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Domestic Box Office For January 1987
By Month
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In-month releases
Calendar grosses
All releases
Wide releases
Limited releases
Rank
Release
Genre
Budget
Running Time
Gross
Max Th
Opening
% of Total
Open Th
Open
Close
Distributor
Estimated
1
Outrageous Fortune
-
-
-
$52,864,741
1,316
$6,404,783
12.1%
1,081
Jan 30
-
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
false
2
Critical Condition
-
-
-
$20,240,502
1,343
$5,715,701
28.2%
1,343
Jan 16
-
Paramount Pictures
false
3
Radio Days
-
-
-
$14,792,779
488
$1,522,423
10.3%
128
Jan 30
-
Orion Pictures
false
4
The Bedroom Window
-
-
-
$12,640,385
934
$2,919,657
23.1%
930
Jan 16
-
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
false
5
Wanted: Dead or Alive
-
-
-
$7,555,000
1,032
$2,845,836
37.7%
1,017
Jan 16
-
New World Pictures
false
6
Assassination
-
-
-
$6,075,793
1,000
$2,787,449
45.9%
1,000
Jan 9
-
Cannon Film Distributors
false
7
Wisdom
-
-
-
$5,715,174
791
$1,994,197
34.9%
788
Jan 2
-
Twentieth Century Fox
false
8
The Color Purple
1987 Re-release
-
-
-
$4,292,009
601
$816,269
19%
601
Jan 16
-
Warner Bros.
false
9
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
-
-
-
$3,751,699
1,000
$1,960,352
52.3%
1,000
Jan 30
-
Cannon Film Distributors
false
10
The Stepfather
-
-
-
$2,488,740
148
$260,587
10.5%
105
Jan 23
-
New Century
false
11
The Kindred
-
-
-
$2,407,024
566
$602,834
25%
207
Jan 9
-
FM Entertainment
false
12
Meatballs III: Summer Job
-
-
-
$2,147,228
-
-
-
-
Jan 9
-
Moviestore Entertainment
false
13
Return to Horror High
-
-
-
$1,189,709
227
-
-
-
Jan 9
-
New World Pictures
false
14
Spookies
-
-
-
$17,785
-
-
-
-
Jan 9
-
Sony Video Software Company (SVSC) Inc.
false
15
Iron Warrior
-
-
-
$11,385
17
$11,385
100%
17
Jan 9
-
Trans World Entertainment (TWE)
false
16
Sweet Country
-
-
-
$6,614
-
-
-
-
Jan 23
Jan 29
Palisades Pictures
false