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	1	The Lion King	BV	$1,510,833	2	$3,021,700	$594,010,000	6/17/94
2	13	Aladdin	BV	$188,608	2	$377,200	$417,441,100	11/13/92
3	16	Aladdin	BV	$166,654	2	$333,300	$417,441,100	11/20/92
4	5	Toy Story 2	BV	$470,334	1	$470,300	$380,778,700	11/19/99
5	89	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$80,413	14	$1,125,800	$347,846,400	11/09/90
6	103	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$75,955	14	$1,063,400	$347,846,400	11/16/90
7	53	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$92,826	3	$278,500	$323,051,300	1/08/82
8	61	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$89,160	3	$267,500	$323,051,300	1/15/82
9	28	On Golden Pond	Uni.	$120,082	2	$240,200	$323,051,300	1/01/82
10	74	Platoon	Orion	$86,208	6	$517,200	$282,070,600	12/19/86
11	18	Beauty and the Beast	BV	$153,288	2	$306,600	$278,327,100	11/15/91
12	4	A Bug's Life	BV	$494,099	1	$494,100	$271,718,600	11/20/98
13	2	Pocahontas	BV	$820,310	6	$4,921,900	$259,074,700	6/16/95
14	34	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$107,075	4	$428,300	$240,049,000	1/01/88
15	43	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$98,893	4	$395,600	$240,049,000	12/25/87
16	62	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	$89,096	4	$356,400	$240,049,000	1/08/88
17	145	Good Will Hunting	Mira.	$67,611	7	$473,300	$234,953,100	12/05/97
18	42	The Blair Witch Project	Art.	$99,987	31	$3,099,700	$220,214,800	7/23/99
19	70	The Blair Witch Project	Art.	$87,751	27	$2,369,300	$220,214,800	7/16/99
20	79	American Beauty	DW	$84,371	16	$1,350,000	$198,483,000	9/17/99
21	76	Dead Poets Society	BV	$85,328	8	$682,600	$192,203,100	6/02/89
22	78	Lincoln	BV	$84,886	11	$933,800	$180,961,000	11/09/12
23	143	Traffic	USA	$68,201	4	$272,800	$174,560,000	12/29/00
24	3	Hercules	BV	$738,860	2	$1,477,700	$171,880,700	6/20/97
25	6	Hercules	BV	$432,800	1	$432,800	$171,880,700	6/13/97
26	140	Juno	FoxS	$68,405	7	$478,800	$159,827,400	12/07/07
27	44	Annie	Col.	$98,750	14	$1,382,500	$154,486,300	5/21/82
28	90	Annie	Col.	$80,196	14	$1,122,800	$154,486,300	6/04/82
29	121	Annie	Col.	$72,512	14	$1,015,200	$154,486,300	6/11/82
30	176	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$64,088	16	$1,025,400	$148,840,700	1/11/02
31	158	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$66,112	4	$264,400	$148,840,700	1/04/02
32	182	Black Hawk Down	SonR	$63,223	4	$252,900	$148,840,700	12/28/01
33	117	Philadelphia	TriS	$73,257	4	$293,000	$147,489,100	12/31/93
34	136	Philadelphia	TriS	$68,944	4	$275,800	$147,489,100	12/24/93
35	151	Philadelphia	TriS	$67,133	4	$268,500	$147,489,100	1/07/94
36	58	The Verdict	Fox	$91,134	3	$273,400	$138,505,600	12/10/82
37	67	The King's Speech	Wein.	$88,308	4	$353,200	$136,889,000	11/26/10
38	64	Gandhi	Col.	$88,773	4	$355,100	$133,395,200	12/10/82
39	36	Everest (IMAX)	MFF	$105,790	10	$1,057,900	$131,951,000	3/13/98
40	198	Everest (IMAX)	MFF	$61,820	10	$618,200	$131,951,000	3/06/98
41	109	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$74,510	3	$223,500	$121,034,000	7/15/88
42	110	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$74,289	3	$222,900	$121,034,000	7/22/88
43	17	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$153,508	3	$460,500	$120,930,600	12/15/06
44	54	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$92,213	3	$276,600	$120,930,600	12/22/06
45	9	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	BV	$231,353	2	$462,700	$118,213,700	6/08/01
46	167	Mystic River	WB	$65,070	13	$845,900	$117,572,000	10/10/03
47	12	Brother Bear	BV	$192,690	2	$385,400	$112,506,700	10/24/03
48	104	Mask	Uni.	$75,954	4	$303,800	$108,144,200	3/08/85
49	7	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$411,174	2	$822,300	$107,933,600	11/27/09
50	8	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$391,049	2	$782,100	$107,933,600	12/04/09
51	92	Black Swan	FoxS	$79,711	18	$1,434,800	$107,577,200	12/03/10
52	20	Edward Scissorhands	Fox	$150,188	2	$300,400	$106,405,500	12/07/90
53	21	Brokeback Mountain	Focus	$135,960	5	$679,800	$101,192,600	12/09/05
54	10	Anastasia	Fox	$209,043	1	$209,000	$100,837,200	11/14/97
55	14	Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas	BV	$183,841	2	$367,700	$96,141,100	10/15/93
56	164	When a Man Loves a Woman	BV	$65,318	19	$1,241,000	$95,257,100	5/06/94
57	84	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$82,497	5	$412,500	$94,650,600	12/21/12
58	190	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$62,575	5	$312,900	$94,650,600	12/28/12
59	157	Bugsy	TriS	$66,344	4	$265,400	$93,957,000	12/13/91
60	108	The Fighter	Par.	$74,535	4	$298,100	$93,032,600	12/10/10
61	156	Sideways	FoxS	$66,346	4	$265,400	$89,603,900	10/22/04
62	129	Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX)	BV	$70,823	54	$3,824,500	$89,245,400	1/07/00
63	189	Fantasia 2000 (35mm & IMAX)	BV	$62,642	54	$3,382,700	$89,245,400	12/31/99
64	81	Evita	BV	$83,923	22	$1,846,300	$86,801,300	1/03/97
65	15	Evita	BV	$175,664	2	$351,300	$86,801,300	12/27/96
66	172	About Schmidt	NL	$64,476	6	$386,900	$85,912,200	12/13/02
67	149	The Last Emperor	Col.	$67,430	6	$404,600	$85,626,000	11/27/87
68	85	Up in the Air	Par.	$82,385	15	$1,235,800	$85,434,400	12/04/09
69	22	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$135,783	2	$271,600	$80,692,900	5/25/01
70	29	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$117,811	2	$235,600	$80,692,900	5/18/01
71	112	The Killing Fields	WB	$74,061	3	$222,200	$77,889,400	11/23/84
72	125	The Killing Fields	WB	$71,697	3	$215,100	$77,889,400	11/16/84
73	170	The Killing Fields	WB	$64,599	3	$193,800	$77,889,400	11/30/84
74	88	The Killing Fields	WB	$80,424	1	$80,400	$77,889,400	11/09/84
75	102	The Killing Fields	WB	$76,238	1	$76,200	$77,889,400	11/02/84
76	119	The Piano	Mira.	$72,782	4	$291,100	$76,745,200	11/12/93
77	24	Victor/Victoria	MGM	$126,017	3	$378,100	$76,392,900	3/19/82
78	30	Victor/Victoria	MGM	$117,218	3	$351,700	$76,392,900	3/26/82
79	152	The Paper	Uni.	$66,843	5	$334,200	$73,933,400	3/18/94
80	173	Little Miss Sunshine	FoxS	$64,408	7	$450,900	$72,757,700	7/28/06
81	100	The Royal Tenenbaums	BV	$77,907	5	$389,500	$71,855,300	12/14/01
82	35	Memoirs of a Geisha	Sony	$105,943	8	$847,500	$70,408,200	12/09/05
83	46	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride	WB	$96,405	5	$482,000	$66,261,900	9/16/05
84	138	Grand Canyon	Fox	$68,684	2	$137,400	$63,762,500	1/03/92
85	180	Grand Canyon	Fox	$63,856	2	$127,700	$63,762,500	12/27/91
86	118	The Joy Luck Club	BV	$73,242	7	$512,700	$63,259,200	9/17/93
87	37	The Joy Luck Club	BV	$101,909	3	$305,700	$63,259,200	9/10/93
88	124	Syriana	WB	$71,944	9	$647,500	$62,658,300	12/02/05
89	52	Syriana	WB	$93,012	5	$465,100	$62,658,300	11/25/05
90	154	A Passage to India	Col.	$66,791	3	$200,400	$61,017,600	12/14/84
91	194	Agnes of God	Col.	$62,097	8	$496,800	$57,464,100	9/13/85
92	80	The Thin Red Line	Fox	$84,085	7	$588,600	$57,121,000	1/01/99
93	47	The Thin Red Line	Fox	$95,904	5	$479,500	$57,121,000	12/25/98
94	185	In Good Company	Uni.	$62,814	3	$188,400	$56,886,100	12/31/04
95	45	Midnight in Paris	SPC	$98,595	6	$591,600	$56,536,500	5/20/11
96	71	Green Card	BV	$87,467	2	$174,900	$56,510,000	1/04/91
97	162	A Soldier's Story	Col.	$65,701	6	$394,200	$51,333,200	9/21/84
98	111	A Soldier's Story	Col.	$74,094	5	$370,500	$51,333,200	9/14/84
99	39	Howards End	SPC	$100,829	1	$100,800	$49,885,500	3/13/92
100	48	Howards End	SPC	$94,538	1	$94,500	$49,885,500	3/20/92
101	51	Howards End	SPC	$93,627	1	$93,600	$49,885,500	3/27/92
102	65	Howards End	SPC	$88,446	1	$88,400	$49,885,500	4/03/92
103	82	Howards End	SPC	$83,544	1	$83,500	$49,885,500	4/10/92
104	98	sex, lies and videotape	Mira.	$78,186	4	$312,700	$49,608,000	8/04/89
105	33	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	LGF	$108,809	18	$1,958,600	$49,530,600	11/06/09
106	114	Raising Arizona	Fox	$73,778	1	$73,800	$46,513,200	3/13/87
107	177	Amelie	Mira.	$63,975	3	$191,900	$46,051,200	11/02/01
108	23	Moonrise Kingdom	Focus	$128,173	4	$512,700	$45,985,400	5/25/12
109	27	Bulworth	Fox	$120,347	2	$240,700	$45,024,400	5/15/98
110	32	There Will Be Blood	ParV	$110,341	2	$220,700	$44,598,100	12/28/07
111	133	Much Ado About Nothing	Gold.	$69,612	3	$208,800	$43,355,700	5/07/93
112	184	One Hour Photo	FoxS	$62,926	7	$440,500	$43,288,800	8/23/02
113	55	A Room with a View	Cinc	$92,194	1	$92,200	$42,692,200	3/07/86
114	146	Babel	ParV	$67,594	7	$473,200	$40,815,300	10/27/06
115	101	Punchline	Col.	$77,828	4	$311,300	$40,754,200	9/30/88
116	171	The Freshman	TriS	$64,568	6	$387,400	$40,384,500	7/20/90
117	174	To Die For	Sony	$64,297	11	$707,300	$38,948,200	9/29/95
118	195	Educating Rita	Col.	$61,926	3	$185,800	$37,015,400	9/23/83
119	26	Kiss of the Spider Woman	IsAl	$125,481	1	$125,500	$36,741,700	7/26/85
120	169	The People Vs. Larry Flynt	Sony	$64,781	16	$1,036,500	$35,205,000	1/03/97
121	49	The Mission	WB	$94,509	1	$94,500	$35,200,100	11/07/86
122	72	The Mission	WB	$86,607	1	$86,600	$35,200,100	10/31/86
123	148	For the Boys	Fox	$67,450	2	$134,900	$33,769,100	11/22/91
124	160	Defiance	ParV	$65,896	2	$131,800	$31,756,700	1/02/09
125	60	Crossing Delancey	WB	$90,467	1	$90,500	$31,496,100	8/26/88
126	122	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	BV	$72,476	2	$145,000	$30,243,500	12/10/04
127	181	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	BV	$63,312	2	$126,600	$30,243,500	12/17/04
128	178	Thank You for Smoking	FoxS	$63,904	5	$319,500	$30,130,700	3/17/06
129	107	Adaptation.	Sony	$75,250	7	$526,800	$29,851,600	12/06/02
130	95	The Mosquito Coast	WB	$78,894	3	$236,700	$29,456,500	11/28/86
131	75	An Inconvenient Truth	ParC	$85,472	4	$341,900	$29,344,000	5/26/06
132	91	Sicko	LGF	$79,796	1	$79,800	$28,392,300	6/22/07
133	175	The Commitments	Fox	$64,126	8	$513,000	$28,209,000	8/16/91
134	66	The Year of Living Dangerously	WB	$88,444	1	$88,400	$25,973,800	1/21/83
135	86	Bullets Over Broadway	Mira.	$81,954	2	$163,900	$25,486,700	10/21/94
136	153	The Grifters	Mira.	$66,836	2	$133,700	$25,423,400	12/07/90
137	131	Revolutionary Road	ParV	$70,181	3	$210,500	$25,400,500	12/26/08
138	40	Punch-Drunk Love	SonR	$100,617	5	$503,100	$24,447,500	10/11/02
139	94	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	Focus	$78,930	4	$315,700	$24,304,500	12/09/11
140	77	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Orion	$85,275	3	$255,800	$23,838,100	3/01/85
141	38	After Hours	WB	$101,877	1	$101,900	$23,788,800	9/13/85
142	134	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Fox	$69,532	4	$278,100	$21,863,400	11/13/09
143	123	New York Stories	BV	$72,238	12	$866,900	$21,581,200	3/03/89
144	141	The Motorcycle Diaries	Focus	$68,286	3	$204,900	$21,460,600	9/24/04
145	147	Brazil	Uni.	$67,490	1	$67,500	$21,311,900	12/20/85
146	132	The Place Beyond the Pines	Focus	$70,040	4	$280,200	$20,847,200	3/29/13
147	120	The Kids Are All Right	Focus	$72,561	7	$507,900	$20,837,500	7/09/10
148	155	Frost/Nixon	Uni.	$66,780	3	$200,300	$20,645,000	12/05/08
149	150	Nine	Wein.	$67,266	4	$269,100	$20,142,100	12/18/09
150	128	1984	Gold.	$70,827	1	$70,800	$18,909,000	12/14/84
151	161	127 Hours	FoxS	$65,800	4	$263,200	$18,220,800	11/05/10
152	199	Deconstructing Harry	FL	$61,819	10	$618,200	$18,138,000	12/12/97
153	127	To Rome with Love	SPC	$70,848	5	$354,200	$17,048,700	6/22/12
154	93	Everyone Says I Love You	Mira.	$79,045	3	$237,100	$16,924,500	12/06/96
155	19	The Master	Wein.	$150,669	5	$753,300	$16,430,500	9/14/12
156	50	I Heart Huckabees	FoxS	$93,628	4	$374,500	$16,379,800	10/01/04
157	73	The Last Temptation of Christ	Uni.	$86,338	9	$777,000	$16,217,500	8/12/88
158	196	Capitalism: A Love Story	Over.	$61,878	4	$247,500	$15,025,400	9/25/09
159	68	Spring Breakers	A24	$87,888	3	$263,700	$14,090,900	3/15/13
160	116	Sarafina!	BV	$73,355	2	$146,700	$14,013,900	9/18/92
161	186	Alice	Orion	$62,761	3	$188,300	$13,861,400	1/04/91
162	99	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS	$78,060	2	$156,100	$13,758,800	9/28/07
163	97	Kids	Mira.	$78,418	2	$156,800	$13,563,500	7/21/95
164	57	The Tree of Life	FoxS	$92,073	4	$368,300	$13,240,800	5/27/11
165	25	The Crucible	Fox	$125,847	1	$125,800	$12,818,200	12/06/96
166	31	The Crucible	Fox	$113,448	1	$113,400	$12,818,200	11/29/96
167	126	Talk to Her	SPC	$71,514	2	$143,000	$12,302,900	11/22/02
168	179	Talk to Her	SPC	$63,859	2	$127,700	$12,302,900	11/29/02
169	83	Night and the City	Fox	$82,546	1	$82,500	$11,897,300	10/16/92
170	144	Ed Wood	BV	$68,142	2	$136,300	$11,211,500	9/30/94
171	139	Orlando	SPC	$68,594	3	$205,800	$10,227,700	6/11/93
172	191	Kundun	BV	$62,515	2	$125,000	$9,649,400	12/26/97
173	163	Miami Rhapsody	BV	$65,345	2	$130,700	$9,554,300	1/27/95
174	197	Stealing Beauty	FoxS	$61,847	3	$185,500	$8,504,400	6/14/96
175	105	The Aristocrats	Think	$75,687	4	$302,700	$7,919,100	7/29/05
176	187	Mountains of the Moon	TriS	$62,741	2	$125,500	$7,549,400	2/23/90
177	63	Wish You Were Here	Atl	$88,784	1	$88,800	$6,685,200	7/24/87
178	183	Bad Education	SPC	$62,966	3	$188,900	$6,531,100	11/19/04
179	142	Apocalypse Now Redux	Mira.	$68,203	2	$136,400	$6,506,200	8/03/01
180	115	Under the Volcano	Uni.	$73,440	1	$73,400	$6,057,200	6/15/84
181	106	Tous les Matins du Monde	Oct.	$75,336	1	$75,300	$5,939,900	11/13/92
182	188	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence	Uni.	$62,682	4	$250,700	$5,828,600	8/26/83
183	135	This Is My Life	Fox	$69,473	2	$138,900	$5,604,800	2/21/92
184	69	Metropolitan	NL	$87,810	1	$87,800	$5,529,100	8/03/90
185	113	Lust, Caution	Focus	$73,952	1	$74,000	$5,322,900	9/28/07
186	166	Unzipped	Mira.	$65,212	2	$130,400	$5,261,100	8/04/95
187	200	Broken Embraces	SPC	$61,706	2	$123,400	$5,091,400	11/27/09
188	41	Maurice	Cinc	$100,320	1	$100,300	$4,963,900	9/18/87
189	56	Melinda and Melinda	FoxS	$92,189	1	$92,200	$4,751,500	3/18/05
190	96	Prick Up Your Ears	Gold.	$78,670	1	$78,700	$3,368,700	4/17/87
191	168	Wide Sargasso Sea	NL	$64,999	1	$65,000	$3,104,800	4/16/93
192	137	A Handful of Dust	NL	$68,696	1	$68,700	$3,022,700	6/24/88
193	130	Sleepwalk with Me	IFC	$70,393	1	$70,400	$2,318,500	8/24/12
194	165	Gothic	Vest	$65,270	1	$65,300	$1,865,100	4/10/87
195	193	Fool for Love	Can.	$62,375	2	$124,800	$1,801,900	12/06/85
196	11	Red State	SMod	$206,828	1	$206,800	$1,112,400	3/04/11
197	87	Red State	SMod	$81,373	1	$81,400	$1,112,400	4/08/11
198	192	Eleni	WB	$62,503	1	$62,500	$684,100	11/01/85
199	59	Guiana 1838	RBC	$90,893	1	$90,900	$289,500	9/24/04
200	159	The Official Story	ALM	$65,981	1	$66,000	$66,000	11/08/85

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.