As the summer box office pennant race entered its final innings, the baseball strike was good news for theater owners: Instead of entering its traditional August slump, movie attendance remained solid-with idle baseball fans turning out for Clear and Present Danger, still firmly rooted in first place, and the indefatigable Forrest Gump, back in second place. Debuting on just three screens, Corrina, Corrina, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta, posted a promising $18,112-per-theater average, positioning itself for a run at end-of- season-sleeper status. And, in a move to boost earnings even higher, Disney announced it will pull The Lion King from the lineup on Sept. 23 and rerelease it at Thanksgiving. Weekend Gross Weeks In Gross Top 20 To Date Release 1 $16.0 Clear And Present Danger Paramount, Harrison Ford $55.0 2 2 $14.1 Forrest Gump Paramount, Tom Hanks $188.1 6 3 $10.1 The Mask New Line, Jim Carrey $70.1 3 4 $7.4 The Little Rascals Universal, Bug Hall $23.3 2 5 $7.0 True Lies 20th Century Fox, Arnold Schwarzenegger $112.3 5 6 $6.4 In The Army Now Hollywood, Pauly Shore $6.4 1 7 $6.0 The Client Warner Bros., Susan Sarandon $66.5 4 8 $6.0 The Lion King Walt Disney, Animated $243.2 9 9 $4.1 It Could Happen To You TriStar, Nicolas Cage $23.5 3 10 $2.4 Angels In The Outfield Walt Disney, Danny Glover $41.5 5 11 $1.5 Speed 20th Century Fox, Keanu Reeves $110.4 10 12 $1.2 The Flintstones Universal, John Goodman $125.4 12 13 $0.9 Airheads 20th Century Fox, Brendan Fraser $4.2 2 14 $0.8 Barcelona Fine Line, Taylor Nichols $1.5 3 15 $0.5 The Shadow Universal, Alec Baldwin $30.3 7 16 $0.4 Baby's Day Out 20th Century Fox, Joe Mantegna $15.1 7 17 $0.4 City Slickers II Columbia, Billy Crystal $42.3 10 18 $0.3 Blown Away MGM, Jeff Bridges $28.8 7 19 $0.3 Black Beauty Warner Bros., David Thewlis $3.6 3 20 $0.3 Lassie Paramount, Helen Slater $9.1 4
WEEKEND PER-SCREEN NO.OF AVERAGE Top 10 / per screen SCREENS 1 $7,761 Barcelona Fine Line 107 2 $6,562 Clear And Present Danger Paramount 2,433 3 $6,418 Forrest Gump Paramount 2,204 4 $4,409 In The Army Now Hollywood 1,444 5 $4,083 The Mask New Line 2,462 6 $3,850 The Little Rascals Universal 1,925 7 $3,251 True Lies 20th Century Fox 2,156 8 $2,706 The Lion King Walt Disney 2,221 9 $2,667 It Could Happen To You TriStar 1,544 10 $2,620 The Client Warner Bros. 2,301 10 $1,889 Used People 20th Century Fox 1,658 *WEEKEND OF AUG.12-14 (ALL DOLLAR FIGURES IN MILLIONS) *DRAWN FROM 20 TOP-GROSSING FILMS
