Box Office Game — October 18, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Sunday, October 18, 2026 (day #1690 of the game): the weekend of July 11, 1997 — a 1997 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 #1690
The weekend to guessJuly 11, 1997Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Men in Black
Columbia PicturesLast week #1Week 2 in release-41.1% vs last week
Weekend$30,062,317Total$139,584,970
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Contact
Warner Bros.New this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$20,584,908Total$20,584,908
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Face/Off
ParamountLast week #2Week 3 in release-23.2% vs last week
Weekend$12,332,309Total$71,772,555
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Hercules
Walt DisneyLast week #3Week 5 in release-31.6% vs last week
Weekend$8,339,217Total$66,492,048
5
Poster of the #5 movie
My Best Friend's Wedding
TriStarLast week #4Week 4 in release-23.1% vs last week
Weekend$8,321,580Total$83,502,316

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About the five films

Men in Black poster

#1 Men in Black IMDb →

“Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe.”

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld · Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino · Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction · Budget: $90,000,000 · Worldwide: $589,390,539 · Domestic total: $250,690,539
Contact poster

#2 Contact IMDb →

“Take a journey to the heart of the universe.”

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Director: Robert Zemeckis · Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods · Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery · Budget: $90,000,000 · Worldwide: $171,120,329 · Domestic total: $100,920,329
Face/Off poster

#3 Face/Off IMDb →

“In order to trap him, he must become him.”

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Director: John Woo · Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen · Genre: Action, Crime, Science Fiction · Budget: $80,000,000 · Worldwide: $245,700,000 · Domestic total: $112,276,146
Hercules poster

#4 Hercules IMDb →

“The man. The myth. The movie.”

Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!

Director: John Musker, Ron Clements · Starring: Tate Donovan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart · Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Romance · Budget: $85,000,000 · Worldwide: $252,712,101 · Domestic total: $99,112,101
My Best Friend's Wedding poster

#5 My Best Friend's Wedding IMDb →

“Julianne fell in love with her best friend the day he decided to marry someone else.”

When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.

Director: P.J. Hogan · Starring: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz · Genre: Comedy, Romance · Budget: $38,000,000 · Worldwide: $299,288,605 · Domestic total: $127,120,029

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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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