Benefit boogie night

Thesps on model behavior

Stars get down to Earth

'Clones' replicates itself for preems

Revlon Run/Walk raises $3.5 mil

'What' book bows

'Insomnia' awakens

Ruth Cracknell

Stanford Calderwood

James 'Buster' Brown

John Rohrbeck

Yves Robert

Michael Todd Jr.

Torre drama gets Lucky

Crusader culls Cussler

Boll KG to visit 'House of Dead'

Berlin taps Nikitin

Fortissimo takes to 'Park'

Lolafilms heads back to Spain

Key series power NBC's demo wins

New tune for labels

Sirius dials in 1st qtr. loss

Advanced sued over rev data

DVD pioneer Hase finds home at WHV

Miller time at Lion creative ads

UCLA kudos at Valladolid

Film back in Argentine zone

ESPN fields 2nd net in Southern Cone

Viv U, News Corp. deal then disagree

Soccer kicks digital

SBS revamps TV2

Dutch fund picks pix

George Cates

Telemundo to lean on NBC

Frog leaps off repurposing for now

Peters, Hines cast in role of Tony hosts

WGAE ratifies ABC news pact

Yank on Bertlesmann board

Wearing happy face

Correction

Univision sets pricey soap

Bill Peet

David Chappe

Pen is mightier for disgruntled industryites

Hilbers leaves Napster post

Jack B. Chase

Discovery taps prexy of networks

Kirch pulls up stake

NATPE nixes 2004 huddle

'Nightline' adds time

Schumacher takes Laureus

Webcasters face music

AT&T approves dual vote on merger

Pact recording sesh

Graden adds VH1 program-prod'n duties

Cowboy ropes Toback pic

Forby joins Revolution acquisitions unit

4Kids fills 'Fox Box' with five new imports

2 dramas, laffer set for UPN fall lineup

'Sierra Madre' inspires 'Spider-Man' helmer

Ford etched into 'Tombstones'

Yoda's lite sabre

Street smiles on News Corp.

Four new dramas top Fox frosh

Mirren, Walters lead girls for 'Calendar'

Renaissance shuffle

Global toppers to attend Brit TV confab

Comedy Central buys Artisan's 'Van Wilder'

Heche eyes B'way's 'Proof'

Altman keeps 'Company'

HBO takes originals to o'seas bigscreens

Intermedia nails mob pic

Mutual, Cobalt pact for 'Timeline'

Hooper tapped to face 'Death' project

Eagle, Future tie to 'Amore' trio

DreamWorks, Williams hit 'Toad' road

Terry gets in tune with Katz

Beeb losing $200 mil to license fee evasion

Microsoft exits Telewest board

'Orange' sequel pulled

Cannes market up 15%, but will it sell?

Croisette in tune with public

Alpha Beta start

Korenberg ankles Fox

Polish brothers fork up 'North' cast

Raimi, Senator pair for genre pix slate

Pic strikes Parker's 'Fancy'

Brit pigeon tale flies

Top helmers gather for anthology pix

Parillaud has 'Sex' change

Fest loads up on nonfiction cinema

MDP gets 'Inside' Phillippe

EC eye cheers Spanish pay TV merger pair

New Zeal booking int'l trips to 'City'

Ozon jumps into 'Pool'

Transactions

Filmalbatros, Rai smile over Bellocchio pic

Slamdunk committed to 'Asylum'

'Baker' gets a cook

Spain's TV woes cut distrib's buy mode

Askin upped at Pandora

Hartnett making a 'Wish'

Marvel colors 1Q with accounting black

AOL reboots brass

IRS challenges Disney

Hit pix lift Cinemark quarter

Glick picked as sr. VP in MGM prod'n

Kirch banks on UBS help

Fox shuffling fall

Italian pay TV deal axed

Twentieth's 'Texas' shines

Pol: We feel music streamers' pain

Retro-active Eye books 'Batman'

Col lifts ad man

Quebec exhibs nix 'Clones'

Gemstar revs dip

Musiq's 'Juslisen' jus' debuts at top

Costas continues with Peacock

Horvitz to direct Int'l Jazz Awards

HBO rolls 'Carnivale'

HBO looks back 'In Memoriam'

Lenormand Expand-ing

Fox financial wiz is tapped for planning

Lions Gate TV calls on Stoll

Fox winging 'Angel' out, 'Firefly' in

UPC reports losses down

Infusion at Univision

Sat battle to high court

Viacom KCAL deal sealed

Solon sounds alarm over 'Spidey' pirates

Discovery for Schiller

Vidgame giants slash prices as E3 nears

Mouse House takes 'Tuscan'

Sacramento serious

Scour, Sony partner up

Cannes finally woos Woody

Intermedia's 'Suspect' nabs distrib'n partners

Jennifer Chrein and David Brewse Leonard Monier-Williams

Eye's sked gives Letterman a lift

IFC has 12-year itch; Tyrese in 'Fast' crowd

Nasdaq pulls Adelphia plug

Miramax hails Brazilian 'God'

Ovitz returns fire in Tannenbaum lawsuit

HBO gets 'Frank' at fest

Geels, Guy link to produce, finance pix

Inside move: Sony exex await Harris exit

A Wilde night for 'Earnest'

Solo's first duet

Dramatists' fete has all the trimmings

Vega enters ring with 'Matador'

Moviehouse touts 'Blackbird'

New Line 'Princess' advances

Upfronts and center

Carlton, Thomson partner in European cinema ad biz

Warner vid, MK2 get 18 Chaplin pix

Foursome go Bohemian

Media Asia reveals 'Secret'

Variety unveils Choice lineup for Karlovy

Men of Madrid stick to goal

'Gangs' team weigh 2 biopics with Initial

Spain's Amigo goes solo

Bosch plugs in at Works

The 'Bright' stuff

'Clones' gets Turkish dub

Ocean times 'Hour'

'Lucky' sales break for Kevin Williams

'Perfect' project

Perez, Zambrano join for 3 pix

Duo inks Handprint pic pact

Pre-Mifed screenings are back

Helmer Bardawil: 'Bandits' queen

Durst boards 'Dogtown'

Stoppard to pen 'Dark Materials'

Nolte heads 'North'

Miramax shifts its French connection

Aura, Echo Lake make 'Big' plans

Bank to float Springer stake

AMC sees rosy 2002

Showbiz toasts copyright laws

Canuck union sez no

India votes in conditional access

Cornish goes Beyond

FCC mulls TV penalties

Rigas' son exits Adelphia finance job

Fritz joins Revolution as pub chief

Grave new world for int'l TV buyers

'Clones' attacking Spidey in B.O. war

Gumbel confesses to 'Early' guilt

Natalie Brooks Friendly

Donen to mount May play

Gere switches gears well

UPN shows off new logo, goals, image

Alan P. Horowitz

Fireworks pops for 'Alibi Club'

Looking at 'Glass'

Fox shifts into rebuilding mode for fall

Cyndi Thomson and Daniel Goodman

Revolution's 'XXX' files into Activision

Showbiz in a sporty mood for Laureus

Bellucci eyes Fox's 'Gentlemen'

Farrow lies 'On the Edge' at Lifetime

Inside move: AMG Sports exec goes solo

U bids adieu to vet Adee

Mea culpa from AOL TW

All in the family

Greg Fields

New trove transforming Treasure

Drescher to bow on B'way

Stroman tops Astaires

'Clones' attacks Oz

Dimension reups Zoumas

Weekend Box Office Preview
May 17, 2002

'Searching' finds Cannes preem

Toppers share tough tests, quests of fests

New Gallic culture chief tackles 'atomic' issues

Batali cooks American pies

Artist Emin joins Revolution in film

Sheffield follows Signpost

Admira, Sogecable bottom line blues

'Gathering' loses Helkon

Helmer Davies inks for thriller

Cruise, 'Samurai' to go Kiwi

'Clones' takes a $30.1 bow

UA pins down doc by Moore

What lies beneath Raimi's pic

Seagal hangs solo shingle

Filmax revving up

Cox brings 'Touch' to Cinemavault

Correction

MTV Europe cranks up pic promo spots

Mouse 'Years'

Clavier finds 'Rita' lovely

Openpictures makes debut

Barreto to skipper 'Home'

Tarantino foots 'Bill' at Miramax luncheon

Arquette kicks off fete for her 'Searching' look at biz

'Bird,' 'Sex' find common ground

Ribbon cutting at Cannes

Golden memories

There's still a pulse at Napster

New Focus zeroes in on Plath pic

U.K., RAI fly with Tanovic

C23 skidoo: 'Wild' bunch

Jackman digs role in 'Parsons'

Teenage spy games

Titan backs Jodorosky' s 'Topo's' son

Harnett is 'Wicker' man

EMG's Chan sees no borders in future pix

Senator embraces 'Virgin'

'Bella' looks good in Cannes

Korbut bio hits the mat for Treasure

Gijon bows kidpic sidebar

Comerica and Wincom join hands

'Queen' lords it over exex at Pitch Me sesh

Svensk to sell Bergman pic

First looks at 'Luther'

Weil taps into Gallic talent

'Shoe' fits deals pacted by Kirch's Beta

Revelers heat up 'Scorched'

A 'Bowling' ball strikes seashore

MK2 sale ranks a perfect '10'

Mexican pix highlight Rio festival

Pensicola Festival expands

'Mice,' 'Mutts' at Winchester

'Geek' Feig inks for a Walden pic

Officials ban 'Baise-Moi'

Featured Player: Thomas Langmann

Melbourne preps new pic museum

Politicos vow to end monopoly in S. Africa

Rupe steams as Viv U nixes paybox deal

Singapore watchdog growls at violent 'Files'

Viv U fine-tunes its playbook

Nintendo widening their Net

TV takes a deja view

Broadway grosses

Road grosses

Inside Move: ABC woos but can't land Lifetime topper

Inside Move: Blender whirring strong

Above the Line: Avi Arad

Inside Move: Comedy Central turns 'Crank' on Web promo

Marketers' mandate: Vanilla rules!

Tribeca pulls off stunning start

Crunch doesn't daunt players

'Spider-Man' crawls across global B.O.

Actors not shy about stumping on Croisette

Still no decision on royalties for DVD makers

New Korean distrib aims for 20 pix per year

Big casting agencies becoming extinct in Oz

USA net plots return to top

Fall faves get raves from media buyers

Viacom syndie units live indie

Argentine exec blazes content trail

E.tv scores a soccer own goal

Radio is hot new format in China

Shakeup hits German musical biz

'Cats': A last meow

Noises Off: Season of celebration

Inside Move: Print promos paging summer auds

Inside Move: Chaplin DVDs spotlight library

Inside Move: Palace coup, or Palais COO?

Inside Move: Rights snares had Spidey suitors weaving

Spidey gets a load of Yoda

Fest: There's a kind of hush

'Mistress' attracts two suitors

Spain's Alquimia not 'Afraid'

'Gathering' momentum

Moviehouse takes 'Flight' with pact

Variety panel: Rules of attraction

First look goes to 'Sleep'

Head of the class

'Gangs' all here

Miramax closes on 'House' deal

Cruz set for 'Tulipe' field

'Borgia' seated with Fox

Senator joins helmer in 'Pope' mobile

Ozpetek opens new 'Windows'

Eclipse sheds light on action releases

Jollywoot sign built for 'Spanglish' TV

Ramos spins Spanish slate

Breillat unveils novel 'Porno'

Moore takes shots at NRA, Bush, Oscar

Oz's Palace taps RAI pix

EuroArts seeks co-prod pacts

Legende, Besson prep 'Les Anges'

Helkon hot for horror

UA scores 'Bowling'

Profit not so Majestic

CBS scores demo win with final 'Race'

Corus toons in Locomotion

Ailing Adelphia misses payments

RealNetworks stox spike on upgrade

The Force and field put B.O. into orbit

Rosie in pink at Emmys

Cannes heat on SAG Rule 1

Disney gets its own 'American Hero'

Col reels in supernatural 'Lake' pitch

McCrory sticks with NBC

Jedi deadeye o'seas

FX stunting 'Shield' to pump last 3 segs

AOL's planning layoffs

Acad fetes student pix

Fox, DIC pact for kid shows

'Half' gets full renewal

Correction

Euros bid for Cup

Hard sell for H'wood

Baby booms for 'Friends'

Cabler Trio explores censorship

MSNBC taps Daly for PR post

Pair take a bet on TV poker tour

'Pinero' biopic, Bratt top Latino Alma kudos

CAA uploading Lara

2 team for cast consulting

'Millie' tops Drama Desk

Posters give prod'ns image control

Brits cross the pond to reap Tony's rewards

'Mamma' taps on the heels of 'Millie'

Good demos keep Tony kudocast on the tube

Miracle in Times Square

AOL catches Cher in Web

Brit music biz up 4% in quarter

Cowpokes get in the 'Spirit'

MTV & MGM's villa fete hits Bulles-eye

Celestial run-running with hefty plans

Proud producers feted

EMI taps Anderson for IT

Bertelsmann's Middlehoff Edinburgh bound

Kirch stalling for time on BSkyB put option

Myriad funding

First Look digs coin in Seven Hills Pix

Scott partners in Hero

U.S. helmers mull Cannes experience

Bavaria nabs Orfeo sales outfit