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The following is a non-definitive list of the all-time highest-grossing films.
- Background color indicates films are currently in theaters
Worldwide highest-grossing films
Template:Fy has the most films on the list with seven, next stand Template:Fy and Template:Fy tied with six. Eighty percent of the films in the top 50 were released after Template:Fy, while no film prior to Template:Fy appears in the list because ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends are not considered. A North-America-only ticket price inflation-adjusted list can be found at List of highest-grossing films in Canada and the United States. Figures are given in United States dollars (USD).
Issues with calculation
Due to the long-term effects of inflation, notably the significant increase of movie theater ticket prices, the list unadjusted for inflation gives far more weight to more recent films; a film in 1910, given much lower ticket prices at that time, would have to sell close to 100 times as many tickets as a 2007 film in order for the two to have equal gross takings.[1] Further complications are added by changing currency values. The unadjusted list, while commonly found in the press, is therefore largely meaningless for comparing films widely separated in time, as many films from earlier eras will never appear on a modern unadjusted list, despite achieving higher commercial success when adjusted for price increases.[2] Some have suggested that studios prefer not to make inflation adjustments because doing so would reduce the grossing numbers and eliminate the ability to advertise new box-office records.[2] Yet another complication that has mainly arisen since 2000 is releases in multiple formats for which different ticket prices are charged. The most notable example of this phenomenon is Avatar, which was released in three different formats—2D, 3D, and IMAX—with the ticket price varying by format. According to the box-office tracking service Box Office Mojo, almost two-thirds of tickets for that film were for 3D showings with an average price of $10, and about one-sixth were for IMAX showings with an average price over $14.50, compared to a 2010 average price of $7.61 for 2D films.[3]
In the United States and Canada, which the U.S. film industry considers to be a single market, Box Office Mojo, Guinness World Records, and Entertainment Weekly all claim that Gone With The Wind is domestically the highest-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation.
The relationship between movie ticket prices and inflation do not necessarily parallel one another. For example, in 1970 movie tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, movie-ticket prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars.[4]
Social, political, and economic factors influence the number of people willing to pay to go to the movies as well.[5] These factors can be determined by calculating the per capita ticket-purchasing rate for a particular year. Normalizing this to the reference year normalizes all social, economical, and political factors such as the availability of expendable cash, number of theater screens, relative cost of tickets, competition from television, the rapid releases of movies on DVDs, the improvement of home theater equipment and film bootlegging. For example, in 1946 the per capita movie ticket purchasing rate for the average person was 34 tickets a year. In 2004, this average rate had dropped to only five tickets per person per year, in response mainly to competition from television.[6] Another often ignored factor is population growth. The 1910 Census in the United States, for example, had less than 100 million people while the 2010 Census is expected to have more than three times that at over 300 million. The measure of popularity for a movie can also be normalized for the size of the population at the time, as well as the various factors listed above.
As the motion picture industry is highly oriented towards marketing currently released films, non-inflation unadjusted figures are always used in marketing campaigns so that new blockbuster films can much more easily achieve a high sales ranking, and thus be promoted as a "top film of all time".[7] Since inflation adjusted sales figures are therefore not widely publicized by the film industry, inflation adjusted sales rankings and ticket sales comparisons across the last 100 years are difficult to compile.
Highest-grossing films by year
This is a list of the highest-grossing films by year.[8][9][10] Gross numbers prior to Template:Fy include every release of the film.
Highest-grossing film series
Highest worldwide openings
This list includes those films which have held the record for Worldwide openings.[12]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide opening (million) |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Warner Bros. | $394.0 | Template:Fy |
| 2 | Spider-Man 3 | Columbia Pictures | $381.7 | Template:Fy |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Walt Disney Pictures | $344.0 | 2007 |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Warner Bros. | $332.7 | 2007 |
| 5 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | 20th Century Fox | $303.9 | Template:Fy |
| 6 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Paramount Pictures | $272.2 | Template:Fy |
| 7 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Summit Entertainment | $258.8 | 2009 |
| 8 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | New Line Cinema | $250.0 | Template:Fy |
| 9 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox | $241.6 | 2009 |
| 10 | The Da Vinci Code | Columbia Pictures | $232.1 | Template:Fy |
Biggest opening day gross (US and Canada)
This is a list of the highest-grossing movies on opening day (US and Canada), before inflation.[13]
| Rank | Movie name | Studios | Domestic gross (unadjusted) | Inflation-adjusted (2024 USD) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Summit Entertainment | $72703754 | $103253540 | Template:Fy |
| 2 | The Dark Knight | Warner Bros. | $67165092 | $95048467 | Template:Fy |
| 3 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Paramount Pictures | $62016476 | $88075516 | 2009 |
| 4 | Spider-Man 3 | Columbia Pictures | $59841919 | $87933335 | Template:Fy |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Warner Bros. | $58471512 | $83040975 | 2009 |
| 6 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Walt Disney Pictures | $55830600 | $84381805 | Template:Fy |
| 7 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | 20th Century Fox | $50013859 | $78024688 | Template:Fy |
| 8 | X-Men: The Last Stand | 20th Century Fox | $45102265 | $68167108 | Template:Fy |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Warner Bros. | $44232338 | $64996194 | 2007 |
| 10 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Walt Disney Pictures | $42910392 | $63053691 | 2007 |
Highest-grossing films (US and Canada)
This list includes those films which have held the domestic record for highest grossing film released in the United States and Canada, before inflation.[14]
| Since | Movie name | # of years held | Gross (at time of record) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | The Birth of a Nation | 6 | $9,283,673 |
| 1921 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 16 | $10,000,000 |
| 1937 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 2 | $66,596,803 |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 34 | $189,523,031 |
| 1974 | The Exorcist | 1 | $193,000,000 |
| 1975 | Jaws | 2 | $260,000,000 |
| 1977 | Star Wars | 6 (non-consecutive) | $307,263,857 ($460,998,007) |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 15 | $399,804,539 |
| 1997 | Titanic | 12 | $600,788,188 |
| 2010 | Avatar | 1 (ongoing) | $709,304,322 |
See also
References
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- ^ Domestic Grosses: Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation (1910 adjustor: $0.07, 2006 adjustor: $6.58.) Retrieved April 23, 2007.
- ^ a b Fallacy Files. Retrieved April 23, 2007.
- ^ Gray, Brandon. "'Avatar' Claims Highest Gross of All Time". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ "How the motion picture industry miscalculates box office receipts Microsoft Word Document (.doc)". University of Southern Indiana. 2004. Retrieved December 14, 2008.
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- ^ "The 20 Most Popular Movies of all Time". Retrieved December 14, 2008.
- ^ "How the motion picture industry miscalculates box office receipts". Retrieved February 1, 2010.
- ^ "Yearly Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
- ^ "WorldwideBoxoffice.com". WorldwideBoxoffice.com. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
- ^ "'Avatar' soars into $1-billion territory". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
- ^ "List of highest-grossing films". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
- ^ "All Time Worldwide Opening Records at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ^ "Opening Day Records at the Box Office". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
- ^ Index of All Time Box Office Records
- Worldwide highest-grossing films before inflation
- ^ "Avatar (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ "Titanic (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
- ^ "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
- ^ "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 4, 2009.
- ^ "The Dark Knight (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
- ^ "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2793007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ^ "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Shrek 2 (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Jurassic Park (1993)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
- ^ "Spider-Man 3 (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ "Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Finding Nemo (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
- ^ "Spider-Man (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Independence Day (1996)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
- ^ "Shrek the Third (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "The Lion King (1994)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Spider-Man 2 (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Star Wars (1977)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "2012 (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ "The Da Vinci Code (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "The Matrix Reloaded (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Hancock (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ^ "Up (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
- ^ "Transformers (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 3, 2009.
- ^ "Forrest Gump (1994)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "The Sixth Sense (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
- ^ "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Peal (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
- ^ "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Kung Fu Panda (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 25, 2009.
- ^ "The Incredibles (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ^ "Ratatouille (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ^ "The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ^ "The Passion of the Christ (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Mamma Mia! (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
- ^ "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
Further reading
- Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession. Miramax. September 22, 2004isbn=978-1401352004. p. 448.
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