Santa played favorites. Leading the list of ''good'' movie stars: John Travolta, whose comedy Michael dominated post-Christmas moviegoing, and Tom Cruise, whose Jerry Maguire is on track to make him the first actor to score five $100 million winners in a row. Lumps of coal were awarded to such ''bad'' performers as Shirley MacLaine, whose The Evening Star sank, and Jack Lemmon, whose My Fellow Americans is probably no Grumpy Old Men -- although Men got off to a similarly unjoyous start before ringing up a very merry box office take.
TOP 20
WEEKEND GROSS WEEKS IN GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE 1 $17.4 MICHAEL New Line, John Travolta $27.6 1 2 $14.0 JERRY MAGUIRE TriStar, Tom Cruise $60.4 3 3 $11.4 101 DALMATIANS Walt Disney, Glenn Close $104.1 5 4 $10.2 BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA Paramount, Animated $41.1 2 5 $9.1 SCREAM Dimension, Neve Campbell $21.3 2 6 $8.0 ONE FINE DAY 20th Century Fox, Michelle Pfeiffer $19.4 2 7 $7.3 THE PREACHER'S WIFE Touchstone, Denzel Washington $27.9 3 8 $5.1 MARS ATTACKS! Warner Bros., Jack Nicholson $25.8 3 9 $4.2 MY FELLOW AMERICANS Warner Bros., Jack Lemmon $10.2 2 10 $3.3 THE EVENING STAR Paramount, Shirley MacLaine $5.3 1 11 $2.9 JINGLE ALL THE WAY 20th Century Fox, Arnold Schwarzenegger $53.2 6 12 $2.7 DAYLIGHT Universal, Sylvester Stallone $25.0 4 13 $2.7 RANSOM Touchstone, Mel Gibson $124.6 8 14 $2.7 THE ENGLISH PATIENT Miramax, Ralph Fiennes $22.8 7 15 $2.6 STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Paramount, Patrick Stewart $85.1 6 16 $2.1 SPACE JAM Warner Bros., Michael Jordan $81.9 7 17 $1.6 SHINE Fine Line, Geoffrey Rush $3.5 6 18 $0.8 THE CRUCIBLE 20th Century Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis $2.3 5 19 $0.7 THE FIRST WIVES CLUB Paramount, Goldie Hawn $103.4 15 20 $0.5 THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT Columbia, Woody Harrelson $0.6 1
TOP 10 / PER SCREEN
WEEKEND NO. OF PER-SCREEN SCREENS AVERAGE[**] [***]
1 $32,706 THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT Columbia 16 2 $8,144 MICHAEL New Line 2,141 3 $7,741 SHINE Fine Line 207 4 $6,259 SCREAM Dimension 1,450 5 $5,619 THE CRUCIBLE 20th Century Fox 143 6 $5,541 JERRY MAGUIRE TriStar 2,531 7 $4,570 THE ENGLISH PATIENT Miramax 582 8 $4,292 BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA Paramount 2,379 9 $4,064 ONE FINE DAY 20th Century Fox 1,975 10 $3,924 101 DALMATIANS Walt Disney 2,901
