'Grinch' a cinch, 'Tiger' soars

Corrections

Sundance to honor Moore

French pic acad taps Verneuil

Cabler Shaw nabs Moffat

Cup's Haffa empty

'Bowl' opens Palm Springs

'Undercover' to bow as HBO weekly show

Sundance sets shorts slate

Residual pressure

Protest over attempt to gag SAG report

Collision links with Dimension, Abandon

Legal eagles mingle

Quartet of pics shines in o'seas B.O.

Ase Simone Fisher

Apollo, union pact for Amateur Night musicians

'Dangerous' dealings

'Tick' does trick for scribe

'Malcolm' in movies at Regency

It's not always about Oscar

Herrick gives pix the white glove treatment

Rules reflect changing face of cinema

New toon category raises ante for creators, studios

Liquid enters bid for Scour's assets

Keying into the Academy mindset

Critics champion cinema as art

WPIX names Berlamino veep-G.M.

Kiss to hit Gold Coast

STAR goes to Shanghai

IFPI CEO adds 2 years

Kodak to do multiplex in India

Inside Move: ABC near 'Practice' deal

Inside Move: Who's behind 'Frasier' buzz?

'Disappearing Acts' appears

A Look Ahead

Stacey Dash

Kevin McNally

Werner Klemperer

Syndies go hungry holiday week

Power Up announces its board

Busy thesp adds two pix to sked

Televisa to market game, laffer formats

Radio stations hit hard in copyright ruling

Greenwald drinks in 'Whiskey' telepic

Silberling's 'Baby' nears Disney berth

Tauzin rebukes FCC

In the film biz, funny money is an old joke

Chopsocko U.S. bow for Sony's fantasy

Overbrook turns on TV

'Cast Away' joins fray

Showtime pumps up 'Heart'

Let 'Freedom' ring

Nicholl scribes gain instant H'wood cachet

Kudos race heats up

FCC: Merger ruling near

Loews in a state of grace

Russian piece plan

Col TriStar gets Oz Nat'l 2000 award

Discovery doubles Indian ops

Gaga sending out email 'Frequency'

Hot 'Traffic' jam

Col Pix will sink teeth in 'Vampire'

Technicolor sale's in black and white

The new U debuts

Jacqueline Obradors

Saul Williams

Ansen Mount

Jesse James

Guilds applaud peer peaks

Critics champion cinema as art

Hal Pearl

Leapin' lizards o'seas

Jack Shea slept here

TV caucus lauds Hill, Denoff

Garcelle Beauvais

Digital Planet secures Intel, Mellon coin

StreamSearch downsizing, not closing

Riffage.com closes its doors

'Dragon' toon fires up deals

CBS taps Isaacs sr. veep

Random House builds in Asia with new prez

All the Pretty Horses

Granada Int'l unveils post-merger structure

Latino TV to channel MVS

Aiello brothers park laffer at Fox

Almost Famous

Brainpool will offer outer 'Space' live

Glynis Ahearn and Patrick M. Lynn

S. Africa net blasted for violent sex pic

Before Night Falls

Wahlberg will handle 'Truth'

Columbia catches a code

Cast Away

'Cuckoo' flying in

Hill eyes 'Move' for Disney

Hellmuth rejoins NBA

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Erin Brockovich

Media's Gusinsky arrested in Spain

At U pics, changes at the top

Miramax-imized

A Look Ahead

Madeleine Claire Jacobsen

Mehria Mustamandy

Norma Acland

Sadaf Cohen Muncy

DIC Ent. taps Brown to top creative arm

IATSE's Short urges talks

Film Roman ups Jung to VP

EMusic adds royalties to licensing deal

Imax sells digital cinema projector to T-Joy

ABC's 'Comedy' snatching up Net toons, pix

ABC 'Crossing' over

Downey hit with charges

'99 SAG earnings up

HBO opens Florida center

Paris Isabelle Levy

Foley may get 'Irish' up for Emmett/Furla

Scott Thomas finds time for '24 Hours'

Reality to rescue

WB, Wells on 'Hackers'

Baumohl takes over int'l for ECG

SAG exec director to exit

Dey ready for 'Showtime'

Cirque plans for new London center

Davies Diplomatic with ABC

Simpsons'-based Monopoly passes Go

Gaul veto victory

BBC suits up for pay digital sports web

Kinepolis set to unload stake in CinemaxX

Griffin 'Undercover' for U/Imagine comedy

Italo uproar over violence in 'Dinosaur'

De Mol, Lopez among Bambi winners

Billy Elliot

'Great' news for Canton

B'way B.O. continues swing shift

Chocolat

Hell's Kitchen puts up bread for 'Tesis'

RickMill taps Comedy Central's Katz

The Contender

Sam Fujikawa Murphy

Sarah H. Beatty

Dancer in the Dark

Finding Forrester

The Gift

Brits mull change

Lucas Moriarty Hobbs

Andrew L. Stone

French connection

Vivendi: Ready for your closeup?

Cleaned-up, 'Billy Elliot' in the works

Posting gains

O'Neill taps Viertel chairman

B'way busy spring delays 'Clowns' bow

NBC goes bowling for big dollars

New syndie TV group to develop, own shows

Univision nabs Diller's USA stations

Exhibs seek arthouse auds

Teuton cash crash can't sink biz

Smaller pix pique Spanish mart

De Laurentiis goes native with Zeffirelli

Reality bites high-flying Oz pic biz

AFI founds annual pix kudos

Yes hopes clients say yes

Syndies learn from lessons of Laura

Syndicators: 'ET' perf wins week

Morena, Produce in English-lingo TV skein

Trio packs punch at B.O.

2 deals down cold

'Dance' hauls in B.O. in South Africa

Swedish institute OKs kidpic

Denmark pubcaster taps exec

Luna staff may strike in Slovakia

WB bows in Argentina

Hallmark inks affil deals

Carlton's European Net plans dissolve

'Rat' catches in Slovakia

'Charlie' lights up Eye's Mon. lineup

In 2 burgs, Time AOL stands still

Tauzin still to probe journos

Thriller writer leaving agent; Le Carre talks

Valenti touts value of copyright biz

Kushner-Locke's overdrawn

B'casting recasting

Arquette on the 'Attack'

Story tailors 'Barbershop' in helm bow

CenterSpan snags Scour for $9 mil

Wonder Boys

Hip-hop site funds Hookt

Disney, Yahoo! partner for content

Documentaries

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Traffic

News Corp. adds James Murdoch to board

Pierce takes new role at Col TriStar TV

Overseas taps 5 for homevid

Medusa picks up next 3 Allen pix

EMI inks IchooseTV, Musicbrigade deals

Leeson guides 'Teckno' shoot

DGA honors trio

'Chocolat' melts in

Fired up for charity

'Dude' screening found

Disney's 'Emperor' gets in the groove

Stuck on 'Traffic' (N.Y. Crix Pix)

New U marketing plan

Fab Four floor Boys with '1'

A Look Ahead

Christmas in Florida?

TV biz's gay pride parade

Noises Off: Head of the class

Blighty faces yule blizzard

Revamped line-up leads to ratings rise

Media Asia Thais up deal for Chinese pix

Studios make high-tech power play

U.S. 'Grinch' green goes global

Sundance spectrum broad, often digital

SAG strays from spotlight

Peru welcomes back ousted station owners

Bertrand ankles Canuck b'cast post

Pathe wins 3 more yrs. of lotto funding

A&E, cablers will bow Canuck Bio channel

Maori lingo hits film in New Zealand

Zee gameshow spiked in India

India's AXN backs daredevils

Hoyts high on Perth

Mexico taps film head for Imcine

Grammys honor five

Murphy, De Niro team up for a comedic Showtime

NBC jumps to 8th win in key demo

Stars set for Pressman retro

Walter Isaacson

Marcarelli, Owens will present 'Gift'

20th does a 'Triple Take'

Morehouse back at Tribune

Shadow of the Vampire

'Normal' no more

You Can Count on Me

Visual effects and sound

Gladiator

Thirteen Days

Quills

ABC meets 'Beast'

Fox rises out of the rates hole

Front Row, Pathe pact on pix

E-M-S acquires advanced stake

Food Net, NBA hoop it up

N.Y.'s good, the bad, and the 'Pretty'

'Maelstrom' nabs Canada's Genie noms

Disney Int'l Japan preps for theme park

EBU to broadcast Euro 2004 soccer

Corus courting change

H'wood looks to work with Bush presidency

DGA's Nat'l Board OKs blurb pact

Dunst hits 'Spider-Man' web

Fox Family/Fox Kids ups Zakovich to VP

Slamdance sets fest slate

Microsoft pacts with EA for Xbox games

Musicbank adds EMI to its label roster

Window on world

Creative Planet cuts 70 workers

ABC drama for McQuarrie

Inside Move: Razorfish disavows ICM release

Tamara Mello

Inside Move: Ex-SAG prexy speaks out

Channel blocker

WMA donates to USC center

'Malena' moves in

Gusinsky battles extradition to Russia

Zooey Deschanel, Ashley Johnson

Lindsay Price

Terry Crews

Naomi Frisch, JoAnn Grigioni

Gary Thorne, Jan G. Schuth, Bernard J. Weiss

Sam Semo, Erica Rockler

Azim Rashid

Bob Koch

Joanne B. Modlin

Drew Hayes

Mike Lolato

Roman coin found

Carlton, Media Pro link for Spanish TV

Hong Kong's Star TV, CCTV in tune

Pearson ups 3 exex in Asia

Star ups exec VP Ali

India's TV Today to bow web

California cashing out

Disney pacts with Japanese toymaker

Bel Air taps Buckley for post

SAG OKs search group to fill nat'l exec post

Pub bids hit $8 mil for Hillary book

'Play Misty' remake on tap; ditto 'Jessica'

Fox Family orders 26 segs of Olsens

Prometheus finds gold in 'Hollywood'

Goodman tapped VP at WB

'Plum' picked for Berlin's film festival

Webcast studio adds real-time interactivity

Prince charms Studios USA

Borden on 'Rialto' marquee

'Dubya's' win puts H'wood in a spin

Starbright universe grows

Humana Fest schedules play lineup

U's 'Family' values

Scribes surf on WGA turf

Louis-Delluc enjoys Chabrol's 'Nightcap'

'No regrets,' Ancier sez

Peacock Zucker-punched

Fed loan guarantees available for indies

A Look Ahead

Victor Williams

Hugh Laurie

Helena Kriel

Marlee Matlin

Betty Garrett

Nick Cornish

Dennis Farina

Thora Birch

Richard T. Jones

Jonathan Brandis

Howard Weiner, Alan Bernstein, Paul Duong, Heather Sempertegui

Charissa Victors Gilmore, Sharon Liggins

Peter Halt, Simon Baker, Mark Rudolph

Jerome Le Grand

Tony Fox

Nancy Dunn

Judy L. Milrad

The Don Goes Digital

All the world's a posting on B'way

Experiments in Hanging

Distribution uber alles

Up Front worships idols

Celeste Alleyne Turner

Berlinale kid fest bows part of slate

Hoyt Curtin

Hoffman full of 'Molony'

BSkyB pix arm drops Fox for U.K. distrib

BBC vice chair named

Rywin will chair Canal Plus Poland panel

O'Donnell throws her hat in 'Cat' ring

MTV Nets promotes Browning

GetMusic taps chief for o'seas

'Love' finds int'l partners

NEA to honor artists

The fantasy sporting life

Movies.com, Fact City trivial pursuit

Leading man at ICANN

ABC reassigns Moran

ICM reels in a deal

Disney gets wish with 'Bonehead'

Stewart, Short to voice on 'Jimmy' ani

Felicitous ratings

Howe tapped CTO of Fandom

Fandango ups Warner

Streisand helps AFI set up her kudocast

Oz TV skein cuts Bana loose

Artisan, Alliance reup Canuck output deal

Pair will take over Helkon helm

Exhib Silver's salve

Czech TV axes director

2000 Brandies honor advanced placement

Ayem juggernaut shouldn't miss beat

Masters of their domains

FTC blesses AOL-TW nuptials

TV reporter launches suit against ENG firms

Interactivity gets naked

Let them entertain you

Viva el Web strategy

Blind ambitions

Pay here, get content

Community access

TV Loonland buys Korea-based distrib

A few words from our sponsors

Sign on the Dot-Com Line

Frozen assets

Boxed in

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