Company Town : TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of July 7-9, in millions of dollars:

% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Apollo 13 Universal 2 2,200 $19.6 -23 2 Species MGM/UA 1 2,310 17.2 -- 3 First Knight Columbia 1 2,161 10.9 -- 4 Pocahontas Buena Vista 4 2,608 10.8 -33 5 Batman Forever Warner Bros. 4 2,893 9.3 -40 6 Power Rangers Fox 2 2,409 5.9 -55 7 Judge Dredd Buena Vista 2 2,204 5.2 -57 8 Bridges of Warner Bros. 6 1,558 2.9 -34 Madison County 9 Congo Paramount 5 1,789 2.7 -44 10 Casper Universal 7 1,400 2.1 -24

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $ 65.6 $130 2 17.2 73 3 10.9 45 4 91.3 130 5 154.9 190 6 25.5 40 7 24.3 35 8 60.3 69 9 73.1 80 10 85.6 93

* 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.