Weekend Domestic Box Office August 20, 2004
| Rank | Prev | Title | Daily Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (new) | Exorcist: The Beginning | $18,054,001 | 2,803 | $6,441 | $18,054,001 | 3 | ||
| 2 | (new) | Without a Paddle | $13,528,946 | 2,730 | $4,956 | $13,528,946 | 3 | ||
| 3 | (2) | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | $13,051,560 | -43% | 3,490 | $3,740 | $61,217,735 | 12 | |
| 4 | (1) | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $12,409,624 | -68% | 3,401 | $3,649 | $62,962,235 | 10 | |
| 5 | (17) | Open Water | $11,413,017 | +1,176% | 2,709 | $4,213 | $14,493,924 | 17 | |
| 6 | (3) | Collateral | $10,156,357 | -37% | 3,029 | $3,353 | $69,721,408 | 17 | |
| 7 | (5) | The Bourne Supremacy | $6,469,275 | -25% | 2,532 | $2,555 | $150,393,515 | 31 | |
| 8 | (7) | The Manchurian Candidate | $4,017,560 | -33% | 1,920 | $2,092 | $54,543,247 | 24 | |
| 9 | (6) | The Village | $3,722,806 | -48% | 2,249 | $1,655 | $107,049,072 | 24 | |
| 10 | (4) | Yu-Gi-Oh | $3,245,167 | -66% | 2,411 | $1,346 | $15,514,005 | 10 | |
| 11 | (13) | Garden State | $3,020,555 | +118% | 652 | $4,633 | $6,510,004 | 26 | |
| 12 | (10) | Spider-Man 2 | $2,421,434 | -31% | 1,343 | $1,803 | $365,173,462 | 54 | |
| 13 | (8) | I, Robot | $2,408,877 | -38% | 1,609 | $1,497 | $138,292,990 | 38 | |
| 14 | (11) | Napoleon Dynamite | $1,787,873 | +2% | 577 | $3,099 | $19,111,581 | 73 | |
| 15 | (9) | Little Black Book | $1,517,423 | -60% | 1,640 | $925 | $18,427,929 | 17 | |
| 16 | (new) | Benji: Off the Leash! | $1,512,000 | 877 | $1,724 | $1,541,381 | 3 | ||
| 17 | (14) | The Notebook | $774,126 | -33% | 621 | $1,247 | $76,295,611 | 59 | |
| 18 | (15) | Fahrenheit 9/11 | $596,499 | -41% | 446 | $1,337 | $116,761,122 | 61 | |
| 19 | (19) | De-Lovely | $561,938 | -19% | 317 | $1,773 | $10,776,149 | 59 | |
| 20 | (12) | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | $489,985 | -65% | 401 | $1,222 | $17,327,672 | 24 | |
| 21 | (22) | Maria Full of Grace | $458,426 | -7% | 117 | $3,918 | $3,315,918 | 38 | |
| 22 | (new) | Nicotina | $446,768 | 96 | $4,654 | $446,768 | 3 | ||
| 23 | (21) | Shrek 2 | $422,786 | -26% | 435 | $972 | $436,471,036 | 96 | |
| 24 | (16) | Catwoman | $386,319 | -59% | 444 | $870 | $39,050,726 | 31 | |
| 25 | (23) | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | $353,507 | -22% | 248 | $1,425 | $246,900,818 | 80 | |
| 26 | (24) | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | $282,594 | -8% | 283 | $999 | $113,005,058 | 66 | |
| 27 | (18) | A Cinderella Story | $270,126 | -69% | 435 | $621 | $50,249,672 | 38 | |
| 28 | (31) | Intimate Strangers | $261,307 | +22% | 75 | $3,484 | $818,524 | 24 | |
| 29 | (25) | Garfield The Movie | $248,958 | -3% | 293 | $850 | $74,405,479 | 73 | |
| 30 | (20) | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | $241,442 | -63% | 322 | $750 | $84,136,909 | 45 | |
| 31 | (35) | King Arthur | $235,431 | +37% | 287 | $820 | $51,003,407 | 47 | |
| 32 | (28) | The Day After Tomorrow | $207,237 | -10% | 233 | $889 | $185,984,768 | 87 | |
| 33 | (44) | We Don't Live Here Anymore | $192,472 | +90% | 29 | $6,637 | $340,842 | 10 | |
| 34 | (38) | What the #$'! Do We Know | $184,152 | +31% | 37 | $4,977 | $2,165,576 | 199 | |
| 35 | (26) | The Door in the Floor | $179,571 | -30% | 112 | $1,603 | $3,179,110 | 40 | |
| 36 | (30) | NASCAR: The IMAX Experience | $178,551 | -19% | 56 | $3,188 | $17,830,552 | 164 | |
| 37 | (27) | Before Sunset | $171,309 | -27% | 113 | $1,516 | $4,560,080 | 52 | |
| 38 | (32) | The Stepford Wives | $150,371 | -28% | 206 | $730 | $59,176,740 | 73 | |
| 39 | (33) | Around the World in 80 Days | $134,453 | -29% | 193 | $697 | $23,775,251 | 68 | |
| 40 | (40) | Riding Giants | $128,787 | -2% | 64 | $2,012 | $1,687,033 | 45 | |
| 41 | (42) | Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | $111,945 | -9% | 17 | $6,585 | $7,758,253 | 675 | |
| 42 | (46) | The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi | $108,394 | +11% | 55 | $1,971 | $584,553 | 31 | |
| 43 | (36) | The Terminal | $87,237 | -43% | 153 | $570 | $77,032,279 | 66 | |
| 44 | (41) | A Home at the End of the World | $82,380 | -34% | 51 | $1,615 | $774,651 | 31 | |
| 45 | (29) | Thunderbirds | $67,185 | -70% | 168 | $400 | $6,768,055 | 24 | |
| 46 | (50) | Saints and Soldiers | $63,233 | -14% | 27 | $2,342 | $396,534 | 17 | |
| 47 | (49) | Festival Express | $61,887 | -25% | 26 | $2,380 | $525,167 | 31 | |
| 48 | (59) | Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | $58,029 | +29% | 17 | $3,413 | $237,277 | 17 | |
| 49 | (51) | The Corporation | $56,054 | -13% | 27 | $2,076 | $1,350,094 | 219 | |
| 50 | (53) | Mean Girls | $54,919 | -1% | 79 | $695 | $85,974,306 | 115 | |
| 51 | (62) | Code 46 | $54,385 | +42% | 21 | $2,590 | $142,603 | 17 | |
| 52 | (69) | She Hate Me | $49,594 | +121% | 28 | $1,771 | $248,368 | 24 | |
| 53 | (60) | Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey | $47,458 | +16% | 8 | $5,932 | $7,250,677 | 682 | |
| 54 | (new) | Bright Young Things | $46,926 | 3 | $15,642 | $46,926 | 3 | ||
| 55 | (new) | Rosenstrasse | $45,024 | 10 | $4,502 | $45,024 | 3 | ||
| 56 | (55) | Control Room | $40,060 | -22% | 32 | $1,252 | $2,301,502 | 94 | |
| 57 | (58) | Super Size Me | $39,253 | -18% | 39 | $1,006 | $11,269,350 | 108 | |
| 58 | (56) | Troy | $39,236 | -19% | 77 | $510 | $133,298,577 | 101 | |
| 59 | (45) | The Chronicles of Riddick | $37,456 | -62% | 71 | $528 | $57,712,751 | 73 | |
| 60 | (57) | The Story of the Weeping Camel | $35,412 | -26% | 24 | $1,476 | $1,434,170 | 80 | |
| 61 | (76) | Donnie Darko | $33,626 | +97% | 11 | $3,057 | $864,896 | 1,032 | |
| 62 | (54) | Raising Helen | $33,097 | -39% | 65 | $509 | $37,451,587 | 87 | |
| 63 | (-) | Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War | $31,481 | 7 | $4,497 | $31,481 | 10 | ||
| 64 | (67) | The Clearing | $31,149 | +21% | 36 | $865 | $5,675,703 | 52 | |
| 65 | (new) | Mean Creek | $29,170 | 4 | $7,293 | $29,170 | 3 | ||
| 66 | (79) | Man on Fire | $23,302 | +44% | 31 | $752 | $77,894,965 | 122 | |
| 67 | (61) | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | $21,299 | -45% | 26 | $819 | $1,114,222 | 45 | |
| 68 | (73) | Ju-On: The Grudge | $21,264 | +15% | 9 | $2,363 | $138,721 | 31 | |
| 69 | (63) | Touch of Pink | $20,506 | -43% | 16 | $1,282 | $439,627 | 38 | |
| 70 | (new) | End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | $18,422 | 1 | $18,422 | $18,422 | 3 | ||
| 71 | (72) | Grande Seduction, La | $17,223 | -10% | 10 | $1,722 | $9,611,072 | 409 | |
| 72 | (66) | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | $14,321 | -45% | 8 | $1,790 | $2,288,351 | 143 | |
| 73 | (new) | Bush's Brain | $11,927 | 4 | $2,982 | $11,927 | 3 | ||
| 74 | (81) | Johnson Family Vacation | $11,116 | -5% | 21 | $529 | $31,194,198 | 138 | |
| 75 | (77) | Facing Window | $10,284 | -40% | 7 | $1,469 | $478,517 | 66 | |
| 76 | (104) | The Best Two Years | $10,084 | +411% | 9 | $1,120 | $948,485 | 185 | |
| 77 | (95) | Last Life in the Universe | $9,097 | +182% | 4 | $2,274 | $23,255 | 17 | |
| 78 | (80) | Home on the Range | $7,364 | -54% | 8 | $921 | $50,026,353 | 143 | |
| 79 | (87) | Ghosts of the Abyss | $6,707 | -17% | 4 | $1,677 | $16,451,285 | 500 | |
| 80 | (90) | Cowards Bend the Knee | $5,570 | -21% | 1 | $5,570 | $22,940 | 10 | |
| 81 | (new) | It's Easier for a Camel | $5,281 | 1 | $5,281 | $5,281 | 3 | ||
| 82 | (78) | Tom Dowd and the Language of Music | $5,193 | -69% | 4 | $1,298 | $34,810 | 10 | |
| 83 | (-) | Bukowski: Born Into This | $4,789 | 4 | $1,197 | $303,490 | 87 | ||
| 84 | (83) | Danny Deckchair | $4,420 | -57% | 4 | $1,105 | $24,385 | 12 | |
| 85 | (94) | Young Black Stallion | $4,078 | -28% | 4 | $1,020 | $6,502,980 | 242 | |
| 86 | (84) | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | $4,054 | -56% | 7 | $579 | $319,087 | 66 | |
| 87 | (92) | The Mother | $3,752 | -43% | 6 | $625 | $863,483 | 87 | |
| 88 | (-) | Distant | $3,549 | 1 | $3,549 | $84,525 | 164 | ||
| 89 | (new) | Red Lights | $3,202 | 1 | $3,202 | $3,202 | 3 | ||
| 90 | (82) | Gozu | $2,706 | -74% | 2 | $1,353 | $35,083 | 24 | |
| 91 | (93) | Godzilla: The Original Japanese Version | $2,497 | -61% | 2 | $1,249 | $370,932 | 108 | |
| 92 | (88) | The Twilight Samurai | $2,288 | -71% | 3 | $763 | $492,575 | 122 | |
| 93 | (-) | The Life of Brian | $1,960 | 1 | $1,960 | $19,989,734 | 9,138 | ||
| 94 | (109) | Father and Son | $1,799 | +43% | 2 | $900 | $33,105 | 66 | |
| 95 | (86) | Zhou Yu's Train | $1,757 | -80% | 2 | $879 | $90,105 | 52 | |
| 96 | (107) | How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass | $1,621 | +5% | 7 | $232 | $363,747 | 87 | |
| 97 | (new) | The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg | $1,475 | 1 | $1,475 | $2,668 | 3 | ||
| 98 | (100) | A Day Without a Mexican | $1,423 | -46% | 1 | $1,423 | $3,248,042 | 101 | |
| 99 | (99) | The Battle of Algiers | $1,380 | -50% | 1 | $1,380 | $809,926 | 227 | |
| 100 | (97) | Love Me If You Dare | $1,030 | -64% | 5 | $206 | $539,675 | 96 | |
| 101 | (119) | Shaolin Soccer | $942 | +101% | 5 | $188 | $488,872 | 143 | |
| 102 | (117) | Strayed | $750 | +50% | 1 | $750 | $464,409 | 101 | |
| 103 | (102) | I'm not Scared | $566 | -72% | 5 | $113 | $1,613,919 | 136 | |
| 104 | (121) | Valentin | $540 | +419% | 1 | $540 | $275,363 | 108 | |
| 105 | (-) | S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine | $449 | 1 | $449 | $21,678 | 96 | ||
| 106 | (101) | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | $438 | -80% | 8 | $55 | $66,207,920 | 129 | |
| Reporting movies: 106 | $117,908,605 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exorcist: The Beginning | $18,054,001 | 2,803 | $18,054,001 |
| 2 | Without a Paddle | $13,528,946 | 2,730 | $13,528,946 |
| 3 | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | $13,051,560 | 3,490 | $61,217,735 |
| 4 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $12,409,624 | 3,401 | $62,962,235 |
| 5 | Open Water | $11,413,017 | 2,709 | $14,493,924 |
| 6 | Collateral | $10,156,357 | 3,029 | $69,721,408 |
| 7 | The Bourne Supremacy | $6,469,275 | 2,532 | $150,393,515 |
| 8 | The Manchurian Candidate | $4,017,560 | 1,920 | $54,543,247 |
| 9 | The Village | $3,722,806 | 2,249 | $107,049,072 |
| 10 | Yu-Gi-Oh | $3,245,167 | 2,411 | $15,514,005 |
| 11 | Garden State | $3,020,555 | 652 | $6,510,004 |
| 12 | Spider-Man 2 | $2,421,434 | 1,343 | $365,173,462 |
| 13 | I, Robot | $2,408,877 | 1,609 | $138,292,990 |
| 14 | Napoleon Dynamite | $1,787,873 | 577 | $19,111,581 |
| 15 | Little Black Book | $1,517,423 | 1,640 | $18,427,929 |
| 16 | Benji: Off the Leash! | $1,512,000 | 877 | $1,541,381 |
| 17 | The Notebook | $774,126 | 621 | $76,295,611 |
| 18 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | $596,499 | 446 | $116,761,122 |
| 19 | De-Lovely | $561,938 | 317 | $10,776,149 |
| 20 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | $489,985 | 401 | $17,327,672 |
| 21 | Maria Full of Grace | $458,426 | 117 | $3,315,918 |
| 22 | Nicotina | $446,768 | 96 | $446,768 |
| 23 | Shrek 2 | $422,786 | 435 | $436,471,036 |
| 24 | Catwoman | $386,319 | 444 | $39,050,726 |
| 25 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | $353,507 | 248 | $246,900,818 |
| 26 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | $282,594 | 283 | $113,005,058 |
| 27 | A Cinderella Story | $270,126 | 435 | $50,249,672 |
| 28 | Intimate Strangers | $261,307 | 75 | $818,524 |
| 29 | Garfield The Movie | $248,958 | 293 | $74,405,479 |
| 30 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | $241,442 | 322 | $84,136,909 |
| 31 | King Arthur | $235,431 | 287 | $51,003,407 |
| 32 | The Day After Tomorrow | $207,237 | 233 | $185,984,768 |
| 33 | We Don't Live Here Anymore | $192,472 | 29 | $340,842 |
| 34 | What the #$'! Do We Know | $184,152 | 37 | $2,165,576 |
| 35 | The Door in the Floor | $179,571 | 112 | $3,179,110 |
| 36 | NASCAR: The IMAX Experience | $178,551 | 56 | $17,830,552 |
| 37 | Before Sunset | $171,309 | 113 | $4,560,080 |
| 38 | The Stepford Wives | $150,371 | 206 | $59,176,740 |
| 39 | Around the World in 80 Days | $134,453 | 193 | $23,775,251 |
| 40 | Riding Giants | $128,787 | 64 | $1,687,033 |
| 41 | Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | $111,945 | 17 | $7,758,253 |
| 42 | The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi | $108,394 | 55 | $584,553 |
| 43 | The Terminal | $87,237 | 153 | $77,032,279 |
| 44 | A Home at the End of the World | $82,380 | 51 | $774,651 |
| 45 | Thunderbirds | $67,185 | 168 | $6,768,055 |
| 46 | Saints and Soldiers | $63,233 | 27 | $396,534 |
| 47 | Festival Express | $61,887 | 26 | $525,167 |
| 48 | Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | $58,029 | 17 | $237,277 |
| 49 | The Corporation | $56,054 | 27 | $1,350,094 |
| 50 | Mean Girls | $54,919 | 79 | $85,974,306 |
| 51 | Code 46 | $54,385 | 21 | $142,603 |
| 52 | She Hate Me | $49,594 | 28 | $248,368 |
| 53 | Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey | $47,458 | 8 | $7,250,677 |
| 54 | Bright Young Things | $46,926 | 3 | $46,926 |
| 55 | Rosenstrasse | $45,024 | 10 | $45,024 |
| 56 | Control Room | $40,060 | 32 | $2,301,502 |
| 57 | Super Size Me | $39,253 | 39 | $11,269,350 |
| 58 | Troy | $39,236 | 77 | $133,298,577 |
| 59 | The Chronicles of Riddick | $37,456 | 71 | $57,712,751 |
| 60 | The Story of the Weeping Camel | $35,412 | 24 | $1,434,170 |
| 61 | Donnie Darko | $33,626 | 11 | $864,896 |
| 62 | Raising Helen | $33,097 | 65 | $37,451,587 |
| 63 | Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War | $31,481 | 7 | $31,481 |
| 64 | The Clearing | $31,149 | 36 | $5,675,703 |
| 65 | Mean Creek | $29,170 | 4 | $29,170 |
| 66 | Man on Fire | $23,302 | 31 | $77,894,965 |
| 67 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | $21,299 | 26 | $1,114,222 |
| 68 | Ju-On: The Grudge | $21,264 | 9 | $138,721 |
| 69 | Touch of Pink | $20,506 | 16 | $439,627 |
| 70 | End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | $18,422 | 1 | $18,422 |
| 71 | Grande Seduction, La | $17,223 | 10 | $9,611,072 |
| 72 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | $14,321 | 8 | $2,288,351 |
| 73 | Bush's Brain | $11,927 | 4 | $11,927 |
| 74 | Johnson Family Vacation | $11,116 | 21 | $31,194,198 |
| 75 | Facing Window | $10,284 | 7 | $478,517 |
| 76 | The Best Two Years | $10,084 | 9 | $948,485 |
| 77 | Last Life in the Universe | $9,097 | 4 | $23,255 |
| 78 | Home on the Range | $7,364 | 8 | $50,026,353 |
| 79 | Ghosts of the Abyss | $6,707 | 4 | $16,451,285 |
| 80 | Cowards Bend the Knee | $5,570 | 1 | $22,940 |
| 81 | It's Easier for a Camel | $5,281 | 1 | $5,281 |
| 82 | Tom Dowd and the Language of Music | $5,193 | 4 | $34,810 |
| 83 | Bukowski: Born Into This | $4,789 | 4 | $303,490 |
| 84 | Danny Deckchair | $4,420 | 4 | $24,385 |
| 85 | Young Black Stallion | $4,078 | 4 | $6,502,980 |
| 86 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | $4,054 | 7 | $319,087 |
| 87 | The Mother | $3,752 | 6 | $863,483 |
| 88 | Distant | $3,549 | 1 | $84,525 |
| 89 | Red Lights | $3,202 | 1 | $3,202 |
| 90 | Gozu | $2,706 | 2 | $35,083 |
| 91 | Godzilla: The Original Japanese Version | $2,497 | 2 | $370,932 |
| 92 | The Twilight Samurai | $2,288 | 3 | $492,575 |
| 93 | The Life of Brian | $1,960 | 1 | $19,989,734 |
| 94 | Father and Son | $1,799 | 2 | $33,105 |
| 95 | Zhou Yu's Train | $1,757 | 2 | $90,105 |
| 96 | How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass | $1,621 | 7 | $363,747 |
| 97 | The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg | $1,475 | 1 | $2,668 |
| 98 | A Day Without a Mexican | $1,423 | 1 | $3,248,042 |
| 99 | The Battle of Algiers | $1,380 | 1 | $809,926 |
| 100 | Love Me If You Dare | $1,030 | 5 | $539,675 |
| 101 | Shaolin Soccer | $942 | 5 | $488,872 |
| 102 | Strayed | $750 | 1 | $464,409 |
| 103 | I'm not Scared | $566 | 5 | $1,613,919 |
| 104 | Valentin | $540 | 1 | $275,363 |
| 105 | S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine | $449 | 1 | $21,678 |
| 106 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | $438 | 8 | $66,207,920 |
| Reporting: 106 | $117,908,605 | total | ||