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All in all, it was an average week-and the best way to read it was to check out the average gross per screen. The week's three major openers-The Babe, Deep Cover, and City of Joy-finished within $2 million of each other, but the only one to earn more than $4,000 per screen was the Patrick Swayze-in- Calcutta epic City of Joy. The Babe, which opened at nearly twice as many theaters, averaged a wobbly $3,200. Although it received an A- from audiences polled by CinemaScore, the John Goodman baseball bio now faces an uphill battle to achieve hit status. The lower-profile Deep Cover had a so-so average of $3,831, dashing expectations that the undercover-cop drama would create the kind of box office excitement enjoyed by recent black-themed films. WEEKEND TOP TEN GROSS WEEKS IN GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE
1 $6.65 Basic Instinct $70.00 5 TriStar (1,823 screens) 2 $6.14 White Men Can't Jump $48.11 4 20th Century Fox (1,882 screens) 3 $5.93 Beethoven $23.73 3 Universal (1,925 screens) 4 $5.18 Sleepwalkers $18.11 2 Columbia (1,914 screens) 5 $5.01 The Babe $5.01 1 Universal (1,566 screens) 6 $3.45 Deep Cover 4.34 1 New Line (901 screens) 7 $3.41 City of Joy $3.43 1 TriStar (842 screens) 8 $3.29 Ferngully $8.44 2 | 20th Century Fox (1,663 screens) 9 $3.14 Wayne's World $102.76 10 Paramount (1,565 screens) 10 $2.30 Thunderheart $12.72 3 TriStar (1,097 screens) *Weekend of April 17-19 (all dollar figures in millions)
