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With Hollywood's number crunchers debating whether Armageddon is a hit, you'd think the asteroid flick was a remake of Rashomon. While the movie managed to pull in a solid $36.1 million over the July 4 weekend, it fell short of the similarly themed Deep Impact's $41.2 million debut. And though the Touchstone release marked Disney's biggest live-action opening ever, at reportedly just under $200 million including marketing, it's also the studio's most expensive. Granted, most studios would kill to have this kind of qualified success, but many still feel that the film didn't capitalize on one of the most coveted weekends of the year -- when both Men in Black and Independence Day cleaned up the past two summers. If the glass is indeed half empty, at least the Mouse House has three other films in the top 10 this week: Mulan; Six Days, Seven Nights; and The Horse Whisperer.
NO. OF WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS WEEKEND SITES PER-SCREEN IN TO TOP 20 GROSS* [**] AVERAGE RELEASE DATE
1 ARMAGEDDON Touchstone $36.1 3,127 $11,541 1 $54.2 2 DR. DOLITTLE 20th Century Fox $19.7 2,871 $6,853 2 $64.8 3 MULAN Walt Disney $11.5 2,953 $3,886 3 $77.0 4 OUT OF SIGHT Universal $6.6 2,112 $3,115 2 $23.2 5 THE X-FILES 20th Century Fox $6.3 2,602 $2,403 3 $67.1 6 THE TRUMAN SHOW Paramount $6.0 2,756 $2,180 5 $109.8 7 SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS Touchstone $5.8 2,334 $2,487 4 $56.9 8 A PERFECT MURDER Warner Bros. $3.3 2,076 $1,607 5 $61.1 9 HOPE FLOATS 20th Century Fox $1.6 1,248 $1,285 6 $51.9 10 THE HORSE WHISPERER Touchstone $1.3 1,048 $1,280 8 $68.9 11 EVEREST IMAX $1.1 61 $18,177 18 $24.6 12 GONE WITH THE WIND New Line $0.9 214 $4,198 2 $194.8 13 GODZILLA TriStar $0.8 1,162 $700 7 $134.0 14 DEEP IMPACT Paramount $0.8 1,116 $699 9 $137.2 15 CAN'T HARDLY WAIT Columbia $0.8 1,141 $672 4 $23.3 16 TITANIC Paramount $0.6 618 $1,010 29 $588.2 17 THE OPPOSITE OF SEX Sony Pictures Classics $0.5 175 $2,866 7 $2.5 18 LOST IN SPACE New Line $0.3 535 $577 14 $68.1 19 PAULIE DreamWorks $0.2 622 $381 12 $25.6 20 SMOKE SIGNALS Miramax $0.2 20 $10,766 2 $0.3
SOURCE: EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC. WEEKEND OF JULY 3-5 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS [**]INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS
