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By Liane Bonin
Liane Bonin
Liane Bonin is a senior writer for EW.com

Talk about die hard. The latest unstoppable Bruce Willis vehicle, ''The Sixth Sense,'' held on to No. 1 for its fourth weekend in a row, an accomplishment that only ''Saving Private Ryan'' and ''Titanic'' managed to pull off last year. But Bruce may have to make room at the top one of these days. The movie's $20.1 million take represented a 16 percent drop from last weekend's.

Still, the competition wasn't much of a threat to ''The Sixth Sense'''s staying power. ''The 13th Warrior'' may have limped into a distant second place with $10.3 million, but it still managed to outshine the other new releases, which couldn't come close to Willis' spook power. ''In Too Deep'' belly-flopped into the shallow end, tying with ''The Blair Witch Project'' for eighth place with $4.1 million. And Johnny Depp's star power didn't send ''The Astronaut's Wife'' into orbit, with the film landing in 10th place with $4 million. ''The Muse'' scraped into a so-so seventh place with $4.2 million, but it was still a respectable showing for filmmaker Albert Brooks, whose most successful movie, ''Mother,'' grossed under $20 million.

Less respectable was ''Dudley Do-Right,'' which did little right with either audiences or EW Online readers. In our Critical Mass poll, females gave the film a C+, and the movie landed in 11th place with $3 million. But praise doesn't always translate into ticket sales. Though female EW Online readers gave a glowing A to ''Dog of Flanders,'' the movie failed to chart, languishing in the bottom of the top 20 with a paltry $870,000.

Rounding out the top 5 were a trio of comedies. ''Runaway Bride'' took third with $6.9 million, ''Bowfinger'' dropped two places to fourth with $6.6 million, and ''Mickey Blue Eyes'' landed at No. 5 with $5.5 million. At least somebody will be laughing when ''The Sixth Sense'' pummels the new kids on the block next weekend.


Posted Aug 30, 1999 | Order Article Reprints