There were three new releases last weekend, but you'd never know it from looking at the top of the box office chart. Last week's champ "Message in a Bottle" tied with "Payback" for the top slot (an estimated $10.3 million each), and "My Favorite Martian" remained at No. 3 with $6.7 million. Only after the fourth-place "Blast From the Past" ($6.1 million) can one find a newbie: "October Sky," the upbeat tale of young rocketry aficionados in a mining town, pulled in $6 million. "Sky" did have the second-highest per-screen average, however, and Universal is hoping that word of mouth will help the small, starless picture grow as the studio slowly expands its run.

"Office Space" got a mediocre start, landing in eighth place with $4.3 million. But the big loser of this week's debuts was "Jawbreaker," which proved that the lucrative teen audience won't see just any movie populated by young girls in miniskirts. The meanspirited and laugh-defying black comedy didn't even crack the Top 10, pulling in only $1.6 million.

Meanwhile, "Saving Private Ryan" quietly took in $2.4 million to land in 10th place, bringing its grand total to $203.2 million. This made it the highest-grossing movie released in 1998, surpassing "Armageddon" at $202 million, and proving that quality can win out at the box office -- at least some of the time.