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At the height of her popularity Paris Hilton starred in "The Hottie and the Nottie," a movie so bad, the estimated opening night per-showing attendance was 5. It grossed $27,696 on opening weekend, despite being shown in 111 theaters.

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Uma Thurman's movie "Motherhood" is one of the biggest flops in UK history, only earning £88 on its opening weekend. Only one person saw it on Sunday

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  1. The worst opening weekend ever for a movie goes to 'United Passions,' which tells the story of how FIFA was formed, earning only $918 in its first three days

  2. The derelict Land of Oz Theme Park has been (almost) abandoned since 1980 - it gets cleaned up and opens one weekend in October each year for Halloween

  3. The now-classic 1982 films "The Thing" and "Blade Runner", both opened on the same weekend to horrible reviews and poor box office numbers.

  4. A Movie Called Zyzzyx Road starring Katherine Heigle made a total of $30.00 grand opening weekend, $10.00 of which was refunded. Making it the lowest grossing movie of all time.

  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens made its entire production budget back on the opening weekend in the US alone.

  6. Many people in Canada open their cottages on Victoria Day weekend, as it is seen as the beginning of cottage season.

  7. Every Which Way But Loose (1978) once held the record for highest-grossing opening weekend of any film.

  8. The movie "Motherhood" garnered a mere $124.59 on opening weekend, selling a total of 11 tickets

  9. Emma Watson's new film The Colony only made £47 opening weekend in the UK

  10. Morgan Freeman thriller "Momentum" made just £46 in the opening weekend in the UK - under 60 USD.

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Puño Airlines, a front organization to lure wanted criminals into the open where they could be arrested – by sending a letter suggesting the fugitive had won a free flight, a weekend in the Bahamas, and $350 in spending money.

Julia Sweeney's 1994 film "It's Pat" opened to such poor box office failure that it was pulled after only one week. In that same weekend, Sweeney's brother discovered that he was terminally ill. - source

Gordon Ramsay caused a fire while flambeing outside one of his restaurants during the opening weekend of Ocean's 12 that resulted in the evacuation of a hotel with guests such as Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Mick Jagger, and Jim Carrey. (3:37 in video.)

In 1993 when Jurassic Park was release it made $47 mil opening weekend which adjusted for inflation is $76 mil while Jurassic World made $208 mil opening weekend. - source

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The FIFA movie "United Passions" grossed just $918 in its US opening weekend, making it the lowest-grossing film in American history.

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In 1995, brazilian footballer Edmundo run over 3 people with his truck and killed them. He was sentenced in 4 years of "open incarceration": he would sleep in jail but he was free during the day. He appealed to be fully free on weekends so he could play football

The 2014 film United Passions opened in 10 US theatres on its three day opening weekend and only grossed $941, the lowest opening in US box office history

There was a sci-fi action drama horror comedy musical film called "The Worst Movie Ever!" starring its director, producer and writer Glenn Berggoetz and making 11 dollars its opening weekend

Toy Story made over $29m on it's opening weekend and went on to gross more than ten times it's budget of $30m.

During the 90s, MGM fudged the box office numbers for its James Bond movies so the opening weekend dollar amount ended in 007

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6 of the 7 highest opening weekends of all time belong to Disney movies

Adam Sandler's 2014 movie 'The Cobbler' has made $24,000 at the US box office in its opening weekend.

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Billionaire Boys Club (2018), a Wolf of Wall Street knockoff starring Kevin Spacey, made just $126 in its opening weekend at the box office

Only 3 original movies (not a sequel/based on a book or TV show) have ever held the box office record for biggest opening weekend with the last occurrence being in 1978.

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There is only one original, non-animated film on the list of the top 100 all-time domestic box office opening weekends - Avatar (2008) at #100

With a haul of 20.1M in 1996 Beavis and Butthead Do America held the record for best December opening weekend in history only to be beaten in 1998 by Scream 2 (33M) and a week later by Titanic (28.6M). The record is currently held by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (84.6M).

The 2010 Uma Thurman film Motherhood had an opening weekend in the UK of only £88 ($137)

Every Which Way But Loose was the first film to have a $10 million opening weekend

In less than 1 year, Chris Pratt starred in 3 films ranking in the Top 5 for Opening Weekends in February, June, August, Winter, Labor Day Holiday weekend, President's Day Holiday weekend (Lego Movie & Guardians of the Galaxy) & now the Number 1 Opening Weekend of All Time (Jurassic World).

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