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List of 2016 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekend box office for the year 2016.[1]

# Date Film Gross Note(s)
1 January 3, 2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $90,241,673 Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke Avatar's record ($68.4 million) for the highest third weekend gross of all time.
2 January 10, 2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $42,353,785 Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the first film in history to gross over $800 million at the domestic box office. It became the first film since The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 to top the box office for four consecutive weekends.
3 January 17, 2016 Ride Along 2 $35,243,095
4 January 24, 2016 The Revenant $16,009,718 The Revenant reached #1 on its third weekend in wide release and fifth overall weekend of release.
5 January 31, 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 $41,282,042 Kung Fu Panda 3 broke The Nut Job's record ($19.4 million) for the biggest January opening for an animated film.
6 February 7, 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 $21,242,181 In fourth place, Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the first film in history to gross over $900 million at the domestic box office and became the third film to gross over $2 billion worldwide after Avatar and Titanic.
7 February 14, 2016 Deadpool $132,434,639 Deadpool broke Fifty Shades of Grey's records for biggest preview night in February ($8.2 million) with $12.5 million, biggest Friday opening in February ($30.2 million) with $47.5 million, for highest opening weekend in February ($85.1 million) and four-day President's Day weekend ($93 million) with $152.2 million. It also broke American Sniper's record ($89.3 million) for the highest weekend debut in the winter, The Hangover Part II's records for the highest preview night ($10 million) and the largest worldwide opening for an R-rated film ($177.8 million) with $260.2 million, The Matrix Reloaded's record ($91.7 million) for the highest opening weekend for an R-rated film, 300's record ($70.8 million) for an R-rated comic book adaptation, and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith's record ($108.4 million) for the largest opening weekend for 20th Century Fox. It currently has the highest opening weekend of 2016.
8 February 21, 2016 Deadpool $56,470,167
9 February 28, 2016 Deadpool $31,115,195 Deadpool became the first film of 2016 to top the box office for three consecutive weekends, and the highest grossing R-rated film of 2016.
10 March 6, 2016 Zootopia $75,063,401 Zootopia broke The Lorax's record ($70.2 million) for the biggest March opening for an animated film and Frozen's record ($67.4 million) for the highest wide opening weekend for a Walt Disney Animation Studios film. In third place, Deadpool became the third R-rated film in history to gross over $300 million after The Passion of the Christ and American Sniper.

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2016[2]
Rank Title Studio Domestic gross
1. Deadpool 20th Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment $311,484,061
2. Kung Fu Panda 3 DreamWorks Animation/20th Century Fox $133,879,516
3. Ride Along 2 Universal Pictures $89,504,525
4. Zootopia Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios $75,063,401
5. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi Paramount Pictures $52,516,271
6. How to Be Single Warner Bros./New Line Cinema $43,320,541
7. Dirty Grandpa Lionsgate Films $35,378,025
8. The Boy STX Entertainment $35,143,558
9. The 5th Wave Columbia Pictures $33,639,418
10. Hail, Caesar! Universal Pictures $29,233,595

See also

References

  1. ^ "Weekend Box Office Index, 2016". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ "2016 DOMESTIC GROSSES". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 7, 2016.