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 ++

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

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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.] Login to recommend this article » posted on April 14, 1998 Films to Snag Login to Leave a Comment »