Peacock's pluming

'Dog' to open Pan-African Film Festival

Masterson skeins 'Further'

Publicists org unveils noms

World Briefs

Four Czech TV execs resign

Staying up 'Late'

IFP again reps U.S. pix for Directors Fortnight

Fox music taps Michels

'Padre' books Elian's uncle

Harvey, Azteca revamp toon, sportswear line

Court rules Fashion TV got too Chummy with moniker

Par TV stages Horne drama VP

Oscar Watch

Talent, tech wed in Endeavor-BIG pact

Microcast opens L.A. office

Financial briefs

D'Works sees '20/20' into Finch's future

'Toy Story 2' success fuels profits at Pixar

Last 'Scream' marks preem

U firing back at Teuton titan

Cruise-Wagner Prods. takes 'Heart' in novel

Inside Move

TV Acad founder Syd Cassyd dies

Talk Miramax buys rights to Antarctic tale

USA, NBA partner for merchandise

Haviland joins Akin Gump's office

Tenpercenteries

FCC: Thumbs down

'El Dorado' road glitters

Kline to helm 'Palace Thief'

Media-Most sells NTV stake

'Vulcan' forges opening to Israel Film Festival

ICM ups West to vice prexy

H'wood's loss is B.C.'s gain

A dream preem for 'Scream'

DT may delay net sales

Probe implicates Kirch in Kohl case

Bows buoy biz o'seas

Karloff heir sues over 'The Mummy'

L.A. off-lot prod'n rises

Rights to 15 indie movies put on the auction block

BMI inks int'l music c'right deals for 'Net

Kodak imaging taps Rodli

Trailers hitch to kudos season

Diverse trio share top Rotterdam honors

It's McAnuff's 'Night'

AT&T tells feds merger feeds need for speed

Y2K meltdown at Dome

West in as USA veep

French bread for Leigh

Steve Martin: from standup to literary icon

BET places 'Net presence

Ladd's heart in 'Hand'; Martin eyes TV pact

Brit, Oz pair pact

Fox orders 16 segs of laffer 'Malcolm'

UPN to sub 'Beat' for duo

'Austin' makes up with guild

Bertelsmann mum on AOL

Creative Planet orbits toons

'Toy 2's' the story

WMA's Peretzian will shift to CAA

Back to old haunts

Alphabet's Sunday at the top of its games

Franchise taps Drazen for post

Oscar Watch

Cartoon Webcaster ramping up

'Vatel'-Cannes '00 talk simmers

Road Movies names Blaney

Acad urged to boycott Austrian entry

B'Way Archive donates tapes

Inside tracks

Wages of Fear

Publicists nominate top film, TV campaigns

All in the family

A tech titan logs on

'Magnolia' helmer ribeted by novelist's frogs

SAG mulls loosening agent regs

Telling all at mall

Jennifer L. Bendall

Canuck cable coup

ABC News ups Murphy to VP

Polo ponies up with NBC

Waiting for Beckett

Col House streamlines; emphasis put on e-biz

AirWatch employees vote to join AFTRA

Hoffs to exit DreamWorks

Sherak to get ShoWest nod

Inside Moves

Screen Gems adopts 'Brothers'

Jennifer Anderson

Konchalovsky enters new stage

Deville's 'Sachs' wins top French crix prize

Moore ships 'Truth' along Salter Street

Gaines axed in Hawaii

Maghen top tech at MTVi

PBS taps Mitchell prexy

PorchLight takes 'Heart' in Swank pic

D'Works buys out f/x unit

Fulle fills Imageworks' sr. VP post

Canal Plus revenues jump 16% to $3.3 bil

Hanks hauls in rights to gumshoe yarn 'Cold'

Mark Goodman, Meriko 'Ko' Kawashima, Britt Ehringer, Thomas Alfieri, Scott Burton

Major Garrett, John King

Special assignment

Advanced Medien's revenues skyrocket

Fox partners with German distributor

Lease up on 'Leeza'

Schiller to headline CNN docus

Doug Henning

Brooks set to create ABC laffer

Inside Moves

Najimy will exit 'Closet' this season

Oscar watch

Jonze, Satellite reup

Jersey shores up Abdy to VP

SAG panel eases regs on agents

Intermedia directs traffic to 3-year Avenue pic pact

John Vincent Imbragulio

Todd Karns

German pubcasters oppose pay TV alliance

WB International TV ups Dudley-Smith

Judge muzzles iCraveTV

Players

'Witch' trial may proceed, judge rules

Two vet agents join AMG management

Times taps Newsweek's Brown

DGA noms six directors for upcoming ad awards

Net pilot slates filling for fall

Don Ralke

Wilder receives German honor

World Briefs

Art directors tap Edward for honor

U shuffles ad dept., ups trio

Chris Craft tries to spoil CBS/Viacom merger party

Safe, not sizzle

Seduced by 'Steve'

Mostow set to helm 'Seconds'

Without Dave, 'Late' beats Jay

Brooklyn Academy to rename theaters

Domingo di Nubila

'Mary' still has certain something

eBay pact: It's a go

CAA ups 4 to oversee its film, literary arms

Artisan, BET Pix sign two-year distrib deal

CEO Goldwater ankles, Iwerks founder tapped

W&A prexy Scott headed to Gotham

USA homevid arm taps Melnick

Klein may roll on 'Rollerball'

Eye looks to Nick Jr. for Sat. ayem

Sonnenfeld gets 'Tick'

'Cinematherapy' on couch

M.J. McDonnell

William Eckart

Epoch of the rolling clones

Silberling, Crystal step up to the plate

Nets traded content for coin, House pols accuse

NBC up for laughs; WB cues the music

Enel, Canal+ disconnect Telepui stake sale plan

Stein gets a Deluxe promotion to COO

KRON to turn indie

Musicians, thesps round out 'Metal'

Oxygen fills tanks

'Loser' wins with Brooks

Lithgow front & center

SelfCare.com inks NBC deal

NBC sweeps 'Freaks' aside for February

New Line ups three execs

BSkyB set to extend Internet businesses

Jefferson mini will ruffle feathers

Helmers pen write stuff

Mouse good to Go with 'Net financials

'Love' lands at Lions Gate

Stallone revs up for CART-themed racing pic

Windows still shut

Medusa case still in court

TAP elects Martinez chairman

'Voodoo' charms sales

'Witchblade' swings without Stone at TNT

Showtime has 22 'Beggars' at door again

Film seg dents News Corp.'s qtr.

Col snaps up rights before 'Rich' gets a publisher

WireBreak goes Snap with content

Fox adds Andreen to exec ranks

U ups Stuber to exec VP

Lifetime taps Hatcher for distrib role

Planet Media inks two deals

SF acquires Hobart's 'Sins'

World Briefs

New Berlin digs impress

NBC nabs 'Ripley' rights

Harris, Madigan 'Glad' to pair

Goodman eyes Fox series

Freeman moves to WMA

The China syndrome

'Malkovich' scribe set for 'Nature'

Bass catches 'Headhunters'

Oscar Watch

DEN receives financing

Kudos offer comic relief

Avignon/N.Y. fest fetes indies, Fonda, helmers

Fox ups Levinsohn to exec veep

Inside Tracks

RIAA taps Glazier as top lobbyist

Inside Moves

NBC/ABC ratings race tightens

Oscar Watch

Fox ditching spec hosted by Springer

Viacom, BHC get N.Y. court date

Profits up 17% for Packer

Diversity's avenue

Rap, metal join forces

Cinema Force, Ihug merge

Canal Plus animated over 'Axis' pic

All systems to go

World Briefs

Prisms find substance in 'Insider,' 'Angela'

Money train comes in for 'Thomas'

ShoWest honors Bening

'Millionaire' insurer begs out: Questions too easy

Stroke claims Jackson, urban pic, pop pioneer

Vet journo Gumbel to top Business.com

CBC will trim budget, staff

AtomFilms inks 'Net pact with B'buster

TV racial divide narrows

New 'Exorcist' footage to turn heads

Brain joins Stan Lee as exec veep

NBC yanks 'Freaks'

Legit double trouble

Tenpercenteries

Cordero sets up staffing service

Seagram's high spirits

Developmental deal

Pix, TV buoy toys

Stevens loses case on appeal

'Backstage' gets 2nd week

Moore will dine on U's 'Hannibal'

Korean pic hits in Japan

Greece ups film subsidy

Vara chooses to stay with Dutch system

French TV giants bow prod'n house

Canal toons 'Axis'

Sony ups HR exec Criley

MP3.com hits RIAA with suit

New Heaton-Hunt firm links with BBC

ASCAP '99 revs hit best-ever $560 mil

Comic Varney, star of 'Ernest' films, dead at 50

Webs mad for movies

3 heads face Enigma

Judd to rule on 'High Crimes'

King John

The Civil War

Der Rosenkavalier

Honk! the Ugly Duckling

My Best Friend

Up Your Ass, or from the Cradle to the Boat, or the Big Suck, or Up from the Slime

The Dogwalker

That One No Enough

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Our Song

The Beach - Idyllic Site, But Pic's Hardly Ideal

Snow Day

Knockout

Autumn

Ferocious Saint Lord of Gobi

Robert Louis Stevenson's the Suicide Club

Revenge

The Day Silence Died

Savage Honeymoon

Scratches in the Table

Lover's Grief Over the Yellow River

Burlesk King

Freak Weather

Groove

The Clean and Narrow

Shadow Hours

Punks

Waking the Dead

Songcatcher

Scream 3

Fallen Arches

The Forgotten Ones

Free the Fish

Love Story

The Heart of the Warrior

Marta and Surroundings

Mary and Rhoda

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Dark Days

Mary and Rhoda

The Broken Hearts Club

Boiler Room

Snow Day

The Beach

Screaming Trees

String Cheese Incident

Groove

NAMM Millennium Tribute to Michael McDonald

Psycho Beach Party

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Let Me In, I Hear Laughter

Homicide: The Movie

The Million Dollar Hotel

Cracker

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

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Punks

The Filth and the Fury

Enlightenment Guaranteed

Shooting Star

The Tigger Movie

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

The Whole Nine Yards

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

The Whole Nine Yards