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1982-Present


Note: This chart top 200 movies, regardless of sorting.
RowRankTitle (click to view)StudioAverageTheatersOpening*Total Gross^Date**
1 23 Spring Breakers A24 $87,667 3 $263,002 $14,124,284 3/15/13
2 117 The Bling Ring A24 $42,879 5 $214,395 $251,411 6/14/13
3 62 The Blair Witch Project Artisan $56,002 27 $1,512,054 $140,539,099 7/16/99
4 143 Made Artisan $39,334 3 $118,003 $5,313,300 7/13/01
5 113 Wish You Were Here Atlantic $43,611 1 $43,611 $3,283,832 7/24/87
6 1 The Lion King Buena Vista $793,377 2 $1,586,753 $312,855,561 6/17/94
7 2 Pocahontas Buena Vista $448,285 6 $2,689,714 $141,579,773 6/16/95
8 3 The Princess and the Frog Buena Vista $393,095 2 $786,190 $104,400,899 11/27/09
9 4 Toy Story 2 Buena Vista $300,163 1 $300,163 $245,852,179 11/19/99
10 5 A Bug's Life Buena Vista $291,121 1 $291,121 $162,798,565 11/20/98
11 6 Hercules Buena Vista $249,567 1 $249,567 $99,112,101 6/13/97
12 8 Atlantis: The Lost Empire Buena Vista $164,505 2 $329,011 $84,056,472 6/08/01
13 10 Brother Bear Buena Vista $145,970 2 $291,940 $85,336,277 10/24/03
14 17 Aladdin Buena Vista $98,332 2 $196,664 $217,350,219 11/13/92
15 18 Evita Buena Vista $97,542 2 $195,085 $50,047,179 12/27/96
16 19 Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Buena Vista $95,616 2 $191,232 $50,003,043 10/15/93
17 24 Lincoln Buena Vista $85,846 11 $944,308 $182,207,973 11/09/12
18 28 Beauty and the Beast Buena Vista $81,073 2 $162,146 $145,863,363 11/15/91
19 60 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Buena Vista $56,542 2 $113,085 $24,020,403 12/10/04
20 65 The Royal Tenenbaums Buena Vista $55,396 5 $276,981 $52,364,010 12/14/01
21 73 The Joy Luck Club Buena Vista $53,003 3 $159,009 $32,901,136 9/10/93
22 87 Good Morning, Vietnam Buena Vista $48,577 4 $194,308 $123,922,370 12/25/87
23 91 Marvel's The Avengers Buena Vista $47,698 4,349 $207,438,708 $623,357,910 5/04/12
24 101 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour Buena Vista $45,561 683 $31,117,834 $65,281,781 2/01/08
25 120 Dead Poets Society Buena Vista $42,557 8 $340,456 $95,860,116 6/02/89
26 122 Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX) Buena Vista $42,417 54 $2,290,525 $60,655,420 12/31/99
27 131 Iron Man 3 Buena Vista $40,946 4,253 $174,144,585 $399,985,196 5/03/13
28 154 Sarafina! Buena Vista $38,244 2 $76,488 $7,306,242 9/18/92
29 156 Beauty and the Beast (IMAX) Buena Vista $38,078 68 $2,589,334 $25,487,190 1/04/02
30 181 Kundun Buena Vista $36,048 2 $72,095 $5,684,789 12/26/97
31 182 New York Stories Buena Vista $36,028 12 $432,337 $10,763,469 3/03/89
32 185 Ed Wood Buena Vista $35,783 2 $71,566 $5,887,457 9/30/94
33 188 Miami Rhapsody Buena Vista $35,710 2 $71,421 $5,221,281 1/27/95
34 85 Maurice Cinecom $49,278 1 $49,278 $2,438,304 9/18/87
35 116 A Room with a View Cinecom $42,970 1 $42,970 $20,966,644 3/07/86
36 125 Brooklyn Rules City Lights Pictures Releasing $41,811 1 $41,811 $458,232 5/11/07
37 186 The Man From Nowhere CJ Entertainment $35,751 1 $35,751 $528,175 10/01/10
38 137 Punchline Columbia $40,185 4 $160,742 $21,042,667 9/30/88
39 173 Annie Columbia $36,473 14 $510,632 $57,059,003 5/21/82
40 69 American Beauty DreamWorks $53,845 16 $861,531 $130,096,601 9/17/99
41 82 Match Point DreamWorks $49,824 8 $398,593 $23,151,529 12/30/05
42 191 Deconstructing Harry Fine Line $35,647 10 $356,476 $10,686,841 12/12/97
43 11 Moonrise Kingdom Focus Features $130,749 4 $522,996 $45,512,466 5/25/12
44 14 Brokeback Mountain Focus Features $109,485 5 $547,425 $83,043,761 12/09/05
45 32 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Focus Features $77,641 4 $310,562 $24,149,393 12/09/11
46 43 The Kids Are All Right Focus Features $70,282 7 $491,971 $20,811,365 7/09/10
47 44 The Place Beyond the Pines Focus Features $69,864 4 $279,457 $21,335,716 3/29/13
48 51 Lust, Caution Focus Features $63,918 1 $63,918 $4,604,982 9/28/07
49 71 The Motorcycle Diaries Focus Features $53,273 3 $159,819 $16,781,387 9/24/04
50 100 Jane Eyre Focus Features $45,721 4 $182,885 $11,242,660 3/11/11
51 124 A Serious Man Focus Features $41,890 6 $251,337 $9,228,768 10/02/09
52 126 Brick Focus Features $41,787 2 $83,574 $2,075,743 3/31/06
53 134 Milk Focus Features $40,385 36 $1,453,844 $31,841,299 11/28/08
54 136 Lost in Translation Focus Features $40,221 23 $925,087 $44,585,453 9/12/03
55 142 Greenberg Focus Features $39,384 3 $118,152 $4,234,170 3/19/10
56 174 Eastern Promises Focus Features $36,472 15 $547,092 $17,266,000 9/14/07
57 197 Far From Heaven Focus Features $35,213 6 $211,279 $15,901,849 11/08/02
58 13 Anastasia Fox $120,541 1 $120,541 $58,406,347 11/14/97
59 26 Moulin Rouge! Fox $83,770 2 $167,540 $57,386,607 5/18/01
60 30 Edward Scissorhands Fox $79,811 2 $159,622 $56,362,352 12/07/90
61 41 Bulworth Fox $70,908 2 $141,816 $26,528,185 5/15/98
62 48 Fantastic Mr. Fox Fox $66,475 4 $265,900 $21,002,919 11/13/09
63 53 The Crucible Fox $62,995 1 $62,995 $7,343,114 11/29/96
64 61 The Thin Red Line Fox $56,506 5 $282,534 $36,400,491 12/25/98
65 106 Down with Love Fox $45,029 1 $45,029 $20,305,251 5/09/03
66 114 Night and the City Fox $43,036 1 $43,036 $6,202,756 10/16/92
67 178 Raising Arizona Fox $36,240 1 $36,240 $22,847,564 3/13/87
68 179 This Is My Life Fox $36,220 2 $72,440 $2,922,094 2/21/92
69 190 For the Boys Fox $35,674 2 $71,348 $17,860,280 11/22/91
70 21 The Tree of Life Fox Searchlight $93,230 4 $372,920 $13,303,319 5/27/11
71 29 Black Swan Fox Searchlight $80,212 18 $1,443,809 $106,954,678 12/03/10
72 36 Melinda and Melinda Fox Searchlight $74,238 1 $74,238 $3,826,280 3/18/05
73 38 I Heart Huckabees Fox Searchlight $73,044 4 $292,177 $12,785,432 10/01/04
74 47 The Darjeeling Limited Fox Searchlight $67,469 2 $134,938 $11,902,715 9/28/07
75 49 127 Hours Fox Searchlight $66,213 4 $264,851 $18,335,230 11/05/10
76 57 Juno Fox Searchlight $59,124 7 $413,869 $143,495,265 12/07/07
77 74 Little Miss Sunshine Fox Searchlight $52,999 7 $370,998 $59,891,098 7/28/06
78 75 Thank You for Smoking Fox Searchlight $52,584 5 $262,923 $24,793,509 3/17/06
79 78 Sideways Fox Searchlight $51,760 4 $207,042 $71,503,593 10/22/04
80 80 The Wrestler Fox Searchlight $50,679 4 $202,714 $26,238,243 12/19/08
81 98 One Hour Photo Fox Searchlight $45,930 7 $321,515 $31,597,131 8/23/02
82 104 Cyrus Fox Searchlight $45,429 4 $181,716 $7,468,936 6/18/10
83 121 Beasts of the Southern Wild Fox Searchlight $42,426 4 $169,702 $12,795,746 6/29/12
84 128 The Namesake Fox Searchlight $41,425 6 $248,552 $13,569,248 3/09/07
85 130 The Descendants Fox Searchlight $41,038 29 $1,190,096 $82,584,160 11/18/11
86 158 The Savages Fox Searchlight $37,964 4 $151,859 $6,623,082 11/30/07
87 159 The Good Girl Fox Searchlight $37,910 4 $151,642 $14,018,296 8/09/02
88 165 Boys Don't Cry Fox Searchlight $36,860 2 $73,720 $11,540,607 10/08/99
89 183 Slumdog Millionaire Fox Searchlight $36,002 10 $360,018 $141,319,928 11/14/08
90 187 The Last King of Scotland Fox Searchlight $35,724 4 $142,899 $17,606,684 9/29/06
91 171 Munger Road Freestyle Releasing $36,605 1 $36,605 $266,689 9/30/11
92 139 The Secret of Kells GKIDS $39,826 1 $39,826 $676,775 3/05/10
93 46 Sleepwalk with Me IFC $68,801 1 $68,801 $2,266,067 8/24/12
94 63 Kiss of the Spider Woman Island Alive $55,962 1 $55,962 $17,005,229 7/26/85
95 162 Jesus' Son Lions Gate $37,089 1 $37,089 $1,302,067 6/16/00
96 15 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Lionsgate $104,025 18 $1,872,458 $47,566,524 11/06/09
97 45 Sicko Lionsgate $68,969 1 $68,969 $24,540,079 6/22/07
98 164 The Hunger Games Lionsgate $36,871 4,137 $152,535,747 $408,010,692 3/23/12
99 59 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Lionsgate/Summit $57,090 4 $228,359 $17,742,948 9/21/12
100 175 Everest (IMAX) MacGillivray Freeman Films $36,424 10 $364,244 $87,178,599 3/06/98
101 95 Victor/Victoria MGM $46,544 3 $139,634 $28,215,453 3/19/82
102 151 A Fish Called Wanda MGM $38,472 3 $115,418 $62,493,712 7/15/88
103 88 Apocalypse Now Redux Miramax $48,496 2 $96,992 $4,626,290 8/03/01
104 102 Amelie Miramax $45,490 3 $136,470 $33,225,499 11/02/01
105 111 Everyone Says I Love You Miramax $43,892 3 $131,678 $9,759,200 12/06/96
106 112 No Country for Old Men Miramax $43,797 28 $1,226,333 $74,283,625 11/09/07
107 115 Bullets Over Broadway Miramax $43,036 2 $86,072 $13,383,747 10/21/94
108 118 Kids Miramax $42,854 2 $85,709 $7,412,216 7/21/95
109 129 Frida Miramax $41,199 5 $205,996 $25,885,000 10/25/02
110 132 The Queen Miramax $40,671 3 $122,014 $56,441,711 9/29/06
111 145 sex, lies and videotape Miramax $38,995 4 $155,982 $24,741,667 8/04/89
112 146 Good Will Hunting Miramax $38,987 7 $272,912 $138,433,435 12/05/97
113 160 The Piano Miramax $37,854 4 $151,419 $40,157,856 11/12/93
114 192 Unzipped Miramax $35,637 2 $71,275 $2,875,086 8/04/95
115 194 The Grifters Miramax $35,517 2 $71,034 $13,446,769 12/07/90
116 198 Ararat Miramax $35,188 6 $211,130 $1,555,959 11/15/02
117 92 About Schmidt New Line $47,061 6 $282,367 $65,016,287 12/13/02
118 94 Metropolitan New Line $46,663 1 $46,663 $2,938,208 8/03/90
119 166 A History of Violence New Line $36,856 14 $515,992 $31,504,633 9/23/05
120 196 A Handful of Dust New Line $35,470 1 $35,470 $1,560,700 6/24/88
121 144 Tous les Matins du Monde October $39,277 1 $39,277 $3,089,497 11/13/92
122 119 Dances with Wolves Orion Pictures $42,732 14 $598,257 $184,208,848 11/09/90
123 138 Platoon Orion Pictures $40,180 6 $241,080 $138,530,565 12/19/86
124 157 The Purple Rose of Cairo Orion Pictures $38,031 3 $114,095 $10,631,333 3/01/85
125 155 Samsara Oscilloscope Pictures $38,111 2 $76,222 $2,672,413 8/24/12
126 58 Capitalism: A Love Story Overture Films $57,991 4 $231,964 $14,363,397 9/25/09
127 68 Sunshine Cleaning Overture Films $54,798 4 $219,190 $12,062,558 3/13/09
128 31 Up in the Air Paramount $78,763 15 $1,181,450 $83,823,381 12/04/09
129 34 The Fighter Paramount $75,003 4 $300,010 $93,617,009 12/10/10
130 148 Young Adult Paramount $38,783 8 $310,263 $16,311,571 12/09/11
131 12 Dreamgirls Paramount (DreamWorks) $126,316 3 $378,950 $103,365,956 12/15/06
132 147 The Lovely Bones Paramount (DreamWorks) $38,872 3 $116,616 $44,114,232 12/11/09
133 42 An Inconvenient Truth Paramount Classics $70,332 4 $281,330 $24,146,161 5/26/06
134 20 There Will Be Blood Paramount Vantage $95,370 2 $190,739 $40,222,514 12/28/07
135 52 Revolutionary Road Paramount Vantage $63,304 3 $189,911 $22,911,480 12/26/08
136 54 Defiance Paramount Vantage $61,757 2 $123,513 $28,644,813 1/02/09
137 64 Babel Paramount Vantage $55,621 7 $389,351 $34,302,837 10/27/06
138 72 Into the Wild Paramount Vantage $53,110 4 $212,440 $18,354,356 9/21/07
139 133 Margot at the Wedding Paramount Vantage $40,517 2 $81,035 $1,959,420 11/16/07
140 110 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Picturehouse $44,059 5 $220,297 $17,657,973 6/20/08
141 169 Senna Producers Distribution Agency $36,749 2 $73,497 $1,612,430 8/12/11
142 40 Guiana 1838 RBC Radio $70,910 1 $70,910 $227,241 9/24/04
143 167 The September Issue Roadside Attractions $36,772 6 $220,633 $3,820,067 8/28/09
144 150 Prick Up Your Ears Samuel Goldwyn $38,643 1 $38,643 $1,654,743 4/17/87
145 180 Much Ado About Nothing Samuel Goldwyn $36,205 3 $108,617 $22,549,338 5/07/93
146 7 Red State SModcast Pictures $204,230 1 $204,230 $1,104,682 3/04/11
147 37 Punch-Drunk Love Sony (Revolution) $73,440 5 $367,203 $17,844,216 10/11/02
148 107 Black Hawk Down Sony (Revolution) $44,955 4 $179,823 $108,638,745 12/28/01
149 25 Memoirs of a Geisha Sony / Columbia $85,313 8 $682,504 $57,490,508 12/09/05
150 27 Zero Dark Thirty Sony / Columbia $83,430 5 $417,150 $95,720,716 12/21/12
151 67 Adaptation. Sony / Columbia $54,925 7 $384,478 $22,498,520 12/06/02
152 193 Spider-Man 3 Sony / Columbia $35,540 4,252 $151,116,516 $336,530,303 5/04/07
153 199 To Die For Sony / Columbia $35,137 11 $386,510 $21,284,514 9/29/95
154 16 Midnight in Paris Sony Classics $99,834 6 $599,003 $56,817,045 5/20/11
155 39 To Rome with Love Sony Classics $72,272 5 $361,359 $16,685,867 6/22/12
156 70 Broken Embraces Sony Classics $53,556 2 $107,111 $5,014,305 11/20/09
157 76 Howards End Sony Classics $52,568 1 $52,568 $25,966,555 3/13/92
158 77 Talk to Her Sony Classics $52,198 2 $104,396 $9,285,469 11/22/02
159 83 Before Midnight Sony Classics $49,383 5 $246,914 $3,054,968 5/24/13
160 86 Bad Education Sony Classics $49,123 3 $147,370 $5,211,842 11/19/04
161 123 A Dangerous Method Sony Classics $41,988 4 $167,953 $5,704,709 11/25/11
162 127 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Sony Classics $41,450 16 $663,205 $128,078,872 12/08/00
163 140 An Education Sony Classics $39,754 4 $159,017 $12,574,914 10/09/09
164 141 Volver Sony Classics $39,540 5 $197,703 $12,899,867 11/03/06
165 152 Kung Fu Hustle Sony Classics $38,460 7 $269,225 $17,108,591 4/08/05
166 161 The Skin I Live In Sony Classics $37,187 6 $223,119 $3,185,812 10/14/11
167 189 Orlando Sony Classics $35,676 3 $107,030 $5,319,445 6/11/93
168 99 The Ghost Writer Summit Entertainment $45,752 4 $183,009 $15,541,549 2/19/10
169 176 The Hurt Locker Summit Entertainment $36,338 4 $145,352 $17,017,811 6/26/09
170 195 The Twilight Saga: New Moon Summit Entertainment $35,497 4,024 $142,839,137 $296,623,634 11/20/09
171 55 The Aristocrats ThinkFilm $60,949 4 $243,796 $6,377,461 7/29/05
172 163 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ThinkFilm $36,918 2 $73,837 $7,084,227 10/26/07
173 184 Philadelphia TriStar $35,858 4 $143,433 $77,446,440 12/24/93
174 56 Frost/Nixon Universal $60,236 3 $180,708 $18,622,031 12/05/08
175 81 In Good Company Universal $50,583 3 $151,750 $45,806,659 12/31/04
176 108 The Last Temptation of Christ Universal $44,579 9 $401,211 $8,373,585 8/12/88
177 200 The Paper Universal $35,101 5 $175,507 $38,824,341 3/18/94
178 97 Traffic USA Films $46,181 4 $184,725 $124,115,725 12/29/00
179 96 Brand Upon the Brain! Vitagraph $46,412 1 $46,412 $263,200 5/11/07
180 33 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Warner Bros. $77,633 5 $388,166 $53,359,111 9/16/05
181 35 Syriana Warner Bros. $74,900 5 $374,502 $50,824,620 11/25/05
182 84 Mystic River Warner Bros. $49,293 13 $640,815 $90,135,191 10/10/03
183 90 Michael Clayton Warner Bros. $47,994 15 $719,910 $49,033,882 10/05/07
184 93 Crossing Delancey Warner Bros. $46,711 1 $46,711 $16,262,415 8/26/88
185 103 After Hours Warner Bros. $45,435 1 $45,435 $10,609,321 9/13/85
186 105 Gran Torino Warner Bros. $45,287 6 $271,720 $148,095,302 12/12/08
187 109 Blade Runner: The Final Cut Warner Bros. $44,575 2 $89,150 $1,548,502 10/05/07
188 135 The Mission Warner Bros. $40,366 1 $40,366 $17,218,023 10/31/86
189 149 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Warner Bros. $38,672 4,375 $169,189,427 $381,011,219 7/15/11
190 168 The Mosquito Coast Warner Bros. $36,771 3 $110,313 $14,302,779 11/28/86
191 170 Hereafter Warner Bros. $36,720 6 $220,322 $32,746,941 10/15/10
192 172 The Dark Knight Rises Warner Bros. $36,532 4,404 $160,887,295 $448,139,099 7/20/12
193 177 The Dark Knight Warner Bros. $36,283 4,366 $158,411,483 $533,345,358 7/18/08
194 153 Good Night, and Good Luck. Warner Independent $38,313 11 $421,446 $31,558,003 10/07/05
195 9 The Master Weinstein Company $147,262 5 $736,311 $16,377,274 9/14/12
196 22 The King's Speech Weinstein Company $88,863 4 $355,450 $135,453,143 11/26/10
197 50 Nine Weinstein Company $64,308 4 $257,232 $19,676,965 12/18/09
198 66 The Iron Lady Weinstein Company $55,102 4 $220,409 $30,017,992 12/30/11
199 79 The Artist Weinstein Company $51,220 4 $204,878 $44,671,682 11/25/11
200 89 Blue Valentine Weinstein Company $48,432 4 $193,728 $9,706,328 12/31/10

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.

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