Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner and the box office is sad. Mad Max Prequel “Mad” This marks the lowest Memorial Day weekend gross in nearly three decades since 1998’s “Casper,” with an estimated $31 million. But traditionally, the holiday weekend is a big day for watching movies: kids are out of school, adults have three days off, and the summer movie season is in full swing.
So it’s a good time to look back at the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time, recorded since 1996. Opened not Memorial Day weekend box office heroes: The Day After Tomorrow grossed more than $85 million when it was released in 2004, but the highest-grossing film of the weekend was Shrek 2.
Interestingly, while the popular “Top Gun: Maverick” tops them all, the list is full of films that were not well received by critics, but opened up even more: “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “ Pearl Harbor” and “Terminator: Survival” both had very impressive opening weekends at the box office, and they’re not all very good movies. The theme is progress. blockbuster Here. What Americans want to see over Memorial Day weekend is what “Furiosa” delivers in spades.
Here’s a list of the 25 highest-grossing Memorial Day box office releases, not adjusted for inflation, as compiled by Box Office Mojo.
- “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022) – $160,514,980
- “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007) – $139,802,190
- “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) – $126,917,373
- “X-Men: The Last Stand” (2006) – $122,861,157
- “The Little Mermaid” (2023) – $118,818,903
- “Fast and Furious 6” (2013) – $117,036,995
- “Aladdin” (2019) – $116,805,962
- “X-Men: Days of Future Past” (2014) – $110,576,604
- “The Hangover Part II” (2011) – $103,426,875
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) – $103,016,812
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – $90,161,880
- “The day after tomorrow” (2004) – $85,807,341
- “Bruce the Mighty” (2003) – $85,734,045
- “X-Men: Apocalypse” (2016) – $79,810,133
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) – $78,476,767
- “Pearl Harbor” (2001) – $75,177,654
- “Mission: Impossible II” (2000) – $70,816,215
- “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” (2009) – $70,052,004
- “Men in Black 3” (2012) – $69,254,717
- “Madagascar” (2005) – $61,012,130
- “Kung Fu Panda 2” (2011) – $60,871,175
- “The Longest Yard” (2005) – $58,613,245
- “A Quiet Place, Part II” (2021) – $57,088,948
- “Mission: Impossible” (1996) – $56,811,602
- “Godzilla” (1998) – $55,726,951
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