‘Turtles,’ ‘Woman,’ ‘October’ Hold On

Over a weekend that saw no new releases knocking holdovers out of the Top 5 box office spots, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” had weekend sales of $14 million, pushing its total gross to nearly $73 million. Paramount Pictures’ “Crazy People” earned $3.3 million at 1,389 screens, for sixth place, and a per-screen-average of $2,417. (The film, which opened last Wednesday, has a cumulative gross of $4.2 million.) Columbia Pictures’ “The Gods Must Be Crazy II” earned an estimated $1.2 million on 321 screens, for about $3,800 per screen and tenth place.

* In limited release on 36 screens, Miramax’s unrated “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”--a controversial odyssey about food and sex, revenge and violence, set in a posh restaurant--earned about $430,000 for a high per-screen average of almost $12,000.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

Weekend Gross/ Screens/ Weeks in Movie (Studio) Total (millions) Average Release 1.”Teenage Mutant Ninja $14 2,377 3 Turtles”(New Line Cinema) $72.9 $5,917 2.”Pretty Woman” $10.1 1,707 4 (Touchstone) $59.2 $5,927 3.”The Hunt for Red October” $4.2 1,702 7 (Paramount) $89.8 $2,504 4.”Ernest Goes to Jail” $4.2 1,956 2 (Touchstone) $12.6 $2,173 5.”The First Power” $3.8 1,336 2 (Orion Pictures) $11.6 $2,859 * “The Cook, the Thief, His $776,449 1,005 1 Wife and Her Lover”(Miramax) $776,440 $772

SOURCES: Exhibitor Relations Co.; Times estimates