DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
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Year-to-date domestic market share of film distributors for week ended Aug. 1:
Universal: 16.6%
Buena Vista: 16.4%
Warner Bros.: 15.0%
Columbia: 11.4%
Paramount: 10.9%
20th Century Fox: 8.1%
TriStar: 7.4%
New Line: 4.4%
Miramax: 3.7%
MGM: 2.1%
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the week ended Aug. 1, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Rising Sun Fox 1 1,510 $15.2 -- 2 In the Line of Columbia 4 2,129 8.0 -29 Fire 3 The Firm Paramount 5 2,105 7.1 -29 4 Free Willy Warner Bros. 3 1,937 7.1 -18 5 Jurassic Park Universal 8 2,141 6.9 -18 6 Robin Hood: Fox 1 1,263 6.8 -- Men in Tights 7 Poetic Justice Columbia 2 1,285 5.0 -57 8 Sleepless in Tristar 6 1,458 4.9 -15 Seattle 9 Coneheads Paramount 2 1,978 3.6 -50 10 Another Buena Vista 2 1,477 3.5 -35 Stakeout
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $15.2 $80.0 2 67.8 100.0 3 125.0 152.0 4 35.4 67.0 5 283.1 313.0 6 10.0 37.0 7 20.9 36.0 8 90.1 110.0 9 14.5 26.0 10 11.7 21.0
* Distributors receive roughly half of box office revenue, on average.
Source: Top 10 provided by Entertainment Data Inc.; Box office projections provided by Lisbeth R. Barron, S.G. Warburg & Co. Inc.
Coming Attractions . . . ‘The Fugitive’
* Distributor: Warner Bros.
* Release date: Friday, on 2,200 screens
* Production cost: More than $35 million
* Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Julianne Moore, Sela Ward
* Director: Andrew Davis
* Synopsis: Sixties TV favorite Dr. Richard Kimble on the run again, this time across the big screen. Rated PG-13. Drama.
* Prognosis: Can’t miss. Built-in following and strong word of mouth should mean big bucks.
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