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

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

Number-one films

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# Weekend end date Film Gross Notes Ref
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 and American Sniper's record ($89.2 million) for the highest weekend gross in January. [2]
2 January 10, 2016 $42,353,785 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the first two films to consecutively top the box office for four consecutive weekends each since Dumb and Dumber and Legends of the Fall in 1994 and 1995. The latter also became the first film in history to gross over $800 million at the domestic box office. [3]
3 January 17, 2016 Ride Along 2 $35,243,095 [4][5]
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. It also became the first film since The Martian to top the box office in its fifth weekend. [6]
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. [7]
6 February 7, 2016 $21,242,181 In third 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. [8]
7 February 14, 2016 Deadpool $132,434,639 Deadpool's $12.5 million Thursday night gross broke The Hangover Part II's record ($10.4 million) for the highest Thursday night gross for an R-rated film. It also broke Fifty Shades of Grey's records ($85.1 million) for the highest weekend debut in February and for the President's Day weekend, American Sniper's record ($89.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for a winter release, The Matrix Reloaded's record ($91.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for an R-rated film, and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith's record ($108.4 million) for the largest opening weekend for 20th Century Fox. [9][10]
8 February 21, 2016 $56,470,167 [11]
9 February 28, 2016 $31,115,195 Deadpool became the first film of 2016 to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. [12]
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. [13]
11 March 13, 2016 $51,339,887 [14]
12 March 20, 2016 $37,164,158 Zootopia and Deadpool became the first two films to win at least three consecutive weekends in a row since Ride Along and The Lego Movie in 2014. The former also became the first animated film since The Lego Movie to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. [15]
13 March 27, 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $166,007,347 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice broke The Hunger Games' records ($152.5 million) for the highest weekend debut in March and for a spring release, Furious 7's record ($147.2 million) for the highest Easter weekend debut, Man of Steel's record ($116.6 million) for the highest opening weekend for a film starring Superman and The Dark Knight Rises' records ($160.8 million) for the highest opening weekend for a film based on a DC Comics property and a film starring Batman. Its $422.5 million worldwide opening weekend broke The Avengers' record ($392.5 million) for the highest worldwide opening weekend debut for a comic book film. [16][17]
14 April 3, 2016 $51,335,254 During the week, Deadpool became the second highest grossing R-rated film of all-time ($355.1 million) behind The Passion of the Christ ($370.7 million). [18][19]
15 April 10, 2016 The Boss $23,586,645 [20]
16 April 17, 2016 The Jungle Book $103,261,464 During the week, Zootopia became the tenth animated film to gross over $300 million. [21]
17 April 24, 2016 $61,538,821 [22]
18 May 1, 2016 $43,714,706 [23]
19 May 8, 2016 Captain America: Civil War $179,139,142 Captain America: Civil War broke Iron Man 3's record ($174.1 million) for the highest weekend debut for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe outside of the Avengers films and Spider-Man 3's record ($151.1 million) for the highest debut for a film featuring Spider-Man. It had the highest weekend debut of 2016. [24]
20 May 15, 2016 $72,637,142 [25]
21 May 22, 2016 The Angry Birds Movie $38,155,177 [26]
22 May 29, 2016 X-Men: Apocalypse $65,769,562 [27][28]
23 June 5, 2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows $35,316,382 [29]
24 June 12, 2016 The Conjuring 2 $40,406,314 [30]
25 June 19, 2016 Finding Dory $135,060,273 Finding Dory's $54.7 million opening day gross broke Minions' record ($46 million) for the highest opening day gross for an animated film. It also broke Toy Story 3's record ($110.3 million) for the highest weekend debut for a Pixar animated film and Shrek the Third's records ($121.6 million) for the highest weekend debut for an animated film and a PG-rated film. [31]
26 June 26, 2016 $72,959,954 Finding Dory broke Shrek 2's record ($72.1 million) for the highest second weekend for an animated film. [32]
27 July 3, 2016 $41,817,176 Finding Dory broke Shrek 2's record ($37.9 million) for the highest third weekend for an animated film and became the fastest animated movie ever to reach $300 million. It also became the first animated film since Zootopia to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. [33][34]
28 July 10, 2016 The Secret Life of Pets $104,352,905 The Secret Life of Pets broke Inside Out's records ($90.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for an original film and for a non-sequel animated film. During the week, Finding Dory became the fifth animated film to gross over $400 million. [35]
29 July 17, 2016 $50,838,355 During the week, Finding Dory surpassed Shrek 2 ($441.2 million) as the highest grossing animated film of all time. [36]
30 July 24, 2016 Star Trek Beyond $59,253,211 [37]
31 July 31, 2016 Jason Bourne $59,215,365 [38]
32 August 7, 2016 Suicide Squad $133,682,248 Suicide Squad broke Guardians of the Galaxy's record ($94.3 million) for the highest weekend debut in August. [39]
33 August 14, 2016 $43,536,013 [40]
34 August 21, 2016 $20,855,401 [41]
35 August 28, 2016 Don't Breathe $26,411,706 [42]
36 September 4, 2016 $15,833,223 [43][44]
37 September 11, 2016 Sully $35,028,301 [45]
38 September 18, 2016 $21,653,017 [46]
39 September 25, 2016 The Magnificent Seven $34,703,397 [47]
40 October 2, 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children $28,871,140 [48]
41 October 9, 2016 The Girl on the Train $24,536,265 [49][50]
42 October 16, 2016 The Accountant $24,710,273 [51]
43 October 23, 2016 Boo! A Madea Halloween $28,501,448 [52]
44 October 30, 2016 $17,220,312 [53]
45 November 6, 2016 Doctor Strange $85,058,311 [54]
46 November 13, 2016 $42,970,065 [55]
47 November 20, 2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them $74,403,387 [56]
48 November 27, 2016 Moana $56,631,401 [57][58][59]
49 December 4, 2016 $28,270,989 [60]
50 December 11, 2016 $18,533,804 [61]
51 December 18, 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $155,081,681 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story broke Minions' record ($115.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for a prequel. [62]
52 December 25, 2016 $64,033,768 [63][64]
53 January 1, 2017 $49,609,002 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Moana became the first two films to top the box office for at least three consecutive weekends in a row since Deadpool and Zootopia. [65][66]

Highest-grossing films

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Calendar Gross

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Highest-grossing films of 2016 by Calendar Gross[67]

Rank Title Distributor(s) Actor(s) Director(s) Gross
1. Finding Dory Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, and Eugene Levy Andrew Stanton $486,295,561
2. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen, and Forest Whitaker Gareth Edwards $408,235,850
3. Captain America: Civil War Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Marisa Tomei, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, Martin Freeman, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl The Russo brothers $408,084,349
4. The Secret Life of Pets Universal Pictures voices of Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan, and Albert Brooks Chris Renaud $368,384,330
5. The Jungle Book Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken Jon Favreau $364,001,123
6. Deadpool 20th Century Fox Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, and Brianna Hildebrand Tim Miller $363,042,311
7. Zootopia Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Tommy Chong, J. K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, and Shakira Byron Howard and Rich Moore $341,268,248
8. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Warner Bros. Pictures Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, and Gal Gadot Zack Snyder $330,360,194
9. Suicide Squad Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, and Cara Delevingne David Ayer $325,100,054
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow J. J. Abrams $283,676,870

In-Year Release

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Highest-grossing films of 2016 by In-year release[68]
Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Disney $532,177,324
2. Finding Dory $486,295,561
3. Captain America: Civil War $408,084,349
4. The Secret Life of Pets Universal $368,384,330
5. The Jungle Book Disney $364,001,123
6. Deadpool Fox $363,070,709
7. Zootopia Disney $341,268,248
8. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Warner Bros. $330,360,194
9. Suicide Squad $325,100,054
10. Sing Universal $270,329,045


Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 2016[69]
G A Beautiful Planet
PG Finding Dory
PG-13 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
R Deadpool

See also

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References

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Chronology

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