For people who like lists of things, here is a list of the 137 movies that opened in wide release in the United States in 2010. “Wide release” means it played in at least 1,000 theaters. Some movies started much smaller than that and expanded; this list includes those, as long as they eventually made it to 1,000. Missing are the 300+ movies that opened this year but didn’t go into wide release. That isn’t a judgment against those movies, just a way of sorting them. Information is according to Box Office Mojo. Links are to my reviews.
I saw 117 of them. How many did you see?
1/8 Daybreakers
1/8 Leap Year
1/8 Youth in Revolt
1/15 The Book of Eli
1/15 The Spy Next Door
1/22 Tooth Fairy
1/22 Extraordinary Measures
1/22 Legion
1/29 Edge of Darkness
1/29 When in Rome
2/5 From Paris with Love
2/5 Dear John
2/12 Valentine’s Day
2/12 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2/12 The Wolfman
2/19 Shutter Island
2/26 Cop Out
2/26 The Crazies
3/5 Alice in Wonderland
3/5 Brooklyn’s Finest
3/12 Green Zone
3/12 She’s Out of My League
3/12 Remember Me
3/12 Our Family Wedding
3/19 Diary of a Wimpy Kid
3/19 The Bounty Hunter
3/19 Repo Men
3/26 How to Train Your Dragon
3/26 Hot Tub Time Machine
3/31 The Last Song
4/2 Clash of the Titans
4/2 Why Did I Get Married Too?
4/9 Date Night
4/16 Kick-Ass
4/16 Death at a Funeral
4/23 The Back-Up Plan
4/23 The Losers
4/23 Oceans
4/30 A Nightmare on Elm Street
4/30 Furry Vengeance
5/7 Iron Man 2
5/14 Robin Hood
5/14 Letters to Juliet
5/14 Just Wright
5/21 Shrek Forever After
5/21 MacGruber
5/28 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
5/28 Sex and the City 2
6/4 Marmaduke
6/4 Killers
6/4 Get Him to the Greek
6/4 Splice
6/11 The Karate Kid
6/11 The A-Team
6/18 Toy Story 3
6/18 Jonah Hex
6/25 Grown Ups
6/25 Knight and Day
6/30 Eclipse
7/1 The Last Airbender
7/9 Despicable Me
7/9 Predators
7/9 The Kids Are All Right
7/14 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
7/16 Inception
7/23 Salt
7/23 Ramona and Beezus
7/30 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
7/30 Charlie St. Cloud
7/30 Dinner for Schmucks
8/6 The Other Guys
8/6 Step Up 3-D
8/13 The Expendables
8/13 Eat Pray Love
8/13 Scott Pilgrim vs the World
8/18 Vampires Suck
8/20 Nanny McPhee Returns
8/20 Lottery Ticket
8/20 The Switch
8/20 Piranha 3D
8/27 The Last Exorcism
8/27 Takers
9/1 The American
9/3 Going the Distance
9/3 Machete
9/10 Resident Evil: Afterlife
9/17 Devil
9/17 The Town
9/17 Easy A
9/17 Alpha and Omega
9/24 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
9/24 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
9/24 You Again
10/1 The Social Network
10/1 Let Me In
10/1 Case 39
10/8 Life As We Know It
10/8 Secretariat
10/8 My Soul to Take
10/15 RED
10/15 Jackass 3D
10/15 Hereafter
10/22 Paranormal Activity 2
10/29 Saw 3D
11/5 Megamind
11/5 Due Date
11/5 For Colored Girls
11/10 Morning Glory
11/12 Unstoppable
11/12 Skyline
11/19 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
11/19 The Next Three Days
11/24 Tangled
11/24 Burlesque
11/24 Love and Other Drugs
11/24 Faster
12/3 The Warrior’s Way
12/3 Black Swan
12/10 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
12/10 The Tourist
12/10 The Fighter
12/17 Yogi Bear
12/17 Tron Legacy
12/17 How Do You Know
12/22 True Grit
12/22 Little Fockers
12/25 Gulliver’s Travels
In addition, there were 19 films that played on at least 400 screens, making them semi-wide releases:
1/22 To Save a Life (441)
2/19 The Ghost Writer (819)
4/9 Letters to God (897)
4/9 The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond (404)
4/16 The Perfect Game (417)
5/7 Babies (543)
6/18 Cyrus (454)
7/16 Standing Ovation (625)
7/30 Get Low (570)
8/6 Flipped (442)
9/22 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Strangers (402)
9/24 The Virginity Hit (700)
10/8 It’s Kind of a Funny Story (757)
10/15 I Want Your Money (537)
10/15 N-Secure (486)
10/15 Conviction (672)
11/5 Fair Game (436)
11/26 The King’s Speech (700)
12/3 127 Hours (433)
