List of 1974 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 weekly box office in the United States during 1974 per Variety . The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

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Number-one films

#Week endingFilmGrossNotesRef
1January 2, 1974 Papillon $1,463,300Papillon reached number one in its second week of release [1]
2January 9, 1974 The Exorcist $1,007,800The Exorcist reached number one in its second week of release [2]
3January 16, 1974$1,365,500 [3]
4January 23, 1974$1,532,611 [4]
5January 30, 1974$1,535,896 [5]
6February 6, 1974$1,589,500 [6]
7February 13, 1974$1,369,500 [7]
8February 20, 1974$1,506,188 [8]
9February 27, 1974$1,312,000 [9]
10March 6, 1974$1,182,600 [10]
11March 13, 1974$1,012,100 [11]
12March 20, 1974$835,200 [12]
13March 27, 1974$743,283 [13]
14April 3, 1974 The Sting $1,332,300The Sting reached number one in its 14th week on the chart [14]
15April 10, 1974$1,585,100 [15]
16April 17, 1974 Blazing Saddles $1,233,700Blazing Saddles reached number one in its tenth week of release [16]
17April 24, 1974The Sting$1,145,900The Sting returned to number one in its 17th week on the chart [17]
18May 1, 1974$1,032,900 [18]
19May 8, 1974$853,300 [19]
20May 15, 1974$815,000 [20]
21May 22, 1974$725,500 [21]
22May 29, 1974 The Great Gatsby $1,044,438The Great Gatsby reached number one in its ninth week on the chart [22]
23June 5, 1974The Sting$759,700The Sting returned to number one in its 23rd week on the chart [23]
24June 12, 1974 The Poseidon Adventure (reissue)$575,500 [24]
25June 19, 1974 The Lords of Flatbush $612,000The Lords of Flatbush reached number one in its seventh week on the chart [25]
26June 26, 1974The Exorcist$4,061,300The Exorcist returned to number one in its 26th week of release. First film to gross over $4 million in a week in the cities sampled [26]
27July 3, 1974$2,547,437 [27]
28July 10, 1974$1,542,825 [28]
29July 17, 1974 Herbie Rides Again $860,200Herbie Rides Again reached number one in its sixth week on the chart [29]
30July 24, 1974 Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry $869,202Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry reached number one in its ninth week on the chart [30]
31July 31, 1974 For Pete's Sake $1,015,150For Pete's Sake reached number one in its fifth week on the chart [31]
32August 7, 1974$661,500 [32]
33August 14, 1974 Return of the Dragon $1,168,500Return of the Dragon reached number one in its third week on the chart [33]
34August 21, 1974 That's Entertainment! $1,307,900That's Entertainment! reached number one in its 14th week on the chart [34]
35August 28, 1974 Chinatown $1,272,000Chinatown reached number one in its tenth week on the chart [35]
36September 4, 1974$1,175,900 [36]
37September 11, 1974That's Entertainment!$781,150That's Entertainment! returned to number one in its 17th week on the chart [37]
38September 18, 1974$524,350 [38]
39September 25, 1974 Macon County Line $458,000Macon County Line reached number one in its twelfth week on the chart [39]
40October 2, 1974 The Longest Yard $513,630The Longest Yard reached number one in its sixth week on the chart [40]
41October 9, 1974 Cabaret (reissue)$1,345,000 [41]
42October 16, 1974$687,000 [42]
43October 23, 1974 Airport 1975 $903,934 [43]
44October 30, 1974The Longest Yard$905,854The Longest Yard returned to number one in its tenth week on the chart [44]
45November 6, 1974$926,200 [45]
46November 13, 1974$816,500 [46]
47November 20, 1974 The Trial of Billy Jack $2,390,000 [47]
48November 27, 1974$2,026,000 [48]
49December 4, 1974$1,268,200 [49]
50December 11, 1974 Death Wish $693,951Death Wish reached number one in its twentieth week on the chart [50]
51December 18, 1974$600,900 [51]
52December 25, 1974 The Godfather Part II $1,450,135The Godfather Part II reached number one in its second week of release [52]

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 1974 by calendar year gross based on the cities covered by Variety for the weekly charts. [nb 1] [53] [54]

RankTitleStudioPlaying weeks [nb 2] Gross ($)
1. The Exorcist Warner Bros. 1,52231,541,887
2. The Sting Universal 2,09926,380,982
3. Papillon Allied Artists 2,02414,732,236
4. Serpico Paramount 1,31210,287,816
5. American Graffiti Universal1,3219,526,412
6. That's Entertainment! United Artists 8429,368,447
7. Blazing Saddles Warner Bros.1,1979,234,062
8. Chinatown Paramount9948,570,732
9. The Longest Yard Paramount1,0377,604,614
10. The Great Gatsby Paramount8487,443,580
11. The Trial of Billy Jack Taylor-Laughlin 8546,789,030
12. Vanishing Wilderness Pacific International Enterprises 3676,117,307
13. Death Wish Paramount6116,089,607
14. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox 8786,025,067
15. For Pete's Sake Columbia 8205,856,767
16. Sleeper United Artists8115,852,424
17. Uptown Saturday Night Warner Bros.4445,413,089
18. Airport 1975 Universal3945,390,607
19. Magnum Force Warner Bros.5345,309,704
20. Mame Warner Bros.3644,955,672
21. Herbie Rides Again Buena Vista 4774,769,028
22. Earthquake Universal1534,535,053
23. The Way We Were Columbia9434,489,653
24. Buck and the Preacher 20th Century Fox6854,234,429
25. Return of the Dragon Bryanston 3984,223,269

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Variety noted that the total grosses that they collated represented about one-third of total U.S. grosses as defined by the US Department of Commerce. The grosses of the top 25 films represented 47% of the total grosses collated. Variety noted that the grosses they reported were based on mostly first-run theatres in major metropolitan markets and that the performance of films from distributors such as Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures and American International Pictures, which sought out smaller markets and subsequent run marketing strategies for their films, were not fully reflected in their charts.
  2. ↑ Playing weeks represent one film in one theatre for one week

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