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- Subject: Total box office take for major studios in 1992
- Keywords: Warner Bros., Disney #1 and 2
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:18:23 GMT
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- OTC 12/30 1458 WARNER BROS. EDGES OUT DISNEY FOR TOP BOX OFFICE ...
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- HOLLYWOOD (DEC. 30) UPI - For the second straight year, Warner Bros. has edged
- out Disney as Hollywood's leading studio, earning nearly 20 percent of all 1992
- film revenues and releasing movies that occupied the top spot at the box office
- for 14 weeks.
- Warner, a unit of Time Warner Inc., had already edged out Disney in 1991 with
- 13.9 percent of the box office, compared to Disney's 13.7 percent.
- Daily Variety reported Wednesday that Warner was holding its 1992 lead over
- Disney by less than 1 percent.
- The studio's "Under Siege" won the box office four times, while summer hits
- "Batman Returns," "Unforgiven" and "Lethal Weapon 3" each won three weeks and
- "Passenger 57" won once.
- Warner was also the top film supplier for the fifth year in a row with 25
- titles released, while 20th Century Fox released 22 and Disney opened 21, the
- most in its history.
- Disney, which was the leading studio in 1990, won the box office six times
- with "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" taking four weeks and "Honey I Blew Up the
- Kid" and "Medicine Man" winning once each. But the studio had two other major
- successes - holiday hit "Aladdin" with more than $80 million and still going
- strong and "Sister Act" with close to $140 million.
- Fox, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., finished third with 14 percent
- and led the box office seven times. Its major hits were "Home Alone 2: Lost in
- New York," already the year's fourth-best grosser at $125 million and "White Men
- Can't Jump."
- Columbia, a unit of Sony Corp., was fourth with 12.5 percent as it came on
- strong late in the year with "A Few Good Men," "Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,"'
- "Single White Female" and "Homeymoon in Vegas." It took the No. 1 spot nine
- times.
- Universal, a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., finished fifth
- with 12.1 percent and just three weeks with the No. 1 film: two for
- "Sneakers"and one for "Death Becomes Her."
- Paramount, last year's third-place finisher at 12 percent, dropped to 10.1
- percent and wound up in sixth. Its films finished first seven times, with
- "Wayne's World" winning for five weeks and "Patriot Games" winning twice.
- Sony's TriStar was seventh with 6.8 percent with six first-place finishes,
- five by "Basic Instinct" and the other by "Hook."
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