This Movie Holds the Box Office Record for Most Weeks at 1
If you're a film fan, you can't get around the never-ending talk of box office receipts. Headlines rave about how well Barbie and Oppenheimer do, while also looking at the failure of the latest sequel or superhero film like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny or The Flash. When a film is a hit, its dominance usually only lasts a week or two. With the Cineplex being like an assembly line, there's always something new and shiny to catch our attention right around the corner.
Which Movies Did 'E.T.' Toppled Along the Way to Box Office Success? E.T. didn't succeed by thriving on a massive opening weekend haul and then dwindling away. No, E.T. won because of its staying power. It held the number one spot at the box office for sixteen weeks. Forty-one years later, it's a record E.T. has held onto. Those sixteen weeks weren't all in a row. That would have been very impressive on its own. E.T.
Sylvester Stallone's Rocky III came out two weeks before E.T. The friendly little alien knocked him out. An Officer and a Gentleman came out later in the summer. It didn't matter. There was also Arthur, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, Annie, Chariots of Fire, and First Blood. E.T. outlasted them all. By the end of 1982, it had collected $314 million, a number that would be mightily impressive even today.
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