Weekend Domestic Box Office December 31, 2004
| Rank | Prev | Title | Daily Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | Meet the Fockers | $41,741,785 | -9% | 3,524 | $11,845 | $162,461,370 | 12 | |
| 2 | (2) | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | $14,587,219 | +16% | 3,623 | $4,026 | $94,616,745 | 17 | |
| 3 | (4) | The Aviator | $11,364,664 | +32% | 1,796 | $6,328 | $31,541,390 | 17 | |
| 4 | (3) | Fat Albert | $10,176,065 | 2,744 | $3,708 | $33,325,622 | 9 | ||
| 5 | (5) | Ocean's Twelve | $9,433,199 | +12% | 3,290 | $2,867 | $107,006,344 | 24 | |
| 6 | (11) | National Treasure | $6,768,112 | +71% | 2,282 | $2,966 | $154,522,305 | 45 | |
| 7 | (8) | Spanglish | $6,183,965 | +33% | 2,489 | $2,485 | $31,001,588 | 17 | |
| 8 | (6) | The Polar Express | $5,609,096 | -14% | 2,513 | $2,232 | $155,113,919 | 54 | |
| 9 | (10) | The Phantom of the Opera | $4,762,233 | +19% | 622 | $7,656 | $16,178,431 | 12 | |
| 10 | (7) | Darkness | $4,615,762 | 1,718 | $2,687 | $16,626,820 | 9 | ||
| 11 | (9) | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | $4,424,122 | -3% | 1,105 | $4,004 | $14,794,828 | 24 | |
| 12 | (15) | The Incredibles | $4,160,395 | +72% | 1,715 | $2,426 | $251,657,004 | 59 | |
| 13 | (13) | Flight of the Phoenix | $3,050,635 | +14% | 2,373 | $1,286 | $16,720,242 | 17 | |
| 14 | (12) | Blade: Trinity | $3,000,202 | +2% | 2,207 | $1,359 | $48,079,939 | 26 | |
| 15 | (17) | Finding Neverland | $2,590,313 | +90% | 1,054 | $2,458 | $24,676,372 | 52 | |
| 16 | (16) | Closer | $2,231,133 | +32% | 1,094 | $2,039 | $27,460,754 | 31 | |
| 17 | (18) | Sideways | $2,150,398 | +84% | 370 | $5,812 | $22,404,206 | 73 | |
| 18 | (14) | Christmas with the Kranks | $1,637,528 | -37% | 1,825 | $897 | $73,077,009 | 40 | |
| 19 | (39) | Beyond the Sea | $1,340,773 | +3,552% | 383 | $3,501 | $1,917,756 | 17 | |
| 20 | (19) | SpongeBob SquarePants | $1,246,327 | +74% | 1,068 | $1,167 | $81,900,075 | 45 | |
| 21 | (20) | House of Flying Daggers | $741,890 | +12% | 161 | $4,608 | $4,157,199 | 31 | |
| 22 | (21) | A Very Long Engagement | $692,062 | +53% | 167 | $4,144 | $2,653,129 | 38 | |
| 23 | (22) | Kinsey | $531,360 | +60% | 228 | $2,331 | $6,734,321 | 52 | |
| 24 | (24) | Ray | $449,330 | +78% | 343 | $1,310 | $71,611,065 | 66 | |
| 25 | (-) | Shark Tale | $341,261 | 407 | $838 | $160,762,022 | 94 | ||
| 26 | (25) | Bad Education | $282,562 | +16% | 47 | $6,012 | $1,759,188 | 45 | |
| 27 | (26) | Million Dollar Baby | $271,472 | +43% | 9 | $30,164 | $1,044,149 | 19 | |
| 28 | (27) | The Motorcycle Diaries | $189,754 | +49% | 93 | $2,040 | $15,724,900 | 101 | |
| 29 | (29) | Shall We Dance? | $179,234 | +90% | 306 | $586 | $57,149,868 | 80 | |
| 30 | (30) | Ladder 49 | $165,335 | +79% | 255 | $648 | $73,870,841 | 94 | |
| 31 | (new) | In Good Company | $151,750 | 3 | $50,583 | $225,031 | 5 | ||
| 32 | (28) | Hotel Rwanda | $142,378 | +42% | 7 | $20,340 | $426,803 | 12 | |
| 33 | (23) | Swades | $132,726 | -49% | 60 | $2,212 | $1,060,549 | 17 | |
| 34 | (31) | Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason | $131,755 | +96% | 216 | $610 | $39,877,945 | 52 | |
| 35 | (32) | The Woodsman | $83,077 | +54% | 13 | $6,391 | $197,623 | 10 | |
| 36 | (40) | The Work and the Glory | $80,904 | +147% | 19 | $4,258 | $1,160,047 | 40 | |
| 37 | (new) | The Merchant of Venice | $69,868 | 4 | $17,467 | $103,260 | 5 | ||
| 38 | (34) | What the #$'! Do We Know | $68,416 | +51% | 54 | $1,267 | $10,091,903 | 332 | |
| 39 | (33) | Space Station | $63,908 | +34% | 9 | $7,101 | $55,772,078 | 990 | |
| 40 | (42) | After the Sunset | $63,049 | +129% | 146 | $432 | $28,113,925 | 52 | |
| 41 | (38) | Taxi | $62,725 | +69% | 77 | $815 | $36,362,287 | 89 | |
| 42 | (36) | Napoleon Dynamite | $47,898 | +16% | 114 | $420 | $44,411,050 | 206 | |
| 43 | (35) | Being Julia | $47,841 | +14% | 43 | $1,113 | $3,555,620 | 80 | |
| 44 | (37) | Alexander | $47,387 | +15% | 232 | $204 | $34,000,304 | 40 | |
| 45 | (new) | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | $37,547 | 5 | $7,509 | $55,255 | 5 | ||
| 46 | (-) | Haunted Castle | $32,500 | 5 | $6,500 | $10,147,355 | 1,403 | ||
| 47 | (57) | NASCAR: The IMAX Experience | $29,147 | +293% | 18 | $1,619 | $19,558,397 | 297 | |
| 48 | (52) | Without a Paddle | $28,883 | +97% | 25 | $1,155 | $58,107,982 | 136 | |
| 49 | (new) | A Love Song for Bobby Long | $28,243 | 8 | $3,530 | $41,771 | 5 | ||
| 50 | (43) | Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | $27,005 | +9% | 8 | $3,376 | $8,909,046 | 808 | |
| 51 | (47) | I Heart Huckabees | $26,129 | +44% | 43 | $608 | $12,596,975 | 94 | |
| 52 | (50) | Santa vs. The Snowman | $23,209 | +48% | 13 | $1,785 | $5,651,964 | 789 | |
| 53 | (49) | Vera Drake | $22,226 | +31% | 19 | $1,170 | $2,122,643 | 85 | |
| 54 | (46) | The Sea Inside | $18,784 | -5% | 5 | $3,757 | $142,474 | 17 | |
| 55 | (44) | Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey | $18,458 | -13% | 5 | $3,692 | $7,760,025 | 815 | |
| 56 | (51) | In the Realms of the Unreal | $17,167 | +11% | 3 | $5,722 | $70,465 | 10 | |
| 57 | (54) | Team America: World Police | $15,278 | +38% | 41 | $373 | $32,749,828 | 80 | |
| 58 | (48) | Veer-Zaara | $14,246 | -17% | 10 | $1,425 | $2,874,425 | 52 | |
| 59 | (55) | The Machinist | $13,557 | +49% | 26 | $521 | $1,004,511 | 73 | |
| 60 | (56) | Garden State | $10,717 | +28% | 24 | $447 | $26,754,251 | 159 | |
| 61 | (53) | Callas Forever | $10,228 | -29% | 6 | $1,705 | $330,760 | 59 | |
| 62 | (64) | Tarnation | $7,388 | +126% | 7 | $1,055 | $478,112 | 89 | |
| 63 | (70) | Bear Cub | $7,259 | +206% | 4 | $1,815 | $66,096 | 59 | |
| 64 | (82) | Notre Musique | $7,240 | +933% | 3 | $2,413 | $70,282 | 40 | |
| 65 | (69) | Postmen in the Mountains | $7,225 | +197% | 3 | $2,408 | $117,656 | 367 | |
| 66 | (72) | Young Black Stallion | $6,762 | +197% | 4 | $1,691 | $6,614,417 | 375 | |
| 67 | (60) | Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids | $6,300 | +46% | 1 | $6,300 | $55,045 | 26 | |
| 68 | (75) | Ghosts of the Abyss | $6,103 | +222% | 4 | $1,526 | $16,606,161 | 633 | |
| 69 | (59) | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | $6,081 | +31% | 3 | $2,027 | $69,084 | 73 | |
| 70 | (65) | Alfie | $5,322 | +69% | 20 | $266 | $13,386,312 | 59 | |
| 71 | (67) | Lightning in a Bottle | $4,920 | +76% | 6 | $820 | $136,367 | 73 | |
| 72 | (58) | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $4,765 | -29% | 1 | $4,765 | $48,015,450 | 2,264 | |
| 73 | (-) | Alien Adventure | $4,500 | 2 | $2,250 | $4,703,416 | 1,725 | ||
| 74 | (-) | Moolaadé | $4,123 | 2 | $2,062 | $109,790 | 80 | ||
| 75 | (-) | Galapagos | $3,146 | 1 | $3,146 | $13,103,212 | 1,893 | ||
| 76 | (new) | Sky Blue | $3,022 | 1 | $3,022 | $3,022 | 3 | ||
| 77 | (62) | Rosenstrasse | $2,951 | -25% | 4 | $738 | $727,467 | 136 | |
| 78 | (-) | A Tale of Two Sisters | $2,525 | 2 | $1,263 | $35,710 | 31 | ||
| 79 | (66) | Grande Seduction, La | $2,473 | -18% | 3 | $824 | $9,815,328 | 542 | |
| 80 | (61) | Therese | $2,144 | -46% | 7 | $306 | $1,775,292 | 94 | |
| 81 | (-) | Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst | $2,096 | 2 | $1,048 | $72,933 | 38 | ||
| 82 | (76) | Apollo 13 | $1,668 | +22% | 1 | $1,668 | $173,764,249 | 3,475 | |
| 83 | (74) | Red Lights | $1,500 | -21% | 2 | $750 | $634,064 | 136 | |
| 84 | (68) | Almost Peaceful | $1,055 | -61% | 1 | $1,055 | $89,931 | 136 | |
| 85 | (77) | Saints and Soldiers | $955 | +19% | 2 | $478 | $1,141,221 | 150 | |
| 86 | (-) | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $875 | 1 | $875 | $7,033,175 | 2,138 | ||
| 87 | (-) | Untold Scandal | $594 | 2 | $297 | $44,599 | 80 | ||
| 88 | (84) | Fear and Trembling | $551 | +4% | 1 | $551 | $23,965 | 45 | |
| 89 | (87) | Zelary | $524 | +54% | 1 | $524 | $329,723 | 108 | |
| 90 | (-) | Petite Lili, La | $492 | 1 | $492 | $21,983 | 52 | ||
| 91 | (-) | Days of Being Wild | $420 | 1 | $420 | $71,044 | 45 | ||
| 92 | (79) | Birth | $413 | -47% | 5 | $83 | $4,763,525 | 66 | |
| 93 | (-) | A Talking Picture | $387 | 1 | $387 | $10,645 | 24 | ||
| 94 | (-) | Enduring Love | $276 | 1 | $276 | $349,117 | 66 | ||
| 95 | (-) | Deserted Station | $118 | 1 | $118 | $11,837 | 206 | ||
| 96 | (91) | Head in the Clouds | $72 | -41% | 1 | $72 | $398,179 | 108 | |
| Reporting movies: 96 | $146,591,437 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meet the Fockers | $41,741,785 | 3,524 | $162,461,370 |
| 2 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | $14,587,219 | 3,623 | $94,616,745 |
| 3 | The Aviator | $11,364,664 | 1,796 | $31,541,390 |
| 4 | Fat Albert | $10,176,065 | 2,744 | $33,325,622 |
| 5 | Ocean's Twelve | $9,433,199 | 3,290 | $107,006,344 |
| 6 | National Treasure | $6,768,112 | 2,282 | $154,522,305 |
| 7 | Spanglish | $6,183,965 | 2,489 | $31,001,588 |
| 8 | The Polar Express | $5,609,096 | 2,513 | $155,113,919 |
| 9 | The Phantom of the Opera | $4,762,233 | 622 | $16,178,431 |
| 10 | Darkness | $4,615,762 | 1,718 | $16,626,820 |
| 11 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | $4,424,122 | 1,105 | $14,794,828 |
| 12 | The Incredibles | $4,160,395 | 1,715 | $251,657,004 |
| 13 | Flight of the Phoenix | $3,050,635 | 2,373 | $16,720,242 |
| 14 | Blade: Trinity | $3,000,202 | 2,207 | $48,079,939 |
| 15 | Finding Neverland | $2,590,313 | 1,054 | $24,676,372 |
| 16 | Closer | $2,231,133 | 1,094 | $27,460,754 |
| 17 | Sideways | $2,150,398 | 370 | $22,404,206 |
| 18 | Christmas with the Kranks | $1,637,528 | 1,825 | $73,077,009 |
| 19 | Beyond the Sea | $1,340,773 | 383 | $1,917,756 |
| 20 | SpongeBob SquarePants | $1,246,327 | 1,068 | $81,900,075 |
| 21 | House of Flying Daggers | $741,890 | 161 | $4,157,199 |
| 22 | A Very Long Engagement | $692,062 | 167 | $2,653,129 |
| 23 | Kinsey | $531,360 | 228 | $6,734,321 |
| 24 | Ray | $449,330 | 343 | $71,611,065 |
| 25 | Shark Tale | $341,261 | 407 | $160,762,022 |
| 26 | Bad Education | $282,562 | 47 | $1,759,188 |
| 27 | Million Dollar Baby | $271,472 | 9 | $1,044,149 |
| 28 | The Motorcycle Diaries | $189,754 | 93 | $15,724,900 |
| 29 | Shall We Dance? | $179,234 | 306 | $57,149,868 |
| 30 | Ladder 49 | $165,335 | 255 | $73,870,841 |
| 31 | In Good Company | $151,750 | 3 | $225,031 |
| 32 | Hotel Rwanda | $142,378 | 7 | $426,803 |
| 33 | Swades | $132,726 | 60 | $1,060,549 |
| 34 | Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason | $131,755 | 216 | $39,877,945 |
| 35 | The Woodsman | $83,077 | 13 | $197,623 |
| 36 | The Work and the Glory | $80,904 | 19 | $1,160,047 |
| 37 | The Merchant of Venice | $69,868 | 4 | $103,260 |
| 38 | What the #$'! Do We Know | $68,416 | 54 | $10,091,903 |
| 39 | Space Station | $63,908 | 9 | $55,772,078 |
| 40 | After the Sunset | $63,049 | 146 | $28,113,925 |
| 41 | Taxi | $62,725 | 77 | $36,362,287 |
| 42 | Napoleon Dynamite | $47,898 | 114 | $44,411,050 |
| 43 | Being Julia | $47,841 | 43 | $3,555,620 |
| 44 | Alexander | $47,387 | 232 | $34,000,304 |
| 45 | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | $37,547 | 5 | $55,255 |
| 46 | Haunted Castle | $32,500 | 5 | $10,147,355 |
| 47 | NASCAR: The IMAX Experience | $29,147 | 18 | $19,558,397 |
| 48 | Without a Paddle | $28,883 | 25 | $58,107,982 |
| 49 | A Love Song for Bobby Long | $28,243 | 8 | $41,771 |
| 50 | Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | $27,005 | 8 | $8,909,046 |
| 51 | I Heart Huckabees | $26,129 | 43 | $12,596,975 |
| 52 | Santa vs. The Snowman | $23,209 | 13 | $5,651,964 |
| 53 | Vera Drake | $22,226 | 19 | $2,122,643 |
| 54 | The Sea Inside | $18,784 | 5 | $142,474 |
| 55 | Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey | $18,458 | 5 | $7,760,025 |
| 56 | In the Realms of the Unreal | $17,167 | 3 | $70,465 |
| 57 | Team America: World Police | $15,278 | 41 | $32,749,828 |
| 58 | Veer-Zaara | $14,246 | 10 | $2,874,425 |
| 59 | The Machinist | $13,557 | 26 | $1,004,511 |
| 60 | Garden State | $10,717 | 24 | $26,754,251 |
| 61 | Callas Forever | $10,228 | 6 | $330,760 |
| 62 | Tarnation | $7,388 | 7 | $478,112 |
| 63 | Bear Cub | $7,259 | 4 | $66,096 |
| 64 | Notre Musique | $7,240 | 3 | $70,282 |
| 65 | Postmen in the Mountains | $7,225 | 3 | $117,656 |
| 66 | Young Black Stallion | $6,762 | 4 | $6,614,417 |
| 67 | Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids | $6,300 | 1 | $55,045 |
| 68 | Ghosts of the Abyss | $6,103 | 4 | $16,606,161 |
| 69 | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | $6,081 | 3 | $69,084 |
| 70 | Alfie | $5,322 | 20 | $13,386,312 |
| 71 | Lightning in a Bottle | $4,920 | 6 | $136,367 |
| 72 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $4,765 | 1 | $48,015,450 |
| 73 | Alien Adventure | $4,500 | 2 | $4,703,416 |
| 74 | Moolaadé | $4,123 | 2 | $109,790 |
| 75 | Galapagos | $3,146 | 1 | $13,103,212 |
| 76 | Sky Blue | $3,022 | 1 | $3,022 |
| 77 | Rosenstrasse | $2,951 | 4 | $727,467 |
| 78 | A Tale of Two Sisters | $2,525 | 2 | $35,710 |
| 79 | Grande Seduction, La | $2,473 | 3 | $9,815,328 |
| 80 | Therese | $2,144 | 7 | $1,775,292 |
| 81 | Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst | $2,096 | 2 | $72,933 |
| 82 | Apollo 13 | $1,668 | 1 | $173,764,249 |
| 83 | Red Lights | $1,500 | 2 | $634,064 |
| 84 | Almost Peaceful | $1,055 | 1 | $89,931 |
| 85 | Saints and Soldiers | $955 | 2 | $1,141,221 |
| 86 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $875 | 1 | $7,033,175 |
| 87 | Untold Scandal | $594 | 2 | $44,599 |
| 88 | Fear and Trembling | $551 | 1 | $23,965 |
| 89 | Zelary | $524 | 1 | $329,723 |
| 90 | Petite Lili, La | $492 | 1 | $21,983 |
| 91 | Days of Being Wild | $420 | 1 | $71,044 |
| 92 | Birth | $413 | 5 | $4,763,525 |
| 93 | A Talking Picture | $387 | 1 | $10,645 |
| 94 | Enduring Love | $276 | 1 | $349,117 |
| 95 | Deserted Station | $118 | 1 | $11,837 |
| 96 | Head in the Clouds | $72 | 1 | $398,179 |
| Reporting: 96 | $146,591,437 | total | ||