Company Town : FALL OF 1994’S TOP 20 FILMS

Total grosses of the Top 20 box office releases for the period Sept. 6 through Dec. 22, ranked by play period in millions of dollars:

Play Wks. in Release period Rank Film Distributor release Date box office 1 The Santa Clause Buena Vista 6 Nov. 11 $113.4 2 Interview With Warner Bros. 6 Nov. 11 97.5 the Vampire 3 Stargate MGM/UA 8 Oct. 28 66.6 4 Star Trek Generations Paramount 5 Nov. 18 66.5 5 Pulp Fiction Miramax 10 Oct. 14 59.7 6 Forrest Gump Paramount 24 July 6 58.0 7 The Specialist Warner Bros. 11 Oct. 7 54.8 8 The River Wild Universal 12 Sept. 30 44.5 9 Timecop Universal 13 Sept. 16 44.4 10 The Lion King Buena Vista 27 June 15 30.8 11 Junior Universal 4 Nov. 23 27.5 12 Dumb and Dumber New Line 1 Dec. 16 25.1 13 Disclosure Warner Bros. 2 Dec. 9 24.6 14 A Low Down Dirty Shame Buena Vista 4 Nov. 23 24.3 15 Clear and Paramount 21 Aug. 3 22.8 Present Danger 16 Natural Born Killers Warner Bros. 17 Aug. 26 22.7 17 Mary Shelley’s TriStar 7 Nov. 4 22.0 Frankenstein 18 Quiz Show Buena Vista 14 Sept. 14 21.8 19 Jason’s Lyric Gramercy 12 Sept. 28 20.3 20 Only You TriStar 9 Oct. 7 20.0

B.O. to Rank date* 1 $113.4 2 97.5 3 66.6 4 66.5 5 59.7 6 296.8 7 54.8 8 44.5 9 44.4 10 293.1 11 27.5 12 25.1 13 24.6 14 24.3 15 121.6 16 49.7 17 22.0 18 21.8 19 20.3 20 20.0

* Distributors receive roughly half of box office revenue, on average.

Source: Top 20 provided by Entertainment Data Inc.