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WHATCHA GONNA DO? Well, if you're two actors best known for small-screen roles who have scored a big-screen action hit, you make a smooth transition right back to the TV set via video. Just ask sitcom stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, whose Bad Boys supplements its $65 million box office take with a top 5 debut on the rentals chart. With this kind of earning power, it's small wonder the duo has already signed on for a sequel. The week's other big debut, the barnyard comedy Gordy, flopped in theaters ($3.9 million) but no doubt oinked its way into both the sales and rentals top 10 on the hooves of Babe, the year's shaggy-pig success. Expect that movie to ham it up even higher when it's released next year.
TOP 10 TAPE RENTALS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART 1 1 BATMAN FOREVER Val Kilmer, Warner 2 2 2 THE SANTA CLAUSE Tim Allen, Walt Disney 3 3 3 CASPER Christina Ricci, MCA/Universal 5 4 4 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Sandra Bullock,Hollywood 4 5 - BAD BOYS WILL SMITH Columbia TriStar 1 6 5 PULP FICTION John Travolta, Miramax 9 7 - GORDY Kristy Young, Walt Disney 1 8 7 MAJOR PAYNE Damon Wayans, MCA/Universal 9 9 6 FRENCH KISS Meg Ryan, FoxVideo 6 10 10 JURY DUTY Pauly Shore, Columbia TriStar 3
TAPE SALES 1 1 BATMAN FOREVER Val Kilmer, Warner, $19.96 2 2 2 THE SANTA CLAUSE Tim Allen, Walt Disney, $19.99 3 3 - MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET Richard Attenborough, FoxVideo, $14.98 1 4 3 CASPER Christina Ricci, MCA/Universal, $22.98 5 5 - DUMB AND DUMBER Jim Carrey, New Line, $19.98 1 6 6 LITTLE WOMEN Winona Ryder, Columbia TriStar,$19.95 2 7 5 CINDERELLA Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 6 8 4 STAR WARS TRILOGY Harrison Ford, FoxVideo,$49.98 11 9 - GORDY Kristy Young, Walt Disney, $14.99 1 10 - THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Tim Robbins, Columbia TriStar, $19.95 1
LASERDISC SALES
1 2 PULP FICTION John Travolta, Miramax/Image,$39.99 5 2 1 THE LION KING Animated, Walt Disney/Image,$29.99 7 3 3 CINDERELLA Animated, Walt Disney, $29.99 23 4 7 CASPER Christina Ricci, MCA/Universal, $34.98 3 5 4 STAR WARS Harrison Ford, FoxVideo, $59.98 9 6 5 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Harrison Ford, FoxVideo, $59.98 9 7 - WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, Sandra Bullock, Hollywood/Image, $39.99 1 8 - ROB ROY Liam Neeson, MGM/UA, $44.98 1 9 6 RETURN OF THE JEDI Harrison Ford, FoxVideo,$59.98 9 10 - BATMAN FOREVER Val Kilmer, Warner, $39.98 1
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 12, 1995 LASER DATA: BILLBOARD FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 18, 1995
