Titanic
refused to go down as it entered its sixth week at the box-office. The film
remained at the premier position with 25 million dollars, refusing to budge
as new entrants collided against it. While last weekend’s collection
was actually higher than that of the previous week, thanks to an increase
in the number of screens (going up by 21 to 2,767), this weekend saw a fall
in collection from 29 to 25 million because of the Super Bowl. Its per screen
average remained the highest in the Top Ten and the film entered the all-time
Top Ten list at the US box-office, having collected almost 275 million dollars.
The film displaced Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, which was at no 10 with
approx. 260 million dollars. The film is headed for a 350-400 million dollar
US domestic gross and internationally, the film has crossed the 150 million
dollar mark already, with several markets yet to be tapped. Spice World,
the Sony Pictures release of the Spice Girls movie, which opened in Britain
earlier, made its debut at the no. 2 position with 11 million dollars. Good
Will Hunting, the winner of this year’s Best Screenplay Golden Globe
for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, was at the third position with 9 million
dollars. As Good As It Gets collected over 7.5 million dollars at the box-office
after the three Golden Globes it won, including Best comedy and Best Actor
for Jack Nicholson. Warner Bros’ new thriller, Fallen, which had opened
at the third position, collecting over 9 million dollars at the box-office
in its opening weekend, fell by 53 per cent to the fifth place with barely
5 million dollars. Though the film had Denzel Washington, Warner’s poor
luck at the box-office continued. The other major new film that had opened
last weekend was Paramount’s Hard Raina, which also fell by 54 per cent
to the seventh position with over 3.5 million dollars. The much delayed film
which was earlier titled The Flood, stars Christian Slater, who is now in
prison serving a three-month sentence for beating up his girlfriend under
the influence of drugs and alcohol. The film is positioned as a bank heist
adventure, thanks to the failure of recent disaster films like Volcano. Among
the other films, the half-baked comedy, Half Baked, fell to the eighth position
with almost 7 million dollars, and the thriller Phantoms, made its debut
at the ninth position with over 3 million dollars. Industry pundits also
realised that controversy does not really help a film, as the Bill Clinton
scandal failed to help the box-office collections of Wag The Dog, a satarical
comedy about a presidential sex scandal, starrng Dustin
Hoffman.
Titanic
refused to go down as it entered its sixth week at the box-office. The film
remained at the premier position with 25 million dollars, refusing to budge
as new entrants collided against it. While last weekend’s collection
was actually higher than that of the previous week, thanks to an increase
in the number of screens (going up by 21 to 2,767), this weekend saw a fall
in collection from 29 to 25 million because of the Super Bowl. Its per screen
average remained the highest in the Top Ten and the film entered the all-time
Top Ten list at the US box-office, having collected almost 275 million dollars.
The film displaced Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, which was at no 10 with
approx. 260 million dollars. The film is headed for a 350-400 million dollar
US domestic gross and internationally, the film has crossed the 150 million
dollar mark already, with several markets yet to be tapped. Spice World,
the Sony Pictures release of the Spice Girls movie, which opened in Britain
earlier, made its debut at the no. 2 position with 11 million dollars. Good
Will Hunting, the winner of this year’s Best Screenplay Golden Globe
for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, was at the third position with 9 million
dollars. As Good As It Gets collected over 7.5 million dollars at the box-office
after the three Golden Globes it won, including Best comedy and Best Actor
for Jack Nicholson. Warner Bros’ new thriller, Fallen, which had opened
at the third position, collecting over 9 million dollars at the box-office
in its opening weekend, fell by 53 per cent to the fifth place with barely
5 million dollars. Though the film had Denzel Washington, Warner’s poor
luck at the box-office continued. The other major new film that had opened
last weekend was Paramount’s Hard Raina, which also fell by 54 per cent
to the seventh position with over 3.5 million dollars. The much delayed film
which was earlier titled The Flood, stars Christian Slater, who is now in
prison serving a three-month sentence for beating up his girlfriend under
the influence of drugs and alcohol. The film is positioned as a bank heist
adventure, thanks to the failure of recent disaster films like Volcano. Among
the other films, the half-baked comedy, Half Baked, fell to the eighth position
with almost 7 million dollars, and the thriller Phantoms, made its debut
at the ninth position with over 3 million dollars. Industry pundits also
realised that controversy does not really help a film, as the Bill Clinton
scandal failed to help the box-office collections of Wag The Dog, a satarical
comedy about a presidential sex scandal, starrng Dustin
Hoffman.
