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Widest Expansion for Limited Release Movies
This chart contains figures for the top 100 Widest Expansions (defined as Maximum Theaters minus Opening Theaters) for limited release movies at the domestic box office.
| Rank | Released | Movie | Expansion | Opening Weekend Theaters |
Maximum Theaters |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2,933 | 10 | 2,943 | $141,330,703 |
| 2 | 2010 | The King’s Speech | 2,580 | 4 | 2,584 | $138,797,449 |
| 3 | 2007 | Juno | 2,527 | 7 | 2,534 | $143,495,265 |
| 4 | 2014 | The Imitation Game | 2,398 | 4 | 2,402 | $91,125,143 |
| 5 | 2010 | Black Swan | 2,389 | 18 | 2,407 | $107,770,258 |
| 6 | 2001 | Gosford Park | 2,308 | 9 | 2,317 | $41,300,105 |
| 7 | 2023 | Poor Things | 2,291 | 9 | 2,300 | $34,553,225 |
| 8 | 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | 2,084 | 5 | 2,089 | $84,111,816 |
| 9 | 2025 | Bugonia | 2,026 | 17 | 2,043 | $5,815,000 |
| 10 | 2012 | 2016: Obama’s America | 2,016 | 1 | 2,017 | $33,349,941 |
| 11 | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2,011 | 16 | 2,027 | $128,519,357 |
| 12 | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 2,009 | 28 | 2,037 | $74,273,505 |
| 13 | 2019 | Parasite (기생충) | 1,998 | 3 | 2,001 | $53,867,897 |
| 14 | 2002 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 1,908 | 108 | 2,016 | $241,438,208 |
| 15 | 2023 | American Fiction | 1,895 | 7 | 1,902 | $21,098,470 |
| 16 | 2023 | Bottoms | 1,805 | 10 | 1,815 | $12,036,071 |
| 17 | 2016 | Lion | 1,798 | 4 | 1,802 | $51,739,495 |
| 18 | 2004 | Sideways | 1,783 | 4 | 1,787 | $71,502,303 |
| 19 | 2011 | The Artist | 1,752 | 4 | 1,756 | $44,667,095 |
| 20 | 1999 | The Cider House Rules | 1,730 | 8 | 1,738 | $57,547,209 |
| 21 | 2017 | Darkest Hour | 1,729 | 4 | 1,733 | $56,443,120 |
| 22 | 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 1,722 | 4 | 1,726 | $54,513,740 |
| 23 | 1995 | Mr. Holland’s Opus | 1,658 | 1 | 1,659 | $82,582,604 |
| 24 | 2007 | There Will Be Blood | 1,618 | 2 | 1,620 | $40,222,514 |
| 25 | 1996 | In Love and War | 1,611 | 1 | 1,612 | $14,481,231 |
| 26 | 2024 | The Brutalist | 1,608 | 4 | 1,612 | $16,249,415 |
| 27 | 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | 1,595 | 7 | 1,602 | $59,891,098 |
| 28 | 2016 | Silence | 1,576 | 4 | 1,580 | $7,100,177 |
| 29 | 2016 | Moonlight | 1,560 | 4 | 1,564 | $27,854,931 |
| 30 | 2005 | Howl’s Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) | 1,556 | 36 | 1,592 | $7,095,145 |
| 31 | 2017 | Lady Bird | 1,553 | 4 | 1,557 | $48,958,273 |
| 32 | 2019 | The Peanut Butter Falcon | 1,473 | 17 | 1,490 | $20,457,158 |
| 33 | 2016 | Hell or High Water | 1,473 | 32 | 1,505 | $27,007,844 |
| 34 | 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 1,463 | 4 | 1,467 | $59,076,019 |
| 35 | 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | 1,455 | 19 | 1,474 | $56,671,993 |
| 36 | 2017 | I, Tonya | 1,446 | 4 | 1,450 | $30,014,534 |
| 37 | 2000 | Snatch | 1,443 | 1 | 1,444 | $30,093,107 |
| 38 | 2004 | Finding Neverland | 1,403 | 8 | 1,411 | $51,676,606 |
| 39 | 1996 | The English Patient | 1,399 | 10 | 1,409 | $78,716,374 |
| 40 | 2006 | The Illusionist | 1,387 | 51 | 1,438 | $39,868,642 |
| 41 | 2007 | Atonement | 1,368 | 32 | 1,400 | $50,980,159 |
| 42 | 2009 | Crazy Heart | 1,357 | 4 | 1,361 | $39,471,742 |
| 43 | 2014 | Wild | 1,340 | 21 | 1,361 | $37,880,356 |
| 44 | 2015 | Still Alice | 1,306 | 12 | 1,318 | $18,656,400 |
| 45 | 1995 | Leaving Las Vegas | 1,303 | 7 | 1,310 | $31,983,777 |
| 46 | 2014 | Begin Again | 1,297 | 5 | 1,302 | $16,170,632 |
| 47 | 2003 | Love Actually | 1,294 | 576 | 1,870 | $60,235,426 |
| 48 | 2014 | Chef | 1,292 | 6 | 1,298 | $31,424,004 |
| 49 | 2002 | Punch-Drunk Love | 1,288 | 5 | 1,293 | $17,791,031 |
| 50 | 2025 | Friendship | 1,287 | 6 | 1,293 | $16,228,274 |
| 51 | 2012 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | 1,271 | 27 | 1,298 | $46,383,639 |
| 52 | 1999 | Fantasia 2000 | 1,259 | 54 | 1,313 | $60,507,228 |
| 53 | 2016 | Shin Godjira | 1,256 | 34 | 1,290 | $5,950,174 |
| 54 | 2002 | About Schmidt | 1,234 | 6 | 1,240 | $65,005,217 |
| 55 | 2004 | Napoleon Dynamite | 1,230 | 6 | 1,236 | $44,540,956 |
| 56 | 2005 | Capote | 1,227 | 12 | 1,239 | $28,750,530 |
| 57 | 2015 | Spotlight | 1,222 | 5 | 1,227 | $45,055,776 |
| 58 | 2013 | Philomena | 1,221 | 4 | 1,225 | $37,709,979 |
| 59 | 2023 | Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey | 1,218 | 434 | 1,652 | $2,068,834 |
| 60 | 2014 | The Theory of Everything | 1,215 | 5 | 1,220 | $35,893,537 |
| 61 | 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | 1,209 | 4 | 1,213 | $47,695,371 |
| 62 | 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 1,209 | 4 | 1,213 | $42,340,598 |
| 63 | 2008 | The Reader | 1,195 | 8 | 1,203 | $34,194,407 |
| 64 | 2015 | Trumbo | 1,182 | 5 | 1,187 | $7,857,741 |
| 65 | 2017 | Phantom Thread | 1,182 | 4 | 1,186 | $21,198,205 |
| 66 | 1998 | The Players Club | 1,176 | 593 | 1,769 | $23,047,939 |
| 67 | 2021 | The French Dispatch | 1,173 | 52 | 1,225 | $16,124,375 |
| 68 | 2019 | Jojo Rabbit | 1,168 | 5 | 1,173 | $33,370,906 |
| 69 | 2019 | Judy | 1,166 | 461 | 1,627 | $24,319,961 |
| 70 | 2005 | The Upside of Anger | 1,157 | 9 | 1,166 | $18,761,993 |
| 71 | 1998 | La vita è bella | 1,130 | 6 | 1,136 | $57,598,247 |
| 72 | 2006 | El Laberinto del Fauno | 1,126 | 17 | 1,143 | $37,634,615 |
| 73 | 2019 | Gloria Bell | 1,122 | 5 | 1,127 | $5,611,123 |
| 74 | 2007 | Sicko | 1,116 | 1 | 1,117 | $24,538,513 |
| 75 | 2014 | Belle | 1,110 | 4 | 1,114 | $10,726,630 |
| 76 | 2007 | Becoming Jane | 1,110 | 100 | 1,210 | $18,663,911 |
| 77 | 2024 | Babes | 1,106 | 12 | 1,118 | $3,800,038 |
| 78 | 2008 | Frost/Nixon | 1,102 | 3 | 1,105 | $18,622,031 |
| 79 | 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | 1,101 | 9 | 1,110 | $27,298,285 |
| 80 | 2001 | In the Bedroom | 1,099 | 4 | 1,103 | $35,930,604 |
| 81 | 2003 | Monster | 1,089 | 4 | 1,093 | $34,469,210 |
| 82 | 2022 | TÁR | 1,086 | 4 | 1,090 | $6,773,650 |
| 83 | 2016 | Eye in the Sky | 1,084 | 5 | 1,089 | $18,704,596 |
| 84 | 2018 | Eighth Grade | 1,080 | 4 | 1,084 | $13,539,710 |
| 85 | 2008 | Revolutionary Road | 1,074 | 3 | 1,077 | $22,951,340 |
| 86 | 2014 | Bad Words | 1,068 | 6 | 1,074 | $7,779,614 |
| 87 | 2015 | Grandma | 1,057 | 4 | 1,061 | $6,980,524 |
| 88 | 2017 | Victoria and Abdul | 1,056 | 4 | 1,060 | $22,245,070 |
| 89 | 2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | 1,048 | 4 | 1,052 | $16,648,499 |
| 90 | 2018 | Beautiful Boy | 1,048 | 4 | 1,052 | $7,634,767 |
| 91 | 2021 | After We Fell | 1,048 | 246 | 1,294 | $2,170,750 |
| 92 | 1996 | Shine | 1,043 | 7 | 1,050 | $35,811,509 |
| 93 | 1996 | Evita | 1,043 | 2 | 1,045 | $50,047,179 |
| 94 | 2018 | The Old Man and the Gun | 1,037 | 5 | 1,042 | $11,277,120 |
| 95 | 2018 | Sorry to Bother You | 1,034 | 16 | 1,050 | $17,493,096 |
| 96 | 2011 | Midnight in Paris | 1,032 | 6 | 1,038 | $56,816,662 |
| 97 | 2019 | Brittany Runs a Marathon | 1,028 | 5 | 1,033 | $7,136,342 |
| 98 | 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | 1,021 | 27 | 1,048 | $32,425,665 |
| 99 | 2006 | Thank You For Smoking | 1,015 | 5 | 1,020 | $24,793,509 |
| 100 | 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | 1,014 | 4 | 1,018 | $14,915,773 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
Note: the records on this page only consider movies that were initially released in less than 600 theaters and did not have any expansion of more than 1,000 theaters in one week. We only consider movies that were released in 1995 or later, and do not consider movies that only had an IMAX release.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.