The Indie Top 10: 4.24.98 - 4.26.98

Edited by Mark Rabinowitz

A large majority of the Indie Top 10 remained in the same position, with Artisan's "Suicide Kings" staying atop the list, but dropping a hefty 54% in gross and dropping more than $2,000 in per screen average. Strand's "I Think I Do" dropped only 6% in gross in its third week, gaining $700 in per sheet tally. Artisan's "Caught Up" seems poised for a drop out of the rankings, pulling in an anemic $378 per screen in its ninth week of release.

In the specialty division ranks, Miramax's "Sliding Doors" opened on 117 screens and posted a respectible per screen average of $7,135 and a weekend gross of $834,817, while "Two Girls and a Guy" opened with less-than-stellar numbers for Fox Searchlight. The James Toback pic grossed $649,423 on 316 screens for an average of just over $2,000 per screen. The pic-to-watch of the Spring, as far as specialty division films go, has to be Sony Pictures Classics' David Mamet twister, "The Spanish Prisoner," which continues to gross well, picking up another quarter of a million smackers for an average of almost 7,500 clams.

++ THE INDIE TOP 10 ++

MRS. DALLOWAY (First Look): $112,633 (-37%) -- Total: $2,632,939
Week #10 -- 83 Screens (-7) -- $1,357 average per screen

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND (LGF): $110,730 (-28%) -- Total: $2,078,441
Week #8 -- 75 Screens (-9) -- $1,476 average per screen

CHINESE BOX (Trimark): $73,221 (-25%) -- Total: $217,545
Week #2 -- 13 Screens (+1) -- $5,632 average per screen

I THINK I DO (Strand): $36,853 (-6%) -- Total: $139,249
Week #3 -- 8 Screens (-2) -- $4,607 average per screen

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CAUGHT UP (Artisan): $34,776 (-52%) -- Total: $6,724,217 Week #9 -- 92 Screens (-112) -- $378 average per screen KURT AND COURTNEY (Roxie): $30,285 (-25%) -- Total: $240,468 Week #9 -- 12 Screens -- (+4) -- $2,524 average per screen DEJA VU (Rainbow): $28,710 -- Total: $31,973 *Premiere -- 7 Screens (+5) -- $4,101 average per screen MARIUS AND JEANNETTE (New Yorker): $20,519 -- Total: $20,519 *Premiere -- 4 Screens -- $5,130 average per screen FIREWORKS (Milestone): $15,790 (-27%) -- Total: $307,200 Week #6 -- 7 Screens (-4) -- $2,256 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.] Login to recommend this article » posted on April 28, 1998 Films to Snag Login to Leave a Comment »