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List of 1999 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1999.^[1]

Number-one films

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#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 3, 1999	Patch Adams	$19,050,675		^[2]
2	January 10, 1999	A Civil Action	$15,163,484	A Civil Action reached #1 its third weekend of limited release.	^[3]
3	January 17, 1999	Varsity Blues	$15,204,148		^[4]
4	January 24, 1999	Varsity Blues	$10,574,508		^[5]
5	January 31, 1999	She's All That	$16,065,430	She's All That broke Spice World's record ($10.5 million) for the highest Super Bowl weekend debut.	^[6]
6	February 7, 1999	Payback	$21,221,526		^[7]
7	February 14, 1999	Message in a Bottle	$18,852,976		^[8]^[9]
8	February 21, 1999	Payback	$10,268,237	Payback reclaimed number 1 in its third weekend of release.	^[10]
9	February 28, 1999	8mm	$14,252,888		^[11]
10	March 7, 1999	Analyze This	$18,383,507		^[12]
11	March 14, 1999	Analyze This	$15,567,669		^[13]
12	March 21, 1999	Forces of Nature	$13,510,728		^[14]
13	March 28, 1999	Forces of Nature	$9,439,629		^[15]
14	April 4, 1999	The Matrix	$27,788,331	The Matrix broke Lost in Space's record ($20.2 million) for the highest weekend debut in April and Indecent Proposal's record ($18.4 mil) for the highest Easter weekend debut.	^[16]
15	April 11, 1999	The Matrix	$22,563,331		^[17]
16	April 18, 1999	Life	$20,414,775		^[18]
17	April 25, 1999	The Matrix	$12,642,717	The Matrix reclaimed number 1 in its fourth weekend of release.	^[19]
18	May 2, 1999	Entrapment	$20,145,595		^[20]
19	May 9, 1999	The Mummy	$43,369,635	The Mummy sets the record for a non-holiday May opening.	^[21]^[22]
20	May 16, 1999	The Mummy	$24,856,320		^[23]
21	May 23, 1999	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	$64,820,970	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace's $28.5 million opening day gross broke The Lost World: Jurassic Park's record ($26.1 million) for the highest single-day tally of all-time and Independence Day's record ($17.4 million) for the highest-grossing Wednesday of all-time. It also broke Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's record ($33.9 million) for the highest weekend debut for a prequel and Star Wars (Special Edition)'s record ($35.9 million) for the highest weekend debut for a PG-rated film. It had the highest weekend debut of 1999.	^[24]^[22]
22	May 30, 1999		$51,399,863	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace broke Jurassic Park's record ($38.5 million) for the highest second weekend gross.	^[25]
23	June 6, 1999		$32,891,653		^[26]
24	June 13, 1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	$54,917,604	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me broke Batman Forever's record ($52.8 million) for the highest weekend debut in June, Mission: Impossible's record ($45.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for a spy film and Ace Ventura: When Nature Callss record ($37.8 million) for the highest weekend debut for a comedy. It was the first sequel to gross more in its opening weekend than the original grossed in its entire run.	^[27]^[22]
25	June 20, 1999	Tarzan	$34,221,968		^[28]
26	June 27, 1999	Big Daddy	$41,536,370		^[29]^[22]
27	July 4, 1999	Wild Wild West	$27,687,484		^[30]
28	July 11, 1999	American Pie	$18,709,680		^[31]
29	July 18, 1999	Eyes Wide Shut	$21,706,163		^[32]
30	July 25, 1999	The Haunting	$33,435,140		^[33]
31	August 1, 1999	Runaway Bride	$35,055,556		^[34]
32	August 8, 1999	The Sixth Sense	$26,681,262	The Sixth Sense broke The Fugitive's record ($23.8 million) for the highest weekend debut in August.	^[35]^[22]
33	August 15, 1999		$25,764,991		^[36]
34	August 22, 1999		$23,950,008		^[37]
35	August 29, 1999		$20,099,149	The Sixth Sense became the first film since Saving Private Ryan to top the box office for four consecutive weekends.	^[38]
36	September 5, 1999		$22,896,967	The Sixth Sense broke The Fugitive's record ($17.2 million) for the highest Labor Day weekend ever. It was only the second film after Titanic to gross more than $20 million for five weekends. It was also the first film since Titanic to top the box office for five consecutive weekends.	^[39]^[40]^[22]
37	September 12, 1999	Stigmata	$18,309,666		^[41]
38	September 19, 1999	Blue Streak	$19,208,806		^[42]
39	September 26, 1999	Double Jeopardy	$23,162,542		^[43]
40	October 3, 1999		$17,018,808		^[44]
41	October 10, 1999		$13,541,285		^[45]^[46]
42	October 17, 1999	Fight Club	$11,035,485		^[47]
43	October 24, 1999	The Best Man	$9,031,660		^[48]
44	October 31, 1999	House on Haunted Hill	$15,946,032		^[49]
45	November 7, 1999	The Bone Collector	$16,712,020		^[50]
46	November 14, 1999	Pokémon: The First Movie	$31,036,678	Pokémon: The First Movie broke Mortal Kombat's record ($23.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for a video game adaptation and The Rugrats Movie's record ($27.3 million) for the highest weekend debut for a non-Disney animated film.	^[51]
47	November 21, 1999	The World Is Not Enough	$35,519,007		^[52]
48	November 28, 1999	Toy Story 2	$57,388,839	Toy Story 2 broke The Waterboy's record ($39.4 million) for the highest weekend debut in November and for the holiday season. It also broke 101 Dalmatians' record ($33.5 million) for the highest Thanksgiving weekend debut, and The Lion King's records ($40.9 million) for the highest weekend debut for an animated film and a G-rated film.	^[53]
49	December 5, 1999		$27,760,276		^[54]
50	December 12, 1999		$18,249,880		^[55]
51	December 19, 1999	Stuart Little	$15,018,223		^[56]
52	December 26, 1999	Any Given Sunday	$13,584,625		^[57]
53	January 2, 2000	Stuart Little	$16,022,757	Stuart Little reclaimed the number 1 spot in its third weekend of release.	^[58]

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Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August and Frank Oz	George Lucas	$430,281,928
2.	The Sixth Sense	Walt Disney Studios	Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams and Haley Joel Osment	M. Night Shyamalan	$276,113,671
3.	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	New Line Cinema	Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green and Elizabeth Hurley	Jay Roach	$206,041,479
4.	Toy Story 2	Walt Disney Studios	voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Jim Varney, Annie Potts, Estelle Harris and Wayne Knight	John Lasseter	$199,843,054
5.	The Matrix	Warner Bros. Pictures	Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Joe Pantoliano	The Wachowskis	$171,479,930
6.	Tarzan	Walt Disney Studios	voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Alex D. Linz, Rosie O'Donnell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight and Taylor Dempsey	Kevin Lima and Chris Buck	$170,867,780
7.	Big Daddy	Columbia Pictures	Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse and Leslie Mann	Dennis Dugan	$163,479,795
8.	The Mummy	Universal Pictures	Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Jonathan Hyde and Kevin J. O'Connor	Stephen Sommers	$155,385,488
9.	Runaway Bride	Paramount Pictures	Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Héctor Elizondo, Rita Wilson and Paul Dooley	Garry Marshall	$152,005,535
10.	The Blair Witch Project	Artisan	Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard	Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez	$140,539,099

List_of_1999_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

List of 1999 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

See also

References

Chronology

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Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	$431,088,295
2.	The Sixth Sense	Disney	$293,506,292
3.	Toy Story 2	Disney	$245,852,179
4.	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	New Line Cinema	$206,040,086
5.	The Matrix	Warner Bros.	$171,479,930
6.	Tarzan	Disney	$171,091,819
7.	Big Daddy	Columbia	$163,479,795
8.	The Mummy	Universal	$155,385,488
9.	Runaway Bride	Paramount	$152,257,509
10.	The Blair Witch Project	Artisan	$140,539,099

G	Toy Story 2
PG	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
PG-13	The Sixth Sense
R	The Matrix