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Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributorsn from Jan. 3 to March 5:

Market share (Films)

Sony: 22.6% (11)

Warner Bros.: 15.3% (12)

Buena Vista: 14.7% (20)

Paramount: 13.7% (10)

New Line: 8.8% (7)

Universal: 8.7% (6)

Miramax: 6.7% (13)

Twentieth Century Fox: 4.3% (6)

Samuel Goldwyn: 1.3% (4)

MGM / UAL 1.1% (2)

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of March 3-5, in millions of dollars:

% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Man of Buena Vista 1 2,013 $9.5 -- the House 2 The Brady Paramount 3 1,941 5.7 -31 Bunch Movie 3 Hideaway TriStar 1 1,900 5.2 -- 4 Just Cause Warner Bros. 3 2,059 4.9 -26 5 Roommates Buena Vista 1 1,262 4.0 -- 6 Pulp Fiction Miramax 21 966 2.1 -10 7 Forrest Gump Paramount 35 1,105 2.0 -14 8 Billy Madison Universal 4 1,708 2.0 -39 9 Legends of TriStar 11 1,203 1.8 -29 the Fall 10 Heavyweights Buena Vista 3 1,732 1.8 -51

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Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $9.5 $40 2 33.0 50 3 5.2 21 4 26.1 43 5 4.0 25 6 85.8 95 7 309.5 318 8 20.7 26 9 59.7 67 10 13.3 18

* 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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