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Lists of box office number-one films

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6646916 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following are lists of films which have been placed number one at the weekend box office in a region.

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“Lists of box office number-one films” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lists, office and number-one can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 20-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lists, office and number-one.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6646916. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lists of box office number-one films” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.