Th lowest grossing number 1 movie in any of those weekends was ET with $2.35 mil.

How can a movie make ONLY 2.35 mil and still be #1?

Well, adjusted, it's around #6m, which is around the same level as some of thel owest grossing ones in the 2000s, like Dickie Roberts.


In the 1980s, especially early part of the decade, films were more long-distance runners, rather than the current sprinters we have now. In other words, they made money over a longer period of time. It's not surprising to see a film made $3m or less and be number one.

Overview




1 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 16 weekends
2 Titanic 15 weekends
3 Beverly Hills Cop 14 weekends
4 Tootsie 14 weekends
5 Home Alone 12 weekends
6 Back to the Future 11 weekends
7 Crocodile Dundee 9 weekends
8 Ghostbusters 9 weekends
9 Good Morning, Vietnam 9 weekends
10 Fatal Attraction 8 weekends
11 Porky's 8 weekends
12 On Golden Pond 6 weekends
13 Rain Man 6 weekends
14 Return of the Jedi 6 weekends
15 Rocky IV 6 weekends
16 Terms of Endearment 6 weekends
17 The Fugitive 6 weekends
18 Basic Instinct 5 weekends
19 Forrest Gump 5 weekends
20 Look Who's Talking 5 weekends
21 Mr. Mom 5 weekends
22 Mrs. Doubtfire 5 weekends
23 Police Academy 5 weekends
24 Stakeout 5 weekends
25 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 5 weekends
26 The Golden Child 5 weekends
27 The Secret of My Success 5 weekends
28 The Silence of the Lambs 5 weekends
29 The Sixth Sense 5 weekends
30 Three Men and a Baby 5 weekends
31 Wayne's World 5 weekends
32 A Few Good Men 4 weekends
33 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 4 weekends
34 Aladdin 4 weekends
35 Aliens 4 weekends
36 Apollo 13 4 weekends
37 Beetlejuice 4 weekends
38 Down and Out in Beverly Hills 4 weekends
39 Driving Miss Daisy 4 weekends
40 Dumb and Dumber 4 weekends
41 Ghost 4 weekends
42 Hook 4 weekends
43 Hot Shots! 4 weekends
44 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 4 weekends
45 Indecent Proposal 4 weekends
46 Legends of the Fall 4 weekends
47 Meet the Parents 4 weekends
48 Never Say Never Again 4 weekends
49 Platoon 4 weekends
50 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment 4 weekends
51 Pretty Woman 4 weekends
52 Rambo: First Blood Part II 4 weekends
53 Saving Private Ryan 4 weekends
54 Seven 4 weekends
55 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4 weekends
56 The Birdcage 4 weekends
57 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 4 weekends
58 The Karate Kid Part II 4 weekends
59 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 4 weekends
60 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 4 weekends
61 The Passion of the Christ 4 weekends
62 Tightrope 4 weekends
63 Toy Story 4 weekends
64 Uncle Buck 4 weekends
65 Under Siege 4 weekends
66 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master 3 weekends
67 American Pie 2 3 weekends
68 Batman Returns 3 weekends
69 Beverly Hills Cop II 3 weekends
70 Black Hawk Down 3 weekends
71 Black Rain 3 weekends
72 Born on the Fourth of July 3 weekends
73 Bringing Down the House 3 weekends
74 Cast Away 3 weekends
75 Charlie's Angels 3 weekends
76 Code of Silence 3 weekends
77 Coming to America 3 weekends
78 Commando 3 weekends
79 Crocodile Dundee II 3 weekends
80 Double Jeopardy 3 weekends
81 Erin Brockovich 3 weekends
82 First Blood 3 weekends
83 Flashdance 3 weekends
84 Footloose 3 weekends
85 Get Shorty 3 weekends
86 Hannibal 3 weekends
87 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 3 weekends
88 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 3 weekends
89 I Know What You Did Last Summer 3 weekends
90 Independence Day 3 weekends
91 Jurassic Park 3 weekends
92 Lethal Weapon 3 weekends
93 Lethal Weapon 2 3 weekends
94 Lethal Weapon 3 3 weekends
95 Liar Liar 3 weekends
96 Marked for Death 3 weekends
97 Men in Black 3 weekends
98 Mortal Kombat 3 weekends
99 National Lampoon's Vacation 3 weekends
100 National Treasure 3 weekends
101 Outbreak 3 weekends
102 Pet Sematary 3 weekends
103 Police Academy 3: Back in Training 3 weekends
104 Primal Fear 3 weekends
105 Shark Tale 3 weekends
106 Signs 3 weekends
107 Spy Kids 3 weekends
108 Stand By Me 3 weekends
109 Star Wars (Special Edition) 3 weekends
110 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3 weekends
111 Stuart Little 3 weekends
112 Sudden Impact 3 weekends
113 Teachers 3 weekends
114 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II 3 weekends
115 The Firm 3 weekends
116 The First Wives Club 3 weekends
117 The Fisher King 3 weekends
118 The Hunt For Red October 3 weekends
119 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 3 weekends
120 The Matrix 3 weekends
121 The Mexican 3 weekends
122 The Whole Nine Yards 3 weekends
123 Top Gun 3 weekends
124 Toy Story 2 3 weekends
125 Twins 3 weekends
126 Unforgiven 3 weekends
127 101 Dalmatians (Live Action) 2 weekends
128 50 First Dates 2 weekends
129 A Bug's Life 2 weekends
130 A Time to Kill 2 weekends
131 Air Force One 2 weekends
132 All of Me 2 weekends
133 An Officer and a Gentleman 2 weekends
134 Anaconda 2 weekends
135 Analyze This 2 weekends
136 Anger Management 2 weekends
137 Antz 2 weekends
138 Back to the Future Part II 2 weekends
139 Backdraft 2 weekends
140 Bad Boys 2 weekends
141 Barbershop 2 weekends
142 Batman 2 weekends
143 Blade 2 weekends
144 Bring It On 2 weekends
145 Broken Arrow 2 weekends
146 Casper 2 weekends
147 Christmas Vacation 2 weekends
148 City of Angels 2 weekends
149 Clear and Present Danger 2 weekends
150 Cliffhanger 2 weekends
151 Cobra 2 weekends
152 Cocktail 2 weekends
153 Colors 2 weekends
154 Conan the Barbarian 2 weekends
155 Critical Condition 2 weekends
156 D2: The Mighty Ducks 2 weekends
157 Daredevil 2 weekends
158 Dead Again 2 weekends
159 Death Wish 3 2 weekends
160 Deep Impact 2 weekends
161 Demolition Man 2 weekends
162 Dick Tracy 2 weekends
163 Die Another Day 2 weekends
164 Die Hard 2: Die Harder 2 weekends
165 Dragnet 2 weekends
166 Falling Down 2 weekends
167 Finding Nemo 2 weekends
168 Fletch Lives 2 weekends
169 Flubber 2 weekends
170 Forces of Nature 2 weekends
171 Freddy vs. Jason 2 weekends
172 Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare 2 weekends
173 G.I. Jane 2 weekends
174 Gladiator 2 weekends
175 Godzilla 2 weekends
176 Groundhog Day 2 weekends
177 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 2 weekends
178 Hardball 2 weekends
179 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2 weekends
180 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2 weekends
181 Hero 2 weekends
182 Hollow Man 2 weekends
183 Honeymoon in Vegas 2 weekends
184 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2 weekends
185 Jerry Maguire 2 weekends
186 Kiss the Girls 2 weekends
187 Lean On Me 2 weekends
188 Legend 2 weekends
189 Major League 2 weekends
190 Men in Black II 2 weekends
191 Michael 2 weekends
192 Missing in Action 2 weekends
193 Mission: Impossible 2 weekends
194 Mission: Impossible II 2 weekends
195 Monsters, Inc. 2 weekends
196 Next Friday 2 weekends
197 Oscar 2 weekends
198 Out for Justice 2 weekends
199 Panic Room 2 weekends
200 Parenthood 2 weekends
201 Patch Adams 2 weekends
202 Patriot Games 2 weekends
203 Payback 2 weekends
204 Pearl Harbor 2 weekends
205 Philadelphia 2 weekends
206 Pretty in Pink 2 weekends
207 Pulp Fiction 2 weekends
208 Red Dragon 2 weekends
209 Robocop 2 weekends
210 Rules of Engagement 2 weekends
211 Rush Hour 2 weekends
212 Save the Last Dance 2 weekends
213 Scary Movie 3 2 weekends
214 Scream 3 2 weekends
215 See No Evil, Hear No Evil 2 weekends
216 Shrek 2 2 weekends
217 Sleepers 2 weekends
218 Sneakers 2 weekends
219 Spider-Man 2 weekends
220 Spider-Man 2 2 weekends
221 Splash 2 weekends
222 Spring Break 2 weekends
223 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 2 weekends
224 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2 weekends
225 Stargate 2 weekends
226 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 2 weekends
227 The Addams Family 2 weekends
228 The Big Chill 2 weekends
229 The Brady Bunch Movie 2 weekends
230 The 'Burbs 2 weekends
231 The Cat in the Hat 2 weekends
232 The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition) 2 weekends
233 The Fifth Element 2 weekends
234 The Flintstones 2 weekends
235 The Fly 2 weekends
236 The Grudge 2 weekends
237 The Incredibles 2 weekends
238 The Last of the Mohicans 2 weekends
239 The Lion King 2 weekends
240 The Living Daylights 2 weekends
241 The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2 weekends
242 The Mummy 2 weekends
243 The Mummy Returns 2 weekends
244 The Natural 2 weekends
245 The Nightmare Before Christmas 2 weekends
246 The Pelican Brief 2 weekends
247 The Running Man 2 weekends
248 The Santa Clause 2 weekends
249 The Scorpion King 2 weekends
250 The Sum of All Fears 2 weekends
251 The Terminator 2 weekends
252 The Truman Show 2 weekends
253 The War of the Roses 2 weekends
254 The Watcher 2 weekends
255 The Waterboy 2 weekends
256 The Wedding Planner 2 weekends
257 Timecop 2 weekends
258 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar 2 weekends
259 Training Day 2 weekends
260 Twelve Monkeys 2 weekends
261 Twister 2 weekends
262 U-571 2 weekends
263 Varsity Blues 2 weekends
264 Waterworld 2 weekends
265 While You Were Sleeping 2 weekends
266 White Men Can't Jump 2 weekends
267 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2 weekends
268 X2: X-Men United 2 weekends
269 XXX 2 weekends



And films that were #1 for 1 weekend:


2 Fast 2 Furious
8 Mile
8MM
A Christmas Story
A Civil Action
A Fish Called Wanda
A League Of Their Own
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Absence of Malice
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Addams Family Values
Alien Nation
Alien vs. Predator
Along Came Polly
American Pie
American Wedding
Amityville 3-D
Amityville II: The Possession
Another 48 HRS.
Any Given Sunday
Armageddon
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Back to School
Back to the Future Part III
Bad Boys II
Bad Girls
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Batman & Robin
Batman Forever
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Beverly Hills Ninja
Big Daddy
Billy Madison
Biloxi Blues
Bird on a Wire
Black Sheep
Blade II
Blind Date
Blue Streak
Blue Thunder
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Breakdown
Breakin'
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof
Cape Fear
Cats and Dogs
CB4
Changing Lanes
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Child's Play
Child's Play 2
City Slickers
Cocoon
Collateral
Collateral Damage
Con Air
Congo
Conspiracy Theory
Cop and a Half
Cop Land
Cradle 2 the Grave
Creepshow
Crimson Tide
Curly Sue
Dangerous Minds
Darkman
Darkness Falls
Dave
Dawn of the Dead
Days of Thunder
Dead Ringers
Deal of the Century
Death Becomes Her
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Die Hard: With A Vengeance
Dinosaur
Disclosure
Doctor Dolittle
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Don't Say a Word
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Driven
Easy Money
Eddie Murphy Raw
Elf
Entrapment
Eraser
European Vacation
Exit Wounds
Exorcist: The Beginning
Eye of the Beholder
Eyes Wide Shut
F/X 2
Face/Off
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fight Club
Fire Down Below
Flatliners
Four Weddings and a Funeral
French Kiss
Friday the 13th - Part V
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part VII
Friday the 13th: Final Chapter
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Hell
Ghostbusters II
Goldeneye
Gone in 60 Seconds
Goodfellas
Gorillas in the Mist
Graveyard Shift
Guarding Tess
Gung Ho
Hard to Kill
Harlem Nights
He Got Game
Head of State
Heartbreakers
Hellboy
High Road to China
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
House on Haunted Hill
House Party 2
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Hulk
I, Robot
Ice Age
Identity
In & Out
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Interview with the Vampire
Invasion U.S.A.
Iron Eagle
Ishtar
Jack
Jackass: The Movie
Jacob's Ladder
Jagged Edge
Jaws 3-D
Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers 2
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling
John Carpenter's Vampires
John Q.
Jumanji
Jurassic Park III
Just Married
Kangaroo Jack
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
King Solomon's Mines
K-PAX
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Legally Blonde
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lethal Weapon 4
Life
Loaded Weapon 1
Lone Wolf McQuade
Lost in Space
Maid in Manhattan
Major League II
Malice
Man of the House
Man on Fire
Maverick
Maximum Risk
Me, Myself and Irene
Mean Girls
Medicine Man
Meet the Fockers
Message in a Bottle
Minority Report
Mission to Mars
Mo' Money
Moon Over Parador
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Mr. Deeds
Mr. Holland's Opus
Natural Born Killers
No Escape
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Twelve
Oh, God! You Devil!
On Deadly Ground
Once Bitten
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Other People's Money
Out of Africa
Pacific Heights
Pale Rider
Passenger 57
Phone Booth
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Planet of the Apes
Pleasantville
Pocahontas
Poetic Justice
Pokemon: The First Movie
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
Postcards from the Edge
Practical Magic
Predator
Presumed Innocent
Private Parts
Purple Rain
Queen of the Damned
Ransom
Red Dawn
Red Heat
Remember the Titans
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Return of the Jedi (Special Edition)
Revenge of the Nerds II
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Rising Sun
Road to Perdition
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Rocky III
Romeo + Juliet
Rounders
Rumble in the Bronx
Runaway Bride
Rush Hour 2
S.W.A.T.
Scary Movie
School of Rock
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Scream 2
Scrooged
Sea of Love
Shaft
Sharky's Machine
She's All That
Short Circuit
Shrek
Silkwood
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleeping with the Enemy
Sleepwalkers
Sliver
Something's Gotta Give
Space Jam
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Speed
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: Insurrection
Starship Troopers
Staying Alive
Stick
Stigmata
Striking Distance
Supergirl
Superman III
Sweet Home Alabama
SwimFan
Swordfish
Tarzan
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Accused
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Best Man
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Big Hit
The Bone Collector
The Bourne Supremacy
The Butterfly Effect
The Cable Guy
The Cell
The Color Purple
The Craft
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Empire Strikes Back (Re-issue)
The Exorcist III
The Fast and the Furious
The Fly II
The Forgotten
The Game
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Good Son
The Haunting
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Jackal
The Land Before Time
The Last Samurai
The Mask
The Mask of Zorro
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Money Pit
The Musketeer
The Naked Gun
The Naked Gun 2 1/2
The Naked Gun 33 1/3
The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
The Peacemaker
The People Under the Stairs
The Perfect Storm
The Quest
The Recruit
The Relic
The Ring
The River Wild
The Rock
The Rugrats Movie
The Rundown
The Santa Clause 2
The Specialist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Three Musketeers
The Time Machine
The Toy
The Village
The Witches of Eastwick
The World Is Not Enough
The X-Files: Fight the Future
There's Something About Mary
They Live
Three Fugitives
Throw Momma From the Train
Tin Cup
Tommy Boy
Total Recall
Troy
True Lies
Turner & Hooch
Underworld
Unfaithfully Yours
Up Close and Personal
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Van Helsing
Vanilla Sky
Volcano
Waiting to Exhale
Wayne's World 2
We Were Soldiers
What About Bob?
What Lies Beneath
What Women Want
Wild Wild West
Willow
With Honors
Witness
Wolf
X-Men
You Got Served
Young Guns
You've Got Mail



A total of 633 FILMS claimed the top spot between 1982 and 2004.

Interesting figures box Could you do a top-ten production budget total for weekends aswell box, i think last weekend has the record by my shoddy calculations.

I'm pretty sure it was a 2004 weekend, since budgets are getting to be more ridiculous each year.

Last weekend's total was $815.6m

The weekend HP3 opened was around $788m for the top 10 (I'm estimating Raising Helen cost $25m), and that included the massive budgets of Van Jelsing, Troy, and HP3.

The weekend The Village opened, the top 10 were $695m.

The weekend Bourne Supremacy opened, the total was $765m.

These are huge sums; I can't find any weekend prior to 2004 were there were so many $100m+ films playing at the same time.

Last year's weekend 52 (counterpart to this last weekend), the top 10 budgets were $714m.


So ya, it appears last weekend was not only the biggest one, but the first time that the top 10 budgets passed $800m.


Next year, I'm pretty sure a number of weekends will beat that. This time next year, to be exact, will have 2 $150m+ films, Narnia and King Kong, in the top 10, so that's $300m right there.

WOW this thread bombed.


Ok, I admit I'm surprised, especially since most of these charts are not available anywhere on the internet.


But obviously there's a pitiful amount of interest, esp. judging by the low view count.

Since when is 346 views bad considering its more than the total number of WOKJ users?

Doesn't that make you question where those 18,000 view counts for a certain thread came from?


Especially since less than a handful of people participate in it?

Reminds me of when that SM2 Assault Thread mysteriously grew by 2-3,000 view counts within a few hours at night...

Box, this is a good thread and has a lot of very interesting data

But it's so boringggggggggg


There's nothing to talk about.

Anyways, I miss those smaller threads, that concentrate on one specific topic. Sigh, those need to be random though.

Interesting data, and nice work keeping it all together.

I think I finally got why these threads aren't meant for discussion: the're not.

I mean, what the hell is there to say, right?


It's more resource-based.


Problem is, Kj is posting-based, while BOM is more view/lurker based. So tracking threads won't work well here unless you spam the hell out of them with hundreds of news articles anyone could google on their own.

I think a new set of threads is needed. These charts are completely useless if not part of a discussion, and discussion is what is important.

So for the time being, I think it's best to suspend all these kinds of threads (mine, I mean) and think of new thread-creating methods.


Anyone wish to have a discussion on this issue? Any input would be appreciated.


So no more charts until I find a way to make them useful.

well I liek to create threades that question moral values but that obviously does not aply in this forum. I think the best way to start discussion is by asking questions plasing a chart or information can get replies but asking one good Q could get you way more and it could be fun and recourseful 8)

Thanks for that suggestion BJ. There's one thing I've been thinking about.

Remember that series of threads I meant to start "A Series of Fortunate Threads"?


I still think it's a good idea. It'll require essay-type posts (well, initial post at least), and I could feasibly have charts supporting that.

yeah I relpied in two or three you made :wink: they were great 8) the essay tipe threads you made got 20 replies max at BOM so they would get around 30-40 here. "The Series of Fortunate" threads is a great idea, I dont think that they will be massive threads but i think they will be highly recourseful and fun to post in.

Size doesn't matter. I prefer smaller threads with insightful discussion over the tired old scheme of having one thread repeatedly be about the same thing. I'm considering sacking that WOTW thread as well. I really am growing sick of artilce posting, it's the most useless thing imaginable. If we go by the idea of forums being places for discussion, none of that stuff should be a centre point.

The Sm2 Predictions one was fun because there actually was participation (150-200 people actively participated in at least a few predictions), but I'm afraid its success has spawned too many duplicates that have made me grow sick of prediction threads entirely (nm that I thought I could re-invigorate it with SW3...).

I'd actually prefer if others would start the threads, more variety that way.


NOTE: One huge exception: The Incredibles. Oh, it was (and is) a joy to track it, AND, I have not posted asingle useless article in it. It's my best thread ever, bar none. TPOTC Thread was great to, in that it grew spontaneously.

When I make a thread I want it to apeal to a wide audience so I can get the maximum amount of replies and I can be able to understand what everyone's view on something is. Thats how i make my threads. I think that the prediction thread still works for its purpose (predicting) I dont have much of a problem with anything in the forum. Your right about the articles being useless I never read them any way, they shoule be in the movies thread not the box office bash wethers its a WWA thread or not, articles just dont belong in the bash forum. I understand that large threads like the WWA and The prediction thread were desined to organize and keep in tact the forum. Its working. 8) Another problem I noticed is the lack of posting theres usualy a lot of lurking even I do it a lot. So to fix this i think the key thing to fix first is getting articles out of the Bash and asking smart Qs. After that we can star focusing on other ways to get interesting threads that are able to be posted in.

What do you think :?:

I agree with your view on the Incredibles thread you made at BOM its awesome but I am having trouble with taking the time to post at BOM because its getting to the point where posting at BOM seems useless and I feel like my posts are going unread.

So whats next :?:

BTW what do you think of my Sin City prediction thread :?: and why have you not posted a prediction in there yet :x :?: