'JACK' OF ALL TRADES

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'JACK' OF ALL TRADES

Alas, poor Hamlet. If only Robin Williams' cameo in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean juggernaut were a starring role, the film's success might be as good as guaranteed. Behold Williams' previous theatrical foray, Jack. After roping in $58.6 million at the box office, the boy-with-the-man's-body comedy skips into the No. 2 spot on the rentals chart its first week on video. That's only one step behind The Birdcage and Jumanji, which nabbed the top spots in their rental debuts after garnering much bigger grosses -- $124 million and $100 million, respectively. With such precedents (and no threat from the kid-friendly Bogus, the chart's other debut down at No. 25), Jack may be holding court for some time to come.

TOP 10 TAPE RENTALS

LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART

1 1 PHENOMENON John Travolta, Touchstone 4 2 -- JACK Robin Williams, Hollywood 1 3 2 THE ROCK Sean Connery, Hollywood 11 4 3 A TIME TO KILL Matthew McConaughey, Warner 6 5 4 EDDIE Whoopi Goldberg, Hollywood 3 6 11 THE FAN Robert De Niro, Columbia TriStar 2 7 7 ESCAPE FROM L.A. Kurt Russell, Paramount 3 8 8 KINGPIN Woody Harrelson, MGM/UA 5 9 6 ALASKA Thora Birch, Columbia TriStar 3 10 5 D3: THE MIGHTY DUCKS Emilio Estevez, Walt Disney 3

TAPE SALES

1 -- BAMBI Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 24 2 2 INDEPENDENCE DAY Bill Pullman, FoxVideo, $22.98 12 3 8 STAR WARS TRILOGY Mark Hamill, FoxVideo, $49.98 96 4 1 CASINO Robert De Niro, MCA/Universal, $19.98 2 5 10 TOY STORY Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 15 6 -- A WALK IN THE CLOUDS Keanu Reeves, FoxVideo, $14.98 1 7 3 ALASKA Thora Birch, Columbia TriStar, $22.98 3 8 7 SABRINA Harrison Ford, Paramount, $14.95 3 9 9 MATILDA Mara Wilson, Columbia TriStar, $24.95 8 10 -- THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Daniel Day-Lewis, FoxVideo, $14.98 46

SPORTS TAPE SALES

2 WKS AGO

1 1 THE 1996 WORLD SERIES VIDEO Orion, $19.98 11 2 2 MICHAEL JORDAN: ABOVE & BEYOND CBS/Fox, $14.98 39 3 4 MICHAEL JORDAN: AIR TIME CBS/Fox, $19.98 189 4 8 NFL: 100 GREATEST FOLLIES PolyGram, $19.95 45 5 5 MICHAEL JORDAN: COME FLY WITH ME CBS/Fox, $19.98 358 6 3 THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL: 20 YEARS OF UNFORGETTABLE PLAYS AND BLOOPERS Orion, $14.98 13 7 9 SUPER SLUGGERS Orion, $14.98 15 8 -- THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP 4 Vidmark, $69.99 1 9 7 THE OFFICIAL 1996 NBA FINALS VIDEO CBS/Fox, $19.98 25 10 6 PINSTRIPE DESTINY Orion, $19.98 5

SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 9, 1997 SPORTS DATA: BILLBOARD FROM THE ISSUE DATED FEB. 15, 1997