1995 Box Office Report

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

1995 MARKET SHARE: 7.6%
HITS: Die Hard With a Vengeance, Waiting to Exhale
MISSES: Strange Days, Bye Bye, Love
DIG DEALS: July 3 brings Stargate director Roland Emmerich's mega-budget alien movie Independence Day; Keanu Reeves gets buff again in the thriller Dead Drop, directed by The Fugitive's Andrew Davis.
BIG RISK: Fox tries to rejuvenate a franchise with Alien 4, scripted by Speed writer Joss Whedon.
SLEEPERS: Two movies about young love: Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play Romeo and Juliet; Janeane Garofalo and Uma Thurman costar in The Truth About Cats & Dogs, a female Cyrano.

NEW LINE

1995 MARKET SHARE: 6.6%
HITS: Seven, Mortal Kombat
MISSES: The Basketball Diaries, Angus
BIG DEALS: Bruce Willis stars in the Yojimbo remake Last Man Standing. As young Hemingway and his nurse, Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock make love in the World War I drama In Love and War.
BIG RISK: Geena Davis and her husband, director Renny Harlin, need to wash Cutthroat Islandout of their hair with the new thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight.
SLEEPER: Can Asian action star Jackie Chan conquer America with the English-language Rumble in the Bronx?

MGM/UA

1995 MARKET SHARE: 6.2%
HITS: Goldeneye, Get Shorty
MISSES: Fluke, Tank Girl
BIG DEAL: Bill Murray costars with a cute circus elephant named Vera in Large as Life.
BIG RISK: Mike Nichols will try to recapture the success of the 1978 drag comedy La Cage aux Folles in his remake The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
SLEEPER: Small-time hustler Woody Harrelson befriends Amish bowler Randy Quaid in Kingpin.

MIRAMAX

1995 MARKET SHARE: 3.5%
HITS: The art-house successes Smokeand The Postman (Il Postino)
MISSES: Four Rooms, Picture Bride
BIG DEALS: Frenchman Vincent Perez (Queen Margot) takes over for Brandon Lee in The Crow: City of Angels. And the Jane Austen bandwagon rolls on with Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and The Net's Jeremy Northam.
BIG RISK: The expensive, exotic WWII drama The English Patient, with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.
SLEEPER: The comedy The Pallbearer could give Friends' David Schwimmer life beyond sitcoms.

GRAMERCY

1995 MARKET SHARE: 1.1%
HIT: The Usual Suspects
MISS: Mallrats BIG DEAL: For the Baywatch crowd, Pamela Anderson Lee plays the buxom title character in Barb Wire; for the Masterpiece Theatre set, Nicole Kidman stars in Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady.
BIG RISK: In the wake of Comedy Central's cancellation of the television cult favorite comes Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie—will moviegoers actually pay to watch moviegoers watching a bad movie?
SLEEPER: The Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan) return to their Blood Simple roots with the Dakotas-set crime story Fargo.