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Many of the widest releases of any given year tend to be franchise entries, like X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) or family-targeted movies like The Lego Movie (shown, 2014). An especially popular film may increase its screen count later in release even if it started out on thousands of screens. The Lego Movie, for example, reached its peak number of screens (3,890, up from 3,775) in its third weekend, after establishing itself as a surprise smash.