Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1996

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1996
January 12 Bio-Dome (Wide) MGM $13,294,762
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (Wide) Miramax $19,674,813
Dunston Checks In (Wide) 20th Century Fox $9,419,316
Eye for an Eye (Wide) Paramount Pictures $26,792,700
French Twist (Wide) Miramax $888,044
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (Wide) New Line $2,396,302
Two if by Sea (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,493,670
 
January 19 From Dusk Till Dawn (Wide) Miramax/Dimension $25,728,961
 
January 26 Angels and Insects (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $3,390,811
Bed of Roses (Wide) New Line $18,972,237
Big Bully (Wide) Warner Bros. $2,042,530
The Journey of August King (Wide) Miramax $5,000
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (Wide) BET Pictures $2,291,255
Screamers (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,701,359
The White Balloon (Wide) October Films $888,894
February 1996
February 2 Black Sheep (Wide) Paramount Pictures $32,330,354
The Juror (Wide) Sony Pictures $22,730,924
White Squall (Wide) Walt Disney $10,229,300
 
February 9 Antonia's Line (Wide) First Look $4,047,426
Beautiful Girls (Wide) Miramax $10,523,880
Broken Arrow (Wide) 20th Century Fox $70,645,997
A Midwinter's Tale (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $288,122
Pie in the Sky (Wide) Fine Line $5,000
Shopping (Wide) $5,000
 
February 14 Nueba Yol (Wide) Kit Parker Films $1,229,715
 
February 16 Braveheart (1995) (Re-Release) (Wide) Paramount Pictures $75,545,647
City Hall (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,278,055
Happy Gilmore (Wide) Universal $39,061,245
Mr. Wrong (Wide) Walt Disney $12,805,071
Muppet Treasure Island (Wide) Walt Disney $34,327,391
Headless Body in Topless Bar (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $4,708
 
February 21 Bottle Rocket (Wide) Sony Pictures $407,488
 
February 22 Anne Frank Remembered (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $606,713
The Young Poisoner's Handbook (Wide) Cinepix Film Properties $330,466
 
February 23 Before and After (Wide) Walt Disney $8,642,118
Mary Reilly (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,707,094
Rumble in the Bronx (Wide) New Line $32,281,907
Unforgettable (Wide) MGM $2,483,790
Asterix in America (Limited)  
Subterfuge (Limited)  
March 1996
March 1 Bloodsport 2 (Wide) FM Entertainment International $684,351
Down Periscope (Wide) 20th Century Fox $25,723,977
The Neon Bible (Wide) Strand Releasing $5,000
Up Close & Personal (Wide) Walt Disney $51,045,801
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Limited) PlanePlanet Pictures $8,868
Man of the Year (Limited) Seventh Art Releasing $209,935
 
March 8 The Birdcage (Wide) MGM $124,060,553
Chungking Express (Wide) Miramax $332,003
Fargo (Wide) Gramercy $24,567,751
The Flower of My Secret (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $653,723
Heavy Metal (1981) (Re-Release) (Wide, re-release) Sony Pictures $19,571,091
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (Wide) Miramax $9,321,492
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (Wide) Walt Disney $32,709,423
If Lucy Fell (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,410,162
The Star Maker (Wide) Miramax $222,613
All Things Fair (Limited) PFM $19,982
 
March 15 Ed (Wide) Universal $3,956,785
Executive Decision (Wide) Warner Bros. $56,679,192
Tarantella (Wide) $5,000
Two Much (Wide) Walt Disney $1,078,555
The Celluloid Closet (Limited) Sony Pictures Classics $1,310,167
 
March 22 Diabolique (Wide) Warner Bros. $17,100,266
Flirting with Disaster (Wide) Miramax $14,853,474
Frisk (Wide) Strand Releasing $5,000
Girl 6 (Wide) Fox Searchlight $4,880,941
Little Indian, Big City (Wide) Walt Disney $1,029,731
It's My Party (Wide) MGM $455,101
Jack & Sarah (Wide) Gramercy $218,626
Race the Sun (Wide) Sony Pictures $1,681,685
 
March 29 All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (Wide) MGM $8,556,572
Carried Away (Wide) New Line  
Denise Calls Up (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $168,614
A Family Thing (Wide) MGM $9,993,012
Ghost in the Shell (Wide) Palm Pictures $816,748
Sgt. Bilko (Wide) Universal $30,356,589
Oliver & Company (Limited, re-release) $74,151,346
April 1996
April 1 Bang (Wide) JeTi Films $527
Access Denied (Limited)  
 
April 3 A Thin Line Between Love & Hate (Wide) New Line $34,873,513
 
April 5 Cold Fever (Wide) Artistic License $337,560
Faithful (Wide) New Line $2,104,439
The Last Supper (Wide) Sony Pictures $459,749
Primal Fear (Wide) Paramount Pictures $56,073,633
 
April 6 Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $1,002,002
 
April 12 Fear (Wide) Universal $20,694,623
Getting Away with Murder (Wide) Savoy $197,322
James and the Giant Peach (Wide) Walt Disney $28,921,264
Jane Eyre (Wide) Miramax $5,200,601
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Wide) Paramount Pictures $2,640,536
 
April 19 August (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $5,000
Celtic Pride (Wide) Walt Disney $9,240,378
The Horseman on the Roof (Wide) Miramax $1,320,043
My Favorite Season (Wide) Filmopolis Pictures $555,900
Mrs. Winterbourne (Wide) Sony Pictures $10,039,566
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (Wide) Gramercy $949,745
The Substitute (Wide) Orion Pictures $14,675,167
The Monster (Limited) Cinepix Film Properties $569,901
 
April 24 Two Friends (Limited) $73,754
 
April 26 Butterfly Kiss (Wide) Cinepix Film Properties $5,000
Mulholland Falls (Wide) MGM $11,504,190
The Quest (Wide) Universal $21,607,190
Sunset Park (Wide) Sony Pictures $10,128,314
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Wide) 20th Century Fox $34,084,531
Cemetery Man (Limited) October Films $253,969
May 1996
May 1 I Shot Andy Warhol (Wide) Orion Pictures $1,773,648
 
May 3 Barb Wire (Wide) Gramercy $3,775,952
Captives (Wide) Miramax $5,000
The Craft (Wide) Sony Pictures $24,769,466
The Great White Hype (Wide) 20th Century Fox $7,852,282
Last Dance (Wide) Walt Disney $5,857,534
Open Season (Wide) $9,000
The Pallbearer (Wide) Miramax $5,656,388
 
May 10 Boys (Wide) Walt Disney $516,349
Cold Comfort Farm (Wide) Gramercy $5,682,429
Dead Man (Wide) Miramax $1,025,488
Of Love and Shadows (Wide) Miramax $5,000
Original Gangstas (Wide) Orion Pictures $3,279,266
Someone Else's America (Wide) October Films $154,873
Twister (Wide) Warner Bros. $245,219,182
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $4,198,137
 
May 17 Flipper (Wide) Universal $20,080,020
Heaven's Prisoners (Wide) New Line $4,912,939
Ashes of Time (Limited) $173,526
 
May 21 Mission: Impossible (Wide) Paramount Pictures $180,981,886
 
May 22 A Boy Called Hate (Wide) $5,000
 
May 24 Spy Hard (Wide) Walt Disney $26,936,265
Guimba the Tyrant (Limited) Kino International $7,096
 
May 31 The Arrival (Wide) Orion Pictures $14,031,906
Dragonheart (Wide) Universal $51,364,680
Eddie (Wide) Walt Disney $31,369,401
June 1996
June 5 Heavy (Wide) Lionsgate $852,362
 
June 7 The Phantom (Wide) Paramount Pictures $17,220,599
The Rock (Wide) Walt Disney $134,069,511
 
June 14 The Cable Guy (Wide) Sony Pictures $60,240,295
Moll Flanders (Wide) MGM $3,443,047
Stealing Beauty (Wide) Fox Searchlight $4,573,330
Switchblade Sisters (1975) (Re-Release) (Wide, re-release) Miramax $41,058
 
June 21 Eraser (Wide) Warner Bros. $101,295,562
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wide) Walt Disney $100,138,851
Lone Star (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $12,961,389
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000
 
June 28 Maybe, Maybe Not (Wide) Orion Classics $330,760
The Nutty Professor (Wide) Universal $128,814,019
Lust for Evil (1996) (Re-Release) (Wide, re-release) Miramax $618,090
Striptease (Wide) Sony Pictures $33,109,743
July 1996
July 2 Independence Day (Wide) 20th Century Fox $306,169,255
 
July 5 Phenomenon (Wide) Walt Disney $104,636,382
 
July 10 Harriet the Spy (Wide) Paramount Pictures $26,570,048
 
July 12 Courage Under Fire (Wide) 20th Century Fox $59,003,384
Lover's Knot (Wide) $5,000
The Low Life (Wide) $5,000
The Visitors (Wide) Miramax $659,000
 
July 17 Kazaam (Wide) Walt Disney $18,880,508
Multiplicity (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,133,326
Walking and Talking (Wide) Miramax $1,287,480
 
July 19 Fled (Wide) MGM $17,192,205
The Frighteners (Wide) Universal $16,553,635
Celestial Clockwork (Wide) October Films $257,241
Trainspotting (Wide) Miramax $16,501,785
 
July 22 Vive L'Amour (Limited) Strand Releasing  
 
July 24 A Time to Kill (Wide) Warner Bros. $108,766,007
 
July 26 The Adventures of Pinocchio (Wide) New Line $15,382,170
Joe's Apartment (Wide) Warner Bros. $4,616,355
Kingpin (Wide) MGM $25,023,424
Manny & Lo (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $363,731
The Pompatus of Love (Wide) $5,000
Supercop (Wide) Miramax $16,270,600
Stonewall (Limited) Strand Releasing $304,602
August 1996
August 2 Chain Reaction (Wide) 20th Century Fox $21,226,204
Cyclo (Wide) Cinepix Film Properties $38,109
Emma (Wide) Miramax $22,231,658
Matilda (Wide) Sony Pictures $33,098,222
Phat Beach (Wide) Orion Pictures $1,263,945
 
August 7 Flirt (Wide) $76,875
 
August 9 Basquiat (Wide) Miramax $2,962,051
Escape from L.A. (Wide) Paramount Pictures $25,426,861
Jack (Wide) Walt Disney $58,617,334
 
August 14 Alaska (Wide) Sony Pictures $11,509,600
House Arrest (Wide) MGM $6,906,987
 
August 16 The Confessional (Wide) Alliance Atlantis $575,001
The Fan (Wide) Sony Pictures $18,582,965
Kansas City (Wide) New Line $1,353,824
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (Wide) Universal $5,601,285
Tin Cup (Wide) Warner Bros. $53,854,588
 
August 21 Girls Town (Wide) October Films $508,332
 
August 23 Carpool (Wide) Warner Bros. $3,325,651
Foxfire (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $258,263
Freeway (Wide) Roxie Releasing $295,493
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Wide) New Line $27,682,712
She's the One (Wide) Fox Searchlight $9,482,579
Solo (Wide) Sony Pictures $4,932,915
The Spitfire Grill (Wide) Sony Pictures $12,592,203
A Very Brady Sequel (Wide) Paramount Pictures $21,443,204
 
August 30 The Crow: City of Angels (Wide) Miramax $17,897,671
First Kid (Wide) Walt Disney $26,465,920
Normal Life (Wide) Fine Line $5,000
The Stupids (Wide) New Line $2,415,593
The Trigger Effect (Wide) Gramercy $3,608,238
Crime Story (1993) (Re-Release) (Limited) Dimension Pictures  
September 1996
September 6 The Big Squeeze (Wide) First Look $23,567
Bogus (Wide) Warner Bros. $4,357,406
Bulletproof (Wide) Universal $21,195,840
Killer: A Journal of Murder (Wide) Legacy Releasing $65,682
A Modern Affair (Wide) $5,000
Sweet Nothing (Wide) Warner Bros. $79,249
 
September 13 American Buffalo (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $540,364
American Strays (Wide) $5,000
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (Wide) New Yorker $630,269
Feeling Minnesota (Wide) New Line $3,124,440
Fly Away Home (Wide) Sony Pictures $25,143,818
Gabbeh (Wide) New Yorker $273,967
Grace of My Heart (Wide) Gramercy $617,632
Maximum Risk (Wide) Sony Pictures $14,102,929
The Rich Man’s Wife (Wide) Walt Disney $8,538,318
 
September 20 Big Night (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $12,008,376
The First Wives Club (Wide) Paramount Pictures $105,489,203
Giant (1956) (Re-Release) (Wide, re-release) Warner Bros. $30,178,619
Last Man Standing (Wide) New Line $18,115,927
Paradise Lost (Wide) $249,022
Surviving Picasso (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,993,899
When The Cat's Away (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,652,472
 
September 27 2 Days In The Valley (Wide) MGM $11,101,856
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (Wide) Paulist Pictures $225,161
Extreme Measures (Wide) Sony Pictures $17,378,193
Glory Daze (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,000
The Leopard Son (Wide) Discovery/IMAX $321,070
Somebody to Love (Wide) Legacy Releasing $5,000
Curdled (Limited) Miramax  
 
September 28 Secrets & Lies (Wide) October Films $13,417,292
October 1996
October 4 Bound (Wide) Gramercy $3,802,260
Crash (Wide) Fine Line $3,357,324
D3: The Mighty Ducks (Wide) Walt Disney $22,936,273
The Glimmer Man (Wide) Warner Bros. $20,404,841
Infinity (Wide) First Look $145,697
That Thing You Do! (Wide) 20th Century Fox $25,857,416
Bird of Prey (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000
Vertigo (1958) (Re-Release) (Limited, re-release) Paramount Pictures $3,200,000
 
October 9 Beautiful Thing (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,460,297
 
October 11 Bitter Sugar (Wide) First Look $328,768
The Chamber (Wide) Universal $14,407,578
The Ghost and the Darkness (Wide) Paramount Pictures $38,564,422
The Grass Harp (Wide) Fine Line $493,007
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Wide) New Line $33,447,612
Looking for Richard (Wide) 20th Century Fox $1,266,417
Love Is All There Is (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $43,439
Michael Collins (Wide) Warner Bros. $11,317,898
Microcosmos (Wide) Miramax $1,573,842
Trees Lounge (Wide) Orion Classics $749,741
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (Limited) $3,204
 
October 16 Get on the Bus (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,691,854
 
October 18 I Shot a Man in Vegas (Wide) $5,000
Jude (Wide) Gramercy $407,072
Sleepers (Wide) Warner Bros. $53,300,852
Snowriders (Wide) Warren Miller Entertainment $2,035,470
Swingers (Wide) Miramax $4,505,922
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Wide) Sony Pictures $4,137,645
 
October 25 The Associate (Wide) Walt Disney $12,772,657
High School High (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,995,023
Lilies (Wide) $221,494
North Star (Wide) Warner Bros.  
Palookaville (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $289,569
The Sunchaser (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,000
Thinner (Wide) Paramount Pictures $15,171,475
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (Wide) Fine Line $588,621
When We Were Kings (Wide) Gramercy $2,666,118
November 1996
November 1 Bad Moon (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,065,431
Dear God (Wide) Paramount Pictures $7,114,089
The Funeral (Wide) October Films $1,212,799
La Promesse (Wide) New Yorker $454,720
Larger Than Life (Wide) MGM $8,295,903
Mercy (Wide) $5,000
Mother Night (Wide) Fine Line $363,905
Romeo+Juliet (Wide) 20th Century Fox $46,338,728
 
November 6 Set It Off (Wide) New Line $36,049,108
 
November 8 Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $670,564
Hype! (Wide) Cinepix Film Properties $242,021
Mad Dog Time (Wide) MGM $80,026
Ransom (Wide) Walt Disney $136,492,681
Santa with Muscles (Wide) Legacy Releasing $220,198
The Secret Agent (Wide) Fox Searchlight $106,606
Paris Was a Woman (Limited) Zeitgeist $44,774
 
November 10 Shakespeare's Children (Limited)  
 
November 13 Breaking the Waves (Wide) October Films $4,040,691
 
November 14 Blue Juice (Wide) Trimark $5,000
 
November 15 The English Patient (Wide) Miramax $78,716,374
The Mirror Has Two Faces (Wide) Sony Pictures $41,267,469
Space Jam (Wide) Warner Bros. $90,463,534
 
November 20 Far Harbor (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $5,000
Sling Blade (Wide) Miramax $24,475,416
The War at Home (Wide) Walt Disney $34,368
 
November 22 Jingle All the Way (Wide) 20th Century Fox $60,592,389
Shine (Wide) Fine Line $35,811,509
Star Trek: First Contact (Wide) Paramount Pictures $92,027,888
 
November 27 101 Dalmatians (Wide) Walt Disney $136,189,294
Zero Kelvin (Wide) Kino International $5,000
 
November 29 The Crucible (Wide) 20th Century Fox $7,352,332
Ridicule (Wide) Miramax $2,503,829
A Leap of Faith (Limited) $5,000
December 1996
December 6 Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (Wide) Miramax $37,536
Daylight (Wide) Universal $32,908,290
Everyone Says I Love You (Wide) Miramax $9,725,847
Losing Chase (Wide) $31,176
 
December 13 Citizen Ruth (Wide) Miramax $336,470
Jerry Maguire (Wide) Sony Pictures $153,952,592
Mars Attacks! (Wide) Warner Bros. $37,771,017
The Preacher’s Wife (Wide) Walt Disney $48,102,795
 
December 18 La cérémonie (Wide) New Yorker $670,659
In Love and War (Wide) New Line $14,481,231
The Whole Wide World (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $160,766
 
December 20 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Wide) Paramount Pictures $63,118,386
Ghosts of Mississippi (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,052,741
Marvin's Room (Wide) Miramax $12,803,305
My Fellow Americans (Wide) Warner Bros. $22,331,846
One Fine Day (Wide) 20th Century Fox $46,169,663
Scream (Wide) Miramax $103,046,663
 
December 24 The Portrait of a Lady (Wide) Gramercy $3,698,012
 
December 25 The Evening Star (Wide) Paramount Pictures $12,767,815
Evita (Wide) Walt Disney $50,047,179
Hamlet (Wide) Sony Pictures $4,501,094
I'm Not Rappaport (Wide) Gramercy $222,525
Michael (Wide) New Line $95,345,070
Mother (Wide) Paramount Pictures $19,174,217
The People vs. Larry Flynt (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,224,840
Some Mother's Son (Wide) Sony Pictures $628,604
Thieves (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $939,304