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Largest individual beneficial owners of Macrovision common shares...

Largest individual beneficial owners of Macrovision common shares as of April 1 were Matthew Christiano, company’s former chief technology officer, and his wife, Sallie Calhoun, a former Macrovision employee, company said in preliminary proxy statement filed with SEC. Christiano…

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and Calhoun owned 4,935,653 shares (10.2% of those outstanding), while Chmn. John Ryan held 1,326,590 shares (2.7%) and CEO William Krepick, 605,987 (1.3%), filing said. Christiano, founder and former CEO of Globetrotter Software before its acquisition by Macrovision, resigned as chief technology officer July 1 and has remained consultant, for which he’s being paid annual $180,000 fee under agreement that expires Aug. 31, 2003, filing said. Krepick drew 2002 salary of $250,000 plus $55,000 bonus and had stock options for 80,000 shares vs. year earlier when he had options for 170,000 and was paid same salary but no bonus, filing said. Amendments to 1996 employee stock purchase plan, including increasing reserve by 1.5 million shares and extending term additional 2 years, are among proposals on agenda for annual shareholder meeting May 27 at Macrovision’s Santa Clara hq, filing said.