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The mummy was more than undead this week. It proved downright lively by rocketing to No. 1. The Brendan Fraser flick's rental average (55 copies per store) is the highest since May, when Saving Private Ryan hit stores. Moving from the dunes of Egypt to those of North America, Jean-Claude Van Damme's Desert Heat showed surprising sizzle for a straight-to-tape actioner, bowing at No. 15.
TAPE RENTALS GROSS WEEKS EW VIDEO LAST WEEK TO DATE ON CHART GRADE
1 -- THE MUMMY Brendan Fraser $155.3 1 B 2 1 THE MATRIX Keanu Reeves $171.4 2 B+ 3 3 THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS Steve Martin $28.5 2 B 4 2 FORCES OF NATURE Sandra Bullock $52.9 3 -- 5 4 MY FAVORITE MARTIAN Jeff Daniels $36.9 2 C 6 6 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Kevin Costner $52.8 9 B- 7 5 PAYBACK Mel Gibson $81.5 10 C 8 8 ANALYZE THIS Robert De Niro $106.7 7 B+ 9 10 THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN Michelle Pfeiffer $13.9 8 B- 10 7 THE PRINCE OF EGYPT Animated $101.3 3 C+ 11 11 CRUEL INTENTIONS Ryan Phillippe $38.3 9 C+ 12 9 THE CORRUPTOR Chow Yun-Fat $15.1 3 C 13 12 EIGHT MILLIMETER Nicolas Cage $36.6 11 C- 14 13 SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE Clayton Rohner -- 4 C+ 15 -- DESERT HEAT Jean-Claude Van Damme -- 1 B 16 16 PATCH ADAMS Robin Williams $135.0 15 D 17 19 ENEMY OF THE STATE Will Smith $111.5 16 B 18 18 OCTOBER SKY Jake Gyllenhaal $32.5 10 C 19 23 BLAST FROM THE PAST Brendan Fraser $26.5 10 B- 20 15 THE OTHER SISTER Juliette Lewis $27.8 4 D SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 3, 1999 BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC.
