The Indie Top 10 : 5.8.98 - 5.10.98

Edited by Mark Rabinowitz

Wayne Wang's Trimark release, "Chinese Box" hurdled Artisan's slumping "Suicide Kings" by more-than-doubling the latter film's gross on 84 fewer screens and holding on to a respectable 75% of its per screen average over the prior week. First Look's "Mrs. Dalloway" is holding strong in third position, with its box office actually growing by 2% even while losing 5 screens. Legacy's "Little Men" opened with little grosses, placing fourth in the top ten, but averaging only slightly more than 700 smackers per sheet. Among the newcomers or returnees to the list, "Junk Mail," "Taste of Cherry" and "Ayn Rand" all had massive increases in grosses and posted o.k.-to-good per screen numbers, as well, with "Cherry" posting 8th overall (including Specialty Division films) in this last statistic.

In Specialty Division product, Sony Pictures Classics' "Wilde" posted strong numbers in its second frame, garnering almost $10,000 per screen and gaining 15% in gross numbers over the previous weekend while adding only one screen. Among bows, New Line's "Woo" pulled in the top grosses, but finished behind Miramax's "Artemisia" ($8,235) and October's "The Kingdom 2" ($4,147) in per screen averages, nabbing slightly over four grand. SPC's "The Spanish Prisoner" continues to look like the odds-on favorite to become the sleeper of the Spring, coming in fourth among Specialty Division pix by nabbing just under a million semolians for an overall gross of close to a million clams, in it's sixth week of release.

++ THE INDIE TOP 10 ++

SUICIDE KINGS (Artisan): $101,081 (-29%) -- Total: $1,409,880
Week #4 -- 152 Screens (+2) -- $665 average per screen

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MRS. DALLOWAY (First Look): $86,071 (+2%) -- Total: $2,878,910 Week #12 -- 71 Screens (-5) -- $1,212 average per screen LITTLE MEN (Legacy): $77,924 -- Total: $77,924 *Premiere -- 111 Screens -- $702 average per screen DEJA VU (Rainbow): $63,090 (+21%) -- Total: $186,723 Week #3 -- 34 Screens (+14) -- $1,856 average per screen LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND (LGF): $62,923 (-4%) -- Total: $2,317,239 Week #10 -- 76 Screens (+1) -- $864 average per screen I THINK I DO (Strand): $19,086 (-4%) -- Total: $197,854 Week #5 -- 6 Screens (no change) -- $3,181 average per screen JUNK MAIL (Lions Gate Films): $15,480 (+93%) -- Total: $49,767 Week #5 -- 7 Screens (+4) -- $2,211 average per screen TASTE OF CHERRY (Zeitgeist): $13,762 (+74%) -- Total: $163,720 Week #8 -- 3 Screens (no change) -- $4,587 average per screen AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE (Strand): $9,391 (+74%) -- Total: $156,124 Week #13 -- 4 Screens (+2) -- $2,348 average per screen posted on May 12, 1998 |Share