Old fashions please me best,'' says Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. Renters of high school flicks seem to be just as attracted to the styles of yester-year. While The Rage: Carrie 2 -- the sequel to Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie -- rented 25 copies per store and took third place, 10 Things I Hate About You -- a teen update of William Shakespeare's Shrew (c. 1593) -- moved an average of 22 and came in at No. 4.
TAPE RENTALS
LAST WEEK GROSS WEEKS EW TO ON VIDEO DATE CHART GRADE
1 1 THE MUMMY Brendan Fraser $155.3 3 B 2 2 THE MATRIX Keanu Reeves $171.4 4 B+ 3 -- THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 Emily Bergl $17.8 1 C 4 -- 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Julia Stiles $38.2 1 B 5 4 FORCES OF NATURE Sandra Bullock $52.9 5 -- 6 6 PUSHING TIN John Cusack $8.4 2 B- 7 3 THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS Steve Martin $28.5 4 B 8 5 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Kevin Costner $52.8 11 B- 9 7 MY FAVORITE MARTIAN Jeff Daniels $36.9 4 C 10 9 ANALYZE THIS Robert De Niro $106.7 9 B+ 11 8 PAYBACK Mel Gibson $81.5 12 C 12 10 THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR Gretchen Mol $11.8 2 D 13 19 THE OTHER SISTER Juliette Lewis $27.8 6 D 14 11 EIGHT MILLIMETER Nicolas Cage $36.6 13 C- 15 -- GOODBYE LOVER Patricia Arquette $1.9 1 D+ 16 14 DESERT HEAT Jean-Claude Van Damme -- 3 B 17 12 ENEMY OF THE STATE Will Smith $111.5 18 B 18 13 CRUEL INTENTIONS Ryan Phillippe $38.3 11 C+ 19 18 OCTOBER SKY Jake Gyllenhaal $32.5 12 C 20 15 THE CORRUPTOR Chow Yun-Fat $15.1 5 C
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 17, 1999 BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC.
