'Beauty,' Mob rule

Hillary chat boosts Letterman for week

Col woos Kumble to helm 'Screenplay'

Teutonic N-TV posts first profit

Tribune income up 8%

Planet Hollywood gets a second spin

New web service

MGM lands Lion Rock

Gersh taps Schiffman as veepee

CBS rushes mini on Cuban boy

Fox Family has 'Courage'

Upside for 'Down'

Bond and boogeyman battle Oscar hopefuls

TNT starts 'Bull' session

'Mil' gnaws at NBC Thursday ratings

'90210' and 'PO5' won't be returning

MP3.com sued over copyrights

Inside Moves

Redford: Content counts

Acad will fete Ryan

Players

AMG ices hockey shingle

'Graduate' scribes will reunite and go 'Bathing'

Ad contracts unveiled

Time Warner tunes in EMI in $20 bil merger

It's vive Las Vegas for 'Notre Dame'

Honors from 'enemy'

'Dance buyers in 'Groove'

Film Council grows

CRTC primed to OK digital TV services

'Interview' to run in U.S.

Battle waged over TM3

Allen, Hewitt move to FilmFour

Here come the judges

Backstage follies prevail

Streisand's plans a matter of interest

Globes and Oscars: A mixed blessing

Pix in the Berlin mix

CLT/Ufa, Fox team in 5-yr. output pact

Filmmakers 'Best' BSkyB in court battle over pic

ProSieben, Sat.1 may form closer ties

Nick to bow Brazilian digs

Nickelodeon Intl. to add India fare

World Briefs

Singing online tunes

Gaga goes digital in Japan

Plonsker tries Alschuler

Warner/EMI's duet

Emmis beats path to Los Angeles mag

Phone giant, AOL in talks

MGM to launch pic channel in Israel

Wilson, Roseanne to do 'Monologues'

U, Steinberg bake another 'Pie'

Winter chill o'seas

O'Donnell to host Grammys

Tony Awards set for June 4

'Beauty' is BFCA pick for best pic

'Friday' tops 'Down,' wins weekend crown

Inside Moves

Fox to screen whole 'Heart'

WB net fills marketing gap with Gap blurbmeister Byrd

KNBC sweeps top honors at Golden Mike awards

Berlin-bound indies

Variety's Jackson dead at 47

'Who,' ABC look rich, Globes slip

Phillips moves to WAA

Take a flier, please

Chen finds 'Apartment'; 'Animal' attraction

Norman Lear policy center set for USC

New kids at DGA

'Dark Shadows' set as red-blooded tuner

Sci Fi nabs 'Xena' for mini-marathon

After-hours at Globes

Phoenix ups Fischer, Smith

It's all smiles as ABC, NBC affils huddle

Lechner tops @radical pic division

Clear for takeoff

Three webs fight for 'Brother's' attention

Iger tapped No. 2 as Mouse TV booms

Fine Line high on 'Saving Grace'

10 dramas on Peacock pilot slate for fall

Netcaster IFilm gets $35 mil lift

Cobb rockets into 'Andromeda' skein

A&E snaps up rights to 97 'NewsRadio' segs

Exec Shuffle

Frigid temps chill B'way ticket sales

Westport's McKenzie ankles

Jack Segal

Harry Rosenbaum

Bernice Petkere

Alain Poire

John C. Mahon Jr.

Carolyn Cohen

Ratings agency dips its toe into digital TV waters

Lowland highlights

Dutch back media law

'Sex' a titanic success

RAI sells TV unit to RCS

Gallic album sales record a sour note

New 'Dame' bows at Midem

Publicists to honor Disney

MSNBC sets kids Olympics series

ShoWest gives Swank award

De Niro 'Deer' back in Berlin headlights

Kellner reups at WB

NBC-owned stations ink to pick up 'Men'

Distribs have plenty for foreign buyers

CBS, King World distrib exex reassigned

'Invincible' pilot set for TBS preem

Oscar Watch

ICM ups West to vice prexy

Douglas moves to Morris

Ramsey special ups MSNBC ratings

Comedy download

Hart Sharp elevating 'Lift' for Davis, Streeter

Farmclub taps Schunon

Greek drama: Council prez wants to void pact

Palm Springs fest auds go 'Est-Ouest'

Playboy Intl. TV taps 4 senior exex

ATAS taps Klappholz for new development position

USA gets e-tail edge

RealNetworks buys Netzip for $268 mil

CD-ROM publisher strikes out with 'Star Wars' book

TiVo sales, revenues up as qtr. loss soars

Swank eyes 'Gift' pact

Disney digging out

Columbia TriStar homevid ups Colona

Adler named sr. VP at TW

Sin and syndie

Reeves at ease on Col 'Ottoman'

Sony Music names Ilberman to No. 2

Cabler NTL scores soccer club stake

Kieft to enter Italy via Mediaport deal

UTA covers Bridges as it rolls down star hwy

Adding new dimension

NBC adopts 'Son' as 10th pilot

'Spin' scribes ink $6 million T'stone deal

WB's Japanese joint venture ready to lense

Sony sews 'Godzilla' rights

'Who' knew it's ABC

Lakeshore to 'Steal' and 'Deliver'

Foster tapped for Odyssey Pix prez

Kahn bows prod'n house, gets funds

Inside move

Screen Gems punches up 'Girlfight' rights

Finalist tapped for makeup noms

Dot-com coin boosts WNBC

B'way weathers winter with sales

Lion ends thorny TV pact

B'way played out as 'Price,' 'Wrong' close

Hype hits 'Beach'

Eyre to helm 'Iris' for Sony

Marshall eager to tell his side of 'Pretty' story

Despite weather, North Carolina sez it's open for biz

MP3 records loss

Cablevision buoys Azznara to N.Y. prez

Dow Jones TV ventures channel profit in quarter

TFI profits shoot skyward

S'Dance partners

Short pics make Oscar short lists

Winfrey, Cosby set to co-host Essence

'Eleven' a fit for Pitt; Mark on 'Honeymoon'

Disney dives for 'Pearl'

ASC announces award nominees

Liz Smith reups with papers

SAG vote closes Friday

U, Nichols take kindly to 'Hearts' redo for fall

Yen crunch cramps Sony quarter

Big talk is gabbers grabbing fall deals

Midem deals delivered to scale

NTL scores stake in soccer club

Zentropa expands plans

Tele Images, GTV to wed

CineMedia buys in

Inside moves

Fox, MSNBC, CNN score for Iowa coverage

Greek pact in ruins

Intertainer, Artisan team on five pics

Icebox.com warms up 'Net toons

'Supernatural' stays on top

Faires exits Mammoth

CBS eyeing 'Big Brother'

Acad convinces best pix to trim credits

ABC lines up on 'Mile,' 'Sunday'

ABC hoops it up with unique telepic prod'n

Courting gavelers

Turner nets pick 'Magnolia'

Norton may keep 'Score'

Avalon manages to go H'w'd

Channel 4/NBC go biblical

MGM taps Camarata as exec VP of music

SoapNet lathers up

Mickey put in the spots light

Seagram tapps Bendall

R.I. Fest seeks pix

S'dance: Right party is key

Hobe Morrison

WGA nom ballots due Feb. 7

Televisa, Sony ink hi-def TV deal

Quaids are real-life 'Debtors'

Telescene earnings, revenue tallies up

Wall Street Replay

Showest to fete Jolie

Org seeks secession, cityhood for H'wood

Simon classics return

Langhoff joins Virage

Eye will sip 'Grapevine'

Sundance notes

Longing for shorts

Sony snags rights to Hu's 'Shadow'

Sony Classics ups Leiner

Horizon nabs 'Chuck' rights

Burton toons up Web pact

Women helmers, thesps highlight Sundance

Inside Moves

Fox feels the power

UPC boosts shares in SBS

Lowe rises to three top Scripps posts

Roth to follow up 'War' with 'King Lear'

Doc maker Wiseman to get retrospective, career honor

ESPN the Magazine taps Rooney senior vice president

Oscar Watch

10-plex tapped for Park City

Constine tapped for film org

NATPE in court, online & o'seas

Court sez no Go, Disney rethinks site

Clinton has plan on ratings

Fran Ryan

Leonard Goldenson memorials

Down to You

What's Cooking?

Joe Gould's Secret

Brutally Normal

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

The Courage to Love

The Invention of Love

Small Poppies

Battle Royal

The Hollow Lands

Orson's Shadow

The Maiden's Prayer

Thanks for the Gesture

Secret

Keep Running

Messiah

The Diver

Rhythm & Blues

The April Children

Herr Zwilling and Frau Zuckerman

The Reunion

Messengers

Bullets Over Summer

Deceit

Opera Fanatic

Culture Shock

Sno-Core 2000

Our Song

Girlfight

Love & Sex

The Kids in the Hall

Other Voices

Drop Back Ten

Pennywise

Silvestre Revueltas Music Festival

Andrew Hill

Irina ... Abroad!

Two Family House

Saving Grace

Waking the Dead

Everything Put Together

Rated X

El Valley Centro

Songcatcher

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Wit

Grizzly Falls

Animal Factory

Runaway Virus

Common Ground

Isn't She Great

Songcatcher

Runaway Virus