Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from April 21-23:
Market share (Films) Sony: 21.0% (16) Warner Bros.: 15.4% (14) Buena Vista: 15.3% (18) Paramount: 13.5% (13) New Line: 7.7% (14) Universal: 7.6% (8) Miramax: 7.1% (15) Twentieth Century Fox: 4.0% (8) MGM / UA: 2.7% (6) Savoy: 1.8% (2)
TRACKING THE TOP 10 Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of April 21-23, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 While You Buena Vista 1 1,421 $9.3 -- Were Sleeping 2 Bad Boys Columbia 3 2,132 7.0 -36 3 Kiss of Death Fox 1 1,623 5.3 -- 4 Rob Roy MGM/UA 3 1,885 5.0 -30 5 A Goofy Movie Buena Vista 3 2,116 4.5 -14 6 Jury Duty TriStar 2 2,169 3.0 -38 7 Don Juan de Marco New Line 3 1,226 2.6 -29 8 Tommy Boy Paramount 4 2,069 2.6 -38 9 Circle of Savoy 6 902 1.8 -33 Friends 10 Outbreak Warner Bros. 7 1,503 1.6 -43
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $9.3 $50 2 44.1 68 3 5.3 23 4 18.8 33 5 22.0 40 6 11.2 20 7 13.7 23 8 26.6 35 9 16.6 22 10 61.6 68
* 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.