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On 12 Jul 95 at 11:51, Cal commented on "Re: Box Office Action":
> On Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:06:16 +0200 Mario Gamper said:
> >1. Are there other sources on the economic success (or not) of the Action
> > genre?
> >
> In general there are few sources other than VARIETY for distribution
> gross (that is, film rental transmitted to the distributor).
>
> Distributors gross is only one measure of "economic success." A cheaply
> made film that does moderate business can be more profitable than a more
> expensive film that does somewhat more business.
>
> >2. Does Variety put is B.O. Data on the net?
>
> No
But...
ENTERTIANMENT WEEKLY does! Here's last week's top five:
WEEKEND GROSS WEEKS IN
GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE
1 $29.5 POCAHONTAS
Walt Disney, Animated $34.5 2
2 $29.2 BATMAN FOREVER
Warner Bros., Val Kilmer $106.6 2
3 $8.1 CONGO
Paramount, Dylan Walsh $58.0 3
4 $6.2 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Warner Bros., Clint Eastwood $46.3 4
5 $4.9 CASPER
Universal, Christina Ricci $75.3 5
Their URL is:
http://www.pathfinder.com/ew/
But this is a graphics-heavy page. I'd suggest going to their
graphics-lite page if you've got a slow link to the Internet:
http://www.pathfinder.com/ew/contents.html
Of course, this ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY stuff is only for current films.
They don't have grosses for older films.
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