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List of 2020 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekend box office for the year 2020.^[1]

Number-one films

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#	Weekend end date	Film	Gross	Notes	Refs
1	January 5, 2020	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	$34,524,815		^[2]
2	January 12, 2020	1917	$37,000,200	1917 reached number one after two weeks of limited release.	^[3]
3	January 19, 2020	Bad Boys for Life	$62,504,105	Bad Boys for Life had the highest weekend debut of 2020.	^[4]
4	January 26, 2020		$34,011,714		^[5]
5	February 2, 2020		$17,682,959	Bad Boys for Life became the first film in 2020 to top the box office for three consecutive weekends.	^[6]
6	February 9, 2020	Birds of Prey	$33,010,017		^[7]
7	February 16, 2020	Sonic the Hedgehog	$58,018,348	Sonic the Hedgehog broke Detective Pikachu's record ($54.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for a video game adaptation.	^[8]
8	February 23, 2020	Sonic the Hedgehog	$26,192,294		^[9]
9	March 1, 2020	The Invisible Man	$28,205,665		^[10]
10	March 8, 2020	Onward	$39,119,861		^[11]
11	March 15, 2020	Onward	$10,601,952	During the week, Sonic the Hedgehog ($145.0 million) broke Detective Pikachu's record ($144.1 million) for the highest grossing video game adaptation domestically.	^[12]
12–33	March 22, 2020–August 16, 2020	These are weekends for which most box office reporting was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic following the closure of theaters			^[13]
34	August 23, 2020	Unhinged	$4,000,761	Unhinged reached number one in its second weekend of release (and first in American theaters). It was the first wide release film since March.	^[14]
35	August 30, 2020	The New Mutants	$7,037,017		^[15]
36	September 6, 2020	Tenet	$9,353,090	With 65% of theaters in the country open, Tenet reached number one, and was highest-grossing weekend for a film since March.	^[16]
37	September 13, 2020		$6,603,467		^[17]
38	September 20, 2020		$4,568,470		^[18]
39	September 27, 2020		$3,348,340	Tenet became the first film since Black Panther to top the box office for four consecutive weekends.	^[19]
40	October 4, 2020		$2,664,202	Tenet became the first film since Black Panther to top the box office for five consecutive weekends.	^[20]
41	October 11, 2020	The War with Grandpa	$3,623,880		^[21]
42	October 18, 2020	Honest Thief	$4,115,249		^[22]
43	October 25, 2020	Honest Thief	$2,354,022		^[23]
44	November 1, 2020	Come Play	$3,119,875		^[24]
45	November 8, 2020	Let Him Go	$4,000,470		^[25]
46	November 15, 2020	Freaky	$3,600,355		^[26]
47	November 22, 2020	Freaky	$1,281,150		^[27]
48	November 29, 2020	The Croods: A New Age	$9,724,200		^[28]
49	December 6, 2020		$4,439,855		^[29]
50	December 13, 2020		$3,060,535		^[30]
51	December 20, 2020	Monster Hunter	$2,201,269		^[31]
52	December 27, 2020	Wonder Woman 1984	$16,701,957	Simultaneously released on HBO Max.	^[32]

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Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Domestic Gross
1.	Bad Boys for Life	Sony Pictures	Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Núñez, Kate del Castillo, Nicky Jam, and Joe Pantoliano	Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah	$204,417,855
2.	1917	Universal Pictures	George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch	Sam Mendes	$157,901,466
3.	Sonic the Hedgehog	Paramount Pictures	James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Jim Carrey, Lee Majdoub, Adam Pally, Frank C. Turner, Tom Butler and Natasha Rothwell	Jeff Fowler	$146,066,470
4.	Jumanji: The Next Level	Sony Pictures	Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Ser'Darius Blain, Madison Iseman, Danny Glover and Danny DeVito	Jake Kasdan	$124,736,710
5.	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Walt Disney Studios	Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyong'o, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid and Billy Dee Williams	J. J. Abrams	$124,496,308
6.	Birds of Prey	Warner Bros. Pictures	Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, and Ewan McGregor	Cathy Yan	$84,158,461
7.	Dolittle	Universal Pictures	Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard	Stephen Gaghan	$77,047,065
8.	Little Women	Sony Pictures	Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel and Chris Cooper	Greta Gerwig	$70,508,087
9.	The Invisible Man	Universal Pictures	Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen	Leigh Whannell	$64,914,050
10.	The Call of the Wild	20th Century Studios	Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan, and Bradley Whitford	Chris Sanders	$62,342,368

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Bad Boys for Life	Sony	$206,305,244
2.	Sonic the Hedgehog	Paramount	$148,974,665
3.	Birds of Prey	Warner Bros.	$84,158,461
4.	Dolittle	Universal	$77,047,065
5.	The Invisible Man	Universal	$70,410,000
6.	The Call of the Wild	20th Century Studios	$62,342,368
7.	Onward	Disney	$61,555,145
8.	The Croods: A New Age	Universal	$58,544,525
9.	Tenet	Warner Bros.	$58,456,624
10.	Wonder Woman 1984^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Warner Bros.	$46,534,027

List_of_2020_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

List of 2020 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

See also

Additional notes

References

Chronology

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PG	Sonic the Hedgehog
PG-13	Tenet
R	Bad Boys for Life