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The following is a list of the highest-grossing opening weekends for films. The list is dominated by recent films due to inflation, steadily increasing production and marketing budgets, and modern films opening on more screens.

Biggest worldwide openings on record

This list charts films the 50 biggest worldwide openings. Since many films do not open on Fridays in many markets, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the movie's release. Figures prior to the year 2002 are not available.

Since many American films do not open in all markets at the same time, the 'opening' gross varies depending on when it was released in the US-Canada market. For example, for films like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice which opened in the US-Canada market and in most other major markets during the same weekend, the 'opening' is the total gross of the film during that weekend. On the other hand, for films like Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War which opened in several markets a week ahead of their respective releases in the US-Canada market, the 'opening' is the sum of the opening grosses in the markets where they were released first and the opening in the US-Canada market. In the latter case, the opening grosses from territories after the initial overseas opening are not included in the 'opening' of the film. In all cases, if a film opens in a market after its release in the US-Canada market, that opening is not included in the 'opening' of the film.

Individual country records

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Biggest openings in China

Since many films do not open on Fridays in many markets (such as China), the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the movie's release.

Biggest openings in the United States and Canada

Biggest opening day in the United States

A list of the biggest opening days of release, including previews from midnight or the previous evening.

Biggest opening day in China

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Record holders

Previous opening weekend record holders worldwide

These are the films that, when first released, set the opening three-day weekend record after going into wide release.

Previous opening weekend record holders in the United States and Canada

These are the films that, when first released, set the opening record in the United States and Canada.

See also

• List of fastest-grossing films
• List of highest-grossing openings for animated films
• List of highest-grossing second weekends for films
• Second weekend in box office performance

Notes

1. According to contemporaneous reports, The Deep opened to $8,124,316 on 800 screens on the weekend of June 17, 1977 beating the record set by Jaws. Current websites only record data for 731 screen with a gross of $6.8 million. Using the lower figure for The Deep, Jaws lost the overall weekend record to Star Wars in 1977 with a gross of $7,195,573 in its eleventh weekend.
2. Every Which Way but Loose held the opening weekend record until the following year but it lost the overall weekend record on the last weekend in 1978 to Superman, which recorded a gross of $10,363,384 in its third weekend.

1. According to EntGroup, Detective Chinatown 3 grossed CN¥1,018,220,000 on its opening day of 12 February 2021. According to the 2021 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $157,660,685.
2. According to EntGroup, Avengers: Endgame grossed CN¥728,130,000 on its opening day of 24 April 2019. According to the 2019 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $108,331,722.
3. According to EntGroup, Monster Hunt 2 grossed CN¥546,850,000 on its opening day of 16 February 2018. According to the 2018 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $189,784,760.
4. According to EntGroup, Avengers: Infinity War grossed CN¥446,790,000 on its opening day of 11 May 2018. According to the 2018 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $70,567,331.
5. According to EntGroup, The Fate of the Furious grossed CN¥479,800,000 on its opening day of 14 April 2017. According to the 2017 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $69,699,875.
6. According to EntGroup, Furious 7 grossed CN¥398,820,000 on its opening day of 12 April 2015. According to the 2015 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $64,179,849.
7. According to EntGroup, Crazy Alien grossed CN¥410,290,000 on its opening day of 5 February 2019. According to the 2019 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $60,833,272.
8. According to EntGroup, F9 grossed CN¥398,820,000 on its opening day of 21 May 2021. According to the 2021 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $58,829,377.
9. According to EntGroup, Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back grossed CN¥398,820,000 on its opening day of 28 January 2017. According to the 2017 exchange rate on the day of release, this is equivalent to $57,984,879.

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