Advertisement

Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Share

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from April 14-16:

Market share (Films) Sony: 20.8% (16) Warner Bros.: 16.3% (14) Buena Vista: 14.7% (24) Paramount: 13.8% (13) Universal: 7.9% (7) New Line: 7.8% (13) Miramax: 7.3% (15) Twentieth Century Fox: 3.8% (7) MGM / UA: 2.1% (6) Savoy: 1.6% (2)

TRACKING THE TOP 10 Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of April 14-16, in millions of dollars:

Advertisement

% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Bad Boys Columbia 2 2,132 $11.0 -29 2 Rob Roy MGM/UA 2 1,521 7.2 +255 3 A Goofy Movie Buena Vista 2 2,176 5.3 -14 4 Jury Duty TriStar 1 2,169 4.8 -- 5 Tommy Boy Paramount 3 2,186 4.2 -31 6 Don Juan de Marco New Line 2 1,211 3.7 -19 7 Outbreak Warner Bros. 6 1,825 2.9 -29 8 Circle of Friends Savoy 5 891 2.7 -27 9 Dolores Claiborne Columbia 4 1,256 2.0 -33 10 Major Payne Universal 4 1,803 1.9 -32

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $32.5 $75 2 11.2 35 3 14.0 35 4 6.3 23 5 22.5 35 6 9.8 22 7 58.8 70 8 13.4 22 9 19.3 26 10 21.1 28

* 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.

Advertisement