Biggest 56th Weekend at the Domestic Box Office for Limited Release Movies
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This chart contains figures for the biggest 56th Weekends at the Domestic Box Office for Limited Release Movies.
| Rank | Date | Movie | Gross | Theaters | Per Theater |
Total Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 6, 2004 | Cidade de Deus | $376,999 | 172 | $2,192 | $5,263,822 |
| 2 | Oct 24, 2008 | Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure | $80,089 | 25 | $3,204 | $19,452,434 |
| 3 | Mar 28, 1997 | Fargo | $51,490 | 53 | $972 | $24,475,469 |
| 4 | Jul 5, 1996 | Il Postino | $47,454 | 27 | $1,758 | $20,783,899 |
| 5 | Nov 12, 1999 | Last Night | $9,583 | 4 | $2,396 | $79,039 |
| 6 | Aug 24, 2001 | I'm the One That I Want | $8,601 | 3 | $2,867 | $1,205,606 |
| 7 | Dec 12, 2003 | The Bread, My Sweet | $8,502 | 6 | $1,417 | $961,081 |
| 8 | Oct 21, 2005 | Therese | $8,013 | 7 | $1,145 | $2,603,158 |
| 9 | May 28, 2004 | Les invasions barbares | $7,568 | 13 | $582 | $3,431,404 |
| 10 | Aug 15, 2003 | Kurosawa & Mifune Festival | $7,357 | 4 | $1,839 | $567,630 |
| 11 | Nov 6, 2015 | A Matter of Faith | $5,210 | 3 | $1,737 | $660,659 |
| 12 | Feb 15, 2002 | Forgive Me Father | $4,240 | 5 | $848 | $246,441 |
| 13 | Dec 25, 1998 | Marius et Jeannette | $3,877 | 3 | $1,292 | $283,083 |
| 14 | Dec 15, 2006 | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | $3,145 | 5 | $629 | $1,710,722 |
| 15 | Feb 13, 2009 | U2 3D | $3,062 | 2 | $1,531 | $9,700,227 |
| 16 | Jan 21, 2005 | Postmen in the Mountains | $2,375 | 2 | $1,188 | $135,617 |
| 17 | Mar 28, 2008 | Les Témoins | $1,425 | 2 | $713 | $70,747 |
| 18 | Apr 19, 2002 | Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef | $1,200 | 1 | $1,200 | $2,481,690 |
| 19 | Oct 12, 2001 | Left Luggage | $1,198 | 2 | $599 | $1,065,511 |
| 20 | Nov 23, 2018 | 1945 | $1,168 | 1 | $1,168 | $1,005,471 |
| 21 | Jul 12, 2002 | Life and Debt | $880 | 1 | $880 | $258,708 |
| 22 | Jun 9, 2000 | The Saragossa Manuscript | $857 | 1 | $857 | $109,499 |
| 23 | Sep 22, 2000 | West Beirut | $789 | 1 | $789 | $343,229 |
| 24 | Nov 11, 2005 | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | $650 | 1 | $650 | $381,129 |
| 25 | Oct 7, 2011 | Queen of the Sun | $442 | 1 | $442 | $244,995 |
| 26 | Jun 18, 2010 | Okuribito | $368 | 1 | $368 | $1,542,989 |
| 27 | Apr 4, 2003 | Promises | $360 | 1 | $360 | $214,717 |
| 28 | Jul 18, 2014 | The Pleasures of Being Out of Step | $182 | 1 | $182 | $10,607 |
| 29 | Dec 17, 2010 | L'Argent de poche | $140 | 1 | $140 | $34,536 |
| 30 | Aug 7, 2009 | The Legend of God's Gun | $106 | 1 | $106 | $239,340 |
| 31 | Mar 24, 2017 | Apprentice | $52 | 1 | $52 | $1,678 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
Note: the records on this page only consider movies that were initially released in less than 600 theaters and did not have any expansion of more than 1,000 theaters in one week. We only consider movies that were released in 1995 or later, and do not consider movies that only had an IMAX release.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.