List of 1970 box office number-one films in the United States
Appearance
This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1970 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.
Number-one films
[edit]# | Week ending | Film | Gross | Notes | Ref |
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1 | January 7, 1970 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | $1,209,000 | [1] | |
2 | January 14, 1970 | $614,700 | [2] | ||
3 | January 21, 1970 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | $500,489 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid returned to number one after 17 weeks of release | [3] |
4 | January 28, 1970 | $384,598 | [4] | ||
5 | February 4, 1970 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | $401,500 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria reached number one in its 16th week of release | [5] |
6 | February 11, 1970 | Funny Girl | $795,000 | Funny Girl returned to number one after 73 weeks of release | [6] |
7 | February 18, 1970 | $596,000 | [7] | ||
8 | February 25, 1970 | $729,500 | [8] | ||
9 | March 4, 1970 | $480,750 | [9] | ||
10 | March 11, 1970 | Cactus Flower | $936,200 | Cactus Flower reached number one in its 12th week of release | [10] |
11 | March 18, 1970 | $660,500 | [11] | ||
12 | March 25, 1970 | Airport | $741,500 | Airport reached number one in its third week of release | [12] |
13 | April 1, 1970 | $747,400 | [13] | ||
14 | April 8, 1970 | Marooned | $758,000 | Marooned reached number one in its 17th week of release | [14] |
15 | April 15, 1970 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (double bill) | $650,000 | [15] | |
16 | April 22, 1970 | $553,000 | [16] | ||
17 | April 29, 1970 | Airport | $502,500 | Airport returned to number one after 8 weeks of release | [17] |
18 | May 6, 1970 | $426,500 | [18] | ||
19 | May 13, 1970 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones | $532,400 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones reached number one in its eighth week of release | [19] |
20 | May 20, 1970 | Airport | $409,250 | Airport returned to number one after 11 weeks of release | [20] |
21 | May 27, 1970 | $400,000 | [21] | ||
22 | June 3, 1970 | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | $1,064,100 | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice reached number one in its 34th week of release | [22] |
23 | June 10, 1970 | $914,100 | [23] | ||
24 | June 17, 1970 | A Man Called Horse | $549,500 | A Man Called Horse reached number one in its eighth week of release | [24] |
25 | June 24, 1970 | Jenny | $380,000 | Jenny reached number one in its 26th week of release | [25] |
26 | July 1, 1970 | Airport | $1,015,000 | Airport returned to number one after 17 weeks of release | [26] |
27 | July 8, 1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | $863,500 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes reached number one in its sixth week of release | [27] |
28 | July 15, 1970 | Airport | $631,600 | Airport returned to number one after 19 weeks of release | [28] |
29 | July 22, 1970 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | $707,000 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls reached number one in its fifth week of release | [29] |
30 | July 29, 1970 | Patton | $500,600 | Patton reached number one in its 25th week of release | [30] |
31 | August 5, 1970 | Z | $540,000 | Z reached number one its 34th week of release | [31] |
32 | August 12, 1970 | The Out-of-Towners | $550,237 | The Out-of-Towners reached number one in its 11th week on release | [32] |
33 | August 19, 1970 | Getting Straight | $589,400 | Getting Straight reached number one in its 14th week of release | [33] |
34 | August 26, 1970 | Woodstock | $746,500 | Woodstock reached number one in its 22nd week of release | [34] |
35 | September 2, 1970 | Getting Straight | $568,500 | Getting Straight returned to number one in its 16th week of release | [35] |
36 | September 9, 1970 | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | $741,500 | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever reached number one in its twelfth week of release | [36] |
37 | September 16, 1970 | $415,100 | [37] | ||
38 | September 23, 1970 | MASH | $463,100 | MASH reached number one in its 34th week of release | [38] |
39 | September 30, 1970 | $371,700 | [39] | ||
40 | October 7, 1970 | Hello, Dolly! | $345,000 | Hello, Dolly! reached number one in its 42nd week of release | [40] |
41 | October 14, 1970 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | $727,200 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage reached number one in its twelfth week of release | [41] |
42 | October 21, 1970 | C.C. and Company | $532,000 | [42] | |
43 | October 28, 1970 | The Professionals/In Cold Blood (reissues double bill) | $334,490 | [43] | |
44 | November 4, 1970 | Trog/Taste the Blood of Dracula (double bill) | $300,000 | [44] | |
45 | November 11, 1970 | Sunflower | $308,000 | Sunflower reached number one in its seventh week of release | [45] |
46 | November 18, 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | $382,314 | Five Easy Pieces reached number one in its ninth week of release | [46] |
47 | November 25, 1970 | Lovers and Other Strangers | $521,200 | Lovers and Other Strangers reached number one in its 15th week of release | [47] |
48 | December 2, 1970 | Scrooge | $604,100 | Scrooge reached number one in its fourth week of release | [48] |
49 | December 9, 1970 | Lovers and Other Strangers | $515,900 | Lovers and Other Strangers returned to number one in its 17th week of release | [49] |
50 | December 16, 1970 | Scrooge | $475,800 | Scrooge returned to number one in its sixth week of release | [50] |
51 | December 23, 1970 | $555,500 | [51] | ||
52 | December 30, 1970 | Love Story | $983,770 | Love Story reached number one in its second week of release. For the weekend ending December 27, 1970, Love Story grossed $2,363,767 from all markets in the United States and Canada. | [52][53] |
Highest-grossing films
[edit]Highest-grossing films of 1970 by calendar year gross based on the cities covered by Variety for the weekly charts.[nb 1][54][55]
Rank | Title | Studio | Playing weeks[nb 2] | Gross ($) | Rank on 1970 rental chart[56] |
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1. | Airport | Universal | 629 | 12,378,259 | 1 |
2. | MASH | 20th Century Fox | 932 | 12,186,906 | 2 |
3. | Patton | 20th Century Fox | 832 | 9,327,636 | 3 |
4. | Hello, Dolly! | 20th Century Fox | 739 | 9,078,338 | 6 |
5. | Z | C5 | 928 | 7,919,478 | 14 |
6. | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Columbia | 748 | 7,160,506 | 4 |
7. | Woodstock | Warner Bros. | 536 | 7,108,600 | 5 |
8. | Catch-22 | Paramount | 391 | 5,982,490 | 8 |
9. | Cactus Flower | Columbia | 486 | 5,167,043 | 7 |
10. | Lovers and Other Strangers | CRC | 478 | 4,496,608 | 34 |
11. | Cotton Comes to Harlem | United Artists | 303 | 4,458,401 | 22 |
12. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid[nb 3] | 20th Century Fox | 717 | 4,413,816 | N/A[nb 4] |
13. | The Out-of-Towners | Paramount | 286 | 4,411,683 | 13 |
14. | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | CRC | 468 | 4,317,835 | 15 |
15. | Getting Straight | Columbia | 451 | 4,298,712 | 23 |
16. | Midnight Cowboy | United Artists | 551 | 4,036,491 | N/A[nb 5] |
17. | Paint Your Wagon | Paramount | 444 | 3,919,143 | N/A[nb 6] |
18. | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | 331 | 3,822,161 | 12 |
19. | Funny Girl | Columbia | 343 | 3,800,202 | N/A[nb 7] |
20. | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Paramount | 336 | 3,737,760 | 29 |
21. | Joe | Cannon | 371 | 3,553,283 | 42 |
22. | Marooned | Columbia | 327 | 3,370,833 | 33 |
23. | The Adventurers | Paramount | 338 | 3,292,310 | 11 |
24. | Darling Lili | Paramount | 184 | 3,226,802 | 37 |
25. | The Boys in the Band | National General Pictures | 436 | 3,216,380 | 36 |
Highest-grossing films of 1970 by rental in the United States and Canada accruing to the distributor to the end of 1970 (not total receipts as listed above for a selection of cities and includes rentals from December 1969).[56]
Rank | Title | Studio | Director | Producer | Rental ($) |
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1. | Airport | Universal | George Seaton | Ross Hunter | 37,650,796 |
2. | MASH | 20th Century Fox | Robert Altman | Ingo Preminger | 22,000,000 |
3. | Patton | 20th Century Fox | Franklin J. Schaffner | Frank McCarthy | 21,000,000 |
4. | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Columbia | Paul Mazursky | Larry Tucker | 13,900,000* |
5. | Woodstock | Warner Bros. | Michael Wadleigh | Bob Maurice | 13,500,000 |
6. | Hello, Dolly! | 20th Century Fox | Gene Kelly | Ernest Lehman | 13,000,000* |
7. | Cactus Flower | Columbia | Gene Saks | M. J. Frankovich | 11,300,000* |
8. | Catch-22 | Paramount | Mike Nichols | John Calley | 9,250,000 |
9. | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | United Artists | Peter R. Hunt | Albert R. Broccoli Harry Saltzman |
9,000,000* |
10. | The Reivers | Cinema Center Films National General Pictures |
Mark Rydell | Irving Ravetch | 8,000,000* |
*Includes December 1969 rental
See also
[edit]- List of American films — American films by year
- Lists of box office number-one films
Notes
[edit]- ^ Variety noted that the total grosses that they collated represented about 33% of total US grosses as defined by the US Department of Commerce. The grosses of the top 25 films represented 41% of the total grosses collated.
- ^ Playing weeks represent one film in one theatre for one week
- ^ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was listed twice on the chart. Once on its own when it played its major dates and also in 40th place in a double bill with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. If the grosses for the double bill were attributed to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid it would rank at least three places higher however, as Variety did not know how Fox split the grosses for the double bill, they listed the releases separately.
- ^ Listed on 1969 rental chart. Rental for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid increased by $11.2 million on 1970 All-Time Box Office Champs list[57][58]
- ^ Listed on 1969 rental chart. Rental for Midnight Cowboy increased by $5.3 million on 1970 All-Time Box Office Champs list[57][58]
- ^ Listed on 1969 rental chart. Rental for Paint Your Wagon increased by $12.3 million on 1970 All-Time Box Office Champs list[57][58]
- ^ Listed on 1969 rental chart. Rental for Funny Girl increased by $8.1 million on 1970 All-Time Box Office Champs list[57][58]
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- ^ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. January 13, 1971. p. 22.
- ^ "There Has Never Been A Box Office Story Like Love Story (advertisement)". Variety. January 13, 1971. p. 12.
- ^ Silverman, Syd (May 12, 1971). "330 Films Above $100,000 Rentals". Variety. p. 34.
- ^ "The Top 25 Films Of 1970". Variety. May 12, 1971. p. 37.
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- ^ a b c d "All-Time Boxoffice Champs". Variety. January 6, 1971. p. 12.