HIT 'SINGLE'?

The most dramatic event in this week's box office sweepstakes wasn't the fact that Single White Female earned a healthy $10 million. It was that it managed to do so without dislodging Unforgiven from the No. 1 spot. Clearly, Clint Eastwood's Western is not about to fade into the sunset. Single White Female, on the other hand, received only a B- from audiences polled by CinemaScore. It will take another week to see if it has moviegoers hooked. A big surprise was the disastrous opening of Diggstown. Though the action comedy received many favorable reviews (and a CinemaScore grade of A-), it finished a dismal 12th. After this and the failure of last spring's Gladiator, the message is clear: Boxing flicks are being counted out. WEEKEND TOP TEN GROSS WEEKS IN GROSS* TO DATE RELEASE

1 $11.37 Unforgiven $33.78 2 Warner Bros. (2,087 screens) 2 $10.21 Single White Female $10.21 1 Columbia (1,744 screens) 3 $5.90 Death Becomes Her$ 35.31 3 Universal (1,754 screens) 4 $4.63 3 Ninjas $14.01 2 Touchstone (1,954 screens) 5 $3.82 A League Of Their Own $89.09 7 Columbia (1,888 screens) 6 $3.53 Stay Tuned $3.53 1 Warner Bros. (1,605 screens) 7 $3.41 Raising Cain $12.62 2 Universal (1,698 screens) 8 $2.50 Honey, I Blew Up... $49.10 5 Walt Disney (1,781 screens) 9 $2.44 Sister Act $120.81 12 Touchstone (1,381 screens) 10 $2.31 Mo' Money $33.65 4 Columbia (1,410 screens) *Weekend of Aug 14-16 (all dollar figures in millions)