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

2. Lowest Grossing Number One Weekend

Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise
TriStar Pictures

Current Record Holder: Jerry Maguire ($5,518,727)

January 24-26, 1997. The extremely quiet weekend that saw Tom Cruise's romantic dramedy Jerry Maguire top the domestic box-office chart with a whopping... $5.5 million.

The simple fact that ticket prices cost a lot more today than they did in 1997 (roughly $8.65 to $4.59) should ensure that this 'record' is virtually unbeatable.

Even a bonafide box-office flop like the Ben-Hur remake managed $11.2 million on its opening weekend, and even if that was enough to assume the number one spot (which it wasn't) it would still be double what Jerry Maguire pulled in.

In fact, only one movie in the past four years has topped the domestic chart with a relatively small take - and that take was $9.4 million, attributed to 2015's religious drama War Room.

That's far more than Jerry Maguire managed and that's the closest this record has come to being threatened in the last few years, which basically spells out how difficult it will be to beat.

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