Box Office

Domestic box office · 2003

The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.

Worldwide Domestic International

#	Title	Domestic	Adjusted for inflation
1	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	$377.0M	$673.8M
2	Finding Nemo	$339.7M	$607.1M
3	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	$305.4M	$545.8M
4	The Matrix Reloaded	$281.6M	$503.2M
5	Bruce Almighty	$242.8M	$433.9M
6	X2: X-Men United	$214.9M	$384.1M
7	Elf	$173.4M	$309.9M
8	Bayside Shakedown 2	$155.1M	$277.2M
9	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	$150.4M	$268.7M
10	The Matrix Revolutions	$139.3M	$249.0M
11	Cheaper by the Dozen	$138.6M	$247.7M
12	Bad Boys II	$138.6M	$247.7M
13	Anger Management	$135.6M	$242.4M
14	Bringing Down the House	$132.7M	$237.2M
15	Hulk	$132.2M	$236.2M
16	2 Fast 2 Furious	$127.2M	$227.2M
17	Something's Gotta Give	$124.7M	$222.9M
18	Seabiscuit	$120.3M	$214.9M
19	S.W.A.T.	$116.9M	$209.0M
20	The Village	$114.2M	$204.1M
21	Spy Kids 3: Game Over	$111.8M	$199.7M
22	The Last Samurai	$111.1M	$198.6M
23	Freaky Friday	$110.2M	$197.0M
24	Scary Movie 3	$110.0M	$196.6M
25	The Italian Job	$106.1M	$189.7M
26	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days	$105.8M	$189.1M
27	American Wedding	$104.6M	$186.9M
28	Daddy Day Care	$104.3M	$186.4M
29	Daredevil	$102.5M	$183.3M
30	The Cat in the Hat	$101.1M	$180.8M
31	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	$100.8M	$180.2M
32	Cold Mountain	$95.6M	$170.9M
33	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	$93.9M	$167.9M
34	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde	$90.2M	$161.2M
35	Mystic River	$90.1M	$161.1M
36	Brother Bear	$85.3M	$152.5M
37	Freddy vs. Jason	$82.6M	$147.7M
38	School of Rock	$81.3M	$145.2M
39	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	$80.6M	$144.0M
40	The Haunted Mansion	$75.8M	$135.5M
41	Old School	$75.6M	$135.1M
42	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	$70.1M	$125.3M
43	Holes	$67.4M	$120.5M
44	Kangaroo Jack	$66.9M	$119.6M
45	Big Fish	$66.8M	$119.4M
46	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	$66.5M	$118.8M
47	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life	$65.7M	$117.3M
48	Mona Lisa Smile	$63.9M	$114.1M
49	Shanghai Knights	$60.5M	$108.1M
50	Bad Santa	$60.1M	$107.3M
51	Love Actually	$59.8M	$106.9M
52	Gothika	$59.7M	$106.7M
53	Open Range	$58.3M	$104.2M
54	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	$56.4M	$100.7M
55	Just Married	$56.1M	$100.3M
56	Paycheck	$53.8M	$96.1M
57	The Recruit	$52.8M	$94.4M
58	Radio	$52.3M	$93.5M
59	Identity	$52.2M	$93.2M
60	Underworld	$52.0M	$92.9M
61	The Jungle Book 2 2003 Re-release	$50.6M	$90.4M
62	Runaway Jury	$49.4M	$88.4M
63	Peter Pan	$48.5M	$86.6M
64	Agent Cody Banks	$47.9M	$85.7M
65	The Jungle Book 2	$47.9M	$85.6M
66	The Rundown	$47.7M	$85.3M
67	Final Destination 2	$47.0M	$83.9M
68	Phone Booth	$46.6M	$83.2M
69	Lost in Translation	$44.6M	$79.7M
70	Tears of the Sun	$43.7M	$78.2M
71	Under the Tuscan Sun	$43.6M	$77.9M
72	The Lizzie McGuire Movie	$42.7M	$76.4M
73	Secondhand Lions	$42.1M	$75.2M
74	Out of Time	$41.1M	$73.4M
75	Rugrats Go Wild	$39.4M	$70.4M
76	Good Boy	$37.7M	$67.3M
77	Uptown Girls	$37.2M	$66.4M
78	Matchstick Men	$36.9M	$66.0M
79	National Security	$36.4M	$65.0M
80	What a Girl Wants	$36.1M	$64.5M
81	Jeepers Creepers 2	$35.7M	$63.7M
82	Intolerable Cruelty	$35.3M	$63.1M
83	Cradle 2 the Grave	$34.7M	$62.0M
84	Monster	$34.5M	$61.6M
85	The Hunted	$34.2M	$61.2M
86	Stuck on You	$33.8M	$60.5M
87	Dreamcatcher	$33.7M	$60.3M
88	Darkness Falls	$32.6M	$58.2M
89	The Core	$31.2M	$55.7M
90	Calendar Girls	$31.0M	$55.5M
91	Hollywood Homicide	$30.9M	$55.3M
92	Honey	$30.3M	$54.2M
93	Johnny English	$28.1M	$50.2M
94	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	$26.5M	$47.3M
95	Piglet's Big Movie	$23.1M	$41.3M
96	Torque	$21.2M	$37.9M
97	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	$21.0M	$37.5M
98	21 Grams	$16.3M	$29.1M
99	Good Bye Lenin!	$4.1M	$7.3M
100	Taxi 3	$497K	$889K

“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.

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