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It's the last hope of movie execs: We'll make up for our low grosses on video! But that scenario doesn't seem likely for this week's two new rental titles, Sphere and Phantoms, which debut in just about the same slots they scored when they first appeared in theaters last winter. If box office is any barometer -- and these days, it usually is -- don't look for either title to rule the video charts. The deep-sea thriller Sphere lasted only four weeks before sinking below the top 20, and Phantoms, a lame Dean Koontz thriller that Ben Affleck can't save, dropped out in two weeks.
TAPE RENTALS
LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 1 GOOD WILL HUNTING Matt Damon, Miramax 2 2 -- SPHERE Dustin Hoffman, Warner 1 3 2 WAG THE DOG Dustin Hoffman, New Line 3 4 4 FALLEN Denzel Washington, Warner 5 5 5 AS GOOD AS IT GETS Jack Nicholson, Columbia TriStar 9 6 3 SCREAM 2 Neve Campbell, Dimension 6 7 7 AMISTAD Morgan Freeman, DreamWorks 3 8 8 THE POSTMAN Kevin Costner, Warner 4 9 -- PHANTOMS Ben Affleck, Dimension 1 10 6 THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS Chow Yun-Fat, Columbia TriStar 3
TAPE SALES
1 -- THE SPIRIT OF MICKEY Animated, Walt Disney, $22.99 1 2 1 SPICE WORLD The Spice Girls, Columbia TriStar, $14.95 5 3 5 AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY Mike Myers, New Line, $14.98 20 4 2 GREASE John Travolta, Paramount, $19.95 4 5 13 1998 NBA FINALS Michael Jordan, Fox, $19.98 2 6 3 SWINGERS Jon Favreau, Miramax, $19.99 2 7 6 FACE/OFF Nicolas Cage, Paramount, $14.95 8 8 4 CONTACT Jodie Foster, Warner, $19.98 3 9 7 AS GOOD AS IT GETS Jack Nicholson, Columbia TriStar, $22.99 9 10 12 SOUTH PARK: VOLUME I Animated, Warner, $14.95 11
DIRECT-TO-TAPE RENTALS
1 -- POSTMORTEM Charlie Sheen, Sterling 1 2 1 JOEY Ed Begley Jr., MGM 2 3 -- WATCHERS REBORN Mark Hamill, New Horizons 1 4 -- RETROACTIVE James Belushi, Orion 1 5 4 UNCLE SAM Robert Forster, A-Pix 2 6 5 THE PROPHECY II Christopher Walken, Dimension 25 7 3 MEAN GUNS Christopher Lambert, Trimark 2 8 2 THE RAGE Gary Busey, Dimension 2 9 7 ANGELS IN THE ENDZONE Christopher Lloyd, Walt Disney 8 10 9 BODY COUNT Ice-T, LIVE 17
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 19, 1998 DIRECT-TO-TAPE RENTALS: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 12, 1998
