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Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Share

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 3 to Aug. 6:

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Market share (Films)

Buena Vista: 18.1% (24)

Warner Bros.: 17.1% (21)

Sony: 13.2% (21)

Universal: 12.8% (13)

Paramount: 12.7% (18)

Twentieth Century Fox: 9.2% (13)

New Line: 4.8% (20)

Miramax: 4.2% (27)

MGM / UA: 3.7% (9)

Savoy: 1.4% (4)

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TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of Aug. 4-6, in millions of dollars:

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% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Waterworld Universal 2 2,383 $13.5 -36 2 Something to Warner Bros. 1 1,510 11.1 -- Talk About 3 Babe Universal 1 1,591 8.7 -- 4 Virtuosity Paramount 1 2,012 8.3 -- 5 The Net Columbia 2 2,027 7.6 -24 6 Apollo 13 Universal 6 2,258 7.3 -21 7 Clueless Paramount 3 1,922 4.7 -33 8 Nine Months Fox 4 1,754 4.6 -29 9 Operation Buena Vista 2 2,158 4.3 -33 Dumbo Drop 10 Bushwhacked Fox 1 1,674 3.0 --

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Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $45.6 $85 2 11.1 50 3 8.7 40 4 8.3 35 5 23.0 50 6 139.1 168 7 39.9 55 8 52.6 70 9 15.0 28 10 3.0 13

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* 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.

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