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DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributorsn from Jan. 3 to Jan. 29: Market share (Films) Sony: 25.2% (8)

Buena Vista: 14.0% (16) Warner Bros.: 13.2% (9) New Line: 11.2% (5) Paramount: 11.0% (9) Universal: 8.5% (4) Twentieth Century Fox: 6.8% (6) Miramax: 6.1% (11) MGM / UA: 1.8% (2)

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of Jan. 27-29, in millions of dollars:

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% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Legends of Tristar 6 2,038 $6.3 -30 the Fall 2 Highlander 3 ... Miramax 1 1,593 5.6 -- 3 Dumb and Dumber New Line 7 2,391 4.3 -28 4 Nobody’s Fool Paramount 6 1,007 4.1 -24 5 Higher Learning Columbia 3 1,450 3.4 -44 6 Murder in Warner 2 1,302 3.2 -32 the First 7 Houseguest Buena Vista 4 1,492 2.2 -32 8 Little Women Columbia 6 1,546 2.1 -18 9 Disclosure Warner 8 1,547 2.0 -35 10 Demon Knight Universal 3 1,724 1.8 -50

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $35.5 $58 2 5.6 23 3 104 119 4 20.2 37 5 30 39 6 9.3 18 7 20.3 26 8 40.3 49 9 76 83 10 17.3 21

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

Sources: Top 10 provided by Entertainment Data Inc.; box office projections provided by Lisbeth R. Barron, SBCI Swiss Bank Corp.

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