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. ===================================================================== Jeremy Butler * [log in to unmask] * [log in to unmask] SCREENsite -- a Film/TV-studies site on the World Wide Web: http://www.sa.ua.edu/TCF/welcome.htm Telecommunication & Film Dept. * University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa ===================================================================== ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]