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VIDEO SALES & RENTALS

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“Little Shop of Horrors” looks like the heir apparent to the throne atop the current Billboard magazine videocassette rental chart. The film remake of the stage musical jumped from No. 10 to No. 3 in its second week on the chart, but “The Color of Money” continues its reign as the king of the rentals. The Clint Eastwood film “Heartbreak Ridge” (No. 2) is on the rise again after a slight dip. “The Morning After” (No. 4), “Children of a Lesser God” (No. 7) and “Peggy Sue Got Married” (No. 6) continue to be popular rentals. But it looks like another newcomer, Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters” (which dropped a notch to No. 10), won’t be Top Five material after all. So far, “ ‘Round Midnight,” a drama about an alcoholic jazz saxman (starring jazz saxman Dexter Gordon), hasn’t been a big rental hit. It sank from No. 23 to No. 35. The leader of the sales chart, measuring sales to retailers and distributors, is still “Top Gun.” Other sales chart champs: “Here’s Mickey!” in kidvid and Bon Jovi’s music vidcassette, “Breakout.”

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