Top Grossing Movies Filmed in Toronto

	Film	North American Gross $ US millions /International Gross, year released
(1	Twister	242 /253	1996	a scene in Bolton)
2	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	241 .4 /115	2002	Nia Verdalos
3	Three Men And A Baby	168	1987	and N.Y.
4	Chicago******	167	2002	Renée Zellweger
5	X-Men	157 /137	2000	made over 14 in Canada; 5th top of the year
6	The Santa Clause	145 /45	1994	in Oakville
7	Good Will Hunting**	138 /87.5	1997	and Boston
8	The Pacifer	113/ 85	2005	Vin Diesel
9	How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days	106	2003	Kate Hudson
10	Saw II	87/ 64.7	2005	Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell
11	Mean Girls	86.0/ 31.2	2004	Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams

12	Cheaper By The Dozen 2	82.2/ 45	2005	Steve Martin
13	Police Academy	81.2 /38.8	1984	Steve Guttenberg
14	Moonstruck ***	80.6	1987	Cher
15	Cocktail	78.2	1988	Tom Cruise
16	Four Brothers	74.5 /18	2005	Mark Wahlberg
17	John Q	71.0 /9	2002	Denzel Washington
18	Down to Earth	64.2	2001	Chris Rock
19	Cinderella Man	61.6 /46.6	2005	Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger
20	Dawn of the Dead	59.0/ 38.0	2004	Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames
21	Sea of Love	58.6	1989	Al Pacino

22	Police Academy II: Their First Assignment	55.5	1985
23	Don't Say A Word	55.0 /39	2001	Michael Douglas
24	The Verdict	54 ((26.7))	1982	Paul Newman
25	The Recruit	52.8	2003	Al Pacino
26	Finding Forrester	51.8	2000	Sean Connery (and N.Y.)
27	Exit Wounds	51.8 /25	2001	Steven Seagal (and Detroit)
28	Resident Evil: Apocalyse	50.7/28	2004	Milla Jovovich
29	The Hurricane	50.7	1999	Denzel Washington over 64.5 in video rentals
30	Serendipity	50.3 /18	2001	John Cusack
31	Tuxedo	50.6 /50.3	2002	Jackie Chan

	Silent Hill	47.0	2006	Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden
32	Frequency	45 /8	2000	Dennis Quaid (and N.Y.)
33	Police Academy III: Back In Training	43.6	1986
34	Fever Pitch	42.1 /5	2005	Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon
35	Short Circuit	40.7	1986	Steve Guttenberg
36	Undercover Brother	38.2	2002	Eddie Griffin
(	Cruel Intentions	38.3 /57	1999	mainly L.A. and N.Y.)
37	Urban Legend	38.1 /35.4	1998	Jared Leto
38	The Fly *	37.6	1986	Jeff Goldblum
	16 Blocks	36.9	2006	Bruce Willis, Mos Def
	The Sentinel	36.3	2006	Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland

(	A Goofy Movie	35.3	1995	animated)
39	K-19: The Widowmaker	35.2 /26.6	2002	Harrison Ford
40	The Skulls	35.0	2000	Joshua Jackson over 35 in video
	Take the Lead	34.7	2006	Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard
(	The Killing Fields ***	34.6	1984	and Thailand, N.Y.)
41	Adventures in Babysitting	34.4	1987	Elisabeth Shue
42	The Long Kiss Goodnight	33.3 /40.6	1996	Geena Davis
43	The Kidnapping of the President	((33.3))	1980	and Washington D.C.
44	Wes Craven's Dracula 2000	33.0	2000	Jeri Ryan, Christopher Plummer
45	Tommy Boy	32.7	1995	Chris Farley
46	Driven	32.6	2001	Sylvester Stallone
47	Bride of Chucky	32.4 /3	1998	Jennifer Tilly (voice)
(	Rumble in the Bronx	32.3 /43.5	1995	mainly B.C.)

48	A History of Violence	31.5/ 26.4	2005	Viggo Mortensen
49	Losing Chase	31.2	1996	in Oakville
50	Get Rich or Die Tryin'	31/ 11	2005	50 Cent
51	Superstar	30.5	1999	Molly Shannon
52	Silver Streak	((30.0))	1976	Gene Wilder
53	Bless the Child	29.3	2000	Kim Basinger over 40 in video
54	Fools Rush In	29.3 /12.1	1997	Matthew Perry
55	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	29.3	2004	Lindsay Lohan
56	The Dream Team	28.9	1989	Michael Keaton
57	Deceived	28.7	1991	Goldie Hawn
58	The Prince and Me	28.2	2004	Julia Stiles, Luke Mably
59	Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol	28.1	1987

60	The Big Hit	27.1	1998	Mark Wahlberg
61	Harriet the Spy	26.5	1996	Rosie O’Donnell
62	Murder at 1600	25.8	1997	Wesley Snipes (and Washington D. C.)
63	Billy Madison	25.6	1995	Adam Sandler in Oshawa
64	Mimic	25.5 /13.1	1997	Mira Sorvino
65	Dark Water	25.5 /24	2005	Jennifer Connelly
66	The Cutting Edge	25.1	1992	in Hamilton
67	Little Man Tate	25.0	1991	Jodie Foster
68	Agnes of God	25 ((R11.5))	1985	Jane Fonda
69	Fly Away Home	24.5	1996	Jeff Daniels

* Number of Oscars won.

Compiled by Erik Malmsten mainly from The Movie Times, Internet Movie Database, and Variety. It’s debatable whether the films in brackets should count. TV and video sales aren’t included. I could extend the list to the top 100, but is a film grossing $3 million really a success? Note that taking in account inflation (and lower ticket prices) would boost the older films higher up the list, for example, Silver Streak was one of the top 10 films of that year, and add others to the list like Network. The older films didn’t publish grosses but rentals to theatres ((given in double brackets)). The top four films were in the top 100 grossing films ever shown in North America.

I would appreciate any contributions to a list of errors where you can tell it’s Toronto when it’s suppose to be an American city, for example in The Corruptor the CN tower was in the corner of the big car/truck crash explosion and the smuggler's ship was the “Canadian Mariner.” During a car chase in Bait, a billboard gave an Internet address ending in “.ca”. In Don't Say a Word a streetcar was in the background behind the Thanksgiving Day Parade. I think in Undercover Brother they deliberately put the CN tower in the background during a car chase as a film making joke.

Erik Malmsten jerik@idirect.com

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