Fortune — Fourth of July weekend has historically served as a showcase for some of the movie industry’s biggest blockbusters, when Hollywood looks to tempt Americans away from the beach and their grills to spend part of their holiday weekend in a movie theater.
But, in terms of overall box-office gross, the weekend saw below-average totals the past two years, thanks to disappointing lineups of new releases. Of course, holiday weekend box office totals are only as good as the new releases debuting in movie theaters across the country. This weekend could bring another tepid box office performance in domestic theaters, as even the biggest new releases—Walt Disney’s The BFG and Warner Bros.
If this holiday weekend’s slate of films doesn’t inspire you to make the trek to a movie theater, then consider revisiting some past movies that fared well over Fourth of July weekend. Here are the seven highest-grossing domestic opening weekends around Independence Day going back to 1982.
1. Spider-Man 2, 2004 ($ 121,8 milion); 2. Transformer: Dark of the Moon, 2011 ($ 105,7 million); 3. Independece day, 1998 ($ 97,5 million); 4. Men in Black, 1994 ($ 95,5 million); 5. Despicable Me 2, 2015 ($ 91,4 million); 6. Transformers, 2007 ($ 87,9 million) and 7. War of the worlds 2005 ($ 86,8 million).
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