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TRACKING THE TOP 20

Total grosses of the Top 20 box office releases from Jan. 1 through May 26, in millions of dollars:

Box Opening office Rank Film Distributor date to date* 1 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Warner Bros. Feb. 4 $71.3 2 Naked Gun 33 1/3: Final Insult Paramount March 18 49.0 3 D2: The Mighty Ducks Buena Vista March 25 42.1 4 On Deadly Ground Warner Bros. Feb. 18 38.4 5 Four Weddings & a Funeral Gramercy March 9 38.0 6 The Paper Universal March 18 34.8 7 Major League 2 Warner Bros. March 30 28.1 8 Blank Check Buena Vista Feb. 11 27.0 9 Guarding Tess TriStar March 11 26.3 10 The Crow Miramax May 11 26.3 11 My Father, the Hero Buena Vista Feb. 4 25.3 12 Maverick Warner Bros. May 20 23.2 13 When a Man Loves a Woman Buena Vista April 29 23.1 14 Blue Chips Paramount Feb. 18 22.4 15 The Air Up There Buena Vista Jan. 7 21.0 16 Iron Will Buena Vista Jan. 14 21.0 17 Intersection Paramount Jan. 21 20.9 18 Reality Bites Universal Feb. 18 20.1 19 House Party 3 New Line Jan. 12 19.3 20 8 Seconds New Line Feb. 25 18.7

* Distributors receive roughly half of box office revenue, on average.

Source: Top 10 provided by Entertainment Data Inc.