The Indie Top 10 and the Other Top 5: 4.3.98 - 4.5.98

by indieWIRE (April 7, 1998)

by Mark Rabinowitz

Lions Gate's "Love and Death on Long Island" isn't afraid of Virginia Woolf, coming in a close second to First Look's "Mrs. Dalloway" which continued to kick some box office booty, with both films gaining 1% despite losing 1 and 2 screens, respectively. No premieres cracked the top 10 this week, but Roxie's Nick Broomfield-directed doc, "Kurt and Courtney" made an entrance into the top 10 in its sixth week of release, grossing $14,645 for the weekend with a hefty per sheet average of over seven grand. Zeitgeist's "Taste of Cherry" and New Yorker's "Post Coitum" both performed well, with the latter picking up a hefty 33% B.O. return while not adding any screens.

In the Other Top 5, New Line's "Lost in Space" will go down in history as the film that finally knocked "Titanic" out of its 15-week perch in the top spot. The sci-fi pic nabbed a hefty $20 mil plus, but will have to have legs like Betty Grable to make back its $90 million-plus price tag in domestic release.

Editor's Note: Last week indieWIRE inadvertantly mis-reported the Other Top 5, leaving Miramax release "Ride" off of the talley. Last wekend's take for "Ride," which would have placed it at number 3 for the weekend, follows this week's Other Top 5.

++ THE INDIE TOP 10 ++

MRS. DALLOWAY (First Look): $258,111 (+1%) -- Total: $1,941,968
Week #7 -- 89 Screens (-2) -- $2,900 average per screen

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND (LGF): $212,359 (+1%) -- Total: $1,444,523
Week #5 -- 80 Screens (-1) -- $2,654 average per screen

CAUGHT UP (Live): $130,791 (-18%) -- Total: $6,471,332
Week #6 -- 127 Screens (-111) -- $1,030 average per screen

NIAGARA NIAGARA (Live): $64,192 (+248%) -- Total: $109,536
Week #3 -- 32 Screens (+29) -- $2,006 average per screen

TASTE OF CHERRY (Zeitgeist): $28,223 (+5%) -- Total: $109,536
Week #3 -- 5 Screens (+1) -- $5,645 average per screen

FIREWORKS (Milestone): $26,038 (-42%) -- Total: $184,344
Week #3 -- 7 Screens (-5) -- $3,720 average per screen

POST COITUM (New Yorker): $25,513 (+33%) -- Total: $136,418
Week #4 -- 6 Screens (no change) -- $4,252 average per screen

KURT AND COURTNEY (Roxie): $14,645 -- Total: $109,640
Week #6 -- 2 Screens -- (-2) -- $7,323 average per screen

GENERAL CHAOS (Island Digital): $11,971 -- Total: $50,629
Week #9 -- 3 Screens (no change) -- $3,990 average per screen

GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME (Strand): $7,200 (-14%) -- Total: $20,268
Week#2 -- 1 Screens (no change) -- $7,200 average per screen

++ THE OTHER TOP 5 ++

LOST IN SPACE (New Line): $20,154,919 -- Total: $20,154,919
*Premiere -- 3,306 Screens -- 6,096 average per screen

GOOD WILL HUNTING (Miramax): $3,169,473 (-23%) -- Total: $126,001,553
Week #18 -- 1,576 Screens (-66) -- $2,011 average per screen

RIDE (Miramax): $1,412,575 (-44%) -- Total: $4,479,424
Week #2 -- 509 Screens (+13) -- $2,775 average per screen

THE WEDDING SINGER (New Line): $1,178,282 (-35%) -- Total: $72,880,931
Week #8 -- 1,026 Screens (-660) -- $1,148 average per screen

MR. NICE GUY (New Line): $961,084 (-63%) -- Total: $10,772,797
Week #3 -- 1,091 Screens (-372) -- $881 average per screen

CORRECTION:
(3.27.98-3.29.98)--RIDE (Miramax): $2,513,334 -- Total: $2,513,334
*Premiere -- 496 Screens -- 5,067 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.]

posted on April 7, 1998
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