Mob pic rubs out rookies

'Matrix,' 'Malkovich' hold biggest of ACEs

Carr will helm 'Hoedown'

Oscar Watch

Sweeps: big photo finish

Producer Baldwin a Franchise player

'Kingdom' on Overseas slate with vet thesps

Pax enters gamer fray with 'Shop'

NBC to slash Gannett payout

Kirch called to testify on Kohl scandal

UIP not releasing Leconte's 'Widow'

CBS taps Cheatwood VP

'Sky' wins for social values

DGA noms honor new docu crop

Distrib Salsa bows Miami office

UGC's 'Veil' snapped up

DGA honors helmer Dixon

'Suburb' snags Rodgers

BCE dials up $1.6 bil for CTV net

Producers honor Spelling for career achievement

Top cow turns to Seldin

U's indie jumpstart

Japanese TV fulfills yen for 'Millionaire'

Van Dien, King set for 'Titans'

Trio terrific o'seas

Myriad herds 'Goat' for o'seas distrib

Japan goes Gaga for 'Caravan'

Tangos at Cannes

EchoStar adds Turner, Starz

Cartagena Fest celebrates anni

Televisa revs rise in '99

Rank's rocky ride

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

Showbiz stocks dip in dismal Dow week

Matukewicz exits post at Mandalay for StoneCreek

HBO seeks younger auds with 'KO'

Satcaster merger

'Tonight' wins; 'GMA' up 24%

Canuck pluck is talk of locations confab

'Dancing' swings in

Agents pact hits SAG snag

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

Universal is 'Driven' to Interlight thriller

Col Pix buys Franklin pitch for Murray, Cage

WGA fetes 'Insider' scribes

Filmax bows toon prod'n shingle Bren

World briefs

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

Lion buys 'Barber' after close shave

Players

Distrib keys Kosse

Designer Kudofest

Busy Johnson exits D'Works

Send in the clowns, it's an election year

Evildoers beware

Inside Move

Nick, Oxygen team up for 'Roseanne'

Intermedia nabs o'seas rights to Allen pic

Bonham Carter set to take 'Novocaine'

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

WB publicity exec takes consulting job

AFI panels its board with 6

Germans cross Wilder for merit

'Planet' world preem

Irish screens are smiling again

Imax ready to rock

'Numbers' hopes for 'Millionaire' auds

Duffell bags kiosks

Discovery People fades out

Shahs exit Screenland & Scanbox

World Briefs

Where the money is

Actors set rallies for ad-pact talks

Fast track linkup

UPC, Deutsche Bank reject Kirch's D-box

NBCi.com targets broadband users

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

Cartoon Net revving up

Olgita DeCastro

Nicholl coin up for grabs in Acad script competish

Digital 'Chateau' wraps

'Check' bows Freedom Fest

High-profile indies in ShoWest Showcase

Franchise fires up Bui 'Dragon'

Trimark 'Cooking' at AFM

BHC, Viacom await ruling

H'wood booster Welsh dies

Web set turned off

L.A. Opera taps White-Thomson

Hettrick joins Video Biz

Oscar Watch

The fab five

Oscar's worth more than gold to Academy

Zanucks preparing for unknown

Veronica Cooper Converse

Comcast aces Golf Channel web

German giant snags Stella

Frosh rush o'seas

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

'Aftermath' gets rolling for Disney

Sony exec Notaro, 52, dies

Sweeps win easy as ABC

Inside Moves

Par pair stays put

B'way hums along while 'Aida' sings

Starz cues up Spaulding to prexy of distribution

Miramax wins 'Paper' chase

To Vilanch, it's all a big joke

Leonard Goldenson memorial

John C. Kuehne

Norman Thomson

TW, AOL stocks up

Intertainment, Manga pact on pix

Factor 8 adding new handle, coin

'Stuart II' catches screenwriter Rubin

'Million' follow-up in works

New York nurtures new-media boom

'Judy' sweeps WNBC to big February win

Acad voters offer surprises

Musically speaking, Was and Bacharach make an odd pair

Louis Pelletier

Doris Kenner-Jackson

BSkyB to bring TiVo to U.K.

Inside Tracks

Imax to lense panda pic

Cinema Audio Society to fete vet Knudson

Goldberg, Langella split

Sag touts fine time

French films flat

WWF pins record 3rd qtr. profits

Cash woes cast doubt on Behaviour's future

Business booms at AFM

Hunegs No. 2 at WBTV

Big Picture panels tap industry A-list

Sim's City now Den

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

Preservation honors set

BAFTA bows to 'Beauty'

French agency under fire for OKing Web ads on TV

Li clinches HKT deal with $36 bil takeover

Alliance Atlantis revs, profits up; stock surges

Osbourne slapped with second lawsuit

Harbeck joins Netcaster IFilm

Former U exex go online

Viewers dance with joy over loss of hoofers

Inside Moves

Endemol to buy up 2 foreign ventures

Gaumont '99 profits dip

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

E! taps Herman topper

APN News & Media profits rise 20%

'Teletubbies' to hit Russia

'Millionaire' paces ABC win... again

TNT ups DeBitetto

Universal ups Kahrs to executive veep

Crystal-clear choice for host

Agents consider options vs. SAG

Nominations...by the numbers

Bertelsmann revs, profits skyrocket

Loud and clear

Time Warner vows no breaks for AOL

Failed chemistry

Rental hike irks Germans

It tapes a village

Parties not limited to one night only

Acad credits risks in saluting Beatty

Kathie Lee calls it quits after 15 years

Poland's history viewed through Wajda's lens

Big Four turn back b'cast erosion

Oscar Watch

MediaOne's 4th-quarter income rev up

Spontaneity makes great TV

Warners finds new 'Friends'

Miramax tops February B.O.

WMA forms int'l film group

'Famous' finds NBC homes

Players

NBC enters DEN deal, giving cash, ad time

TV ads hit record levels in primetime

Frog web teen skeins hop to new timeslots

ABC may go 'Downtown' again in May

San Jose fest: 10-year itch

M-Net ups its effort to air local programming

Cape Town coffer fat from film feats

Harsh inspiration

Grammys levitate 'Supernatural'

Thesps leap to online pic 'Quantum'

Deal gives Summit 'Closure'

Col gives scribe Hatem 'Plum' assignment

$2.8 mil settlement ends Vestron suit

Lee to sell b'casting assets

WB wants to try on Fox's 'PJs'

Silberling set for punchy pic

Castle Hill grabs dates with Lazarus' 'Girlfriends'

Finnegan trees poem

Rebel with a cause

Wadja mines Polish culture

ATAS bows Cassyd diversity fund

Channel One Ritts redux

Salzman boards Enigma Digital

CAA clicks with commercials vet duo

CNA Talent picks up Empire

George Duning

Reporter axed in footage flop

DGA to bestow Capra kudo on Downey

Kiwi seeks ad-free kidvid

'Mona' nails suspects

Kudos to Herskovitz, Zwick

Mirage Resorts rejects MGM Grand takeover bid

Villard 'Spilling' a reprint

Films take license with facts

Inside Moves

Producers Guild gives 21-gun salute to nine

Chang ankles Star TV

Holden ankles USA net to veep MSNBC promos

Lot 47 is a Lipsky family affair

Delany 'Good' for TV series

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

Washington in 'Training' for cop pic

Castle Rock ups Osorio

DuVernay forms PR agency

Rookie year

Oxygen gets boost

News Corp. stock on rise

Silverman tapped Mouse toon VP

August inks with Pinema in early online rights deal

'Mister' fakes Melrose

KABC sweeps past rival KNBC

Oscar Watch

TenPercenteries

U Pay TV sells titles to AMC

Exex land VP stripes at WB network

'Witch' hunting

Royal Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to New Haven

Telefonica rings up again

Cable nets slip in Feb.

Deja vu

Novel approach

Actors ride the range

Playboy readies to offer monthly subscriptions

Co-prexy Reid deserting Island

Willis repays Perry's 'Friend'-ship

WWF pins nets on 'Mat' blurbs

Johnson-Burnett bows film, TV unit

Roth in talks for 'Tomcats' as first pic

Sky tops rising sun

HKT/Star unit taps Foxtel exec topper

Lauren Cinemas talks alliance

TriStar Int'l pacts with C5, Unilever

Oscar Watch

Road Runner ups Gordon

Dave's hearty win

Peacock, Eye nets tie as ABC nails sweeps victory

Itsy Bitsy has eye on bigscreen

Pop.com woos top talent

'Vanya' may take off from American Airlines

Stage celebrates trio

TF1 adds theme-based webs

ATAS names College TV winners

Fox Music ups Knobloch to VP

Daly coins Shockwave.com

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

Exhibs roll dice

TW, ABC take a timeout

'Toy's' Buzz Lightyear to TV

H'wood vid eyes 'Net distrib'n

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

Fox Kids Euro cuts losses as revs soar

Inside Moves

Cigs, drugs stir divided panel

Germany's EM.TV buoys Rothblum

Riefenstahl injured in copter crash

PGA fetes 'Blair' publicist

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

Kids' WB catches sweeps win

Jolie gets set to raid Par 'Tomb'

Homevid & PPV to wed at WB

H'w'd.com, exhib pact

SFX buys out Philly Factory

EMI visualizes Web

DGA to honor Rindenow

Nets season laffs

German pols blast 'Big'

Mousey on merger

Exec Shuffle

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