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In the most impressive box office performance this fall, Martin Scorsese's dark thriller, Cape Fear, scared up $10.2 million its first weekend, averaging a spectacular $11,105 per screen. It was the biggest opening for any Scorsese film to date, and insiders expect the movie to gross a minimum of $60 million. Surprisingly, CinemaScore audiences didn't seem that wild about Cape Fear-they gave it an overall grade of B+. Nevertheless, the movie faces no current competition in the adult-thriller market and is expected to play well into the holiday season. In all other respects this was a tame week indeed, with Curly Sue holding steady and everything else in the top 10 struggling to nose past $20 million. LAST TOP TEN GROSS WEEKS IN WEEK TO DATE RELEASE
1 $10.26 Cape Fear $10.46 1 Universal (924 screens) 2 $4.20 Curly Sue $22.78 4 Warner Bros. (1,634 screens) 3 $3.34 All I Want Christmas $8.21 2 Paramount (1,507 screens) 4 $3.01 The People Stairs $15.56 3 Universal (1,838 screens) 5 $2.16 Little Man Tate $17.27 6 Orion (1,012 screens) 6 $1.89 Billy Bathgate $12.20 3 Touchstone (1,177 screens) ! 7 $1.84 Other People's Money $21.12 5 Warner Bros. (1,249 screens) 8 $1.58 Highlander 2 $11.68 3 InterStar (1,009 screens) 9 $1.57 Strictly Business $4.72 2 Warner Bros. (881 screens) 10 $1.28 House Party 2 $16.49 4 New Line (1,082 screens) *weekend of November 15-17 (all dollar figures in millions)
