Week Domestic Box Office December 19, 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 | $120,199,783 | +134% | 3,703 | $32,460 | $171,670,604 | 9 | |
| 2 | (2) | Something's Gotta Give | $20,072,904 | -9% | 2,677 | $7,498 | $42,085,944 | 14 | |
| 3 | (new) | Mona Lisa Smile | $19,874,831 | 2,677 | $7,424 | $19,874,831 | 7 | ||
| 4 | (3) | The Last Samurai | $14,279,292 | -25% | 2,938 | $4,860 | $65,997,157 | 21 | |
| 5 | (6) | Elf | $11,432,332 | +46% | 2,451 | $4,664 | $160,742,664 | 49 | |
| 6 | (4) | Stuck On You | $9,085,595 | -22% | 3,007 | $3,021 | $20,785,478 | 14 | |
| 7 | (5) | Bad Santa | $8,612,454 | +6% | 2,225 | $3,871 | $46,421,195 | 30 | |
| 8 | (8) | The Haunted Mansion | $7,002,290 | -4% | 2,414 | $2,901 | $61,876,111 | 30 | |
| 9 | (7) | Love Don't Cost a Thing | $6,036,036 | -19% | 1,844 | $3,273 | $13,478,071 | 14 | |
| 10 | (9) | Honey | $4,333,645 | -27% | 1,824 | $2,376 | $25,221,350 | 21 | |
| 11 | (10) | Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat | $4,138,615 | -18% | 2,121 | $1,951 | $95,751,430 | 35 | |
| 12 | (12) | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | $2,505,767 | -22% | 1,050 | $2,386 | $79,527,377 | 42 | |
| 13 | (13) | Love Actually | $2,017,460 | -32% | 902 | $2,237 | $55,056,875 | 49 | |
| 14 | (11) | Gothika | $1,978,876 | -46% | 1,055 | $1,876 | $56,848,151 | 35 | |
| 15 | (24) | Big Fish | $1,053,555 | +226% | 6 | $175,593 | $1,451,439 | 16 | |
| 16 | (22) | In America | $1,005,199 | +158% | 146 | $6,885 | $1,922,190 | 30 | |
| 17 | (17) | Brother Bear | $943,099 | +10% | 724 | $1,303 | $81,602,321 | 63 | |
| 18 | (14) | The Missing | $638,693 | -68% | 605 | $1,056 | $25,770,248 | 30 | |
| 19 | (21) | Santa vs. The Snowman | $579,632 | +39% | 45 | $12,881 | $2,244,153 | 415 | |
| 20 | (19) | Mystic River | $536,734 | -3% | 302 | $1,777 | $53,220,432 | 79 | |
| 21 | (23) | Lost in Translation | $516,784 | +53% | 130 | $3,975 | $30,286,144 | 105 | |
| 22 | (20) | 21 Grams | $498,732 | +7% | 71 | $7,024 | $3,547,939 | 35 | |
| 23 | (47) | The Cooler | $492,834 | +635% | 70 | $7,040 | $886,518 | 30 | |
| 24 | (16) | The Matrix Revolutions | $449,263 | -54% | 272 | $1,652 | $137,638,537 | 51 | |
| 25 | (39) | School of Rock | $409,129 | +266% | 375 | $1,091 | $79,439,513 | 84 | |
| 26 | (new) | Calendar Girls | $352,506 | 24 | $14,688 | $352,506 | 7 | ||
| 27 | (29) | Radio | $311,310 | +57% | 308 | $1,011 | $51,215,568 | 63 | |
| 28 | (25) | The Station Agent | $268,448 | -9% | 176 | $1,525 | $4,246,881 | 84 | |
| 29 | (15) | Timeline | $243,054 | -78% | 620 | $392 | $18,993,942 | 30 | |
| 30 | (27) | Nez Rouge | $228,384 | +5% | 69 | $3,310 | $1,155,926 | 28 | |
| 31 | (26) | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | $227,919 | -16% | 253 | $901 | $20,024,106 | 42 | |
| 32 | (30) | Freaky Friday | $174,810 | -11% | 173 | $1,010 | $109,969,312 | 142 | |
| 33 | (31) | Blizzard | $169,603 | -8% | 136 | $1,247 | $353,825 | 14 | |
| 34 | (50) | The Barbarian Invasions | $137,358 | +134% | 41 | $3,350 | $493,044 | 231 | |
| 35 | (32) | Runaway Jury | $135,055 | -20% | 168 | $804 | $48,816,035 | 70 | |
| 36 | (28) | Kal Ho Naa Ho | $135,000 | -33% | 37 | $3,649 | $1,827,835 | 30 | |
| 37 | (33) | Girl with a Pearl Earring | $134,424 | 0% | 8 | $16,803 | $269,013 | 14 | |
| 38 | (38) | Space Station | $133,413 | +16% | 16 | $8,338 | $45,812,587 | 616 | |
| 39 | (48) | Les Triplettes de Belleville | $114,605 | +75% | 15 | $7,640 | $440,676 | 30 | |
| 40 | (new) | Annie Brocoli dans les fonds marins | $99,138 | 55 | $1,803 | $99,138 | 7 | ||
| 41 | (new) | House of Sand and Fog | $91,099 | 2 | $45,550 | $91,099 | 7 | ||
| 42 | (41) | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | $84,681 | -21% | 113 | $749 | $80,178,539 | 70 | |
| 43 | (40) | Scary Movie 3 | $77,379 | -27% | 121 | $639 | $109,107,382 | 63 | |
| 44 | (new) | The Fog of War | $75,981 | 3 | $25,327 | $75,981 | 7 | ||
| 45 | (35) | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | $75,692 | -39% | 64 | $1,183 | $69,541,342 | 77 | |
| 46 | (37) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $74,900 | -37% | 124 | $604 | $305,377,219 | 170 | |
| 47 | (42) | Pieces of April | $72,612 | -31% | 70 | $1,037 | $2,342,077 | 70 | |
| 48 | (45) | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | $70,672 | -16% | 128 | $552 | $111,578,999 | 154 | |
| 49 | (34) | Shattered Glass | $63,662 | -50% | 62 | $1,027 | $2,028,281 | 56 | |
| 50 | (36) | The Human Stain | $61,693 | -50% | 68 | $907 | $5,331,987 | 56 | |
| 51 | (new) | Alexandra's Project | $61,416 | 10 | $6,142 | $61,416 | 7 | ||
| 52 | (51) | The Statement | $58,425 | +1% | 7 | $8,346 | $116,046 | 14 | |
| 53 | (43) | The Gospel of John | $51,813 | -48% | 43 | $1,205 | $3,066,938 | 91 | |
| 54 | (49) | Elephant | $43,469 | -31% | 33 | $1,317 | $1,208,958 | 63 | |
| 55 | (46) | Intolerable Cruelty | $42,512 | -39% | 59 | $721 | $35,231,452 | 77 | |
| 56 | (52) | Under the Tuscan Sun | $37,641 | -34% | 60 | $627 | $42,994,046 | 91 | |
| 57 | (new) | The Hebrew Hammer | $36,983 | 8 | $4,623 | $36,983 | 7 | ||
| 58 | (63) | My Architect | $29,732 | -14% | 2 | $14,866 | $292,260 | 42 | |
| 59 | (69) | Tupac Resurrection | $29,440 | +59% | 110 | $268 | $7,718,961 | 42 | |
| 60 | (53) | Bubba Ho-Tep | $25,324 | -55% | 17 | $1,490 | $1,154,791 | 98 | |
| 61 | (59) | Pride and Prejudice | $24,677 | -35% | 9 | $2,742 | $118,237 | 21 | |
| 62 | (54) | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | $19,096 | -65% | 56 | $341 | $56,330,657 | 105 | |
| 63 | (68) | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $18,718 | 0% | 4 | $4,680 | $46,546,293 | 1,890 | |
| 64 | (65) | Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion | $18,324 | -41% | 12 | $1,527 | $355,297 | 98 | |
| 65 | (71) | Ghosts of the Abyss | $18,133 | +14% | 8 | $2,267 | $15,223,059 | 259 | |
| 66 | (64) | Haunted Castle | $17,500 | -48% | 7 | $2,500 | $7,939,686 | 1,029 | |
| 67 | (62) | The Fighting Temptations | $16,839 | -51% | 69 | $244 | $30,238,577 | 98 | |
| 68 | (60) | Sylvia | $14,149 | -61% | 24 | $590 | $1,302,242 | 70 | |
| 69 | (87) | What Alice Found | $12,035 | +143% | 3 | $4,012 | $27,341 | 21 | |
| 70 | (77) | The Bread, My Sweet | $11,175 | +6% | 6 | $1,863 | $974,344 | 399 | |
| 71 | (84) | Rivers and Tides | $10,502 | +64% | 7 | $1,500 | $2,187,867 | 546 | |
| 72 | (70) | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | $9,157 | -47% | 8 | $1,145 | $153,859 | 63 | |
| 73 | (67) | Die Mommie Die | $7,697 | -64% | 12 | $641 | $320,092 | 56 | |
| 74 | (73) | City of God | $6,737 | -57% | 6 | $1,123 | $4,777,994 | 343 | |
| 75 | (74) | Dirty Pretty Things | $6,576 | -54% | 11 | $598 | $8,061,490 | 161 | |
| 76 | (82) | Bus 174 | $6,163 | -12% | 5 | $1,233 | $160,337 | 79 | |
| 77 | (78) | Galapagos | $5,834 | -44% | 5 | $1,167 | $14,252,436 | 1,519 | |
| 78 | (79) | Yossi & Jagger | $4,237 | -57% | 1 | $4,237 | $184,770 | 93 | |
| 79 | (76) | The Holy Land | $4,233 | -62% | 3 | $1,411 | $595,087 | 168 | |
| 80 | (72) | Party Monster | $3,795 | -76% | 4 | $949 | $726,711 | 119 | |
| 81 | (-) | The Butterfly | $3,480 | 1 | $3,480 | $3,480 | 231 | ||
| 82 | (81) | The Singing Detective | $3,452 | -55% | 11 | $314 | $325,081 | 63 | |
| 83 | (-) | The Gatekeeper | $2,930 | 2 | $1,465 | $157,030 | 161 | ||
| 84 | (101) | Bonhoeffer | $2,165 | -1% | 2 | $1,083 | $266,754 | 189 | |
| 85 | (-) | Northfork | $1,837 | 1 | $1,837 | $1,420,181 | 168 | ||
| 86 | (95) | The Secret Lives of Dentists | $1,687 | -43% | 2 | $844 | $3,706,064 | 147 | |
| 87 | (103) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | $1,614 | -22% | 1 | $1,614 | $3,421,082 | 10,457 | |
| 88 | (93) | Autumn Spring | $1,149 | -67% | 2 | $575 | $90,644 | 126 | |
| 89 | (44) | The Legend of Johnny Lingo | $1,118 | -99% | 3 | $373 | $972,617 | 119 | |
| 90 | (106) | Cirque du Soleil - Journey of Man | $1,064 | -32% | 2 | $532 | $15,599,358 | 1,330 | |
| 91 | (83) | The Flower of Evil | $1,034 | -85% | 3 | $345 | $177,238 | 77 | |
| 92 | (94) | In My Skin | $1,024 | -66% | 2 | $512 | $26,335 | 49 | |
| 93 | (-) | Girlhood | $937 | 2 | $469 | $28,892 | 56 | ||
| 94 | (104) | Hukkle | $891 | -48% | 1 | $891 | $11,822 | 28 | |
| 95 | (114) | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $700 | -26% | 1 | $700 | $6,953,795 | 1,764 | |
| 96 | (112) | Demonlover | $684 | -35% | 1 | $684 | $227,092 | 98 | |
| 97 | (89) | Gaz Bar Blues | $646 | -84% | 1 | $646 | $884,664 | 112 | |
| 98 | (100) | Nine Dead Gay Guys | $618 | -73% | 1 | $618 | $23,545 | 70 | |
| 99 | (116) | Alien Adventure | $600 | +4% | 1 | $600 | $4,319,234 | 1,351 | |
| 100 | (-) | Divine Intervention | $529 | 1 | $529 | $421,187 | 343 | ||
| 101 | (-) | Venus Boyz | $466 | 1 | $466 | $15,030 | 126 | ||
| 102 | (113) | China: The Panda Adventure | $415 | -59% | 1 | $415 | $3,544,732 | 882 | |
| 103 | (109) | Red Betsy | $348 | -75% | 1 | $348 | $164,520 | 98 | |
| 104 | (120) | Apollo 13 | $71 | -20% | 1 | $71 | $173,741,480 | 3,101 | |
| 105 | (96) | Carnage | $4 | -100% | 2 | $2 | $51,363 | 112 | |
| Reporting movies: 105 | $242,988,727 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $120,199,783 | 3,703 | $171,670,604 |
| 2 | Something's Gotta Give | $20,072,904 | 2,677 | $42,085,944 |
| 3 | Mona Lisa Smile | $19,874,831 | 2,677 | $19,874,831 |
| 4 | The Last Samurai | $14,279,292 | 2,938 | $65,997,157 |
| 5 | Elf | $11,432,332 | 2,451 | $160,742,664 |
| 6 | Stuck On You | $9,085,595 | 3,007 | $20,785,478 |
| 7 | Bad Santa | $8,612,454 | 2,225 | $46,421,195 |
| 8 | The Haunted Mansion | $7,002,290 | 2,414 | $61,876,111 |
| 9 | Love Don't Cost a Thing | $6,036,036 | 1,844 | $13,478,071 |
| 10 | Honey | $4,333,645 | 1,824 | $25,221,350 |
| 11 | Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat | $4,138,615 | 2,121 | $95,751,430 |
| 12 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | $2,505,767 | 1,050 | $79,527,377 |
| 13 | Love Actually | $2,017,460 | 902 | $55,056,875 |
| 14 | Gothika | $1,978,876 | 1,055 | $56,848,151 |
| 15 | Big Fish | $1,053,555 | 6 | $1,451,439 |
| 16 | In America | $1,005,199 | 146 | $1,922,190 |
| 17 | Brother Bear | $943,099 | 724 | $81,602,321 |
| 18 | The Missing | $638,693 | 605 | $25,770,248 |
| 19 | Santa vs. The Snowman | $579,632 | 45 | $2,244,153 |
| 20 | Mystic River | $536,734 | 302 | $53,220,432 |
| 21 | Lost in Translation | $516,784 | 130 | $30,286,144 |
| 22 | 21 Grams | $498,732 | 71 | $3,547,939 |
| 23 | The Cooler | $492,834 | 70 | $886,518 |
| 24 | The Matrix Revolutions | $449,263 | 272 | $137,638,537 |
| 25 | School of Rock | $409,129 | 375 | $79,439,513 |
| 26 | Calendar Girls | $352,506 | 24 | $352,506 |
| 27 | Radio | $311,310 | 308 | $51,215,568 |
| 28 | The Station Agent | $268,448 | 176 | $4,246,881 |
| 29 | Timeline | $243,054 | 620 | $18,993,942 |
| 30 | Nez Rouge | $228,384 | 69 | $1,155,926 |
| 31 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | $227,919 | 253 | $20,024,106 |
| 32 | Freaky Friday | $174,810 | 173 | $109,969,312 |
| 33 | Blizzard | $169,603 | 136 | $353,825 |
| 34 | The Barbarian Invasions | $137,358 | 41 | $493,044 |
| 35 | Runaway Jury | $135,055 | 168 | $48,816,035 |
| 36 | Kal Ho Naa Ho | $135,000 | 37 | $1,827,835 |
| 37 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | $134,424 | 8 | $269,013 |
| 38 | Space Station | $133,413 | 16 | $45,812,587 |
| 39 | Les Triplettes de Belleville | $114,605 | 15 | $440,676 |
| 40 | Annie Brocoli dans les fonds marins | $99,138 | 55 | $99,138 |
| 41 | House of Sand and Fog | $91,099 | 2 | $91,099 |
| 42 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | $84,681 | 113 | $80,178,539 |
| 43 | Scary Movie 3 | $77,379 | 121 | $109,107,382 |
| 44 | The Fog of War | $75,981 | 3 | $75,981 |
| 45 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | $75,692 | 64 | $69,541,342 |
| 46 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $74,900 | 124 | $305,377,219 |
| 47 | Pieces of April | $72,612 | 70 | $2,342,077 |
| 48 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | $70,672 | 128 | $111,578,999 |
| 49 | Shattered Glass | $63,662 | 62 | $2,028,281 |
| 50 | The Human Stain | $61,693 | 68 | $5,331,987 |
| 51 | Alexandra's Project | $61,416 | 10 | $61,416 |
| 52 | The Statement | $58,425 | 7 | $116,046 |
| 53 | The Gospel of John | $51,813 | 43 | $3,066,938 |
| 54 | Elephant | $43,469 | 33 | $1,208,958 |
| 55 | Intolerable Cruelty | $42,512 | 59 | $35,231,452 |
| 56 | Under the Tuscan Sun | $37,641 | 60 | $42,994,046 |
| 57 | The Hebrew Hammer | $36,983 | 8 | $36,983 |
| 58 | My Architect | $29,732 | 2 | $292,260 |
| 59 | Tupac Resurrection | $29,440 | 110 | $7,718,961 |
| 60 | Bubba Ho-Tep | $25,324 | 17 | $1,154,791 |
| 61 | Pride and Prejudice | $24,677 | 9 | $118,237 |
| 62 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | $19,096 | 56 | $56,330,657 |
| 63 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $18,718 | 4 | $46,546,293 |
| 64 | Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion | $18,324 | 12 | $355,297 |
| 65 | Ghosts of the Abyss | $18,133 | 8 | $15,223,059 |
| 66 | Haunted Castle | $17,500 | 7 | $7,939,686 |
| 67 | The Fighting Temptations | $16,839 | 69 | $30,238,577 |
| 68 | Sylvia | $14,149 | 24 | $1,302,242 |
| 69 | What Alice Found | $12,035 | 3 | $27,341 |
| 70 | The Bread, My Sweet | $11,175 | 6 | $974,344 |
| 71 | Rivers and Tides | $10,502 | 7 | $2,187,867 |
| 72 | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | $9,157 | 8 | $153,859 |
| 73 | Die Mommie Die | $7,697 | 12 | $320,092 |
| 74 | City of God | $6,737 | 6 | $4,777,994 |
| 75 | Dirty Pretty Things | $6,576 | 11 | $8,061,490 |
| 76 | Bus 174 | $6,163 | 5 | $160,337 |
| 77 | Galapagos | $5,834 | 5 | $14,252,436 |
| 78 | Yossi & Jagger | $4,237 | 1 | $184,770 |
| 79 | The Holy Land | $4,233 | 3 | $595,087 |
| 80 | Party Monster | $3,795 | 4 | $726,711 |
| 81 | The Butterfly | $3,480 | 1 | $3,480 |
| 82 | The Singing Detective | $3,452 | 11 | $325,081 |
| 83 | The Gatekeeper | $2,930 | 2 | $157,030 |
| 84 | Bonhoeffer | $2,165 | 2 | $266,754 |
| 85 | Northfork | $1,837 | 1 | $1,420,181 |
| 86 | The Secret Lives of Dentists | $1,687 | 2 | $3,706,064 |
| 87 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | $1,614 | 1 | $3,421,082 |
| 88 | Autumn Spring | $1,149 | 2 | $90,644 |
| 89 | The Legend of Johnny Lingo | $1,118 | 3 | $972,617 |
| 90 | Cirque du Soleil - Journey of Man | $1,064 | 2 | $15,599,358 |
| 91 | The Flower of Evil | $1,034 | 3 | $177,238 |
| 92 | In My Skin | $1,024 | 2 | $26,335 |
| 93 | Girlhood | $937 | 2 | $28,892 |
| 94 | Hukkle | $891 | 1 | $11,822 |
| 95 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $700 | 1 | $6,953,795 |
| 96 | Demonlover | $684 | 1 | $227,092 |
| 97 | Gaz Bar Blues | $646 | 1 | $884,664 |
| 98 | Nine Dead Gay Guys | $618 | 1 | $23,545 |
| 99 | Alien Adventure | $600 | 1 | $4,319,234 |
| 100 | Divine Intervention | $529 | 1 | $421,187 |
| 101 | Venus Boyz | $466 | 1 | $15,030 |
| 102 | China: The Panda Adventure | $415 | 1 | $3,544,732 |
| 103 | Red Betsy | $348 | 1 | $164,520 |
| 104 | Apollo 13 | $71 | 1 | $173,741,480 |
| 105 | Carnage | $4 | 2 | $51,363 |
| Reporting: 105 | $242,988,727 | total | ||