Acad forbids Oscar bidding

Closing the books on cable spat

WGA: Half's not enough

Demme double deal

Vivendi U chief hails first figures

Court TV to spend $140 mil on p'gramming

Immergent imprint dawns at 5.1 Group

CBS' 'Apple' can't find core aud, ratings slip

Terry Hamlisch Liebling

Digital TV deadline

C.B. Hayden

Anne Bryant Stuart

Fern Cranston-Shapiro

Moscow plan to spur local TV projects

Olivier Masson

Colombian org fights piracy

Studios seem stymied by creatives' requests

UCLA student bubbles to top

Pubcaster Slovak TV under 'Pokemon' fire

TVDanmark gives into 'Temptation'

Lee's 'Tiger' tops local award noms

'Cool' choir charms Norway B.O.

Norwegian Film Fund taps chair

DirecTV Latin America to air 'Jekyll & Hyde'

VOD venture voided

Canale 5 eyes TV vet Modina

Teen time in H'w'd

Loudcloud rises 3% in public offering

Is pic biz uploading a world of trouble?

'Enemy' at H'wood gate

Col adds Flower power

D'Works books Honest Abe bio

Gaghan's 'Abandon' is set to pack Bratt

'Event piracy' sets off furor

Visions from mission

Odyssey flies with 'Unicorn'; more originals

Columbia fest sets sked

USA taps blurb rep Spaet

Kissell back on board as Daily News critic

Oscar Watch

Variety.com taps Shapiro

Woods aboard AMG as producer, manager

Fear a driving force for top film dirctors

Magnum fires up Yudin

Vicuna Plural's new prexy

Westlake ankles top post at U TV

Lou Steele

Albert Heschong

Leonid Gurevich

UGC captures 'Escapist'

'Amy,' 'Artists' impress S. Barbara aud

Letter to the Editor: Joshua Fuoco

Nordic fest prepped

Fireworks Intl. names VP

Weather Channel ups Ruiz to int'l biz prexy

Life lessons from a showbiz warrior

Nygaard to leave Denmark's MTV Produktion

Showtime rocks with Isaak preem

Audio Mill set to go Radio Active on 'Net

Ticketmaster nabs Evite.com

Putting on a ShoWest

Fright pix fatten up o'seas; 'Traffic' jams

Guild honors work in hair and makeup

Veronica Will Glick

Dulcie Lou Morris

Omar Figliolia and Fernando Muniz

Stuart Walker

William Sorenson

Harland Williams

Yorick van Wageningen

Lions Gate stox up

AT&T rings up FCC for new call on stake

Bush ad irks FCC's Tristani

Gaudelli to tackle producer's job on 'MNF'

Ebert unveils third Overlooked Fest pix

French dip in films

Stillking develops winning team

Academy briefing

'Gunmen' take hit

Carey sets virtual visit

Lucas, Artists Rights bows AdmitOne.org

Mullins' 'Underwater' gets Final Draft pick

Knowledge Adventure nabs 'Jurassic 3'

THQ pacts with Hearst, Kricfalusi

Wink inks expanded deal with TBS

Cost-cutting animates Film Roman's numbers

Unifrance topper talks detente

Hickel joins Schroeder firm at WB

Williams plot 'Insomnia' role

Oscar fights for his privacy

Disney, ABC taps fellows

Stox and bombs

Station break at Viacom

Twentieth taps Burns senior VP

Big idea to bow veggie 'Jonah'

VES f/x fest set for June

RTL play reported

Fipresci jury sez yes to 'No'

Olivia McKelvie Seastrand

Ariel Veneziano

Chris Kattan

Hayden Panettiere

Jeff Kober

Erica Leerhsen

Telecom chair unveils b'caster-friendly agenda

U.K.'s HIT Ent. posts 42% sales jump

MGM names Hendry sr. VP

AOL, Telepictures add to 'Extra'

The media talks gun control, Rehme's last stand

'Blade 2' swings into busy Prague

Spain jails Media-Most chief

Russia may privatize film

Confab gives hike to India's appeal

RAI cries foul over Kirch's Cup prices

Brit soccer back in H.K.

Gallic gov't balks at France TV plan

Inside Move: Wired eyes successors as Heron unplugs

Inside Move: Fox factors O'Reilly deal

Mouse goes to rival for Web portal service

PacketVideo nabs coin in fifth round of funding

Oscar Watch

Durk wades into post at Deep River

'Killers' case closed

Pic crew coalition pushes work limits

FCC clears 32 radio mergers

Pilots loft vet thesps

Scribe duo Manfredi, Hay get 'Bug' to direct

Warner rolling on 'River'

Dish: ABC, Dolly vamp Mae West telepic

Eye spies mini on agent

That '60s show cast

Thriller writer Ludlum dies of heart attack

B'way weathers storm, boosts B.O. 7%

Jury hears 'Puffy' closing arguments

A Look Ahead

ABC, Eye tie for week

NBC mantra: Don't muck with Zuck

Boutique tweak

Extra! TV mavens eye paper route

Oscar's Sat.-night fever

Litigious spin

WGA puts forth calm before storm

Sweetened pot

Exhibs: Glass half full

Lost & Found: The son also rises to biz's call

Seattle stages size up damage

Going super Nova

Ticket to ride the tube

DTH satellite is a Dream come true

Planeta, EM.TV toon up

Singles get more dates

Gavin: BBC shift is not causing rift

Tech Oscars go soft over Pixar crew

Tech savvy firm nabs top distrib

China sez it can't handle 20 U.S. pix

Oz vid chain to aid battle vs. pirates

'Death' brings life to B.O.

Wendy Cutler

Joseph Johnson and Joan Behan

Richard Stone

James P. McMahon Sr.

Elizabeth Tracey

Kermit on the move

Film Consortium ups Sales stake

Miramax, Doubleday hit links with 'Player'

Correction

Artisan play on pay

Fox presses SearchParty to find a new name

Katz gets Good VP post

Reid to 'Guest' star with Kutcher

Curtis, Lewis to co-host Prism Awards

Collins storms 'Castle'

Mouse pops Hach on 'Freaky' remake

IFP festival to close with Anders' 'Things'

It's 'Showtime' for Russo

Par on Sullivan, Rudin 'Shopping' spree

New Line taps its TV topper

Largo library to Intermedia

SAG bans 5 over strike rules

Wolf at Par's pic door

Rose blooms at Aardman

Digital hot within 5 yrs.

France TV mouths 'Telefoot' battle cry

Regis tracks two Emmys

'Fever' pitches a road revamp

Hit 'em where they live

Ducat debacle

Foreign B.O. on March with 'Hannibal'

Distribs' pipe has plenty of filler

Revolution evolution rocks Col

Besson in c'right hell over helmer

Noises Off: Readings run riot

B'way goes online and boots up biz

Gusinsky's rival set for NTV board coup

Correction

Techno-mad Aussies to get VOD rollout

Fox World, SBS in prod'n pact

Programming glut spoils kid upfront biz for nets

Pic blurb behemoth eyes merger

Simon Pollock

Edward J. Wollock and Michael R. Rubin

Frankie Carle

Michael Elkins

Labels not following rules, Napster claims

TDF taps Bailey as exec director

Endemol honcho Hendriks ankles

AFTRA prexy says strike no certainty

Feds take on Ukraine piracy

Stone Stanley chisels veep post for Marcus

Starz to 'Hopalong' with cowboy docu

'Godfather' rubs out Bravo record

Middelhoff exits Vivendi board

Oscar Watch

AOL-TW silver in GoldPocket

Inside Move: Eisner shares camp tales

Spelling vets land pilots

Key SAG exec will step down

Laureus kudos tee up noms, networks

Viacom stock suit reinstated

Spyglass spends with 'Abandon

Village plans cutbacks

Platnick to ankle as prexy of pic division

French cable homes top 3 million

Just for Laughs seeks pix

Povich to gun Stun banner

Outfest outs thesp noms

New Yorker nails 11 mag award noms

A Look Ahead

Jan Constantine

Don Ong

Ralf D. Bode

Morton Downey Jr.

Ninette de Valois

Ted McMichael

Michelle Trachtenberg

McCain pushes for political ad reform

Study: glass ceiling hardly shattered

Net TV gets $22.5 million

Amberlon plug pulled

Oz's Foxtel moves 'Folk' preem to later slot

Asia to tune in 'Tiger' on Singapore's AXN

'Diver' tops Finland's Tampere

U.K. lotto winners

ABC signs Priestley for Indy color

O'Reilly staying put at Fox for $24 mil

Convergence urge

Valenti's violence battle starts in classroom

UPN goes small for meets

USA goes for 'Jones' skein

Correction

Exec VP Lammi reups at CTTV

Syndie skeins on slide

It's Pandemonium for Steindorff

Inside Move: Mandalay IPO plans at bay

Former Disney exec sues

Manex out of 'Matrix' loop

U, Imagine add Goldberg

'Low' hits high gear at fest

DGA, studios set pic preservation backup

Col clocks in 'Tick Tock'

'Exit' enter genre

Memorable project for Pearce

Mouse's 'Aida' takes to the road

A Look Ahead

Eric Fischer

John Alonzo

William Hammerstein

Robert Ludlum

Campbell D. Titus III

Elise Neal

Discovery gets $700 mil from investors

Showbiz stocks fall

'Rain' reigns in Japan

E! Latin American subs hit 10 million

Canada to probe media

Working Alliance eyes top SAG post

Can the industry stand itself on screen?

Varney no longer toes 'Moneyline'

Matthews maintains No. 1

WGA briefs foreign guilds on progress

Bunting buoyed to Discovery exec VP

WB cooks Baker's 'Dozen'

Kaufman hums as NL sr. VP

Weitzman blends in with Mosaic Media

'Blue' suit fitting

'Carolina' on Stiles' mind; a surprise 'Exit'

Euro double-team

Artisan crafts plan for sale, nixes IPO

Farrellys 'Say' it's so

Laugh man Marley signs series deal

Filmax draws new toon label

Indelible stamps mark on iron-pumping 'Pink'

Portia Nelson

ITV in $145 mil Euro sat pact, BSkyB talks

Revs plummet at J2 as changes loom

CME sees positive results for 2000

ABC casts Blythe as exec vp

RIAA aids in Gotham bust of CD pirates

Correction

Gusinsky's extradition supported

Good cop, bad cop

Byrne heads to Virgin, sets May 8 'Eyeball' bow

Isabel Francis Bernhardt Meyerson

WB Online gets Heavy in dot-com syndie deal

Canton, Senator like tenor of Gallini's 'Caruso'

Humanitas names Desiderio to top org

Digital division

New prod'n head hits Ricochet

CBS set for strikes with news, reality

Oscars Gaul producer

With Hughes deal on hold, Murdoch hearing an Echo

'Hamlet' finds home

B'way in Boston: boast 'Mamma Mia!,' 'Summer of '42'

Oz exhibs seek rule redo

Bertelsmann books get Random handle

Liberty buys sat facils

Denmark's pic tix hit 2.05 mil

Gaul net M6 seeks OK to air more ads

Paper sez Tiger Aspect talking with suitors

Kirch, EM.TV delay signing

Prepping the Street

AB Groupe hits winning theme

Col Int'l TV raises Fitzgerald

Stars flocking to summer legit gigs

Sifting out songs

Inside Move: 'Smush' push for producer

Stewart, Halmi take 'Lear' to 1840s Texas

'Nightline' caught in 'Traffic'

Icon bows Oz prod'n arm

For trio of TV shows, the buzz starts here

Emmis to layoff 120 tube staffers

NBC picks up 'Fitzgeralds'

Paige Lauren Maizes

Stella Gracie Frank

Camryn Claire Kohn

Christian James Martin

Highlight revenue hit 2000 high note

Alloy earnings surge

Provenzano tapped by software acad

Famous faces prepping for pilots

ESPN skeds Spanish-lingo block

Fox catches Roach in overall pix deal

Sleigh story to fly

'Parents' meets record rental numbers

Lion rewards top exex for 2000 gains

SAG won't talk 'til May

D'Works in 'Virgin' territory

Franchise gets seal as case continues

Oscar Watch

James Marsden

John Landis

Dennis Klein

Hip-hop cops tops

Heartbreakers

Don't Make Trouble!

Negative Space

Every Dumped Boyfriend Is Lost

Chain of Fools

The Job

Credible Witness

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

By Jeeves

Dogeaters

You Can Write a Movie

A Grand Guy, The Art and Life of Terry Southern

Wild Mussels

Leak

Late Night Shopping

Hole in the Sky

Departure

Bad Luck Love

Inside Hollywood: A Writer's Guide to Researching The World of Movies and TV

My Sweet Home

25 Watts

Go For Broke