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INDEPENDENCE DAY

Domestic Total Gross: $306,169,268
Distributor: FoxRelease Date: July 3, 1996
Genre: Sci-Fi ActionRunning Time: 2 hrs. 33 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13Production Budget: $75 million
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TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic:  $306,169,268    37.5%
+ Foreign:  $511,231,623    62.5%
= Worldwide:  $817,400,891  

DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend: $50,228,264
(#1 rank, 2,882 theaters, $17,428 average)
% of Total Gross: 16.4%
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Widest Release:  2,977 theaters
Close Date:  January 12, 1997

1996 ACADEMY AWARDS®
Nominated for 1 Oscar, including 1 win. CLICK TO VIEW FULL BREAKDOWN...


GENRES (click to view) Rank
Disaster 2
President 1
Sci-Fi - Alien Invasion 1

FRANCHISES (click to view) Rank
Showdown: Alien Invasion 1
Showdown: Will Smith Vs. Himself (July Edition) 1

CHARTS (click to view) Rank
All Time Domestic 30
All Time Adjusted 36
All Time Worldwide 23
Yearly 1996 1
Yearly Opening Weekends 1996 1
Yearly PG-13 Rated 1996 1
Worldwide Yearly 1996 1
Non-Friday Opening Weekends 23
Opening Weeks 74
Opening Day Gross 96
Opening Wednesdays 16
Single Day Gross 333
Non-Opening Friday Gross 30
Non-Opening Thursday Gross 6
Single Day Friday Gross 102
Single Day Monday Gross 78
Single Day Saturday Gross 131
Single Day Thursday Gross 10
Single Day Tuesday Gross 17
Single Day Wednesday Gross 19
Non-Holiday Monday Gross 40
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time 72
Theater Averages - Wide Opening Weekends 69
Opening Weekends 94
Opening Weekends - July 21
Opening Weekends - Fall 94
Opening Weekends - Summer 68
Eleventh Weekends 72
Ninth Weekends 40
Tenth Weekends 63
Top 10-Day Grosses 53
Top 3-Day Grosses 81
Top 4-Day Grosses 58
Top 6-Day Grosses 43
Top 7-Day Grosses 40
Top 8-Day Grosses 48
Top 9-Day Grosses 56
Twelfth Weekends 72
Twelfth Weekends 28
Top 5-Day Grosses 45
Top 5-Day Grosses for movies opening on a Wednesday 12
Most Weekends at #1 (non-consecutive) 72
Most Weekends in Top 10 (non-consecutive) 50
Most Weekends in Top 5 (non-consecutive) 103
Consecutive Weekends At #1 57
Consecutive Weekends In Top 10 39
Consecutive Weekends In Top 5 89
Labor Day 4-Day Holiday Weekends 132
Independence Day Opening Weekends 8
Independence Day Weekends 8
Second Weekends 44
Third Weekends 46
Fourth Weekends 58
Fifth Weekends 40
Sixth Weekends 36
Seventh Weekends 66
Eighth Weekends 54
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation) 144
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide) 248
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases 924
Rated PG-13 19
Rated PG-13, Opening Weekends 60
Fastest to $100 million 30
Fastest to $150 million 34
Fastest to $200 million 32
Fastest to $250 million 33
Fastest to $300 million 27
Slowest to $100 million 381
Slowest to $200 million 63
BOM Users' Grades 253
BOM Users' Grades (1996 Releases) 14
CHARTS (Premier Pass Users Only)Rank
Highest All Time Rank (on September 10, 1996) 6
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THE PLAYERS (click name to view)
Director:Roland Emmerich
Actors:Will Smith
Bill Pullman
Jeff Goldblum
Randy Quaid
Composer:David Arnold
GRADE THIS MOVIE
Readers B  (6546 votes)
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GRADE BREAKDOWN
As: 2,166 33.1%
Bs: 3,018 46.1%
Cs: 944 14.4%
Ds: 230 3.5%
Fs: 188 2.9%

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MERCHANDISE LINKS
• DVD: Independence Day, Limited Edition, Five Star Collection, Double Digipack
• Soundtrack

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