Inside Move

WB fetches back 9 segs of 'Jack & Jill'

Loncraine knows where Dimension is

Tong taking time to helm 'Two Clocks'

ASCAP ups Alexander to sr. VP

'Stargate' fences in Fox

Fox Family gets 'Committed'

Archerd's anni bash

Superstar agent dead at 35

Vet Finkelstein is named Universal Pictures prexy

National Film Registry adds 25 pix to archive

Hilary's GM at Comedy Central

Landmark parks on Harvey theme

Rock & Weitzes 'Made' for Par pic

TBS, TNT ready to 'Tango' for $2 mil

Sony Family Pix tames WWII animal hero pitch

US Weekly taps Gold for L.A. bureau chief

Media Plus unveiled

EC frames plan for digital TV

Agencies pony up coin for Kaufman Astoria addition

Dreyfuss' jungle location is no vacation

Study: Kids are glued to tube

Moviegoers to hit 1.6 bil

Disney spins off Go.com

SBS expands online

Syndie sweeps surge

Shelton ankles Kiwi film job

Sony Family pix tames WWII animal hero pitch

Will he stay or go?

Nick Movies ups 3 exex

Inside Move

Trio upped at Artisan

Artisan pic pact

SoapNet cleans off 'Hope,' WB skeins

H'w'd Film Foundation sets grants for L.A. filmmakers

Fisher DENmom on the edge

'Millionaire' fever grows

TW nixes soft money to solons

News trio to share information

Sinclair files for duopolies

Disney's BVI hits $1 billion gross

AT&T, Chambers reach cable agreement

TBS shifts 'Thunder' wrestling to Wednesdays

Earhart pic sets flight; new tricks for old ideas

Performers speak up

Arnold has his day

Pix French kissed

Still work exhib draws eyes

Miramax & 'Dogma' duo reup first-look for TV, pix

Collectors of H'wood lore

Downtown rises

Plastics exec tops NBC O&Os

Flight or fight?

CBS adds Curry to its recipe

Hewitt hops to MGM 'Bunny'

Producer programs tout trench-war training

HDTV flourishes at small facils

U exec veep ankles post

Overseas directors look for unique atmosphere

East L.A. cinemas to preem

Kahn & Jacobs shutters

Nation's only silent cinema reopens

'Snoops' takes advantage of L.A. style

TNT's 'Second String' good enough to warrant NFL help

Oxygen plans left coast yakkers

Ancier rejoins big three

British Screen Finance's future threatened by bid

Sitcom's Alice no sitcom but it cooks

Shelton ankling Kiwi film commission after 22 years

World Briefs

Challenge to keep Peacock strutting

New trouble for Berlusconi

People magazine taps Ancier as 'up and comer'

Murdoch's Star on rise

Beach stages draw TV hits

The Rainmaker

Fiorello!

Galapagos

A Force More Powerful

New York: A Documentary Film

Come on Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story

Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story

New York: A Documentary Film

RKO 281

Morning, Noon and Night

David Grisman Quintet

The Mavericks

Bounce

Sleepy Hollow

The World Is Not Enough

Light It Up

Sail Away

Maybe Baby, It's You

Four Nights in Knaresborough

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The Road to Hell

The Summer Moon

The Piano Lesson

The Price

Ricky Martin

The Knitters

The Hungry Bachelors Club

Black and Blue

Y2K

Light Up the Sky

Tango Argentino

Toy Story 2