THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL finishes third at US boxoffice
By dkilmer
Created 11/08/1999 - 01:00
Warner Bros.' THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, with visual effects by Hollywood,
California-based K.N.B. EFX Group, Inc., finished third at the US weekend
boxoffice with an estimated $7.8 million, for a total of $28.1 million. The
film is a remake of the 1958 William Castle horror film that starred
Vincent Price. Buena Vista's THE SIXTH SENSE, with visual effects by
DreamQuest, finished eighth, grossing $3.2 million for a total of $264.1
million. The American version of Hayao Miyazaki's PRINCESS MONONOKE, which
is the top grossing movie of all time in Japan, took in $385,000 on 38
screens, including 13 in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota area which
Miramax used as a test market to help determine whether to give the film a
wider release. The film averaged $10,100 per screen, compared to last
week's $18,000 per screen. It is not yet known whether Miramax considers
this promising enough to give the film a wider release.
