Week 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 | $24,085,989 | 2,803 | $8,593 | $24,085,989 | 7 | ||
| 2 | (new) | Without a Paddle | $19,157,229 | 2,730 | $7,017 | $19,157,229 | 7 | ||
| 3 | (2) | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | $18,815,585 | -45% | 3,490 | $5,391 | $66,981,760 | 16 | |
| 4 | (1) | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $16,713,013 | -67% | 3,401 | $4,914 | $67,265,624 | 14 | |
| 5 | (17) | Open Water | $15,421,309 | +965% | 2,709 | $5,693 | $18,502,216 | 21 | |
| 6 | (3) | Collateral | $14,123,220 | -39% | 3,029 | $4,663 | $73,688,271 | 21 | |
| 7 | (4) | The Bourne Supremacy | $9,178,490 | -28% | 2,532 | $3,625 | $153,102,730 | 35 | |
| 8 | (7) | The Manchurian Candidate | $5,647,803 | -34% | 1,920 | $2,942 | $56,173,490 | 28 | |
| 9 | (6) | The Village | $5,291,610 | -50% | 2,249 | $2,353 | $108,617,876 | 28 | |
| 10 | (13) | Garden State | $4,576,358 | +105% | 652 | $7,019 | $8,065,807 | 30 | |
| 11 | (5) | Yu-Gi-Oh | $4,489,735 | -63% | 2,411 | $1,862 | $16,758,573 | 14 | |
| 12 | (10) | Spider-Man 2 | $3,489,710 | -34% | 1,343 | $2,598 | $366,241,738 | 58 | |
| 13 | (9) | I, Robot | $3,408,259 | -41% | 1,609 | $2,118 | $139,292,372 | 42 | |
| 14 | (11) | Napoleon Dynamite | $2,972,993 | -7% | 577 | $5,153 | $20,296,701 | 77 | |
| 15 | (8) | Little Black Book | $2,292,741 | -62% | 1,640 | $1,398 | $19,203,247 | 21 | |
| 16 | (new) | Benji: Off the Leash! | $2,142,078 | 877 | $2,443 | $2,171,459 | 7 | ||
| 17 | (14) | The Notebook | $1,262,797 | -36% | 621 | $2,033 | $76,784,282 | 63 | |
| 18 | (15) | Fahrenheit 9/11 | $961,587 | -43% | 446 | $2,156 | $117,126,210 | 65 | |
| 19 | (19) | De-Lovely | $866,764 | -23% | 317 | $2,734 | $11,080,975 | 63 | |
| 20 | (12) | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | $799,247 | -67% | 401 | $1,993 | $17,636,934 | 28 | |
| 21 | (23) | Maria Full of Grace | $681,030 | -9% | 117 | $5,821 | $3,538,522 | 42 | |
| 22 | (18) | Catwoman | $600,671 | -56% | 444 | $1,353 | $39,265,078 | 35 | |
| 23 | (new) | Nicotina | $587,846 | 96 | $6,123 | $587,846 | 7 | ||
| 24 | (22) | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | $565,610 | -25% | 248 | $2,281 | $247,112,921 | 84 | |
| 25 | (16) | A Cinderella Story | $431,758 | -71% | 435 | $993 | $50,411,304 | 42 | |
| 26 | (24) | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | $431,378 | -12% | 283 | $1,524 | $113,153,842 | 70 | |
| 27 | (34) | King Arthur | $397,315 | +33% | 287 | $1,384 | $51,165,291 | 51 | |
| 28 | (25) | Garfield The Movie | $391,667 | -6% | 293 | $1,337 | $74,548,188 | 77 | |
| 29 | (33) | Intimate Strangers | $357,990 | +19% | 75 | $4,773 | $915,207 | 28 | |
| 30 | (29) | NASCAR: The IMAX Experience | $306,807 | -16% | 56 | $5,479 | $17,958,808 | 168 | |
| 31 | (35) | What the #$'! Do We Know | $306,351 | +25% | 37 | $8,280 | $2,287,775 | 203 | |
| 32 | (30) | The Day After Tomorrow | $303,990 | -11% | 233 | $1,305 | $186,081,521 | 91 | |
| 33 | (41) | We Don't Live Here Anymore | $292,049 | +97% | 29 | $10,071 | $440,419 | 14 | |
| 34 | (27) | Before Sunset | $261,566 | -30% | 113 | $2,315 | $4,650,337 | 56 | |
| 35 | (26) | The Door in the Floor | $257,998 | -31% | 112 | $2,304 | $3,257,537 | 44 | |
| 36 | (20) | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | $241,442 | -78% | 322 | $750 | $84,136,909 | 49 | |
| 37 | (31) | The Stepford Wives | $230,980 | -30% | 206 | $1,121 | $59,257,349 | 77 | |
| 38 | (32) | Around the World in 80 Days | $202,936 | -35% | 193 | $1,051 | $23,843,734 | 72 | |
| 39 | (37) | Riding Giants | $202,880 | -8% | 64 | $3,170 | $1,761,126 | 49 | |
| 40 | (40) | The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi | $164,496 | +4% | 55 | $2,991 | $640,655 | 35 | |
| 41 | (38) | A Home at the End of the World | $131,971 | -35% | 51 | $2,588 | $824,242 | 35 | |
| 42 | (36) | The Terminal | $128,917 | -46% | 153 | $843 | $77,073,959 | 70 | |
| 43 | (46) | Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | $111,945 | -9% | 17 | $6,585 | $7,758,253 | 679 | |
| 44 | (42) | Festival Express | $107,246 | -26% | 26 | $4,125 | $570,526 | 35 | |
| 45 | (45) | Saints and Soldiers | $103,248 | -20% | 27 | $3,824 | $436,549 | 21 | |
| 46 | (47) | The Corporation | $92,882 | -18% | 27 | $3,440 | $1,386,922 | 223 | |
| 47 | (51) | Mean Girls | $86,337 | 0% | 79 | $1,093 | $86,005,724 | 119 | |
| 48 | (59) | Code 46 | $82,880 | +44% | 21 | $3,947 | $171,098 | 21 | |
| 49 | (63) | She Hate Me | $73,086 | +104% | 28 | $2,610 | $271,860 | 28 | |
| 50 | (54) | Super Size Me | $71,613 | -9% | 39 | $1,836 | $11,301,710 | 112 | |
| 51 | (new) | Rosenstrasse | $68,787 | 10 | $6,879 | $68,787 | 7 | ||
| 52 | (28) | Thunderbirds | $67,185 | -82% | 168 | $400 | $6,768,055 | 28 | |
| 53 | (new) | Bright Young Things | $66,780 | 3 | $22,260 | $66,780 | 7 | ||
| 54 | (52) | The Story of the Weeping Camel | $61,548 | -27% | 24 | $2,565 | $1,460,306 | 84 | |
| 55 | (64) | Donnie Darko | $54,588 | +73% | 11 | $4,963 | $885,858 | 1,036 | |
| 56 | (49) | Raising Helen | $52,183 | -44% | 65 | $803 | $37,470,673 | 91 | |
| 57 | (60) | Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey | $47,458 | +16% | 8 | $5,932 | $7,250,677 | 686 | |
| 58 | (61) | The Clearing | $45,384 | +12% | 36 | $1,261 | $5,689,938 | 56 | |
| 59 | (new) | Mean Creek | $44,148 | 4 | $11,037 | $44,148 | 7 | ||
| 60 | (53) | Troy | $39,236 | -50% | 77 | $510 | $133,298,577 | 105 | |
| 61 | (44) | The Chronicles of Riddick | $37,456 | -73% | 71 | $528 | $57,712,751 | 77 | |
| 62 | (65) | Ju-On: The Grudge | $36,108 | +18% | 9 | $4,012 | $153,565 | 35 | |
| 63 | (57) | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | $35,386 | -43% | 26 | $1,361 | $1,128,309 | 49 | |
| 64 | (58) | Touch of Pink | $30,325 | -48% | 16 | $1,895 | $449,446 | 42 | |
| 65 | (69) | Man on Fire | $29,641 | +17% | 31 | $956 | $77,901,304 | 126 | |
| 66 | (62) | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | $26,405 | -34% | 8 | $3,301 | $2,300,435 | 147 | |
| 67 | (67) | Grande Seduction, La | $25,032 | -14% | 10 | $2,503 | $9,618,881 | 413 | |
| 68 | (89) | The Best Two Years | $24,954 | +572% | 9 | $2,773 | $963,355 | 189 | |
| 69 | (71) | Facing Window | $18,245 | -15% | 7 | $2,606 | $486,478 | 70 | |
| 70 | (87) | Last Life in the Universe | $16,577 | +209% | 4 | $4,144 | $30,735 | 21 | |
| 71 | (76) | Johnson Family Vacation | $14,075 | -8% | 21 | $670 | $31,197,157 | 142 | |
| 72 | (85) | Ghosts of the Abyss | $10,222 | -2% | 4 | $2,556 | $16,454,800 | 504 | |
| 73 | (66) | Tom Dowd and the Language of Music | $9,550 | -68% | 4 | $2,388 | $39,167 | 14 | |
| 74 | (-) | Bukowski: Born Into This | $7,413 | 4 | $1,853 | $306,114 | 91 | ||
| 75 | (68) | Home on the Range | $7,364 | -73% | 8 | $921 | $50,026,353 | 147 | |
| 76 | (75) | Danny Deckchair | $6,816 | -58% | 4 | $1,704 | $26,781 | 16 | |
| 77 | (82) | Young Black Stallion | $6,660 | -41% | 4 | $1,665 | $6,505,562 | 246 | |
| 78 | (77) | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | $6,067 | -56% | 7 | $867 | $321,100 | 70 | |
| 79 | (80) | Cowards Bend the Knee | $5,570 | -57% | 1 | $5,570 | $22,940 | 14 | |
| 80 | (78) | The Twilight Samurai | $5,420 | -60% | 3 | $1,807 | $495,707 | 126 | |
| 81 | (83) | The Mother | $5,102 | -54% | 6 | $850 | $864,833 | 91 | |
| 82 | (new) | Red Lights | $5,024 | 1 | $5,024 | $5,024 | 7 | ||
| 83 | (74) | Gozu | $4,141 | -77% | 2 | $2,071 | $36,518 | 28 | |
| 84 | (84) | Godzilla: The Original Japanese Version | $3,989 | -63% | 2 | $1,995 | $372,424 | 112 | |
| 85 | (79) | Zhou Yu's Train | $3,099 | -77% | 2 | $1,550 | $91,447 | 56 | |
| 86 | (93) | Father and Son | $2,738 | +16% | 2 | $1,369 | $34,044 | 70 | |
| 87 | (92) | How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass | $2,578 | -4% | 7 | $368 | $364,704 | 91 | |
| 88 | (88) | Love Me If You Dare | $1,970 | -47% | 5 | $394 | $540,615 | 100 | |
| 89 | (-) | The Life of Brian | $1,960 | 1 | $1,960 | $19,989,734 | 9,142 | ||
| 90 | (90) | I'm not Scared | $1,653 | -51% | 5 | $331 | $1,615,006 | 140 | |
| 91 | (94) | A Day Without a Mexican | $1,467 | -2% | 1 | $1,467 | $3,248,086 | 105 | |
| 92 | (86) | The Battle of Algiers | $1,380 | -78% | 1 | $1,380 | $809,926 | 231 | |
| 93 | (98) | Shaolin Soccer | $942 | -18% | 5 | $188 | $488,872 | 147 | |
| 94 | (97) | Strayed | $750 | -35% | 1 | $750 | $464,409 | 105 | |
| 95 | (104) | Valentin | $540 | +251% | 1 | $540 | $275,363 | 112 | |
| 96 | (-) | S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine | $449 | 1 | $449 | $21,678 | 100 | ||
| 97 | (91) | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | $438 | -86% | 8 | $55 | $66,207,920 | 133 | |
| Reporting movies: 97 | $164,848,205 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exorcist: The Beginning | $24,085,989 | 2,803 | $24,085,989 |
| 2 | Without a Paddle | $19,157,229 | 2,730 | $19,157,229 |
| 3 | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | $18,815,585 | 3,490 | $66,981,760 |
| 4 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $16,713,013 | 3,401 | $67,265,624 |
| 5 | Open Water | $15,421,309 | 2,709 | $18,502,216 |
| 6 | Collateral | $14,123,220 | 3,029 | $73,688,271 |
| 7 | The Bourne Supremacy | $9,178,490 | 2,532 | $153,102,730 |
| 8 | The Manchurian Candidate | $5,647,803 | 1,920 | $56,173,490 |
| 9 | The Village | $5,291,610 | 2,249 | $108,617,876 |
| 10 | Garden State | $4,576,358 | 652 | $8,065,807 |
| 11 | Yu-Gi-Oh | $4,489,735 | 2,411 | $16,758,573 |
| 12 | Spider-Man 2 | $3,489,710 | 1,343 | $366,241,738 |
| 13 | I, Robot | $3,408,259 | 1,609 | $139,292,372 |
| 14 | Napoleon Dynamite | $2,972,993 | 577 | $20,296,701 |
| 15 | Little Black Book | $2,292,741 | 1,640 | $19,203,247 |
| 16 | Benji: Off the Leash! | $2,142,078 | 877 | $2,171,459 |
| 17 | The Notebook | $1,262,797 | 621 | $76,784,282 |
| 18 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | $961,587 | 446 | $117,126,210 |
| 19 | De-Lovely | $866,764 | 317 | $11,080,975 |
| 20 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | $799,247 | 401 | $17,636,934 |
| 21 | Maria Full of Grace | $681,030 | 117 | $3,538,522 |
| 22 | Catwoman | $600,671 | 444 | $39,265,078 |
| 23 | Nicotina | $587,846 | 96 | $587,846 |
| 24 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | $565,610 | 248 | $247,112,921 |
| 25 | A Cinderella Story | $431,758 | 435 | $50,411,304 |
| 26 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | $431,378 | 283 | $113,153,842 |
| 27 | King Arthur | $397,315 | 287 | $51,165,291 |
| 28 | Garfield The Movie | $391,667 | 293 | $74,548,188 |
| 29 | Intimate Strangers | $357,990 | 75 | $915,207 |
| 30 | NASCAR: The IMAX Experience | $306,807 | 56 | $17,958,808 |
| 31 | What the #$'! Do We Know | $306,351 | 37 | $2,287,775 |
| 32 | The Day After Tomorrow | $303,990 | 233 | $186,081,521 |
| 33 | We Don't Live Here Anymore | $292,049 | 29 | $440,419 |
| 34 | Before Sunset | $261,566 | 113 | $4,650,337 |
| 35 | The Door in the Floor | $257,998 | 112 | $3,257,537 |
| 36 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | $241,442 | 322 | $84,136,909 |
| 37 | The Stepford Wives | $230,980 | 206 | $59,257,349 |
| 38 | Around the World in 80 Days | $202,936 | 193 | $23,843,734 |
| 39 | Riding Giants | $202,880 | 64 | $1,761,126 |
| 40 | The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi | $164,496 | 55 | $640,655 |
| 41 | A Home at the End of the World | $131,971 | 51 | $824,242 |
| 42 | The Terminal | $128,917 | 153 | $77,073,959 |
| 43 | Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | $111,945 | 17 | $7,758,253 |
| 44 | Festival Express | $107,246 | 26 | $570,526 |
| 45 | Saints and Soldiers | $103,248 | 27 | $436,549 |
| 46 | The Corporation | $92,882 | 27 | $1,386,922 |
| 47 | Mean Girls | $86,337 | 79 | $86,005,724 |
| 48 | Code 46 | $82,880 | 21 | $171,098 |
| 49 | She Hate Me | $73,086 | 28 | $271,860 |
| 50 | Super Size Me | $71,613 | 39 | $11,301,710 |
| 51 | Rosenstrasse | $68,787 | 10 | $68,787 |
| 52 | Thunderbirds | $67,185 | 168 | $6,768,055 |
| 53 | Bright Young Things | $66,780 | 3 | $66,780 |
| 54 | The Story of the Weeping Camel | $61,548 | 24 | $1,460,306 |
| 55 | Donnie Darko | $54,588 | 11 | $885,858 |
| 56 | Raising Helen | $52,183 | 65 | $37,470,673 |
| 57 | Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey | $47,458 | 8 | $7,250,677 |
| 58 | The Clearing | $45,384 | 36 | $5,689,938 |
| 59 | Mean Creek | $44,148 | 4 | $44,148 |
| 60 | Troy | $39,236 | 77 | $133,298,577 |
| 61 | The Chronicles of Riddick | $37,456 | 71 | $57,712,751 |
| 62 | Ju-On: The Grudge | $36,108 | 9 | $153,565 |
| 63 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | $35,386 | 26 | $1,128,309 |
| 64 | Touch of Pink | $30,325 | 16 | $449,446 |
| 65 | Man on Fire | $29,641 | 31 | $77,901,304 |
| 66 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | $26,405 | 8 | $2,300,435 |
| 67 | Grande Seduction, La | $25,032 | 10 | $9,618,881 |
| 68 | The Best Two Years | $24,954 | 9 | $963,355 |
| 69 | Facing Window | $18,245 | 7 | $486,478 |
| 70 | Last Life in the Universe | $16,577 | 4 | $30,735 |
| 71 | Johnson Family Vacation | $14,075 | 21 | $31,197,157 |
| 72 | Ghosts of the Abyss | $10,222 | 4 | $16,454,800 |
| 73 | Tom Dowd and the Language of Music | $9,550 | 4 | $39,167 |
| 74 | Bukowski: Born Into This | $7,413 | 4 | $306,114 |
| 75 | Home on the Range | $7,364 | 8 | $50,026,353 |
| 76 | Danny Deckchair | $6,816 | 4 | $26,781 |
| 77 | Young Black Stallion | $6,660 | 4 | $6,505,562 |
| 78 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | $6,067 | 7 | $321,100 |
| 79 | Cowards Bend the Knee | $5,570 | 1 | $22,940 |
| 80 | The Twilight Samurai | $5,420 | 3 | $495,707 |
| 81 | The Mother | $5,102 | 6 | $864,833 |
| 82 | Red Lights | $5,024 | 1 | $5,024 |
| 83 | Gozu | $4,141 | 2 | $36,518 |
| 84 | Godzilla: The Original Japanese Version | $3,989 | 2 | $372,424 |
| 85 | Zhou Yu's Train | $3,099 | 2 | $91,447 |
| 86 | Father and Son | $2,738 | 2 | $34,044 |
| 87 | How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass | $2,578 | 7 | $364,704 |
| 88 | Love Me If You Dare | $1,970 | 5 | $540,615 |
| 89 | The Life of Brian | $1,960 | 1 | $19,989,734 |
| 90 | I'm not Scared | $1,653 | 5 | $1,615,006 |
| 91 | A Day Without a Mexican | $1,467 | 1 | $3,248,086 |
| 92 | The Battle of Algiers | $1,380 | 1 | $809,926 |
| 93 | Shaolin Soccer | $942 | 5 | $488,872 |
| 94 | Strayed | $750 | 1 | $464,409 |
| 95 | Valentin | $540 | 1 | $275,363 |
| 96 | S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine | $449 | 1 | $21,678 |
| 97 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | $438 | 8 | $66,207,920 |
| Reporting: 97 | $164,848,205 | total | ||