| # |
Week ending |
Film |
Box office |
Openings |
| 1 |
7 January 2004 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2) |
$10,942,608 |
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (#2), Welcome to the Jungle (#4), Cold Mountain (#5) |
| 2 |
14 January 2004 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (3) |
$5,621,451 |
Something's Gotta Give (#2), Cheaper by the Dozen (#4), Honey (#6) |
| 3 |
21 January 2004 |
The Last Samurai |
$4,693,791 |
Veronica Guerin (#14), Step into Liquid (#20) |
| 4 |
28 January 2004 |
Along Came Polly |
$3,710,712 |
Underworld (#3), Torque (#7), 21 Grams (#11), In America (#19) |
| 5 |
4 February 2004 |
Along Came Polly (2) |
$1,930,706 |
Out of Time (#6) |
| 6 |
11 February 2004 |
Big Fish |
$1,620,457 |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (#6), Timeline (#7) |
| 7 |
18 February 2004 |
Stuck on You |
$2,003,532 |
Under the Tuscan Sun (#2), Open Range (#13), House of Sand and Fog (#16) |
| 8 |
25 February 2004 |
Mona Lisa Smile |
$2,768,522 |
The Passion of the Christ preview (#7), One Perfect Day (#8), Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (#11) |
| 9 |
3 March 2004 |
The Passion of the Christ |
$4,187,162 |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (#2) |
| 10 |
10 March 2004 |
The Passion of the Christ (2) |
$2,909,223 |
The Missing (#2), The Fighting Temptations (#9), The Human Stain (#16) |
| 11 |
17 March 2004 |
The Passion of the Christ (3) |
$1,777,244 |
The Butterfly Effect (#2), Girl with a Pearl Earring (#7), House of 1000 Corpses (#10), The Big Bounce (#13), Plots with a View (#15), Thirteen (#19) |
| 12 |
24 March 2004 |
The Butterfly Effect |
$1,240,542 |
Paycheck (#3), Hidalgo (#4), Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (#6) |
| 13 |
31 March 2004 |
50 First Dates |
$3,836,663 |
The Haunted Mansion (#2), Monster (#4), Billabong Odyssey (#17), Capturing the Friedmans (#20) |
| 14 |
7 April 2004 |
50 First Dates (2) |
$3,586,111 |
The Cat in the Hat (#2), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (#3), Love's Brother (#10) |
| 15 |
14 April 2004 |
Starsky & Hutch |
$5,501,958 |
Secret Window (#5), Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (#8), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (#9), The Barbarian Invasions (#13), Tais-toi! (#16), Nathalie... (#20) |
| 16 |
21 April 2004 |
Starsky & Hutch (2) |
$3,359,520 |
Taking Lives (#5), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (#8) |
| 17 |
28 April 2004 |
Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
$4,184,557 |
Strange Bedfellows (#3) |
| 18 |
5 May 2004 |
Gothika |
$2,127,588 |
The Dreamers (#19), To Be and to Have (#20) |
| 19 |
12 May 2004 |
Van Helsing |
$5,804,416 |
Evelyn (#9) |
| 20 |
19 May 2004 |
Troy |
$8,652,345 |
The Triplets of Belleville (#12), The Company (#16), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (#19) |
| 21 |
26 May 2004 |
Troy (2) |
$5,469,578 |
Twisted (#3), Thunderstruck (#4), The Cooler (#10), Wondrous Oblivion (#11) |
| 22 |
2 June 2004 |
The Day After Tomorrow |
$8,481,515 |
Warren Miller's Journey (#14) |
| 23 |
9 June 2004 |
The Day After Tomorrow (2) |
$4,653,338 |
Raising Helen (#3), The Punisher (#4), Super Size Me (#6), Intermission (#9), Twin Sisters (#18), Bon Voyage (#19) |
| 24 |
16 June 2004 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
$16,108,989 |
Dawn of the Dead (#5), Dirty Pretty Things (#9) |
| 25 |
23 June 2004 |
Shrek 2 |
$16,343,420 |
|
| 26 |
30 June 2004 |
Shrek 2 (2) |
$12,437,255 |
Mean Girls (#3), Spider-Man 2 (#4), The Prince and Me (#6), Touching the Void (#9), Club Dread (#18) |
| 27 |
7 July 2004 |
Spider-Man 2 |
$10,508,747 |
New York Minute (#5), The Mother (#14), The Return (#15), Owning Mahowny (#18), Anatomy of Hell (#19) |
| 28 |
14 July 2004 |
Spider-Man 2 (2) |
$6,385,396 |
Godsend (#6), The Whole Ten Yards (#7), The Singing Detective (#19) |
| 29 |
21 July 2004 |
King Arthur |
$4,371,383 |
The Stepford Wives (#3), Spartan (#13), My Life Without Me (#19) |
| 30 |
28 July 2004 |
I, Robot |
$5,848,531 |
Laws of Attraction (#9) |
| 31 |
4 August 2004 |
I, Robot (2) |
$3,220,723 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (#2), The Chronicles of Riddick (#3), Under the Radar (#12) |
| 32 |
11 August 2004 |
Man on Fire |
$2,436,432 |
White Chicks (#2), Connie & Carla (#5), Against the Ropes (#15) |
| 33 |
18 August 2004 |
Man on Fire (2) |
$1,483,836 |
Walking Tall (#2), Jersey Girl (#6), EuroTrip (#11), Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (#15), I'm Not Scared (#18) |
| 34 |
25 August 2004 |
Hellboy |
$1,877,297 |
The Ladykillers (#4), Before Sunset (#11), The Crop (#13), Coffee and Cigarettes (#13), Tom White (#20) |
| 35 |
1 September 2004 |
The Bourne Supremacy |
$6,330,279 |
Around the World in 80 Days (#3), The Girl Next Door (#4), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (#8) |
| 36 |
8 September 2004 |
The Village |
$3,877,730 |
Suddenly 30 (#3), The Corporation (#15), Zatoichi (#17) |
| 37 |
15 September 2004 |
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story |
$3,011,903 |
The Terminal (#3) |
| 38 |
22 September 2004 |
Garfield: The Movie |
$3,189,662 |
Catwoman (#3), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (#6), Thunderbirds (#9), Home on the Range (#10), Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (#11), Somersault (#12), Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (#14) |
| 39 |
29 September 2004 |
Shark Tale |
$5,083,548 |
A Cinderella Story (#5), Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (#9), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (#20) |
| 40 |
6 October 2004 |
Shark Tale (2) |
$4,336,535 |
Alien vs. Predator (#2), Wimbledon (#3), You Got Served (#8), Vanity Fair (#14), The Weeping Camel (#20) |
| 41 |
13 October 2004 |
Shark Tale (3) |
$2,179,930 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (#3), Shaun of the Dead (#7) |
| 42 |
20 October 2004 |
Collateral |
$3,300,341 |
The Notebook (#2), Open Water (#3) |
| 43 |
27 October 2004 |
Shall We Dance? |
$2,977,095 |
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (#3), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (#5) |
| 44 |
3 November 2004 |
Shall We Dance? (2) |
$2,398,622 |
The Manchurian Candidate (#2), Exorcist: The Beginning (#7), Saved! (#10), In My Father's Den (#14) |
| 45 |
10 November 2004 |
Hero |
$2,782,903 |
The Forgotten (#3), De-Lovely (#10), A Man's Gotta Do (#16) |
| 46 |
17 November 2004 |
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason |
$7,252,987 |
Taxi (#2), Veer-Zaara (#15), Napoleon Dynamite (#17), Paparazzi (#19), The Final Cut (#20) |
| 47 |
24 November 2004 |
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2) |
$4,406,598 |
The Grudge (#2), The Polar Express (#3), Without a Paddle (#7) |
| 48 |
1 December 2004 |
National Treasure |
$2,658,761 |
Bad Santa (#4), Garden State (#6), Two Brothers (#12), Stage Beauty (#14), The Clearing (#16) |
| 49 |
8 December 2004 |
Team America: World Police |
$1,836,899 |
Saw (#4), Christmas with the Kranks (#5), Ella Enchanted (#9) |
| 50 |
15 December 2004 |
Ocean's Twelve |
$6,404,839 |
Deep Blue (#12), Wicker Park (#13) |
| 51 |
22 December 2004 |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |
$3,490,552 |
The Motorcycle Diaries (#11), I ♥ Huckabees (#13), Swades: We, the People (#16), Après vous... (#17) |
| 52 |
29 December 2004 |
Meet the Fockers |
$8,764,837 |
The Incredibles (#2), Blade: Trinity (#3), The Phantom of the Opera (#6), A Very Long Engagement (#13) |
