Company Town : DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Domestic market share and number of films in release for U.S. distributors from May 12-14:
Market share (Films) Sony: 19.9% (17) Buena Vista: 17.6% (20) Warner Bros.: 13.5% (16) Paramount: 12.0% (13) New Line: 8.7% (16) Universal: 7.3% (9) Miramax: 6.7% (18) Twentieth Century Fox: 5.3% (9) MGM / UA: 3.3% (7) Savoy: 1.9% (3)
TRACKING THE TOP 10
Total grosses of the latest Top 10 box office releases for the weekend of May 12-14, in millions of dollars:
% Chg. Wks. in Wknd. from Rank Film Distributor release Screens total last 1 Crimson Tide Buena Vista 1 2,382 $18.6 -- 2 French Kiss Fox 2 1,736 6.6 -27 3 While You Buena Vista 4 2,070 6.5 -23 Were Sleeping 4 Englishman Miramax 1 954 2.8 -- Who ... 5 Friday New Line 3 881 2.7 -32 6 Bad Boys Columbia 6 1,865 2.0 -31 7 My Family New Line 2 414 1.6 -25 8 Gordy Miramax 1 1,131 1.6 -- 9 A Goofy Movie Buena Vista 6 1,817 1.3 -37 10 Rob Roy MGM/UA 6 1,451 1.2 -44
Box Proj. office U.S. Rank to date B.O.* 1 $18.6 $85 2 18.6 40 3 43.7 65 4 2.8 11 5 17.7 25 6 57.3 63 7 5.0 9 8 1.6 6 9 30.4 34 10 28.8 32
* 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.