Editing The Silence of the Lambs (film) (section)

===Box office===
''The Silence of the Lambs'' was released on February 14, 1991, grossing almost $14&nbsp;million from 1,497 theaters over the 4-day [[Presidents' Day]] weekend, placing at number one at the US box office. It remained at number one for five weeks.<ref name="mojo"/>

The film opened at the [[Odeon Leicester Square]] in London in June 1991 and grossed £290,936 in its opening week, which distributor [[Rank Film Distributors|Rank]] claimed was a world record opening week from one theatre.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=43|date=June 10, 1991|title='Lambs' Loud in U.K. Bow|last=Coopman|first=Jeremy}}</ref> The following week, it expanded to 281 screens and grossed £4,260,472 for the week, a UK record.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=38|date=June 17, 1991|title='Lambs' Record $6.9 Mil|last=Pitman|first=Jack}}</ref>

The film grossed $131&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada with a total worldwide gross of $273&nbsp;million.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=silenceofthelambs.htm |title=The Silence of the Lambs |website =[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330044135/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=silenceofthelambs.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the [[1991 in film|fourth-highest grossing film of 1991]] in North America and the fifth-highest-grossing film worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=1991 Yearly Box Office Results|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1991&p=.htm|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 21, 2012|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106181314/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1991|url-status=live}}</ref>