Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1993

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1993
January 1 Joshua Tree (Wide)  
 
During 1993 Amongst Friends (Wide) Fine Line $263,601
Bodies, Rest & Motion (Wide) Fine Line $764,083
Bopha! (Wide) Paramount Pictures $212,483
Ed and his Dead Mother (Wide) $673
La Florida (Wide) $1,600,000
A Home of Our Own (Wide) $1,703,282
House of Cards (Wide) $322,871
Mother's Boys (Wide) $874,000
Mr. Nanny (Wide) $4,247,162
The Philadelphia Experiment II (Wide) $2,000
Rescue Me (Wide) $1,000,000
Return of the Living Dead 3 (Wide) $21,000
Ruby Cairo (Wide) $608,000
The Saint of Fort Washington (Wide) $57,115
Son of the Pink Panther (Wide) $2,457,574
Twenty Bucks (Wide) $64,000
 
January 8 Leprechaun (Wide) Trimark $8,556,940
 
January 15 Alive (Wide) Walt Disney $36,299,670
Body of Evidence (Wide) MGM $13,734,039
Nowhere to Run (Wide) Sony Pictures $22,189,039
 
January 22 Aspen Extreme (Wide) Walt Disney $7,843,388
Hexed (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,786,807
Knight Moves (Limited) InterStar Releasing $923,418
 
January 29 Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (Wide) Paramount Pictures $6,953,340
Matinee (Wide) Universal $8,925,775
Nemesis (Wide) $2,001,124
Sniper (Wide) Sony Pictures $18,994,653
February 1993
February 1 Strictly Ballroom (Wide) Miramax $11,738,000
 
February 3 The Cemetery Club (Wide) Walt Disney $5,583,621
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Wide) Walt Disney $41,833,324
 
February 5 Loaded Weapon 1 (Wide) New Line $27,979,399
Sommersby (Wide) Warner Bros. $50,081,992
The Vanishing (Wide) 20th Century Fox $14,543,394
 
February 12 Dead Alive (Wide) Trimark $242,623
Groundhog Day (Wide) Sony Pictures $71,097,843
The Temp (Wide) Paramount Pictures $6,419,876
Untamed Heart (Wide) MGM $18,899,204
 
February 17 Like Water For Chocolate (Limited) Miramax $21,656,534
 
February 19 Army of Darkness (Wide) Universal $11,502,976
 
February 26 El Mariachi (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,040,920
Falling Down (Wide) Warner Bros. $40,903,593
March 1993
March 1 Ethan Frome (Wide) $296,081
 
March 5 Amos & Andrew (Wide) Sony Pictures $9,461,630
Best of the Best 2 (Wide) 20th Century Fox $6,044,652
Mad Dog and Glory (Wide) Universal $10,688,490
Rich in Love (Wide) MGM $1,978,522
Shadow of the Wolf (Wide) Triumph Releasing $1,448,640
Swing Kids (Wide) Walt Disney $5,632,086
 
March 12 CB4 (Wide) Universal $17,642,060
A Far Off Place (Wide) Walt Disney $12,890,752
Fire in the Sky (Wide) Paramount Pictures $19,724,334
Street Knight (Wide) Cannon $507,656
 
March 19 Point of No Return (Wide) Warner Bros. $30,038,362
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (Wide) New Line $42,273,609
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T (Limited)  
 
March 26 Born Yesterday (Wide) Walt Disney $17,760,754
Hear No Evil (Wide) 20th Century Fox $5,270,563
Married To It (Wide) Orion Pictures $1,989,059
Vampire Hunter D (Limited)  
April 1993
April 2 The Adventures of Huck Finn (Wide) Walt Disney $24,103,594
Cop and ½ (Wide) Universal $31,226,971
The Crush (Wide) Warner Bros. $13,609,396
Jack the Bear (Wide) 20th Century Fox $4,796,751
 
April 7 Indecent Proposal (Wide) Paramount Pictures $106,614,059
The Sandlot (Wide) 20th Century Fox $32,416,586
 
April 9 Sidekicks (Wide) Triumph Releasing $17,180,393
This Boy's Life (Wide) Warner Bros. $4,104,962
 
April 16 Benny & Joon (Wide) MGM $23,202,734
Boiling Point (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,058,318
Bound by Honor (Wide) Walt Disney $4,496,583
 
April 23 The Dark Half (Wide) Orion Pictures $9,579,068
Indian Summer (Wide) Walt Disney $14,717,851
Map of the Human Heart (Wide) Miramax $2,806,881
Who's the Man? (Wide) New Line $11,299,730
 
April 30 The Night We Never Met (Wide) Miramax $1,884,814
Splitting Heirs (Wide) Universal $3,246,063
Three of Hearts (Wide) New Line $5,495,507
May 1993
May 7 Dave (Wide) Warner Bros. $63,270,710
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Wide) Universal $35,112,679
Much Ado About Nothing (Limited) Goldwyn Entertainment $22,549,338
 
May 14 Excessive Force (Wide) $1,152,117
Lost in Yonkers (Wide) Sony Pictures $9,285,189
Posse (Wide) Gramercy $18,290,000
 
May 21 Carnosaur (Wide) $1,753,979
Hot Shots! Part Deux (Wide) 20th Century Fox $38,618,836
Sliver (Wide) Paramount Pictures $36,280,867
 
May 26 Menace II Society (Limited) New Line $27,731,527
 
May 28 Cliffhanger (Wide) Sony Pictures $84,049,211
Happily Ever After (Wide) $3,299,382
Made In America (Wide) Warner Bros. $44,942,695
Super Mario Bros. (Wide) Walt Disney $20,844,907
June 1993
June 4 Guilty as Sin (Wide) Walt Disney $22,622,537
Life With Mikey (Wide) Walt Disney $12,349,549
 
June 9 What's Love Got to Do With It (Wide) Walt Disney $39,100,956
Romper Stomper (Limited) $175,340
 
June 11 Jurassic Park (Wide) Universal $415,404,543
 
June 18 Last Action Hero (Wide) Sony Pictures $50,016,394
Once Upon a Forest (Wide) 20th Century Fox $5,274,950
 
June 25 Dennis the Menace (Wide) Warner Bros. $51,270,765
Sleepless in Seattle (Wide) Sony Pictures $126,680,884
 
June 30 The Firm (Wide) Paramount Pictures $158,340,892
July 1993
July 2 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Wide, re-release) Walt Disney $184,925,486
Son in Law (Wide) Walt Disney $25,989,889
 
July 7 Rookie of the Year (Wide) 20th Century Fox $53,579,269
 
July 9 In the Line of Fire (Wide) Sony Pictures $102,243,874
Weekend at Bernie's II (Wide) Sony/TriStar $12,741,891
 
July 16 Free Willy (Wide) Warner Bros. $77,698,625
Hocus Pocus (Wide) Walt Disney $50,737,050
The Thing Called Love (Wide) $1,029,721
Benefit of the Doubt (Limited) Miramax $151,860
 
July 23 Another Stakeout (Wide) Walt Disney $20,107,504
Coneheads (Wide) Paramount Pictures $21,153,686
Poetic Justice (Wide) Sony Pictures $27,450,453
 
July 28 Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Wide) 20th Century Fox $35,699,287
 
July 30 Aladdin (Wide) Walt Disney $217,350,219
Rising Sun (Wide) 20th Century Fox $63,095,271
So I Married an Axe Murderer (Wide) Sony/TriStar $11,585,483
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (Wide) Miramax $3,560,469
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Limited)  
Wishman (Limited) Curb/Esquire Films $898
August 1993
August 1 The Wedding Banquet (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $6,933,000
 
August 3 That Night (Wide) Warner Bros.  
 
August 6 The Fugitive (Wide) Warner Bros. $183,968,665
The Meteor Man (Wide) MGM $8,015,592
My Boyfriend's Back (Wide) Walt Disney $3,218,882
 
August 11 Searching for Bobby Fischer (Wide) Paramount Pictures $7,266,393
 
August 13 Heart and Souls (Wide) Universal $16,479,685
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Wide) New Line $15,935,068
The Secret Garden (Wide) Warner Bros. $31,181,000
 
August 18 Manhattan Murder Mystery (Wide) Sony/TriStar $11,330,911
 
August 20 The Ballad of Little Jo (Wide) Fine Line $514,451
Hard Target (Wide) Universal $31,636,358
Surf Ninjas (Wide) New Line $4,916,135
God is my Witness (Limited) $2,567
 
August 25 The Man Without a Face (Wide) Warner Bros. $24,760,338
 
August 27 Father Hood (Wide) Walt Disney $3,268,203
Needful Things (Wide) Sony Pictures $15,185,672
 
During 1993 Only the Strong (Wide) $3,273,588
September 1993
September 1 King of the Hill (Wide) Gramercy $465,417
 
September 3 Boxing Helena (Wide) Orion Classics $1,699,744
Calendar Girl (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,501,113
Fortress (Wide) Miramax $6,730,578
Kalifornia (Wide) Gramercy $2,395,231
 
September 8 The Joy Luck Club (Limited) Walt Disney $32,790,064
 
September 10 Money for Nothing (Wide) Walt Disney $1,044,824
The Real McCoy (Wide) Universal $6,484,246
True Romance (Wide) Warner Bros. $12,281,000
Undercover Blues (Wide) MGM $12,416,686
Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway (Limited)  
 
September 15 Household Saints (Limited) $38,814
 
September 17 Airborne (Wide) Warner Bros. $2,859,811
Into the West (Wide) Miramax $4,790,801
Striking Distance (Wide) Sony Pictures $23,798,623
The Age of Innocence (Limited) Sony Pictures $32,014,993
Showdown (Limited)  
 
September 23 Jamón Jamón (Limited) Academy Entertainment  
 
September 24 Dazed and Confused (Wide) Universal $8,381,089
The Good Son (Wide) 20th Century Fox $44,456,478
The Program (Wide) Walt Disney $23,042,200
Warlock: The Armageddon (Wide) Trimark $3,902,679
 
September 29 A Bronx Tale (Wide) Savoy $17,239,789
October 1993
October 1 Cool Runnings (Wide) Walt Disney $68,856,263
For Love or Money (Wide) Universal $10,709,430
M. Butterfly (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,498,795
Malice (Wide) Sony Pictures $46,038,636
Mr. Wonderful (Wide) Warner Bros. $3,125,000
Short Cuts (Wide) Fine Line $6,110,979
 
October TBD Ruby in Paradise (Wide) $1,001,437
 
October 8 Demolition Man (Wide) Warner Bros. $58,055,768
Gettysburg (Wide) New Line $10,731,997
Mr. Jones (Wide) Sony Pictures $8,302,752
 
October 13 The Nightmare Before Christmas (Wide) Walt Disney $94,693,927
Rudy (Wide) Sony Pictures $22,750,363
Farewell My Concubine (Limited) Miramax $5,538,649
 
October 15 The Beverly Hillbillies (Wide) 20th Century Fox $42,222,647
Fearless (Wide) Warner Bros. $6,971,266
Judgment Night (Wide) Universal $12,108,480
 
October 22 Me and the Kid (Limited) Orion Pictures $60,473
 
October 29 Fatal Instinct (Wide) MGM $7,839,327
November 1993
November 5 Flesh and Bone (Wide) Paramount Pictures $9,488,998
Look Who's Talking Now (Wide) Sony/TriStar $10,172,124
RoboCop 3 (Wide) Orion Pictures $10,696,210
The Remains of the Day (Limited) Sony Pictures $22,954,968
 
November 10 Carlito’s Way (Wide) Universal $36,516,012
 
November 12 Ernest Rides Again (Wide) $1,433,496
My Life (Wide) Sony Pictures $27,484,464
The Three Musketeers (Wide) Walt Disney $53,661,805
The Piano (Limited) Miramax $40,157,856
 
November 17 Highway Patrolman (Limited) First Look  
 
November 19 Addams Family Values (Wide) Paramount Pictures $46,293,855
Man's Best Friend (Wide) New Line $12,974,636
 
November 24 Josh and S.A.M. (Wide) Sony Pictures $1,484,404
Mrs. Doubtfire (Wide) 20th Century Fox $219,195,051
A Perfect World (Wide) Warner Bros. $31,160,784
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (Wide) Universal $9,315,576
The Trial (Limited) $50,815
 
During 1993 The Nutcracker (Wide) Warner Bros. $2,119,994
December 1993
December 3 Bank Robber (Wide) $115,842
A Dangerous Woman (Wide) $1,497,222
Blue (Limited) Zeitgeist  
 
December 5 Blue (Limited) Miramax $1,324,974
 
December 8 Six Degrees of Separation (Wide) MGM $6,284,090
 
December 10 Geronimo: An American Legend (Wide) Sony Pictures $16,857,966
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (Wide) Walt Disney $57,319,029
Wayne’s World 2 (Wide) Paramount Pictures $47,965,000
 
December 15 Schindler’s List (Limited) Universal $96,898,818
 
December 17 Beethoven's 2nd (Wide) Universal $52,636,940
The Pelican Brief (Wide) Warner Bros. $100,768,056
 
December 21 Faraway, So Close! (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $810,455
 
December 22 Philadelphia (Wide) Sony/TriStar $77,324,422
 
December 25 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,682,620
Grumpy Old Men (Wide) Warner Bros. $70,172,621
Heaven & Earth (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,840,300
Tombstone (Wide) Walt Disney $56,505,065
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Wide) Paramount Pictures $9,170,214
 
December 29 Ghost in the Machine (Wide) 20th Century Fox $4,731,273
Shadowlands (Wide) Savoy $25,842,377
In the Name of the Father (Limited) Universal $25,096,862