European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Video rankings rentals 1 the fugitive Warner Home video Quot 2 Carllton s Way Mca Universal Home video. 3 what s love got to do with it Touchstone Home video 4 the Joy Luck club Hollywood Home video a 5 Cool runnings Disney Home video 6 in the line of fire cof Moia tristan Home video7 the Good son Fox video. 8 malice Columbia tristan Home video. V. 9 demolition Man Warner Home video aa10 the age of innocence Columbia tristan Homo video sales. 1 the Fox and the hound Walt Disney Home. Video \ 2 the fugitive Warner Home video a 3 we re Back a Dinosaur s Story Mca Universal Home a Quot. Video. A. V a 4 Aladdin Walt Disney Home video Quot a ,. 5 Yannul live at the acropolis big Home video a 6 the secret Garden Warner Home video. A a a 7 Playboy College girls uni disc. Corp. 8 Penthouse 25th anniversary swimsuit video a. Vision entertainment 9 Playboy video Centrefold 40th anniversary uni Gist. A corp. A a a a. 10 Playboy celebrity Centrefold Dian Parkinson uni i dist. Corp a children 1 the Fox and the hound Walt Disney Homo video 2 we re Back a dinosaurs Story Mca Universal Home. A a video aaa. 3 Aladdin Wall Disney Home video a. A a a. 4 mighty Morphen Green Ranger. Part 2 poly ram video .5 Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video a 6  voyage hem Dale Home video 7 mag Fly Morphen Green Ranger part 1 poly ram. Video. B mighty Morphen Green Ranger part 3  video 9 mighty Morphen vol. 1 Day of the dumpster a a a poly ram vide.0. A a a. 10 mighty Morphen Green. Ranger. Part 5 poly ram video compiled by  rankings. The top 20 stateside to shows of april 25-May .1. According to the  Nielsen co. Sea Sori to Date ranking,.an n for first time showing an x Tor one tire Only presentation or a u for unavailable is in parentheses. 1 3 Seinfeld Abc 2 2 60 minutes lbs. 3 1 Home improvement Abc 4 4 Roseanne Abc. 5 10 murder she wrote lbs it 6 these friends o mine Abc 7 x movie Confederate widow part 1 lbs 8 8 coach Abc 9 x movie a place for Annie Abc 10 x behind closed doors Abc 10 fur. Quinn Medicine woman lbs 12 u . Law Abc 13 18 prime time live Abc 13 16 wings Abc a 15 u phenom Abc 16 u the Simpsons Fox. / 17 u Beverly Hills 90210 Fox 18 11 Murphy Brown lbs 19 u turning Point Abc 20 u Melrose place Fox. A a a a a. A a a. A. Universal Frances Mcdormand and Liam Neeson Star in the 1990 film Parkman which has a sequel set for video return of Jafarz route to by John Horn a entertainment writer. A i he sequels to Ala Dinand Darkmah Are. On their Way but if you look for them in Heaters you la sooner find an Arnold Schwarzenegger musical. Both the return of Jafar and dark Man ii Are bypassing movie houses completely to pre. I amp re instead in video stores that i arrival of these and other noteworthy titles could revolutionize the direct to video Market currently the cinematic slag Heap of unheralded dramas and unfunny corned ies. The return of Jafar an animated movie reuniting the a addin characters is the first Walt Disney co. Movie produced expressly for the Home video Market. Similarly Parkman ii and a planned Parkman Iii Are the first direct to video titles from Mca Home video. In releasing their films straight to Home video Disney and Mca will go head to head with such movie theater exiles As Blindfold acts of obsession housewife from hell and american cyborg steel Warrior. Quot it really could be the ambassador to show that made for video Isnit Junky a Ann Daly the president of Disney a Buena Vista Home video says of the. Return of Jafar. The movie is due May 2q in stateside stores. Later this summer Disney will release its second direct to video title muppet classic theater. Anyone who regularly goes to. Video stores knows there Are a lot of bad movies out there a lot of these movies a Ever hear of skin Art ? a Are so inept they did no to even rate a pit Stop at the s2 discount House. There Are dozens of other films that aim for the big screen and miss entirely Disney for one has holy Matrimony and blood in blood out a two High budget films that proved so unwatchable they essentially became direct to video films by de fault. No matter How painfully bad they still some How get rented. Although most of the rental business is anchored by lavish Star driven blockbusters like the fugitive and the firm there is plenty of room for lesser to. Ties americans rent 90 million videotapes a week. Jon any Given Friday or saturday night video is larger than a fifth network in terms of Homes using Vars a says Louis Fella president of Mca Home video a a a a. A. The demand is there so Why not improve the Supply Disney and Mca have the particular advantage of cashing in o n Brand name Mere Han d is. With the ret uni of Jafar Disney is delivering the same characters that made Aladdin the highest grossing animated release in movie history. The follow up a paid is far less elaborate than its predecessor and was videotaped not shot on film. Whereas 1992�?Ts Aladdin featured the voice of Robin Williams As the Genie the return of Jafar employs Dan Castellaneta the voice of Homer Simpson. A full blown to beater Quality Aladdin sequel would have taken years a and some $40 million a to make. The return of Jafar took 12 months and Cost less than $10 million. Disney Hopes to sell several million tapes. The studio is so confident it already is considering a direct to video sequel tothe lion King a which does no to even arrive in Heaters until june. The Success of 1990�?Ts Parkman released by Mca s studio affiliate Universal pictures was far More limited than Aladdin the modestly budgeted Liam Neeson crime drama grossed $33 million and did particularly Well on video a but its performance did not mandate a full blown movie sequel. For about $4 million a a fraction of the typical $30 million feature budget a Mcay a to and Home video units produced the sequel which is now being edited. Parkman ii which stars the unknown Arnold Vosolo in Neeson a role May be out by years end. The demand for direct to video erotic thrillers and martial arts has faded Feola says  renters look for better Quality and More intriguing stories. Trailer Disney expects to sell upward of 20 million videocassettes of Snow White and the seven dwarfs when the movie makes its Home video debut oct. 28. The animated classic opened in Heaters in 1937. The video record is held by Aladdin which sold 24 million cassettes. Page 18 sunday May 8, 1994