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	31	American Hustle	Sony	$120,158	6	$720,900	$143,298,900	12/13/13
2	49	Inside Llewyn Davis	CBS	$98,683	4	$394,700	$12,828,300	12/06/13
3	9	Frozen	BV	$236,977	1	$237,000	$379,479,400	11/22/13
4	39	Blue Jasmine	SPC	$105,784	6	$634,700	$34,340,500	7/26/13
5	136	The Place Beyond the Pines	Focus	$71,536	4	$286,100	$20,765,000	3/29/13
6	72	Spring Breakers	A24	$89,765	3	$269,300	$14,095,400	3/15/13
7	194	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$63,912	5	$319,600	$96,672,000	12/28/12
8	88	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$84,259	5	$421,300	$96,672,000	12/21/12
9	82	Lincoln	BV	$86,699	11	$953,700	$184,825,700	11/09/12
10	20	The Master	Wein.	$153,887	5	$769,400	$16,781,400	9/14/12
11	134	Sleepwalk with Me	IFC	$71,896	1	$71,900	$2,368,000	8/24/12
12	131	To Rome with Love	SPC	$72,361	5	$361,800	$17,412,900	6/22/12
13	24	Moonrise Kingdom	Focus	$130,910	4	$523,600	$46,967,500	5/25/12
14	98	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	Focus	$80,616	4	$322,500	$24,823,600	12/09/11
15	61	The Tree of Life	FoxS	$94,040	4	$376,200	$13,523,600	5/27/11
16	48	Midnight in Paris	SPC	$100,701	6	$604,200	$57,744,000	5/20/11
17	91	Red State	SMod	$83,111	1	$83,100	$1,136,200	4/08/11
18	12	Red State	SMod	$211,246	1	$211,200	$1,136,200	3/04/11
19	112	The Fighter	Par.	$76,127	4	$304,500	$95,019,500	12/10/10
20	96	Black Swan	FoxS	$81,414	18	$1,465,400	$109,874,700	12/03/10
21	71	The King's Speech	Wein.	$90,194	4	$360,800	$139,812,500	11/26/10
22	165	127 Hours	FoxS	$67,205	4	$268,800	$18,609,900	11/05/10
23	124	The Kids Are All Right	Focus	$74,111	7	$518,800	$21,282,600	7/09/10
24	154	Nine	Wein.	$68,702	4	$274,800	$20,572,300	12/18/09
25	89	Up in the Air	Par.	$84,145	15	$1,262,200	$87,259,000	12/04/09
26	8	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$399,401	2	$798,800	$110,238,700	12/04/09
27	7	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$419,956	2	$839,900	$110,238,700	11/27/09
28	138	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Fox	$71,017	4	$284,100	$22,330,300	11/13/09
29	35	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	LGF	$111,133	18	$2,000,400	$50,588,400	11/06/09
30	200	Capitalism: A Love Story	Over.	$63,199	4	$252,800	$15,346,300	9/25/09
31	164	Defiance	ParV	$67,304	2	$134,600	$32,434,900	1/02/09
32	135	Revolutionary Road	ParV	$71,680	3	$215,000	$25,943,000	12/26/08
33	159	Frost/Nixon	Uni.	$68,206	3	$204,600	$21,086,000	12/05/08
34	34	There Will Be Blood	ParV	$112,697	2	$225,400	$45,550,600	12/28/07
35	144	Juno	FoxS	$69,866	7	$489,100	$163,240,800	12/07/07
36	103	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS	$79,727	2	$159,500	$14,052,700	9/28/07
37	117	Lust, Caution	Focus	$75,531	1	$75,500	$5,436,600	9/28/07
38	95	Sicko	LGF	$81,500	1	$81,500	$28,998,700	6/22/07
39	58	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$94,183	3	$282,600	$123,513,300	12/22/06
40	18	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$156,786	3	$470,400	$123,513,300	12/15/06
41	150	Babel	ParV	$69,038	7	$483,300	$41,687,000	10/27/06
42	177	Little Miss Sunshine	FoxS	$65,783	7	$460,500	$74,311,600	7/28/06
43	79	An Inconvenient Truth	ParC	$87,298	4	$349,200	$29,970,700	5/26/06
44	182	Thank You for Smoking	FoxS	$65,268	5	$326,300	$30,774,200	3/17/06
45	37	Memoirs of a Geisha	Sony	$108,205	8	$865,600	$71,911,900	12/09/05
46	22	Brokeback Mountain	Focus	$138,863	5	$694,300	$103,353,700	12/09/05
47	128	Syriana	WB	$73,481	9	$661,300	$63,996,500	12/02/05
48	56	Syriana	WB	$94,998	5	$475,000	$63,996,500	11/25/05
49	50	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride	WB	$98,464	5	$492,300	$67,677,000	9/16/05
50	109	The Aristocrats	Think	$77,303	4	$309,200	$8,088,200	7/29/05
51	60	Melinda and Melinda	FoxS	$94,158	1	$94,200	$4,853,000	3/18/05
52	189	In Good Company	Uni.	$64,156	3	$192,500	$58,101,000	12/31/04
53	185	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	BV	$64,664	2	$129,300	$30,889,400	12/17/04
54	126	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	BV	$74,024	2	$148,000	$30,889,400	12/10/04
55	187	Bad Education	SPC	$64,311	3	$192,900	$6,670,600	11/19/04
56	160	Sideways	FoxS	$67,763	4	$271,100	$91,517,600	10/22/04
57	54	I Heart Huckabees	FoxS	$95,628	4	$382,500	$16,729,700	10/01/04
58	145	The Motorcycle Diaries	Focus	$69,744	3	$209,200	$21,918,900	9/24/04
59	63	Guiana 1838	RBC	$92,834	1	$92,800	$295,700	9/24/04
60	13	Brother Bear	BV	$196,805	2	$393,600	$114,909,500	10/24/03
61	171	Mystic River	WB	$66,460	13	$864,000	$120,082,900	10/10/03
62	176	About Schmidt	NL	$65,853	6	$395,100	$87,747,000	12/13/02
63	111	Adaptation.	Sony	$76,857	7	$538,000	$30,489,100	12/06/02
64	183	Talk to Her	SPC	$65,223	2	$130,400	$12,565,600	11/29/02
65	130	Talk to Her	SPC	$73,041	2	$146,100	$12,565,600	11/22/02
66	43	Punch-Drunk Love	SonR	$102,765	5	$513,800	$24,969,600	10/11/02
67	188	One Hour Photo	FoxS	$64,270	7	$449,900	$44,213,300	8/23/02
68	180	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$65,457	16	$1,047,300	$152,019,400	1/11/02
69	162	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$67,524	4	$270,100	$152,019,400	1/04/02
70	186	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$64,573	4	$258,300	$152,019,400	12/28/01
71	104	The Royal Tenenbaums	BV	$79,571	5	$397,900	$73,389,900	12/14/01
72	181	Amelie	Mira.	$65,342	3	$196,000	$47,034,700	11/02/01
73	146	Apocalypse Now Redux	Mira.	$69,659	2	$139,300	$6,645,200	8/03/01
74	10	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	BV	$236,294	2	$472,600	$120,738,400	6/08/01
75	23	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$138,683	2	$277,400	$82,416,200	5/25/01
76	30	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$120,327	2	$240,700	$82,416,200	5/18/01
77	147	Traffic	USA	$69,657	4	$278,600	$178,288,000	12/29/00
78	133	Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX)	BV	$72,336	54	$3,906,200	$91,151,400	1/07/00
79	193	Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX)	BV	$63,980	54	$3,454,900	$91,151,400	12/31/99
80	5	Toy Story 2	BV	$480,379	1	$480,400	$388,910,900	11/19/99
81	83	American Beauty	DW	$86,173	16	$1,378,800	$202,721,900	9/17/99
82	45	The Blair Witch Project	Art.	$102,123	31	$3,165,900	$224,917,900	7/23/99
83	74	The Blair Witch Project	Art.	$89,625	27	$2,419,900	$224,917,900	7/16/99
84	84	The Thin Red Line	Fox	$85,880	7	$601,200	$58,340,900	1/01/99
85	51	The Thin Red Line	Fox	$97,952	5	$489,800	$58,340,900	12/25/98
86	4	A Bug's Life	BV	$504,651	1	$504,700	$277,521,600	11/20/98
87	28	Bulworth	Fox	$122,917	2	$245,800	$45,986,000	5/15/98
88	38	Everest (IMAX)	MFF	$108,049	10	$1,080,500	$134,769,100	3/13/98
89	195	Kundun	BV	$63,850	2	$127,700	$9,855,500	12/26/97
90	149	Good Will Hunting	Mira.	$69,055	7	$483,400	$239,971,000	12/05/97
91	11	Anastasia	Fox	$213,507	1	$213,500	$102,990,800	11/14/97
92	3	Hercules	BV	$754,639	2	$1,509,300	$175,551,500	6/20/97
93	6	Hercules	BV	$442,044	1	$442,000	$175,551,500	6/13/97
94	85	Evita	BV	$85,716	22	$1,885,800	$88,655,100	1/03/97
95	173	The People Vs. Larry Flynt	Sony	$66,165	16	$1,058,700	$35,956,900	1/03/97
96	16	Evita	BV	$179,415	2	$358,800	$88,655,100	12/27/96
97	97	Everyone Says I Love You	Mira.	$80,733	3	$242,200	$17,285,900	12/06/96
98	26	The Crucible	Fox	$128,535	1	$128,500	$13,091,900	12/06/96
99	33	The Crucible	Fox	$115,871	1	$115,900	$13,091,900	11/29/96
100	178	To Die For	Sony	$65,670	11	$722,400	$39,780,000	9/29/95
101	170	Unzipped	Mira.	$66,604	2	$133,200	$5,373,400	8/04/95
102	101	Kids	Mira.	$80,093	2	$160,200	$13,853,200	7/21/95
103	2	Pocahontas	BV	$837,829	6	$5,027,000	$264,607,700	6/16/95
104	167	Miami Rhapsody	BV	$66,741	2	$133,500	$9,758,400	1/27/95
105	90	Bullets Over Broadway	Mira.	$83,704	2	$167,400	$26,031,100	10/21/94
106	148	Ed Wood	BV	$69,597	2	$139,200	$11,451,000	9/30/94
107	1	The Lion King	BV	$1,543,099	2	$3,086,200	$606,696,200	6/17/94
108	168	When a Man Loves a Woman	BV	$66,713	19	$1,267,500	$97,291,500	5/06/94
109	156	The Paper	Uni.	$68,271	5	$341,400	$75,512,400	3/18/94
110	155	Philadelphia	TriS	$68,566	4	$274,300	$150,639,000	1/07/94
111	121	Philadelphia	TriS	$74,821	4	$299,300	$150,639,000	12/31/93
112	140	Philadelphia	TriS	$70,417	4	$281,700	$150,639,000	12/24/93
113	123	The Piano	Mira.	$74,336	4	$297,400	$78,384,200	11/12/93
114	15	Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas	BV	$187,768	2	$375,500	$98,194,400	10/15/93
115	122	The Joy Luck Club	BV	$74,806	7	$523,600	$64,610,200	9/17/93
116	40	The Joy Luck Club	BV	$104,086	3	$312,300	$64,610,200	9/10/93
117	143	Orlando	SPC	$70,059	3	$210,200	$10,446,200	6/11/93
118	137	Much Ado About Nothing	Gold.	$71,098	3	$213,300	$44,281,700	5/07/93
119	172	Wide Sargasso Sea	NL	$66,387	1	$66,400	$3,171,100	4/16/93
120	17	Aladdin	BV	$170,213	2	$340,400	$426,356,300	11/20/92
121	14	Aladdin	BV	$192,636	2	$385,300	$426,356,300	11/13/92
122	110	Tous les Matins du Monde	Oct.	$76,945	1	$76,900	$6,066,800	11/13/92
123	87	Night and the City	Fox	$84,309	1	$84,300	$12,151,400	10/16/92
124	120	Sarafina!	BV	$74,921	2	$149,800	$14,313,200	9/18/92
125	86	Howards End	SPC	$85,328	1	$85,300	$50,950,900	4/10/92
126	69	Howards End	SPC	$90,335	1	$90,300	$50,950,900	4/03/92
127	55	Howards End	SPC	$95,626	1	$95,600	$50,950,900	3/27/92
128	52	Howards End	SPC	$96,557	1	$96,600	$50,950,900	3/20/92
129	42	Howards End	SPC	$102,983	1	$103,000	$50,950,900	3/13/92
130	139	This Is My Life	Fox	$70,956	2	$141,900	$5,724,500	2/21/92
131	142	Grand Canyon	Fox	$70,151	2	$140,300	$65,124,300	1/03/92
132	184	Grand Canyon	Fox	$65,220	2	$130,400	$65,124,300	12/27/91
133	161	Bugsy	TriS	$67,761	4	$271,000	$95,963,700	12/13/91
134	152	For the Boys	Fox	$68,891	2	$137,800	$34,490,300	11/22/91
135	19	Beauty and the Beast	BV	$156,561	2	$313,100	$284,271,300	11/15/91
136	179	The Commitments	Fox	$65,496	8	$524,000	$28,811,400	8/16/91
137	190	Alice	Orion	$64,101	3	$192,300	$14,157,400	1/04/91
138	75	Green Card	BV	$89,335	2	$178,700	$57,716,900	1/04/91
139	21	Edward Scissorhands	Fox	$153,396	2	$306,800	$108,678,000	12/07/90
140	157	The Grifters	Mira.	$68,263	2	$136,500	$25,966,300	12/07/90
141	107	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$77,577	14	$1,086,100	$355,275,300	11/16/90
142	93	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$82,130	14	$1,149,800	$355,275,300	11/09/90
143	73	Metropolitan	NL	$89,686	1	$89,700	$5,647,200	8/03/90
144	175	The Freshman	TriS	$65,947	6	$395,700	$41,247,000	7/20/90
145	191	Mountains of the Moon	TriS	$64,081	2	$128,200	$7,710,600	2/23/90
146	102	sex, lies and videotape	Mira.	$79,856	4	$319,400	$50,667,400	8/04/89
147	80	Dead Poets Society	BV	$87,151	8	$697,200	$196,308,000	6/02/89
148	127	New York Stories	BV	$73,780	12	$885,400	$22,042,100	3/03/89
149	105	Punchline	Col.	$79,490	4	$318,000	$41,624,600	9/30/88
150	64	Crossing Delancey	WB	$92,399	1	$92,400	$32,168,700	8/26/88
151	77	The Last Temptation of Christ	Uni.	$88,182	9	$793,600	$16,563,800	8/12/88
152	114	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$75,876	3	$227,600	$123,618,900	7/22/88
153	113	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$76,102	3	$228,300	$123,618,900	7/15/88
154	141	A Handful of Dust	NL	$70,163	1	$70,200	$3,087,200	6/24/88
155	66	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$90,999	4	$364,000	$245,175,600	1/08/88
156	36	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$109,361	4	$437,400	$245,175,600	1/01/88
157	46	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$101,005	4	$404,000	$245,175,600	12/25/87
158	153	The Last Emperor	Col.	$68,870	6	$413,200	$87,454,700	11/27/87
159	44	Maurice	Cinc	$102,463	1	$102,500	$5,069,900	9/18/87
160	67	Wish You Were Here	Atl	$90,680	1	$90,700	$6,828,000	7/24/87
161	100	Prick Up Your Ears	Gold.	$80,350	1	$80,300	$3,440,700	4/17/87
162	169	Gothic	Vest	$66,664	1	$66,700	$1,905,000	4/10/87
163	118	Raising Arizona	Fox	$75,353	1	$75,400	$47,506,600	3/13/87
164	78	Platoon	Orion	$88,049	6	$528,300	$288,094,700	12/19/86
165	99	The Mosquito Coast	WB	$80,579	3	$241,700	$30,085,600	11/28/86
166	53	The Mission	WB	$96,528	1	$96,500	$35,951,900	11/07/86
167	76	The Mission	WB	$88,457	1	$88,500	$35,951,900	10/31/86
168	59	A Room with a View	Cinc	$94,163	1	$94,200	$43,604,000	3/07/86
169	151	Brazil	Uni.	$68,931	1	$68,900	$21,767,000	12/20/85
170	197	Fool for Love	Can.	$63,707	2	$127,400	$1,840,300	12/06/85
171	163	The Official Story	ALM	$67,390	1	$67,400	$67,400	11/08/85
172	196	Eleni	WB	$63,838	1	$63,800	$698,700	11/01/85
173	198	Agnes of God	Col.	$63,423	8	$507,400	$58,691,300	9/13/85
174	41	After Hours	WB	$104,053	1	$104,100	$24,296,800	9/13/85
175	27	Kiss of the Spider Woman	IsAl	$128,161	1	$128,200	$37,526,300	7/26/85
176	108	Mask	Uni.	$77,576	4	$310,300	$110,453,900	3/08/85
177	81	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Orion	$87,096	3	$261,300	$24,347,200	3/01/85
178	158	A Passage to India	Col.	$68,217	3	$204,700	$62,320,700	12/14/84
179	132	1984	Gold.	$72,340	1	$72,300	$19,312,800	12/14/84
180	174	The Killing Fields	WB	$65,979	3	$197,900	$79,552,800	11/30/84
181	116	The Killing Fields	WB	$75,643	3	$226,900	$79,552,800	11/23/84
182	129	The Killing Fields	WB	$73,228	3	$219,700	$79,552,800	11/16/84
183	92	The Killing Fields	WB	$82,142	1	$82,100	$79,552,800	11/09/84
184	106	The Killing Fields	WB	$77,867	1	$77,900	$79,552,800	11/02/84
185	166	A Soldier's Story	Col.	$67,104	6	$402,600	$52,429,500	9/21/84
186	115	A Soldier's Story	Col.	$75,677	5	$378,400	$52,429,500	9/14/84
187	119	Under the Volcano	Uni.	$75,009	1	$75,000	$6,186,500	6/15/84
188	199	Educating Rita	Col.	$63,249	3	$189,700	$37,806,000	9/23/83
189	192	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence	Uni.	$64,021	4	$256,100	$5,953,100	8/26/83
190	70	The Year of Living Dangerously	WB	$90,333	1	$90,300	$26,528,500	1/21/83
191	68	Gandhi	Col.	$90,669	4	$362,700	$136,244,100	12/10/82
192	62	The Verdict	Fox	$93,080	3	$279,200	$141,463,600	12/10/82
193	125	Annie	Col.	$74,060	14	$1,036,900	$157,785,600	6/11/82
194	94	Annie	Col.	$81,908	14	$1,146,700	$157,785,600	6/04/82
195	47	Annie	Col.	$100,859	14	$1,412,100	$157,785,600	5/21/82
196	32	Victor/Victoria	MGM	$119,721	3	$359,200	$78,024,400	3/26/82
197	25	Victor/Victoria	MGM	$128,708	3	$386,100	$78,024,400	3/19/82
198	65	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$91,064	3	$273,200	$329,950,600	1/15/82
199	57	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$94,809	3	$284,400	$329,950,600	1/08/82
200	29	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$122,647	2	$245,300	$329,950,600	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.