Summer '06… what went wrong?

I'm not sure if many people will be thinking that thought, because unlike last year, ticket sales and box office receipts weren't down for the summer from the previous year. So far, movies released in 2006 have grossed over $6.3 billion domestically, the same amount that movies made for the entire year of 1997, a year that included Titanic, still the highest grossing movie of all time! Currently, the total box office for the year is higher than any previous year except 2004, which had the benefits of Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ to tip the scales. Only 4 movies have grossed more than $200 million this summer compared to 5 last year, but across the board, each of them made slightly more money.

The biggest of these of course is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which set a new opening weekend record of $135.6 million, about $20 million more than the previous record set by Spider-Man, and it spent the second half of summer grossing enough money to become the 6^th highest grossing movie of all time. Disney actually had a great summer, having released the top two movies, Pirates and Pixar's Cars, and then having a couple late summer hits with Step Up and Invincible. They're the top grossing studio this summer with $786 million, a great comeback for the studio who seemed to be faltering last summer and only recovered because of the near-$300 million gross of The Chronicles of Narnia.

So why would anyone think that something went wrong this summer?

Well, let me tell you.

This past summer just seemed like one big disappointment. You probably can't find 5 people in a row who unanimously loved any of the long-awaited summer movies like The Da Vinci Code, Superman Returns, Pirates 2, X-Men: The Last Stand or even Pixar's Cars. Despite the amount of money they all made, they all had problems, mostly involving their running times, and considering the source material and the filmmakers involved, you would expect them to be the type of summer movies that are raved about and remembered for years.

And that's just the big movies. None of this summer's movies really seemed that memorable when it came down to it. For instance, does anyone remember Jack Black's biggest opening comedy ever? It certainly didn't have enough buzz to survive the summer, especially with the number of strong comedies that came out after it. By the time that Will Ferrell returned with his own comedy hit, Talladega Nights, Black was hosting the MTV awards without a single mention of his summer movie.

Filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and Wolfgang Peterson both got some idea how Michael Bay and Rob Cohen must have felt last summer, when both of their latest movies (Lady in the Water, Poseidon) failed to bring in the number of people who went to see their previous movies. Tom Cruise kicked off the summer with what should have been a sure-fire hit, only to have it falter and have his long-time relationship with Paramount crumble by summer's end. The much bally-hooed Snakes on a Plane ended up being the biggest non-event of the summer.

Warner Bros., who released the Shyamalan and Peterson flops, had an AWFUL summer themselves. After having three $200 million blockbusters in 2005, they couldn't even get Superman Returns to the $200 million mark after it was quickly swallowed up by Pirates. Their movies just failed left and right, from their attempt at animation (The Ant Bully), their venture into R-rated fratboy comedy (Beerfest), and even their latest horror remake (The Wicker Man); all were disappointments. Even their summer sleeper, The Lake House, which reunited Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, only made $52 million, barely enough to cover the production budget and marketing. (Not to mention the fact that it sucked…but that's probably just my opinion.)

Sure, there were a lot of nice surprises like The Devil Wears Prada, but most of those surprises came from movies that no one had been anticipating at the beginning of summer. The good news is that this general malaise allowed independently made movies like Little Miss Sunshine and The Illusionist--my top two of the summer incidentally--to sneak into theatres and continue to do well as they've expanded across the country. Moviegoers just haven't had the type of quality entertainment this summer that both these movies had to offer, and when it comes down to it, word of mouth does more for a movie than any amount of hype.

Of course, this doesn't answer the opening question of what went wrong… and you'll just have to tune in next weekend to hear my thoughts on that.

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THE CHOSEN ONE:

SAINT OF 9/11 (IFC Films)
Starring Father Mychal Judge, Ian McKellen (narrator)
Directed by Glenn Holsten
Genre: Documentary
Story: NYFD Chaplain, Father Mychal Judge died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01. This documentary is a moving tribute to his life as told by his friends and the people whose lives Father Mychal deeply affected.
SHERRYBABY (IFC Films)
Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins, Brad William Henke, Bridget Barkan, Sam Bottoms, Kate Burton, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito
Written and directed by Laurie Collyer (debut)
Genre: Drama
Tagline: "No one makes it alone."
Story: Released from prison for 3-years, heroin addict Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) tries to reconnect with her young daughter Alexis (Ryan Simpkins) who has been cared for by her brother and his wife.
REVIEW (Coming Soon!)
INTERVIEW (w/Maggie Gyllenhaal)

This week, I had trouble picking just one movie to focus on because both of these seemed worthy of attention. While at first, the two choices this week would seem to have nothing in common except their distributor, IFC, there is a running theme between them about redemption and how our decisions in life affect how people view us. In that sense, Maggie Gyllenhaal's Sherry Swanson couldn't be any more different than Father Mychal Judge, the subject of Glenn Holsten's stirring documentary Saint of 9/11, but they're both very interesting stories in their own right.

Judge is an amazing man, a Franciscan priest born and raised in Brooklyn to an Irish family who spent years of his life struggling with his own alcoholism while fighting for the rights of the needy, supporting important causes like the war in Northern Ireland. It takes over 45 minutes before the movie even mentions Judge's homosexuality, something which seems unheard of for a man of faith, but it helped to make him a strong voice for gay Catholic men and those suffering from AIDS who found themselves alone and forgotten by the Catholic Church. Sadly, people first learned about Judge when he was killed in the 9/11 attacks, but through interviews with Judge's close friends and acquaintances, Saint of 9/11 creates a loving portrait of a man who touched many lives. It's a moving film that is very likely to be one of the five Oscar nominated documentaries this year.

Sherrybaby is an indie drama by Laurie Collyer, developed with the help of the Sundance Institute, and it features the best acting performance by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal since her breakout in Secretary. She plays a drug addict, just released from jail, who hopes to reconnect with her young daughter who has been raised by her brother and his wife. Sherry quickly finds that there are a lot more obstacles standing in her way of happiness, from a cruel parole officer to a family who doesn't trust or support her, and she finds that it may be a lot harder to be a mother to her daughter than she thought. What's amazing about this movie, besides Gyllenhaal, is that Collyer has created a very truthful portrait of what it must be like for a young, pretty woman like Sherry to go through the penal system and then have trouble adjusting to life on the outside. It's something Collyer learned about from having conversations with a good friend who had similar experiences, and it creates an often heartbreaking film that like Saint of 9/11 will greatly affect anyone who sees it, regardless of whether they've ever had similar experiences.

Saint of 9/11 opens on Wednesday at the IFC Center, while Sherrybaby opens in New York and L.A. on Friday.

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NEW THIS WEEK:

THE COVENANT (Sony/Screen Gems)
Starring Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas, Chace Crawford, Wendy Crewson
Directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, Mindhunters, Deep Blue Sea, Cutthroat Island); Written by J.S. Cardone (The Forsaken and straight to video/TV "classics" like True Blue, Alien Hunter, Sniper 3, The Marksman)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Rated PG-13 (for don't expect the sex, nudity or violence that could make a movie like this a lot better.)
Story: Four students at the Spencer Academy, secretly the descendants of four powerful witch bloodlines that date back to 17^th Century Massachusetts, use their powers to get anything they want. When the descendant of a banished fifth family shows up to challenge them, it looks like the secret covenant will be revealed.

Screen Gems kicks off their third fall season with another movie that looks like it's going to go for the high school crowd in a big way. Based on a graphic novel by "Crossing Jordan" writer Aron Coleite and artist Tone Rodriguez, The Covenant looks a bit like the 1996 movie The Craft crossed with The X-Men, an odd combination that should be enough to bring in a teen audience looking for something new after a slow late summer.

It's been a while since there's really been such a teen-friendly action-thriller in the vein of movies like Rob Cohen's The Skulls, an early movie for Paul Walker and Joshua Jackson, or 1998's Disturbing Behavior, which starred James Marsden. In general, these types of movies were coming out on a weekly basis after Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, but with diminishing returns, studios stopped making them. The Covenant is a return of the genre, mixing it with the kind of superhero action that has replaced it.

The return of teen action-thrillers has a director at its helm who has been behind a few of the biggest action blockbusters and a few major flops. That being Renny Harlin, the Finnish director who made movies like Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and of course, who could forget Cutthroat Island? (Read more about Harlin's "illustrious" career in this week's Star Spotlight.)

Harlin has assembled a rather unimpressive cast of mostly unknown young hunks with the most experienced being Steven Strait, singer from the band Tribe, who starred in Disney's superhero comedy Sky High as Warren Peace, and then a few weeks later, starred in my #1 worst movie of 2005, Undiscovered, along with the one and only Ashlee Simpson. He's joined by the hot young actor Sebastian Stan, who also appears in indie movie Red Doors this week (see below), as well as a great upcoming indie drama called The Architect, which is out later this month. There's also Toby Hemingway, the dreamy blonde, sexy Chace Crawford, the hottie Taylor Kitsch…and I'm starting to feel like a teen girl just writing about them. Obviously, Strait is the only one whose even remotely known, but it would seem that young girls will go see the movie just for the collection of hot guys. There are a bunch of hot young actresses, too, but I've never heard of any of them either.

It almost seems like Screen Gems is playing down the fact that it's directed by Renny Harlin, instead focusing on the fact that it was produced by the same people as their hit Underworld. (They also produced last year's hit The Exorcism of Emily Rose, the Oscar winning Milion Dollar Baby…and The Cave, so make of that what you will.) Then again, the movie looks kind of cool, especially the money shot of a car smashing into a truck and then reassembling itself, and the well-edited commercial that stays far away from any dialogue. Screen Gems has been using a lot of the same marketing techniques that have been other movies geared towards teens from non-stop commercials on MTV to a popular MySpace page, which is even mentioned in the commercials, and they've posted the first 3 minutes of the movie online, although that's mainly the title credits.

Like Exorcist: The Beginning, Harlin's latest movie won't be screened for critics until Thursday night or opening day, although this is the kind of movie that bad reviews won't have much of an effect on. It'll be more about whether the teens who see it on Friday will like it and whether they text message their friends to see it over the weekend. Despite any skepticism out there, there really aren't that many other strong choices, and this should end up bringing in a lot of high school teens, as well as woman and girls in general, though it probably won't have very much longevity with so many other movies being released next week.

Why I Should See It: Seems like it could offer some strong action and effects scenes.
Why Not: Two words: Renny Harlin.
Projection: $14 to 16 million opening; $35 million total.

HOLLYWOODLAND (Focus Features)
Starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Molly Parker, Lois Smith, Robin Tunney, Kathleen Robertson, Steve Adams, Jordan Barker, Donald Burda, Larry Cedar, Brad William Henke, Joe Spano, Jeff Teravainen
Directed by Allen Coulter (director of many HBO shows including "Sopranos," "Sex and the City", "Rome"; Written by Paul Bernbaum (TV writer; also upcoming, Next, Vanishing Point)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rated R
Tagline: "Living in Hollywood can make you famous. Dying in Hollywood can make you a legend."
Story: Detective Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) is hired to investigate the mysterious, apparently suicidal death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), which leads him to a discovery that Reeves was having an affair with Toni Mannix (Diane Lane), the wife of a powerful and ruthless studio mogul (Bob Hoskins).
REVIEW

Anyone over a certain age--let's say 35 for the sake of argument--remembers seeing the old ‘50s Superman television show when it ran in syndication during the ‘60s and ‘70s. It was actor George Reeves' main claim to fame, but it didn't necessarily make him happy, since he considered himself a real dramatic actor and he ended up being typecast as Superman. When the actor was found dead, apparently of a suicide, few of the people around him were surprised, but many people thought that many there was foul play involved. In recent years, Reeves' story has been brought back into the limelight by things like an E! True Hollywood Story, which might have been why it was decided to produce a movie about the short career and events surrounding Reeves' death.

Director Allen Coulter is making his feature film directorial debut after making a name for himself on some of HBO's biggest hit shows, "The Sopranos", "Sex and the City," "Six Feet Under" and "Rome." This television work has received him a total of four Emmy nominations and three Director Guild nominations, so he's obviously held in high regard among his peers, and they'll probably be looking at this project to see how he makes the transition, especially since the subject matter hits so close to home, being about the world of Hollywood and television and fame.

With that in mind, Coulter has assembled an impressive cast for his first movie, including Oscar winning actor Adrian Brody (The Pianist) and Oscar nominees Diane Lane (Unfaithful) and Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa). More prominently, it's the first major movie role for Ben Affleck since starring in the 2004 holiday bomb Surviving Christmas -- releasing a movie with that title before Halloween probably wasn't too wise--which itself came a year after the equally big bomb Gigli with then fiancée Jennifer Lopez. A lot has changed in two years and maybe audiences are ready to accept Ben Affleck for his acting again. After all, it wasn't that long ago where he was a popular box office draw, starring in hits like Michael Bay's Armageddon and Pearl Harbor and playing Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears, as well as starring in all of Kevin Smith's movies. Of course, many people will still be put-off the movie because of Affleck's presence, and they may still be annoyed by his high profile in the tabloids. (Needlessly so, because he's very good in the movie.) There's no proof that Brody offered anything to bring people into Peter Jackson's King Kong last December, especially after they avoided his previous drama The Jacket. That leaves Diane Lane as the only member of the cast who could be a strong draw, especially since she's once again playing an adulterous wife, much like she did in Unfaithful. This movie is a far cry from her last few romantic comedies, so it might not have as much appeal to her normal female audience.

Obviously, people who actually live and work in Hollywood may be the most interested in the movie, because of the relevance to their jobs in terms of fame and how it affects careers. The movie should also have a considerable amount of appeal to older males who favorably remember Reeves from the "Superman" television series, but in general, one can expect that the primary audience for this movie will be over 30.

Unfortunately, this also looks like the type of arthouse movie that should be released in select cities to build word-of-mouth, yet Focus Features has decided to give it a moderately wide release without having that much buzz surrounding it. It'll essentially be competing for the same older audience that might go see The Illusionist or Little Miss Sunshine, both which are holding up well due to strong buzz, so expect this to have a weaker opening, though it shouldn't have a problem getting into the Top 5. It may have problems against next week's The Black Dahlia, which has a similar vibe.

Why I Should See It: The story of actor George Reeves' death is an intriguing one.
Why Not: Seeing Ben Affleck in the Daredevil costume might be enough to put them off wanting to see him playing TV's Superman.
Projection: $5 to 7 million opening; $20 million total.

THE PROTECTOR (Dragon Dynasty/Weinstein Co.)
Starring Tony Jaa, Mum Jokmok, Jing Ming
Directed by Prachya Pinkaew (Ong-Bak and movies with really hard to pronounce titles like Goet iik thii tawng mii theu; Written by Prachya Pinkaew, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Cherm, Sayew), Napalee
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rated R (for Tony Jaa breaking a lot of bones and skulls with his Muay Thai moves!)
Story: A young Thai man named Kham (Tony Jaa) travels to Australia to retrieve the sacred pet elephants of his father that have been stolen by an Asian gang.
Mini-Review: After an impressive debut, Tony Jaa finds himself following in the footsteps of his heroes Jackie Chan and Jet Li by making a laughably horrendous movie. The few good action scenes aren't filmed very well, marred by bad editing and needless slo-mo, and the few cool things barely make up for the bad writing and even worse acting. One scene is histerical by the way it mimics Will Sasso's impression of Steven Seagle on Mad TV, and try not too think too hard about the baddie being a Dragon Transsexual or you'll fry a synapse. Otherwise, it's another bad Weinstein butcher job, taking out key scenes and badly redubbing the dialogue, so that a story that made little sense to begin with is now completely incomprehensible. PETA may have a field day with this one, but few others will. Rating: 2/10

It's hard to believe, but The Protector may be the widest release of a Thailand-produced movie in America ever, and a lot of that has to do with two very important people, Tony Jaa and Quentin Tarantino.

What most people who see the trailers and ads for this movie might not realize is that The Protector was once a movie called Tom Yum Goong, and it was the high profile follow-up to Tony Jaa's first movie, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, which opened in 387 theatres last year and made around $4.5 million total. It was a great introduction to one of the most amazing martial artists since Jet Li and Jackie Chan, and one likely to follow a similar career trajectory.

Supposedly, Ong-Bak found an even bigger audience on DVD as well as gaining Jaa a fan club of martial arts fans including the likes of Quentin Tarantino, who probably had a lot to do with Harvey Weinstein agreeing to distribute the movie as part of the Weinstein Company's new Dragon Dynasty label with new title The Protector. (If the movie's title might be causing a bit of déjà vu, you may be remembering Jackie Chan's 1985 American debut, and if so, I feel sorry for you.)

If the cast for The Covenant seems esoteric, than this movie's cast would be even moreso, because really, most people will only know Tony Jaa from Ong-Bak, his only other major movie, though he was part of the stunt team for the action sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation back in 1997. Fans of Ong-Bak will be happy to see Jaa's comedic partner Petchtai Wongkamlao back for The Protector.

More importantly, The Protector has the Quentin Tarantino seal of approval, something which has helped many Asian movies do more business in this country than they might have otherwise. He got behind Miramax's rerelease of Matrix action director Yuen Woo-ping's 1993 martial arts classic Iron Monkey in 2001, which made $6 million opening weekend and a little under $15 million total, better than Miramax's release of Jackie Chan's Legend of Drunken Master a year earlier. He also attached his name to the Zhang Yimou-Jet Li martial arts epic Hero, which was delayed for years before making more than $50 million in its U.S. release, even being #1 its weekend of release.

It's pretty obvious that martial arts and action fans put a lot behind Tarantino's support of a movie, and though many Tony Jaa fans will have picked up his second movie on import DVD already, just as many may want to see it on the big screen. To add a bit of incentive, the film's music was redone by Wu-Tang Clan mastermind The RZA, another well-respected fan of martial arts, and his seal of approval may help convince males in urban areas pick this over the WASPish The Covenant. (RZA's involvement put the film in danger of not being completed, as it has already been delayed two weeks.)

It seems like older male action fans ages 16 to 25 will probably pick this over The Covenant, since they'll be wary of that movie's director and its emphasis on its dreamy male cast, and The Protector's R-rating and the Tarantino stamp of approval will promise that the action will be crazy violent. (The fact that a lot of it subtitled and dubbed might put some people off, though.) The film's target demographic also still has a bit of competition in the form of Jason Statham's Crank, and its moderate release might make it harder to find the audience.

Why I Should See It: Tony Jaa is one of the most amazing new action stars of the last few years.
Why Not: Like many of the movies starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li, the writing/acting just never quite live up to the action.
Projection: $4 to 6 million opening; $12 million total.

BROKEN BRIDGES (Paramount)
Starring Toby Keith, Kelly Preston, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson, Tess Harper
Directed by Steven Goldmann (Our Country); Written by Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld
Genre: Drama, Music
Rated PG-13
Tagline: "Sometimes you have to go back to move forward."
Story: A failed country music singer (Toby Keith) returns to his hometown where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart (Kelly Preston) who now has a 16-year-old daughter… his!

The possible underdog for the weekend might be this movie for country music lovers that will be opening in limited release in the areas where country music is HUGE. It marks the film debut of one of country's most popular recording artists and performers, having sold millions of records, having numerous country single hits, and his last four albums selling enough copies to debut on the Billboard Album Charts either at #1 or 2 the week they were released. He's also won 6 awards from the Academy of Country Music, all pointing to the type of popularity among country music fans, that will find many of them interested in seeing him make his film debut, even if the movie doesn't really have that much to do with his music. If that weren't enough to get people interested, the movie also stars Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson, who last appeared together in the 2005 remake of The Dukes of Hazzard, a popular television show and movie down South. Directed by country music video director Steven Goldmann, who also directed the IMAX country musical Our Country, this drama will open in limited release, mainly South of the Mason Dixon line.

Why I Should See It: You're Toby Keith's biggest fan!
Why Not: You live in a Northern City where the movie is unlikely to be playing.

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STAR SPOTLIGHT: Renny Harlin

There was a time when Finnish director Renny Harlin was on his way to becoming one of the top action directors in Hollywood, thanks to him directing the sequel to one of the top action movies of the ‘80s, Die Hard 2.

Before getting that gig, he had made a few movies in his native country before making his American debut with the movie Prison, starring no less than Viggo Mortensen. He then took over reigns for the horror franchise, Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, not the best movie in the series, but it led to Harlin being hired by Joel Silver to make two movies, one which would define the rest of his career.

But first, he directed The Adventures of Ford Fairlane starring the controversial then-hot comic Andrew Dice Clay, and though the movie was problematic, Silver was happy enough with Harlin's work to have him helm the sequel to his mega-blockbuster Die Hard. Oddly, Ford Fairlane was delayed so that it would open after Die Hard 2, which was released over 4^th of July weekend in 1990. It ended up making $35 million in its first five days on its way to a whopping $117 million, while Ford Fairlane opened a week later, and bombed, making just $20 million in total. That kind of dichotomy of huge hits to complete flops would become the signature for Harlin's career.

After that, Harlin would work with another action star in his prime, that being Sylvester Stallone, directing the mountain-climbing action-thriller Cliffhanger, another decent summer blockbuster in 1993 that many consider to be Stallone's last decent action flick, as well as Harlin's last movie to open over $20 million. That same year, Harlin married actress Geena Davis and began developing movies with her, the first one being the ill-conceived pirate movie Cutthroat Island, which lost so much money that it would put a negative view the pirate genre until a certain Disney movie eight years later. Undaunted by that bomb's $10 million gross, Harlin and Davis went right into another action movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight, which teamed her with Samuel L. Jackson, who ironically, had co-starred with Bruce Willis for the third Die Hard movie a year before.

Harlin's next movie, Deep Blue Sea, tried to revive the shark genre that hit its height with Steven Spielberg's Jaws but quickly declined with each successful sequel. It returned Harlin to the summer movie season, reunited him with Samuel L. Jackson, and had a respectable opening weekend of $19 million, maintaining that business over the late summer of '99.

Harlin then reunited with his good friend Sylvester Stallone for one of his last major action movies, the 2001 racing movie Driven, which made it to #1 with only $12 million, paving the way for Harlin to have a number of low grossing #1 movies. The next one came when Harlin was brought on board to completely reshoot the disastrous horror prequel, Exorcist: The Beginning, which actually brought in a respectable audience in its late August release, grossing $18 million opening weekend, before taking a huge tumble after the fans of the franchise saw it.

Before making Exorcist: The Beginning, Harlin had directed a serial killer thriller starring Christian Slater, L.L. Cool J and Val Kilmer, written by Wayne Kramer (Running Scared), which was called various things before settling on the name Mindhunters. It moved around the release schedule literally for years before being dumped into a moderate summer release by Dimension Films almost two years after its original 2003 release plans. Obviously, it didn't do very well.

When it comes down to it, the director who had made a number of summer blockbusters has gotten to the point where studios dump his movies without much fanfare, although that's not the case with his new movie, The Covenant, which is likely to be another #1 for the director. Then again, studios usually would rely on Harlin's name to sell a movie and bring in business, and the studio seems to be hiding the fact he directed this, maybe due to the ill will people feel towards him after the poor quality of some of his last three movies. With that in mind, The Covenant will either be a hit or a flop regardless of Harlin's involvement.

Title	Release Date	Theater Count	Previous Box Office (in millions)	Weekend Box Office (in millions)	Average	Total Box Office
Mindhunters	5/13/05	1,040		$1.91	$1,838	$4.48
Exorcist: The Beginning	8/20/04	2,803		$18.05	$6,441	$41.81
Driven	4/27/01	2,905		$12.17	$4,190	$32.62
Deep Blue Sea	7/30/99	2,854	$6.06	$19.11	$6,696	$73.65
The Long Kiss Goodnight	10/11/96	2,245		$10.18	$4,535	$33.45
Cutthroat Island	12/22/95	1,619		$2.37	$1,464	$9.91
Cliffhanger	5/28/93	2,333		$20.46	$8,770	$84.05
The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine	7/13/90	1,245		$6.37	$5,116	$20.42
Die Hard 2:Die Harder	7/6/90	2,507	$13.82	$21.74	$8,672	$117.32