Domestic Release Schedule for 1997

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1997.

See also: Top 1997 Worldwide - Most Popular 1997

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January, 1997
January 1 Retroactive (Wide) Orion Pictures    
 
January 10 Inside (Wide) $5,000  
Jackie Chan's First Strike (Wide) New Line $14,601,662  
The Relic (Wide) Paramount Pictures $33,956,608  
Turbulence (Wide) MGM $11,532,774  
 
January 12 The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (Wide) $5,000  
 
January 17 Albino Alligator (Wide) Miramax $353,480  
Beverly Hills Ninja (Wide) Sony Pictures $31,245,344  
Metro (Wide) Walt Disney $32,017,895  
 
January 24 Fierce Creatures (Wide) Universal $9,254,184  
Kolya (Wide) Miramax $5,770,254  
Prefontaine (Wide) Walt Disney $590,817  
Zeus and Roxanne (Wide) MGM $7,233,324  
 
January 29 Gridlock'd (Wide) Gramercy $5,573,929  
 
January 31 Johns (Wide) First Look $177,605  
Meet Wally Sparks (Wide) Trimark $4,073,582  
Prisoner of the Mountains (Wide) Orion Classics $790,078  
Shadow Conspiracy (Wide) Walt Disney $2,154,540  
Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope (Wide, re-release) 20th Century Fox $460,998,007  
Waiting for Guffman (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,922,988  
February, 1997
February 7 The Beautician and the Beast (Wide) Paramount Pictures $11,486,880  
Dante’s Peak (Wide) Universal $67,163,857  
Hotel de Love (Wide) $152,720  
Margaret's Museum (Wide) Cinepix Film Properties $524,963  
The Pest (Wide) Sony/TriStar $3,533,790  
SubUrbia (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $726,207  
 
February 9 Frankenstein and Me (Wide) Trimark $5,000  
 
February 12 Dangerous Ground (Wide) New Line $5,102,151  
 
February 14 Absolute Power (Wide) Sony Pictures $50,068,310  
Fools Rush In (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,299,524  
That Darn Cat (Wide) Walt Disney $18,301,828  
Touch (Wide) MGM $408,097  
Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $5,000  
Unhook the Stars (Wide) Miramax $301,888  
Vegas Vacation (Wide) Warner Bros. $36,470,465  
The Graduate (Limited, re-release) Embassy $104,397,102  
 
February 21 Blood and Wine (Wide) Fox Searchlight $1,083,350  
Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back (Wide, re-release) 20th Century Fox $291,738,960  
Lost Highway (Wide) October Films $3,814,727  
Rosewood (Wide) Warner Bros. $13,104,494  
 
February 26 Booty Call (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,066,917  
 
February 28 Donnie Brasco (Wide) Sony Pictures $41,954,997  
Follow Me Home (Wide) $5,000  
Hard Eight (Wide) MGM $142,356  
Kama Sutra (Wide) Trimark $4,109,095  
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Wide) Fox Searchlight $2,221,994  
Le Samouraï (1972) (Re-Release) (Limited, re-release) $39,481  
March, 1997
March 5 The Daytrippers (Wide) Lionsgate $2,096,256  
Rhyme & Reason (Wide) Miramax $1,591,687  
The Watermelon Woman (Limited) First Run Features $42,735  
 
March 7 Boys Life 2 (Wide) Strand Releasing $479,504  
Good Luck (Wide) $39,962  
Jerusalem (Wide) First Look $5,000  
Jungle 2 Jungle (Wide) Walt Disney $59,925,026  
Private Parts (Wide) Paramount Pictures $41,198,146  
 
March 14 City of Industry (Wide) Orion Pictures $1,554,338  
Drunks (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000  
J'en Suis (Wide) $510,977  
Love Jones (Wide) New Line $12,554,569  
Ponette (Wide) Arrow Releasing $1,351,319  
Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi (Wide, re-release) 20th Century Fox $316,465,003  
The Substance of Fire (Wide) Miramax $31,638  
 
March 19 Gray's Anatomy (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000  
 
March 21 Liar Liar (Wide) Universal $181,410,615  
Selena (Wide) Warner Bros. $35,782,828  
The Godfather (Limited, re-release) Paramount Pictures $136,479,994  
 
March 26 Cats Don't Dance (Wide) Warner Bros. $3,588,602  
The Devil's Own (Wide) Sony Pictures $42,885,593  
 
March 28 B*A*P*S (Wide) New Line $7,246,735  
Le Plus Beau Metier du Monde (Wide) $23,862  
Love and Other Catastrophes (Wide) Fox Searchlight $212,285  
The Sixth Man (Wide) Walt Disney $14,765,099  
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,363,899  
April, 1997
April 4 Anna Karenina (Wide) Warner Bros. $858,553  
Chasing Amy (Wide) Miramax $12,006,514  
Double Team (Wide) Sony Pictures $11,328,565  
Inventing the Abbotts (Wide) 20th Century Fox $5,926,128  
The Saint (Wide) Paramount Pictures $61,363,304  
That Old Feeling (Wide) Universal $16,408,534  
Das Boot (1982) (Re-Release) (Limited, re-release) Sony Pictures $11,487,676  
 
April 9 Schizopolis (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $250,000  
 
April 11 Anaconda (Wide) Sony Pictures $65,598,907  
Cadillac Ranch (Wide) Legacy Releasing $5,000  
Grind (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $5,000  
Grosse Pointe Blank (Wide) Walt Disney $28,084,357  
Keys to Tulsa (Wide) Gramercy $57,252  
Kissed (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $465,417  
Paradise Road (Wide) Fox Searchlight $1,990,257  
Pink Flamingos (Wide) Fine Line $413,802  
 
April 18 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (Wide) Orion Pictures $3,602,884  
Hollow Reed (Wide) $244,337  
McHale's Navy (Wide) Universal $4,408,420  
Murder at 1600 (Wide) Warner Bros. $25,842,024  
Traveller (Wide) October Films $500,649  
 
April 23 A Chef in Love (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $686,121  
 
April 25 All Over Me (Wide) Fine Line $281,175  
A Brother's Kiss (Wide) First Look $66,961  
Female Perversions (Wide) October Films $883,973  
Flamenco (Wide) New Yorker $420,392  
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (Wide) Walt Disney $29,235,353  
Shiloh (Wide) Legacy Releasing $1,002,175  
Volcano (Wide) 20th Century Fox $47,546,796  
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker (Limited) Greycat Films $8,526  
Inside the Goldmine (Limited) Dove Entertainment $1,406  
 
April 30 Children of the Revolution (Wide) Miramax $845,391  
May, 1997
May 2 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Wide) New Line $53,883,989  
Breakdown (Wide) Paramount Pictures $50,159,144  
Broken English (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $476,070  
Commandments (Wide) Gramercy $548,562  
Irma Vep (Wide) Zeitgeist $191,164  
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (Wide) Sony Pictures $54,154  
Un Air de Famille (Wide) Leisure Time Features $316,872  
Warriors of Virtue (Wide) MGM $6,448,817  
 
May 9 Father's Day (Wide) Warner Bros. $28,681,080  
The Fifth Element (Wide) Sony Pictures $63,570,862  
Nowhere (Wide) Fine Line $176,979  
Twin Town (Wide) Gramercy $74,188  
Underworld (Wide) Trimark $5,000  
 
May 14 Sprung (Wide) Trimark $7,553,105  
 
May 15 Carla's Song (Wide) Shadow $5,000  
 
May 16 Love! Valour! Compassion! (Wide) New Line $2,936,611  
Night Falls On Manhattan (Wide) Paramount Pictures $9,889,670  
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (Wide) Sony/TriStar $479,099  
The Van (Wide) Fox Searchlight $621,093  
 
May 22 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Wide) Universal $229,086,679  
 
May 23 Addicted To Love (Wide) Warner Bros. $34,673,095  
Brassed Off (Wide) Miramax $2,589,188  
 
May 30 Gone Fishin' (Wide) Walt Disney $19,745,922  
Rough Magic (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $171,979  
Til There Was You (Wide) Paramount Pictures $3,525,125  
Trial And Error (Wide) New Line $13,602,831  
June, 1997
June 6 Bliss (Wide) Sony Pictures $207,751  
Buddy (Wide) Sony Pictures $10,067,104  
Con Air (Wide) Walt Disney $101,117,573  
The Pillow Book (Wide) Lionsgate $2,372,744  
Tollbooth (Wide) $5,000  
Hijacking Hollywood (Limited) Broken Twig Productions $10,174  
 
June 13 Hercules (Wide) Walt Disney $99,112,101  
Speed II: Cruise Control (Wide) 20th Century Fox $48,097,081  
Temptress Moon (Wide) Miramax $1,084,532  
Ulee's Gold (Wide) Orion Pictures $9,054,736  
Wedding Bell Blues (Wide) $22,002  
Squeeze (Limited) Miramax $26,764  
 
June 18 For Roseanna (Wide) Fine Line $111,851  
 
June 20 Batman & Robin (Wide) Warner Bros. $107,325,195  
Dream With The Fishes (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $542,909  
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (Wide) Roxie Releasing $12,836  
My Best Friend's Wedding (Wide) Sony Pictures $126,813,153  
Underground (Limited) New Yorker    
 
June 25 Head Above Water (Wide) Fine Line $32,212  
 
June 27 Face/Off (Wide) Paramount Pictures $112,276,146  
The Innocent Sleep (Wide) $8,225  
Late Bloomers (Wide) Strand Releasing $91,285  
Contempt (Limited, re-release) Rialto Pictures $924,087  
July, 1997
July 1 Men in Black (Wide) Sony Pictures $250,690,539  
 
July 2 Out to Sea (Wide) 20th Century Fox $28,985,323  
Wild America (Wide) Warner Bros. $7,365,417  
 
July 4 Guantanamera (Wide) Lionsgate $855,579  
 
July 9 4 Little Girls (Wide) $218,444  
 
July 11 Contact (Wide) Warner Bros. $100,920,329  
Shall We Dance? (Wide) Miramax $9,676,677  
Shooting Porn (Wide) $133,048  
A Simple Wish (Wide) Universal $8,165,213  
This World, Then the Fireworks (Wide) Orion Classics $51,618  
Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun (IMAX) Sony Pictures Classics $18,798,682  
 
July 16 George Of The Jungle (Wide) Walt Disney $105,263,257  
 
July 18 Kiss Me, Guido (Wide) Paramount Pictures $1,916,898  
Mrs. Brown (Wide) Miramax $9,217,930  
Nothing To Lose (Wide) Walt Disney $44,480,039  
Operation Condor (Wide) Miramax $10,461,161  
The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain (Wide) Legacy Releasing $235,766  
 
July 20 Cafe Society (Wide) Sony Pictures $6,325  
 
July 23 Star Maps (Wide) Fox Searchlight $592,573  
 
July 25 Air Force One (Wide) Sony Pictures $172,956,409  
Alive and Kicking (Wide) First Look $294,467  
Box of Moonlight (Wide) Trimark $720,717  
Good Burger (Wide) Paramount Pictures $23,712,993  
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (Wide) First Run Features $197,338  
The Winner (Wide) Live Entertainment $21,000  
Day for Night (1973) (Re-Release) (Limited, re-release) Warner Bros. $17,808  
 
July 30 One Eight Seven (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,747,802  
 
July 31 Spawn (Wide) New Line $54,979,992  
August, 1997
August 1 Air Bud (Wide) Walt Disney $24,646,936  
In the Company of Men (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,883,661  
Love Serenade (Wide) Miramax $604,523  
Picture Perfect (Wide) 20th Century Fox $31,301,775  
 
August 6 Def Jam's How To Be a Player (Wide) Gramercy $14,010,363  
Hamsun (Wide) First Run Features $40,000  
 
August 8 Career Girls (Wide) October Films $2,506,039  
Conspiracy Theory (Wide) Warner Bros. $76,118,990  
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (Wide) Warner Bros. $3,519,178  
Soul in the Hole (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $10,758  
 
August 13 The Full Monty (Wide) Fox Searchlight $45,950,122  
 
August 15 Cop Land (Wide) Miramax $44,906,632  
The Delta (Wide) Strand Releasing $18,134  
Event Horizon (Wide) Paramount Pictures $26,673,242  
Paperback Romance (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $147,651  
Steel (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,686,429  
 
August 22 Fire (Wide) Zeitgeist $501,533  
G.I.Jane (Wide) Walt Disney $48,169,156  
Leave It To Beaver (Wide) Universal $11,307,615  
Masterminds (Wide) Sony Pictures $1,890,472  
Mimic (Wide) Miramax $25,514,166  
Money Talks (Wide) New Line $41,076,865  
Pippi Longstocking (Wide) Legacy Releasing $779,200  
A Smile Like Yours (Wide) Paramount Pictures $3,317,930  
Sunday (Wide) $410,919  
Dirty Dancing (1987) (Re-Release) (Limited, re-release) Vestron $63,892,689  
 
August 24 The Grimm Brothers' Snow White (Wide) Gramercy $5,000  
 
August 27 Hoodlum (Wide) MGM $23,489,997  
She's So Lovely (Special Engagement) Miramax $7,281,450  
 
August 29 Excess Baggage (Wide) Sony Pictures $14,351,432  
Kull The Conqueror (Wide) Universal $6,086,891  
She's So Lovely (Wide) Miramax $7,281,450  
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995) (Re-Release) (Wide, re-release) New Line $94,558  
September, 1997
September 5 Catherine's Grove (Wide) $26,641  
Fire Down Below (Wide) Warner Bros. $16,148,906  
Julian Po (Wide) Fine Line $33,148  
Latin Boys Go to Hell (Wide) Strand Releasing $189,022  
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (Re-Release) (Wide, re-release) Sony Pictures $37,495,385  
Mouth to Mouth (Limited) Miramax $62,411  
 
September 12 Bandwagon (Wide) Cinepix Film Properties $44,544  
Different for Girls (Wide) First Look $281,764  
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (Wide) Sony Pictures $226,427  
The End of Violence (Wide) MGM $386,673  
The Game (Wide) Polygram $48,265,581  
Marquise (Wide) $71,384  
A Self-Made Hero (Wide) Strand Releasing $69,977  
 
September 17 The Myth of Fingerprints (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $505,828  
 
September 19 Going All the Way (Wide) Gramercy $89,823  
In & Out (Wide) Paramount Pictures $63,826,569  
L.A. Confidential (Wide) Warner Bros. $64,604,977  
The Long Way Home (Wide) Seventh Art Releasing $18,665  
Repulsion (Wide, re-release) $5,000  
A Thousand Acres (Wide) Walt Disney $7,928,412  
Wes Craven's Wishmaster (Wide) Live Entertainment $15,719,109  
Intimate Relations (Limited) Fox Searchlight $28,978  
 
September 26 The Assignment (Wide) Sony Pictures $600,843  
La conciergerie (Wide) $160,944  
The Edge (Wide) 20th Century Fox $27,799,255  
The Ice Storm (Wide) Fox Searchlight $8,038,061  
Kicked in the Head (Wide) October Films $102,739  
The Peacemaker (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $41,263,140  
Soul Food (Wide) 20th Century Fox $43,492,389  
The Lay of the Land (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment    
Trojan War (Limited) Warner Bros. $217  
October, 1997
October 3 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $848,801  
Forgotten Silver (Wide) Zeitgeist    
Kiss the Girls (Wide) Paramount Pictures $60,527,873  
The Locusts (Wide) MGM $37,888  
The MatchMaker (Wide) Gramercy $3,398,083  
U-Turn (Wide) Sony Pictures $6,690,074  
 
October 4 Lewis & Clark & George (Wide) $5,000  
 
October 5 Washington Square (Wide) Walt Disney $1,775,644  
 
October 8 Gang Related (Wide) MGM $5,906,773  
Seven Years in Tibet (Wide) Sony Pictures $37,945,884  
Year of the Horse (Wide) October Films $243,094  
 
October 10 Dancehall Queen (Wide) $223,426  
The House of Yes (Wide) Miramax $617,403  
Most Wanted (Wide) New Line $6,343,015  
Napoleon (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $100,127  
Rocket Man (Wide) Walt Disney $15,448,043  
The Sweet Hereafter (Canada Only) $4,306,697  
Boogie Nights (Limited) New Line $26,410,771  
 
October 12 Happy Together (Wide) $240,442  
 
October 14 Raven (Wide) $5,000  
 
October 15 Snowriders 2 (Wide) Warren Miller Entertainment $2,287,639  
 
October 17 Bean (Wide) Gramercy $45,334,169  
Best Men (Wide) Orion Pictures $5,000  
Breaking Up (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,000  
Devil’s Advocate (Wide) Warner Bros. $61,007,424  
Gummo (Wide) Fine Line $87,403  
I Know What You Did Last Summer (Wide) Sony Pictures $72,250,091  
Kiss and Tell (Wide) Phaedra Cinema $5,000  
Playing God (Wide) Walt Disney $4,166,918  
Telling Lies in America (Wide) $291,000  
 
October 24 Fairytale: A True Story (Wide) Paramount Pictures $14,059,077  
Gattaca (Wide) Sony Pictures $12,532,777  
A Life Less Ordinary (Wide) 20th Century Fox $4,287,595  
The Swindle (Wide) New Yorker $245,359  
Twilight of the Golds (Wide) $20,868  
 
October 29 In Search of a Dream (Limited) $461,691  
 
October 31 Critical Care (Wide) $220,175  
Grizzly Mountain (Wide) Legacy Releasing $340,556  
I Love You, I Love You Not (Wide) $20,325  
Nueba Yol 3 (Wide) Kit Parker Films $793,112  
Red Corner (Wide) MGM $22,442,815  
Switchback (Wide) Paramount Pictures $6,504,442  
The Wind in the Willows (Wide) Sony Pictures $72,844  
Boogie Nights (Expands Wide) New Line $26,410,771  
November, 1997
November 7 Cold Around the Heart (Wide) 20th Century Fox $552  
The Deli (Wide) $5,000  
Eve's Bayou (Wide) Trimark $14,843,425  
The Hanging Garden (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $925,756  
The James Gang (Wide) Polygram $5,000  
Mad City (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,561,038  
Sick (Wide) $191,833  
Starship Troopers (Wide) Sony Pictures $54,768,952  
The Wings of the Dove (Wide) Miramax $13,718,385  
 
November 14 Anastasia (Wide) 20th Century Fox $58,403,409  
The Jackal (Wide) Universal $54,956,941  
Kiss or Kill (Wide) October Films $771,091  
The Little Mermaid (Wide, re-release) Walt Disney $111,543,479  
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Wide) Warner Bros. $13,801,755  
The Mouse (Wide) Strand Releasing $6,707  
Nick and Jane (Wide) Avalanche Releasing $11,251  
One Night Stand (Wide) New Line $2,642,718  
The Tango Lesson (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,026,402  
Slaves to the Underground (Limited) Neo Motion Pictures    
 
November 17 A Couch in New York (Limited) $5,000  
 
November 18 Legal Deceit (Wide) $5,000  
 
November 21 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Wide) Warner Bros. $25,078,937  
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Wide) New Line $35,927,406  
The Rainmaker (Wide) Paramount Pictures $45,916,769  
Mean Guns (Limited)    
The Sweet Hereafter (Limited) Fine Line $4,306,697  
 
November 26 Alien: Resurrection (Wide) 20th Century Fox $47,795,018  
Bent (Wide) MGM $405,409  
Flubber (Wide) Walt Disney $92,993,801  
Welcome to Sarajevo (Wide) Miramax $429,756  
 
November 28 Dead Heart (Wide) $1,209  
December, 1997
December 3 Office Killer (Wide) Strand Releasing $37,446  
 
December 5 Good Will Hunting (Wide) Miramax $138,433,435  
Marius et Jeannette (Wide) New Yorker $2,835,851  
 
December 12 Amistad (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $44,212,592  
Deconstructing Harry (Wide) Fine Line $10,686,841  
For Richer or Poorer (Wide) Universal $31,680,796  
Home Alone III (Wide) 20th Century Fox $30,692,437  
Hugo Pool (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $3,620  
Les Boys (Wide) Distributor Unknown $4,602,341  
Scream 2 (Wide) Miramax $101,363,301  
 
December 15 The Ride (Limited) RS Entertainment $189,635  
 
December 17 The Apostle (Wide) October Films $20,733,485  
Guy (Wide) Gramercy $5,000  
Will it Snow for Christmas (Limited) Zeitgeist $51,950  
 
December 19 Matusalem II (Wide) $88,675  
Mouse Hunt (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $61,894,591  
Titanic (Wide) Paramount Pictures $674,460,013 Play
Tomorrow Never Dies (Wide) MGM $125,304,276  
 
December 24 As Good as it Gets (Wide) Sony Pictures $148,478,011  
The Winter Guest (Wide) Fine Line $870,290  
 
December 25 An American Werewolf in Paris (Wide) Walt Disney $26,570,463  
The Education of Little Tree (Wide) Paramount Pictures $161,831  
Jackie Brown (Wide) Miramax $39,673,162  
Kundun (Wide) Walt Disney $5,686,694  
Mr. Magoo (Wide) Walt Disney $21,437,192  
The Postman (Wide) Warner Bros. $17,650,704  
Wag the Dog (Wide) New Line $43,057,470  
 
December 26 Afterglow (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,537,428  
Ma Vie en Rose (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,280,573  
 
December 31 The Boxer (Limited) Universal $5,896,037