WEEKEND PREVIEW
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& Out will likely stay in the top spot with about $11.5 million.
L.A. Confidential's bizarre choice to stay on just about 800
screens will cost it again, leaving number two to Batman & Redhead in
The Peacemaker, the first film from DreamWorks. As if anyone
cared. The Game and The Edge will fight it out for the
number three and number four spots -- gotta give it to Hanibal Lechter
vs. The Baldwin & The Bear over Mikey, whose third week of release is
like the third hour of Monopoly. Tired. Look for LAC to drop to number
five with about $4.5 million. Spots 6-8 are going to be a battle between
the African-American family dramedy, Soul Food, the Midwestern
American family drama, A Thousand Acres, and the Depantsed English
Unemployed comedy, The Full Monty. If you were wishing that Wishmaster
would drop from third to ninth, you may be in luck... or Wishmaster
could conjure up the sixth spot, beating out the high quality/low audience-interest
trio above.
Also hitting theaters is The Assignment, with Aidan Quinn
playing an undercover agent pretending to be the most evil assassin
in the world and Ben Kingsley and Donald Sutherland as
his handlers. And stinking of low budget edginess is Kicked In The
Head, the indie-star-cameo laden (Linda Fiorentino, Michael Rapaport,
Lili Taylor and James Woods) comedy from Sundance's 1995
Best Director winner, Matthew Harrison, and starring last year's
Indie Spirit Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in Walking and
Talking, Kevin Corrigan. See you on video, boys!
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