Weekend Domestic Box Office December 26, 2003
| Rank | Prev | Title | Daily Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $50,598,104 | -30% | 3,703 | $13,664 | $222,268,708 | 12 | |
| 2 | (new) | Cheaper by the Dozen | $27,557,647 | 3,298 | $8,356 | $35,397,241 | 4 | ||
| 3 | (new) | Cold Mountain | $14,574,213 | 2,163 | $6,738 | $19,079,727 | 4 | ||
| 4 | (3) | Something's Gotta Give | $13,816,638 | +21% | 2,709 | $5,100 | $55,902,582 | 17 | |
| 5 | (new) | Paycheck | $13,462,374 | 2,762 | $4,874 | $18,615,272 | 4 | ||
| 6 | (2) | Mona Lisa Smile | $11,351,439 | -2% | 2,677 | $4,240 | $31,226,270 | 10 | |
| 7 | (new) | Peter Pan | $11,139,495 | 2,813 | $3,960 | $14,627,615 | 4 | ||
| 8 | (4) | The Last Samurai | $8,326,947 | +7% | 2,557 | $3,257 | $74,324,104 | 24 | |
| 9 | (7) | Bad Santa | $4,526,000 | -11% | 1,710 | $2,647 | $50,947,195 | 33 | |
| 10 | (5) | Elf | $3,906,028 | -29% | 2,015 | $1,938 | $164,648,692 | 52 | |
| 11 | (6) | Stuck On You | $3,626,868 | -31% | 2,400 | $1,511 | $24,412,346 | 17 | |
| 12 | (9) | Love Don't Cost a Thing | $2,953,073 | -21% | 1,133 | $2,606 | $16,431,144 | 17 | |
| 13 | (8) | The Haunted Mansion | $2,860,015 | -27% | 1,622 | $1,763 | $64,736,126 | 33 | |
| 14 | (26) | Big Fish | $2,053,733 | +1,147% | 124 | $16,562 | $3,505,172 | 19 | |
| 15 | (42) | House of Sand and Fog | $1,720,438 | +3,675% | 438 | $3,928 | $1,811,537 | 10 | |
| 16 | (10) | Honey | $1,417,310 | -48% | 760 | $1,865 | $26,638,660 | 24 | |
| 17 | (11) | Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat | $1,260,080 | -45% | 1,299 | $970 | $97,011,510 | 38 | |
| 18 | (23) | 21 Grams | $1,223,891 | +372% | 291 | $4,206 | $4,771,830 | 38 | |
| 19 | (12) | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | $1,160,829 | -23% | 751 | $1,546 | $80,688,206 | 45 | |
| 20 | (15) | In America | $1,070,721 | +112% | 325 | $3,295 | $2,992,911 | 33 | |
| 21 | (14) | Love Actually | $828,365 | -28% | 408 | $2,030 | $55,885,240 | 52 | |
| 22 | (new) | Young Black Stallion | $629,999 | 51 | $12,353 | $702,402 | 4 | ||
| 23 | (13) | Gothika | $607,029 | -51% | 406 | $1,495 | $57,455,180 | 38 | |
| 24 | (16) | Brother Bear | $506,627 | +12% | 564 | $898 | $82,108,948 | 66 | |
| 25 | (28) | Calendar Girls | $396,522 | +162% | 42 | $9,441 | $749,028 | 10 | |
| 26 | (22) | Lost in Translation | $370,468 | +41% | 117 | $3,166 | $30,656,612 | 108 | |
| 27 | (18) | Mystic River | $325,183 | +6% | 201 | $1,618 | $53,545,615 | 82 | |
| 28 | (19) | The Cooler | $308,756 | +8% | 77 | $4,010 | $1,195,274 | 33 | |
| 29 | (24) | School of Rock | $258,440 | +8% | 279 | $926 | $79,697,953 | 87 | |
| 30 | (21) | The Matrix Revolutions | $244,279 | -10% | 116 | $2,106 | $137,882,816 | 54 | |
| 31 | (new) | L.O.C. (Kargil) | $223,793 | 58 | $3,859 | $356,768 | 4 | ||
| 32 | (20) | Santa vs. The Snowman | $222,304 | -20% | 46 | $4,833 | $2,466,457 | 418 | |
| 33 | (25) | Radio | $206,820 | +17% | 226 | $915 | $51,422,388 | 66 | |
| 34 | (38) | Les Triplettes de Belleville | $195,707 | +198% | 46 | $4,255 | $636,383 | 33 | |
| 35 | (37) | Girl with a Pearl Earring | $188,756 | +166% | 26 | $7,260 | $457,769 | 17 | |
| 36 | (31) | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | $188,405 | +75% | 336 | $561 | $20,212,511 | 45 | |
| 37 | (30) | Nez Rouge | $185,395 | +59% | 58 | $3,196 | $1,341,321 | 31 | |
| 38 | (39) | Space Station | $182,684 | +207% | 16 | $11,418 | $45,995,271 | 619 | |
| 39 | (50) | Scary Movie 3 | $164,287 | +365% | 195 | $842 | $109,271,669 | 66 | |
| 40 | (17) | The Missing | $134,719 | -68% | 146 | $923 | $25,904,967 | 33 | |
| 41 | (55) | The Statement | $133,271 | +454% | 19 | $7,014 | $249,317 | 17 | |
| 42 | (27) | The Station Agent | $128,341 | -16% | 123 | $1,043 | $4,375,222 | 87 | |
| 43 | (58) | Under the Tuscan Sun | $101,502 | +407% | 158 | $642 | $43,095,548 | 94 | |
| 44 | (new) | The Company | $93,776 | 11 | $8,525 | $128,270 | 4 | ||
| 45 | (36) | The Barbarian Invasions | $87,936 | +13% | 54 | $1,628 | $580,980 | 234 | |
| 46 | (new) | Monster | $86,831 | 4 | $21,708 | $103,599 | 5 | ||
| 47 | (-) | Underworld | $79,478 | 103 | $772 | $51,741,634 | 101 | ||
| 48 | (34) | Runaway Jury | $77,726 | -11% | 107 | $726 | $48,893,761 | 73 | |
| 49 | (33) | Freaky Friday | $73,068 | -23% | 124 | $589 | $110,042,380 | 145 | |
| 50 | (45) | The Fog of War | $58,137 | +40% | 5 | $11,627 | $134,118 | 10 | |
| 51 | (32) | Kal Ho Naa Ho | $52,013 | -45% | 21 | $2,477 | $1,879,848 | 33 | |
| 52 | (29) | Timeline | $49,665 | -63% | 320 | $155 | $19,043,607 | 33 | |
| 53 | (41) | Annie Brocoli dans les fonds marins | $48,638 | +1% | 49 | $993 | $147,776 | 10 | |
| 54 | (49) | Alexandra's Project | $43,523 | +17% | 10 | $4,352 | $104,939 | 10 | |
| 55 | (44) | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | $35,998 | -17% | 48 | $750 | $69,577,340 | 80 | |
| 56 | (-) | Modern Times | $35,809 | 7 | $5,116 | $35,809 | 24,799 | ||
| 57 | (40) | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | $35,264 | -35% | 51 | $691 | $80,213,803 | 73 | |
| 58 | (35) | Blizzard | $31,985 | -62% | 88 | $363 | $385,810 | 17 | |
| 59 | (48) | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | $31,329 | -20% | 59 | $531 | $111,610,328 | 157 | |
| 60 | (51) | Shattered Glass | $24,974 | -27% | 35 | $714 | $2,053,255 | 59 | |
| 61 | (53) | Intolerable Cruelty | $22,724 | -15% | 31 | $733 | $35,254,176 | 80 | |
| 62 | (65) | My Architect | $19,258 | +19% | 3 | $6,419 | $311,518 | 45 | |
| 63 | (43) | Pieces of April | $18,107 | -59% | 25 | $724 | $2,360,184 | 73 | |
| 64 | (56) | Elephant | $18,042 | -24% | 14 | $1,289 | $1,227,000 | 66 | |
| 65 | (76) | Ghosts of the Abyss | $17,474 | +130% | 6 | $2,912 | $15,240,533 | 262 | |
| 66 | (46) | The Human Stain | $12,673 | -69% | 28 | $453 | $5,344,660 | 59 | |
| 67 | (69) | Haunted Castle | $12,000 | -14% | 5 | $2,400 | $7,951,686 | 1,032 | |
| 68 | (52) | The Gospel of John | $11,789 | -60% | 18 | $655 | $3,078,727 | 94 | |
| 69 | (74) | The Bread, My Sweet | $11,583 | +46% | 6 | $1,931 | $985,927 | 402 | |
| 70 | (47) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $11,061 | -73% | 34 | $325 | $305,388,280 | 173 | |
| 71 | (59) | The Hebrew Hammer | $10,369 | -47% | 5 | $2,074 | $47,352 | 10 | |
| 72 | (67) | Pride and Prejudice | $8,692 | -39% | 4 | $2,173 | $126,929 | 24 | |
| 73 | (71) | Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion | $6,103 | -42% | 7 | $872 | $361,400 | 101 | |
| 74 | (79) | Rivers and Tides | $5,893 | -13% | 3 | $1,964 | $2,193,760 | 549 | |
| 75 | (72) | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $4,819 | -49% | 3 | $1,606 | $46,551,112 | 1,893 | |
| 76 | (84) | Dirty Pretty Things | $4,374 | +18% | 8 | $547 | $8,065,864 | 164 | |
| 77 | (83) | City of God | $4,362 | +14% | 4 | $1,091 | $4,782,356 | 346 | |
| 78 | (82) | The Gatekeeper | $3,801 | 0% | 2 | $1,901 | $160,831 | 164 | |
| 79 | (-) | On-Line | $2,812 | 1 | $2,812 | $165,974 | 185 | ||
| 80 | (86) | Yossi & Jagger | $2,532 | -5% | 1 | $2,532 | $187,302 | 96 | |
| 81 | (92) | Bonhoeffer | $2,269 | +48% | 1 | $2,269 | $269,023 | 192 | |
| 82 | (97) | Cirque du Soleil - Journey of Man | $1,604 | +70% | 2 | $802 | $15,600,962 | 1,333 | |
| 83 | (80) | Galapagos | $1,581 | -74% | 2 | $791 | $14,254,017 | 1,522 | |
| 84 | (88) | Party Monster | $1,542 | -29% | 1 | $1,542 | $728,253 | 122 | |
| 85 | (89) | The Butterfly | $1,155 | -39% | 1 | $1,155 | $4,635 | 234 | |
| 86 | (95) | The Secret Lives of Dentists | $1,137 | -13% | 3 | $379 | $3,707,201 | 150 | |
| 87 | (102) | The Flower of Evil | $1,111 | +76% | 1 | $1,111 | $178,349 | 80 | |
| 88 | (81) | Bus 174 | $1,108 | -75% | 1 | $1,108 | $161,445 | 82 | |
| 89 | (107) | The Legend of Johnny Lingo | $1,042 | +108% | 1 | $1,042 | $973,659 | 122 | |
| 90 | (87) | The Singing Detective | $889 | -59% | 3 | $296 | $325,970 | 66 | |
| 91 | (77) | What Alice Found | $849 | -89% | 1 | $849 | $28,190 | 24 | |
| 92 | (-) | American Storytellers | $562 | 1 | $562 | $7,736 | 52 | ||
| 93 | (103) | In My Skin | $500 | -20% | 1 | $500 | $26,835 | 52 | |
| 94 | (-) | Emerald Cowboy | $412 | 1 | $412 | $72,928 | 101 | ||
| 95 | (93) | Northfork | $397 | -74% | 1 | $397 | $1,420,578 | 171 | |
| 96 | (113) | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $350 | -13% | 1 | $350 | $6,954,145 | 1,767 | |
| 97 | (117) | Alien Adventure | $300 | +20% | 1 | $300 | $4,319,534 | 1,354 | |
| 98 | (118) | China: The Panda Adventure | $224 | +1% | 1 | $224 | $3,544,956 | 885 | |
| 99 | (100) | Carnage | $55 | -92% | 1 | $55 | $51,418 | 115 | |
| 100 | (120) | Apollo 13 | $33 | -40% | 1 | $33 | $173,741,513 | 3,104 | |
| Reporting movies: 100 | $186,509,233 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $50,598,104 | 3,703 | $222,268,708 |
| 2 | Cheaper by the Dozen | $27,557,647 | 3,298 | $35,397,241 |
| 3 | Cold Mountain | $14,574,213 | 2,163 | $19,079,727 |
| 4 | Something's Gotta Give | $13,816,638 | 2,709 | $55,902,582 |
| 5 | Paycheck | $13,462,374 | 2,762 | $18,615,272 |
| 6 | Mona Lisa Smile | $11,351,439 | 2,677 | $31,226,270 |
| 7 | Peter Pan | $11,139,495 | 2,813 | $14,627,615 |
| 8 | The Last Samurai | $8,326,947 | 2,557 | $74,324,104 |
| 9 | Bad Santa | $4,526,000 | 1,710 | $50,947,195 |
| 10 | Elf | $3,906,028 | 2,015 | $164,648,692 |
| 11 | Stuck On You | $3,626,868 | 2,400 | $24,412,346 |
| 12 | Love Don't Cost a Thing | $2,953,073 | 1,133 | $16,431,144 |
| 13 | The Haunted Mansion | $2,860,015 | 1,622 | $64,736,126 |
| 14 | Big Fish | $2,053,733 | 124 | $3,505,172 |
| 15 | House of Sand and Fog | $1,720,438 | 438 | $1,811,537 |
| 16 | Honey | $1,417,310 | 760 | $26,638,660 |
| 17 | Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat | $1,260,080 | 1,299 | $97,011,510 |
| 18 | 21 Grams | $1,223,891 | 291 | $4,771,830 |
| 19 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | $1,160,829 | 751 | $80,688,206 |
| 20 | In America | $1,070,721 | 325 | $2,992,911 |
| 21 | Love Actually | $828,365 | 408 | $55,885,240 |
| 22 | Young Black Stallion | $629,999 | 51 | $702,402 |
| 23 | Gothika | $607,029 | 406 | $57,455,180 |
| 24 | Brother Bear | $506,627 | 564 | $82,108,948 |
| 25 | Calendar Girls | $396,522 | 42 | $749,028 |
| 26 | Lost in Translation | $370,468 | 117 | $30,656,612 |
| 27 | Mystic River | $325,183 | 201 | $53,545,615 |
| 28 | The Cooler | $308,756 | 77 | $1,195,274 |
| 29 | School of Rock | $258,440 | 279 | $79,697,953 |
| 30 | The Matrix Revolutions | $244,279 | 116 | $137,882,816 |
| 31 | L.O.C. (Kargil) | $223,793 | 58 | $356,768 |
| 32 | Santa vs. The Snowman | $222,304 | 46 | $2,466,457 |
| 33 | Radio | $206,820 | 226 | $51,422,388 |
| 34 | Les Triplettes de Belleville | $195,707 | 46 | $636,383 |
| 35 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | $188,756 | 26 | $457,769 |
| 36 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | $188,405 | 336 | $20,212,511 |
| 37 | Nez Rouge | $185,395 | 58 | $1,341,321 |
| 38 | Space Station | $182,684 | 16 | $45,995,271 |
| 39 | Scary Movie 3 | $164,287 | 195 | $109,271,669 |
| 40 | The Missing | $134,719 | 146 | $25,904,967 |
| 41 | The Statement | $133,271 | 19 | $249,317 |
| 42 | The Station Agent | $128,341 | 123 | $4,375,222 |
| 43 | Under the Tuscan Sun | $101,502 | 158 | $43,095,548 |
| 44 | The Company | $93,776 | 11 | $128,270 |
| 45 | The Barbarian Invasions | $87,936 | 54 | $580,980 |
| 46 | Monster | $86,831 | 4 | $103,599 |
| 47 | Underworld | $79,478 | 103 | $51,741,634 |
| 48 | Runaway Jury | $77,726 | 107 | $48,893,761 |
| 49 | Freaky Friday | $73,068 | 124 | $110,042,380 |
| 50 | The Fog of War | $58,137 | 5 | $134,118 |
| 51 | Kal Ho Naa Ho | $52,013 | 21 | $1,879,848 |
| 52 | Timeline | $49,665 | 320 | $19,043,607 |
| 53 | Annie Brocoli dans les fonds marins | $48,638 | 49 | $147,776 |
| 54 | Alexandra's Project | $43,523 | 10 | $104,939 |
| 55 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | $35,998 | 48 | $69,577,340 |
| 56 | Modern Times | $35,809 | 7 | $35,809 |
| 57 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | $35,264 | 51 | $80,213,803 |
| 58 | Blizzard | $31,985 | 88 | $385,810 |
| 59 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | $31,329 | 59 | $111,610,328 |
| 60 | Shattered Glass | $24,974 | 35 | $2,053,255 |
| 61 | Intolerable Cruelty | $22,724 | 31 | $35,254,176 |
| 62 | My Architect | $19,258 | 3 | $311,518 |
| 63 | Pieces of April | $18,107 | 25 | $2,360,184 |
| 64 | Elephant | $18,042 | 14 | $1,227,000 |
| 65 | Ghosts of the Abyss | $17,474 | 6 | $15,240,533 |
| 66 | The Human Stain | $12,673 | 28 | $5,344,660 |
| 67 | Haunted Castle | $12,000 | 5 | $7,951,686 |
| 68 | The Gospel of John | $11,789 | 18 | $3,078,727 |
| 69 | The Bread, My Sweet | $11,583 | 6 | $985,927 |
| 70 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $11,061 | 34 | $305,388,280 |
| 71 | The Hebrew Hammer | $10,369 | 5 | $47,352 |
| 72 | Pride and Prejudice | $8,692 | 4 | $126,929 |
| 73 | Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion | $6,103 | 7 | $361,400 |
| 74 | Rivers and Tides | $5,893 | 3 | $2,193,760 |
| 75 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $4,819 | 3 | $46,551,112 |
| 76 | Dirty Pretty Things | $4,374 | 8 | $8,065,864 |
| 77 | City of God | $4,362 | 4 | $4,782,356 |
| 78 | The Gatekeeper | $3,801 | 2 | $160,831 |
| 79 | On-Line | $2,812 | 1 | $165,974 |
| 80 | Yossi & Jagger | $2,532 | 1 | $187,302 |
| 81 | Bonhoeffer | $2,269 | 1 | $269,023 |
| 82 | Cirque du Soleil - Journey of Man | $1,604 | 2 | $15,600,962 |
| 83 | Galapagos | $1,581 | 2 | $14,254,017 |
| 84 | Party Monster | $1,542 | 1 | $728,253 |
| 85 | The Butterfly | $1,155 | 1 | $4,635 |
| 86 | The Secret Lives of Dentists | $1,137 | 3 | $3,707,201 |
| 87 | The Flower of Evil | $1,111 | 1 | $178,349 |
| 88 | Bus 174 | $1,108 | 1 | $161,445 |
| 89 | The Legend of Johnny Lingo | $1,042 | 1 | $973,659 |
| 90 | The Singing Detective | $889 | 3 | $325,970 |
| 91 | What Alice Found | $849 | 1 | $28,190 |
| 92 | American Storytellers | $562 | 1 | $7,736 |
| 93 | In My Skin | $500 | 1 | $26,835 |
| 94 | Emerald Cowboy | $412 | 1 | $72,928 |
| 95 | Northfork | $397 | 1 | $1,420,578 |
| 96 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $350 | 1 | $6,954,145 |
| 97 | Alien Adventure | $300 | 1 | $4,319,534 |
| 98 | China: The Panda Adventure | $224 | 1 | $3,544,956 |
| 99 | Carnage | $55 | 1 | $51,418 |
| 100 | Apollo 13 | $33 | 1 | $173,741,513 |
| Reporting: 100 | $186,509,233 | total | ||