MOVIES : WE BELIEVE YOU : The Smaller Screen Is Just Fine, Thanks

The fascination with “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Fox-TV’s one-hour drama about life among affluent teens, has already landed Luke Perry, Shannen Doherty and Jason Priestly on the covers of People, Us and Entertainment Weekly magazines. But will the three hearttrobs land in the movies?

Not anytime soon. Perry, Doherty and Priestley, all twentysomething, are perfectly happy with the first big breaks of their careers, thank you very much.

“There’s no reason to jump right now, “ said Doherty’s personal manager, Mike Gursey. “We’ve had some discussions and some firm offers from every studio. Everybody but Fox. It’s funny, when someone is doing a series for a particular studio, they’re always the last to come around.”

Gursey doesn’t believe in giving up a good thing. “It’s best to just sit back for now,” he said. Like the others, Doherty is committed to 30 episodes this year and Fox has an option for her services for several more years.

“The only thing stopping Jason from doing a movie is the TV show,” said a spokesman for Priestley. “He always has a stack of scripts waiting for him to look at . . . but he has no plans for the movies now.”

In the case of Perry, who plays the moody, nonconformist Dylan, agent Cyd Levin is advising him not to make a move to the big screen. “The emphasis has to be the show. The success he has had is due to what he has done with the role of Dylan.”

But before Perry hit it big with “90210,” he had two small roles in two films that have yet to be released--Cannon Films’ “Terminal Bliss” and Goldcrest Inc.’s “Scorchers,” which stars Emily Lloyd, Faye Dunaway and James Earl Jones, among others.

Goldcrest President Stephen Johnston said he doesn’t have a distribution deal yet for “Scorchers,” which was screened at the Toronto Film Festival. But Johnston joked that “if I’m doing my job right as a salesman, it should become the Luke Perry movie.”