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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Everyone’s favorite talking
Joys dominated the box office for a second weekend
as Toy Story 2 took in $28.3 million, according to esti-
lates yesterday.
With no major new movies, box office revenues
haped up mostly the same as a week ago. The James
ond flick The World Is Not Enough came in second
ith $10.6 million, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s End of
'lays was third with $9.7 million and Tim Burton’s
[horror detective film, Sleepy Hollow, was No. 4 with
$9 million.
Toy Story 2, produced by Disney and Pixar, has
rossed $117.3 million in 12 days of nationwide release.
The movie passed the $100 million mark Saturday,
hat tied Disney’s personal best for The Lion King,
hich reached that mark in 11 days in 1994 and went
n to become the studio’s top-grossing film ever with
312 million.
“We are just on cloud nine,” Rod Rodriguez, senior
ice president and general sales manager for Disney’s
1m group, said. “It did everything we expected and
ere hoping for. It’s a nice holiday gift for us.”
Toy Story 2 maintained an impressive per-screen
verage of $8,740 in 3,238 theaters. The World Is Not
hough averaged $3,351 in 3,163 theaters, and End of
toys brought in $3,732 on 2,599 screens.
The animated sequel, with Tom Hanks and Tim
Hen reprising the voices of talking toys Woody the
|heriff and space ranger Buzz Lightyear, broke the
hanksgiving box-office record with $80.1 million in
jjiist five days.
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Jtudios took a post-Thanksgiving breather, putting out
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begins next weekend with the opening of Hanks’
Death Row drama. The Green Mile.
“This is sort of the calm after the storm and before
the storm, before the next onslaught of holiday films,”
Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations
Co. Inc., which tracks ticket sales, said.
Two new movies scored big playing in just a few
theaters. Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown took in
$102,000 on three screens in New York City, averaging
$34,000 a theater. The movie stars Sean Penn, Uma
Thurman and Samantha Morton in a ’30s story of the
world’s second-greatest jazz guitarist.
Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair, a cerebral tale
of adultery and obsession, grossed $203,000 on seven
screens in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and San
Francisco, averaging $29,000 a theater. Based on the
Graham Greene novel, the movie stars Ralph Fiennes,
Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea.
Both movies open in a few more cities around
Christmas and go into wider release next month.
Holy Smoke from director Jane Campion began a
one-week Oscar run, taking in $32,000 in two theaters
in New York and Los Angeles.
The movie, starring Kate Winslet as a Hindu
groupie and Harvey Keitel as a cult deprogrammer,
opens in wider release early next year.
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace re
turned to theaters Friday for a one-week run, with all
the proceeds going to local charities. The movie took
in just under $1.2 million on 832 screens.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterday
at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Re
lations Co. Inc. Final figures are to be released today.
Weekend
box office
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$28.3 million
2. The World
is not Enough:
$10.6 million
3. End of Days:
$9.7 million
4. Sleepy Hollow:
$9 million
3. Bone Collector:
$3.1 million
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Carrey loses self
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jim Car
ey said he immersed himself so
leeply in the role of late comic Andy
iaufman for the film Man on the
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Kaufman’s parents, Stanley and
iJarole Kaufman, “treated me like
ndy,” Carrey told the Los Angeles
imesfor a story published yesterday.
“Carol Kaufman sent me a letter
aying, ‘We knew what Andy was
like until 1983, and now we know
what he’s like now,”’ Carrey said. “It
was gratifying and frightening and
weird and wonderful.”
Carrey, 37, who starred in The
Mask and The Truman Show, said
he is well aware that fame can be
fleeting.
“I wake up some mornings and
sit and have my coffee and look out
at my beautiful garden, and I go,
‘Remember how good this is. Be
cause you can lose it,”’ he said.
TV’s Gilligan to
donate to auction
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (AP) —
Castoffs from West Virginia’s
most famous shipwrecked cast
away are going on the auction
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’60s TV series “Gilligan’s Island” —
is donating autographed items from
the show to benefit the Bluefield
Union Mission.
Among Denver’s donations: a
“Gilligan’s Island” play school set
and autographed denim shorts
worn by actress Dawn Wells, who
portrayed Mary Ann.
“I think it’s a good cause,”
Denver, a resident of nearby
Princeton said. “It goes right to
the local people.”
The auction is scheduled for
Dec. 18.
Rodman’s assault
suit dropped
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman
who sued Dennis Rodman, saying
the basketball star sexually as
saulted her at the Las Vegas Hilton,
is dropping the federal lawsuit.
Dixie Johnson, 48, had claimed
Rodman
grabbed her
breast after her
former employer,
Stripper Elite En
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sent her to the
hotel to enter
tain him. She
was asking for
more than $3 million.
Rodman attorney Gregory Hafen
would not say whether the dis
missal meant the parties had
reached a settlement.
Johnson’s case is one of several
lawsuits filed against Rodman during
the past 18 months in Las Vegas.
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