The Indie Top 10 and the Other Top 5: 4.10.98 - 4.12.98

by Mark Rabinowitz

Lions Gate's "Love and Death on Long Island" climbed to the top of the
box office chart with a weekend gross of more than $190,000, down just
11% from the previous frame. Among debut films, Strand's "I Think I Do"
bowed strongly with a per screen average of over 6,700 clams. Roxie's
"Kurt and Courtney" kept up the hefty receipts, adding four screens and
almost 40% in box office gross. Artisan's "Caught Up" seems to be on its
way out despite landing in second place in the top ten. The film's take
was down over 63% over the previous week and posted a meager $468 per
sheet take.

The Other Top 5 was populated by the usual suspects with one newbe in
the list. Miramax's Ice Cube-directed feature, "The Player's Club" bowed
on 593 screens and posted a $9,940 per screen average and a weekend
gross of over $8,000,000. While not included in the Other Top 5 list,
Sony Pictures Classics' David Mamet pic, "The Spanish Prisoner"
continued doing great business, averaging well over $12,000 per screen,
raising its box office take by over 80% over the previous weekend. The
film has grossed over $400,000 in two weekends of limited release.

The grosses for last week's number one Indie Top Ten film, "Mrs.
Dalloway," were not listed in EDI's database for the past weekend.

++ THE INDIE TOP 10 ++

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND (LGF): $190,147 (-10%) -- Total:
$1,718,668

Week #6 -- 79 Screens (-1) -- $2,407 average per screen

CAUGHT UP (Artisan): $47,268 (-64%) -- Total: $6,570,841

Week #7 -- 101 Screens (-26) -- $468 average per screen

NIAGARA NIAGARA (Artisan): $35,004 (-45%) -- Total: $168,462

Week #4 -- 33 Screens (+1) -- $1,061 average per screen

I THINK I DO (Strand): $33,633 -- Total: $33,633

*Premiere -- 5 Screens -- $6,727 average per screen

POST COITUM (New Yorker): $23,813 (-7%) -- Total: $172,710

Week #5 -- 9 Screens (+3) -- $2,646 average per screen

KURT AND COURTNEY (Roxie): $20,470 (+40%) -- Total: $136,570

Week #7 -- 6 Screens -- (+4) -- $3,412 average per screen

TASTE OF CHERRY (Zeitgeist): $15,094 (-47%) -- Total: $127,923

Week #4 -- 4 Screens (-1) -- $3,774 average per screen

GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME (Strand): $9,011 (+25%) -- Total: $31,879

Week #3 -- 2 Screens (+1) -- $4,506 average per screen

JUNK MAIL (Lions Gate Films): $6,303 -- $6,303

*Premiere -- 2 Screens -- $3,152 average per screen

AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE (Strand): $5,304 (-21%) -- Total: $118,211

Week #9 -- 2 Screens (-1) -- $2,652 average per screen

++ THE OTHER TOP 5 ++

LOST IN SPACE (New Line): $13,395,392 -- Total: $40,222,322

Week #2 -- 3,306 Screens (no change) -- 4,052 average per screen

THE PLAYERS CLUB (New Line): $5,894,607 -- Total: $5,894,607

*Premiere -- 593 Screens -- 9,940 average per screen

GOOD WILL HUNTING (Miramax): $2,002,821 (-37%) -- Total: $129,217,957

Week #19 -- 1,301 Screens (-275) -- $1,539 average per screen

THE WEDDING SINGER (New Line): $601,711 (-49%) -- Total: $73,996,535

Week #9 -- 772 Screens (-254) -- $779 average per screen

THE APOSTLE (October): $344,612 (-38%) -- Total: 19,222,391

Week #17 -- 315 Screens (-173) -- 1,094 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.]