DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Year-to-date domestic market share of film distributors for the week ended Aug. 8:
Buena Vista: 16.2%
Universal: 16.2%
Warner Bros.: 15.4%
Columbia: 11.3%
Paramount: 10.8%
20th Century Fox: 8.7%
TriStar: 7.5%
New Line: 4.2%
Miramax: 3.6%
MGM: 2.1%
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the week ended Aug. 8, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 The Fugitive Warner Bros. 1 2,340 $23.8 -- 2 Rising Sun Fox 2 1,675 9.1 -40 3 In the Line of Columbia 5 1,925 5.8 -27 Fire 4 Free Willy Warner Bros. 4 1,847 5.4 -23 5 Jurassic Park Universal 9 1,906 5.1 -26 6 The Firm Paramount 6 1,812 4.7 -34 7 Robin Hood: Men Fox 2 1,402 4.5 -35 in Tights 8 Sleepless in TriStar 7 1,408 3.7 -25 Seattle 9 The Meteor Man MGM/UA 1 1,060 2.6 -- 10 Poetic Justice Columbia 3 1,170 2.1 -58
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $23.8 $110.0 2 31.1 54.0 3 77.4 100.0 4 45.3 70.0 5 292.2 313.0 6 133.3 148.0 7 18.4 32.0 8 96.5 112.0 9 2.6 13.0 10 25.1 29.0
* 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 . . . ‘Heart and Souls’
* Distributor: Universal Pictures
* Release date: Friday, on 1,200 screens
* Production cost: About $25 million
* Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick
* Director: Ron Underwood
* Synopsis: Four spirits attach themselves to a baby born on the night they die. Drama. Rated PG-13.
* Prognosis: Good, if audiences give it a ghost of a chance. Sneaks went well, and director Underwood struck pay dirt before with “City Slickers.”
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