| Release Date | Movie | Distributor | Domestic
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| January, 1971 |
| January 1 |
The Andromeda Strain (Wide) |
Universal |
$12,376,563 |
|
|
The Beguiled (Wide) |
Universal |
$1,100,000 |
|
|
The Big Doll House (Wide) |
MGM |
$10,000,000 |
|
|
Billy Jack (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$98,000,000 |
|
|
Carnal Knowledge (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$28,630,731 |
|
|
Fiddler on the Roof (Wide) |
United Artists |
$80,500,000 |
|
|
Klute (Wide) |
|
$12,512,637 |
|
|
Murmur of the Heart (Wide) |
|
$1,200,000 |
|
|
Play Misty for Me (Wide) |
Universal |
$10,600,000 |
|
|
Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song (Wide) |
|
$15,200,000 |
|
|
Willard (Wide) |
|
$14,545,941 |
|
|
Something Big (Limited) |
National General Pictures |
|
|
| |
| During 1971 |
Big Jake (Wide) |
|
$7,500,000 |
|
|
Cold Turkey (Wide) |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
|
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (Wide) |
|
$12,300,000 |
|
|
The Million Dollar Duck (Wide) |
|
$4,000,000 |
|
| |
| January 15 |
Vanishing Point (Limited) |
20th Century Fox |
|
|
| |
| January 24 |
Zachariah (Limited) |
American Cinema Releasing |
|
|
| February, 1971 |
| February 3 |
Doctor’s Wives (Limited) |
Columbia |
|
|
| |
| February 12 |
Raid on Rommel (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
| |
| February 26 |
The 300 Year Weekend (Limited) |
American Cinema Releasing |
|
|
|
Pretty Maids All In A Row (Limited) |
MGM |
|
|
| |
| |
| February TBD |
How to Frame a Figg (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
| April, 1971 |
| April 2 |
The House That Dripped Blood (Limited) |
Cinerama |
|
|
| |
| April 28 |
Bananas (Wide) |
MGM |
|
|
| |
| April 30 |
Summer of '42 (Wide) |
|
$32,063,634 |
|
| May, 1971 |
| May 14 |
Blood and Lace (Limited) |
American International Pictures |
|
|
| |
| May 21 |
The Cat O’Nine Tails (Limited) |
National General Pictures |
|
|
| |
| May 28 |
The Grissom Gang (Limited) |
Cinerama |
|
|
| |
| |
| May TBD |
The Murder of Fred Hampton (Limited) |
MGA |
|
|
| June, 1971 |
| June 9 |
They Might be Giants (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
| |
| June 15 |
Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (Limited) |
National General Pictures |
|
|
| |
| June 17 |
The Anderson Tapes (Limited) |
|
|
|
|
Death in Venice (Limited) |
Warner Bros. |
|
|
|
Horror of Frankenstein (Limited) |
American Continental Films, Inc. |
|
|
| |
| June 23 |
Le Mans (Limited) |
National General Pictures |
|
|
|
Wild Rovers (Limited) |
MGM |
|
|
| |
| June 24 |
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$8,200,000 |
|
|
An Actor’s Revenge (Limited) |
New Yorker |
|
|
| |
| June 28 |
The Hellstrom Chronicle (Wide) |
|
|
|
| |
| June 30 |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Wide) |
|
$4,000,000 |
|
|
Von Richthofen and Brown (Limited) |
United Artists |
|
|
|
What’s the Matter with Helen? (Limited) |
United Artists |
|
|
| July, 1971 |
| July 2 |
Shaft (1971) (Wide) |
MGM |
$12,121,618 |
|
| |
| July 7 |
Two-Lane Blacktop (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
| |
| July 8 |
The Nun (Wide) |
|
$30,245 |
|
| |
| July 13 |
The Panic in Needle Park (Limited) |
20th Century Fox |
|
|
| |
| July 16 |
The Devils (Limited) |
Warner Bros. |
|
|
|
The Hired Hand (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
|
The Hunting Party (Limited) |
|
|
|
|
The Light at the Edge of the World (Limited) |
National General Pictures |
|
|
| August, 1971 |
| August 1 |
The Omega Man (Wide) |
|
|
|
| |
| August 4 |
Night of Dark Shadows (Limited) |
MGM |
|
|
| |
| August 13 |
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Limited) |
Self Distributed |
|
|
| |
| August 27 |
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Limited) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
| September, 1971 |
| September 2 |
Lust for a Vampire (Limited) |
American Continental Films, Inc. |
|
|
|
The Man who Haunted Himself (Limited) |
Levitt-Pickman |
|
|
| |
| September 17 |
Kotch (Limited) |
American Cinema Releasing |
|
|
| |
| September 25 |
Black God, White Devil (Limited) |
|
$7,826 |
|
| |
| |
| September TBD |
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Limited) |
American International Pictures |
|
|
| October, 1971 |
| October 7 |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Wide) |
Walt Disney |
$17,871,174 |
|
| |
| October 8 |
The Last Picture Show (Wide) |
Sony Pictures |
$20,505,085 |
|
| |
| October 9 |
The French Connection (Wide) |
|
$41,158,757 |
|
| |
| October 13 |
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Limited) |
American International Pictures |
|
|
|
Shoot Out (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
| |
| October 20 |
T.R. Baskin (Limited) |
|
|
|
| |
| October 22 |
Les Lèvres Rouges (Limited) |
|
|
|
|
Daughters of Darkness (Limited) |
Gemini-Maron |
|
|
| November, 1971 |
| November 19 |
Werewolves on Wheels (Limited) |
Fanfare Films |
|
|
| |
| November 22 |
King Lear (Limited) |
|
|
|
| |
| November 30 |
Brian’s Song (Limited) |
Columbia |
|
|
| |
| November TBD |
The Christian Licorice Store (Limited) |
National General Pictures |
|
|
| December, 1971 |
| December 1 |
Chandler (Limited) |
MGM |
|
|
| |
| December 13 |
Nicholas and Alexandra (Limited) |
|
|
|
| |
| December 17 |
A Clockwork Orange (Wide) |
|
$26,589,355 |
|
|
Diamonds Are Forever (Wide) |
MGM |
$43,800,000 |
|
|
The Hospital (Wide) |
MGM |
$14,142,409 |
|
| |
| December 20 |
Harold and Maude (Limited) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
|
Macbeth (Limited) |
Columbia |
|
|
| |
| December 22 |
Mary, Queen of Scots (Limited) |
Universal |
|
|
|
Straw Dogs (Limited) |
Cinerama |
|
|
| |
| December 24 |
Dirty Harry (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$28,153,434 |
|
| |
| December 31 |
There’s Always Vanilla (Limited) |
Cambist Films |
|
|
| |
| During 1971 |
Crucible of Horror (Limited) |
Cannon |
|
|
|
The Rover (Limited) |
Cinerama |
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