`PRIVATE RYAN' HAS BEACHHEAD AT THE BOX OFFICE.Byline: Dave McNary Daily News Staff Writer Steven Spielberg's ``Saving Private Ryan'' easily won the box office war with an estimated $30.1 million at 2,463 theaters during its Friday-Sunday opening, studio sources said Sunday. The highly anticipated D-Day epic, starring Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956) Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks and directed by Spielberg, dominated business with widespread sold-out showings on Friday and Saturday nights. The weekend total would have probably been higher, but a delivery glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. , blamed on Technicolor Film Services, resulted in cancellation of several early shows Friday at theaters in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Phoenix areas. Industry tracker Robert Bucksbaum of Reel Source estimated the box office shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. could have been as high as 10 percent of Friday's $9.7 million total. ``This opening really puts DreamWorks on the map as a top studio,'' Bucksbaum said of the 4-year-old enterprise headed by Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. ``The numbers are just phenomenal for a film that runs two hours and 45 minutes, which limits most theaters to three showings a day.'' Bucksbaum predicted ``Saving Private Ryan'' will take in between $155 million and $170 million domestically, placing it among the top 50 U.S. grossers of all time. He forecast $150 million overseas, where co-financier Paramount is handling the $70 million film. DreamWorks distribution chief James Tharp said the studio will meet today with Technicolor representatives over the delivery problem, the first to occur on a major release within memory. Final figures for this weekend will be released today. Top movies Here are estimated grosses for the top movies at North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. theaters for Friday through Sunday. 1. ``Saving Private Ryan,'' $30.1 million. 2. ``The Mask of Zorro zorro: see fox. Zorro masked swordsman, defender of weak and oppressed. [Am. Lit.: comic strip (1919); Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 794; TV: Terrace, II, 461–462] See : Disguise ,'' $13.7 million. 3. ``Lethal lethal /le·thal/ (le´th'l) fatal. le·thal adj. 1. Capable of causing death. 2. Of, relating to, or causing death. lethal deadly; fatal. Weapon 4,'' $12.9 million. 4. ``There's Something About Mary,'' $12.7 million. 5. ``Armageddon,'' $10.9 million. 6. ``Dr. Dolittle,'' $7 million. 7. ``Disturbing Behavior,'' $6.9 million. 8. ``Mafia!,'' $6.4 million. 9. ``Small Soldiers,'' $5.1 million. 10. ``Mulan,'' $3.4 million. CAPTION(S): box BOX: TOP MOVIES (SEE TEXT) |
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