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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 $106,954,678
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 $83,043,761
9 2012 2016: Obama’s America 2,016 1 2,017 $33,349,941
10 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2,011 16 2,027 $128,519,357
11 2007 No Country for Old Men 2,009 28 2,037 $74,273,505
12 2019 Parasite (기생충) 1,998 3 2,001 $53,369,745
13 2002 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1,908 108 2,016 $241,438,208
14 2023 American Fiction 1,895 7 1,902 $21,098,470
15 2023 Bottoms 1,805 10 1,815 $12,036,071
16 2016 Lion 1,798 4 1,802 $51,739,495
17 2004 Sideways 1,783 4 1,787 $71,502,303
18 2011 The Artist 1,752 4 1,756 $44,667,095
19 1999 The Cider House Rules 1,730 8 1,738 $57,547,209
20 2017 Darkest Hour 1,729 4 1,733 $56,443,120
21 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 1,722 4 1,726 $54,513,740
22 2022 The Whale 1,715 6 1,721 $17,453,440
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 2006 Little Miss Sunshine 1,595 7 1,602 $59,891,098
27 2016 Silence 1,576 4 1,580 $7,100,177
28 2016 Moonlight 1,560 4 1,564 $27,854,931
29 2005 Hauru no ugoku shiro 1,556 36 1,592 $7,095,145
30 2017 Lady Bird 1,553 4 1,557 $48,958,273
31 2019 The Peanut Butter Falcon 1,473 17 1,490 $20,457,158
32 2016 Hell or High Water 1,473 32 1,505 $27,007,844
33 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel 1,463 4 1,467 $59,076,019
34 2013 12 Years a Slave 1,455 19 1,474 $56,671,993
35 2017 I, Tonya 1,446 4 1,450 $30,014,534
36 2000 Snatch 1,443 1 1,444 $30,093,107
37 2004 Finding Neverland 1,403 8 1,411 $51,676,606
38 1996 The English Patient 1,399 10 1,409 $78,716,374
39 2006 The Illusionist 1,387 51 1,438 $39,868,642
40 2007 Atonement 1,368 32 1,400 $50,980,159
41 2009 Crazy Heart 1,357 4 1,361 $39,471,742
42 2014 Wild 1,340 21 1,361 $37,880,356
43 2015 Still Alice 1,306 12 1,318 $18,656,400
44 1995 Leaving Las Vegas 1,303 7 1,310 $31,983,777
45 2014 Begin Again 1,297 5 1,302 $16,170,632
46 2003 Love Actually 1,294 576 1,870 $60,104,551
47 2014 Chef 1,292 6 1,298 $31,424,004
48 2002 Punch-Drunk Love 1,288 5 1,293 $17,791,031
49 2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1,271 27 1,298 $46,383,639
50 1999 Fantasia 2000 1,259 54 1,313 $60,507,228
51 2012 The Iron Lady 1,240 4 1,244 $29,959,436
52 2002 About Schmidt 1,234 6 1,240 $65,005,217
53 2004 Napoleon Dynamite 1,230 6 1,236 $44,540,956
54 2005 Capote 1,227 12 1,239 $28,750,530
55 2015 Spotlight 1,222 5 1,227 $45,055,776
56 2013 Philomena 1,221 4 1,225 $37,709,979
57 2023 Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 1,218 434 1,652 $2,068,834
58 2014 The Theory of Everything 1,215 5 1,220 $35,893,537
59 2016 Manchester by the Sea 1,209 4 1,213 $47,695,371
60 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 1,209 4 1,213 $42,340,598
61 2008 The Reader 1,195 8 1,203 $34,194,407
62 2017 Phantom Thread 1,182 4 1,186 $21,198,205
63 2015 Trumbo 1,182 5 1,187 $7,857,741
64 1998 The Players Club 1,176 593 1,769 $23,047,939
65 2021 The French Dispatch 1,173 52 1,225 $16,124,375
66 2019 Jojo Rabbit 1,168 5 1,173 $33,370,906
67 2019 Judy 1,166 461 1,627 $24,319,961
68 2005 The Upside of Anger 1,157 9 1,166 $18,761,993
69 1998 La vita è bella 1,130 6 1,136 $57,598,247
70 2006 El Laberinto del Fauno 1,126 17 1,143 $37,634,615
71 2019 Gloria Bell 1,122 5 1,127 $5,611,123
72 2007 Sicko 1,116 1 1,117 $24,538,513
73 2007 Becoming Jane 1,110 100 1,210 $18,663,911
74 2014 Belle 1,110 4 1,114 $10,726,630
75 2024 Babes 1,106 12 1,118 $3,800,038
76 2008 Frost/Nixon 1,102 3 1,105 $18,622,031
77 2013 Dallas Buyers Club 1,101 9 1,110 $27,298,285
78 2001 In the Bedroom 1,099 4 1,103 $35,930,604
79 2003 Monster 1,089 4 1,093 $34,469,210
80 2022 TÁR 1,086 4 1,090 $6,773,650
81 2016 Eye in the Sky 1,084 5 1,089 $18,704,596
82 2018 Eighth Grade 1,080 4 1,084 $13,539,710
83 2008 Revolutionary Road 1,074 3 1,077 $22,951,340
84 2014 Bad Words 1,068 6 1,074 $7,779,614
85 2015 Grandma 1,057 4 1,061 $6,980,524
86 2017 Victoria and Abdul 1,056 4 1,060 $22,245,070
87 2021 After We Fell 1,048 246 1,294 $2,170,750
88 2018 Beautiful Boy 1,048 4 1,052 $7,634,767
89 2018 Mary Queen of Scots 1,048 4 1,052 $16,648,499
90 1996 Shine 1,043 7 1,050 $35,811,509
91 1996 Evita 1,043 2 1,045 $50,047,179
92 2018 The Old Man and the Gun 1,037 5 1,042 $11,277,120
93 2018 Sorry to Bother You 1,034 16 1,050 $17,493,096
94 2011 Midnight in Paris 1,032 6 1,038 $56,816,662
95 2019 Brittany Runs a Marathon 1,028 5 1,033 $7,136,342
96 2009 (500) Days of Summer 1,021 27 1,048 $32,425,665
97 2006 Thank You For Smoking 1,015 5 1,020 $24,793,509
98 2018 If Beale Street Could Talk 1,014 4 1,018 $14,915,773
99 2013 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 1,006 4 1,010 $8,323,085
100 2002 Antwone Fisher 1,006 15 1,021 $21,078,145

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.