World Briefs

Tops in tooniverse

Bertolucci, Reed pic at San Sebastian Fest

NHK seeks change in data law

U.S. fare to fight for Rose

CLT/Ufa pacts with Veronica to acquire control of HMG

S. Africa adds class

Ketchum grows marketing arm

Shock locks Brooks

NPR fears force of low-power radio

Oscar watch

'Smoking Is Good' for WB

Miramax finds Latin beat

WB picks up 'Harvey' skein for 5th season

Universal's 'Mummy' sequel set to rumble with The Rock

Lane crafting Midler laffer for Eye net

Laughing all the way

Inside Moves

Time Inc. will end Life mag as monthly

Spanish conglom Prisa to float stock

Durward Kirby

Encore spotlights helmers

Hip-hop oater 'Blazin' at HSI

Bertelsmann now set to spend $36 bil

Bunzel scales Alpine as prod'n prez

Whose soiree now?

Clearing the attic

VH1 Monkees with telepics

'Earth' spins into H'wood

'Actress' on best behavior at bow

C-W inks Wallem to 2-year deal

Scott bullish on Star's Fox drama 'The Street'

L.A.P.D., FBI hot on pilfered Oscars' trail

Good Machine, Zaentz to spread 'Sins' o'seas

UPN custody battle

Pair there for 'Vanity Fair'

Dean to rebel on TNT

'Brock's' office smash

'Titus' scribes ink Fox pact

Euro titans cooking up Dutch treat

Family bags 'Providence' for big price

Oscar Watch

WCBS-TV downs 'Browne,' replaces it with 'Squares'

SFX to move headquarters

Coppola: technophile Renaissance man

Tommy Thompson

Welsh memorial service

Italo auds absent

U.K.'s Yes affirms IPO; WB, BVI taking shares

Exec Shuffle

French TV workers unite on b'cast reforms, gripes

U, Quiero join to start Euro film channel

World Briefs

Musical 'Reefer' bogarts L.A. Drama Crix awards

Jay Thompson

Players

Mouse scats back

AOL inks music info pact

Music.com uploads Buziak to join 'gem' advisory board

QVC pitchwoman lands USA talker

Disney ups Marsh and Treadwell

Skerritt steps into Cooper's boots

Behaviour reports big losses, revamps ops

Emmis countersues Sinclair

Milken helps Nibblebox gobble up $5.5 mil

'Hurricane' KOs Oz

Davison upped to Imax prexy

Oscar Watch

IFilm takes long view of short pix from QFE team

'Voyager' to dock

Lakeman floats to top Web designer DNA

USA bows custom skein browsers

Miramax taps Reich for U.K.

PGA gives blessing to CastNet.com site

Cinar sues for funds in Bahamas

Gov. Owens blasts Walters

Details undressed

Disney throws college comedy a homecoming

Martin is thriller's Vlad boy

Demme opens door at October for 'Eye'

MGM, Universal going dutch on 'Hannibal' tab

Miramax enters 'Diary,' 'Mandolin' deal

Douglas to try 'Crim Law'; 'Food' for LaSalle

'Show' to go Web surfing

Two's viable for Viacom

U turn on explansion plan

Zanuck swings back to 'Apes'

Gordon gets Col's 'Dirt' on hands

HarperCollins books rights to Maxim murder article

EU to OK Murdoch's pay TV stake

Prime finds way out of Azul

Errant 'Dog' to retrieve auds

Voice-worn Patinkin sends regrets to 'Party'

Early spring for B'way with a blossoming B.O.

'Power' strip clears 92%

Cops clip shippers in Oscar caper

Robert Eggenweiler

Miles White

David Berman

Mitchell tribute concert set for TNT

SESAC bows L.A. office

Sogecable inks D'Works PPV deal

France begins digital divvy as some cry foul

Furlong on 'Quest'

Spanish web Tele 5 sees profits soar 52%

Load, InterTrust are secure in joint pact

Moving toward sale

TiVo taps marketing exex

Barbra plans more shows in States

Bank cutting Spanish stake

EC OKs BSkyB stake in Kirch

Mediaset/Kirch alpha is Epsilon

World Briefs

Thesps lobby for Arts funds

'Insider's' tobacco stance nets Prism

FX 'Deliberate' on pix intent

'Who,' '20' push Alphabet web to top

Warner Bros. married to 'Meddlers' comedy

Rickman rockets to 'Moon'

Cavuto inks to stay at Fox News

Fox clones 'Smartest' gameshow

Zaentz reopens 'Patient'

Isaacson has talent for Fox

Oscar watch

Titan among bows

Valenti blows away 'Hurricane' critics

WBDTD ups Rosenblum in research

Disney dances with scribes

Oz's Village wants to sell HK pix stake

Crowd blasts Laura

Goldberg shores up co-star role in 'Sea'

No revenge for the Nerds: Peacock cancels 'Freaks'

AudioSoft, ASCAP compose Web music-use report pact

Petroni 'Wakes' to feature helming debut

Academy to honor Wajda

Inside Moves

'Old Man' fishes in Imax come May

Beckinsale strings on last 'Pearl' lead

Gap Oscarcast ads copy 'Story'

Propaganda hits the 'Net

Lions Gate gets exec boost

Goldsman to adapt 'Geisha'

Pollack joins Grant on Col pic

Moore may fly with Fine Line's 'Amelia'

Disney's safe 'Harbor'?

Gilroy gets big Castle coin

Museum of TV, Radio unveils doc fest slate

Dolan's Metro Channels revamped

Granada ups Seven stake in Oz

'Chutney' pops Out Loud on Sundance

Herzog out-Foxed

Netcasting bulks up with half-hour 'Muscle Beach'

DGA unveils N.Y. HQ plans

U.K. gov OKs merger between NTL and CWC

Bertelsmann denies U music report

Miller opts to keep music magazine trio

Mergers on table

Brando, Allen, Lee check crystal ball

Preservation orgs get grants

TV, film publicists feted

Oscar ballots due at 5 p.m. today

'Price' reclaims 10 a.m. as KCBS drops 'Browne'

Santana, 'Supernatural' still magic

Blanchett bagged by MGM's 'Outlaws'

World Briefs

TPS revenues up 63% from last year

EC greenlights BSkyB, Premiere World deal

Lensing begins on Breillat's seventh feature, 'Two Girls'

RAI plans new media unit spinoff, market listing

Karlovy Vary festival adds 2 days to sked

The need for speed

Blue, Yardum start Perception PR

Cabler nabs 'Decalogue'

Replay TV nets coin

Centropolis takes a run at 'Dead Man's' pitch

NBC takes a stake in Internet's Space

Rose Rim reaps 'Georgiana' bio

UPN's cops on 'The Beat' gain Tuesday viewership

Lambert caps 'Offense'; pic pairs up 'Taxi' duo

Fox Family/Saban ups Goldberg to VP

USA buys rights to two WB sitcoms

'Millionaire' goes online in real time

Tenpercenteries

Seven Arts catches 'Fish'

D.P. catches helming bug for 'Mimic 2'

'Kingdom' to come

IFilm exchanges stock for film prod'n Web site

Netcaster Pop.com unveils new channel

Shockwave locks Lynch

Sandler laffer at NL; Close open to HBO live

Six bows hit MTV's 'Spot'

USA, Avenue plan bio on Bohemian darlings

Fall sked piques Peacock

Bloom tapped for 'Today'

Soiree screams style

'True' beats house record

Kinowelt posts boffo revs

Slim slicing cable stake

In the driver's seat

Imax unveils biz division

Loews' lenders agree to relax credit terms

NARAS adds discs to Hall of Fame

Fonda will only return for a 'Golden' role

Raymond Katz

MTV bows '10 Spot' slate

'Blame Canada' lyrics: Bigger, longer, uncut

Oscar injects $61 mil into L.A. economy

Dave to try full-time sked next week

Oscar finder gets reward, Acad tickets

'Follies' back on Broadway

H'wood backs China trade pact, Valenti sez

Advertisers clamor for spots

Players

Brit cabler bows broadband

Wood bio heads to Alphabet web

'N Sync disc rocks record bow of 1 mil

Cannes will serve up 'Vatel' as fest opener

Factory direct

'Romeo' livens Wednesday B.O.

The art of reinventing

ABC finds 'Then' is now

Capital idea: AFMA names Prewitt prez

AOL, Universal form marketing alliance

Wilson, Leight will highlight Taper season

Chao to top USA Cable

Tossing coin for pix

Bischoff back on top in Turner WCW redo

Dempsey on the beat for ABC drama

Anderson is allergic to M'max 'Cat'

Slim slicing cable stake

Warner/EMI duet plays a happy dot-com tune

Laffer sets Swiss B.O. mark

Asian ad spend adds

Tyro scribe lands 2-book deal

Biz Briefs

Ironic Hollywood

Beatnik on bongo for IPO

Tyson Italy bout goes to Showtime

Eye says goodbye to 'Cosby'

Jean Howard

Dominick Mezzina

Here on Earth

Mariah Carey

High Fidelity

Romeo Must Die

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Napster - Mp3 Web Site: Piracy Made Easy

The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood - Poison Pen Sketches Geffen Rise to the Top

The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

Original Story by; a Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

Waste

The Big Bang

Helpless

A Place at the Table

The Infidel

Riverdance on Broadway

Black Forest

Birdy

Titus

Son of the Beach

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

Virtual Vampire

The Operator

Road Dogs

Rum and Coke

The Girls' Room

Night Time

Geppetto

Saturday Night

Somewhere in the Night

Long Live Us!

Bel Air

Marriage Prep

East of a

Victim

Mirka

The Spreading Ground

Passing Darkness

Price of Glory - Boxing Pic Can't Go Distance

Dolce Far Niente

Mercy

Whipped

Norma Jean, Jack, and Me

Here on Earth

High Fidelity - 'High Fidelity' Turns Up the Volume for Romantic Laffer

Bread Day

Romeo Must Die - Li Jet-Powers Chopsocky for Action-Packed Gangsta Ride

Final Destination - Tepid Teen Thriller

Napster

The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells The New Hollywood

The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

Original Story By; A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

The Beat

SubUrbia

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Richard Thompson

The Spreading Ground

Mary Stuart

The Sons of Lincoln

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Mango Mango

Return to Me

My Tired Broke Ass Pontificating Slapstick Funk

Two Rooms

Battery Park

Daddio

The Operator

Tom Rapp

Mystery!: Lady Audley's Secret

Making the Band

The Libertine

The Waverly Gallery

Aida

Whatever It Takes

Metade Fumaca

Modern Life

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Methods of Mayhem

A Chinese in a Coma

Light Keeps Me Company

A Major Inconvenience

Tom Sawyer

Methods of Mayhem

Whatever It Takes