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What a difference A Cage makes. Where Brian De Palma's last critically lambasted flick, the Nicholas Cage-driven Hitchcock homage Snake Eyes, spent three vertiginous weeks atop the rental chart, the filmmaker's latest offering, the Gary Sinise-driven Kubrick homage Mission to Mars, touched down beneath the three-week-old Any Given Sunday. But cheer up, Brian: At least you bested 1997's Mars Attacks!, which burned up on reentry at No. 9.
TAPE RENTALS
LAST GROSS TO WEEKS ON EW VIDEO WEEK DATE CHART GRADE 1 1 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY Al Pacino $75.5 3 B+ 2 -- MISSION TO MARS Gary Sinise $60.9 1 D 3 2 ERIN BROCKOVICH Julia Roberts $125.6 5 B+ 4 3 AMERICAN PSYCHO Christian Bale $15.1 2 C+ 5 4 THE WHOLE NINE YARDS Bruce Willis $57.3 9 C- 6 5 THE CIDER HOUSE RULES Tobey Maguire $57.5 5 B 7 6 THE NEXT BEST THING Madonna $15.0 3 C+ 8 7 REINDEER GAMES Ben Affleck $23.4 6 D 9 8 3 STRIKES Brian Hooks $9.8 3 -- 10 10 DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO Rob Schneider $65.5 13 D+ 11 13 ROMEO MUST DIE Jet Li $56.0 6 C+ 12 11 THE GREEN MILE Tom Hanks $136.8 14 A- 13 9 HELD UP Jamie Foxx $4.7 3 -- 14 14 THE BEACH Leonardo DiCaprio $39.8 8 B- 15 15 THE HURRICANE Denzel Washington $50.7 10 B- 16 17 THE NINTH GATE Johnny Depp $18.7 9 D 17 12 SUPERNOVA Angela Bassett $14.2 4 D 18 16 I DREAMED OF AFRICA Kim Basinger $6.5 3 C+ 19 18 THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY Matt Damon $81.3 12 B+ 20 19 DROWNING MONA Bette Midler $15.5 8 D-
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 17, 2000 BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC., AND EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC.
