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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

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* 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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