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WEATHER FORECAST
TODAY
69 43 Sunny. Tonight clean and cold.
TOMORROW
69 43 Sunny.
Newcastles are every hour on the half hour starting at 5:30 p.m.
74 44 Mostly clear.
KUJH-TV News
MATT JACOBS/DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
JAY
BY MARIO GONZALEZ
Movie ticket sales sluggish
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Hardball played just that, remaining the nation's No. 1 movie as ticket sales plunged on the lowest grossing weekend so far this year.
The Little League drama starring Keanu Reeves took in $8.2 million in its second weekend of release for a total of $19.4 million, according to studio estimates yesterday.
Glitter, the only new movie opening in wide release, made a paltry $2.5 million and failed to register in the top 10. The movie stars Mariah Carey as a pop diva on the rise.
"It's disappointing," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution for 20th Century Fox, said of the opening. "With the climate in this country, I don't think I know quite what's going on."
Overall, estimated weekend ticket sales for the top dozen films was $44.2 million, a 15 percent drop from last weekend and about 7 percent lower than the
same weekend a year ago. It was the worst weekend for studios since Sept. 15,2000.
Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations, said jitters from the recent terrorist attacks, a lack of new movies and the Friday night celebrity telethon kept movie audiences away. Nearly 60 million Americans watched the telethon benefitting victims of the attacks.
"There were more stars in that than in any film in the marketplace," Dergarabedian said.
The Others, a supernatural thriller starring Nicole Kidman, was the No. 2 movie with $5.2 million. The movie, in its seventh week of release, climbed the charts from the No. 5 spot last week. It has made $80.2 million and was the only movie in the top 10 whose receipts rose over the weekend.
"This is obviously an indication it is a word-of-mouth favorite," said David Kaminow, senior vice president of marketing for Miramax.
Rush Hour 2,starring Jackie
Chan, was in its eighth week on the Top 10 list and has amassed nearly $216 million.
Among other openers,
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
was the No. 13 movie, making
$1.5 million. The biblical thriller
topped all films with average of
$4,800 in sales for each of its 314
screens.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations. Final figures are to be released today.
1. *Hardball*, $8.2 million
2. *The Other*, $5.9 million
3. The Glass House, $4.4 million
4. Rush Hour 2, $3.7 million
5. The Muskeeter, $3.5 million
6. Two Can Play that Game,
$3.2 million
6. (tie) *Rock Star*, $3.2 million
7. *Rat Race*, $3 million
9. Jeepers Creepers, $2.8 million
10. American Pie 2, $2.6 mil lion
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Examinations
6 Boasts
11 Service charge
14 To no __
15 Bizarre
16 Gun the engine
17 Source of many unforeseen troubles
19 Time period
20 __ been had!
21 Espied
22 Layer of ore
23 Windward Islands nation
27 Yellow gems
29 Chinese port
31 Zilch
32 Inning ender
33 Relish
35 Structure starter?
38 Footprint
40 Metric weights, briefly
42 Sea east of the Caspian
43 __ cotta
45 Argentine plain
47 Fruity cooler
48 Canisters
50 Old-time singer
52 Cause of public outrage
55 Cooks just below boiling
56 Voucher
57 Permit to
59 Prune
60 Fled
61 Tangential thoughts
66 Employ
67 Like college walls
68 Flynn of Hollywood
69 Plot for roses
70 Calendar units
71 Worn and shabby
DOWN
1 Light knock
2 Actress Gabor
3 __ Luis Obispo
4 Piece of news
5 Bratislava populace
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113
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6 Feathery scarf
7 Tim of "Star Trek:
Voyager"
8 Ready to swing
9 Become gradually more acceptable to
10 Male or female
11 Still shot from a moving picture
12 Unworldly
13 Roy's Dale
18 City near Council Bluffs
22 Letter-lady White
23 Phantom
24 Sales trail
25 Amused
26 Blacksmith's block
28 Hawaiian dish
30 Gee whiz!
34 Wanders
36 Burghoff role
37 Baldwin and Guinness
39 Snapshot
Solutions to Friday's puzzle
T A B L E      A B E D   T R A P
H E L I X     L A M E   H U L A
R O A C H    T R I M   E M I T
U N B E A T A B L E   A B B E
L O R E   A T T A I N
S C R E E N   L U N A R
P O O P     G U L P   B I P E D
A R T I S A N   O B S C E N E
R E E S E    T U N A   A N T E
C A P O N   S E L D O M
S C R O L L   T A I L
H E A P     A D A M S A P P L E
A L D A     T A X I   P R E E N
F L A T     E V E S   S I R E D
T O R E     N E D S   E M I R S
41 Slow-movers
44 In addition
46 Diffusions
49 Mouth moisture
51 Strike caller?
52 Bench player
53 "Funny Farm" star
54 On the up-and-up
58 Oak or maple
61 Performed
62 Wood and Wynn
63 Valuable vein
64 Head dip
65 Slightly shifty
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