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Tuesday, August 25, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
'Stakeout' leads box-office hit list
The Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD — The detective yarn "Stakeout" stayed atop the box-office heap as the nation's most popular film, followed closely by Cheech Marin's comedy "Born in East L.A."
"Stakeout," the Walt Disney movie with Richard Dreyfuss as a detective who falls in love with a woman he's been waiting for. No at a $1.55 million take.
Marin, half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, wrote, directed and starred in "Born in East L.A.," about a Mexican-American accidentally shipped back to a border town by immigration agents. The film took second place with $4.3 million.
It was one of three films in a new batch of summer releases that helped the surging 1987 box office. Fourteen motion pictures took in more than $1 million each last weekend.
"Dirty Dancing," the story of a
summertime Catskills romance featuring Patrick Swayze, was in fourth place in its first week, just behind the high-school oriented "Can't Buy Me Love." Both films took in $4 million each.
But the movie with the biggest-per-screen box office draw was "The Big Easy," starring Dennis Quaid as a Cajun cop, which made its debut last weekend on 32 screens. It took in $353,259, for a whopping $11,039 a screen.
Moviegoes also found "No Way Out," the nation's fifth most popular film with $3.8 million in its second week of release. The double-cross thriller stars Kevin Costner as a Navy officer trapped in intrigue after the murder of the Secretary of Defense's mistress.
The latest James Bond flick, "The Living Daylights," starring Timothy Dalton, dropped from second to sixth place with a $3.6 million gross after three weeks.
In seventh place was the summer hit “La Bamba,” with $3.3 million, and the teen-vampire picture “The Lost Boys” was eighth with $2.3 million. “Robocop” was ninth with $2.1 million, and Cannon’s “Masters of the Universe” was No. 10 with $1.6 million.
The box-office gross is determined by the amount of tickets a movie sells over the weekend, always a much stronger sales period than the rest of the week. Studios use the weekend box office to calculate how a movie is doing.
million, 1.102 screens, $5.045 a screen, $24 million, three weeks, $14 million.
Here are the top box-office films for the weekend talied by Exhibitor Relations Co., with distributor, weekend gross, number of screens, per-screen average, total gross, number of weeks in release and estimated production costs. Distributors supply the gross amounts. Figures not available are indicated by n-a.
4. "Dirty Dancing," Vestron, $4 million, 1,000 screens, $4,000 a screen, $4 million one week n-a
2. "Born in East L.A.," Universal, $4.3 million, 1,112 screens, $3,920 a screen, $4.3 million, one week, n-1.
3. "Can't Buy Me Love," Buena Vista, $4 million, 1,283 screens, $3,150 a screen, $12.2 million, two weeks, $6 million
1. "Stakeout," Buena Vista, $5.5
5. "No Way Out," Orion, $3.8 million, 817 screens, $4.62 a screen, $10.2 million, two weeks, $18 million, "Living Daylights," MGMUA, $6.4 million, 1,599 screens, $2.255 a screen, $39.8 million, three weeks, $32 million
7. "La Bamba," Columbia, $3.3
million, 1,105 screens, $3,000
a screen, $3.3 million, four weeks, $6
million.
Railway workers' strike paralyzes Canada
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Passengers were stranded and freight was stalled across Canada yesterday at 48,000 railway workers, worried over job security, began the country's first national rail strike in 14 years.
Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux ordered a resumption of contract talks with mediators in Ottawa.
Transport Minister John Crosbie said the government may intervene quickly, possibly by asking Parliament to enact mandatory back-to-work legislation. Parliament is already sitting in special session.
"It's quite obvious we can't leave the country paralyzed," Crosbie said in Ottawa.
Picket lines halted about 30 percent of the nation's freight, including vital shipments of western grain, potash and lumber. The railways will lose $20 million ($15 million U.S.) every day the strike continues.
Legislation ended the last national rail strike in 1973. The government is expected to act within 10 days on this strike because of potential damage to the economy, especially for financially strapped western grain farmers whose crops are now ripening.
The strikers belong to nine unions represented jointly by the Associated Railway Unions. They work for Canada's two nationwide freight lines, government-owned Canadian National Railways and privately owned CP Rail.
Passenger trains are also affected because the nation's Via Rail network relies on Canadian National and CP Rail crews and tracks.
Vacationers from the United States arrived at Montreal's normally busting Central Station to find video terminals lit up with a flashing message that said all services were
canceled. Passengers were taken by bus to the U.S. border to connect with Amtrak trains.
"I was too busy having a good time to read newspapers," said one surprised American, Antonio Vasquez.
Leon Young, 80, of St. Petersburg, Fla., had to cancel a sightseeing railroad trip with his wife from Toronto's Union Station.
"I have tremendous regard for the Canadians," Young said. "But this kind of thing tends to keep people from being enthusked."
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