Box Office Game — September 28, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Monday, September 28, 2026 (day #1670 of the game): the weekend of May 14, 2004 — a 2004 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 #1670
The weekend to guessMay 14, 2004Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Troy
Warner Bros.New this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$46,865,412Total$46,865,412
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Van Helsing
UniversalLast week #1Week 2 in release-59.9% vs last week
Weekend$20,727,515Total$85,095,305
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Mean Girls
ParamountLast week #2Week 3 in release-25.5% vs last week
Weekend$10,182,766Total$55,400,970
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Man on Fire
20th Century FoxLast week #3Week 4 in release-38.1% vs last week
Weekend$5,101,128Total$64,169,492
5
Poster of the #5 movie
Breakin' All the Rules
Screen GemsNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$5,088,577Total$5,088,577

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About the five films

Troy poster

#1 Troy IMDb →

“For passion. For honor. For destiny. For victory. For love.”

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen · Starring: Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana · Genre: Adventure, History, War, Action · Budget: $175,000,000 · Worldwide: $497,409,852 · Domestic total: $133,378,256
Van Helsing poster

#2 Van Helsing IMDb →

“The One Name They All Fear.”

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

Director: Stephen Sommers · Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh · Genre: Horror, Adventure, Action · Budget: $160,000,000 · Worldwide: $300,257,475 · Domestic total: $120,177,084
Mean Girls poster

#3 Mean Girls IMDb →

“Watch your back.”

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Director: Mark Waters · Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan · Genre: Drama, Comedy · Budget: $17,000,000 · Worldwide: $130,195,052 · Domestic total: $86,058,055
Man on Fire poster

#4 Man on Fire IMDb →

“Creasy's art is death, and he is about to paint his masterpiece.”

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Director: Tony Scott · Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken · Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller · Budget: $70,000,000 · Worldwide: $130,300,000 · Domestic total: $77,911,774
Breakin' All the Rules poster

#5 Breakin' All the Rules IMDb →

“When it comes to getting dumped... he wrote the book.”

After being dumped by his model girlfriend, aspiring writer Quincy Watson quits his job and is inspired to pen the ultimate how-to book on breaking up. When it becomes a smash bestseller, he starts giving his player cousin, Evan, choice tips on how to win the battle of the sexes. But when Evan's beautiful girlfriend Nikki gets wind of the plan, it's these players that end up getting played.

Director: Daniel Taplitz · Starring: Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union · Genre: Comedy, Romance · Budget: $10,000,000 · Worldwide: $12,500,000 · Domestic total: $12,264,319

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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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