I thouht that might be interesting, so I compiled them:


Genres:


Highest grossing Documentary:

Fahrenheit 9/11 - $119,194,771


Highest grossing Indie:

The Passion of the Christ - $370,274,604


Highest grossing animated movie:

Shrek 2 - $441,226,247 (#3 all-time)


Highest grossing animated movie worldwide:

Shrek 2 - $900,000,000+


Biggest sequel ever:

Shrek 2 - $441,226,247


Highest grossing R-rated movie:

The Passion of the Christ - $370,274,604


Weekends:


Highest 5-day opening weekend:

Spider-Man 2 - $152,411,751


Highest 5-day opening weekend for an R-rated movie:

The Passion of the Christ - $125,185,971


Highest non-#1 opening weekend:

The Day after Tomorrow - $68,743,584


Highest second weekend of all time:

Shrek 2 - $72,170,363


Highest opening weekend in February:

The Passion of the Christ - $83,848,082


Highest opening weekend in June:

Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban - $93,687,367


Most consecutive weekends with $20+ million openers:

18 - from Kill Bill Vol. 2 to Alien vs. Predator


Days:


Biggest Opening Day:

Spider-Man 2 - $40,442,604


Biggest Single Day:

Shrek 2 - $44,797,042


Biggest Christmas Day:

Meet the Fockers - $19,542,490


Highest grossing Monday:

Spider-Man 2 - $27,661,137


Highest grossing Tuesday:

Meet the Fockers - $12,629,620


Highest grossing Wednesday:

Spider-Man 2 - $40,442,604


Highest grossing Saturday:

Shrek 2 - $44,797,042


Highest grossing Sunday:

Shrek 2 - $34,900,541


Multipliers:


Highest Opening for a Movie that not made a 2-mulitplier:

Alexander:

Opening weekend - $13,687,087

Multiplier (as of 12/28/2004) - 1.882


Highest opening weekend for a movie that didn't hit $100 million:

Alien vs. Predator - $38,291,056


Miscellaneous:


Widest Release opening weekend:

Shrek 2 - 4,162


Widest Release overall:

Shrek 2 - 4,223


Widest Release for an Indie:

The Passion of the Christ - 3,408


Most Aggregated Weekend ever:

May 28-30, 2004 - $185,635,275


Fastest to $200 million:

Spider-Man 2 - 8 days


Fastst to $300 million:

Shrek 2 - 18 days


Fastest to $400 million:

Shrek 2 - 43 days


Biggest Opening Week:

Spider-Man 2 - $192,085,360


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There are probably more, so I'll keep you updated.

Alexander has a mulitplier of 2.47! It opened to $13,687,087 and has a current total of $33,908,873 as of December 28th!

This is not how I calculate the multipliers. This way ALL Wednesday releases would benefit from their release. So I do it this way:

I substract what it made on Wednesday and Thursday from its total gross (which is around $8 million in Alexander's case) and then calculate the multiplier. That gives Alexander an opening of $13+ million and a total of $25+ million. I don't take its first two-days goss into account.

However, if you care, then even besides Alexander the record was broken this year, by Seed of Chucky.

Arthur's way is the right way to do it for Wednesday openers. You have to substract the first two days from the total gross, unless you use the 5-day total for its opening weekend number.

Technically, The Passion of the Christ also broke the highest foreign language film gross record, although I don't consider it to be truely foreign.

I believe thats 4162 :wink:

The Passion broke dozens of records in 2004. The problem with keeping track is that you can make up so many at the spot that it becomes useless.

For example, F 9/11 is the biggest documentary ever, but it's also the biggest summer-released documentary, biggest June documentary, ahs the biggest 1st weekend for a documentary, biggest 2nd weekend, etc. All those basically come down to biggest documentary ever.

I'd put the number of records broken domestically in the thousands, and internationally in the tens of thousands.

Good! It deserves a 1.000000000001 multiplier, though. :wink:

True, I mean, you could also have F 9/11 as the widest released Documentary and The Passion as the R-rated movie to reach $200 million faster than any other R-rated flick etc. but I tried to focus on the more important ones.

corrected

I got a 1.55 multiplier for Alexander, I use the 5-day as the weekend.

Well, I don't think it'd have made that much over the 3-day weekend. Either way, though, it is under 2, hehe.

Meet the Fockers just broke the biggest Tuesday record, a fitting way to end the year.

All, but Friday and Thursday records were broken this year!

Very nice for Fockers.

Very Good for 2004!

Next add to the list is Top New Years day for Fockers

What I do is add the 5-day total and 3-day opening and divide it by 2. :?

But that would be a record for 2005.

How about this little one Highest Grossing Comedy..that is of course only under the condition that you do not cnsider Titanic a comedy.

That's a tough call there.

Spider-man 2 also set the July three-day weekend record. Or am I mistaken?

Seed of Chucky didn't set the record although I believe it is on the top 10 openers to fall short of a 2 multiplier. The record belonged to Blair Witch Project 2 which opened with a bit less then Alexander. I think there are 2 other 10m+ openers to have fallen short.

Another record:

Consecutive weekends with a 20m+ opener - 18. From Kill Bill Vol. 2 - AVP. The old record from a couple summers ago of 13 was broken when I, Robot opened.

These are few nice records

Another Record (not a box office one)

More time spent on a thread in this forum that did not involve Passion, Shrek 2, HP3, Spiderman 2, The Incredibles or Meet the Fockers, but some complete bomb of a movie and I don't mean the Catwoman thread by Algren either :wink:

The fact that this particular thread has more viewings than the very informative Yahoo thread is mind-boggling.

Not that I care either way, but a record is a record