Box Office Game — September 17, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Thursday, September 17, 2026 (day #1659 of the game): the weekend of July 22, 1983 — a 1983 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 #1659
The weekend to guessJuly 22, 1983Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Jaws 3-D
UniversalNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$13,422,500Total$13,422,500
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Staying Alive
ParamountLast week #1Week 2 in release-24.8% vs last week
Weekend$9,133,944Total$28,486,015
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Return of the Jedi
20th Century FoxLast week #2Week 9 in release-12.5% vs last week
Weekend$7,239,419Total$191,442,124
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Class
Orion PicturesNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$4,553,233Total$4,553,233
5
Poster of the #5 movie
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walt DisneyLast week #3Week 2,379 in release-26.1% vs last week
Weekend$4,446,241Total$15,065,701

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About the five films

Jaws 3-D poster

#1 Jaws 3-D IMDb →

“The third dimension is terror.”

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

Director: Joe Alves · Starring: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale · Genre: Thriller, Horror · Budget: $20,500,000 · Worldwide: $87,987,056 · Domestic total: $45,517,055
Staying Alive poster

#2 Staying Alive IMDb →

“Tony Manero knows the old days are over. But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again.”

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Director: Sylvester Stallone · Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes · Genre: Drama, Music, Romance · Budget: $22,000,000 · Worldwide: $126,041,474 · Domestic total: $64,892,670
Return of the Jedi poster

#3 Return of the Jedi IMDb →

“Return to a galaxy far far away.”

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.

Director: Richard Marquand · Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher · Genre: Adventure, Action, Science Fiction · Budget: $32,350,000 · Worldwide: $572,700,000 · Domestic total: $252,583,617
Class poster

#4 Class IMDb →

“The good news is Jonathan's having his first affair. The bad news is she's his roommate's mother.”

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.

Director: Lewis John Carlino · Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy · Genre: Comedy, Drama · Budget: $7,000,000 · Worldwide: $21,600,000 · Domestic total: $21,667,789
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs poster

#5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs IMDb →

“The Happiest, Dopiest, Grumpiest, Sneeziest movie of the year. (re-release)”

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

Director: David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Wilfred Jackson · Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell · Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Family · Budget: $1,488,423 · Worldwide: $184,925,486 · Domestic total: $30,100,000

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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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