THE CHARTS
HIGH ‘Q.’ The John Q. public was out in force this week, giving Denzel Washington’s medical drama a chart-topping debut. Although the film–which stars Washington as a father driven to desperate measures when his son is denied treatment–received a critical drubbing in theaters, both VHS renters and DVD buyers gave it their stamp of approval. Displacing the heft of previous chart-topper Shallow Hal to No. 2, John Q. proved it was anything but DOA.
TOP 10 TAPE RENTALS
VIDEO BOX OFFICE WEEKS EW LAST GROSS TO GROSS TO ON VIDEO WEEK DATE DATE CHART GRADE
1 — JOHN Q. Denzel Washington $6.5 $71.0 1 D 2 1 SHALLOW HAL Jack Black $18.6 $70.8 3 B- 3 2 THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Gene Hackman $7.4 $52.4 2 A- 4 4 A WALK TO REMEMBER Mandy Moore $6.3 $41.2 2 C 5 5 HART’S WAR Bruce Willis $6.2 $19.1 2 C 6 3 A BEAUTIFUL MIND Russell Crowe $20.9 $170.7 4 A- 7 6 BLACK HAWK DOWN Josh Hartnett $26.6 $108.6 6 C+ 8 7 JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS Animated $6.4 $80.9 3 A- 9 9 I AM SAM Sean Penn $11.7 $40.3 5 C+ 10 8 ORANGE COUNTY Colin Hanks $12.7 $41.1 5 B
TOP 10 DVD SALES
LAST GROSS WEEKS ON EW VIDEO WEEK TO DATE* CHART GRADE
1 — JOHN Q. Denzel Washington $71.0 1 D 2 — AMELIE Audrey Tautou $33.2 1 A- 3 1 THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Gene Hackman $52.4 2 A- 4 2 A WALK TO REMEMBER Mandy Moore $41.2 2 C 5 3 HART’S WAR Bruce Willis $19.1 2 C 6 5 BLACK HAWK DOWN Josh Hartnett $108.6 6 C+ 7 4 SHALLOW HAL Jack Black $70.8 3 B- 8 6 JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS Animated $80.9 3 A- 9 7 A BEAUTIFUL MIND (WIDE-SCREEN) Russell Crowe $170.7 4 A- 10 9 MONSTER’S BALL Halle Berry $31.3 6 C+
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS/VIDTRAC FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 21, 2002. *BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS
SOURCE: NIELSEN EDI AND EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO., INC.