WMA formats Distraction

UIP takes bum rap for Ali G

Russian studio heads protest gov't overhaul

Kirch clinges to Cup

Chiefs quit Russian studios

Cannes fest to pay homage to Resnais

MGM channels pix abroad

Giolito to become DGA general counsel

Students named Vilar fellows

'Lord' rings up coin in Canada

Sweden fest topper ankles

WB leads box office

NBC wraps TV pilot

Constantin sales grow

Moviegoing gives boost to S. Africa's Primedia

AOL selloff drives Bertelsmann gain

Viacom shares dip

Cairo shines gold on 'Fading Light'

Aidan Samuel Freedman and Ethan Harrison Freedman

Star is news in India

ABC, Oscar envelope competish

Silent Hart pic 'Bargain' among 39 restored

New face for Space

ATAS announces latest Hall of Fame inductees

Auds fall in love with ABC's 'Bachelor'

3 Arts grabs Greener's Union Artists shingle

Ambassadors to hail Hepburn, UN statue

Clarification

Extended cut of 'Rings' rolls out on vid, DVD

Shaw axes jobs, posts loss in qtr.

DVD adds computer bonus

Name talent

Cablevision, YES carriage skirmish's in extra innings

Levin got $1 mil pay, but no bonus in 2001

Waller-KTLA truce

Times tries to catch pop wave

Inside Move: Board wars

Inside Move: Exiting Kirch

Unrated 'Mama' rates with auds

Inside move: Lion gauges Kaige

Showbiz blazes trail in sky

Summer again risks fast playoffs

'Ice' heats prospects for Fox toons

Almodovar looks tight with Good Machine

Comedy hit banks on crossover

McMichael shingles with Puskar for pix

Newest Chinese stars hail from America

Suddenly, local pix hit slowdown at wickets

Scripps Living well

Late season entries fizzle in Fall

The wait is on as D.C. ponders regs

Cablers cautious at Beijing confab

Celedor making millions

2-years on, cabler awaits serious rival

Fox into Chinese docs

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'Amadeus' retuned

'Monty' takes off in West End

'Lieutenant' on march

Victoria adds venues

Road grosses

Inside Move: Getting the chair

Inside Move: Border crossing

Inside Move: Tube sanitized

Inside Move: Whither Wicker?

B.O. boffo, but stox stumble

Inside move: 'Gosford Park' east

Films aren't fast food

Inside Move: 'Pan' pandemic

Isle of Man invests in prod'n infrastructure

Art docu takes top fest prize

Gay net yet to come out of closet

Hannibal on march

Sports score more eyeballs

Upstart e.tv gains in battle for auds

Reviews are in

Jordan's call to Hollywood

'Old School' graduates

Mandolin plucks Farr tome

'Survivor' set for 5th round

Liberty tries for AOL deal

New 'Enterprise' for scribe

'Field' under Radar

Warner spins Bramson to Soundtracks unit

Mann pilot lands thesp quartet

TDK set to ride 'Shrek Swamp Kart Speedway'

Senate prez sez SAG is distorting ATA pact facts

Touchstone pitches '3000'

Blockbuster pix aren't an exact science

Carrey takes 'Almighty' gig for U Pix, Shadyac

Pols' ping-pong

Cinegroupe, Film Roman in for joint programming

'Star Wars' games ready to feed fans

Cubillas to o'see Vinton CG

Smith ankles as ABC Family prexy

Enron pic fuels Artisan ledge

Pollack shapes Chabon's 'Clay'

Down year in L.A. as jobs fade out

NTL warns on funding

Administrator takes over ailing ITV Digital

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Nina Gordon

Ron Crowe

Diane Donohue

Bob Michaels

David Imhoff

Seth Howard

Amy Introcaso-Davis

Su Hyatt

Ken Warun

Lee Rolontz

Bob Toms

Bryan Byrd, Jackie Ioachim, Geof Rochester

Dudley Moore dies at 66

Former TV-6 staffers win Russian b'cast license

Kirch Group on edge

Four Horsemen rides Buena Vista

Eos onboard 'Pope'

TVB reduces staff

Jasmine adds pics

CDPQ joins United

New adult Discovery

Mediaset profits fall 41%

Hillman upped at Crown Media

Senator reports 2001 loss

'Mr. TV' Milton Berle dies

Four new albums in top 5 of disk list

'Court' verdict is disappointing

Wellspring buys Miller pic 'Betty'

Four exex upped in New Line prod'n

'Nightline' wins Peabody

Nets see read on vid-description ruling

Lee back at NYU as grad a.d.

Prelude to a smooch

NCAA bounces syndies

Orch enrolls 'Freshman'

Hill toplines Bowl

Unforgettable night

Par prexy punch up

TBS plays numbers game

'Rookie' steps up to plate

Biz without borders

Van Holt in 'Confidence'

SAG indie outreach head Brakefield exits

Whaley to heat up 'Sun'

Noto ankles Colpix

BV's Shapiro confirmed as prexy of ABC Family

Artisan taps New Line vet to head prod'n

Dish: Par's 'bang, zoom'

Lights out for ILM commercials unit

Obst hires 2, raises 1 for pic development

Smith moves 'Uptown'

'Slamball' takes a three-point shot

Thesps making time for 'Hour'

Off B'way gets 'Ham' handed

Beatty kills role in 'Bill'

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Schroeder wary of Berlusconi taking Kirch stake

Granada, TeVe Holland seal format production deal

Billy Wilder dies at 95

Fredric 'Fritz' Steinkamp

Lori Schmidt

Jeffrey Benjamin

Ben Golden

Video helmer Carr bows prod'n shingle

KNBC golden with Olympics

EMI ups Gerson to exec VP, U.S.

'Sweet' talk turns sour

Col's 'Room' at the top

Calif. man faces jail time in c'right case

Vapor materializes Briggs as label prexy

Prod'n goes on after reality skein mishap

NBC paces TV field for 6th Prism Awards

Mendes up to join Washington in 'Out'

Showbiz legal eagles plan practice merger

NYSE to delist NTL for low stock price

FCC begins Comcast review

A violent reaction

Never more for 'Once'

ThinkFilm goes global

Fox 'Bunny' hops to boffo bow

Nat'l SAG ok's downsizing board

SAG in spin cycle, vote looms

Rumors swirl around fate of Kirch Group

Toons draw crowds o'seas

Pacific Vision nabs coin

Grammys ready to fly to Gotham

Land of plenty: Actors go for star bucks

Johannesburg woos pix with new film office

Wilder one of a kind

'Raw,' 'Smackdown' divvy stars

Granada inks pact with Dutch indie

CineMedia off Neuer Markt

Wells adds territories

Longtime CNN exec Ed Turner dies

Greenberg taps into Vivendi

FCC lets Viacom doff cap

Oscars buoy pics' B.O. gold

Adelphia stox socked

Post-house Laser Pacific's revs dip

Astral Media OKs stox split

Ricci to enjoy renaissance in 'Borgia'

Caruso, Harden taking to air for Eye

Whedon widens Mutant's reach

Acad winner lifts D'Works' 'Fog'

Lifetime ends Hearst deal

U homevid's LaMagra exits

Col taps Kosar to script Mark thriller

Woo's man of 'Destiny'

Nantucket fetes Schamus

N.Y. gets big boost from small screen

'Mind' over dirty matters

Signpost reconsiders

Fest adds sales event

Official pic funding fights B'wood crime

Ocean sets sail with raft of pix

Actors savor star bucks

Topper wraps up fest gig

Broadway helps out

Queen tuner to rock London

Bottom-line harmony

Fall pilots apply brand-aid

Is Le Pen mightier than 'Ferocious'?

NTL moves toward default

CSA member's holdings become issue

Dutch treat retreat

Most thesps find their pay stuck at scale

Galaxy expands into the film biz

New Delhi sets net

Inside Move: Yanks, Dolans play hardball

'Tru' story

Inside Move: Small-market affils

Clarifying cultural coverage critique

Inside Move: Sinking sibling

As agent debate rages, SAG's on a role as H'wood's wild child

'Dustman' sweeps Venice kudos

Inside move: Give 'em an 'Ellie'

Inside Move: Delayed gratification

MTV auds go gaga for Ozzy's oddball antics

Kids' champ steps down

Inside Move: Wired for the job

'Slamball' enters arena

The A List: Wheeler-dealers keep biz oiled

NBC's 'Ellie' improves on previous week's ratings

ABC Family gets new head of household

Reality hits the charity trail

Harden hears 'Echo'

Banks close in on crippled Kirch

Road grosses

Digital nets survive 9/11

Wiggles doubles to juggle new market

Broadway grosses

SCR unveils new venues

Oscar upstages Tony

Indies give quotas OK

Kodak sign uncovered

'Teddy Bear' necessities

IFP/West taps lab group

Mayer tops U publicity

SAG taps Ellis topper of human resources

B'way tuners put on Easter bonnets

Adelphia adrift as stock drops

'Ice' the rage o'seas

AOL TW courts Hispanics

'Casting out stake

'Saint' preem blesses Westport, Berkshire

Fest revels in revivals

Morgan tunes to stake in V2

XM stock takes hit despite new subs

MusicNet cues up trio for senior management

Viacom, others lose interest

Toho profits steady thanks to big films

Sills draws curtain on Lincoln Center tenure

Writers, CBS push deadline

Adaptation of 'Shop' is tops at Molieres

Israel Film Fest preems to include 'Giraffes'

John Stamos

Joshua Leonard, Lili Taylor

Swoosie Kurtz

AFI Fest issues call for entries

Cabler sez no to YES

Farewell Uncle Miltie

SAG: Deal will prevent agent hikes

TV Museum documents aftermath of Sept. 11

Corrections

Gramnet spooked by pitch

Sena locks, loads for 'Killer' remake

'Beene' keen for 'Tenenbaum' thesp

A view to a 'Kill'

Sci-fi's just deserts

Sudser net lathers up 'SoapTalk'

Kaye's cautionary tale

Liberty blue, bleeds red

USA pumps prod'n with Pichirallo

Kirch fight moves to Hollywood?

Midseason misfire

NAB, affils defend cap

Persuaders pry some big bucks

Lee Charlotte Nichols

Amanda Nicole Rosenthal

Walden, UA set to play in Denver

MTV nurses docs via prize

Activision nabs 'Report' rights

Volkman over info at Viv U Games

A party with a bite

Digital dailies for Par

Ohanian named DMOD VP

'Jeopardy' buzzes in at Radio City

Fringe benefits

Fortnight forerunner

Cabler unspools something 'Strange'

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