Box Office Game — September 11, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Friday, September 11, 2026 (day #1653 of the game): the weekend of November 6, 1998 — a 1998 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 #1653
The weekend to guessNovember 6, 1998Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
The Waterboy
TouchstoneNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$39,414,071Total$39,414,071
2
Poster of the #2 movie
The Siege
20th Century FoxNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$13,931,285Total$13,931,285
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Pleasantville
New LineLast week #2Week 3 in release-18.7% vs last week
Weekend$5,593,743Total$26,184,082
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Antz
Dreamworks SKGLast week #4Week 6 in release+23.3% vs last week
Weekend$5,564,148Total$75,000,988
5
Poster of the #5 movie
The Wizard of Oz
Warner Bros.New this weekendWeek 3,090 in release
Weekend$5,354,311Total$5,354,311

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About the five films

The Waterboy poster

#1 The Waterboy IMDb →

“You can mess with him. But don't mess with his water.”

Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.

Director: Frank Coraci · Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler · Genre: Comedy, Sport · Budget: $23,000,000 · Worldwide: $185,991,646 · Domestic total: $161,491,646
The Siege poster

#2 The Siege IMDb →

“An enemy they can't see. A nation under siege. A crisis they can't control.”

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.

Director: Edward Zwick · Starring: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis · Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime · Budget: $70,000,000 · Worldwide: $116,700,000 · Domestic total: $40,981,289
Pleasantville poster

#3 Pleasantville IMDb →

“Nothing is as simple as black and white.”

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Director: Gary Ross · Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy · Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama · Budget: $60,000,000 · Worldwide: $49,800,000 · Domestic total: $40,584,421
Antz poster

#4 Antz IMDb →

“See the world from a whole new perspective.”

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson · Starring: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Dan Aykroyd · Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family · Budget: $60,000,000 · Worldwide: $171,757,863 · Domestic total: $90,757,863
The Wizard of Oz poster

#5 The Wizard of Oz IMDb →

“We're off to see the Wizard... (re-release)”

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Director: Victor Fleming · Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley · Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Music · Budget: $2,777,000 · Worldwide: $33,754,967 · Domestic total: $14,836,984

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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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