Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributorsn from Jan. 3 to Feb. 12: Market share (Films) Sony: 25.5% (9) Warner Bros.: 14.3% (10) Buena Vista: 13.9% (17) New Line: 11.1% (6) Paramount: 9.9% (9) Universal: 8.4% (5) Miramax: 6.7% (12) Twentieth Century Fox: 5.7% (6) MGM / UAL 1.5% (2) Fine Line: 1.1% (4)
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of Feb. 10-12, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Billy Madison Universal 1 1,834 $6.6 -- 2 The Quick and Tristar 1 2,158 6.5 -- the Dead 3 Legends of Tristar 8 2,038 4.5 -13 the Fall 4 Boys on the Side Warner Bros. 2 1,444 4.3 -10 5 Dumb and Dumber New Line 9 1,779 2.5 -24 6 Nobody’s Fool Paramount 8 1,007 2.4 -21 7 In the Mouth New Line 2 1,531 2.0 -41 of Madness 8 Murder in Warner Bros. 4 1,041 1.5 -34 the First 9 The Jerky Boys Buena Vista 2 1,513 1.4 -68 10 Highlander 3 Miramax 3 1,489 1.4 -52
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $6.6 $30 2 6.5 32 3 48.5 66 4 10.7 28 5 111.6 122 6 27.6 38 7 6.2 12 8 14.8 20 9 6.7 12 10 12.0 16
* 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.