Biggest Opening Weekends Less Than 1,000 Theaters

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BIGGEST OPENINGS AT LESS THAN 1,000 THEATERS
(1982-Present)

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

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Opening*	% of Total	Theaters / Avg.		Total Gross^	Release
1	Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour	BV	$31,117,834	47.7%	683	$45,561	$65,281,781	2/1/08
2	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	Fox	$26,455,463	20.6%	837	$31,607	$128,505,958	11/3/06
3	Fahrenheit 9/11	Lions	$23,920,637	20.1%	868	$27,558	$119,194,771	6/23/04
4	Paranormal Activity	Par.	$19,617,650	18.2%	760	$25,813	$107,918,810	9/25/09
5	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$14,100,050	13.6%	852	$16,549	$103,365,956	12/15/06
6	Rocky III	UA	$12,431,486	10.0%	939	$13,239	$124,146,897	5/28/82
7	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$11,752,913	9.5%	785	$14,971	$123,922,370	12/25/87
8	The Original Kings of Comedy	Par.	$11,053,832	29.0%	847	$13,050	$38,182,790	8/18/00
9	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	LGF	$10,881,772	22.9%	629	$17,300	$47,566,524	11/6/09
10	Cape Fear	Uni.	$10,261,025	13.0%	924	$11,105	$79,091,969	11/15/91
11	Boyz N the Hood	Col.	$10,023,462	17.4%	829	$12,091	$57,504,069	7/12/91
12	Beauty and the Beast	BV	$9,624,149	6.6%	977	$9,850	$145,863,363	11/15/91
13	The Doors	TriS	$9,151,800	26.6%	840	$10,895	$34,416,893	3/1/91
14	When Harry Met Sally...	Col.	$8,846,522	9.5%	775	$11,414	$92,823,546	7/14/89
15	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	SPC	$8,647,295	6.8%	693	$12,478	$128,078,872	12/8/00
16	About Schmidt	NL	$8,533,162	13.1%	816	$10,457	$65,016,287	12/13/02
17	The Royal Tenenbaums	BV	$8,512,122	16.3%	751	$11,334	$52,364,010	12/14/01
18	Black Swan	FoxS	$8,383,479	7.8%	959	$8,742	$106,954,678	12/3/10
19	Evita	BV	$8,381,055	16.8%	704	$11,904	$50,047,179	12/25/96
20	Chicago	Mira.	$8,238,709	4.8%	616	$13,374	$170,687,518	12/27/02
21	American Beauty	DW	$8,188,587	6.3%	706	$11,598	$130,096,601	9/15/99
22	Platoon	Orion	$8,179,149	5.9%	856	$9,555	$138,530,565	12/19/86
23	The Exorcist Director's Cut	WB	$8,175,666	20.6%	664	$12,312	$39,671,011	9/22/00
24	Firefox	WB	$8,152,948	17.5%	881	$9,254	$46,708,276	6/18/82
25	Crocodile Dundee	Par.	$8,038,855	4.6%	879	$9,145	$174,803,506	9/26/86
26	No Country for Old Men	Mira.	$7,776,773	10.5%	860	$9,042	$74,283,625	11/9/07
27	Purple Rain	WB	$7,766,201	11.4%	917	$8,469	$68,392,977	7/27/84
28	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	BV	$7,675,016	8.7%	766	$10,019	$88,036,683	1/10/92
29	Fatal Attraction	Par.	$7,602,740	4.9%	758	$10,030	$156,645,693	9/18/87
30	Dead Poets Society	BV	$7,540,464	7.9%	687	$10,975	$95,860,116	6/2/89
31	The Gospel	SGem	$7,523,571	47.7%	969	$7,764	$15,778,152	10/7/05
32	Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat	Par.	$7,374,049	38.4%	752	$9,805	$19,184,820	8/2/02
33	Steel Magnolias	TriS	$7,053,867	8.4%	720	$9,797	$83,759,091	11/17/89
34	New Jack City	WB	$7,039,622	14.8%	862	$8,166	$47,624,353	3/8/91
35	Poltergeist	MGM	$6,896,612	9.0%	890	$7,749	$76,606,280	6/4/82
36	Fireproof	Gold.	$6,836,036	20.4%	839	$8,148	$33,456,317	9/26/08
37	First Blood	Orion	$6,642,005	14.1%	901	$7,371	$47,212,904	10/22/82
38	Friday	NL	$6,589,341	24.0%	865	$7,617	$27,467,564	4/28/95
39	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan	WB	$6,517,732	14.2%	753	$8,655	$45,858,563	3/30/84
40	The Color of Money	BV	$6,357,877	12.2%	635	$10,012	$52,293,982	10/17/86
41	Empire	Uni.	$6,281,415	35.7%	867	$7,245	$17,600,423	12/6/02
42	To Die For	Sony	$6,231,540	29.3%	928	$6,715	$21,284,514	9/29/95
43	WarGames	MGM	$6,227,804	7.8%	843	$7,387	$79,567,667	6/3/83
44	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie	Art.	$6,201,345	24.2%	940	$6,597	$25,581,229	10/4/02
45	The Illusionist	YFG	$6,189,133	15.5%	971	$6,373	$39,868,642	8/18/06
46	Splash	BV	$6,174,059	8.8%	829	$7,447	$69,821,334	3/9/84
47	Regarding Henry	Par.	$6,146,782	14.3%	800	$7,683	$43,001,500	7/12/91
48	Mask	Uni.	$6,121,129	12.7%	800	$7,651	$48,230,162	3/8/85
49	The Accidental Tourist	WB	$6,118,618	18.8%	863	$7,089	$32,632,093	12/23/88
50	Full Metal Jacket	WB	$6,079,963	13.1%	881	$6,901	$46,357,676	6/26/87
51	Mortal Thoughts	Col.	$6,068,524	32.3%	963	$6,301	$18,784,957	4/19/91
52	Pretty in Pink	Par.	$6,065,870	15.0%	827	$7,334	$40,471,663	2/28/86
53	The Little Mermaid	BV	$6,031,914	7.2%	994	$6,068	$84,355,863	11/17/89
54	Dune	Uni.	$6,025,091	19.5%	915	$6,584	$30,925,690	12/14/84
55	Hot Fuzz	Rog.	$5,848,464	24.7%	825	$7,089	$23,637,265	4/20/07
56	Midnight in Paris	SPC	$5,830,723	10.3%	944	$6,177	$56,817,045	5/20/11
57	Brokeback Mountain	Focus	$5,805,082	7.0%	683	$8,499	$83,043,761	12/9/05
58	Heartburn	Par.	$5,783,079	22.9%	843	$6,860	$25,314,189	7/25/86
59	Idlewild	Uni.	$5,745,780	45.7%	973	$5,905	$12,571,185	8/25/06
60	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	BV	$5,726,495	9.2%	806	$7,104	$62,134,225	1/31/86
61	Sugar Hill	Fox	$5,712,485	31.3%	845	$6,760	$18,225,518	2/25/94
62	Driving Miss Daisy	WB	$5,705,721	5.4%	895	$6,375	$106,593,296	12/15/89
63	Santa Claus: The Movie	TriS	$5,647,160	23.8%	970	$5,821	$23,717,291	11/27/85
64	Some Kind of Hero	Par.	$5,631,293	23.8%	975	$5,775	$23,671,186	4/2/82
65	Little Miss Sunshine	FoxS	$5,610,845	9.4%	691	$8,119	$59,891,098	7/26/06
66	Cocoon: The Return	Fox	$5,568,143	29.4%	986	$5,647	$18,924,919	11/23/88
67	Tootsie	Col.	$5,540,470	3.1%	943	$5,875	$177,200,000	12/17/82
68	My Life	Col.	$5,536,098	19.9%	800	$6,920	$27,804,899	11/12/93
69	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	Focus	$5,478,521	22.7%	809	$6,772	$24,149,393	12/9/11
70	Broadcast News	Fox	$5,449,920	10.6%	677	$8,050	$51,249,404	12/18/87
71	Field of Dreams	Uni.	$5,424,810	8.4%	633	$8,570	$64,431,625	4/21/89
72	The Iron Lady	Wein.	$5,412,934	18.0%	802	$6,749	$30,017,992	12/30/11
73	Marie Antoinette	Sony	$5,361,050	33.6%	859	$6,241	$15,962,471	10/20/06
74	Jungle Fever	Uni.	$5,332,860	16.4%	636	$8,385	$32,482,682	6/7/91
75	Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D (2007 re-issue)	BV	$5,330,101	36.8%	564	$9,450	$14,486,897	10/19/07
76	Not Easily Broken	SGem	$5,314,278	50.3%	724	$7,340	$10,572,742	1/9/09
77	Posse	Gram.	$5,311,902	29.0%	949	$5,597	$18,289,763	5/14/93
78	Highlander 2: The Quickening	Istr	$5,280,490	33.9%	960	$5,500	$15,556,340	11/1/91
79	Fried Green Tomatoes	Uni.	$5,235,940	6.4%	673	$7,780	$82,418,501	12/27/91
80	Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil	WB	$5,233,658	20.9%	824	$6,351	$25,105,255	11/21/97
81	L.A. Confidential	WB	$5,211,198	8.1%	769	$6,776	$64,616,940	9/19/97
82	The Crying Game	Mira.	$5,210,415	8.3%	735	$7,089	$62,548,947	11/27/92
83	Amistad	DW	$5,176,006	11.7%	712	$7,270	$44,229,441	12/10/97
84	Stakeout	BV	$5,170,403	7.9%	951	$5,436	$65,673,233	8/7/87
85	Beaches	BV	$5,160,258	9.1%	706	$7,309	$57,041,866	12/23/88
86	Jason's Lyric	Gram.	$5,122,600	24.6%	804	$6,371	$20,851,521	9/30/94
87	Romancing the Stone	Fox	$5,105,741	6.7%	823	$6,203	$76,572,238	3/30/84
88	The Natural	TriS	$5,088,381	10.6%	989	$5,144	$47,951,979	5/11/84
89	The Morning After	Fox	$5,069,926	20.2%	955	$5,308	$25,147,055	12/26/86
90	Moonstruck	MGM	$5,069,508	6.3%	635	$7,983	$80,640,528	12/18/87
91	The Outsiders	WB	$5,068,165	19.7%	829	$6,113	$25,697,647	3/25/83
92	Internal Affairs	Par.	$5,043,516	18.2%	975	$5,172	$27,734,391	1/12/90
93	Lean on Me	WB	$5,032,605	15.8%	894	$5,629	$31,906,454	3/3/89
94	The Karate Kid	Col.	$5,031,753	5.5%	931	$5,404	$90,815,558	6/22/84
95	An Officer and a Gentleman	Par.	$5,019,863	3.9%	719	$6,981	$129,795,554	7/30/82
96	Moonrise Kingdom	Focus	$4,926,837	10.8%	854	$5,769	$45,512,466	5/25/12
97	There Will Be Blood	ParV	$4,869,383	12.1%	885	$5,502	$40,222,514	12/26/07
98	For Keeps	TriS	$4,839,790	27.6%	922	$5,249	$17,514,553	1/15/88
99	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$4,801,140	7.7%	616	$7,794	$62,493,712	7/15/88
100	Boogie Nights	NL	$4,681,934	17.7%	907	$5,162	$26,400,640	10/10/97
101	The Dark Crystal	Uni.	$4,657,335	11.5%	858	$5,428	$40,577,001	12/17/82
102	The Doctor	BV	$4,642,442	12.2%	801	$5,795	$38,120,905	7/26/91
103	Schindler's List	Uni.	$4,637,480	4.8%	764	$6,070	$96,065,768	12/15/93
104	Tupac: Resurrection	Par.	$4,632,847	60.0%	801	$5,783	$7,718,961	11/14/03
105	Scarface (1983)	Uni.	$4,597,536	10.3%	996	$4,616	$44,668,798	12/9/83
106	Roxanne	Col.	$4,582,398	11.4%	847	$5,410	$40,050,884	6/19/87
107	A Prairie Home Companion	PicH	$4,566,293	22.5%	760	$6,008	$20,342,852	6/9/06
108	Tough Guys	BV	$4,565,342	21.3%	856	$5,333	$21,458,229	10/3/86
109	Class	Orion	$4,553,233	21.0%	839	$5,426	$21,667,789	7/22/83
110	White Nights	Col.	$4,549,095	10.8%	891	$5,105	$42,160,849	11/22/85
111	Pee-Wee's Big Adventure	WB	$4,545,847	11.1%	829	$5,483	$40,940,662	8/9/85
112	Witness	Par.	$4,539,990	6.6%	876	$5,182	$68,706,993	2/8/85
113	Who's the Man?	NL	$4,533,392	40.1%	954	$4,751	$11,299,730	4/23/93
114	Pan's Labyrinth	PicH	$4,502,243	12.0%	609	$7,392	$37,634,615	12/29/06
115	The King's Speech	Wein.	$4,484,352	3.3%	700	$6,406	$135,453,143	11/26/10
116	The Cutting Edge	MGM	$4,478,919	17.8%	775	$5,779	$25,105,517	3/27/92
117	Black Mask	Art.	$4,449,692	35.6%	979	$4,545	$12,504,289	5/14/99
118	Capitalism: A Love Story	Over.	$4,447,378	31.0%	962	$4,623	$14,363,397	9/23/09
119	Calendar Girls	BV	$4,437,082	14.3%	745	$5,955	$31,041,759	12/19/03
120	The Lord of the Flies	Col.	$4,410,457	31.5%	888	$4,966	$13,985,225	3/16/90
121	Revenge of the Nerds	Fox	$4,391,174	10.7%	958	$4,583	$40,874,452	7/20/84
122	The Master	Wein.	$4,391,092	26.8%	788	$5,572	$16,377,274	9/14/12
123	Mo' Better Blues	Uni.	$4,387,360	27.2%	544	$8,065	$16,153,593	8/3/90
124	March of the Penguins	WIP	$4,382,340	5.7%	695	$6,305	$77,437,223	6/24/05
125	Used People	Fox	$4,381,753	24.4%	876	$5,002	$17,957,265	12/18/92
126	The Descendants	FoxS	$4,380,138	5.3%	876	$5,000	$82,584,160	11/16/11
127	48 HRS.	Par.	$4,369,868	5.5%	850	$5,141	$78,868,508	12/10/82
128	The Neverending Story	WB	$4,325,823	21.5%	950	$4,553	$20,158,808	7/20/84
129	Deceived	BV	$4,316,719	15.0%	969	$4,454	$28,738,096	9/27/91
130	The Accused	Par.	$4,316,369	13.5%	796	$5,422	$32,078,318	10/14/88
131	Slumdog Millionaire	FoxS	$4,301,870	3.0%	614	$7,006	$141,319,928	11/12/08
132	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	Uni.	$4,289,601	23.6%	882	$4,863	$18,196,170	5/21/82
133	Mr. Mom	Fox	$4,279,384	6.6%	734	$5,830	$64,783,827	7/22/83
134	Risky Business	WB	$4,275,327	6.7%	670	$6,381	$63,541,777	8/5/83
135	No Way Out	Orion	$4,259,460	12.0%	806	$5,284	$35,509,515	8/14/87
136	A River Runs Through It	Col.	$4,254,015	9.8%	795	$5,350	$43,440,294	10/9/92
137	Terms of Endearment	Par.	$4,245,520	3.9%	945	$4,492	$108,423,489	11/23/83
138	Prizzi's Honor	Fox	$4,234,537	15.9%	719	$5,889	$26,657,534	6/14/85
139	Shakespeare in Love	Mira.	$4,224,426	4.2%	632	$6,684	$100,317,794	12/11/98
140	Atonement	Focus	$4,221,866	8.3%	950	$4,444	$50,927,067	12/7/07
141	In Too Deep	Mira.	$4,220,297	30.1%	667	$6,327	$14,011,454	8/27/99
142	Agnes of God	Col.	$4,210,065	16.4%	608	$6,924	$25,627,836	9/13/85
143	Class Action	Fox	$4,207,923	17.3%	778	$5,408	$24,277,858	3/15/91
144	Def Jam's How to Be a Player	Gram.	$4,206,656	30.0%	751	$5,601	$14,009,368	8/8/97
145	Young Doctors in Love	Fox	$4,206,265	13.7%	709	$5,932	$30,688,860	7/16/82
146	Lost in Translation	Focus	$4,163,333	9.3%	864	$4,818	$44,585,453	9/12/03
147	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Gram.	$4,162,489	7.9%	721	$5,773	$52,700,832	3/11/94
148	The Age of Innocence	Col.	$4,159,209	12.9%	728	$5,713	$32,255,440	9/17/93
149	Once Around	Uni.	$4,136,125	27.9%	725	$5,705	$14,851,083	1/18/91
150	Kickboxer	Can.	$4,134,098	28.1%	973	$4,248	$14,697,005	9/8/89
151	One Night with the King	8X	$4,120,497	30.8%	909	$4,533	$13,395,961	10/13/06
152	Wall Street	Fox	$4,104,611	9.4%	730	$5,622	$43,848,069	12/11/87
153	The Sword and the Sorcerer	Gr1	$4,100,886	10.5%	660	$6,213	$39,103,425	4/23/82
154	Year of the Dragon	MGM	$4,093,079	21.9%	982	$4,168	$18,707,466	8/16/85
155	Silver Linings Playbook	Wein.	$4,079,314	3.1%	745	$5,476	$132,053,416	11/16/12
156	Amazing Grace	IDP	$4,054,542	19.1%	791	$5,125	$21,250,683	2/23/07
157	Billy Bathgate	BV	$4,051,590	26.0%	912	$4,442	$15,565,363	11/1/91
158	Green Card	BV	$4,050,705	13.6%	703	$5,762	$29,888,235	12/25/90
159	Be Kind, Rewind	NL	$4,050,655	36.3%	808	$5,013	$11,175,164	2/22/08
160	Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend	BV	$4,035,147	27.0%	916	$4,405	$14,972,297	3/22/85
161	The New World	NL	$4,029,715	31.7%	811	$4,968	$12,712,093	12/25/05
162	The Man Without a Face	WB	$4,026,775	16.3%	865	$4,655	$24,760,338	8/27/93
163	Oliver & Company	BV	$4,022,752	7.6%	952	$4,225	$53,279,055	11/18/88
164	Avatar: Special Edition	Fox	$4,007,750	37.3%	812	$4,936	$10,741,486	8/27/10
165	Tin Men	BV	$4,006,579	15.8%	684	$5,857	$25,411,386	3/6/87
166	The Phantom of the Opera	WB	$4,001,890	7.8%	622	$6,433	$51,268,815	12/22/04
167	The Empire Strikes Back (Re-issue)	Fox	$3,949,478	29.8%	992	$3,981	$13,276,241	11/19/82
168	Love Jones	NL	$3,908,725	31.3%	820	$4,766	$12,479,335	3/14/97
169	Amelia	FoxS	$3,904,047	27.4%	820	$4,761	$14,245,415	10/23/09
170	Dirty Dancing	Vest	$3,900,000	6.2%	975	$4,000	$63,446,382	8/21/87
171	Small Time Crooks	DW	$3,880,723	22.5%	865	$4,486	$17,266,359	5/19/00
172	Quigley Down Under	MGM	$3,853,149	18.0%	996	$3,868	$21,413,105	10/19/90
173	The Emperor's Club	Uni.	$3,846,780	27.3%	809	$4,754	$14,118,751	11/22/02
174	She's Having a Baby	Par.	$3,827,520	23.9%	925	$4,137	$16,031,707	2/5/88
175	Across the Universe	SonR	$3,824,988	15.7%	954	$4,009	$24,343,673	9/14/07
176	Stand by Me	Col.	$3,812,093	7.3%	745	$5,116	$52,287,414	8/8/86
177	Corrina, Corrina	NL	$3,811,258	18.9%	698	$5,460	$20,164,171	8/12/94
178	Unfaithfully Yours (1984)	Fox	$3,774,126	18.9%	820	$4,602	$19,928,200	2/10/84
179	Against All Odds	Col.	$3,766,128	17.4%	976	$3,858	$21,689,062	3/2/84
180	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	MGM/W	$3,755,575	16.2%	692	$5,427	$23,216,709	8/15/08
181	D.O.A.	BV	$3,751,432	29.5%	875	$4,287	$12,706,478	3/18/88
182	Simon Birch	BV	$3,744,801	20.5%	896	$4,179	$18,253,415	9/11/98
183	(500) Days of Summer	FoxS	$3,739,702	11.6%	817	$4,577	$32,391,374	7/17/09
184	Above the Rim	NL	$3,738,800	23.1%	836	$4,472	$16,192,320	3/25/94
185	Closer	Sony	$3,735,153	11.0%	622	$6,005	$33,987,757	12/3/04
186	Circle of Friends	Sav.	$3,733,055	16.0%	788	$4,737	$23,389,975	3/17/95
187	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Par.	$3,709,562	18.9%	720	$5,152	$19,652,638	8/12/88
188	Angel Heart	TriS	$3,688,721	21.5%	815	$4,526	$17,185,632	3/6/87
189	3 Strikes	MGM	$3,684,704	37.5%	678	$5,434	$9,832,166	3/3/00
190	The Bear	TriS	$3,676,530	11.6%	858	$4,285	$31,753,898	10/27/89
191	Chances Are	TriS	$3,664,386	22.5%	837	$4,378	$16,278,590	3/10/89
192	The Big Chill	Col.	$3,662,152	6.5%	722	$5,072	$56,342,711	9/30/83
193	Little Shop of Horrors	WB	$3,659,884	9.5%	866	$4,226	$38,748,395	12/19/86
194	She's Out of Control	Col.	$3,653,142	30.3%	987	$3,701	$12,065,892	4/14/89
195	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	BV	$3,647,208	8.0%	809	$4,508	$45,512,588	12/22/00
196	Out of Africa	Uni.	$3,637,290	4.2%	922	$3,945	$87,071,205	12/20/85
197	Monsignor	Fox	$3,631,834	29.3%	857	$4,237	$12,408,066	10/22/82
198	Jennifer 8	Par.	$3,619,666	31.8%	967	$3,743	$11,390,479	11/6/92
199	The Matador	Wein.	$3,612,663	28.7%	885	$4,082	$12,594,698	12/30/05
200	Sicko	LGF	$3,600,179	14.7%	702	$5,128	$24,540,079	6/22/07

* Opening Weekend equals Fri-Sat-Sun. Movies that do not have a 3-day opening gross are not included on this chart. A movie is considered to be in wide release when it reaches 600 or more theaters. For movies that opened in limited release and later went wide, the wide date is used for the 1,000-3,000 charts. All movies opening in limited release (regardless if they later went wide) and shown on the less than 600 theaters chart.
^ Total Gross does not include additional releases, if any.

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