Players

Embracing rivals

Pollstar sues listing rival

Televisa delays Web bow

CIE acquires stake in 'Net biz Latin Ent.

Quiero TV, Par ink pic deal

Euro giants talking 'Net

Inside move

Fuqua in 'Training' for Washington pic

20th TV ups Melnick to VP

Kopple upped at Gersh

Vibe hip hop spinoff folds

May Day mishmash

Hoyts sells cinemas stake to Kinowelt

Extra 'Millionaire' spells win over 'ER'

BMI, MP3 ink song pact

Fairbanks Jr. dead at 90

Pay-per-view preem cuts 'Sense' rentals

VH1 opens summer window for four network telepics

Teutonic teammate for Zoetrope

Celeb 'Million' plucks Peacock

Cannes by star-lite

Boom time for cablers

Silver forges Copper

Gugino to 'Spy' for Dimension

Viacom merges Paramount Parks

Christopher Meloni

Daniel Roebuck

Michael Angarano

David Caldwell

Christopher Cary

Barry L. Sherman

Steve Reeves

Mexican magnate propping up CDNow

Femme portal buys indie shingle Amazon

TBS Latam ups Contreras to ad VP

TV Globo soaping up

Britain's NTL launches digital cable platform

Noonan will 'rule'

Constantin, Propaganda pact for pics

Propaganda taps Dollard

USC honors Manning

Strikers score with athletes

USA Network game for 'Strip' skein

Flockhart to Off B'Way

Playboy rocks Web

Bassett will co-star in 'The Score'

Taking out birthday Franchise

Kramer, Gondas partner to form Lexington Group

D'Onofrio, Hirsch to 'Altar'

Softbank gets Rosendahl

It's 'Scarlet' fever

'Angels' in H'wood

Roman numerals: $XXXII mil

Tonys kiss 'Kate'

Loren Dean

Soleil Moon Frye

Jonathan Mangum

Ed Quinn

Retro dealmaker Roth builds as others fiddle

David Caldwell

Christopher Cary

Story, editors locals link

Builder expands north to Canuck soundstages

'Gladiator' smash

French exhibitor UGC suspends film passes

Phoenix does time warp with spec script 'Frozen'

Sony shaking it up

Clarification

Belgian 'Mole' digs up Golden Rose

Sarna seeks 'Greener' pastures with Rollyn

Larchmont Boulevard paves way for 3 pix

Loews shows losses

Elton pacts to pen 'Phantom' pic

NBC days ABC's Kalouria

NFL Ent. prez ankles

Fox to revive health net as WebMD

Cable consolidation

Disney books House party

Buklarewicz back to Europe with UPC

Levin rips retrans regs at NCTA

Schumacher takes 'Dare'; Drew takes a trip

Krasnow pacts with Peacock

Senator takes Roth to Germany

Blockbuster Entertainment Award winners

Marc Allen Novicoff

Ed Guiney

John Hart & Jeff Sharp

Damien Jones & Graham Broadbent

Thomas Mai

Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger

New Yorker celebrates 75th anni

Emmis triples TV ops with 15-station buy from Lee

Cablevision shows decline in losses

Pols pact with SAG

UIP's Chorot is tipped for Gaumont position

Constantin keys up first-look

Perret named news director at KCOP

Thesp on distrib parent bd.

In Tokyo, Ando tapped as prexy

WB global guru Frumkes puts it in can

Mutual pacts o'seas for funds

Tucci will ride TNT's 'Bull'

Gebbias bow shingle with pic 'Greetings'

Sony may go 'Underground' for 6 figures

Fest vet Fitzgerald segues to iFilm programming VP

Suit vs. Napster moves on

Microsoft uploads interactive TV deals

UPN turns up Heat on males with 'Full Metal' campaign

Peacock, Patterson go 'First' for mini

Valhalla ups Campbell VP

Duckett tops Morgan Digi

Sandals pic adds coin

'Practice' is perfect on Alphabet

Nelson takes in Oxygen PR post

Tribune pacts for Universal package

Lot 47 Films names Hult, Altyn veeps

B'Way B.O. fizzles as Gotham sizzles

MeesPierson Bank funds Mulholland

'Gray' first up in FilmFour, Warner pact

Laura Bickford

Matthias Ehrenberg

Fabien Liron

Marian Macgowan

Riccardo Tozzi

Players pick plum projects

UN&M turns page

Hooker, hypnotist ads off ITC's banned list

World Briefs

WB Int'l TV sets Screenings previews for buyers online

CEO of Galaxy's Mexico arm ankles

NCTA dispute over upfront buys

Kennard warns of distrust

Courier rallies with TNT as Wimbledon analyst

Das Werk and Cinemedia jump-start O'Keeffe film

Runaway response

ArtistDirect loses $11.2 mil in 1st quarter as public firm

Nickelodeon Movies nabs Snicket series

Carey's big week spurs ABC to win

Franco to play Dean in TNT biopic

Overbrook, the Firm join forces

B'buster goes indie

Cinema Expo to fete Lewis

Bolton verdict upheld by appellate court

ABC's VP Moseley ankles top position

Ovitz's APG emerges

WWII drama rights for sale at Cannes

El Premio ASCAP awards presented

Pearson beefing up extended 'Family'

Wells grabs Burrough's Vanity 'Net article

Universal raises Parent to exec veep, production

Pearce 'Counts' new role

Presley teams with Nelson

Critics Circle revs 'Jitney'

HBO inks 'N Sync and veteran QB

Mudd, Granada initialize 'IPO'

MTV, Par 'Go Large' on pic

Miramax feasts on 'Vatel'

Sundance to launch in Spain, Portugal

Fine Line inks deal for 3 Zentropa pics

Arrow sets 'Sunday' plans

Robbie Coltrane

Drea De Matteo, Maurice Compte and Melvin Rodriguez

Idina Menzel

U, StudioCanal, Miramax join in 2-pic prod'n pact

Court rules against Telstra/Foxtel

Liberty frees Enenstein for sr. VP post

Holland will head up Pittard Sullivan in U.K.

NBC, WebTV bow hoops element

U no 'Grinch,' pacts big for promos

Players

Richards takes Family's 'Advice'

'Catherine' to bigscreen

Roberts' Shoelace, Roth catch mystic love pitch

HSX stox up on Rx, design & showbiz exex

Fox 'Mad' for TV laffer, renews 6th

Vet Wolf will shepherd Platt Prods. as new prez

BV Music taps Holden sr. VP

Allen talks to students about 'Crooks,' Oscars, film

Helmer resurfaces

ATG's cash splash

Chow, Woo putting Zen in Lion's den

Day-Lewis in 'Gangs' land

Silver, Zemeckis go Dark in Castle 'Macabre' redo

Killer at large with 10 pix

B'buster in DirecTV PPV pact

Cablers eye issues

Miramax, BBC to coin 'Castle'

Zeffirelli tunes Callas pic

Helkon gets hulkin'

Momentum rolls with 'Brother,' 'Bullwinkle'

GMI talks the 'Talk'

Depp to don 'Quixote'

Linda Hamilton

Wallace sets Shabazz-Farrakhan meeting

CanWest Global takes shares in Kiwi RadioWorks

'Fantasia' pushes Imax to 43% gain

Tenpercentaries

ClickRadio taps Freston and Jordan for VP slots

LACMA screens 'Artificial Humans'

Joffe, Krevoy join in pact for TV, pix

Brown marches on

Halleen to top Family Pix

Syndies suffer slow start to sweeps

'N Sync's 'No Strings' tops list for 7th week

E! Online 'Chateau' 'Nets celebs in house of parody

Napster ousts 317,000 users

Hayes out at KABC radio

Chase greases Palm to tune of $100 mil

Col names Zucker exec veep

Schwarzenegger help is special

Digital does biz with Call, Macaluso

Cinesite taps Markowski

Hullin pours into Seagram PR post

Random House creates digital imprint

Yoram Gross Studios flips for animated series

Abolish board of BBC, TV exec sez

BSkyB to buy soccer Web site

Music groups agree to FTC pricing rules

Sony TV brain drain goes on as vet exits

Eye 'Loves' its guy

'Amadeus' will close

Summit takes 'Blair' duo's 'Heart'

Multithematiques to add nets

Fragile fits Smith into 'High Heels' for BV deal

John Neilson

Osment plays Polish Jew in pic

Canal Plus ad revs soar

Actors use D.C. spin

Revenue, margins on rise at Nelvana

Oz coin for film, TV static; performing arts gets more $

Inside Moves

Cable competish expanding, panel warns industry

Cable upfront could wrap soon

Time Inc. leafs through top exex

Weinsteins bag rights to 'Vatel'

Grupo Televisa to buy Radio Centro

Kicking in their bids

Film Roman ads to empire

London film commish revamps goals

Fox wise with Tuesday's 'Geniuses'

Let the games begin: PlayStation 2 to bow

W&A taps new CEO

Imagine goes 'Undercover'

'Vatel,' Godard short open Cannes

Profits up at News Corp.

Sony Classics takes 'Hearts'

New team for Ticketmaster: Conn, Pleasants, Stockman

BET's 20th anni fete

Blockbuster night for kudos

Carousel's spin begins

'Center Stage' bows

Studio Canal launches German prod'n subsid

'Diary' in Gallery

Argento returns to roots with thriller

Interlight to pilot Touchstone's 'Saint'

Teri Thornton

Mixed reviews in for French pic biz

World Briefs

Gaumont inks prod'n deals

Two minis Czech in

EMI cues up downloads

Quaid aboard for 'Stranger'

Scanbox taps Norholm as CEO

Hamori exits Alliance to hang own shingle

Helkon rolls out 'Rollerball'

Romero, P-Kino Films feeling 'Ill'

France to fund 'Sex'

'Blind' raises its visibility

Players

Spanish acquisition

Intel, looking outside, will assist Webcasters

Vid/ad helmer inks film debut

Correction

Artisan links to StreamSearch

O'seas Filmgroup gets funding

Friedlander, theater critic, dies at 48

Giacchetto loses lawyer

Propaganda names Schiff

Peacock may rock 'Frasier'

Mouse rats out AOL to feds

Alliance Atlantis pacts Podeswa

NBC plans for no-'Friends' fallout

David Orr

Harry Hamlin

Kellie Martin

Elena Sahagun

Alexandra Paul

Jorge Rivero

Teri Thornton

HFPA welcomes five scribes

As strike rolls on, blurb biz falls 11%

'Netizens in charge

Mexican Web portal bows

Primedia taps Deering to head licensing arm

EU court questions aid by Portugal for pubcaster

Alan D. Courtney

Visual Effects fest slated

Holland ready to helm 'Julia'

Avalon set to topline mob sitcom

Davies 'Investigates' pic

WB ups Messina to senior VP post

CNN exec ankles biz news VP post

Inside Move

New zip in old fare

'Cats' gets another life

AFI taps Gaines fest director

Eye's 'Early' ebbs

Asian media fetes Kelley, two journos

Tenpercenteries

Ball's new HBO series is dead on

Rastar raises Rex's 'Iguana'

'Dancing' duet

IFP Gotham Awards add Radziwill docu hardware

Twohy pacts for 'Proteus'

Winterbottom, Kuhn resolve to hit 'Net

Pic vets join FilmAxis

Gonzalez Ferrari to top RTVE

Walter Hill

Todd Louiso

Eric Lively

Bruno Campos

Jeffrey Jones

Danny Trejo

John Neilson

Quantum Project

Dinosaur

Voice of Good Hope

The Plough and the Stars

Fametracker

Sightsound - Pix Site Netizens Stung by B's

Smashregis

Aux Marches Du Palais

Off the Record

Roger Corman - H'Wood Cut Chops on Corman's Indie Spirit

Hotel Universe

Dirty Blonde - 'Blonde' Ambition: A Broadway Birth

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Passion Play

God of Vengeance

On Hallowed Ground

Jason and the Argonauts

Jesus - Contempo 'Jesus' Is Star Turn for Sisto

In Efren's Paradise

I Know Who You Are

The Prof

Hunters in the Snow

The White

Six-Pack

Pride and Peril

The Penitent's Tree

Sacred Flesh

Andre the Magnificent

The False Servant

Blossoms of Fire

Missing Boy

Yoyes

Left Overs

Nora

Looking for Alibrandi

On the Beach Beyond the Pier

Bye Bye Africa

Agujetas, Cantaor

Angelos' Film

The Valley

House!

After the Fall

But I Was a Girl: The Story of Freida Belinfante

Circus

Soccer Rules!

The Big Bang

No Coffee, No Tv, No Sex

When Gods Meet

Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium

Word Attack

Naked Under the Moon

The Lady of Hamre

Deep Inside Clint Star