Company Town : The Times Film Index
DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 3 to March 20:
Studio Market share Films Warner Bros. 20.9% 15 Buena Vista 17.4% 14 Universal 15.2% 10 20th Century Fox 11.7% 6 TriStar 8.4% 5 Paramount 7.5% 6 New Line 6.1% 10 Columbia 4.0% 7 Savoy 3.7% 3 Miramax 2.9% 9
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend ended March 20, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Naked Gun 33 1/3 Paramount 1 2,361 $13.2 -- 2 Guarding Tess TriStar 2 1,613 5.0 -29 3 Monkey Trouble New Line 1 1,412 4.5 -- 4 Schindler’s List Universal 14 1,246 4.4 +53 5 Lightning Jack Savoy 2 1,733 3.2 -41 6 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Warner Bros. 7 1,747 2.7 -35 7 The Ref Buena Vista 2 797 2.3 -24 8 Mrs. Doubtfire Fox 17 1,244 1.7 -25 9 Greedy Universal 3 1,598 1.6 -39 10 8 Seconds New Line 4 838 1.5 -28
Box office Rank to date* 1 $13.2 2 14.3 3 4.5 4 59.8 5 10.1 6 62.0 7 6.4 8 206.2 9 11.2 10 11.9
* Distributors receive roughly half of box office revenue, on average.
Source: Top 10 provided by Entertainment Data
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