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Timeline of highest-grossing films

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Timeline of the highest-grossing film record.
Established Title Record setting gross Reference(s)
1915[1] The Birth of a Nation $5,200,000R [# 1]
1940 $15,000,000R [# 2]
1940[2] Gone with the Wind $32,000,000R [# 3]
1960[1] The Ten Commandments $60,000,000R [# 4][# 5]
1963[1] Gone with the Wind $67,000,000R [# 6]
1966[1] The Sound of Music $114,600,000R [# 7]
1971[1] Gone with the Wind $116,000,000R [# 8]
1972[1] The Godfather $127,600,000–142,000,000R [# 4][# 9]
1976[3][4] Jaws $193,700,000R [# 10]
1978[5][6] Star Wars $410,000,000/$268,500,000R [# 11][# 4]
1982 $530,000,000 [# 12]
1983[7] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $619,000,000–664,000,000 [# 12][# 13]
1993 $701,000,000 [# 14]
1993[1] Jurassic Park $914,691,118 [# 15]
1998[8] Titanic $1,843,201,268 [# 16]
2010[9][10] Avatar $2,749,064,328 [# 17]
$2,789,679,794
2019[11][12] Avengers: Endgame $2,797,800,564 [# 18]
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Dirks, Tim. "Top Films of All-Time: Part 1 – Box-Office Blockbusters". Filmsite.org. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  2. ^ Miller, Frank; Stafford, Jeff (January 5, 2007). "Gone With the Wind (1939) – Articles". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on September 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Dick, Bernard F. (1997). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-8131-2016-4. Jaws (1975) saved the day, grossing $104 million domestically and $132 million worldwide by January 1976.
  4. ^ Kilday, Gregg (July 5, 1977). "Director of 'Jaws II' Abandons His 'Ship'". The Victoria Advocate. p. 6B.
  5. ^ New York (AP) (May 26, 1978). "Scariness of Jaws 2 unknown quantity". The StarPhoenix. p. 21.
  6. ^ Fenner, Pat C. (January 16, 1978). "Independent Action". Evening Independent. p. 11-A.
  7. ^ Cook, David A. (2002). Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970–1979. Vol. Volume 9 of History of the American Cinema, Charles Harpole. University of California Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-520-23265-5. The industry was stunned when Star Wars earned nearly $3 million in its first week and by the end of August had grossed $100 million; it played continuously throughout 1977–1978, and was officially re-released in 1978 and 1979, by the end of which it had earned $262 million in rentals worldwide to become the top- grossing film of all time – a position it would maintain until surpassed by Universal's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial in January 1983. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  8. ^ "Titanic sinks competitors without a trace". BBC News. BBC. February 25, 1998. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  9. ^ Cieply, Michael (January 26, 2010). "He Doth Surpass Himself: 'Avatar' Outperforms 'Titanic'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
  10. ^ Segers, Frank (January 25, 2010). "'Avatar' breaks 'Titanic' worldwide record". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 4, 2010.
  11. ^ Whitten, Sarah (July 21, 2019). "'Avengers: Endgame' is now the highest-grossing film of all time, dethroning 'Avatar'". CNBC. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  12. ^ Robbins, Shawn (July 20, 2019). "Avengers: Endgame Surpasses Avatar As #1 Global Release of All Time on Saturday". BoxOffice. Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved July 24, 2019.


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