Box Office Game — October 23, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Friday, October 23, 2026 (day #1695 of the game): the weekend of September 25, 2009 — a 2009 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 #1695
The weekend to guessSeptember 25, 2009Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Sony PicturesLast week #1Week 2 in release-17.4% vs last week
Weekend$25,038,803Total$60,474,555
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Surrogates
TouchstoneNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$14,902,692Total$14,902,692
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Fame
MGMNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$10,011,682Total$10,011,682
4
Poster of the #4 movie
The Informant!
Warner Bros.Last week #2Week 2 in release-36.7% vs last week
Weekend$6,624,085Total$20,700,946
5
Poster of the #5 movie
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
LionsgateLast week #3Week 3 in release-51.8% vs last week
Weekend$4,759,833Total$44,552,477

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About the five films

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs poster

#1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs IMDb →

“Prepare to get served.”

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?

Director: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord · Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan · Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family · Budget: $100,000,000 · Worldwide: $242,988,466 · Domestic total: $124,870,275
Surrogates poster

#2 Surrogates IMDb →

“How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?”

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Director: Jonathan Mostow · Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike · Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · Budget: $80,000,000 · Worldwide: $122,444,772 · Domestic total: $38,577,772
Fame poster

#3 Fame IMDb →

At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and more. Over four years, these young men and women will see if they truly have the dedication and talent to achieve success, while still juggling regular schoolwork, feelings of self-doubt, and budding romances.

Director: Kevin Tancharoen · Starring: Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Kelsey Grammer · Genre: Music, Comedy, Drama, Romance · Budget: $18,000,000 · Worldwide: $77,211,836 · Domestic total: $22,455,510
The Informant! poster

#4 The Informant! IMDb →

“Based on a tattle-tale”

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

Director: Steven Soderbergh · Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale · Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime · Budget: $22,000,000 · Worldwide: $41,771,168 · Domestic total: $33,316,821
I Can Do Bad All By Myself poster

#5 I Can Do Bad All By Myself IMDb →

“Hope is closer than you think.”

When Madea catches teenage Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids.

Director: Tyler Perry · Starring: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez · Genre: Drama, Comedy · Budget: $19,000,000 · Worldwide: $51,733,921 · Domestic total: $51,733,921

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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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Box Office Game is a free daily movie trivia game at boxofficega.me, based on an idea from the Blank Check podcast. Each day it picks one weekend from box office history and you have to name that weekend’s top five films, using as few clues as possible.
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