Word: boxes
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...million in three weeks. Well ahead of them all is Paramount's Top Gun, which has taken in $168 million since its May 16 release, making it the year's best seller. With only a week or so left in 1986, Paramount has grossed $569 million at the box office, almost 21% of the North American movie market. The studio's closest rivals, Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Productions and Warner Bros., have each won only about half that...
Paramount's triumph comes at a time of sharply increased competition in Hollywood. After a slow start, 1986 turned into a solid box-office year for mainstream cinema; receipts are expected to hit $3.1 billion. Those dollars have been spent on an unusual number of widely released movie offerings: 130 features...
...King David ($5.1 million) and Explorers ($9.9 million). Paramount's market share, which had climbed as high as 19.1% in 1984, plummeted to 10% during Mancuso's first year as chairman. In one week last February, the studio's share of the market sank to 1.5%. Says Variety's box-office analyst Art Murphy: "I don't think any major studio has been that low before. The warehouse was empty...
...purple in the south. The mountains glow orange in New Mexico. In Vermont, your foot cracks snow like wafers around a part of the woods where a brook, not yet frozen, applauds itself in a rush. High over Iowa a hawk hangs still, watching a small boy kick a box in the road...
...Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, with whom Jackson met for 45 minutes. Nakasone's infamous remarks last September about intelligence levels in the U.S. being lower than Japan's because of black and Hispanic Americans set off a stormy flap that in Jackson's words "will not go back in the box...