Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributorsn from Jan. 3 to Feb. 12:
Market share (Films)
Sony: 23.1% (9)
Warner Bros.: 15.5% (11)
Buena Vista: 13.6% (18)
Paramount: 13.2% (10)
New Line: 9.4% (6)
Universal: 8.9% (6)
Miramax: 6.7% (12)
Twentieth Century Fox: 4.6% (6)
MGM / UAL 1.2% (2)
Samuel Goldwyn: 1.2% (4)
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend ended Feb. 26, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 The Brady Paramount 2 1,941 $8.4 -43 Bunch Movie 2 Just Cause Warner Bros. 2 2,059 6.6 -37 3 Heavyweights Buena Vista 2 1,953 3.8 -38 4 Billy Madison Universal 3 1,887 3.3 -41 5 The Hunted Universal 1 1,552 2.7 -- 6 Legends of TriStar 10 1,677 2.6 -35 the Fall 7 Pulp Fiction Miramax 20 1,051 2.4 -17 8 Forrest Gump Paramount 34 1,105 2.4 -23 9 The Walking Dead Savoy 1 891 2.3 -- 10 The Quick and TriStar 3 1,972 2.0 -52 the Dead
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $25.6 $50 2 19.3 43 3 10.9 23 4 18.0 27 5 2.7 13 6 57.2 67 7 82.8 95 8 306.7 318 9 2.3 10 10 15.5 21
* 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.