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Well, what can we say? America loves its man-whores. Video hounds ratified Rob Schneider's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo with an estimated 2.7 million rentals and a strong No. 2 bow behind reigning champ The Green Mile. That left little room at the table for the debut of Jodie Foster's lavish costume drama Anna and the King, which found itself Thai-ed up at No. 6 under the three-week-old Next Friday.
TAPE RENTALS
LAST GROSS TO WEEKS ON EW VIDEO WEEK DATE CHART GRADE 1 1 THE GREEN MILE Tom Hanks $136.8 2 A- 2 -- DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO Rob Schneider $65.5 1 D+ 3 2 GIRL, INTERRUPTED Winona Ryder $28.9 3 B 4 3 BICENTENNIAL MAN Robin Williams $58.2 2 B- 5 4 NEXT FRIDAY Ice Cube $57.2 3 C- 6 -- ANNA AND THE KING Jodie Foster $39.3 1 C 7 5 SLEEPY HOLLOW Johnny Depp $101.1 5 B+ 8 6 AMERICAN BEAUTY Kevin Spacey $130.1 7 A- 9 7 PLAY IT TO THE BONE Antonio Banderas $8.4 2 D+ 10 10 THE SIXTH SENSE Bruce Willis $292.9 13 A- 11 11 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Ewan McGregor $16.5 5 C- 12 9 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH Pierce Brosnan $126.9 6 B- 13 8 MAN ON THE MOON Jim Carrey $34.6 4 C 14 13 THREE KINGS George Clooney $60.7 11 B+ 15 12 END OF DAYS Arnold Schwarzenegger $66.9 10 B 16 14 FIGHT CLUB Brad Pitt $37.0 9 B 17 15 GALAXY QUEST Tim Allen $71.6 8 B+ 18 17 DOGMA Matt Damon $30.7 8 B- 19 18 SUPERSTAR Molly Shannon $30.6 11 B- 20 20 THE BONE COLLECTOR Denzel Washington $66.5 15 C+
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 25, 2000 BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC., AND EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC.
EW RECOMMENDS EW VIDEO GRADE DIVINE TRASH Documentary (Fox Lorber, unrated) Steve Yeager's ode to Pink Flamingos glorifies helmer John Waters' calculated blasphemy. EW VIDEO GRADE B
MOON OVER BROADWAY Documentary (Docurama, unrated) A clever log of Carol Burnett's return to Broadway in the comedy Moon Over Buffalo. [EW VIDEO GRADE]B+
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY Matt Damon (Paramount, R) Visuals rich as creme de menthe enhance this take on Patricia Highsmith's antihero. [EW VIDEO GRADE]B+
