Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE

Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 3 to Sept. 10:

Market share (Films)

Buena Vista: 18.0% (27)

Warner Bros.: 16.1% (22)

Universal: 14.0% (14)

Sony: 12.9% (25)

Paramount: 11.7% (18)

Twentieth Century Fox: 9.7% (15)

New Line: 5.8% (23)

Miramax: 4.1% (30)

MGM / UA: 3.5% (10)

Savoy: 1.4% (7)

TRACKING THE TOP 10

Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of Sept. 8-10, in millions of dollars:

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% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 To Wong Foo ... Universal 1 1,294 $9.0 -- 2 Dangerous Minds Buena Vista 5 1,598 4.0 -49 3 Mortal Kombat New Line 4 2,481 3.8 -54 4 The Prophecy Miramax 2 1,663 2.8 -62 5 Desperado Columbia 3 1,921 2.6 -56 6 The Tie Buena Vista 1 1,783 2.6 -- That Binds 7 Last of Savoy 1 929 2.5 -- the Dogmen 8 A Walk Fox 5 1,680 2.5 -55 in the Clouds 9 Nat’l Lampoon’s New Line 1 1,397 2.2 -- Senior Trip 10 The Usual Gramercy 4 517 2.2 -42 Suspects

Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $9.0 $40 2 62.8 76 3 60.1 72 4 11.6 20 5 20.9 29 6 2.6 10 7 2.5 10 8 42.0 50 9 2.2 8 10 8.6 17

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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.