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Out with the old, in with the new -- that phrase certainly rang true with this week's chart debuts. The Replacement Killers -- the stylized shoot-'em-up manufactured to make a U.S. superstar out of Hong Kong action hero Chow Yun-Fat -- did a muscular $8 million, while Blues Brothers 2000 got stuck on the downbeat, striking up just $6.1 million on 571 additional screens. Nil by Mouth, Gary Oldman's semiautobiographical directorial debut, enjoyed the weekend's best per-screen average, taking in $14,184 on two screens. As for the obligatory Titanic progress report: The movie became the fourth highest grossing of all time, leapfrogging Forrest Gump, which earned $329.7 million at domestic box offices. And last weekend marked the eighth consecutive weekend Titanic has earned more than $20 million, but also the first that it's dipped under $25 million. Tough break.
TOP 20 WEEKEND NO. OF WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS GROSS* SCREENS PER- IN RELEASE TO DATE [**] SCREEN AVERAGE
1 TITANIC $23.0 2,956 $7,790 8 $337.4 Paramount 2 THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS TriStar $8.0 1,936 $4,156 1 $8.0 3 GOOD WILL HUNTING Miramax $6.8 2,157 $3,166 10 $68.3 4 BLUES BROTHERS 2000 Universal $6.1 2,507 $2,445 1 $6.1 5 GREAT EXPECTATIONS 20th Century Fox $5.3 1,906 $2,782 2 $17.1 6 AS GOOD AS IT GETS TriStar $5.0 1,795 $2,802 7 $92.3 7 SPICE WORLD Columbia $4.0 2,272 $1,765 3 $23.7 8 WAG THE DOG New Line $3.4 1,586 $2,127 7 $33.8 9 DESPERATE MEASURES TriStar $3.0 1,963 $1,531 2 $10.3 10 DEEP RISING Hollywood $2.5 1,788 $1,408 2 $8.4 11 FALLEN Warner Bros. $1.3 1,705 $753 4 $23.4 12 HARD RAIN Paramount $1.2 1,962 $617 4 $18.4 13 TOMORROW NEVER DIES MGM/UA $1.1 983 $1,073 8 $119.7 14 MOUSE HUNT DreamWorks $1.0 1,082 $898 8 $57.8 15 THE APOSTLE October $1.0 110 $8,781 8 $2.0 16 AMISTAD DreamWorks $1.0 818 $1,172 9 $40.9 17 HALF BAKED Universal $0.8 880 $900 4 $16.2 18 ZERO EFFECT Columbia $0.5 124 $3,634 2 $1.1 19 STAR KID Trimark $0.4 584 $769 4 $5.6 20 FOR RICHER OR POORER Universal $0.4 573 $780 9 $30.3
SOURCE: EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC. *WEEKEND OF FEB. 6-8 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS [**]INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS
