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Terminal Velocity took a dive its opening weekend, proving that Charlie Sheen's name above the title doesn't necessarily do much for action fans. So far, Sheen's biggest openers (in the $8 million to $11 million range) have been the two Hot Shots! spoofs and such ensemble movies as The Three Musketeers and Major League (and the final box office tally for his previous action vehicle, The Chase, was just $8 million). Among the limited releases, The Shawshank Redemption-bolstered by word of mouth and positive reviews- dominated despite having a bafflingly uninformative print ad. Sheen should be so lucky. WEEKEND TOP 20 GROSS WEEKS IN GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE
1 $8.2 Timecop Universal, $23.9 2 Jean-Claude Van Damme 2 $5.5 Terminal Velocity, Hollywood, $5.5 1 Charlie Sheen 3 $5.5 Forrest Gump Paramount, Tom Hanks $263.6 12 4 $2.9 Quiz Show Hollywood, Ralph Fiennes $4.1 2 5 $2.8 Clear and Present Danger $112.9 8 Paramount, Harrison Ford 6 $2.0 Natural Born Killers $42.7 5 Warner Bros., Woody Harrelson 7 $1.6 The Mask New Line, Jim Carrey $108.6 9 8 $1.5 Milk Money Paramount $15.1 4 Melanie Griffith 9 $1.5 True Lies $139.4 11 20th Century Fox, Arnold Schwarzenegger 10 $1.4 Corrina, Corrina New Line, $16.2 7 Whoopi Goldberg 11 $1.2 The Next Karate Kid Columbia $6.8 3 Hilary Swank 12 $1.0 The Little Rascals Universal $45.6 8 Bug Hall 13 $0.8 In the Army Now Hollywood $25.5 7 Pauly Shore 14 $0.8 Speed 20th Century Fox $118.6 16 Keanu Reeves 15 $0.8 The Adventures of Priscilla, $5.9 7 Queen of the Desert, Gramercy Terence Stamp 16 $0.7 The Shawshank Redemption Columbia, $0.7 1 Tim Robbins 17 $0.7 The Client Warner Bros., $87.4 10 Susan Sarandon 18 $0.6 Princess Caraboo TriStar, $1.9 2 Phoebe Cates 19 $0.6 Fresh Miramax, $7.0 5 Sean Nelson 20 $0.6 Trial By Jury Warner Bros., $6.2 3 Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
WEEKEND PER-SCREEN TOP 10 / PER SCREEN NO. OF AVERAGE SCREENS
1 $22,040 The Shawshank Redemption Columbia 33 2 $13,359 Quiz Show Hollywood 219 3 $3,907 The Adventures of Priscilla Gramercy 192 4 $3,665 Timecop Universal 2,231 5 $3,066 Terminal Velocity Hollywood 1,794 6 $2,308 Forrest Gump Paramount 2,365 7 $2,086 Princess Caraboo TriStar 311 8 $1,566 Fresh Miramax 406 9 $1,539 Clear and Present Danger Paramount 1,791 10 $1,457 Corrina, Corrina New Line 972
