Mob pic rubs out rookies

Japanese TV fulfills yen for 'Millionaire'

'Matrix,' 'Malkovich' hold biggest of ACEs

Evildoers beware

Inside Move

Carr will helm 'Hoedown'

Oscar Watch

Col Pix buys Franklin pitch for Murray, Cage

Nick, Oxygen team up for 'Roseanne'

Van Dien, King set for 'Titans'

WGA fetes 'Insider' scribes

Sweeps: big photo finish

Trio terrific o'seas

Intermedia nabs o'seas rights to Allen pic

Producer Baldwin a Franchise player

Bonham Carter set to take 'Novocaine'

'Kingdom' on Overseas slate with vet thesps

Myriad herds 'Goat' for o'seas distrib

Japan goes Gaga for 'Caravan'

Pax enters gamer fray with 'Shop'

CheckOut.com opens 'Games' in H'wood biz

NBC to slash Gannett payout

Kirch called to testify on Kohl scandal

Tangos at Cannes

UIP not releasing Leconte's 'Widow'

Filmax bows toon prod'n shingle Bren

CBS taps Cheatwood VP

WB publicity exec takes consulting job

AFI panels its board with 6

'Sky' wins for social values

DGA noms honor new docu crop

EchoStar adds Turner, Starz

Distrib Salsa bows Miami office

World briefs

Cartagena Fest celebrates anni

Televisa revs rise in '99

'Little Crumb' crumbles Dutch kid pic B.O. record

Rank's rocky ride

U.K.'s United pumps more coin into Internet

Showbiz stocks dip in dismal Dow week

Lion buys 'Barber' after close shave

UGC's 'Veil' snapped up

Germans cross Wilder for merit

Matukewicz exits post at Mandalay for StoneCreek

DGA honors helmer Dixon

HBO seeks younger auds with 'KO'

'Suburb' snags Rodgers

Satcaster merger

Players

BCE dials up $1.6 bil for CTV net

Distrib keys Kosse

Producers honor Spelling for career achievement

Designer Kudofest

'Tonight' wins; 'GMA' up 24%

Top cow turns to Seldin

Canuck pluck is talk of locations confab

'Planet' world preem

'Dancing' swings in

Irish screens are smiling again

Busy Johnson exits D'Works

Agents pact hits SAG snag

Noms are B.O. gold for 'Beauty,' 'Cider'

Universal is 'Driven' to Interlight thriller

U's indie jumpstart

Send in the clowns, it's an election year

Veronica Cooper Converse

Imax ready to rock

Nicholl coin up for grabs in Acad script competish

'Numbers' hopes for 'Millionaire' auds

Duffell bags kiosks

TW, AOL stocks up

Comcast aces Golf Channel web

German giant snags Stella

Frosh rush o'seas

Discovery People fades out

Digital 'Chateau' wraps

'Check' bows Freedom Fest

Shahs exit Screenland & Scanbox

High-profile indies in ShoWest Showcase

Franchise fires up Bui 'Dragon'

World Briefs

Where the money is

Trimark 'Cooking' at AFM

BHC, Viacom await ruling

Intertainment, Manga pact on pix

Actors set rallies for ad-pact talks

H'wood booster Welsh dies

Fast track linkup

UPC, Deutsche Bank reject Kirch's D-box

Kirch rival RTL picks up 49.9% stake in net Vox

BBC looking for partners for Web site

Fuji TV sets pan-Asian b'casts

Factor 8 adding new handle, coin

NBCi.com targets broadband users

Web set turned off

L.A. Opera taps White-Thomson

'Aftermath' gets rolling for Disney

Sony exec Notaro, 52, dies

Hettrick joins Video Biz

Writer Saul Shooting for long-term pic deal

SAG to sell off 'Dream' skein rights

Searchlight taps Gilula distrib prexy

Scully, Schimmel laff at Fox

'Stuart II' catches screenwriter Rubin

Oscar Watch

Sweeps win easy as ABC

Inside Moves

Par pair stays put

Cartoon Net revving up

'Million' follow-up in works

New York nurtures new-media boom

'Judy' sweeps WNBC to big February win

B'way hums along while 'Aida' sings

Starz cues up Spaulding to prexy of distribution

Miramax wins 'Paper' chase

The fab five

Acad voters offer surprises

Musically speaking, Was and Bacharach make an odd pair

To Vilanch, it's all a big joke

Oscar's worth more than gold to Academy

Zanucks preparing for unknown

Olgita DeCastro

Leonard Goldenson memorial

John C. Kuehne

Louis Pelletier

Norman Thomson

Doris Kenner-Jackson

BSkyB to bring TiVo to U.K.

French agency under fire for OKing Web ads on TV

Li clinches HKT deal with $36 bil takeover

Failed chemistry

Rental hike irks Germans

Inside Tracks

It tapes a village

Alliance Atlantis revs, profits up; stock surges

Imax to lense panda pic

Cinema Audio Society to fete vet Knudson

Osbourne slapped with second lawsuit

Goldberg, Langella split

Sag touts fine time

'Millionaire' paces ABC win... again

French films flat

Harbeck joins Netcaster IFilm

Former U exex go online

TNT ups DeBitetto

Universal ups Kahrs to executive veep

WWF pins record 3rd qtr. profits

Cash woes cast doubt on Behaviour's future

Business booms at AFM

Crystal-clear choice for host

Viewers dance with joy over loss of hoofers

Parties not limited to one night only

Acad credits risks in saluting Beatty

Hunegs No. 2 at WBTV

Kathie Lee calls it quits after 15 years

Agents consider options vs. SAG

Big Picture panels tap industry A-list

Nominations...by the numbers

Poland's history viewed through Wajda's lens

Big Four turn back b'cast erosion

Inside Moves

Oscar Watch

MediaOne's 4th-quarter income rev up

Spontaneity makes great TV

Endemol to buy up 2 foreign ventures

Gaumont '99 profits dip

France's TF1 reports profits up 47% in '99

Bertelsmann revs, profits skyrocket

Sim's City now Den

Warners finds new 'Friends'

Miramax tops February B.O.

Loud and clear

Time Warner vows no breaks for AOL

WMA forms int'l film group

E! taps Herman topper

Only one 'Wild Party' on B'Way this season

'Famous' finds NBC homes

APN News & Media profits rise 20%

'Teletubbies' to hit Russia

Preservation honors set

BAFTA bows to 'Beauty'

Players

Oxygen gets boost

NBC enters DEN deal, giving cash, ad time

News Corp. stock on rise

Silverman tapped Mouse toon VP

ATAS bows Cassyd diversity fund

Channel One Ritts redux

Salzman boards Enigma Digital

August inks with Pinema in early online rights deal

'Mister' fakes Melrose

TV ads hit record levels in primetime

KABC sweeps past rival KNBC

Frog web teen skeins hop to new timeslots

ABC may go 'Downtown' again in May

CAA clicks with commercials vet duo

San Jose fest: 10-year itch

CNA Talent picks up Empire

Oscar Watch

TenPercenteries

George Duning

M-Net ups its effort to air local programming

Cape Town coffer fat from film feats

Reporter axed in footage flop

Inside Moves

Harsh inspiration

Producers Guild gives 21-gun salute to nine

Grammys levitate 'Supernatural'

Thesps leap to online pic 'Quantum'

Deal gives Summit 'Closure'

Chang ankles Star TV

Holden ankles USA net to veep MSNBC promos

Col gives scribe Hatem 'Plum' assignment

DGA to bestow Capra kudo on Downey

Lot 47 is a Lipsky family affair

Kiwi seeks ad-free kidvid

Delany 'Good' for TV series

N.Y. moves on to 'Next Best Thing'

'Mona' nails suspects

U Pay TV sells titles to AMC

$2.8 mil settlement ends Vestron suit

Exex land VP stripes at WB network

Lee to sell b'casting assets

WB wants to try on Fox's 'PJs'

Washington in 'Training' for cop pic

Silberling set for punchy pic

'Witch' hunting

Kudos to Herskovitz, Zwick

Royal Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to New Haven

Castle Rock ups Osorio

DuVernay forms PR agency

Castle Hill grabs dates with Lazarus' 'Girlfriends'

Mirage Resorts rejects MGM Grand takeover bid

Telefonica rings up again

Finnegan trees poem

Cable nets slip in Feb.

Villard 'Spilling' a reprint

Rookie year

Deja vu

Films take license with facts

Novel approach

Rebel with a cause

Wadja mines Polish culture

Actors ride the range

Stage celebrates trio

Playboy readies to offer monthly subscriptions

Co-prexy Reid deserting Island

SFX buys out Philly Factory

Fox Kids Euro cuts losses as revs soar

EMI visualizes Web

Willis repays Perry's 'Friend'-ship

Inside Moves

DGA to honor Rindenow

WWF pins nets on 'Mat' blurbs

Johnson-Burnett bows film, TV unit

Nets season laffs

Cigs, drugs stir divided panel

Roth in talks for 'Tomcats' as first pic

Sky tops rising sun

HKT/Star unit taps Foxtel exec topper

TF1 adds theme-based webs

Lauren Cinemas talks alliance

Germany's EM.TV buoys Rothblum

German pols blast 'Big'

Riefenstahl injured in copter crash

TriStar Int'l pacts with C5, Unilever

Oscar Watch

Mousey on merger

Road Runner ups Gordon

ATAS names College TV winners

Fox Music ups Knobloch to VP

PGA fetes 'Blair' publicist

Daly coins Shockwave.com

Ignite has 'Inside' track on Turner's thriller spec

Franchise pix 'Nine,' 'Earth' to HBO Asia

Kids' WB catches sweeps win

Dave's hearty win

Peacock, Eye nets tie as ABC nails sweeps victory

Exhibs roll dice

TW, ABC take a timeout

'Toy's' Buzz Lightyear to TV

Exec Shuffle

Jolie gets set to raid Par 'Tomb'

Itsy Bitsy has eye on bigscreen

Pop.com woos top talent

H'wood vid eyes 'Net distrib'n

Homevid & PPV to wed at WB

'Vanya' may take off from American Airlines

H'w'd.com, exhib pact

Sorvino, Benzali will top classic's 'Naked' prod'n

Happy End

Breaking The Silence

What Planet Are You From?

Dancing in September

Crimes of Honor

Grapevine

Chick Corea, Gary Burton and Origin

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Torch-Bearers - Star Quality Lights 'Torch'

Sweeney Todd

The Time of the Cuckoo

The Wild Party

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

The Beach Boys - 'Beach Boys' Heart Belongs to Daddy

Portuguese

Pandora's Beauty

Paradiso -- Seven Days with Seven Women

Of Women and Magic

Shadow Magic

Clouds of May

Could Be Worse!

Bad Guys

Film...

Jadviga's Pillow

Our Love

We Live Only Once

Damn You! Mosquito

The Foolish Pomegranate Tree

Little Vilma: The Last Diary

The Little Voyage

Pan Tadeusz

Glamour

Seaside, Dusk

The Closer You Get

What Planet Are You from? - One-Joke Premise in 'Planet' of the Japes

The Legends of Rita

Hippolyt

The Convent

Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals

Magic Frequencies

Urbania

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Ice Angel

Squonk

The Sinister Saga Of Making 'The Stunt Man'

Amel Larrieux

All My Sons

George Crumb

Spearhead

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Cover Me

3 Strikes

Rigoletto

Night Sky

Joseph Arthur

Korn

Kenny Barron

Catch a Falling Star

Life-Size

Run the Wild Fields

The Next Best Thing

Rigoletto

Night Sky

Joseph Arthur

Life-Size

Run the Wild Fields

Mild 'Thing' Means Well; The Next Best Thing