Boxoffice-November.1999

Contest Results
SUMMER GAMES
It Was a Season In Which Anakin Could Happen
Top 10 Summer Films
(May I— Sept. 6;fi^itves in millions)
1. "Star Wars: Episode I—
The Phantom Menace" ($421.3)
2. "Austin Powers: The Spy
Who Shagged Me" ($205.1)
3. "The Sixth Sense" ($175.5)
4. "Tarzan"($167.9)
5. "Big Daddy" ($161.5)
6. "TheMummy"($155.1)
7. "Runaway Bride" ($135.5)
8. "Blair Witch Project" ($133.5)
9. -Notting Hill" ($115.1)
10. "Wild Wild West" ($112.6)
The
Force was with exhibition this
summer. Overhype, bad reviews and
Jar Jar Binks notwithstanding, "Star
Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace"
took in $421.3 milhon domestically as of
Sept. 6. "Austin Powers: The Spy Who
Shagged Me's" titular oversexed superspy
seduced audiences to the tune of $205.1
million, and Buena Vista's thriller "The
Sixth Sense" scared up $175.5 million.
None of the entrants to BOXOFFICE's
Summer Blockbuster Contest, in which
readers were asked to guess the top three
films of the season, picked all three titles;
"Wild Wild West's" surprising underperformance
threw off the prescience of most
respondents. Several had the first two
titles correct; of those, we've chosen the
person who most closely predicted the
combined boxoffice take of the summer's