Top Weekend Theater Averages

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TOP WEEKEND THEATER AVERAGES
1982-Present

Note: This chart top 200 movies, regardless of sorting.

Row	Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Average	Theaters	Weekend Adj. Gross*	Adjusted Gross^	Date**
1	28	American Hustle	Sony	$126,715	6	$760,300	$7,611,600	12/13/13
2	40	Inside Llewyn Davis	CBS	$104,068	4	$416,300	$1,390,300	12/06/13
3	9	Frozen (2013)	BV	$249,909	1	$249,900	$182,261,600	11/22/13
4	39	Blue Jasmine	SPC	$104,743	6	$628,500	$33,831,900	7/26/13
5	136	The Place Beyond the Pines	Focus	$70,832	4	$283,300	$20,560,700	3/29/13
6	72	Spring Breakers	A24	$88,882	3	$266,600	$13,956,700	3/15/13
7	194	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$63,283	5	$316,400	$95,720,700	12/28/12
8	88	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$83,430	5	$417,200	$95,720,700	12/21/12
9	82	Lincoln	BV	$85,846	11	$944,300	$183,007,000	11/09/12
10	20	The Master	Wein.	$152,373	5	$761,900	$16,616,300	9/14/12
11	134	Sleepwalk with Me	IFC	$71,189	1	$71,200	$2,344,700	8/24/12
12	131	To Rome with Love	SPC	$71,649	5	$358,200	$17,241,500	6/22/12
13	24	Moonrise Kingdom	Focus	$129,622	4	$518,500	$46,505,400	5/25/12
14	98	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	Focus	$79,822	4	$319,300	$24,579,300	12/09/11
15	61	The Tree of Life	FoxS	$93,114	4	$372,500	$13,390,500	5/27/11
16	49	Midnight in Paris	SPC	$99,710	6	$598,300	$57,175,800	5/20/11
17	91	Red State	SMod	$82,293	1	$82,300	$1,125,000	4/08/11
18	12	Red State	SMod	$209,167	1	$209,200	$1,125,000	3/04/11
19	112	The Fighter	Par.	$75,378	4	$301,500	$94,084,500	12/10/10
20	96	Black Swan	FoxS	$80,613	18	$1,451,000	$108,793,500	12/03/10
21	71	The King's Speech	Wein.	$89,307	4	$357,200	$138,436,800	11/26/10
22	165	127 Hours	FoxS	$66,544	4	$266,200	$18,426,800	11/05/10
23	124	The Kids Are All Right	Focus	$73,381	7	$513,700	$21,073,100	7/09/10
24	154	Nine	Wein.	$68,026	4	$272,100	$20,369,900	12/18/09
25	89	Up in the Air	Par.	$83,317	15	$1,249,800	$86,400,300	12/04/09
26	8	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$395,471	2	$790,900	$109,154,000	12/04/09
27	7	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$415,823	2	$831,600	$109,154,000	11/27/09
28	138	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Fox	$70,318	4	$281,300	$22,110,600	11/13/09
29	35	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	LGF	$110,040	18	$1,980,700	$50,090,600	11/06/09
30	200	Capitalism: A Love Story	Over.	$62,577	4	$250,300	$15,195,300	9/25/09
31	164	Defiance	ParV	$66,641	2	$133,300	$32,115,700	1/02/09
32	135	Revolutionary Road	ParV	$70,975	3	$212,900	$25,687,700	12/26/08
33	159	Frost/Nixon	Uni.	$67,535	3	$202,600	$20,878,500	12/05/08
34	34	There Will Be Blood	ParV	$111,588	2	$223,200	$45,102,300	12/28/07
35	144	Juno	FoxS	$69,179	7	$484,300	$161,634,500	12/07/07
36	103	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS	$78,943	2	$157,900	$13,914,400	9/28/07
37	117	Lust, Caution	Focus	$74,788	1	$74,800	$5,383,100	9/28/07
38	95	Sicko	LGF	$80,698	1	$80,700	$28,713,300	6/22/07
39	58	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$93,256	3	$279,800	$122,297,900	12/22/06
40	18	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$155,243	3	$465,700	$122,297,900	12/15/06
41	150	Babel	ParV	$68,359	7	$478,500	$41,276,800	10/27/06
42	177	Little Miss Sunshine	FoxS	$65,136	7	$456,000	$73,580,400	7/28/06
43	79	An Inconvenient Truth	ParC	$86,439	4	$345,800	$29,675,800	5/26/06
44	182	Thank You for Smoking	FoxS	$64,626	5	$323,100	$30,471,400	3/17/06
45	37	Memoirs of a Geisha	Sony	$107,140	8	$857,100	$71,204,300	12/09/05
46	22	Brokeback Mountain	Focus	$137,497	5	$687,500	$102,336,700	12/09/05
47	128	Syriana	WB	$72,758	9	$654,800	$63,366,800	12/02/05
48	56	Syriana	WB	$94,063	5	$470,300	$63,366,800	11/25/05
49	50	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride	WB	$97,495	5	$487,500	$67,011,100	9/16/05
50	109	The Aristocrats	Think	$76,543	4	$306,200	$8,008,700	7/29/05
51	60	Melinda and Melinda	FoxS	$93,232	1	$93,200	$4,805,200	3/18/05
52	189	In Good Company	Uni.	$63,525	3	$190,600	$57,529,300	12/31/04
53	185	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	BV	$64,028	2	$128,100	$30,585,500	12/17/04
54	126	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	BV	$73,295	2	$146,600	$30,585,500	12/10/04
55	187	Bad Education	SPC	$63,678	3	$191,000	$6,605,000	11/19/04
56	160	Sideways	FoxS	$67,096	4	$268,400	$90,617,000	10/22/04
57	54	I Heart Huckabees	FoxS	$94,687	4	$378,700	$16,565,000	10/01/04
58	145	The Motorcycle Diaries	Focus	$69,058	3	$207,200	$21,703,200	9/24/04
59	63	Guiana 1838	RBC	$91,920	1	$91,900	$292,800	9/24/04
60	13	Brother Bear	BV	$194,869	2	$389,700	$113,778,700	10/24/03
61	171	Mystic River	WB	$65,806	13	$855,500	$118,901,300	10/10/03
62	176	About Schmidt	NL	$65,205	6	$391,200	$86,883,500	12/13/02
63	111	Adaptation.	Sony	$76,101	7	$532,700	$30,189,100	12/06/02
64	183	Talk to Her	SPC	$64,582	2	$129,200	$12,442,000	11/29/02
65	130	Talk to Her	SPC	$72,323	2	$144,600	$12,442,000	11/22/02
66	44	Punch-Drunk Love	SonR	$101,754	5	$508,800	$24,723,900	10/11/02
67	188	One Hour Photo	FoxS	$63,638	7	$445,500	$43,778,200	8/23/02
68	180	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$64,813	16	$1,037,000	$150,523,600	1/11/02
69	162	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$66,859	4	$267,400	$150,523,600	1/04/02
70	186	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$63,938	4	$255,800	$150,523,600	12/28/01
71	104	The Royal Tenenbaums	BV	$78,788	5	$393,900	$72,667,700	12/14/01
72	181	Amelie	Mira.	$64,699	3	$194,100	$46,571,900	11/02/01
73	146	Apocalypse Now Redux	Mira.	$68,974	2	$137,900	$6,579,800	8/03/01
74	10	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	BV	$233,969	2	$467,900	$119,550,300	6/08/01
75	23	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$137,318	2	$274,600	$81,605,200	5/25/01
76	31	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$119,143	2	$238,300	$81,605,200	5/18/01
77	147	Traffic	USA	$68,972	4	$275,900	$176,533,600	12/29/00
78	133	Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX)	BV	$71,624	54	$3,867,800	$90,254,500	1/07/00
79	193	Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX)	BV	$63,350	54	$3,420,900	$90,254,500	12/31/99
80	5	Toy Story 2	BV	$475,652	1	$475,700	$385,084,000	11/19/99
81	83	American Beauty	DW	$85,325	16	$1,365,200	$200,727,100	9/17/99
82	46	The Blair Witch Project	Art.	$101,118	31	$3,134,700	$222,704,700	7/23/99
83	74	The Blair Witch Project	Art.	$88,743	27	$2,396,100	$222,704,700	7/16/99
84	84	The Thin Red Line	Fox	$85,035	7	$595,200	$57,766,800	1/01/99
85	51	The Thin Red Line	Fox	$96,988	5	$484,900	$57,766,800	12/25/98
86	4	A Bug's Life	BV	$499,685	1	$499,700	$274,790,800	11/20/98
87	29	Bulworth	Fox	$121,708	2	$243,400	$45,533,400	5/15/98
88	38	Everest (IMAX)	MFF	$106,986	10	$1,069,900	$133,442,900	3/13/98
89	195	Kundun	BV	$63,221	2	$126,400	$9,758,500	12/26/97
90	149	Good Will Hunting	Mira.	$68,376	7	$478,600	$237,609,600	12/05/97
91	11	Anastasia	Fox	$211,406	1	$211,400	$101,977,400	11/14/97
92	3	Hercules	BV	$747,214	2	$1,494,400	$173,824,100	6/20/97
93	6	Hercules	BV	$437,694	1	$437,700	$173,824,100	6/13/97
94	85	Evita	BV	$84,872	22	$1,867,200	$87,782,800	1/03/97
95	173	The People Vs. Larry Flynt	Sony	$65,514	16	$1,048,200	$35,603,100	1/03/97
96	16	Evita	BV	$177,650	2	$355,300	$87,782,800	12/27/96
97	97	Everyone Says I Love You	Mira.	$79,939	3	$239,800	$17,115,800	12/06/96
98	26	The Crucible	Fox	$127,270	1	$127,300	$12,963,100	12/06/96
99	33	The Crucible	Fox	$114,731	1	$114,700	$12,963,100	11/29/96
100	178	To Die For	Sony	$65,024	11	$715,300	$39,388,600	9/29/95
101	170	Unzipped	Mira.	$65,949	2	$131,900	$5,320,600	8/04/95
102	101	Kids	Mira.	$79,305	2	$158,600	$13,716,800	7/21/95
103	2	Pocahontas	BV	$829,585	6	$4,977,500	$262,003,900	6/16/95
104	167	Miami Rhapsody	BV	$66,084	2	$132,200	$9,662,400	1/27/95
105	90	Bullets Over Broadway	Mira.	$82,880	2	$165,800	$25,774,900	10/21/94
106	148	Ed Wood	BV	$68,912	2	$137,800	$11,338,300	9/30/94
107	1	The Lion King	BV	$1,527,915	2	$3,055,800	$600,726,200	6/17/94
108	168	When a Man Loves a Woman	BV	$66,056	19	$1,255,100	$96,334,200	5/06/94
109	156	The Paper	Uni.	$67,599	5	$338,000	$74,769,400	3/18/94
110	155	Philadelphia	TriS	$67,892	4	$271,600	$149,156,700	1/07/94
111	121	Philadelphia	TriS	$74,085	4	$296,300	$149,156,700	12/31/93
112	140	Philadelphia	TriS	$69,724	4	$278,900	$149,156,700	12/24/93
113	123	The Piano	Mira.	$73,605	4	$294,400	$77,612,900	11/12/93
114	15	Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas	BV	$185,920	2	$371,800	$97,228,100	10/15/93
115	122	The Joy Luck Club	BV	$74,070	7	$518,500	$63,974,400	9/17/93
116	41	The Joy Luck Club	BV	$103,061	3	$309,200	$63,974,400	9/10/93
117	143	Orlando	SPC	$69,370	3	$208,100	$10,343,400	6/11/93
118	137	Much Ado About Nothing	Gold.	$70,399	3	$211,200	$43,845,900	5/07/93
119	172	Wide Sargasso Sea	NL	$65,734	1	$65,700	$3,139,900	4/16/93
120	17	Aladdin	BV	$168,538	2	$337,100	$422,160,900	11/20/92
121	14	Aladdin	BV	$190,740	2	$381,500	$422,160,900	11/13/92
122	110	Tous les Matins du Monde	Oct.	$76,188	1	$76,200	$6,007,100	11/13/92
123	87	Night and the City	Fox	$83,479	1	$83,500	$12,031,900	10/16/92
124	120	Sarafina!	BV	$74,184	2	$148,400	$14,172,300	9/18/92
125	86	Howards End	SPC	$84,488	1	$84,500	$50,449,600	4/10/92
126	69	Howards End	SPC	$89,446	1	$89,400	$50,449,600	4/03/92
127	55	Howards End	SPC	$94,685	1	$94,700	$50,449,600	3/27/92
128	52	Howards End	SPC	$95,607	1	$95,600	$50,449,600	3/20/92
129	43	Howards End	SPC	$101,969	1	$102,000	$50,449,600	3/13/92
130	139	This Is My Life	Fox	$70,258	2	$140,500	$5,668,200	2/21/92
131	142	Grand Canyon	Fox	$69,461	2	$138,900	$64,483,500	1/03/92
132	184	Grand Canyon	Fox	$64,578	2	$129,200	$64,483,500	12/27/91
133	161	Bugsy	TriS	$67,094	4	$268,400	$95,019,400	12/13/91
134	152	For the Boys	Fox	$68,213	2	$136,400	$34,150,900	11/22/91
135	19	Beauty and the Beast	BV	$155,021	2	$310,000	$281,474,000	11/15/91
136	179	The Commitments	Fox	$64,851	8	$518,800	$28,527,900	8/16/91
137	190	Alice	Orion	$63,471	3	$190,400	$14,018,100	1/04/91
138	75	Green Card	BV	$88,456	2	$176,900	$57,149,000	1/04/91
139	21	Edward Scissorhands	Fox	$151,886	2	$303,800	$107,608,600	12/07/90
140	157	The Grifters	Mira.	$67,591	2	$135,200	$25,710,800	12/07/90
141	107	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$76,814	14	$1,075,400	$351,779,300	11/16/90
142	93	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$81,322	14	$1,138,500	$351,779,300	11/09/90
143	73	Metropolitan	NL	$88,803	1	$88,800	$5,591,600	8/03/90
144	175	The Freshman	TriS	$65,298	6	$391,800	$40,841,100	7/20/90
145	191	Mountains of the Moon	TriS	$63,450	2	$126,900	$7,634,700	2/23/90
146	102	sex, lies and videotape	Mira.	$79,070	4	$316,300	$50,168,900	8/04/89
147	80	Dead Poets Society	BV	$86,293	8	$690,300	$194,376,300	6/02/89
148	127	New York Stories	BV	$73,054	12	$876,700	$21,825,200	3/03/89
149	105	Punchline	Col.	$78,708	4	$314,800	$41,215,000	9/30/88
150	64	Crossing Delancey	WB	$91,490	1	$91,500	$31,852,200	8/26/88
151	77	The Last Temptation of Christ	Uni.	$87,314	9	$785,800	$16,400,800	8/12/88
152	114	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$75,129	3	$225,400	$122,402,500	7/22/88
153	113	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$75,353	3	$226,100	$122,402,500	7/15/88
154	141	A Handful of Dust	NL	$69,473	1	$69,500	$3,056,800	6/24/88
155	66	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$90,103	4	$360,400	$242,763,100	1/08/88
156	36	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$108,285	4	$433,100	$242,763,100	1/01/88
157	47	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$100,011	4	$400,000	$242,763,100	12/25/87
158	153	The Last Emperor	Col.	$68,192	6	$409,200	$86,594,200	11/27/87
159	45	Maurice	Cinc	$101,455	1	$101,500	$5,020,000	9/18/87
160	67	Wish You Were Here	Atl	$89,787	1	$89,800	$6,760,800	7/24/87
161	100	Prick Up Your Ears	Gold.	$79,559	1	$79,600	$3,406,800	4/17/87
162	169	Gothic	Vest	$66,008	1	$66,000	$1,886,200	4/10/87
163	118	Raising Arizona	Fox	$74,612	1	$74,600	$47,039,100	3/13/87
164	78	Platoon	Orion	$87,183	6	$523,100	$285,259,800	12/19/86
165	99	The Mosquito Coast	WB	$79,786	3	$239,400	$29,789,500	11/28/86
166	53	The Mission	WB	$95,578	1	$95,600	$35,598,100	11/07/86
167	76	The Mission	WB	$87,587	1	$87,600	$35,598,100	10/31/86
168	59	A Room with a View	Cinc	$93,237	1	$93,200	$43,174,900	3/07/86
169	151	Brazil	Uni.	$68,253	1	$68,300	$21,552,900	12/20/85
170	197	Fool for Love	Can.	$63,080	2	$126,200	$1,822,200	12/06/85
171	163	The Official Story	ALM	$66,727	1	$66,700	$66,700	11/08/85
172	196	Eleni	WB	$63,210	1	$63,200	$691,900	11/01/85
173	198	Agnes of God	Col.	$62,799	8	$502,400	$58,113,800	9/13/85
174	42	After Hours	WB	$103,029	1	$103,000	$24,057,800	9/13/85
175	27	Kiss of the Spider Woman	IsAl	$126,900	1	$126,900	$37,157,100	7/26/85
176	108	Mask	Uni.	$76,813	4	$307,300	$109,367,000	3/08/85
177	81	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Orion	$86,239	3	$258,700	$24,107,700	3/01/85
178	158	A Passage to India	Col.	$67,546	3	$202,600	$61,707,500	12/14/84
179	132	1984	Gold.	$71,628	1	$71,600	$19,122,800	12/14/84
180	174	The Killing Fields	WB	$65,330	3	$196,000	$78,770,000	11/30/84
181	116	The Killing Fields	WB	$74,899	3	$224,700	$78,770,000	11/23/84
182	129	The Killing Fields	WB	$72,508	3	$217,500	$78,770,000	11/16/84
183	92	The Killing Fields	WB	$81,334	1	$81,300	$78,770,000	11/09/84
184	106	The Killing Fields	WB	$77,100	1	$77,100	$78,770,000	11/02/84
185	166	A Soldier's Story	Col.	$66,444	6	$398,700	$51,913,600	9/21/84
186	115	A Soldier's Story	Col.	$74,932	5	$374,700	$51,913,600	9/14/84
187	119	Under the Volcano	Uni.	$74,271	1	$74,300	$6,125,700	6/15/84
188	199	Educating Rita	Col.	$62,626	3	$187,900	$37,434,000	9/23/83
189	192	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence	Uni.	$63,391	4	$253,600	$5,894,500	8/26/83
190	70	The Year of Living Dangerously	WB	$89,444	1	$89,400	$26,267,500	1/21/83
191	68	Gandhi	Col.	$89,777	4	$359,100	$134,903,400	12/10/82
192	62	The Verdict	Fox	$92,164	3	$276,500	$140,071,600	12/10/82
193	125	Annie	Col.	$73,332	14	$1,026,600	$156,233,000	6/11/82
194	94	Annie	Col.	$81,102	14	$1,135,400	$156,233,000	6/04/82
195	48	Annie	Col.	$99,867	14	$1,398,200	$156,233,000	5/21/82
196	32	Victor/Victoria	MGM	$118,543	3	$355,600	$77,256,600	3/26/82
197	25	Victor/Victoria	MGM	$127,442	3	$382,300	$77,256,600	3/19/82
198	65	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$90,168	3	$270,500	$326,703,900	1/15/82
199	57	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$93,876	3	$281,600	$326,703,900	1/08/82
200	30	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$121,440	2	$242,900	$326,703,900	1/01/82

CHART NOTES
* Weekend equals Fri-Sat-Sun. Movies that do not have a 3-day opening gross are not included on this chart.
^ Total Gross does not include additional releases, if any.
** Date is the beginning date of the 3-day weekend.
Movies are in wide release when playing in 600 or more theaters.