Coppola's pic deal gives UA new life

Rookies rocky in bleak week at B.O.

Villard Books plans to reprint 'Spilling Open'

Syndie action hours OK'd for soph sesh

BEC profits off 15% amid feature plans

Mexican pay TV OKs regs

UMG to go digital

Caine set for 'Congeniality'

Touchstone Pix sets Lemke to try 'Tripods'

Lot 47 buys 'Jack' rights

Jackson gets Innovative

'Matrix' team wired for prize

House of Blues Digital, MTVi, RioPort ink deal

Friends rally around St. Jude's

Fox, Warners sign Spanish TV deals

Four Media expands

E Pluribus nod goes to Frank Price

Venice fest retrospective to spotlight Balkan pics

Oscar watch

Morgan Creek inks deal for $200 mil line of credit

Scribes panel tops S.B. fest weekend

Second affil drops 'God'

Col TriStar TV ups two, hires veep

Brosnan makes 'Blood' pact with Sinclair and Intermedia

Top thesps set for Eye's 'Fail Safe' pic

Castle Rock ups Osorio

Rumpus toys with 'Net pix

Tenpercenteries

Romersa, Cannon partner

Behar nabs literary deal off F.E.D.S.

Agents deal goes to the brink this week at SAG

PlayStation 2 launches in Japan

Friedlander tapped Fine Line VP

Distrib-exhib links

Moviefone adds PC prints to online tix

Avary heading 'Mexicali' way

Sci Tech professionals honor Kodaks' Ryan

Cooper paints Landscape

G.-J. pairs with National Video

Laurels to rest on

'Walls' rock solid

WGA ogles 'Beauty'

Culture warriors gear up for Super Tuesday

Biz Briefs

Investors emphasize tech over content

Sheridan Square shows ArtistEnt intent

'Toy,' 'Beauty' tops

Endemol, World in reality venture

Inside Move

NBC loses NAB board seat

Eight films competing in Mex fest

Showtime inks to bring Spanish content online

U.S.-Italo panel meets on ties

Lion leaps at Mirage

Levine inks with Talk America

GOP calls to action

Castro inks three-pic deal with Digital Mercury

Inside Moves

New Line taps Steinbauer VP

ReplayTV readies for its IPO

Cinar duo out; $122 mil AWOL

TBS, TNT open windows on 19 Par pix

Outfest features Arthur Dong retro

Leonard Goldenson memorial

Lions Gate pacts for 'Cheerleader'

L.A., Greek OK deal on rent/fix-up

'Price' right on 'Net

Alcon skips to WB

Oscar noms boost B.O. overseas

Oscar ballets MIA

Madonna skips to 2nd place in weekend B.O.

Exhibs: Help us o'seas

Exec Shuffle

Network News taps Suhonen for G.M.

SightSound to Netcast Franchise pix

Showbiz elite to back UCLA medical benefit

MTR tunes in four new vice chairs

Twentieth TV prexy-COO Jacobson dies at age 48

English, Spanish pix mix in HBO Latino

French helmer denies he plagiarized scripts

'Hill' topper to laff for WB

Blomfield tops Oz's Foxtel

Oscar goes postal: 4,000 ballots MIA

Teutons set up U.S. shops

Cannes 2000 adds 2 days of tech talks

Itsy Bitsy upsies Enderle

Technicolor going big with CFI pickup

Euro awards to go global

Oscar Watch

Disney vet Gillam to enter Mix

Agents urge SAG panel to salvage agreement

Payne studying 'Picture'; second trip to 'Town

Clearance sale

Digital to the Imax

Broadway Books lands mob book

Cabler NTL to offer free 'Net access

BBC World axed from Oz's Austar platform

'Dateline' wins Maine line

ABC's win streak hits 10 weeks

Dubbing dubbed OK

Hagen reprises 'Woolf' role in L.A.

MTV mixes Cola & Dix

Oscar Watch

Bliley's likely exit leaves House panel chair in air

HBO climbing another 'Walls'

Pix tix get swift kick

RTVE extends WB programming deal

Wowow to carry Oscars

Discovery dishes 2

Fox Family lifts Lifton

Hawk boards ESPN for broadcast job

Players

Inside Moves

SAG to delay vote on pact with agents

Jacobsen to fight pirates

Slater heeds call for 'Graceland'

Former WBTV exec Levine tapped Icebox.com exec VP

Acad sends out 4,200 new ballots

Missing ballots prompt a Hollywood whodunit

Suppliers taking fliers

Barron branching out with $61 mil

Four affils join anti-'God' squad

'Net ops cause a loss at Canal Plus

Cinar stocks plummet amid news of scandal

Panorama buys 'Secret'

Wibberleys to pen 'Spy'

NBC quits, rips NAB

ClickRadio tunes in programming exex

Monroe films sewn to Oates

Disney bows digital 'Mars,' 'Dino' mission

U pairs with Burger King for 'Flintstones' tie-ins

'First Date' hooks up with KCAL

Miramax gives glimpse of slate

New Line reels 'em in first

Muppets will return to TV, may have Euro stage show

Colom tapped by Via Digital as G.M.

BSkyB powering up Open to boost online services

MTV Europe, UPC link for 2 Polish channels

NDS, Microsoft ink interactive pact

Reiner to emcee, Coppola to present at DGA Awards

Mouse pledges duo's 'Sorority'

La Salle to operate on 'Danger'

Regent crowns Krass for telepix

TV blasts into 'Net

25 world premieres to unspool at LAIFF

Mueller tops biz for WBTV

McKellar tops comedy noms

Oscar spots scrutinized

Tolan, Marshall on ABC's 'Mame'

Court upholds HarperCollins case

Just for Variety: Academy sets new mail call

Sony packs a punch

'Secret,' 'Family' struggle in ratings

Greater Union lessens Euro cinema expansion

NHK sets Kurosawa docu

Col TriStar Intl. taps sr. VP

Euro biz drives up SBS revs

Fox Kids Europe sees revs rocket

Trimark ramps up Web ops, taps DeLuca chief

Par Classics is sold 'American'

ReplayTV inks with Starz

'3rd Rock' 3 solid

FX set to kick off pro football skein

Bill Daniels

'Supernatural' stays No. 1

Tabmag rates pop up

U, Kirch clash over survey

Fox shows off Oscar nominees

'Mars' lands in L.A.

Woolery upped at Idea Place

Acad's hot over plot

Alphabet rewrites news team to free up Westin

Pat Notaro memorial

Susan F. Walker

FCC hears digital TV pleas

Ellen, Anne: 'We have a long way to go'

Digital, subs goal set by Canal Plus

Bronfman: U headed back to the black

Players

Festival fetes Pryor, Hopkins

Edelman hired on at TSG's online arm

Arquette to deliver 'Spot' for WB

Penn inks to star in 'Rush 2' and 'Kiss'

ABC sending Ohlmeyer into 'MNF' huddle

Nets changing channels

Cosmo claims victory in battle of circulation

Agents stall decision about SAG agreement

David Starling

Kodak joins Qualcomm for digital

Cecchi Gori wins ruling

Banned Murdoch to visit Indian pols

'Net convergence

Exhibitor relations

Friendly islands beckon prod'n

Court TV, ABC pair up for crime

Levinson wants Willis, Thornton on 'Outlaws'

Pilot light on for McGillis, Jeter, London

FSG hears 'Narrative' by Anastas

Brilliant decision

Warners give lift to Sonic

Journal follows in Variety's footsteps

AOL makes its case

Matsushita inks set-top box deal

Thailand takes unkindly to island image in 'Beach'

Nibble nabs Bartis

Castle Hill leads with 'Followers'

The monster mash

Hoffman will head Broder indie pix unit

'Titan' tops Fox's 2000 titles

Weintraub calls it a 'Day'

Emmy voters can go couch-potato route

Oscar-nommed 'Return' takes top Czech awards

Pitt giving books look for Par & U

Mouse waives Barrys bye-bye

Teri Polo

Jaume Balaguero

AOL iBeams up streaming technology

Microsoft sets bow of vidgame system

EM.TV revs up to buy stake in Formula One

Lions Gate buys horror spoof

Peacock flies to victory in latenight sweeps war

Leifer sets laffer

WWF kills USA pact; Viacom may step in

BBC star searchin'

Seven Network's profits up 361%

EC calls for Belgium to repeal satellite tax

Ratings way up for Telemundo

Gary Chazan

Late ABC Sports helmer Forte honored by DGA

Trio of NBC dramas hits renewal trifecta

Journal zips Oscar lips

Hal Leonard buys Applause

Endeavor to rep Random House Canada

Residency program dishes coin to theater

Antena 3 profits rise

Emmy Rossum

Piper Perabo

Edrie Jean Warner

Inside Moves

McElroy files lawsuit against Southern Star

The spirit of 'Rush'

Euro titans link

'Cider' is apple of Moonves' Eye

Olga Malea

ASCAP pacts with Launch

Imagen fetes Martin, de Souza, Villalobos

Showtime pic taps Rhames

Cassavetes has heart for 'Q'

Montecito signs Phillips to 2-year deal

Advanced Medien's revs, profits rise

World Briefs

South Africa will get 3 Imax screens

'13' chosen for IFP's Visions

Music biz ready for a 'Revolution'

Sanaa Lathan

Gina McKee

JOURNAL ZIPS OSCAR LIPS

King of Cannes

My Movie Business

Korn

Kenny Barron

The Eternal Road - Ambitious 'Road' Revival

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife - 'Allergist's Wife' Brings Rash of Laughs to Stage

Squonk

Letters from Cuba

The Laramie Project

Enigma Variations

Poison

Sueno

Enchanted April

Secret Agent Man

God, the Devil and Bob - 'Bob' Moves Heaven, Earth to Win Yucks

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

L + R

Cut

Crazy

The Convent

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch

Just, Melvin

Asphalt

The Captain's Daughter

Otomo

Beyond the Ocean

Lush

Seven Songs from the Tundra

Bruiser

My Mother Frank

The Target Shoots First

This Is Me

Dead or Alive

Life Hurts

Cross-Harbour Tunnel

Through the Window

Mysterious Object at Noon

Bankrupt

Paper

Rent-a-Friend

The Lady of the House

La Carbonara

Family Secret

Cascabel

A Love

6ixtynin9

An Outgoing Woman

The Next Best Thing - Mild 'Thing' Means Well

Dora-Heita

Good Housekeeping

The Ghost of Marshal Tito

The Sea

Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains - Dynamic Doc Puts Human Face on War

Enter: A Film About Los Angeles

Saltwater

Bunuel's Prisoners

First Person Plural

Trixie

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Sound of Music

Erin Brockovich

Steal This Movie!

Good Housekeeping

Burt Lancaster: An American Life

King of Cannes

The Huntress

Secret Agent Man

Waiting for Godot

Metrano's Accidental Comedy

Filter

Diana Krall

God, the Devil and Bob

Shopping and Fucking

Forbidden Broadway Y2K L.A.!

Filter

Marc Anthony

Lifetime Live

Going Home

Nowhere to Land

An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf

The Wogboy

Joy Bogen - Weill and Lenya Centennial Celebration

Merrily We Roll Along

Raising the Mammoth

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Model Behavior

True West

Mission to Mars

Soft Toilet Seats

Seven Girlfriends

Raising the Mammoth

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Model Behavior