Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from April 28-30:
Market share (Films) Sony: 20.6% (17) Buena Vista: 15.9% (19) Warner Bros.: 14.8% (14) Paramount: 13.0% (13) New Line: 8.2% (15) Universal: 7.6% (9) Miramax: 6.9% (16) Twentieth Century Fox: 4.1% (8) MGM / UA: 3.1% (7) Savoy: 1.9% (3)
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of April 28-30, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 While You Buena Vista 2 1,907 $10.5 13 Were Sleeping 2 Friday New Line 1 865 6.6 -- 3 Bad Boys Columbia 4 2,132 4.3 -38 4 Rob Roy MGM/UA 4 1,885 3.4 -33 5 Village of Universal 1 1,890 3.2 -- the Damned 6 A Goofy Movie Buena Vista 4 2,022 3.2 -29 7 Kiss of Death Fox 2 1,627 3.0 -43 8 Top Dog MGM/UA 1 1,911 2.2 -- 9 Don Juan de Marco New Line 4 1,102 1.7 -34 10 Circle of Friends Savoy 7 877 1.3 -26
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $22.8 $65 2 8.1 35 3 50.2 63 4 23.6 33 5 3.2 12 6 26.0 36 7 10.0 18 8 2.2 8 9 16.2 22 10 18.5 22
* 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.