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Share

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 3 to Aug. 27:

Market share (Films)

Buena Vista: 18.3% (26)

Warner Bros.: 16.5% (22)

Universal: 13.8% (13)

Sony: 12.8% (24)

Paramount: 12.2% (18)

Twentieth Century Fox: 9.7% (15)

New Line: 5.6% (21)

Miramax: 3.9% (28)

MGM / UA: 3.5% (10)

Savoy: 1.3% (6)

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of Aug. 25-27, 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 2 2,628 $10.3 -56 2 Desperado Columbia 1 2,027 7.9 -- 3 Dangerous Minds Buena Vista 3 1,578 7.8 -23 4 A Walk in Fox 3 1,750 5.5 -27 the Clouds 5 Lord of Illusions MGM/UA 1 1,533 4.8 -- 6 Something to Warner Bros. 4 1,767 3.9 -30 Talk About 7 Babe Universal 4 1,780 3.7 -28 8 Waterworld Universal 5 2,197 3.5 -33 9 Apollo 13 Universal 9 1,482 2.6 -29 10 The Net Columbia 5 1,506 2.4 -35

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Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $43.1 $80 2 7.9 38 3 46.4 75 4 31.0 52 5 4.8 20 6 40.1 55 7 36.8 50 8 76.3 88 9 157.9 168 10 42.1 50

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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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