the b.o. course 62nd year for Buena Vista
`Hand' stays
day weekend as "The Hand That to celebrate over the four-day holi-
in a row, according to industry boxoffice spot for the second week estimates. Rocks the Cradle" grabbed the top in an estimated $13 million over
date. "Beauty and the Beast," remain- features, "Father of the Bride" and earnings to about $20 million to the four-day holiday, bringing its with the distributor's other two three of the top 10 boxoffice spots,
ing strong.
Buena Vista Pictures had much
The Buena Vista thriller pulled
Buena Vista continues to hold
By Antra M. Busch
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January 21, 1992
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release, bringing in about $6.2 mil- Boxoffice lion or a $7,760 per-screen aver- Continued jinni page 1— age. Fox more than doubled its (Because of the Martin Luther screens for the Lawrence Kasdan King holiday on Monday, final contemporary drama this week, grosses and the weekly boxoffice from 364 to 803 venues. chart will appear in Wednesday's Warner Bros.' "JFK" and Co- paper.) lumbia Pictures' "Prince of Tides" "Bride" garnered an estimated were neck in neck over the week- $6.5 million to bring its total to end, earning an estimated $6.3 mil- almost $58 million to date, while lion and $6.2 million, respectively. "Beauty" added approximately "Tides" and "JFK" also won rec- $4.5 million, edging the film closer ognition from the Hollywood For- to becoming the first animated fea- eign Press Assn. over the week- ture to hit the $100 million mark, end by winning Golden Globes for having taken in a little over $93 best actor (Nick Nolte) and best million to date. director (Oliver Stone), Also pushing the $100 million respectively. mark is Steven Spielberg's fantasy "Tides," directed by Barbra adventure "Hook," which added Streisand, has rolled in approxi- another $6 million to the TriStar mately $46 million to date. The release's booty for a total take of controversial Stone film, which $96 million, according to stars Kevin Costner, has now tal- estimates. lied $44.2 million, according to Paramount's "Juice" earned ap- estimates. proximately $9 million on 1,089 Best drama Golden Globe win- screens during the four-day holi- ner "Bugsy" slipped from the top day, grabbing the No. 2 spot away 10, bringing in a disappointing $3 from "Hook." The urban actioner million over the four-day weekend from first-time director Ernest for TriStar, according to estimates. Dickerson rallied for a very re- The Barry Levinson film, which spectable $8,264 per-screen aver- stars Warren Beatty and Annette age, according to studio estimates. Bening, had an estimated $2,500 Also opening this weekend was per-screeen average. "FreeJack," the Warner Bros. sci- The Christian Slater comedy fi thriller starring Emilio Esteve2 "Kuffs" rounded out the top 10, and Mick Jagger. The film, which bringing in an estimated $3.6 mil- was shown in 1,551 arenas, chased lion in its second week in release in an estimated $7.5 million in for Universal Pictures. business for a per-screen average Meanwhile, Warner Bros.' ac- of almost $5,000. tion film "The Last Boy Scout" Twentieth Century Fox's dropped screens and boxoffice dol- "Grand Canyon" made an impres- lars to pull in only about $2.3 mil- sive showing in its third week in lion over the holiday weekend. ❑ 154