VIDEO NEWS

What’s Hot

* Last week’s Top 5 rentals: “The Blair Witch Project,” “The Mummy,” “The Matrix,” “Life” and “Forces of Nature.”

* Last week’s Top 5 sellers: “The Blair Witch Project,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Scooby Doo & the Witches Ghost,” “The Mummy” and “Star Trek: Insurrection.”

What’s New

In stores this week:

* “Big Daddy” (Columbia TriStar), comedy starring Adam Sandler. (PG-13)

* “Jack Frost” (Warner), holiday fantasy starring Michael Keaton. (PG)

* “Free Enterprise” (Pioneer), satire starring William Shatner. (R)

* “Silver Bears” (Hen’s Tooth, $20), a 1978 comedy starring Jay Leno and Michael Caine. (PG)

What’s Coming

* Tuesday: “Life Is Beautiful,” “Notting Hill,” “Besieged,” “Ma Vie En Rose” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”

* Nov. 16: “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” “Tea With Mussolini,” “Instinct” and “The Loss of Sexual Innocence”

* Nov. 23: “Entrapment,” “Iron Giant,” “The Haunting,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “South Park,” “Autumn Tale,” “Limbo” and “Splendor”

* Nov. 30: “Wild Wild West,” “Deep Blue Sea,” “Simon Sez” and “The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human”

* Dec. 1: “Detroit Rock City”

* Dec. 14: “The General’s Daughter,” “Dick,” “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” “The Harmonists,” “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” and “The Very Thought of You”

* Dec. 21: “American Pie,” “Summer of Sam,” “The Red Violin” and “Run Lola Run”

* Dec. 28: “Mickey Blue Eyes,” “Desert Blue” and “Universal Soldier: The Return”

Rental video charts provided by VSDA

VidTrac, sales charts by VideoScan Inc.