Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 3 to Aug. 20:

Market share (Films)

Buena Vista: 18.3% (26)

Warner Bros.: 16.7% (21)

Universal: 13.7% (13)

Sony: 12.7% (22)

Paramount: 12.5% (18)

Twentieth Century Fox: 9.6% (15)

New Line: 5.2% (21)

Miramax: 4.0% (27)

MGM / UA: 3.4% (9)

Savoy: 1.3% (4)

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of Aug. 18-20, in millions of dollars:

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% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Mortal Kombat New Line 1 2,421 $23.3 -- 2 Dangerous Minds Buena Vista 2 1,554 10.1 -32 3 A Walk ... Fox 2 1,750 7.5 -21 Clouds 4 Something to Warner Bros. 3 1,787 5.6 -31 Talk About 5 Waterworld Universal 4 2,413 5.3 -38 6 Babe Universal 3 1,790 5.1 -23 7 The Net Columbia 4 1,805 3.7 -28 8 Apollo 13 Universal 8 1,819 3.6 -28 9 The Baby- Columbia 1 1,709 3.4 -- Sitters Club 10 A Kid in Buena Vista 2 1,862 2.3 -47 ... Court

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $23.3 $105 2 33.1 70 3 22.0 48 4 33.9 54 5 70.7 88 6 30.2 49 7 38.0 52 8 153.6 168 9 3.4 13 10 9.3 15

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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.