Box Office Game — September 19, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Saturday, September 19, 2026 (day #1661 of the game): the weekend of March 21, 2003 — a 2003 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 #1661
The weekend to guessMarch 21, 2003Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Bringing Down the House
TouchstoneLast week #1Week 3 in release-26.5% vs last week
Weekend$16,204,468Total$83,349,134
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Dreamcatcher
Warner Bros.New this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$15,027,423Total$15,027,423
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Agent Cody Banks
MGMLast week #2Week 2 in release-34.4% vs last week
Weekend$9,227,614Total$26,531,584
4
Poster of the #4 movie
View from the Top
MiramaxNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$7,600,000Total$7,600,000
5
Poster of the #5 movie
The Hunted
ParamountLast week #3Week 2 in release-51.7% vs last week
Weekend$6,510,154Total$23,390,799

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About the five films

Bringing Down the House poster

#1 Bringing Down the House IMDb →

“Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison.”

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.

Director: Adam Shankman · Starring: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy · Genre: Comedy, Drama · Budget: $20,000,000 · Worldwide: $132,700,000 · Domestic total: $132,716,677
Dreamcatcher poster

#2 Dreamcatcher IMDb →

“Evil slips through.”

Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan · Starring: Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Morgan Freeman · Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · Budget: $68,000,000 · Worldwide: $81,240,206 · Domestic total: $33,715,436
Agent Cody Banks poster

#3 Agent Cody Banks IMDb →

“Save the world. Get the girl. Pass math.”

Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.

Director: Harald Zwart · Starring: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon · Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family · Budget: $28,000,000 · Worldwide: $58,795,814 · Domestic total: $47,938,330
View from the Top poster

#4 View from the Top IMDb →

“Prepare for her arrival.”

No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class international flight attendant, Donna throws caution to the wind and takes off in pursuit of her dream. The ride is anything but smooth, however, and Donna's laugh-packed journey of a lifetime is rocked by more turbulence than she bargained for.

Director: Bruno Barreto · Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo · Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama · Budget: $30,000,000 · Worldwide: $19,526,014 · Domestic total: $15,614,000
The Hunted poster

#5 The Hunted IMDb →

“Some men should not be found.”

In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallam—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.

Director: William Friedkin · Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, Connie Nielsen · Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime · Budget: $55,000,000 · Worldwide: $34,234,008 · Domestic total: $34,244,097

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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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