| # |
Week ending |
Film |
Box office |
Openings |
|---|
| 1 | 7 January 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $10,942,608 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (#2), Welcome to the Jungle (#4), Cold Mountain (#5) |
| 2 | 14 January 2004 | $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 | $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 | $2,909,223 | The Missing (#2), The Fighting Temptations (#9), The Human Stain (#16) |
| 11 | 17 March 2004 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $4,336,535 | Alien vs. Predator (#2), Wimbledon (#3), You Got Served (#8), Vanity Fair (#14), The Weeping Camel (#20) |
| 41 | 13 October 2004 | $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 | $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 | $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 Heart 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) |
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