10 Insane Movie Box-Office Records That Will Probably Never Be Broken

Current Record Holder: Titanic (15 Weekends)

Titanic has awards and accolades coming out of its ears, so it's not really surprising to learn that it boasts more than one hard-to-beat box-office record.

This is similar to E.T.'s top-five run, but instead of just placing somewhere in the most popular handful of movies, Titanic came out on top of the lot - for 15 consecutive weekends.

From December 19, 1997 to March 27, 1998, Titanic was number one at the domestic box-office for every single weekend, with no hiccups. This is unheard of today - typically, movies drop around 50/60 percent in their second weekend and continue to decline steadily after that, allowing another new release to quickly assume the number one position.

But Titanic did not drop in its second weekend. It made more money than it did in the first. Then, over the next fourteen weekends, it had drops as low as 0.2 percent and spikes as high as 42.8 percent - the film was nothing short of a cultural sensation and box-office phenomenon.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens holds the domestic opening weekend record with $247,966,675, and even that was slashed by 39.8 percent in week two, and kept falling until Ride Along 2 snatched away the top spot in mid-January.

Titanic's record looks very safe, and given that the movie was not hindered by any major releases in the weeks after it released, it had a distinct advantage over the blockbuster films of today.