List of highest-grossing films
The following is a non-definitive list of the all-time highest-grossing films.
- Background color indicates films playing 2 August 2024 in theaters around the world
Highest-grossing films
Forty-one films in the top 50 have been released since 2000, while no film prior to 1977 appears in the chart due to ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends not being considered. 2009 is the most represented year on the chart with seven films, and 2011 currently stands at three. Figures are given in United States dollars (USD).
Chronology
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.[2] 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.[3] Another complication that has mainly arisen since 2000 is releases in multiple formats for which different ticket prices are charged. One notable example of this phenomenon is Avatar, which was released in 3D and IMAX: 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.[4] The audience demographic for a particular film can also impact on profits, with some films selling a much higher proportion of discounted children's tickets, or play better in big cities where tickets cost more.[3]
To compensate for the devaluation of the currency, some charts make adjustments for inflation, but not even this practise fully addresses the issue since 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.[5] Social, political, and economic factors also influence the number of people willing to pay to go to the movies as well.[6] These factors can be marginalized by calculating the per capita ticket-purchasing rate for a particular year, and then calculating a film's popularity in a given year using the normalized quantity. This removes from consideration all social, economical, and political factors such as population growth, 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.[7] However, a system that is purely based on measuring theatrical performance is still inherently flawed in that it does not take account of home entertainment revenue.[3]
The measuring system for gauging a film's success is based on unadjusted grosses, mainly because historically this is the way it has always been done due to the practices of the film industry. The box office receipts are compiled by theaters and relayed to the distributor, which in turn release them to the media.[8] There are also practical difficulties in converting to a more representative system: ticket prices have risen at different rates of inflation around the world, making it a complicated process to adjust worldwide grosses;[2] moving to a system that counts ticket sales rather than gross is also fraught with problems due to the fact that the only data available for older films are the sale totals.[6] 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",[5] so there is little incentive to switch to a more economically robust system from a marketing or even newsworthy point of view.[8]
Highest-grossing films by year
This is a list of the highest-grossing films by year of initial release.
* Canada and U.S. gross only.
R Theater rentals. The rentals are the theatrical gross less the exhibitor's share, and in the case of some older films the rentals were reported instead of the box office gross. As a rule of thumb, the distributor typically receives half of the gross.
B Production costs were shared with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
Timeline of highest-grossing films
This list includes those films which have held the record for highest grossing film, before inflation. Years represent the point of establishing the box office record, not the year of release.[9] Due to re-releases, some of the films went on to ultimately gross more than the film they lost the record to.
| Established | Title | Record setting gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | The Birth of a Nation | $10,000,000*[R][10] |
| 1932[a] | The Big Parade | |
| 1939[11] | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
| 1941[11] | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1966 | The Sound of Music | |
| 1971[b] | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1972 | The Godfather | |
| 1975 | Jaws | |
| 1977 | Star Wars | |
| 1983 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $701,000,000[12] |
| 1993 | Jurassic Park | $914,691,118 |
| 1998[13] | Titanic | $1,843,201,268 |
| 2010[14][15] | Avatar | $2,782,275,172 |
* Canada and U.S. gross only.
R Theater rentals. The rentals are the theatrical gross less the exhibitor's share, and in the case of some older films the rentals were reported instead of the box office gross. As a rule of thumb, the distributor typically receives half of the gross.
a Birth of a Nation was still the highest grosser as of 1932.[10]
b Some sources dispute that Gone With the Wind took back the record, stating that The Sound of Music held it until it was overtaken by The Godfather.[16]
Highest-grossing franchises and film series
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| Rank | Series | Total worldwide box office |
No. of films | Average of films | Highest-grossing film |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 8 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($1.31247×109) |
| 2 | James Bond | $5,189,014,110 | 23 | $225,609,309 | Casino Royale ($594,239,066) |
| 3 | Star Wars | $4,279,632,749 | 7 | $611,376,107 | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ($924,317,558) |
| 4 | Pirates of the Caribbean | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 4 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1.066200651×109) |
| 5 | Shrek | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 4 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Shrek 2 ($919,838,758) |
| 6 | The Lord of the Rings | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 4 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.119263306×109) |
| 7 | Transformers | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 3 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($1.112529×109) |
| 8 | Batman | $2,588,156,775 | 7 | $369,736,682 | The Dark Knight ($1.001842429×109) |
| 9 | Spider-Man | $2,496,346,518 | 3 | $831,906,025 | Spider-Man 3 ($890,449,338) |
| 10 | Marvel Cinematic Universe | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 5 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Iron Man 2 ($622,056,974) |
| 11 | Indiana Jones | $1,978,055,564 | 4 | $494,513,891 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($786,636,033) |
| 12 | Toy Story | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number.[nb] | 3 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Toy Story 3 ($1.063171911×109) |
| 13 | Ice Age | $1,925,332,111 | 3 | $641,777,370 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($886,686,817) |
| 14 | Jurassic Park | $1,902,110,926 | 3 | $634,036,975 | Jurassic Park ($914,691,118) |
| 15 | X-Men | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 5 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | X-Men: The Last Stand ($459,359,555) |
| 16 | The Twilight Saga | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 3 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($709,711,008) |
| 17 | The Matrix | $1,623,967,842 | 3 | $541,322,614 | The Matrix Reloaded ($738,599,701) |
| 18 | The Chronicles of Narnia | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 3 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($745,011,272) |
| 19 | The Fast and the Furious | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | 5 | $Error in {{val}}: parameter 1 is not a valid number. | Fast Five ($606,887,938) |
| 20 | Star Trek | $1,449,218,912 | 11 | $131,747,174 | Star Trek ($382,318,911) |
nb Gross also includes revenue from the 3D releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2.[18][19]
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...earning more than $10 million at the box office in 1915. By 1949, it had earned $50 million
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...earning somewhere between $18 and $22 million, depending on the figures consulted
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Total US Gross: $3,800,000
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Foreign earnings:$2,405,000
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Modern sources add that as of 1987, the picture had grossed $330,000,000
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1993 release: $41,316,184
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US gross: $16,300,000
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a total of $10,000,000 in foreign
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Total US Gross $80,000,000
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Total US Gross: $73,000,000
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- ^ "Worldwide 2000–2000". WorldwideBoxoffice. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
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- Barrier, Michael (2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516729-5.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Hayes, Dade; Bing, Jonathan (September 22, 2004). Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession. Miramax. p. 448. ISBN 978-1401352004.
- Reid, John Howard (2006). Success in the Cinema: Money-Making Movies and Critics' Choices. Lulu. ISBN 9781847280886.
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