Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1966

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1966
January 1 Walk Don't Run (Wide) $7,500,000
 
January 12 Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
The Plague of the Zombies (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
February 1966
February 2 The Rare Breed (Limited) Universal  
 
February 18 The Silencers (Wide) Sony Pictures $16,318,124
 
February 21 George Axelrod's Lord Love a Duck (Limited) United Artists  
 
February 22 Promise Her Anything (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
February 23 Harper (Wide) $12,000,000
March 1966
March 3 Madame X (Limited) Universal  
 
March 4 The Oscar (Limited) Embassy  
 
March 9 The Heroes of Telemark (Limited) Columbia  
 
March 15 Band of Outsiders (Wide) Rialto Pictures $182,857
 
March 22 Shakespeare Wallah (Limited) Continental Distributing $3,577
 
March 30 The Trouble with Angels (Limited) Columbia  
 
March 31 Frankie and Johnny (Limited)  
April 1966
April 4 The Singing Nun (Wide) $3,700,000
The Group (Limited) United Artists $6,000,000
 
April 6 Rasputin: The Mad Monk (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
The Reptile (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
April 10 Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (Limited) Embassy  
 
April 27 Gunpoint (Limited)  
May 1966
May 2 She Beast (Limited)  
 
May 5 Arabesque (Limited) Universal  
 
May 20 The Psychopath (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
May 25 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (Wide) MGM $21,693,114
 
May 31 A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Limited) Warner Bros.  
June 1966
June 9 The Glass Bottom Boat (Limited) MGM  
 
June 10 Nevada Smith (Wide) Paramount Pictures  
 
June 14 The Naked Prey (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
June 15 Paradise, Hawaiian Style (Wide) $2,500,000
The Endless Summer (Limited) Cinema V $10,233
 
June 17 This Property Is Condemned (Wide)  
 
June 21 The Blue Max (Wide) 20th Century Fox $16,151,612
 
June 22 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (Wide) $33,736,689
The Daydreamer (Limited) Embassy  
 
June 29 Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (Wide) $22,565,634
July 1966
July 1 Incident At Phantom Hill (Limited) Universal  
Modesty Blaise (Limited)  
 
July 8 Wichita (Limited)  
 
July 16 Torn Curtain (Wide) $13,000,000
 
July 20 The Wild Angels (Wide) $15,541,070
 
 
July TBD Doctor Who and the Daleks (Limited) Continental Distributing  
August 1966
August 3 The Man Called Flintstone (Wide)  
A Music Makers: A Man Called Adam (Limited)  
 
August 6 Munster, Go Home! (Limited) Universal  
 
August 10 A Study in Terror (Limited) Columbia  
 
August 24 Alfie (Wide) Paramount Pictures $18,871,300
Fantastic Voyage (Wide) $12,000,000
September 1966
September 7 Blues for Lovers (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
September 14 The Appaloosa (Limited) Universal  
 
September 19 Masculine Feminine (Limited) Rialto Pictures $200,087
 
September 28 The Bible (Wide) 20th Century Fox $34,900,023
October 1966
October 5 Seconds (Limited)  
 
October 10 Hawaii (Wide) MGM $34,562,222
 
October 16 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Wide)  
 
October 17 Georgy Girl (Wide) Sony Pictures $16,873,162
 
October 19 The Fortune Cookie (Limited) $6,000,000
 
October 26 Incubus (Limited)  
 
October 27 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Wide)  
 
 
October TBD Cyborg 2087 (Limited) Future Film Corporation of America  
November 1966
November 2 The Professionals (Wide) Sony Pictures $19,537,346
Fahrenheit 451 (Limited)  
The Talisman (Limited)  
 
November 10 Penelope (Limited) MGM  
 
November 15 Manos: The Hands of Fate (Limited)  
 
November 18 Let’s Kill Uncle (Limited) Universal  
 
November 28 Texas Across The River (Limited) Universal  
December 1966
December 1 Follow Me Boys (Wide) $16,207,116
 
December 9 You’re a Big Boy Now (Limited)  
 
December 12 A Man for All Seasons (Wide) Sony Pictures $28,350,000
 
December 14 Spinout (Limited)  
 
December 20 The Sand Pebbles (Wide) $30,017,647
 
December 21 Grand Prix (Wide) MGM $20,845,016
 
December 22 Funeral in Berlin (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
 
During 1966 A Man and a Woman (Limited) Allied Artists $14,103,362