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Here -- however early -- comes Santa Claus, toting a sackful of holiday releases and industry anxieties. Since the video market is down about 5 percent from last year, exec-utives are counting on summer-time blockbusters -- like The Lost World -- and wintry straight-to-tape goodies to chase away the fourth-quarter blues. Michael Eisner and all his elves, then, are surely smiling at the jolly sales performance of Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.
TAPE RENTALS
LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 1 THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK Jeff Goldblum,Universal 2 2 2 JINGLE ALL THE WAY Arnold Schwarzenegger, FoxVideo 3 3 -- FACE/OFF John Travolta, Paramount 1 4 4 LIAR LIAR Jim Carrey, Universal 7 5 3 BATMAN & ROBIN George Clooney, Warner 4 6 5 THE FIFTH ELEMENT Bruce Willis, Columbia TriStar 3 7 6 BREAKDOWN Kurt Russell, Paramount 5 8 9 ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION Lisa Kudrow, Touchstone 2 9 7 ANACONDA Jon Voight, Columbia TriStar 6 10 8 AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY Mike Myers, New Line 4
TAPE SALES
1 -- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 1 2 1 THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK Jeff Goldblum, Universal, $22.98 2 3 2 STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Patrick Stewart, Paramount, $14.95 2 4 3 JINGLE ALL THE WAY Arnold Schwarzenegger,FoxVideo, $19.98 3 5 -- BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA Animated, Paramount, $14.95 1 6 5 THE JUNGLE BOOK Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 24 7 -- URBAN COWBOY John Travolta, Paramount, $14.95 1 8 4 BATMAN & ROBIN George Clooney, Warner, $22.97 4 9 7 SLEEPING BEAUTY Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 9 10 11 STAR WARS TRILOGY: SPECIAL EDITION FoxVideo, $49.98 12
DIRECT-TO-TAPE RENTALS
1 1 CASPER: A SPIRITED BEGINFNING Steve Guttenberg, FoxVideo 9 2 -- ANOTHER 9 1/2 WEEKS Mickey Rourke, Trimark 1 3 2 ASTEROID Annabella Sciorra, LIVE 9 4 4 ANNABELLE'S WISH Animated, Hallmark 3 5 7 POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Animated, Walt Disney 14 6 5 SILENT TRIGGER Dolph Lundgren, Hollywood 8 7 3 BREEDERS Todd Jensen, A-Pix 3 8 10 TODD MCFARLANE'S SPAWN Animated, HBO 14 9 9 ERNEST GOES TO AFRICA Jim Varney, Monarch 15 10 8 ''...FIRST DO NO HARM'' Meryl Streep, Touchstone 4
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 16, 1997 DIRECT-TO-TAPE DATA: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 9, 1997; SOME DATA PROVIDED BY VIDTRAC
