Box Office Game — September 9, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Wednesday, September 9, 2026 (day #1651 of the game): the weekend of February 22, 2013 — a 2013 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 #1651
The weekend to guessFebruary 22, 2013Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Identity Thief
UniversalLast week #2Week 3 in release-40.8% vs last week
Weekend$14,017,085Total$93,619,615
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Snitch
LionsgateNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$13,167,607Total$13,167,607
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Escape from Planet Earth
Weinstein Co.Last week #4Week 2 in release-32.8% vs last week
Weekend$10,682,037Total$34,812,699
4
Poster of the #4 movie
Safe Haven
RelativityLast week #3Week 2 in release-51.1% vs last week
Weekend$10,454,713Total$47,916,357
5
Poster of the #5 movie
A Good Day to Die Hard
20th Century FoxLast week #1Week 2 in release-59.1% vs last week
Weekend$10,165,633Total$51,967,897

No spoilers — titles and posters stay blurred until you tap.

About the five films

Identity Thief poster

#1 Identity Thief IMDb →

“She's having the time of his life.”

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Director: Seth Gordon · Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau · Genre: Comedy, Crime · Budget: $35,000,000 · Worldwide: $173,965,010 · Domestic total: $134,506,920
Snitch poster

#2 Snitch IMDb →

“How far would you go to save your son?”

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

Director: Ric Roman Waugh · Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Susan Sarandon · Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller · Budget: $35,000,000 · Worldwide: $42,930,462 · Domestic total: $42,930,462
Escape from Planet Earth poster

#3 Escape from Planet Earth IMDb →

“Earth's greatest secrets are about to break out!”

Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

Director: Cal Brunker · Starring: Rob Corddry, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba · Genre: Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction · Budget: $40,000,000 · Worldwide: $74,597,643 · Domestic total: $57,012,977
Safe Haven poster

#4 Safe Haven IMDb →

“You know it when you find it.”

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

Director: Lasse Hallström · Starring: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders · Genre: Romance, Thriller · Budget: $28,000,000 · Worldwide: $97,600,000 · Domestic total: $71,349,120
A Good Day to Die Hard poster

#5 A Good Day to Die Hard IMDb →

“Yippee ki-yay Mother Russia.”

Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.

Director: John Moore · Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch · Genre: Action, Thriller · Budget: $92,000,000 · Worldwide: $304,654,182 · Domestic total: $67,349,198

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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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Box Office Game is a free daily movie trivia game at boxofficega.me, based on an idea from the Blank Check podcast. Each day it picks one weekend from box office history and you have to name that weekend’s top five films, using as few clues as possible.
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