List of 2001 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 2001.

#	Date	Film	Gross[1]	Notes
1	January 7, 2001	Cast Away	$22,220,725
2	January 14, 2001	Save the Last Dance	$23,444,930	Save the Last Dance broke Varsity Blues's record ($15.2 mil) for the highest Martin Luther King weekend debut.
3	January 21, 2001	Save the Last Dance	$15,366,047
4	January 28, 2001	The Wedding Planner	$13,510,293
5	February 4, 2001	The Wedding Planner	$10,605,542
6	February 11, 2001	Hannibal	$58,003,121	Hannibal broke Scream 3's record ($34.7 mil) for the highest weekend debut in February, and Scary Movie's record ($42.3 mil) for the highest weekend debut for an R-rated film.
7	February 18, 2001	Hannibal	$29,707,947	Hannibal broke Titanic's record ($28.2 mil) for the highest President's Day weekend ever.
8	February 25, 2001	Hannibal	$15,767,006
9	March 4, 2001	The Mexican	$20,108,829
10	March 11, 2001	The Mexican	$12,244,750
11	March 18, 2001	Exit Wounds	$18,485,586
12	March 25, 2001	Heartbreakers	$11,801,323
13	April 1, 2001	Spy Kids	$26,546,881
14	April 8, 2001	Spy Kids	$17,079,114
15	April 15, 2001	Spy Kids	$12,501,512
16	April 22, 2001	Bridget Jones's Diary	$10,184,136	Bridget Jones's Diary reached #1 in its second weekend of release.
17	April 29, 2001	Driven	$12,174,504
18	May 6, 2001	The Mummy Returns	$68,139,035
19	May 13, 2001	The Mummy Returns	$33,741,755
20	May 20, 2001	Shrek	$42,347,760
21	May 27, 2001	Pearl Harbor	$59,078,912
22	June 3, 2001	Pearl Harbor	$29,558,276
23	June 10, 2001	Swordfish	$18,145,632
24	June 17, 2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	$47,735,743	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider broke Pokémon: The First Movie's record ($31 million) for the highest weekend debut of a video game adaptation & Scary Movie's record ($42.3 million) for highest weekend debut for a film featuring a female protagonist.
25	June 24, 2001	The Fast and the Furious	$40,089,015
26	July 1, 2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	$29,352,630
27	July 8, 2001	Cats & Dogs	$21,707,617
28	July 15, 2001	Legally Blonde	$20,377,426
29	July 22, 2001	Jurassic Park III	$50,771,645
30	July 29, 2001	Planet of the Apes	$68,532,960	Planet of the Apes broke X-Men's record ($54.5 mil) for the highest weekend debut in July.
31	August 5, 2001	Rush Hour 2	$67,408,222	Rush Hour 2 broke The Sixth Sense's record ($26.7 mil) for the highest weekend debut in August.
32	August 12, 2001	American Pie 2	$45,117,985
33	August 19, 2001	American Pie 2	$21,104,650
34	August 26, 2001	American Pie 2	$12,517,475
35	September 2, 2001	Jeepers Creepers	$13,106,108	Jeepers Creepers held the highest Labor Day weekend debut.
36	September 9, 2001	The Musketeer	$10,312,740
37	September 16, 2001	Hardball	$9,386,342	Hardball became the first American #1 film since the September 11 attacks.
38	September 23, 2001	Hardball	$8,058,338
39	September 30, 2001	Don't Say a Word	$17,090,474
40	October 7, 2001	Training Day	$22,550,788
41	October 14, 2001	Training Day	$13,386,457
42	October 21, 2001	From Hell	$11,014,818
43	October 28, 2001	K-PAX	$17,215,275
44	November 4, 2001	Monsters, Inc.	$62,577,067	Monsters, Inc. broke Toy Story 2's record ($57.4 mil) for the highest weekend debut in November and for an animated film.
45	November 11, 2001	Monsters, Inc.	$45,551,028
46	November 18, 2001	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	$90,294,621	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone broke The Lost World: Jurassic Park's record ($72.1 mil) for the highest weekend debut of all-time, and Monsters, Inc.'s record ($62.6 mil) for the highest weekend debut in November (which had been set 2 weeks earlier). Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone had the highest weekend debut of 2001.
47	November 25, 2001	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	$57,487,755	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone broke How The Grinch Stole Christmas' record ($52.1 mil) for the highest second weekend gross, and Toy Story 2's record ($57.39 mil) for the highest Thanksgiving weekend ever.
48	December 2, 2001	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	$23,642,327
49	December 9, 2001	Ocean's Eleven	$38,107,822	Ocean's Eleven broke What Women Want's record ($33.6 million) for the highest weekend debut in December, and Titanic's second weekend grosses' record ($35.4 mil) for the highest weekend ever in December.
50	December 16, 2001	Vanilla Sky	$25,015,518
51	December 23, 2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	$47,211,490	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring broke Ocean's Eleven's record ($38.1 mil) for the highest weekend debut in December (which had been set 2 weeks earlier).
52	December 30, 2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	$38,695,582

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2001^[2]

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Warner Bros.	$317,575,550
2.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	New Line	$315,544,750
3.	Monsters, Inc.	Disney	$289,916,256
4.	Shrek	DreamWorks	$267,665,011
5.	Rush Hour 2	New Line	$226,164,286
6.	The Mummy Returns	Universal	$202,019,785
7.	Pearl Harbor	Disney	$198,542,554
8.	Ocean's Eleven	Warner Bros.	$183,417,150
9.	Jurassic Park III	Universal	$181,171,875
10.	Planet of the Apes	20th Century Fox	$180,011,740

References

1. "Weekend Box Office Index, 2001". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 19, 2007.
2. "2001 DOMESTIC GROSSES". Box Office Mojo.

See also

• List of American films — American films by year