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Domestic Market Share

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Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from Jan. 6-July 27:

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Distributor Films Market Share Sony 26 23.1% Buena Vista 24 15.3% Universal 9 14.7% 20th Century Fox 14 11.6% Warner Bros. 17 10.6% Paramount 20 10.1% New Line 19 5.8% Miramax 23 5.6%

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Tracking the Top 10

Total box-office grosses of the latest top 10 releases for the weekend of July 25-27, in millions of dollars:

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% chg. Box Wks. in Wknd. from office Film (Distributor) release total last to date 1 Air Force One (Sony) 1 $37.1 -- $37.1 2 George of the Jungle (Buena Vista) 2 13.2 -20 48.1 3 Men in Black (Sony) 4 12.4 -35 194.0 4 Contact (Warner Bros.) 3 9.7 -40 65.0 5 Good Burger (Paramount) 1 7.1 -- 7.1 6 Nothing to Lose (Buena Vista) 2 6.9 -40 24.5 7 Face/Off (Paramount) 5 5.6 -37 96.1 8 My Best Friend’s Wedding (Sony) 6 4.5 -31 103.1 9 Hercules (Buena Vista) 6 3.2 -39 83.4 10 Operation Condor (Miramax) 2 1.7 -64 8.3

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* Distributors receive roughly half of box-office revenue, on average.

Note: Market share figures for Sony include Columbia, TriStar and Triumph releases. Figures for New Line include Fine Line releases. Sources: Top 10 provided by Entertainment Data Inc.

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