The Top 25 films of 2003...

[Mole 0]

0001 $ 339.7 Finding Nemo (2003)

 

0002 $ 305.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003)

 

0003 $ 281.5 Matrix Reloaded, The (2003)

 

0004 $ 242.6 Bruce Almighty (2003)

 

0005 $ 214.9 X2: X-Men United (2003)

 

0006 $ 192.4 Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King (2003)

 

0007 $ 162.2 Elf (2003)

 

0008 $ 150.4 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

 

0009 $ 138.4 Bad Boys II (2003)

 

0010 $ 137.5 Matrix Revolutions, The (2003)

 

0011 $ 133.8 Anger Management (2003)

 

0012 $ 132.5 Bringing Down the House (2003)

 

0013 $ 132.1 Hulk (2003)

 

0014 $ 127.1 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

 

0015 $ 120.1 Seabiscuit (2003)

 

0016 $ 116.6 S.W.A.T. (2003)

 

0017 $ 111.5 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

 

0018 $ 109.9 Freaky Friday (2003)

 

0019 $ 109.1 Scary Movie 3 (2003)

 

0020 $ 106.1 Italian Job, The (2003)

 

0021 $ 105.8 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

 

0022 $ 104.4 American Wedding (2003)

 

0023 $ 104.1 Daddy Day Care (2003)

 

0024 $ 102.5 Daredevil (2003)

 

0025 $ 100.7 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

[razazteca 0]

I am surprised that Bad Boys 2 made more than SWAT and 2 Fast 2 Furious.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I thought LOTRROTK made over 200million already

[Tawren 0]

I didn't know Bruce Almight did that good :/

 

And yeah, it's a safe bet that LoTR will beat Nemo.

[Guest hhheld_down]

I didn't know Bruce Almight did that good :/

 

And yeah, it's a safe bet that LoTR will beat Nemo.

unless it makes another 100 million in the next 3 days, I doubt it. It will put Nemo to shame in 04 though..

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

I'm pleasantly surprised by how well Bad Boys 2 and Bringing Down the House did.

[Tawren 0]

I didn't know Bruce Almight did that good :/

 

And yeah, it's a safe bet that LoTR will beat Nemo.

unless it makes another 100 million in the next 3 days, I doubt it. It will put Nemo to shame in 04 though..

See, that's what I said last week, until someone explained to me that if a movie opens in 2003, even if it makes no money at all until 2004 where it earns 1000000 mil on January 1st 04, it counts as the highest grossing movie in 2003, or something.

 

Or something like that

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Those numbers for ROTK aren't the same as in the box office report thread. In that thread it says ROTK has about 220 Million.

[Ravenbomb 0]

see? Told ya

[SamoaRowe 0]

Bruce Almighty made waaay more money than it deserved to make.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I wonder if Ron Silver and the Wachowskis are kicking themselves over the "6 months, 2 movies" plan, or are content to roll around in the rest of their money.

[Mole 0]

I didn't know Bruce Almight did that good :/

 

And yeah, it's a safe bet that LoTR will beat Nemo.

unless it makes another 100 million in the next 3 days, I doubt it. It will put Nemo to shame in 04 though..

See, that's what I said last week, until someone explained to me that if a movie opens in 2003, even if it makes no money at all until 2004 where it earns 1000000 mil on January 1st 04, it counts as the highest grossing movie in 2003, or something.

 

Or something like that

Yup, that's how it works.

[Betty Houle 0]

We now need a cross-reference list for the budgets of these movies o see what movies made the most profit.

[cabbageboy 0]

I doubt the Wachowskis are going to be too upset about the marketing scheme. I'm just glad that the US didn't fall for the Revolutions hype the way the rest of the world did.

 

It's interesting to note that ROTK might be the only LOTR to be the biggest hit of its year. FOTR finished slightly behind Harry Potter in 2001, and Two Towers finished behind Spidey last year.

[Guest The Midnight Rocking Warrior]

Special mention ( For me) goes to Freddy vs. Jason the highest grossing slasher flick ever............ one of my 3 favorite movies of the year.

[NYU 0]

Special mention ( For me) goes to Freddy vs. Jason the highest grossing slasher flick ever

Scream.

 

All 3 of them.

 

[Guest Dave O'Neill, Journalist]

0002 $ 305.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003)

 

0003 $ 281.5 Matrix Reloaded, The (2003)

That makes me so happy on so many levels. Keira Knightley will rule the earth one day.

 

Also, Johnny Depp's decision to tuen down the role of Neo has been completely vindicated

[Guest The Midnight Rocking Warrior]

Olympic hero's right, sorry about that............ Damnit! Why must everyone ignore Robert Englund! He's won 2 awards in his entire career ( One being a lifetime achievement) and the other? A fantafestival best actor award for The Mangler ( A movie that I heard was terrible, but lifted up due to Englund's performance) Why can't anyone give Freddy his due?!

 

( Insane ranting mode off)

[Guest NCJ]

You have to be shitting me about making one movie that made alot of money vindicating not being apart of one something that is greater than a movie. I loved Pirates of the Caribean, but the only reason it outgrossed Reloaded is because it was rated PG-13 and Reloaded was R rated. Pirates will not be important next year. The Matrix ,no matter how bad the last two may have been, is a pop culture phenomenon. With that said I would kill to see Depp play Neo. Damn that would have been incredible. That just pisses me off that he didn't take that part.

[Tawren 0]

You have to be shitting me about making one movie that made alot of money vindicating not being apart of one something that is greater than a movie. I loved Pirates of the Caribean, but the only reason it outgrossed Reloaded is because it was rated PG-13 and Reloaded was R rated. Pirates will not be important next year. The Matrix ,no matter how bad the last two may have been, is a pop culture phenomenon. With that said I would kill to see Depp play Neo. Damn that would have been incredible. That just pisses me off that he didn't take that part.

It's not a pop culture phenomenon, it's a fad for idiots.

[the pinjockey 0]

Ask and you shall receive (domestic numbers) (gross in mil/total budget in mil) (gross number as % of budget)

 

1. Finding Nemo $340/$130 261%

 

2. PotC $305/$180 170%

 

3. Matrix Reloaded $281/$200 140%

 

4. Bruce Almighty $243/$116 210%

 

5. LotR $232/$144 161%

 

6. X-2 $215/$150 143%

 

7. Elf $165/$58 284%

 

8. Terminator 3 $150/$240 62.5%

 

9. Bad Boys 2 $138/$170 81%

 

10. Matrix Revolutions $138/$185 74.5%

 

11. Anger Management $135/$110 123%

 

12. Bringing Down the House $133/$61 218%

 

13. The Hulk $132/$172 76.7%

 

14. 2 Fast 2 Furious $127/$116 109%

 

15. Seabiscuit $120/$112 107%

 

16. SWAT $117/$110 106%

 

17. Spy Kids $112/$63 177%

 

18. Freaky Friday $110/$45 244%

 

19. Scary Movie 3 $109/$80 136%

 

20. Italian Job $106/$85 124%

 

21. How to Lose a guy $106/NA (no budget listed on

boxofficemojo)

 

22. American Wedding $104/$85 122%

 

23. Daddy Day Care $104/$90 115%

 

24. Daredevil $102/$123 83%

 

25. Charlie's Angels $101/$160 63%

[the pinjockey 0]

I just have to say it fucking rules that Will Ferrell starred in the movie with the best gross/budget ratio this year. Unless LotR hit the 410 mil mark, which could happen but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Mole 0]

You have to be shitting me about making one movie that made alot of money vindicating not being apart of one something that is greater than a movie. I loved Pirates of the Caribean, but the only reason it outgrossed Reloaded is because it was rated PG-13 and Reloaded was R rated. Pirates will not be important next year. The Matrix ,no matter how bad the last two may have been, is a pop culture phenomenon. With that said I would kill to see Depp play Neo. Damn that would have been incredible. That just pisses me off that he didn't take that part.

First off, who cares about "pop culture" crap.

 

The Matrixsss will be remembered as movies that were the most disappointing sequals of all time. There was SO MUCH hype about them, how good they were going to be, and they came no where near that. They should have kept it as one movie, that's it.

 

Pirates will be remembered as the movie that had some of the best CGI in the past few years. It will the movie that Depp showed his great acting skills to everyone and shows he doesn't have to sell out to make it big. And it will known as one of the best movies of 2003.

 

5. LotR $232/$144 161%

Wrong, RoTK's budget was $94 million.

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

[Damaramu 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

What? Bruce was a funny movie. I can sit through it again unlike X-2 which was unbearable during round 2.

[Mole 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

What? Bruce was a funny movie. I can sit through it again unlike X-2 which was unbearable during round 2.

I am agreeing with Yuna and that barely happens.

 

Bruce Almighty was nothing but an average movie. It was just a romantic comedy with a different twist. My friends and I went to see it thinking it would be something else than it was because in the trailers they didn't market it as a romantic comedy. I think they knew that the movie would have made less money if they marketed it as a romantic comedy. I really hate those things.

 

I think X2 was the best action movie of all time. I've seen it about 5 more times, and it is as good as it was the first time.

 

However, my expectations for X3 will be too high for it to top X2. I didn't like X-Men that much, so I went into X2 thinking it would be ok. Boy, was I wrong.

[Damaramu 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

What? Bruce was a funny movie. I can sit through it again unlike X-2 which was unbearable during round 2.

I am agreeing with Yuna and that barely happens.

 

Bruce Almighty was nothing but an average movie. It was just a romantic comedy with a different twist. My friends and I went to see it thinking it would be something else than it was because in the trailers they didn't market it as a romantic comedy. I think they knew that the movie would have made less money if they marketed it as a romantic comedy. I really hate those things.

 

I think X2 was the best action movie of all time. I've seen it about 5 more times, and it is as good as it was the first time.

 

However, my expectations for X3 will be too high for it to top X2. I didn't like X-Men that much, so I went into X2 thinking it would be ok. Boy, was I wrong.

I still think Bruce was funny and X-2 was boring.

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

What? Bruce was a funny movie. I can sit through it again unlike X-2 which was unbearable during round 2.

Funny? I didn't laugh once during it. Same goes for the shit known as Freaky Friday. As soon as I could, I put my earphones on during Freaky Friday, hoping to forget it exists. Mind you, this was just a week ago, so it wasn't in a theater, thankfully.

 

I am agreeing with Yuna and that barely happens.

Awww....thankies! *snuggleglomp*

[Mole 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

What? Bruce was a funny movie. I can sit through it again unlike X-2 which was unbearable during round 2.

I am agreeing with Yuna and that barely happens.

 

Bruce Almighty was nothing but an average movie. It was just a romantic comedy with a different twist. My friends and I went to see it thinking it would be something else than it was because in the trailers they didn't market it as a romantic comedy. I think they knew that the movie would have made less money if they marketed it as a romantic comedy. I really hate those things.

 

I think X2 was the best action movie of all time. I've seen it about 5 more times, and it is as good as it was the first time.

 

However, my expectations for X3 will be too high for it to top X2. I didn't like X-Men that much, so I went into X2 thinking it would be ok. Boy, was I wrong.

I still think Bruce was funny and X-2 was boring.

Hey it's cool, everyone has their opinion.

 

I just stated mine a lot longer than yours.

[Damaramu 0]

Bruce Almighty beat X2? Pffft...fuck that. The other four, I find acceptable. But fuckin' Bruce Almighty?! Ugh.

What? Bruce was a funny movie. I can sit through it again unlike X-2 which was unbearable during round 2.

Funny? I didn't laugh once during it. Same goes for the shit known as Freaky Friday. As soon as I could, I put my earphones on during Freaky Friday, hoping to forget it exists. Mind you, this was just a week ago, so it wasn't in a theater, thankfully.

 

I am agreeing with Yuna and that barely happens.

Awww....thankies! *snuggleglomp*

Well I didn't watch Freaky Friday...looked dumb.

You didn't laugh during Bruce Almighty!? OH MY GOD! Why did I ever think it was funny! Oh man! I was wrong! You sure showed me.