The end of the year is a great time for people like me who love lists of things. Here’s a list of every wide-release film (600+ screens) that opened in the U.S. in 2016. Movies that opened small in 2016 and eventually expanded to wide release are included, as are movies (marked by an *) that are now in limited release but are scheduled to go wide in January.
There were 165 total (up from 155 in 2015). I saw 137 of them. How many did you see? (That’s a rhetorical question. Please don’t tell me.)
1/8 The Forest
1/15 Ride Along 2
1/15 13 Hours
1/15 Norm of the North
1/22 Dirty Grandpa
1/22 The 5th Wave
1/22 The Boy
1/29 The Finest Hours
1/29 Kung Fu Panda 3
1/29 Fifty Shades of Black
1/29 Jane Got a Gun
2/5 Hail, Caesar!
2/5 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2/5 The Choice
2/12 Deadpool
2/12 Zoolander 2
2/12 How to Be Single
2/19 Race
2/19 Risen
2/19 The Witch
2/26 Gods of Egypt
2/26 Eddie the Eagle
2/26 Triple 9
3/4 London Has Fallen
3/4 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
3/4 Zootopia
3/11 Eye in the Sky
3/11 Hello, My Name Is Doris
3/11 10 Cloverfield Lane
3/11 The Brothers Grimsby
3/11 The Young Messiah
3/11 The Perfect Match
3/18 The Divergent Series: Allegiant
3/18 Miracles from Heaven
3/18 The Bronze
3/18 Midnight Special
3/25 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
3/25 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
3/25 I Saw the Light
4/1 God’s Not Dead 2
4/1 Meet the Blacks
4/8 The Boss
4/8 Hardcore Henry
4/8 Demolition
4/15 Green Room
4/15 Criminal
4/15 The Jungle Book
4/15 Barbershop: The Next Cut
4/22 The Huntsman: Winter’s War
4/29 Mother’s Day
4/29 Keanu
4/29 Ratchet & Clank
5/6 Captain America: Civil War
5/13 Money Monster
5/13 The Darkness
5/13 Love & Friendship
5/20 The Angry Birds Movie
5/20 Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
5/20 The Nice Guys
5/27 X-Men: Apocalypse
5/27 Alice Through the Looking Glass
6/3 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
6/3 Me Before You
6/3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
6/10 Warcraft
6/10 The Conjuring 2
6/10 Now You See Me 2
6/17 Finding Dory
6/17 Central Intelligence
6/24 Independence Day: Resurgence
6/24 The Shallows
6/24 Free State of Jones
6/24 The Neon Demon
6/24 Swiss Army Man
7/1 The BFG
7/1 The Purge: Election Year
7/1 The Legend of Tarzan
7/8 The Secret Life of Pets
7/8 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
7/13 The Infiltrator
7/15 Ghostbusters
7/15 Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
7/15 Cafe Society
7/22 Ice Age: Collision Course
7/22 Star Trek Beyond
7/22 Lights Out
7/27 Nerve
7/29 Jason Bourne
7/29 Bad Moms
8/5 Suicide Squad
8/5 Nine Lives
8/12 Hell or High Water
8/12 Pete’s Dragon
8/12 Florence Foster Jenkins
8/12 Sausage Party
8/19 Kubo and the Two Strings
8/19 War Dogs
8/19 Ben-Hur
8/26 Don’t Breathe
8/26 Mechanic: Resurrection
8/26 Hands of Stone
8/26 Southside with You
9/2 The Light Between Oceans
9/2 Morgan
9/9 Sully
9/9 When the Bough Breaks
9/9 The Wild Life
9/9 The Disappointments Room
9/16 Snowden
9/16 Bridget Jones’s Baby
9/16 Blair Witch
9/16 Hillsong: Let Hope Rise
9/23 Storks
9/23 Queen of Katwe
9/23 The Magnificent Seven
9/30 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
9/30 Deepwater Horizon
9/30 Masterminds
9/30 Denial
10/7 The Girl on the Train
10/7 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
10/7 The Birth of a Nation
10/14 The Accountant
10/14 Kevin Hart: What Now?
10/14 Max Steel
10/21 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
10/21 Ouija: Origin of Evil
10/21 Keeping Up with the Joneses
10/21 Boo! A Madea Halloween
10/21 Moonlight
10/28 Inferno
11/4 Doctor Strange
11/4 Trolls
11/4 Hacksaw Ridge
11/11 Almost Christmas
11/11 Arrival
11/11 Shut In
11/11 Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
11/18 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
11/18 The Edge of Seventeen
11/18 Bleed for This
11/18 Nocturnal Animals
11/18 Manchester by the Sea
11/23 Moana
11/23 Rules Don’t Apply
11/23 Bad Santa 2
11/23 Allied
11/25 Miss Sloane
12/2 Incarnate
12/2 Believe
12/9 Office Christmas Party
12/9 The Bounce Back
12/9 La La Land
12/16 Rogue One
12/16 Collateral Beauty
12/16 Fences
12/21 Passengers
12/21 Assassin’s Creed
12/21 Sing
12/21 Patriots Day*
12/23 A Monster Calls*
12/23 Why Him?
12/25 Live by Night*
12/25 Silence*
12/25 Hidden Figures*
