'Grinch' clinch

Danish Film Institute irks producers, gov't

Overseas to go 'Swimming'

Japan dishes sats

Nordisk, Trondsen ink

Dimension brings spec laffer 'Guest' home

'Dancer' takes bows

First Look inks for original cyberserials

Netter exits to KickStart animation, f/x co.

Fandango testing at-home system in Plano

Election controversy fuels fringe numbers

Scribes laying groundwork

Thesp unions OK ad pact

NBC standup show will replace 'Friday'

'ET' wins scandalously

Fox 2000 turns boys into men for laffer

Actors, studios play hurry up and wait

First Look buys 'Bongwater' rights

Redford mulls move to 'Castle'

De Sade 'Quills' whips up arthouse ardor

Bertelsmann eyes Net vid

Rapper DMX pacts for bio

A Look Ahead

CinemaNow gets MS, B'bust, Kipco for coin

Creative cops coin

Telescene seeks protection

Tm3 taps MTV's Zu Salm topper

Gaylord tunes up web in Argentina

Swedish film org taps topper

TV4 hires Volvo exec

Headmaster chosen for Swedish institute

Oz's History web to 24/7

Kudrow, D'Onofrio to 'Bark' for Propoganda

Leavitt to pen Bel Air laffer

Clarification

Duo grooms coif Webcast

TF1 Intl. finds Cruz's 'God'

Real Net to get tune info from Spun

Variety's Oscar site now open for biz

Hawke to 'Jimmy' Whaley's 2nd pic

O'Brien will Endeavor for agency

It's heaven on earth

Alliance Atlantis ups Lynas to TV VP

Sexual politics have no ifs, ands or butts

ICM takes Razorfish Studios slice

Phoenix fills script 'Holes'

Kirch buys into German kidvidder EM.TV

WB imports hit Brit mini

Regal nears the brink

'Swing's' special zing

Beatlemania gets a revisit

Sundance spectrum broad, often digital

Nicole Avril and Kristofer Lindquist

Kennedy Center salutes five

EM.TV to sell assets amid earnings plunge

Clark Prods. tapped for Golden Laurel

AFI founds annual pix kudos

'Kennedy Center Honors' brings laughter, tears

Wild Brain taps AniManagement as rep

'Baywatch' will suit up for eight more

CIE inks ad deal with Terra Lycos

Rapper pacts for memoir

IDC4 taps 2 for co-chairs

Sci Fi scores big with intro seg of 'Dune'

Pratt sez g'day to L.A. Ausfilm again

Inside Move: Exec finds oasis at Mirage

Unions' first date

Warner Bros. raises Speare to exec veep

Strathairn picks 'Apple'

Disney quest for Camelot

Nasdaq mulls delisting tooner Film Roman

New Line pulls '13 Days' out of holiday rush

Vulcan breathes life into Oxygen Media

'Grinch' translates

Sony logs 'Forrester'

Tributes aplenty for Valenti

Godspeed tunes up names change

Carlton pumps up actioner distrib'n

'Jeopardy' telepic greenlit

AOL chairman calls TW merger imminent

A Look Ahead

Indie stars stud Sundance

Isabella Guzman Armus

Janet Sue Billig and David A. Rich

Lily Bea Taub

Merger momentum

CTTD ups Frankie to business exec vp

Douglas to be feted at Berlin Film Fest

Neurotrash 'Shalom' greeted by TV

Shorts, digital filmmaking at Yahoo! Fest

Net yakker eYada taps Gold

ArtistDirect buys stox in $10 mil IPO blunder

Ted Shackelford and Michelle Phillips

3 thesps make TNT's 'News'

Nelson named pic tune prexy at U, U Music

'Quicksand' traps 2

Subscribers now, profits later for TPS

Cablevision delays Rainbow vote

Inside Move: Louis-Dreyfus mulls TV redux

Hill eyes 'Move' for Disney

Agents site lists SAG talk snags

Sheridan prepares his 'Tesis'

Maryanne Fisher

Televisa radio buy nixed

RickMill taps Comedy Central's Katz

'Clowns' folds up tent on B'way revival

USA Net sets sale

'00 PPV breaks $2 bil

SEC looking at Miracle

Adrenalin pumps at peak pic preem

B'Way receipts drop; 'Best' bucks trend

'Millionaire' payoff

HFPA membership has its advantages

Crix, orgs, guilds gear up

Orgs, crix, guilds use influence differently

A goodie basket case

Lauren Jean Ballou

Robert Urich

Michael Weston

Dan Cortese

Justin Yaros

It's high noon in Whoville

Lange 'Day's' raves

Producers plan new Off B'way complex

Critics' tally

Inside Move: Ankling exex dismiss Miracle

New WB duo share global view

Mouse eyes Lembeck for 'Santa' sleigh

ABC stations nab 'Iyanla'

Euro pic biz to receive infusion of EU coin

Planeta in new orbit: pic prod'n

'Oi' spawns skinhead threat

Japanese pols target pic of violent youth

H'wood butters its French bread

Syndicators: Ladd rides 'Express' deal

The Cablers: Channel Surfing ...

TV's tricky lesson: Gain = fiscal pain

Attention please, Oscar

The Cablers: Miller uses rule of thirds at USA

The holiday contenders rush

ReplayTV axes CEO, cuts staff

Above the line: Robert Barnett

Mavens on the move

Gehry set to design

Dispatches: Canucks tap digital winners

Dispatches: Go nears finish line

Dispatches: Monte Carlo fest to fete Cannell

HBO content king in cable poll

SCTV planning IPO in Jakarta

ABC, USA split 'Unbreakable'

'Exorcist' turning heads once again

The Webs: NBC, Fox may exit service

Gross points: Turkeys clutter feast table

The Webs: Frog weds to reality sked

ABC, 'King' duo ink for political laffer

Docs festival gives prizes, warnings

Foreign investors eye Russian outlets

Gov't awards license to consortium, pubs

'Good Day L.A.' sweeps past KTLA for 1st time

WNBC still news king in N.Y.; WABC gains

Peacock's victory plays tricks on crix

Cable exex boxed in over tech

MTV Italia carriage at risk

HBO rated top cabler in India

Spain goes 'Gotica'

Key Gallic players die in plane crash

TPS to haul CanalSatellite to council

D'Works eyes 'Body'; Scholastic's Dark daze

Murdoch's BSkyB faces U.K. probe

Tick tapped corpcomm sr. VP for SPE

Oxygen shutters Seattle ops, revamps sites

Sci-fi, horror site Fandom inks with Creation

Microsoft buys gamemaker Digital Anvil

Russell Best

Channel 4 assembles slate for NATPE

House offers bill for TV election coverage

Pernworth laffs way to CBS address

New Yorker sorry for 'Fake' story details

Merendino takes helm

MTV to fight prejudice

Selznick honor caps big year for producer

CNN's staff, format facing a shakeup

L.A. location shoots rebound post-strike

Studio stocks gain

ChumCity taps WB vet Byles VP, G.M.

Albee's 'Baby' to take Century into Gotham

The Webs: ABC to revamp kids block

Madstone anchors trio

Aviv flies solo in Mouse marketing

Good odds . . . If you make the cut

Scott adds footnote

MTV veni, vidi, hopes vici in Rome

'Quills' captures kudos (NBR Crix Pix)

Upside to strike?

DGA decries lack of diversity in industry

Earl Colgrove

D.C. Gustavson

Jonathan Yaged

Betsy Schechter

'Nightly' nabs news sweeps

Studios want short digital leash

Syndicators: Lyle upped Pearson exec VP

Syndicators: Tribune Ent. taps 'Mutant X'

Unapix files for Chapter 11

KC Medien does triple dip

Fandango kicks up niche distrib ambitions

BBC bulks up for pics

China film monopoly cracks from within

Shochiku refocuses on pic basics

The Cablers: Times, Nat'l Geo pact

The Cablers: TNN tackles rights to XFL

Young gun producer

Audio only -- from the U.S. high court

Weekend stuffed with leftovers

Dispatches: Benitez, Boca woo partners

Dispatches: NHK egged on to scramble

The Webs: Flipping around the dial ...

Beast, babes anxious in o'seas woods

Vivendi gets greenlit with many limitations

Bush, Gore usurp the final answer

Promoter sees future in Inc. blot

Backstreet CD reignites pricing issues

George Wells

'Blue' all over map

Carlton near deal to sell Technicolor

IN-Motion names D'Amico to board

Discovery webs OK'd in Canada

Pathe wins 3 more yrs. of lotto funding

'Horses' kick up disagreements

MGM sees upside in strike

Bronfman Jr. shows his Gallic lingo gap

Boca eyes European partnership

'Folk' rocks ratings

Mark Johnson taps Goldberg

Sawa gets 'Christmas' present

Fox Family ups Arouh to sr. VP

MP3 makes over My.MP3, as promised

WAMI whammed; layoffs begin

Forum pits art vs. biz

Editors to fete helmer Zemeckis

Lynch led to Smiths' 'Slaughter'

Star pulls Hong Kong bid for pay TV license

Scabs face SAG expulsion

Franchise, Kirch pact

Greening of the Net

Industry vet Guenther guns it to AMG

Peacock rooks on rocks

Stock reply: oui

Picture placement

Moody's downgrades Loews

The Webs: Touchstone broadens its laugh

Filmmakers: Demme seeks 'The Truth'

Filmmakers: Weitz Bros. enter 'Boy'-hood

Name brands kudos forecast

Phoenix fills script 'Holes'

A Look Ahead

Thomas Curtiss

Lyn Austin

Barbara Bloom

Artie Scheff

EC regs take aim at regional piracy

Countries bag Indian quizzer

Kirk Douglas receives 'Michael Douglas Philanthropist' award

Musicland mulls mystery merger

ABC ups Rosen to sr. VP

'Rudolph' lights way, Billboard shines too

Actress takes Caan's role in action series

Kids' WB! reups 'Static'

Italos head home

Edward Burns

Stewart smacks 'Smoochie'; 'Ali' shuffling

Art directors give Eastwood Imagery Award

Bertrand quits Canuck radio-TV panel

De Govia is re-elected as ADG prexy

FilmTrust pacts for software

Japan's PCCW takes share of B-Factory

Space Media taps Zaccheo

Ad vet Senior ankles WB

'Romantic' heads to E!

'Proof' of security

'Tiger' burns bright

One too many are now Inside

Murphy gabs with De Niro

Eisner: Disney needs tune-up

Music in the 'Eyre'

Levin ankles Sony Pix post

Inside Move: HBO in tune with prods

Crystal clear: He's not up for Oscars

'Steve Harvey' tops Image Award noms

Harry Hamlin

Dan Finnerty

Nordisk eyes Norsk Film stake

Fry to host Brit Awards

Oz post houses seek help with broadband

Gaul b'cast quotas

BBC unit peddles toon to Fox Family

Polish producers form org

Ster bows Prague plex

Slates send signals

Comedy Central ups Fox

Pinkett-Smith set for 'Matrix' sequel

New 'Girl' set to hit town

LockStream secures entertainment clients

Kaplan tapped as Sega.com prexy

New Line vid ups Kelley to sr. veep

Lee's 'Hidden' talents

Brill, Sandler are doing good 'Deeds'

NetFlix inks with studios

'State' on location

Sturm's Catch 23 snaps a Fox 'Photo'

UPN's 'Manhunt' on

Inside Move: NBC, Frog eye 'Creek' creator

Inside Move: Icebox gets cold Fox reply

Peacock in syndie revolution

SAG activists set strategy to avoid strike

Dori Brenner Memorial Service

Scarlett Johansson

Melissa Myers

Daniel Rabinow

Miami, Rio film orgs ink

Spanish teen show prepped

French fete fizzle

Asia TV Forum a success

Peru exile reclaims channel

The rebel lives on 5th Ave., Sunset Strip

WGA reception to be Webcast

ABC tops NBC; 'Ed' rolls on new night

Anschutz Ent. buys Concerts West

$1.1 billion vision

Inside Move: Plan to virtually solve strikes

Azaria woos Downey role

Heavyweight helmers head to Working Title

Vietnam War drama has Icon mobilizing

Mini-pix, or maxi-blurbs, let Nike just do it

Mull, Willard top Aspen laff fest

Helmer Rogers given piece of 'Pie' sequel

Wolf collars a 'Law' man

Songwriters slap Seagram with suit

Cohen takes heat for party

Hoffman eyes 'Seagull' nest

Seymour Borde

Bernard Vorhaus

'Brockovich,' 'Harlan' win Eco Awards

Beck, Stone on Odyssey

Oz ABC employees back to work after strike

Edward Ludlum

Chile filmmakers test limits

BSkyB chief exec cashes in on stock

BCE gets Canuck nod to buy CTV

Canal Plus voters get say

Bishop gets MGM vid-on-demand duties

Best Buy tunes into Musicland deal

Woods issues apology over non-union ad

PGA opens up Laurel vote

AOL/TW merge twist

Webs wield axe

Par renews 'Wives' vows

WB, Bel-Air set to make their 'Point'

Love says 'Hello' to Guinan biopic

Mechanic buys Frank spec 'When'

Anderson School honors Fox's Wyatt

NBC: See ya 'Later'

High-profile actioners join weekend fray

NBC's fringe slate strong in sweeps

Christian Marquand

Rita Edelman

Ennio

Keb' Mo'

The Claim

Martin Sexton

Sammy Hagar

Bon Jovi