Weekend Box Office

By SUSAN KING

Jan. 26, 1999 12 AM PT

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Three-day gross/ Screens/ Weeks in Movie (Studio) Total (millions) Average Release 1. “Varsity Blues” $10.6 2,339 2 (Paramount) $30.8 $4,521 2. “Patch Adams” $8.1 2,909 5 (Universal) $108.6 $2,785 3. “A Civil Action” $7.6 2,026 5 (Disney/Touchstone) $40.8 $3,775 4. “The Thin Red Line” $5.8 1,538 5 (Fox) $22.3 $3,768 5. “Stepmom” $5.1 2,358 5 (Sony/Columbia) $78.6 $2,182 6. “At First Sight” $4.8 1,838 2 (MGM/UA) $14.6 $2,605 7. “You’ve Got Mail” $4.1 2,331 6 (Warner Bros.) $104.1 $1,764 8. “Shakespeare in Love” $3.6 655 7 (Miramax) $25.9 $5,541 “The Prince of Egypt” $3.9 2,001 6 (DreamWorks) $87.3 $1,962 10. “A Simple Plan” $3.4 660 7 (Paramount) $7.1 $5,185

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SOURCE: Exhibitor Relations Co.

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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