Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 3 to July 30:

Market share (Films)

Buena Vista: 18.5% (24)

Warner Bros.: 17.2% (20)

Sony: 13.4% (20)

Paramount: 12.6% (17)

Universal: 11.9% (12)

Twentieth Century Fox: 9.2% (12)

New Line: 5.1% (20)

Miramax: 4.4% (26)

MGM / UA: 3.7% (9)

Savoy: 1.4% (4)

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of July 28-30, in millions of dollars:

% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Waterworld Universal 1 2,268 $21.2 -- 2 The Net Columbia 1 1,906 10.0 -- 3 Apollo 13 Universal 5 2,347 9.2 -26 4 Clueless Paramount 2 1,922 7.0 -34 5 Nine Months Fox 3 1,795 6.5 -34 6 Operation Buena Vista 1 2,145 6.4 -- Dumbo Drop 7 Under Siege 2 Warner Bros. 3 2,150 4.8 -47 8 Free Willy 2 Warner Bros. 2 2,301 4.6 -34 9 Pocahontas Buena Vista 7 1,693 3.7 -36 10 Species MGM/UA 4 1,942 3.5 -51

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $21.2 $90 2 10.0 43 3 127.0 162 4 30.0 48 5 44.3 63 6 6.4 23 7 36.5 50 8 18.4 32 9 124.9 138 10 53.1 63

* 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.