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The United Artists teen slasher flick Jeepers Creepers posted a new record for a Labor Day weekend opening ($15.8 million), which is sort of like saying Leprechaun 3 is the best Leprechaun movie. Wresting the previous Labor Day opening title from 1996's The Crow: City of Angels, UA's bogeyman opus also appeared to spank the current competition, but only because fellow rookie O bowed on fewer than half as many screens. At summer's end, box office receipts stand at $2.96 billion--roughly 10 percent higher than last year's total. And while the biggest hit of the season was DreamWorks' Shrek ($263 million), the real boss of the beach was Universal, whose four back-to-back chart-toppers rewarded the studio with the biggest piece of this summer's pie.
TOP 20 NO. OF WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS WEEKEND SITES PER-SITE IN TO GROSS* [1] AVERAGE RELEASE DATE
1 JEEPERS CREEPERS United Artists $15.8 2,944 $5,378 1 $15.8 2 RUSH HOUR 2 New Line $11.7 2,825 $4,146 5 $198.9 3 AMERICAN PIE 2 Universal $11.0 3,114 $3,536 4 $124.9 4 THE OTHERS Dimension $10.2 2,716 $3,742 4 $60.0 5 RAT RACE Paramount $9.2 2,551 $3,589 3 $37.8 6 THE PRINCESS DIARIES Disney $7.6 2,690 $2,822 5 $92.9 7 O Lions Gate $6.9 1,434 $4,823 1 $6.9 8 JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK Dimension $6.5 2,765 $2,357 2 $22.0 9 SUMMER CATCH Warner Bros. $4.9 2,335 $2,104 2 $14.4 10 CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN Universal $3.9 1,612 $2,440 3 $19.7 11 PLANET OF THE APES 20th Century Fox $3.8 1,504 $2,557 6 $173.1 12 JURASSIC PARK III Universal $2.3 1,143 $2,030 7 $175.8 13 JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS OF MARS Screen Gems $2.1 2,048 $1,028 2 $7.3 14 THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION DreamWorks $2.0 909 $2,191 2 $5.3 15 THE DEEP END Fox Searchlight $1.8 326 $5,394 4 $4.7 16 LEGALLY BLONDE MGM $1.7 878 $1,971 8 $88.6 17 AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS Columbia $1.3 1,565 $835 7 $91.5 18 AMERICAN OUTLAWS Warner Bros. $1.3 1,007 $1,294 3 $11.2 19 BUBBLE BOY Touchstone $1.3 1,605 $804 2 $4.2 20 PEARL HARBOR Touchstone $1.2 1,036 $1,124 15 $196.7
SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC. WEEKEND OF AUG. 31-SEPT. 3 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS [1]INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS
