DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Year-to-date domestic market share of film distributors for week ended July 18:

Universal: 17.4%

Buena Vista: 16.3%

Warner Bros.: 15.4%

Columbia: 10.6%

Paramount: 10.4%

20th Century Fox: 7.2%

TriStar: 7.2%

New Line: 4.8%

Miramax: 4.0%

MGM: 2.3%

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the week ended July 18, in millions of dollars:

% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 The Firm Paramount 3 2,393 $13.3 -26 2 In the Line of Columbia 2 2,089 13.1 -14 Fire 3 Jurassic Park Universal 6 2,557 10.9 -29 4 Hocus Pocus Buena Vista 1 1,430 8.1 -- 5 Free Willy Warner Bros. 1 1,476 7.9 -- 6 Sleepless in TriStar 4 1,657 7.4 -28 Seattle 7 Rookie of the Fox 2 1,543 6.6 -27 Year 8 Son-in-Law Buena Vista 3 1,351 3.7 -24 9 Snow White Buena Vista 3 1,578 3.5 -41 10 Dennis the Menace Warner Bros. 4 1,737 2.8 -49

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $95.8 $138 2 36.1 83 3 255.7 292 4 8.1 28 5 7.9 40 6 71.8 97 7 24.8 48 8 21.3 33 9 26.0 39 10 41.5 50

* 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 . . . ‘Poetic Justice’

* Distributor: Columbia Pictures

* Release date: Friday, on 1,200 screens

* Production cost: $12 million

* Cast: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur

* Director: John Singleton

* Synopsis: Young hairdresser turns to poetry when her boyfriend is murdered. Drama. Rated R.

* Prognosis: Fairly good, given its low cost. Studio sources say it tested extremely well with black audiences.