Labor Day Weekend Box Office : Summer Season Goes Out With a Bang

The just-ended, record-breaking $2.2-billion summer movie season was capped by the best-ever Labor Day weekend grosses, which totaled $90.8 million. A difference of only $2,000 separated seventh-ranked “The Lion King” from eighth-ranked “Corrina, Corrina.”

Weekend Gross/ Screens/ Weeks in Movie (Studio) Total (millions) Average Release 1.”ForrestGump” $12.2 2,246 9 (Paramount) $238.7 $5,441 2.”Natural Born Killers” $10.5 1,904 2 (Warner Bros.) $27 $5,515 3.”Clear and Present Danger” $9.3 2,309 5 (Paramount) $98.7 $4,015 4.”The Mask” $6.6 2,516 6 (New Line) 100.2 $2,623 5.”Milk Money” $5.8 1,361 1 (Paramount) $6.9 $4,296 6.”True Lies” $4.1 1,691 8 (20th Century Fox) $132.2 $2,443 7.”The Lion King” $3.9 1,331 12 (Walt Disney) $262.3 $2,944 8.”Corrina, Corrina” $3.9 804 4 (New Line) $9.6 $4,872 9.”The Little Rascals” $3.1 1,810 5 (Universal) $41.4 $1,725 10.”The Client” $3 1,609 7 (Warner Bros.) $82.5 $1,871