Weekend Box Office : ‘Legends’ Gives a Boost to TriStar

For the fourth consecutive week, “Legends of the Fall” topped the weekly box-office chart, pulling in $5.1 million and giving TriStar Pictures a much-needed morale boost. Jeffrey Blake, president of Sony Pictures Releasing, said the movie, which stars Brad Pitt, Aiden Quinn and Anthony Hopkins, held up for two reasons: First, Pitt is a big draw among women and, second, the movie is playing particularly well in the midsection of the country.

“Boys on the Side,” a Warner Bros. film about the relationships among three women traveling across the country, opened to $4.8 million, while Touchstone Pictures’ “The Jerky Boys” came in third, grossing $4.4 million in its debut weekend.

Weekend Gross/ Screens/ Weeks in Movie (Studio) Total (millions) Average Release 1. “Legends of the Fall” $5.1 2,038 7 (TriStar) $42.6 $2,508 2. “Boys on the Side” $4.8 1,322 1 (Warner Bros.) $4.8 $3,638 3. “The Jerky Boys” $4.4 1,513 1 (Disney/Touchstone) $4.4 $2,903 4. “In the Mouth of Madness” $3.4 1,510 1 (New Line) $3.4 $2,279 5. “Dumb and Dumber” $3.3 2,010 8 (New Line) $108.4 $1,668 6. “Nobody’s Fool” $3 1,007 7 (Paramount) $24.5 $2,988 7. “Highlander” $2.9 1,593 2 (Miramax/Dimension) $9.9 $1,809 8. “Higher Learning” $2.3 1,383 4 (Columbia) $33.1 $1,628 9. “Murder in the First” $2.2 1,302 3 (Warner Bros.) $12.7 $1,697 10. “Little Women” $1.7 1,355 7 (Columbia) $42.8 $1,235

SOURCE: Exhibitor Relations Co.