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In the battle of the ex-SNL comics, Chris Farley's Beverly Hills Ninja kicked Eddie Murphy's Metro to dominate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. With a PG-13 rating and 111 more theaters than the R-rated Metro, Ninja pulled down the second-biggest debut gross ever for the MLK weekend (Higher Learning nabbed $13.3 million in 1995). Meanwhile, there weren't many nibbles for Kevin Spacey's directorial debut, Albino Alligator, which earned $101,000 on 12 screens, but Jerry Maguire hit the $100 million mark on Saturday, just in time for Tom Cruise's big Sunday-night win at the Golden Globes.
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WEEKEND GROSS WEEKS IN GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE 1 $12.2 BEVERLY HILLS NINJA TriStar, Chris Farley $12.2 1 2 $11.4 METRO Touchstone, Eddie Murphy $11.4 1 3 $8.9 EVITA Hollywood/Cinergi, Madonna $23.1 4 4 $7.9 THE RELIC Paramount, Penelope Ann Miller $20.0 2 5 $7.5 JERRY MAGUIRE TriStar, Tom Cruise $102.8 6 6 $7.3 SCREAM Dimension, Neve Campbell $59.5 5 7 $7.0 MICHAEL New Line, John Travolta $72.5 4 8 $3.8 THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT Columbia, Woody Harrelson $13.0 4 9 $3.6 JACKIE CHAN'S FIRST STRIKE New Line, Jackie Chan $10.9 2 10 $3.2 101 DALMATIANS Walt Disney, Glenn Close $129.8 8 11 $3.1 MOTHER Paramount, Albert Brooks $5.6 4 12 $2.7 ONE FINE DAY 20th Century Fox, Michelle Pfeiffer $41.0 5 13 $2.5 TURBULENCE MGM, Ray Liotta $8.4 2 14 $2.3 THE ENGLISH PATIENT Miramax, Ralph Fiennes $34.1 10 15 $1.8 SHINE Fine Line, Geoffrey Rush $10.7 9 16 $1.8 EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU Miramax, Goldie Hawn $2.2 4 17 $1.6 THE PREACHER'S WIFE Touchstone, Denzel Washington $44.2 6 18 $1.6 GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI Castle Rock, Alec Baldwin $11.8 5 19 $1.6 BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA Paramount, Animated $61.1 5 20 $1.5 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY Gramercy, Nicole Kidman $2.0 4
TOP 10 / PER SCREEN WEEKEND NO. OF PER-SCREEN SCREENS AVERAGE [**] [***]
1 $9,662 EVITA Hollywood/Cinergi 923 2 $8,182 MOTHER Paramount 380 3 $6,535 EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU Miramax 268 4 $6,019 SHINE Fine Line 306 5 $5,786 BEVERLY HILLS NINJA TriStar 2,112 6 $5,703 METRO Touchstone 2,001 7 $4,226 THE ENGLISH PATIENT Miramax 553 8 $3,858 SCREAM Dimension 1,904 9 $3,720 THE RELIC Paramount 2,128 10 $3,288 JERRY MAGUIRE TriStar 2,286
