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Who are the bigger movie stars? Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves or Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar? In a striking display of girl power, weekend moviegoers voted for TV's Hewitt (Party of Five) and Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), propelling their modest, $16.7 million teen- slasher movie, I Know What You Did Last Summer, into the top spot. (It didn't hurt that ads touted that the film was ''from the creator of Scream''; see story on page 6.) Pacino's luxe, $60 million satanic thriller, The Devil's Advocate, had to settle for a solid but still second-place $12.2 million debut. Another upset occurred in the middle of the list: David Duchovny (moonlighting from The X-Files) attracted less than $2 million on 1,479 screens with his docs-and-robbers actioner, Playing God; he was upstaged by British TV sensation Rowan Atkinson, whose Bean racked up $2.3 million on just 242 screens in Canada, after grossing more than $100 million overseas.
NO. OF WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS WEEKEND SCREENS PER-SCREEN IN TO TOP 20 GROSS* [**] AVERAGE RELEASE DATE*
1 I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER Columbia $15.8 2,524 $6,267 1 $15.8 2 THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE Warner Bros. $12.2 2,161 $5,632 1 $12.2 3 KISS THE GIRLS Paramount $7.0 2,385 $2,925 3 $39.2 4 SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET TriStar $6.4 2,103 $3,049 2 $19.8 5 IN & OUT Paramount $3.7 2,315 $1,604 5 $53.1 6 SOUL FOOD 20th Century Fox $3.3 1,213 $2,731 4 $35.2 7 ROCKETMAN Walt Disney $3.0 1,839 $1,625 2 $8.7 8 THE PEACEMAKER DreamWorks $2.7 1,983 $1,347 4 $35.7 9 L.A. CONFIDENTIAL Warner Bros. $2.5 1,345 $1,891 5 $26.9 10 BEAN Gramercy $2.3 242 $9,319 1 $2.3 11 PLAYING GOD Touchstone $1.9 1,479 $1,310 1 $1.9 12 THE FULL MONTY Fox Searchlight $1.7 644 $2,693 10 $22.4 13 THE EDGE 20th Century Fox $1.7 1,588 $1,053 4 $23.1 14 MOST WANTED New Line $1.1 2,098 $503 2 $4.8 15 THE GAME PolyGram $1.0 1,185 $852 6 $44.9 16 BOOGIE NIGHTS New Line $0.9 30 $28,972 2 $1.0 17 GANG RELATED Orion $0.8 1,260 $661 2 $4.9 18 FIRE DOWN BELOW Warner Bros. $0.5 484 $932 7 $15.8 19 HERCULES Walt Disney $0.4 662 $679 18 $97.0 20 MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING TriStar $0.4 461 $792 18 $124.2
SOURCE: EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC. WEEKEND OF OCT. 17-19 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS
[**] INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS
