Box Office Game — August 29, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Saturday, August 29, 2026 (day #1640 of the game): the weekend of May 4, 1984 — a 1984 box office chart. The clues the game gives you (distributor, last week’s rank, weeks in release and the grosses) are shown for all five films; the titles and posters stay blurred until you tap reveal.

Top 5 answer · Day #1640
The weekend to guessMay 4, 1984Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Breakin'
CannonNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$6,047,686Total$6,047,686
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Sixteen Candles
UniversalNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$4,461,520Total$4,461,520
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Romancing the Stone
20th Century FoxLast week #2Week 6 in release-14.2% vs last week
Weekend$4,012,150Total$40,187,726
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Police Academy
Warner Bros.Last week #1Week 7 in release-25.1% vs last week
Weekend$3,543,670Total$58,554,912
5
Poster of the #5 movie
Hardbodies
Columbia PicturesNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$2,684,599Total$2,684,599

No spoilers — titles and posters stay blurred until you tap.

About the five films

Breakin' poster

#1 Breakin' IMDb →

“Push it to pop it! Rock it to lock it! Break it to make it!”

A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.

Director: Joel Silberg · Starring: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers · Genre: Music, Drama, Romance · Budget: $1,200,000 · Worldwide: $38,682,707 · Domestic total: $38,682,707
Sixteen Candles poster

#2 Sixteen Candles IMDb →

“Turning sixteen isn't easy, when you've fallen in love... for the first time.”

With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.

Director: John Hughes · Starring: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Justin Henry · Genre: Comedy, Romance · Budget: $6,500,000 · Worldwide: $23,686,027 · Domestic total: $23,686,027
Romancing the Stone poster

#3 Romancing the Stone IMDb →

“She's a girl from the big city. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. For a fabulous treasure, they share an adventure no one could imagine... or survive.”

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Director: Robert Zemeckis · Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito · Genre: Romance, Comedy, Action, Adventure · Budget: $10,000,000 · Worldwide: $86,572,238 · Domestic total: $76,572,238
Police Academy poster

#4 Police Academy IMDb →

“Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.”

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Director: Hugh Wilson · Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, G.W. Bailey · Genre: Comedy, Crime · Budget: $4,500,000 · Worldwide: $81,198,894 · Domestic total: $81,198,894
Hardbodies poster

#5 Hardbodies IMDb →

“If you don't know what they are, you don't know what you're missing.”

Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.

Director: Mark Griffiths · Starring: Grant Cramer, Teal Roberts, Gary Wood · Genre: Comedy · Budget: $1,995,000 · Worldwide: $7,121,719 · Domestic total: $7,121,719

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Box Office Game (boxofficega.me) hands you one weekend from box office history and asks you to name the five highest-grossing films from that weekend, in order. You start with only the weekend date and each film’s weekend gross; every clue you buy (distributor, last week’s rank, total gross, budget, director, cast and so on) costs points off your score. The page above lists exactly those clues for each slot so you can match your own guesses before revealing. This page is part of our complete daily archive, updated every morning.

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