Biggest Opening Weekends in U.S. and Canada
A list of films that grossed in excess of $100 million between the first Friday and first Sunday of release.
| Rank | Film | Year | Opening Weekend (three day) |
Inflation-adjusted (2013 USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marvel's The Avengers | 2012 | $207,438,708 | $207,438,708 |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | 2011 | $169,189,427 | $174,795,704 |
| 3 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | $160,887,295 | $160,887,295 |
| 4 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | $158,411,483 | $170,996,259 |
| 5 | The Hunger Games | 2012 | $152,535,747 | $152,535,747 |
| 6 | Spider-Man 3 | 2007 | $151,116,516 | $169,378,550 |
| 7 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | 2009 | $142,839,137 | $154,736,859 |
| 8 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 | 2012 | $141,067,634 | $141,067,634 |
| 9 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | 2011 | $138,122,261 | $142,699,093 |
| 10 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | $135,634,554 | $156,367,072 |
| 11 | Iron Man 2 | 2010 | $128,122,480 | $136,549,275 |
| 12 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | 2010 | $125,017,372 | $133,239,940 |
| 13 | Shrek the Third | 2007 | $121,629,270 | $136,327,848 |
| 14 | Alice in Wonderland | 2010 | $116,101,023 | $123,737,150 |
| 15 | Spider-Man | 2002 | $114,844,116 | $148,394,321 |
| 16 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | $114,732,820 | $128,597,980 |
| 17 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | $110,307,189 | $117,562,248 |
| 18 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 2009 | $108,966,307 | $118,042,607 |
| 19 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | $108,435,841 | $129,036,618 |
| 20 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | $108,037,878 | $132,934,556 |
| 21 | X-Men: The Last Stand | 2006 | $102,750,665 | $118,456,693 |
| 22 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | $102,685,961 | $122,194,369 |
| 23 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 2008 | $100,137,835 | $108,093,144 |
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