Billboard. MARCH 14, 1998 TOY FAIR Billboard. MARCH 14, 1998 (Continued from page 119) dler products in mind for the fall '98 release of "Simba's Pride," the direct - To to -video sequel to "The Lion King." p Music Videos. Video Rentals.. In addition to stuffed animals, inter- cc COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE AND RACK SALES active toys, Halloween costumes, and >< < á COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE RENTAL REPORTS. Y U REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScan® home furnishings, the studio's con- s11111 T t Lu = 3 3 ó w W U sumer products division will have four tro "n I- Imprint Principal $ eeóÑ 3 3 ó á TITLE, to six promotional partners with "dis- 1- 3 Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers i rñ Label Principal ,, á TITLE (Rating)g) tribution in all classes of trade, wheth- 3 Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers er you're a drugstore, supermarket, * * NO. 1 * * GIRL POWER! LIVE IN ISTANBUL 1 2 5 Spice Girls LI 1918 * * * No. 1 * * * record store, or mass merchant," says Virgin 92111 Disney merchandising executive Max 1 5 3 AIR FORCE ONE (R) Columbia TriStar Home Video 71883 Harrison Ford DEAD TO THE WORLD 2 1 3 Marilyn Manson LF 16.95 Goldberg. Interscope Video Universal Music Video Dist. 90150 Michael Douglas Goldberg says "Simba's Pride" prod- 2 1 6 THE GAME (R) PolyGram Video 4400478353 GARTH LIVE FROM CENTRAL PARK Sean Penn 3 7 Garth Brooks U 19.95 ucts spans a wide range of price points, 3 Orion Home Video 10119 Hollywood Pictures Home Video aiming at adults as well as children. 3 2 4 G.I. JANE (R) Demi Moore TULSA, TOKYO AND THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Buena Vista Home Entertainment 10441 4 15 Hanson LF 1915 Noting the appeal of "The Lion King," 4 PolyGram Video 4400479233 Laurence Fishburne he adds, "This is a movie that touched 4 7 5 EVENT HORIZON (R) Paramount Home Video 334823 ONE HOUR OF GIRL POWER Sam Neill 5 15 Spice Girls LF 14.95 everybody, regardless of age." 5 Warner Home Video 363553 Mel Gibson 5 4 8 CONSPIRACY THEORY (R) Warner Home Video 15091 Disney won't begin its merchandis- THE DANCE Julia Roberts 6 8 27 Fleetwood Mac LF 19.98 ing campaign until the video's release, Wamer Reprise Video 3 -38486 Jodie Foster 6 3 9 CONTACT (R) Warner Home Video 15041 according to Goldberg, who says the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Rage Against Matthew McConaughey 7 6 14 LF 19.98 company has no plans for a theatrical Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 19 V50160-3 The Machine Touchstone Home Video Tim Robbins 1 6 5 NOTHING TO LOSE (R) or video rerelease of "The Lion King," 8 TRIBUTE Buena Vista Home Entertainment 10440 Martin Lawrence 7 19 Yanni LF 24.95 currently on moratorium. Virgin Music Video 77849 Keanu Reeves 8 39 2 THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (R) Warner Home Video Another evergreen property that Al Pacino CLOSURE 9 9 14 Nine Inch Nails LF 24.98 received a big push at Toy Fair was Interscope Video Trimark Home Video 6734 John Travolta 9 8 16 FACE/OFF (R) Paramount Home Video 330553 Barney, in his movie. Nicolas Cage starring first The DOWN BY THE TABERNACLE 10 10 4 Bill & Gloria Gaither LF 19.98 PolyGram feature debuting next Spring Hill Video Chordant Dist. Group 104 Miramax Home Entertainment Ben Affleck 10 9 14 CHASING AMY (R) Buena Vista Home Entertainment 12581 Joey Lauren Adams month, "Barney's Great Adventure: LIVE IN HYDE PARK 11 11 2 Eric Clayton LF 19.98 The Movie," includes a new character, Warner Reprise Video 3 -38473 Walt Disney Home Video 11 13 3 HERCULES (G) Animated Twinken. Creator Lyrick Studios has LIVE Fred Hammond & Buena Vista Home Entertainment 9123 12 25 2 LF 19.98 licensed a flock of products to ride the Word Video BMG Video 43108 -3 Radical For Christ Touchstone Home Video Nicolas Cage 12 12 12 CON AIR (R) Vista John wave of publicity. 3 -WATCH IT GO Buena Home Entertainment 10484 Cusack 13 12 16 Pantera LF 19.98 And Lyrick will partner with Elektra Entertainment 40195 MY BEST FRIEND'S Columbia TriStar Home Video Julia Roberts 13 10 12 IN WEDDING (PG -13) 82723 Dermot Mulroney licensees to re- promote the same ROMANZA CONCERT 14 13 11 Andrea Bocelli LF 24.95 book, PolyGram Video 4400553973 MGM /UA Home Video Laurence Fishburne items, including an activity when 14 15 7 HOODLUM (R) Warner Home Video 906282 Tim Roth PolyGram Video releases "Great LES MISERABLES: 10TH ANNIV. CONCERT 16 74 Various Artists LF 24.95 15 VCI Columbia TriStar Home Video 88703 Vanessa Williams Adventure" in the fourth quarter. 15 11 6 SOUL FOOD (R) FoxVideo 4493 Vivica Fox WOW -GOSPEL 1998 Manufacturers and studios were 31 Various Artists LI 19.98 16 2 Word Video BMG Video 43109 -3 New Line Home Video Chris Tucker reaching for consumers above the age 16 14 6 MONEY TALKS (R) Warner Home Video N4608 Charlie Sheen 4 well. SINGIN' WITH THE SAINTS of as Sometimes vendors were 17 7 Bill & Gloria Gaither LF 19.98 11 Spring Hill Video Chordant Dist. Group 102 New Line Home Video Michael Meyers in conflict. 11 11 19 AUSTIN POWERS (PG -13) Warner Home Video N3965 Elizabeth Hurley RUMOURS In the show's best "life imitating 14 5 Fleetwood Mac LF 19.95 18 Rhino Home Video 2381 Jennifer Anoten television series" moment, Fox insist- 18 18 6 PICTURE PERFECT (PG -13) FoxVideo 4805 Kevin Bacon OUR MUSIC VIDEO Mary -Kate & ed at the last minute that "X- Files" 19 23 LF 12.95 19 Dualstar Video WarnerVision Entertainment 53357 Ashley Olsen Columbia TriStar Home Video action -figure licensee Todd McFarlane 19 16 3 EXCESS BAGGAGE (PG -13) Alicia Silverstone 82303 THE BEST OF THE DOORS Productions pull all but two of the fig- 20 18 18 The Doors LF 1498 ures planned to with the Universal Studios Home Video 83297 20 NEW THE MATCHMAKER (R) PolyGram Video 4400478372 Janeane Garofalo coincide -1998 release of the movie this summer. 21 20 17 WOW Various Artists LF 12.98 Sparrow Video Chordant Dist. Group 43226 James Belushi The studio apparently was afraid 21 21 4 GANG RELATED (R) Orion Home Video 4318 Tupac Shakur I'M BOUT ITS that pieces of the plot might be in- 24 39 Master P LF 19.98 22 No Limit Video Priority Video 53423 Hollywood Pictures Home Video John Cusack or 22 20 19 GROSSE POINT BLANK (R) ferred from the figures themselves Buena Vista Home Entertainment 10040 Minnie Driver THE ABSOLUTE BEST VIDEOS the way they were dressed. McFarlane, 15 5 Carman LF 19.98 23 Sparrow Video Chordant Dist. Group 43201 -3 23 23 4 8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG (R) Orion Home Video 4317 Joe Pesci which had an entire room that would LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS Stevie Ray Vaughan 22 122 LF 19.98 have been devoted to "X- Files" prod- 24 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50130 And Double Trouble Columbia TriStar Home Video Tommy Lee Jones 24 24 14 MEN IN BLACK (PG -13) uct, was left with the task of convinc- 82453 Will Smith SELENA REMEMBERED 23 48 Selena LF 19.98 ing retailers in an empty room to imag- 25 EMI Latin Video 77826 New Line Home Video Keenen Ivory Wayans 25 NEW MOST WANTED (R) ine what the line looked like. Warner Home Video 4245 Jon Voight LIVE AT THE ACROPOLIS A' 29 208 Yanni LF 19.98 Hollywood isn't shirking its mer- 26 Private Music BMG Video 82163 New Line Home Video Martin Sheen 26 25 9 (R) chandising tasks, though. Toy Fair Warner Home Video N4610 Michael Jai White THE COLOUR OF MY LOVE CONCERT 27 28 Celine Dion LF 19.98 sported product for Columbia Tri- 2 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video Kenan Thompson 50136 21 NEW GOOD BURGER (PG) Paramount Home Video 335523 Star's "Godzilla," opening May 20, and Kel Mitchel 28 SUBLIME 21 14 Sublime U 12.95 DreamWorks' "Small Soldiers" and MCA Music Video Video Dist. Miramax Home Entertainment Ewan McGregor Universal Music 11712 28 28 4 GRASSED OFF (R) Columbia "The Mask Of Buena Vista Home Entertainment 10486 Tara Fitzgerald TriStar's GONE TILL NOVEMBER 26 3 Wyclef Jean VS 149 Zorro," both due this summer. 29 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 78831 29 34 9 187 (R) Warner Home Video 15432 Samuel L. Jackson NOW THAT I'M HERE 30 NEW Beverly Crawford U 14.98 Harvey Keitel Warner Reprise Video 38492 30 22 4 CITY OF INDUSTRY (R) Orion Home Video 4060 Stephen Dorff THE COMPLETE WOMAN IN ME SHELF TALK 40 67 Shania Twain U 9.95 31 PolyGram Video 4400450893 Columbia TriStar Home Video Vivian Wu 31 30 3 THE PILLOW BOOK (NC -17) (Continued from page 120) 28703 Ewan McGregor PULSE A' 32 28 142 Pink Floyd LF 24.98 Included in the weekend trip are Columbia Music Video Sony Music Video 50121 32 19 7 FIRE DOWN BELOW (R) Warner Home Video 14914 hotel accommodations for four, tickets LIVE SHIT: BINGE & PURGE Am 33 36 218 Metallica IF 89.98 to Six Flags Theme Parks, a free Fuji Elektra Entertainment 5194 33 29 5 WES CRAVEN'S WISH MASTER (R) Live Home Video 60456 Robert Englund Quicksnap camera and processing, an THE BOB MARLEY STORY Bob Marley 34 33 171 LF 9.95 Columbia TriStar Home Video Bruce Willis AT &T phone card, and a coupon book- Island Video PolyGram Video 4400823733 And The Wailers 34 27 18 THE FIFTH ELEMENT (PG -13) 82403 Gary Oldman let. LIVING THE DREAM: LIVE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 35 RE -ENTRY The Canton Spirituals U 19.98 Anthony Hopkins Entry forms are inside the cassette, BMG Video 43021 -3 35 NEW THE EDGE (R) FoxVideo 2750 Alec Baldwin and Best Western will promote it in YOU'RE NEXT IN LINE FOR A MIRACLE 34 3 Shirley Caesar U 14.98 36 Video Sony Music Video Walt Disney Home Video Parade magazine and USA Today, as Word 50158 36 35 13 GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE (PG) Brendan Fraser Buena Vista Home Entertainment 11774 well as in 2,000 Best Western loca- THEN NOW? 37 32 0 WHO Korn U 1918 tions. Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50153 31 31 4 STAR MAPS (R) FoxVideo 6104 Douglas Spain Dr. Scholl's will feature the video in IT OUT 38 NEW 6. WORKED Ricky Dillard LF 19.95 Sandra Bullock which will Chordant Dist. Group 24300 37 13 SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL (PG -13) FoxVideo 6100 its mobile foot -care centers, 38 Jason Patric begin a 37 -city tour in March and runs ALLEYS & MOTORWAYS 39 30 15 Bush LF 19.98 ROMY & MICHELE'S Touchstone Home Video Mira Sorvino lnterscope Video Universal Music Video Dist. 90106 39 33 16 through October. Discount coupons for HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (R) Buena Vista Home Entertainment 10438 Lisa Kudrow Dr. Scholl's foot- and leg -care lotions HOMECOMING: THIS IS MY STORY 40 RE -ENTRY Various Artists LF 29.95 Universal Studios Home Video Kevin Sorbo Chordant Dist. Group 4960 40 32 4 KULL THE CONQUEROR (PG -13) will be found in each "Stomp Out 83357 Tia Carrure Loud" video. O RIAA gold cert. for sales of 25,000 units for video singles; RIM gold cert. for sales of 50,000 units fo at retail ITA gold certification for a minimum of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million Additional coupons inside the video SF or LF videos; A RIAA platinum cert. for sales of 50,000 units for video singles; RIAA platinum cert or theatrically released programs, or of at least 25,000 units and $1 million at suggested retail for will give consumers 15% off any for sales of 100,000 units for SF or LF videos; O RIM gold cert. for 25,000 units for SF or LF videos certi nontheatrical titles. O ITA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 units or a dollar tied prior to April 1, 1991; RIAA platinum cert. for 50,000 units for SF or LF videos certified prior to volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, and of at least, 50,000 units and "Stomp" merchandise purchased via April 1, 1991. LF long -form. SF Short-form. VS Video single. ©1998, Billboard /BPI Communications. $2 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. W 1998, Billboard /BPI Communications. mail order.

122 BILLBOARD MARCH 14. 1998 www.americanradiohistory.com