BIZ: The Indie Top 10 and the Other Top 5: 3.13.98 - 3.15.98

by Mark Rabinowitz

The only premiere in this week's Indie Top 10, Trimark's Carrot Top
starrer "Chairman of the Board," was stillborn with a $925 tally per
screen, while Live's "Caught Up" won the indie top 10 overall weekend
gross battle, but fared poorly in per screen average. It garnered barely
more than a grand per sheet. Lions Gate's "Love and Death on Long
Island" saw its average plummet, but that was to be expected,
considering its expansion from 6 screens to 80. First Look's "Mrs.
Dalloway" continues to impress, losing less than 10%, one week after
expanding from 19 to 68 screens (it's at 62 screens this week).

In the Other Top 5, Miramax's "Good Will Hunting" showed some serious
gams, losing 6% per screen while dropping only 7% of its screens,
basically breaking even for the weekend.

While indieWIRE doesn't list IMAX films in its box office chart, some
note must be made of the performance of "Everest." The fish-eyed pic
topped all other comers with a per screen gross of 34,628 clams.

++ THE INDIE TOP 10 ++

CAUGHT UP (Live): $664,184 (-35%) -- Total: $5,248,727

Week #3 -- 578 Screens (-144) -- $1,149 average per screen

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND (LGF): $366,618 (+369%) -- Total: $480,195

Week #2 -- 80 Screens (+74) -- $4,583 average per screen

MRS. DALLOWAY (First Look): $235,100 (-7%) -- Total: $865,521

Week #4 -- 62 Screens (-6) -- $3,792 average per screen

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD (Trimark): $181,233 -- Total: $181,233

*Premiere -- 196 Screens -- $925 average per screen

STAR KID (Trimark): $106,014 (-40%) -- Total: $6,843,026

Week #9 -- 187 Screens (-41) -- $567 average per screen

NUEBA YOL: ABAJO LA NUEVA LEY (Parker): $24,098 -- Total: $764,040

Week#20 -- 11 Screens -- $2,190 average per screen

MOON OVER BROADWAY (Art. Lic.): $6,181 (-31%) -- Total: $55,265

Week #4 -- 2 Screens (-1) -- $3,091 average per screen

AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE (Strand): $6,177 (+32%) -- Total: $78,029

Week #5 -- 3 Screens (+1) -- $2,059 average per screen

THE DELTA (Strand): $2,351 -- Total: $100,409

Week #31 -- 1 Screen -- $2,351

THE LEADING MAN (North. Arts): $2,340 (-5%) -- Total: $5,859

Week #2 -- 3 Screens (+1) -- $780 average per screen

++ THE OTHER TOP 5 ++

GOOD WILL HUNTING (Miramax): $4,844,784 (-6%) -- Total: $109,848,236

Week #15 -- 1,899 Screens (-150) -- $2,551 average per screen

THE WEDDING SINGER (New Line): $4,666,969 (-25%) -- Total: $63,462,769

Week #5 -- 2,550 Screens (-276) -- $1,830 average per screen

THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Gramercy): $3,497,794 -- Total: $10,719,123

Week #2 -- 1,235 Screens (+28) -- $2,832 average per screen

DARK CITY (New Line): $1,443,008 (-49%) -- Total: $12,591,256

Week #3 -- 1, 520 Screens (-234) -- $949 average per screen

THE APOSTLE (October): $1,283,750 (-15%) -- Total: $15,028,633

Week #13 -- 739 Screens (-8) -- $1,737 average per screen

[All box office figures are provided by Entertainment Data, Inc.
www.entdata.com]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The Indie Top 10 lists the top grossing EDI tracked
films distributed by companies not owned or affiliated with major
studios or entertainment companies. The Other Top 5 lists the top
grossing EDI tracked films distributed by companies other than the
primary major studios.]