| # |
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 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 became the first two films to win at least four consecutive weekends in a row since Stakeout and Fatal Attraction in 1987. The former also became the first film in history to gross over $800 million at the domestic box office. |
| 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 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. |
| 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 weekend debut in February ($85.1 million) with $132.4 million and four-day President's Day weekend ($93 million) with $152.2 million. It also broke American Sniper's records ($89.3 million) for the highest weekend debut in the winter and for an R-rated film in IMAX ($11.5 million) with $19.5 million. It also broke 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 weekend debut 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11 | March 13, 2016 | Zootopia | $51,339,887 | |
| 12 | March 20, 2016 | Zootopia | $37,164,158 | Zootopia became the first animated film to top the box office for three consecutive weekends, following The Lego Movie in 2014. |
| 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, Avengers: Age of Ultron's record ($400 million) for the highest worldwide opening weekend debut for a comic book film with $420 million, 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. |
| 14 | April 3, 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | $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).[2] |
| 15 | April 10, 2016 | The Boss | $23,586,645 | |
| 16 | April 17, 2016 | The Jungle Book | $103,261,464 | During the week, Zootopia became the tenth animated film to gross over $300 million. |
| 17 | April 24, 2016 | The Jungle Book | $61,538,821 | |
| 18 | May 1, 2016 | The Jungle Book | $43,714,706 | |
| 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. |
| 20 | May 15, 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | $72,637,142 | |
| 21 | May 22, 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | $38,155,177 | |
| 22 | May 29, 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | $65,769,562 | |
| 23 | June 5, 2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | $35,316,382 | |
| 24 | June 12, 2016 | The Conjuring 2 | $40,406,314 | The Conjuring 2's $3.4 million Thursday night gross beat The Conjuring's record for the highest Thursday night gross ($3.3 million) for an R-rated horror film and its weekend gross broke The Purge's record ($34 million) for the highest debut for a horror film released in June. |
| 25 | June 19, 2016 | Finding Dory | $135,060,273 | Finding Dory broke Minions' record ($46 million) for the highest opening day gross for an animated film with $54.7 million, Toy Story 3's record ($110.3 million) for the highest weekend debut for a Pixar animated film and Shrek the Third's record ($121.6 million) for the highest weekend debut for an animated film. |
| 26 | June 26, 2016 | Finding Dory | $72,959,954 | Finding Dory broke Shrek 2's record ($72.1 million) for the highest second weekend for an animated film. |
| 27 | July 3, 2016 | Finding Dory | $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. |
| 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. |
| 29 | July 17, 2016 | The Secret Life of Pets | $50,838,355 | During the week, Finding Dory surpassed Shrek 2 ($441.2 million) as the highest grossing animated film of all time. |
| 30 | July 24, 2016 | Star Trek Beyond | $59,253,211 | |
| 31 | July 31, 2016 | Jason Bourne | $59,215,365 | |
| 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. |
| 33 | August 14, 2016 | Suicide Squad | $43,536,013 | |
| 34 | August 21, 2016 | Suicide Squad | $20,855,401 | |
| 35 | August 28, 2016 | Don't Breathe | $26,411,706 | |
| 36 | September 4, 2016 | Don't Breathe | $15,833,223 | |
| 37 | September 11, 2016 | Sully | $35,028,301 | |
| 38 | September 18, 2016 | Sully | $21,653,017 | |
| 39 | September 25, 2016 | The Magnificent Seven | $34,703,397 | |
| 40 | October 2, 2016 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | $28,871,140 | |
| 41 | October 9, 2016 | The Girl on the Train | $24,536,265 | |
| 42 | October 16, 2016 | The Accountant | $24,710,273 | |
| 43 | October 23, 2016 | Boo! A Madea Halloween | $28,501,448 | |
| 44 | October 30, 2016 | Boo! A Madea Halloween | $17,220,312 | |
| 45 | November 6, 2016 | Doctor Strange | $85,058,311 | |
| 46 | November 13, 2016 | Doctor Strange | $42,970,065 | |
| 47 | November 20, 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them | $74,403,387 | |
| 48 | November 27, 2016 | Moana | $56,631,401 | |
| 49 | December 4, 2016 | Moana | $28,270,989 | |
| 50 | December 11, 2016 | Moana | $18,533,804 | |
| 51 | December 18, 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $155,081,681 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's $29 million Thursday night preview showings gross broke Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's record ($27.7 million) for the highest preview night of 2016 and its weekend debut broke Minions' record ($115.7 million) for the highest debut for a prequel. |
| 52 | December 25, 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $64,033,768 | |
| 53 | January 1, 2017 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $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. |