Coppola's pic deal gives UA new life

Rookies rocky in bleak week at B.O.

Tenpercenteries

Villard Books plans to reprint 'Spilling Open'

Syndie action hours OK'd for soph sesh

Fox, Warners sign Spanish TV deals

Biz Briefs

Four Media expands

Investors emphasize tech over content

Romersa, Cannon partner

E Pluribus nod goes to Frank Price

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

Sheridan Square shows ArtistEnt intent

Agents deal goes to the brink this week at SAG

PlayStation 2 launches in Japan

Venice fest retrospective to spotlight Balkan pics

'Toy,' 'Beauty' tops

Endemol, World in reality venture

BEC profits off 15% amid feature plans

Mexican pay TV OKs regs

Oscar watch

Morgan Creek inks deal for $200 mil line of credit

Scribes panel tops S.B. fest weekend

Friedlander tapped Fine Line VP

Second affil drops 'God'

UMG to go digital

Distrib-exhib links

Moviefone adds PC prints to online tix

Avary heading 'Mexicali' way

Caine set for 'Congeniality'

Sci Tech professionals honor Kodaks' Ryan

Col TriStar TV ups two, hires veep

Touchstone Pix sets Lemke to try 'Tripods'

Lot 47 buys 'Jack' rights

Inside Move

Jackson gets Innovative

Brosnan makes 'Blood' pact with Sinclair and Intermedia

NBC loses NAB board seat

'Matrix' team wired for prize

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

Cooper paints Landscape

G.-J. pairs with National Video

House of Blues Digital, MTVi, RioPort ink deal

Castle Rock ups Osorio

Laurels to rest on

Friends rally around St. Jude's

'Walls' rock solid

Rumpus toys with 'Net pix

WGA ogles 'Beauty'

Culture warriors gear up for Super Tuesday

Teutons set up U.S. shops

Eight films competing in Mex fest

Showtime inks to bring Spanish content online

Cannes 2000 adds 2 days of tech talks

U.S.-Italo panel meets on ties

Itsy Bitsy upsies Enderle

SightSound to Netcast Franchise pix

Technicolor going big with CFI pickup

Lion leaps at Mirage

Leonard Goldenson memorial

Levine inks with Talk America

Euro awards to go global

Lions Gate pacts for 'Cheerleader'

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

Showbiz elite to back UCLA medical benefit

'Price' right on 'Net

MTR tunes in four new vice chairs

Oscar Watch

GOP calls to action

Disney vet Gillam to enter Mix

Twentieth TV prexy-COO Jacobson dies at age 48

English, Spanish pix mix in HBO Latino

Castro inks three-pic deal with Digital Mercury

Alcon skips to WB

Inside Moves

Agents urge SAG panel to salvage agreement

French helmer denies he plagiarized scripts

Oscar noms boost B.O. overseas

New Line taps Steinbauer VP

Payne studying 'Picture'; second trip to 'Town

Oscar ballets MIA

ReplayTV readies for its IPO

Cinar duo out; $122 mil AWOL

Clearance sale

Digital to the Imax

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

TBS, TNT open windows on 19 Par pix

Outfest features Arthur Dong retro

Exhibs: Help us o'seas

'Hill' topper to laff for WB

Broadway Books lands mob book

Blomfield tops Oz's Foxtel

Exec Shuffle

Network News taps Suhonen for G.M.

Oscar goes postal: 4,000 ballots MIA

Wowow to carry Oscars

Colom tapped by Via Digital as G.M.

BSkyB powering up Open to boost online services

Cabler NTL to offer free 'Net access

MTV Europe, UPC link for 2 Polish channels

BBC World axed from Oz's Austar platform

Discovery dishes 2

Fox Family lifts Lifton

NDS, Microsoft ink interactive pact

'Dateline' wins Maine line

Reiner to emcee, Coppola to present at DGA Awards

Hawk boards ESPN for broadcast job

Mouse pledges duo's 'Sorority'

Four affils join anti-'God' squad

ABC's win streak hits 10 weeks

'Net ops cause a loss at Canal Plus

Dubbing dubbed OK

Players

La Salle to operate on 'Danger'

Regent crowns Krass for telepix

Hagen reprises 'Woolf' role in L.A.

MTV mixes Cola & Dix

Cinar stocks plummet amid news of scandal

Inside Moves

SAG to delay vote on pact with agents

TV blasts into 'Net

Oscar Watch

25 world premieres to unspool at LAIFF

Jacobsen to fight pirates

Slater heeds call for 'Graceland'

Panorama buys 'Secret'

Wibberleys to pen 'Spy'

Former WBTV exec Levine tapped Icebox.com exec VP

NBC quits, rips NAB

ClickRadio tunes in programming exex

Mueller tops biz for WBTV

Monroe films sewn to Oates

McKellar tops comedy noms

Disney bows digital 'Mars,' 'Dino' mission

Oscar spots scrutinized

Bliley's likely exit leaves House panel chair in air

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

'First Date' hooks up with KCAL

Acad sends out 4,200 new ballots

Miramax gives glimpse of slate

New Line reels 'em in first

Missing ballots prompt a Hollywood whodunit

HBO climbing another 'Walls'

Suppliers taking fliers

Pix tix get swift kick

Barron branching out with $61 mil

Muppets will return to TV, may have Euro stage show

RTVE extends WB programming deal

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

FCC hears digital TV pleas

Kodak joins Qualcomm for digital

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

Bill Daniels

'Supernatural' stays No. 1

Tabmag rates pop up

Cecchi Gori wins ruling

Greater Union lessens Euro cinema expansion

NHK sets Kurosawa docu

U, Kirch clash over survey

Col TriStar Intl. taps sr. VP

Banned Murdoch to visit Indian pols

'Net convergence

Digital, subs goal set by Canal Plus

Exhibitor relations

Bronfman: U headed back to the black

Euro biz drives up SBS revs

Fox Kids Europe sees revs rocket

Players

Fox shows off Oscar nominees

'Mars' lands in L.A.

Festival fetes Pryor, Hopkins

Edelman hired on at TSG's online arm

Woolery upped at Idea Place

Friendly islands beckon prod'n

Trimark ramps up Web ops, taps DeLuca chief

Arquette to deliver 'Spot' for WB

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

Par Classics is sold 'American'

Acad's hot over plot

ABC sending Ohlmeyer into 'MNF' huddle

Nets changing channels

Court TV, ABC pair up for crime

Cosmo claims victory in battle of circulation

Levinson wants Willis, Thornton on 'Outlaws'

Agents stall decision about SAG agreement

ReplayTV inks with Starz

Pilot light on for McGillis, Jeter, London

'3rd Rock' 3 solid

Alphabet rewrites news team to free up Westin

FX set to kick off pro football skein

FSG hears 'Narrative' by Anastas

Pat Notaro memorial

David Starling

Susan F. Walker

ASCAP pacts with Launch

Brilliant decision

AOL iBeams up streaming technology

Warners give lift to Sonic

Journal follows in Variety's footsteps

AOL makes its case

Microsoft sets bow of vidgame system

EM.TV revs up to buy stake in Formula One

Matsushita inks set-top box deal

Imagen fetes Martin, de Souza, Villalobos

Showtime pic taps Rhames

Lions Gate buys horror spoof

Thailand takes unkindly to island image in 'Beach'

Nibble nabs Bartis

Castle Hill leads with 'Followers'

Peacock flies to victory in latenight sweeps war

The monster mash

Leifer sets laffer

Cassavetes has heart for 'Q'

Hoffman will head Broder indie pix unit

Inside Moves

'Titan' tops Fox's 2000 titles

Weintraub calls it a 'Day'

WWF kills USA pact; Viacom may step in

Montecito signs Phillips to 2-year deal

McElroy files lawsuit against Southern Star

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

The spirit of 'Rush'

Emmy voters can go couch-potato route

Advanced Medien's revs, profits rise

World Briefs

Euro titans link

Oscar-nommed 'Return' takes top Czech awards

South Africa will get 3 Imax screens

Journal zips Oscar lips

Pitt giving books look for Par & U

'Cider' is apple of Moonves' Eye

Mouse waives Barrys bye-bye

Hal Leonard buys Applause

Endeavor to rep Random House Canada

Residency program dishes coin to theater

'13' chosen for IFP's Visions

Music biz ready for a 'Revolution'

Antena 3 profits rise

Emmy Rossum

Teri Polo

Piper Perabo

Sanaa Lathan

Jaume Balaguero

Olga Malea

Gina McKee

JOURNAL ZIPS OSCAR LIPS

Edrie Jean Warner

Erin Brockovich

Steal This Movie!

Good Housekeeping

King of Cannes

My Movie Business

Korn

Kenny Barron

The Eternal Road - Ambitious 'Road' Revival

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

Squonk

Letters from Cuba

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

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

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Laramie Project

Enigma Variations

Burt Lancaster: An American Life

King of Cannes

Lush

The Huntress

Secret Agent Man

God, the Devil and Bob

Filter

Diana Krall

Filter

Waiting for Godot

Forbidden Broadway Y2K L.A.!

Metrano's Accidental Comedy

Shopping and Fucking

An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf

Marc Anthony

Joy Bogen - Weill and Lenya Centennial Celebration

The Wogboy

Lifetime Live

Going Home

Nowhere to Land

Raising the Mammoth

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Model Behavior

Mission to Mars

Soft Toilet Seats

Raising the Mammoth

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Model Behavior

True West

Merrily We Roll Along

Seven Girlfriends