Box Office Game — September 4, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Friday, September 4, 2026 (day #1646 of the game): the weekend of October 10, 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 #1646
The weekend to guessOctober 10, 2003Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
MiramaxNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$22,200,000Total$22,200,000
2
Poster of the #2 movie
School of Rock
ParamountLast week #1Week 2 in release-21.1% vs last week
Weekend$15,487,832Total$39,671,396
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Good Boy!
MGMNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$13,107,022Total$13,107,022
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Intolerable Cruelty
UniversalNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$12,525,075Total$12,525,075
5
Poster of the #5 movie
Out of Time
MGMLast week #2Week 2 in release-46.9% vs last week
Weekend$8,590,001Total$28,711,637

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About the five films

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 poster

#1 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 IMDb →

“Here comes the bride.”

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

Director: Quentin Tarantino · Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox · Genre: Action, Crime · Budget: $30,000,000 · Worldwide: $180,906,076 · Domestic total: $70,099,045
School of Rock poster

#2 School of Rock IMDb →

“He just landed the gig of his life: 5th grade.”

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey must risk everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.

Director: Richard Linklater · Starring: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White · Genre: Comedy, Family, Music · Budget: $35,000,000 · Worldwide: $131,098,967 · Domestic total: $81,261,177
Good Boy! poster

#3 Good Boy! IMDb →

“Rover is about to take over.”

An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.

Director: John Hoffman · Starring: Molly Shannon, Liam Aiken, Matthew Broderick · Genre: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction · Budget: $18,000,000 · Worldwide: $45,490,616 · Domestic total: $37,667,746
Intolerable Cruelty poster

#4 Intolerable Cruelty IMDb →

“Engage the enemy.”

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

Director: Joel Coen · Starring: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush · Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime · Budget: $60,000,000 · Worldwide: $119,940,815 · Domestic total: $35,327,628
Out of Time poster

#5 Out of Time IMDb →

“How do you solve a murder when all the evidence points to you?”

Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

Director: Carl Franklin · Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan · Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama · Budget: $50,000,000 · Worldwide: $55,495,563 · Domestic total: $41,088,845

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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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