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The smell of teen spirit wafting from William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet was enough to propel the glitzy remake to the top of Hollywood's buzz bin. According to CinemaScore, R&J's core audience was young (77 percent under 25), female (65 percent), and twice as likely to be drawn by Leonardo DiCaprio than by his Juliet, Claire Danes. Two other Shakespearean entries attracted much smaller audiences, even in their limited runs. While R&J packed houses for an $8,718 per-screen average, the thirtysomethings of Twelfth Night drew $4,400 per screen and Al Pacino's grizzled riff Looking for Richard earned $3,515 per.
TOP 20
WEEKEND GROSS WEEKS IN GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE
1 $11.1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO & JULIET 20th Century Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio $11.1 1 2 $8.0 SLEEPERS Warner Bros., Brad Pitt $37.6 3 3 $5.0 HIGH SCHOOL HIGH TriStar, Jon Lovitz $12.6 2 4 $3.8 LARGER THAN LIFE United Artists, Bill Murray $3.8 1 5 $3.7 THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS Paramount, Val Kilmer $31.8 4 6 $3.6 STEPHEN KING'S THINNER Paramount, Robert John Burke $10.9 2 7 $3.6 THE FIRST WIVES CLUB Paramount, Goldie Hawn $93.7 7 8 $3.2 DEAR GOD Paramount, Greg Kinnear $3.2 1 9 $3.1 THE ASSOCIATE Hollywood, Whoopi Goldberg $8.7 2 10 $2.4 THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT New Line, Geena Davis $28.9 4 11 $2.2 MICHAEL COLLINS Warner Bros., Liam Neeson $6.1 4 12 $1.2 THAT THING YOU DO! 20th Century Fox, Tom Hanks $22.2 5 13 $1.1 TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY Triumph, Claire Danes $3.2 3 14 $1.0 INDEPENDENCE DAY 20th Century Fox, Will Smith $302.3 18 15 $0.9 D3: THE MIGHTY DUCKS Walt Disney, Emilio Estevez $19.5 5 16 $0.8 BIG NIGHT Samuel Goldwyn, Stanley Tucci $7.6 7 17 $0.6 PHENOMENON Touchstone, John Travolta $102.4 18 18 $0.6 BAD MOON Warner Bros., Mariel Hemingway $0.6 1 19 $0.6 THE CHAMBER Universal, Chris O'Donnell $13.5 4 20 $0.5 FLY AWAY HOME Columbia, Anna Paquin $21.5 8
TOP 10 / PER SCREEN
WEEKEND NO. OF PER-SCREEN SCREENS AVERAGE [**] [***]
1 $8,718 ...ROMEO & JULIET 20th Century Fox 1,277 2 $3,865 SLEEPERS Warner Bros. 2,080 3 $2,877 BIG NIGHT Samuel Goldwyn 282 4 $2,606 MICHAEL COLLINS Warner Bros. 848 5 $2,334 HIGH SCHOOL HIGH TriStar 2,146 6 $1,832 DEAR GOD Paramount 1,754 7 $1,796 THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS Paramount 2,038 8 $1,783 STEPHEN KING'S THINNER Paramount 2,009 9 $1,751 THE ASSOCIATE Hollywood 1,781 10 $1,737 THE FIRST WIVES CLUB Paramount 2,051
