Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from April 7-9: Market share (Films) Sony: 19.9% (15) Warner Bros.: 17.0% (14) Buena Vista: 14.9% (24) Paramount: 14.0% (12) Universal: 8.2% (7) New Line: 7.8% (13) Miramax: 7.5% (15) Twentieth Century Fox: 4.1% (7) Gramercy: 1.5% (6) Samuel Goldwyn: 1.4% (6)
TRACKING THE TOP 10 Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of April 7-9, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Bad Boys Columbia 1 2,132 $15.5 -- 2 A Goofy Movie Buena Vista 1 2,159 6.1 -- 3 Tommy Boy Paramount 2 2,186 6.1 -24 4 Don Juan de Marco New Line 1 1,110 4.6 -- 5 Outbreak Warner Bros. 5 2,146 4.0 -29 6 Circle of Friends Savoy 4 788 3.7 +50 7 Dolores Claiborne Columbia 3 1,256 3.0 -33 8 Major Payne Universal 3 1,991 2.9 -46 9 Rob Roy MGM/UA 1 133 2.0 -- 10 Muriel’s Wedding Miramax 5 840 1.7 -34
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $15.5 $75 2 6.1 30 3 16.2 38 4 4.6 22 5 54.5 70 6 9.4 23 7 16.2 27 8 18.2 28 9 2.0 15 10 9.7 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.