Highest Grossing July 4th Weekend Releases

This weekend we might see Transformers: Age of Extinction make somewhere around $47 million or so, but that won’t be enough to make it one of the highest grossing July 4 weekend totals. Using data from Box Office Mojo, directly below are the highest July 4 weekend box office results, both actual dollar figures and adjusted for inflation.

Perhaps most interesting, to me, is the fact not a single release has ever topped $100 million for the July 4 weekend, though, I guess when you consider a lot of these are actually released a few days before it’s not really a fair barometer. After all, while Transformers: Dark of the Moon may have made $97.8 million on July 4 weekend, by the end of said weekend its domestic total was already up to $162.6 million.

I guess the biggest question is to wonder how many of these massive money makers are actually good? See anything you truly love?

1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) – $97.8M opening / $352.3M cume
2. Spider-Man 2 (2004) – $88.1M opening / $373.5M cume
3. Despicable Me 2 (2013) – $83.5M opening / $368M cume
4. Transformers (2007) – $70.5M opening / $319.2M cume
5. War of the Worlds (2005) – $64.8M opening / $234.28M cume
6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) – $64.8M opening / $300.5M cume
7. Hancock (2008) – $62.6M opening / $227.9M cume
8. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) – $62M opening / $262M cume
9. Superman Returns (2006) – $52.5M opening / $200M cume
10. Men in Black II (2002) – $52.1M opening / $190.4M cume

Adjusted for Inflation

1. Spider-Man 2 (2004) – $112.9M opening / $478.8M cume
2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) – $98M opening / $352.3M cume
3. Independence Day (1996) – $90.4M opening / $551.3M cume
4. Men in Black (1997) – $88.5M opening / $434.7M cume
5. Despicable Me 2 (2013) – $84.7M opening / $373.2M cume
6. Transformers (2007) – $81.5M opening / $369.3M cume
7. War of the Worlds (2005) – $80.5M opening / $290.9M cume
8. Men in Black II (2002) – $71.4M opening / $260.8M cume
9. Hancock (2008) – $69.4M opening / $252.7M cume
10. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) – $66.9M opening / $300.9M cume