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[[File:Poster - Gone With the Wind 01.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' held the record for the highest-grossing film for twenty-five years and, when adjusted for inflation, has earned more than any other film|alt=A screencap of the title card from the trailer of Gone with the Wind.]]

[[Film]]s generate income from several revenue streams, including [[movie theater|theatrical exhibition]], [[home video]], [[Broadcasting rights|television broadcast rights]], and [[merchandising]]. However, theatrical [[box office|box-office]] earnings are the primary metric for trade publications in assessing the success of a film, mostly because of the availability of the data compared to sales figures for home video and broadcast rights, but also because of historical practice. Included on the list are charts of the top box-office earners (ranked by both the [[Real versus nominal value (economics)|nominal and real value]] of their revenue), a chart of high-grossing films by calendar year, a timeline showing the transition of the highest-grossing film record, and a chart of the highest-grossing film franchises and series. All charts are ranked by international theatrical box-office performance where possible, excluding income derived from home video, broadcasting rights, and merchandise.

Traditionally, [[war film]]s, [[Musical film|musicals]], and [[List of historical drama films|historical dramas]] have been the most popular genres, but [[Film franchise|franchise films]] have been among the best performers of the 21st century. There is strong interest in the [[Superhero film|superhero genre]], with eleven films in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] featuring among the nominal top-earners. The most successful superhero film, ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'', is also the second-highest-grossing film on the nominal earnings chart, and there are four films in total based on the ''[[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]]'' comic books charting in the top twenty. Other [[List of films based on Marvel Comics publications|Marvel Comics adaptations]] have also had success with the ''[[Spider-Man in film|Spider-Man]]'' and ''[[X-Men (film series)|X-Men]]'' properties, while films based on ''[[Batman in film|Batman]]'' and ''[[Superman in film|Superman]]'' from [[DC Comics]] have generally performed well. ''[[Star Wars]]'' is also represented in the nominal earnings chart with five films, while the ''[[Jurassic Park (franchise)|Jurassic Park]]'' franchise features prominently. Although the nominal earnings chart is dominated by films adapted from pre-existing properties and sequels, it is headed by ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]'', which is an original work. Animated family films have performed consistently well, with [[List of Disney theatrical animated features|Disney films]] enjoying lucrative re-releases prior to the home-video era. Disney also enjoyed later success with films such as ''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]'' and [[Frozen 2|its sequel]], ''[[Zootopia]]'', and ''[[The Lion King]]'' (along with [[The Lion King (2019 film)|its computer-animated remake]]), as well as its [[List of Pixar films|Pixar]] division, of which ''[[Inside Out 2]]'', ''[[Incredibles 2]]'', and ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' and ''[[Toy Story 4|4]]'' have been the best performers. Beyond Disney and Pixar animation, China's ''[[Ne Zha 2]]'' (the [[List of highest-grossing animated films|highest-grossing animated film]]), and the ''[[Despicable Me]]'' and ''[[Shrek (franchise)|Shrek]]'' series have met with the most success.

While [[inflation]] has eroded the achievements of most films from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, there are franchises originating from that period that are still active. Besides the ''Star Wars'' and ''Superman'' franchises, ''[[James Bond in film|James Bond]]'' and ''[[Godzilla (franchise)|Godzilla]]'' films are still being released periodically; all four are among the highest-grossing franchises. Some of the older films that held the record of highest-grossing film still have respectable grosses by today's standards, but no longer compete numerically against today's top-earners in an era of much higher individual ticket prices. When those prices are adjusted for inflation, however, then ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''—which was the highest-grossing film outright for twenty-five years—is still the highest-grossing film of all time. All grosses on the list are expressed in [[United States dollar|U.S. dollars]] at their nominal value, except where stated otherwise.

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== Highest-grossing films ==
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<!-- PLEASE DO NOT REPLACE IMAGE WITH A GALLERY WITHOUT OBTAINING A CONSENSUS FIRST AT Talk:List of highest-grossing films#Image in highest-grossing films section ON TALK PAGE. -->[[File:James Cameron by Gage Skidmore.jpg|alt=A portrait of a middle aged man with greying hair.|right|thumb|upright|Three of the four highest-grossing films, including ''Avatar'' at the top, were written and directed by [[James Cameron]].]]
With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9&nbsp;billion, ''Avatar'' is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to [[Movie theatre|theatrical]] revenues only and do not take into account [[home video]] and [[television]] income, which can form a significant portion of a film's earnings. Once revenue from home entertainment is factored in, it is not immediately clear which film is the most successful. ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' earned $1.2&nbsp;billion from [[video]] and [[DVD-Video|DVD]] sales and rentals,<ref name="titanic-sales">{{Cite magazine |last=Pincus-Roth |first=Zachary |date=January 8, 2006 |title=Movies aren't the only B.O. monsters |url=https://variety.com/2006/legit/news/movies-aren-t-the-only-b-o-monsters-1117935611/ |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420110457/https://variety.com/2006/legit/news/movies-aren-t-the-only-b-o-monsters-1117935611/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in addition to the $2.2&nbsp;billion it grossed in theaters. While complete sales data are not available for ''Avatar'', it earned $345&nbsp;million from the sale of sixteen&nbsp;million DVD and [[Blu-ray]] units in North America,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Avatar – Video Sales |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Avatar#tab=video-sales |access-date=November 12, 2013 |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |publisher=Nash Information Services |archive-date=November 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125204128/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Avatar#tab=video-sales |url-status=live }}</ref> and ultimately sold a total of thirty&nbsp;million DVD and Blu-ray units worldwide.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 17, 2011 |title=Unkind unwind |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |url=https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/03/17/unkind-unwind |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904063950/http://www.economist.com/node/18386456 |url-status=live }}</ref> After home video income is accounted for, both films have earned over $3&nbsp;billion each. Television [[Broadcasting|broadcast]] rights also substantially add to a film's earnings and, as of 2010, a film often earned the equivalent of as much as 20–25% of its theatrical box office for two television runs, on top of [[pay-per-view]] revenues;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vogel |first=Harold L. |title=Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-107-00309-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BfyFFCyRvX0C&pg=PA224 224] |quote=Most pictures would likely receive 20% to 25% of theatrical box office gross for two prime-time network runs.}}</ref> ''Titanic'' earned a further $55&nbsp;million from the [[NBC]] and [[HBO]] broadcast rights,<ref name="titanic-sales" /> equating to about 9% of its North American gross.

When a film is highly exploitable as a commercial property, its ancillary revenues can dwarf its income from direct film sales.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clark |first=Emma |date=November 12, 2001 |title=How films make money |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1646640.stm |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=September 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908180558/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1646640.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The Lion King'' (1994) earned over $2&nbsp;billion in box-office and home video sales,<ref name="titanic-sales" /> but this pales in comparison to the $8&nbsp;billion earned at box offices around the world by [[The Lion King (musical)|the stage adaptation]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seymour |first=Lee |date=December 18, 2017 |title=Over The Last 20 Years, Broadway's 'Lion King' Has Made More Money For Disney Than 'Star Wars' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/leeseymour/2017/12/18/the-lion-king-is-making-more-money-for-disney-than-star-wars/#268447731ff0 |access-date=July 28, 2019 |website=[[Forbes]] |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610055447/https://www.forbes.com/sites/leeseymour/2017/12/18/the-lion-king-is-making-more-money-for-disney-than-star-wars/#268447731ff0 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Merchandising]] can be extremely lucrative too: ''The Lion King'' also sold $3&nbsp;billion of merchandise,<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 15, 1998 |title=The Entertainment Glut |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1998-02-15/the-entertainment-glut |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=October 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012095740/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1998-02-15/the-entertainment-glut |url-status=live }}</ref> while Pixar's ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]''—which earned $462&nbsp;million in theatrical revenues and was only a modest hit by comparison to other [[List of Pixar films|Pixar films]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pixar – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm |access-date=April 12, 2012 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=August 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829102520/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>—generated global merchandise sales of over $8&nbsp;billion in the five years after its 2006 release.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Szalai |first=Georg |date=February 14, 2011 |title=Disney: 'Cars' Has Crossed $8&nbsp;Billion in Global Retail Sales |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/disney-cars-has-crossed-8-99438/ |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319190512/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-cars-has-crossed-8-99438 |archive-date=March 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Chmielewski |first1=Dawn C. |last2=Keegan |first2=Rebecca |date=June 21, 2011 |title=Merchandise sales drive Pixar's 'Cars' franchise |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-jun-21-la-fi-ct-cars2-20110621-story.html |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=July 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709001110/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/21/business/la-fi-ct-cars2-20110621 |url-status=live }}</ref> Pixar had another huge hit with ''Toy Story 3'', which generated almost $10&nbsp;billion in merchandise retail sales in addition to the $1&nbsp;billion it earned at the box office.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Palmeri |first1=Christopher |last2=Sakoui |first2=Anousha |date=November 7, 2014 |title=More Disney Fun and Games With 'Toy Story 4' in 2017 |work=[[Bloomberg News]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-07/more-disney-fun-and-games-with-toy-story-4-in-2017 |access-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-date=July 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705203120/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-07/more-disney-fun-and-games-with-toy-story-4-in-2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On this chart, films are ranked by the revenues from theatrical exhibition at their nominal value, along with the highest positions they attained. Seven films in total have grossed in excess of $2&nbsp;billion worldwide, with ''Avatar'' ranked in the top position. All of the films have had a theatrical run (including re-releases) in the 21st century, and films that have not played during this period do not appear on the chart because of ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends not being considered.

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! Peak
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! class="unsortable" | Worldwide gross
! Year
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! scope="row" | ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
| $2,923,710,708
| 2009
| <ref group="#" name="avatar" /><ref name="avatar peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103063039/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=November 3, 2010 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|2
|1
! scope="row" | ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]''
| $2,797,501,328
| data-sort-value="2019-04" | 2019
| <ref name="endgame" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Avengers: Endgame (2019) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt4154796/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107074435/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt4154796/ |archive-date=January 7, 2023 |access-date=March 13, 2021 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref><ref name="endgame peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023105800/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=October 23, 2019 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|3
|3
! scope="row" | ''[[Avatar: The Way of Water]]''
| $2,343,096,253
| data-sort-value="2022-12" | 2022
| <ref name="avatar2" group="#" /><ref name="avatar 2 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607035903/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|4
|1
! scope="row" | ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''
| {{ref|Titanic|T}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:1843373318+343550770+691642+71352+<!-- 2023 REISSUE -->70219746}}}}<!-- NOTE: Please do not "fix" the gross for Titanic. BOM is double-counting in the 2012 3D gross. See archived citation for correct amounts. When updating the total just type the 2023 reissue gross into the formula. -->
| 1997
| <ref group="#" name="titanic" /><ref name="titanic peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010716094602/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=July 16, 2001 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|5
|5
! scope="row" | ''[[Ne Zha 2]]''
| ${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--CHINA-->2155690000+<!--INTERNATIONAL-->60000000}}}}
| data-sort-value="2025-01" | 2025
| <ref name="Ne Zha 2" group="#">{{Cite web|title=Daily Box Office > China|url=http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/|website=Entgroup|access-date=September 26, 2025|archive-date=June 30, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250630043415/http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Ne Zha 2 Caixin" group="#">{{cite web|title=Analysis: Why 'Ne Zha 2' Wasn't a Global Smash|date=Apr 10, 2025|publisher=[[Caixin]]|url=https://www.caixinglobal.com/2025-04-10/analysis-why-ne-zha-2-wasnt-a-global-smash-102307999.html|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref>
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|6
|3
! scope="row" | ''[[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]''
| $2,068,223,624
| data-sort-value="2015-12" | 2015
| <ref name="sw7" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3305984517/ |access-date=August 15, 2016 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=November 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108072924/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3305984517/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="sw7 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405200403/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|7
|4
! scope="row" | ''[[Avengers: Infinity War]]''
| $2,048,359,754
| data-sort-value="2018-04" | 2018
| <ref name="infinity war" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Avengers: Infinity War (2018) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3915469317/ |access-date=January 13, 2019 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=February 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221190358/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3915469317/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="infinity war peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401194157/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|8
|6
! scope="row" | ''[[Spider-Man: No Way Home]]''
| {{ref|Spider-Man|SM}}$1,922,598,800
| data-sort-value="2021-12" | 2021
| <ref name="nwh" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt10872600/ |access-date=June 28, 2024 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |quote=All Releases: $1,922,598,800; Original Release: $1,912,233,593 |archive-date=August 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816132406/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt10872600/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="No Way Home peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729144809/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=July 29, 2022 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|9
|8
! scope="row" | ''[[Inside Out 2]]''
| $1,698,863,816
| data-sort-value="2024-06" | 2024
| <ref name="Inside Out 2" group="#">{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22022452/|title=Inside Out 2 (2024)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=January 13, 2025}}</ref><ref name="inside out 2 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010002525/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=October 10, 2024 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|10
|3
! scope="row" | ''[[Jurassic World]]''
| $1,671,537,444
| data-sort-value="2015-06" | 2015
| <ref name="jurassic world" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Jurassic World (2015) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0369610/ |access-date=March 7, 2022 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308034524/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0369610/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="jurassic world peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126172916/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=November 26, 2015 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|11
|7
! scope="row" | {{Sort|Lion King|''[[The Lion King (2019 film)|The Lion King]]''}}
| $1,656,943,394
| data-sort-value="2019-07" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=The Lion King |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr403788293/ |access-date=January 8, 2020 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125003130/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr403788293/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="endgame peak" group="#" />
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|12
|3
! scope="row" | {{Sort|Avengers|''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]''}}
| $1,518,815,515
| data-sort-value="2012-04" | 2012
| <ref name="avengers" group="#">{{Cite web |title=The Avengers (2012) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0848228/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106134914/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0848228/?ref_=bo_cso_table_10 |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |access-date=January 18, 2023 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref><ref name="avengers peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001185608/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|13
|4
! scope="row" | ''[[Furious 7]]''
| $1,515,341,399
| data-sort-value="2015-03" | 2015
| <ref name="fast7" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Furious 7 (2015) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2820852/ |access-date=January 9, 2023 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102171552/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2820852/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="furious 7 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115331/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|14
|11
! scope="row" | ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]''
| $1,495,696,292
| data-sort-value="2022-05" | 2022
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=Top Gun: Maverick (2022) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1745960/ |access-date=June 8, 2023 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=June 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617003617/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1745960/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Maverick peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229140535/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=December 29, 2022 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|15
|10
! scope="row" | ''[[Frozen 2]]''
| $1,450,026,933
| data-sort-value="2019-11" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=Frozen II |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2424210945/ |access-date=March 26, 2020 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=August 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812115935/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=untitleddisneyanimation3d.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="covid peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Top Lifetime Grosses – Worldwide |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801201335/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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|16
|14
! scope="row" | ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]''
| $1,447,138,421
| data-sort-value="2023-07" | 2023
| <ref name="Barbie" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Barbie (2023) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1517268/ |access-date=October 4, 2025 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=August 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230809155523/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1517268/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="barbie peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117194844/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=January 17, 2024 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]''
| $1,402,809,540
| data-sort-value="2015-04" | 2015
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2395427/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218222910/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2395427/ |archive-date=December 18, 2022 |access-date=January 8, 2022 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref><ref name="furious 7 peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]''
| $1,360,879,735
| data-sort-value="2023-04" | 2023
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6718170/ |access-date=November 5, 2025 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=April 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405235220/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6718170/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="mario peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829100157/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=August 29, 2023 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]''
| $1,347,280,838
| data-sort-value="2018-02" | 2018
| <ref name="black panther" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Black Panther (2018) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1825683/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830210202/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1825683/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=October 29, 2018 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref><ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701190816/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2]]''
| ${{formatnum:{{#expr:1356841356-181938-38277-14481414}}}}<!-- PER [[WP:BOXOFFICE]]. BOX OFFICE MOJO HAS DOUBLE-COUNTED THE 2018 AND 2021 DOMESTIC GROSSES AND THE 2023 RE-RELEASE SO THEY HAVE BEEN SUBTRACTED FROM THE TOTAL HERE.-->
| data-sort-value="2011-07" | 2011
| <ref group="#" name="hp7.2" /><ref name="HP8 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031012438/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=October 31, 2011 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Deadpool & Wolverine]]''
| $1,338,073,645
| data-sort-value="2024-07" | 2024
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6263850/|title=Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=December 16, 2024}}</ref><ref name="deadpool & wolverine peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203000947/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=December 3, 2024 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Star Wars: The Last Jedi]]''
| $1,332,539,889
| data-sort-value="2017-12" | 2017
| <ref name="sw8" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Star Wars: The Last Jedi |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3764736517/ |access-date=May 21, 2018 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=December 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201181934/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3764736517/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="SW8 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427125111/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=April 27, 2018 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom]]''
| ${{formatnum:{{#expr:1310466296-1992871}}}}<!-- PER [[WP:BOXOFFICE]]. BOX OFFICE MOJO HAS DOUBLE-COUNTED THE 2020 REISSUE GROSS FOR THE UKRAINE SO IT HAS BEEN SUBTRACTED FROM THE TOTAL HERE.-->
| data-sort-value="2018-06" | 2018
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt4881806/ |access-date=January 12, 2019 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821181006/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt4881806/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="infinity war peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]''
| {{ref|Frozen|F}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:1274219009-<!--JAPAN TOTAL BY 8/3/2014-->247650477+<!--JAPAN TOTAL-->249036646-<!--SPAIN TOTAL BY 7/27/2014-->21668593+<!--SPAIN TOTAL-->22492845+<!--NIGERIA TOTAL-->167333+<!--UK-->(40960083-39090985)/0.63866+(41087765-40960083)/0.64136+(41170608-41087765)/0.636+(42840559-41170608)/0.7497+(42976318-42840559)/0.742+<!--GERMANY-->42526744-35098170 round -6}}}}
| data-sort-value="2013-11" | 2013
| <ref group="#" name="Frozen" /><ref name="frozen peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702050222/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=July 2, 2014 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''
| $1,263,521,126
| data-sort-value="2017-03" | 2017
| <ref name="beauty" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Beauty and the Beast (2017) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1429688837/ |access-date=September 5, 2017 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=August 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818215205/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=beautyandthebeast2017.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Beauty peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211010216/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Incredibles 2]]''
| $1,242,805,359
| data-sort-value="2018-06" | 2018
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=Incredibles 2 (2018) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2507690501/ |access-date=March 25, 2019 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021134630/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2507690501/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="infinity war peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | {{Sort|Fate of the Furious|''[[The Fate of the Furious]]''}}
| {{ref |Fast 8|F8}}<!-- DO NOT CHANGE GROSS WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT ON TALK PAGE FIRST. SEE ATTACHED NOTE FOR REASONS. -->$1,238,764,765
| data-sort-value="2017-04" | 2017
| <ref group="#">{{Cite web |title=The Fate of the Furious (2017) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=furious8.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822151827/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=furious8.htm |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref><ref name="Beauty peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Iron Man 3]]''
| $1,214,811,252
| data-sort-value="2013-04" | 2013
| <ref name="iron man 3" group="#">{{Cite web |title=Iron Man 3 (2013) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1532659201/ |access-date=October 28, 2013 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=December 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215142914/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ironman3.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="iron man 3 peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221101228/http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=February 21, 2014}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Minions (film)|Minions]]''
| $1,159,444,662
| data-sort-value="2015-06" | 2015
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2293640/ |title=Minions (2015) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102172543/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2293640/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="jurassic world peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Captain America: Civil War]]''
| $1,153,337,496
| data-sort-value="2016-05" | 2016
| <ref group="#" name="civil war">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3498820/ |title=Captain America: Civil War (2016) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106231628/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3498820/?ref_=bo_cso_table_25 |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="civil war peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801231148/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Aquaman (film)|Aquaman]]''
| $1,148,528,393
| data-sort-value="2018-12" | 2018
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1477834/ |title=Aquaman (2018) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617133659/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1477834/ |archive-date=June 17, 2023 |access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref><ref name="infinity war peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | {{Sort|Lord of the Rings: Return of the King|''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''}}
| $1,147,997,407
| data-sort-value="2003-12" | 2003
| <ref group="#" name="lotr3">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167260/ |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105035650/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=November 5, 2023 |access-date=November 7, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="ROTK peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040605104640/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=June 5, 2004}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Spider-Man: Far From Home]]''
| $1,132,679,685
| data-sort-value="2019-06" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6320628/|title=Spider-Man: Far From Home|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=June 28, 2024|archive-date=November 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102171746/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6320628/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="endgame peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Captain Marvel (film)|Captain Marvel]]''
| $1,128,274,794
| data-sort-value="2019-03" | 2019
| <ref group="#" name="captain marvel">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3085718021/ |title=Captain Marvel (2019) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-date=February 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221190407/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3085718021/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="captain marvel peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723022509/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=July 23, 2019}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
| $1,123,794,079
| data-sort-value="2011-06" | 2011
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1399103/ |title=Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 18, 2014 |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102172332/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1399103/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="HP8 peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Skyfall]]''
| $1,108,594,137
| data-sort-value="2012-10" | 2012
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1074638/ |title=Skyfall (2012) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017023424/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1074638/ |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |access-date=August 4, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Skyfall peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303064100/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=March 3, 2013}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''
| $1,104,054,072
| data-sort-value="2014-06" | 2014
| <ref group="#" name="transformers">{{cite web |title=Transformers: Age of Extinction |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2109248/ |access-date=May 17, 2015 |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102172334/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2109248/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Transformers 4 peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102142043/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | {{Sort|Dark Knight Rises|''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]''}}
| {{ref|Dark Knight Rises|DKR}}$1,081,169,825
| data-sort-value="2012-07" | 2012
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1345836/ |url-status=unfit |title=The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904154020/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1345836/ |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=November 7, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Ice Age 3 peak" group="#">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203161005/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=December 3, 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]]''
| $1,074,458,282
| data-sort-value="2019-10" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt7286456/|title=Joker (2019)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801152417/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt7286456/|archive-date=August 1, 2023|access-date=November 30, 2022}}</ref><ref name="covid peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker]]''
| $1,074,144,248
| data-sort-value="2019-12" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3305145857/|title=Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=March 21, 2020|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230203110/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3305145857/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="covid peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Toy Story 4]]''
| $1,073,394,593
| data-sort-value="2019-06" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3798500865/|title=Toy Story 4|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=December 7, 2019|archive-date=December 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214124143/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3798500865/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="endgame peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Toy Story 3]]''
| $1,066,970,811
| data-sort-value="2010-06" | 2010
| <ref group="#" name="ts3" /><ref name="toy story 3 peak" group="#">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718213347/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date=July 18, 2011}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]''
| $1,066,179,747
| 2006
| <ref group="#" name="potc2" /><ref group="#" name="POTC 2 peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201034741/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=December 1, 2006}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Moana 2]]''
| $1,059,242,164
| data-sort-value="2024-11" | 2024
| <ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt13622970/|title=Moana 2 (2024)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=April 28, 2025}}</ref><ref name="moana 2 peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250420160412/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=April 20, 2025 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Rogue One: A Star Wars Story]]''
| ${{formatnum:{{#expr:1058682142-1261755}}}}<!-- PER [[WP:BOXOFFICE]]. BOX OFFICE MOJO HAS DOUBLE-COUNTED THE 2022 REISSUE GROSS FOR COLOMBIA SO IT HAS BEEN SUBTRACTED FROM THE TOTAL HERE.-->
| data-sort-value="2016-12" | 2016
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3748528/ |title=Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-date=November 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105064554/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3748528/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="rogue one peak">{{cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419162412/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world |archive-date=April 19, 2017}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Aladdin (2019 film)|Aladdin]]''
| $1,050,693,953
| data-sort-value="2019-05" | 2019
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3246360065/ |title=Aladdin (2019) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617090409/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=disneyfairytale22019.htm&adjust_yr=1&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="endgame peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace]]''
| $1,046,515,409
| 1999
| <ref group="#" name="tpm" /><ref name="titanic peak" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides]]''
| $1,045,713,802
| data-sort-value="2011-05" | 2011
| <ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4117267969/ |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=August 22, 2011 |archive-date=March 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323041910/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4117267969/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="toy story 3 peak" />
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! scope="row" style="background:#b6fcb6;" | ''[[Lilo & Stitch (2025 film)|Lilo & Stitch]]'' †<!-- DO NOT REMOVE THE HIGHLIGHTING. The accompanying source (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt11655566/) clearly shows Lilo & Stitch is still playing in several countries as of November 2025. The purpose of the highlighting is to let readers know the total has not been finalised and helps editors keep track of updating the figures. Premature removal of the highlighting is NOT HELPFUL. -->
| $1,038,032,501
| data-sort-value="2025-05" | 2025
| <ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt11655566/|title=Lilo & Stitch (2025)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=November 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="lilo peak" group="#">{{Cite web |title=All Time Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251102092151/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW |archive-date=November 2, 2025 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | ''[[Jurassic Park]]''
| ${{formatnum:{{#expr:1033928303+<!--2022 REISSUE-->270700+<!--2023 REISSUE-->3336227}}}}
| 1993
| <ref group="#" name="jp" /><ref group="#" name="Jurassic Park peak">{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Krämer |chapter=Women First: Titanic, Action-Adventure Films, and Hollywood's Female Audience |pages=[https://archive.org/details/titanicanatomyof0000unse/page/108 108]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=q1Q8PlAnosQC&pg=PA130 130] |title=Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster |editor1-first=Kevin S. |editor1-last=Sandler |editor2-first=Gaylyn |editor2-last=Studlar |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-8135-2669-0 |quote=On page 130, the list has ''Jurassic Park'' at number one with $913&nbsp;million, followed by ''The Lion King''... |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/titanicanatomyof0000unse/page/108 }}</ref>
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{{note label|Titanic|T||The totals given for ''Titanic'' at [[Box Office Mojo]] and [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] are both incorrect. Prior to the 2023 re-release, the totals at both trackers were inflated above the true figure. {{bulleted list|As of 2019, Box Office Mojo correctly recorded that ''Titanic'' had grossed $1.843 billion on its original release, $344 million from its 3D reissue in 2012, and a further $692,000 from a limited release in 2017 for a lifetime total of $2.187 billion.<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|title=Titanic (1997) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027003338/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |access-date=October 27, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Following a limited re-release in 2020, Box Office Mojo incorrectly added $7 million to the original release total.<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|title=Titanic (1997) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030074558/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |access-date=October 30, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> By the end of 2021, Box Office Mojo had corrected the original release total, but added the $7 million figure to both the 2012 and 2017 reissue totals, incorrectly increasing the lifetime total by $14 million to $2.202 billion.<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|title=Titanic (1997) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026222823/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |access-date=October 26, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At the beginning of 2023, Box Office Mojo corrected the total for the 2017 reissue, bringing the lifetime gross down to $2.195 billion, but retained the error in the 2012 reissue.<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|title=Titanic (1997) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205001927/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |access-date=February 5, 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref> | The Numbers does not log individual releases, but had the lifetime total recorded as $2.186 billion in September 2014 (roughly equating to $1.843 billion for the original release and $343.6 million for the 3D reissue).<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|title=Titanic |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902192258/http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Titanic#http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/#tab=summar&tab=summary |access-date=September 2, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> A couple of weeks later, The Numbers increased the lifetime gross to $2.208 billion, without explanation.<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|title=Titanic |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913203854/http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Titanic#http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/#tab=summary&tab=summary |access-date=September 13, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>}}}}

{{note label|Spider-Man|SM||The worldwide total for ''Spider-Man: No Way Home'' at [[Box Office Mojo]] is incorrect, by virtue of double-counting the original Spanish gross in its 2024 re-release total. For this reason totals are sourced to an archived version of Box Office Mojo prior to when the error crept in.}}

{{note label|Frozen|F||[[Box Office Mojo]] stopped updating its main total for ''Frozen'' in August 2014, while it was still in release. The total listed here incorporates subsequent earnings in Japan, Nigeria, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany up to the end of 2015 but omits earnings in Turkey, Iceland, Brazil, and Australia (2016), which amount to a few hundred thousand dollars. The total is rounded to $1&nbsp;million to compensate for the numerical inaccuracy. It was re-released in the United Kingdom in December 2017 with the featurette ''[[Olaf's Frozen Adventure]]'', earning an additional $2.3 million.}}

{{note label|Fast 8|F8||In the case of ''The Fate of the Furious'' the gross is from an archived version of Box Office Mojo, after irregularities were discovered in the current figure. Ongoing weekly drops in the totals for several countries—Argentina being the worst affected—led to a drop in the overall worldwide total.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=AR&id=furious8.htm |title=The Fate of the Furious (2017) – International Box Office Results: Argentina |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref> In view of what appears to be an aberration in the source, a previous figure is provided.}}

{{note label|LOTR3|RK||''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' saw its original gross corrected in early 2020. The result of this correction is that ''Spider-Man: Far From Home'', ''Captain Marvel'' and ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' all peaked one place lower than shown in the accompanying source.}}

{{note label|Dark Knight Rises|DKR||The worldwide total for ''The Dark Knight Rises'' at [[Box Office Mojo]] is incorrect, by virtue of double-counting the original Australian gross in its 2024 re-release total. For this reason totals are sourced to an archived version of Box Office Mojo prior to when the error crept in.}}

{{note label|TS3|TS3||Box Office Mojo revised the grosses for Pixar films in August 2016, resulting in the gross for ''Toy Story 3'' being corrected from $1.063&nbsp;billion to $1.067&nbsp;billion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pixar Movies at the Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816210106/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm |archive-date=August 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pixar Movies at the Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820153822/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2016}}</ref> This means that it peaked at number 4 at the end of its run, ahead of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]'', rather than at number 5 as indicated by the source.}}
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== Highest-grossing films adjusted for inflation ==
{{See also|List of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada#Adjusted for ticket-price inflation|List of films by box office admissions}}

[[File:World Inflation rate 2017.svg|thumb|right|Inflation rates around the world vary, complicating inflation adjustment|alt=A map of the world with different regions colored in correlating to inflation rates]]
Because of 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 later films.<ref name="Bialik (2010-1-29)">{{cite news |last=Bialik |first=Carl |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-hollywood-box-office-records-are-made-889/ |title=How Hollywood Box-Office Records Are Made |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=January 29, 2010 |access-date=August 9, 2011 |archive-date=November 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101195443/http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-hollywood-box-office-records-are-made-889/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Pincus-Roth (2009)">{{cite news |last=Pincus-Roth |first=Zachary |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/07/why-journalists-don-t-account-for-inflation-when-they-report-box-office-records.html |title=Best Weekend Never |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=July 6, 2009 |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406213349/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/07/why-journalists-don-t-account-for-inflation-when-they-report-box-office-records.html |url-status=live }}</ref> To compensate for the devaluation of the currency, some charts make adjustments for inflation, but not even this practice fully addresses the issue, since ticket prices and inflation do not necessarily parallel one another. For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars.<ref name="LLU (2004)">{{cite conference |first1=S. Eric |last1=Anderson |first2=Stewart |last2=Albertson |first3=David |last3=Shavlick |title=How the motion picture industry miscalculates box office receipts |conference=Proceedings of the Midwest Business Economics Association |date=March 2004 |publisher=[[Loma Linda University]] |url=http://www.usi.edu/business/abe/2004/movies.doc |conference-url=http://www.usi.edu/business/abe/2004.aspx |format=DOC |access-date=April 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204604/http://www.usi.edu/business/abe/2004/movies.doc |archive-date=October 29, 2013}}</ref> Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses.<ref name="Bialik (2010-1-29)" />

Another complication is release in multiple formats for which different ticket prices are charged. One notable example of this phenomenon is ''Avatar'', which was also released in [[3D film|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.<ref name="Gray (2010-02-03)">{{cite web |first=Brandon |last=Gray |title='Avatar' Claims Highest Gross of All Time |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed2356806660/ |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=February 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207134301/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2667&p=l.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Social and economic factors such as population change<ref name="Bialik (2010-1-30)">{{cite news |last=Bialik |first=Carl |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704878904575031813961239170 |title=What It Takes for a Movie to Be No. 1 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=January 30, 2010 |access-date=August 9, 2011 |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218054255/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704878904575031813961239170 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the growth of international markets<ref name="Kolesnikov-Jessop">{{cite news |last=Kolesnikov-Jessop |first=Sonia |title=Hollywood Presses Its Global Agenda |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 22, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/business/media/23film-screensingapore.html |access-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218011038/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/business/media/23film-screensingapore.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Hoad">{{cite news |last=Hoad |first=Phil |title=The rise of the international box office |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=August 11, 2011 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/aug/11/hollywood-international-box-office |access-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629043918/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/aug/11/hollywood-international-box-office |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Frankel">{{cite news |last=Frankel |first=Daniel |title=Why the Foreign Box Office Leads: 'Fast Five,' 'Thor' Open Overseas First |work=[[The Wrap]] |date=May 1, 2011 |url=https://www.thewrap.com/rise-foreign-box-office-why-fast-five-debuted-down-under-first-26957/ |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=January 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109012046/https://www.thewrap.com/rise-foreign-box-office-why-fast-five-debuted-down-under-first-26957/ |url-status=live }}</ref> also have an effect on the number of people purchasing theater tickets, along with audience demographics where some films sell a much higher proportion of discounted children's tickets, or perform better in big cities where tickets cost more.<ref name="Pincus-Roth (2009)" />

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 because of the practices of the film industry: the box-office receipts are compiled by theaters and relayed to the distributor, which in turn releases them to the media.<ref name="Bialik (2007)">{{cite news |last=Bialik |first=Carl |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/box-office-records-are-the-stuff-of-legend-240/ |title=Box-Office Records Are the Stuff of 'Legend' |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=December 17, 2007 |access-date=August 10, 2011 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029224731/http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/box-office-records-are-the-stuff-of-legend-240/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Converting to a more representative system that counts ticket sales rather than gross is also fraught with problems because the only data available for older films are the sale totals.<ref name="Bialik (2010-1-30)" /> As the motion picture industry is highly oriented towards marketing currently released films, 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",<ref name="LLU (2004)" /><ref name="Leonhardt">{{cite news |last=Leonhardt |first=David |title=Why 'Avatar' Is Not the Top-Grossing Film |date=March 1, 2010 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/why-avatar-is-not-the-top-grossing-film |access-date=April 7, 2013 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016144720/https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/why-avatar-is-not-the-top-grossing-film/ |url-status=live }}</ref> so there is little incentive to switch to a more robust analysis from a marketing or even newsworthy point of view.<ref name="Bialik (2007)" />

Despite the inherent difficulties in accounting for inflation, several attempts have been made. Estimates depend on the [[price index]] used to adjust the grosses,<ref name="Leonhardt" /> and the [[exchange rate]]s used to convert between currencies can also affect the calculations, both of which can have an effect on the ultimate rankings of an inflation adjusted list. ''Gone with the Wind''—first released in 1939—is generally considered to be the most successful film, with ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' in 2014 estimating its adjusted global gross at $3.4&nbsp;billion. Estimates for ''Gone with the Wind''{{'}}s adjusted gross have varied substantially: its owner, [[Turner Entertainment]], estimated its adjusted earnings at $3.3&nbsp;billion in 2007, a few years earlier than the ''Guinness'' estimate;<ref name="gwtw tcm" /> other estimates fall either side of this amount, with one putting its gross just under $3&nbsp;billion in 2010,<ref name="Shone">{{Cite news |first=Tom |last=Shone |author-link=Tom Shone |title=Oscars 2010: How James Cameron took on the world |website=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=February 3, 2010 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/7144424/Oscars-2010-How-James-Cameron-took-on-the-world.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/7144424/Oscars-2010-How-James-Cameron-took-on-the-world.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=March 22, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> while another provided an alternative figure of $3.8&nbsp;billion in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hill |first=George F. |title=Gone With The Wind, Indeed |date=June 25, 2006 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/23/AR2006062301502.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227233419/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/23/AR2006062301502.html |archive-date=December 27, 2018}}</ref> Which film is ''Gone with the Wind''{{'}}s nearest rival depends on the set of figures used: ''Guinness'' had ''Avatar'' in second place with $3&nbsp;billion, while other estimates saw ''Titanic'' in the runner-up spot with first-run worldwide earnings of almost $2.9&nbsp;billion at 2010 prices.<ref name="Shone" />

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+{{nowrap|Highest-grossing films {{As of|2024|lc=y}} adjusted for inflation<ref name="Guinness 2015">{{cite book |title=Guinness World Records |edition=2015 |year=2014 |volume=60 |isbn=978-1-908843-70-8 |pages=160–161 |publisher=Guinness World Records}}</ref>}}{{ref label|Inflation|Inf}}
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" data-sort-type="currency" | {{longitem|Worldwide gross<br />{{small|(2024 $)}}}}
! scope="col" | Year
|-
| 1
! scope="row" | ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | {{ref |GWTW|GW}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:(<!--2013-->3440000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015+2176120)<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1939
|-
| 2
! scope="row" | ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | {{ref |Avatar|A1}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:((<!--2013-->3020000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.017<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053+1281204+57995770)<!--2022-->*1.073+76012917)<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 2009
|-
| 3
! scope="row" | ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | <span style="display:none">$2,516,000,000</span>{{ref |Titanic|T}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:((<!--2013-->2516000000+<!--2012 REISSUE-->57884114+285666656)<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031+691642+71352+70219746)<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1997
|-
| 4
! scope="row" | ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--2013-->2825000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1977
|-
| 5
! scope="row" | ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | {{ref |Avengers Endgame|AE}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--2019-->2797501328<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round-6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 2019
|-
| 6
! scope="row" | ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--2013-->2366000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1965
|-
| 7
! scope="row" | ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | {{ref |ET|ET}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:(<!--2013-->2310000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073+516969+2834590)<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
|-
| 8
! scope="row" | ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--2013-->2187000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1956
|-
| 9
! scope="row" | ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--2013-->2073000000<!--2014-->*1.007<!--2015-->*1.005<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 1965
|-
| 10
! scope="row" | ''[[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | {{ref |The Force Awakens|TFA}}${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--2015-->2068223624<!--2016-->*1.015<!--2017-->*1.017<!--2018-->*1.016<!--2019-->*1.015<!--2020-->*1.005<!--2021-->*1.053<!--2022-->*1.073<!--2023-->*1.031<!--2024-->*1.025 round -6}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | 2015
|}

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{{note label|Inflation|Inf||Inflation adjustment is carried out using the [[Consumer price index]] for advanced economies published by the [[International Monetary Fund]].<ref>{{cite web |title=World Economic Outlook: Inflation rate, end of period consumer prices |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |url=https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PCPIEPCH@WEO/ADVEC |access-date=June 21, 2025 |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510074943/https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PCPIEPCH@WEO/ADVEC |url-status=live }}</ref> The index is uniformly applied to the grosses in the chart published by ''Guinness World Records'' in 2014, beginning with the 2014 index. The figures in the above chart take into account inflation that has occurred in every year since then, through 2024.}}

{{note label|GWTW|GW||The adjusted gross for ''Gone with the Wind'' includes the original release and reissue grosses up to 1998, adjusted from the Guinness base year, and the 2019 gross<ref>{{cite web |title=Gone with the Wind (2019 Re-release) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2689159685/ |access-date=June 16, 2024 |quote=Gross: $2,176,120}}</ref> adjusted from the 2020 index. There have been several limited re-releases in the 2020s, but the grosses from these reissues are not represented in the adjusted gross.}}

{{note label|Avatar|A1||The adjusted gross for ''Avatar'' includes revenue from the original release and all four reissues. The original release and 2010 Special Edition grosses are adjusted from the Guinness base year, whilst the 2020 and 2021 grosses are adjusted from the 2021 index and the 2022 gross from 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Avatar (2009) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0499549/ |access-date=September 10, 2022 |quote=2020 Re-release: $1,281,204; 2021 Re-release: $57,995,770; 2022 Re-release: $76,012,917; 2025 Re-release: $4,682 |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503004225/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0499549/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

{{note label|Titanic-b|T||''Guinness''{{'}} adjusted total for ''Titanic'' only increased by $102,000,000 between the 2012 (published in 2011) and 2015 editions, a rise of 4.2% shared by the other adjusted totals in the chart, and omitted the gross from a 3D re-release in 2012.<ref name="Guinness 2015" /><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Glenday|editor-first=Craig|script-title=ru:Гиннесс. Мировые рекорды|trans-title=Guinness World Records |edition=2012 |year=2011 |publisher=[[Astrel]] |location=Moscow |isbn=978-5-271-36423-5 |page=211 |language=ru |translator-last=Andrianov |translator-first=P.I. |translator-last2=Palova |translator-first2=I.V.}}</ref> This chart incorporates the gross of $343,550,770 from the reissue and adjusts it from the 2013 index.<ref>{{cite web |title=Titanic 3D (2012) – International Box Office results |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=titanic3d.htm |access-date=November 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027003338/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |archive-date=October 27, 2019|quote=$343,550,770}}</ref> ''Titanic'' grossed a further ${{formatnum:{{#expr:691642+71352}}}} during limited re-releases in 2017 and 2020, and these have been incorporated into the gross from the 25th anniversary reissue and adjusted from the 2023 index.<ref>{{cite web |title=Titanic (1997) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |access-date=November 25, 2012 |quote=2017 Re-release: $691,642; 2020 Re-release: $71,352; 25 Year Anniversary: $70,157,472}}</ref>}}

{{note label|ET|ET||The adjusted gross for ''E.T.'' includes revenue from the original release and all re-releases. The original release along with the 1985 and 2002 reissues are adjusted from the Guinness base year, whilst the 2020 and 2022 grosses<ref>{{cite web |title=E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0083866/ |access-date=June 16, 2024 |quote=2020 Re-release: $516,969; 2022 Re-release: $2,834,590 }}</ref> are adjusted from the 2022 index.}}

{{note label|Avengers Endgame|AE||The gross for ''Avengers: Endgame'' is adjusted from the 2020 index.}}

{{note label|The Force Awakens|TFA||The gross for ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' is adjusted from the 2016 index.}}

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| quote = Box-office figures are reported in either gross revenue or ''distributor rentals'', the latter being especially true of older films. Commonly mistaken for home video revenue, distributor rentals are the distributor's share of the film's theatrical revenue (i.e. the box office gross less the exhibitor's cut).<ref name="Cones">{{cite book |last=Cones |first=John W. |title=The feature film distribution deal: a critical analysis of the single most important film industry agreement |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-8093-2082-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EoeJ7VmwnDIC&pg=PA41 41] |quote=Distributor rentals: It is also important to know and recognize the difference between the distributor's gross receipts and the gross rentals. The term "rentals" refers to the aggregate amount of the film distributor's share of monies paid at theatre box offices computed on the basis of negotiated agreements between the distributor and the exhibitor. Note that gross receipts refers to amounts actually received and from all markets and media, whereas gross rentals refers to amounts earned from theatrical exhibition only, regardless of whether received by the distributor. Thus, gross receipts is the much broader term and includes distributor rentals. The issue of film rentals (i.e., what percentage of a film's box office gross comes back to the distributor) is of key importance...More current numbers suggest that distributor rentals for the major studio/distributor released films average in the neighborhood of 43% of box office gross. Again, however, such an average is based on widely divergent distributor rental ratios on individual films.}}</ref><ref name="Marich">{{cite book |last=Marich |first=Robert |title=Marketing to moviegoers: a handbook of strategies used by major studios and independents |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |edition=2 |year=2009 |orig-year=1st. pub. [[Focal Press]]:2005 |isbn=978-0-8093-2884-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_6USFaYxyeUC&pg=PA252 252]<!--If page link dies, try [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f1SQIZOffhoC&pg=pa232 232]--> |quote=Rentals are the distributors' share of the box office gross and typically set by a complex, two-part contract.}}</ref> Historically, the rental price averaged at 30–40% when the distributors owned the theater chains, equating to just over a third of the gross being paid to the distributor of the film.<ref name="Balio">{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |title=The American film industry |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-299-09874-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=OBpDf_uUp30C&pg=PA296 296] |quote=Film Rentals as Percent of Volume of Business (1939): 36.4}}</ref> In the modern marketplace, rental fees can vary greatly—depending on a number of factors—although the films from the major studios average out at 43%.<ref name="Cones" />
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Audience tastes were fairly eclectic during the 20th century, but several trends did emerge. During the [[Silent film|silent era]], films with [[War film|war themes]] were popular with audiences, with ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' ([[American Civil War]]), ''[[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]'', ''[[The Big Parade]]'' and ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' (all [[World War I]]) becoming the most successful films in their respective years of release, with the trend coming to an end with ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' in 1930. With the advent of [[Sound film|sound]] in 1927, the [[Musical film|musical]]—the genre best placed to showcase the new technology—took over as the most popular type of film with audiences, with 1928 and 1929 both being topped by musical films. The genre continued to perform strongly in the 1930s, but the outbreak of [[World War II]] saw war-themed films dominate again during this period, starting with ''Gone with the Wind'' (American Civil War) in 1939, and finishing with ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' (World War II) in 1946. ''[[Samson and Delilah (1949 film)|Samson and Delilah]]'' (1949) saw the beginning of a trend of increasingly expensive [[List of historical drama films|historical dramas]] set during [[Ancient Rome]]/[[biblical times]] throughout the 1950s as cinema competed with television for audiences,<ref>{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |year=1987 |title=United Artists: the Company that Changed the Film Industry |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |isbn=978-0-299-11440-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9EeK5s3aw44C&pg=PA124 124–125] |quote=To rekindle interest in the movies, Hollywood not only had to compete with television but also with other leisure-time activities...Movies made a comeback by 1955, but audiences had changed. Moviegoing became a special event for most people, creating the phenomenon of the big picture. |url=https://archive.org/details/unitedartistscom00bali/page/124}}</ref> with ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]'', ''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]'', ''The Ten Commandments'', ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' and ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]'' all becoming the highest-grossing film of the year during initial release, before the genre started to wane after several high-profile failures.<ref name="HallNeale179">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA179 179]. "Later epics proved far more disastrous for the backers. [[Samuel Bronston]]'s ''[[The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)|The Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', filmed in Spain, cost $17,816,876 and grossed only $1.9&nbsp;million in America. George Stevens's long-gestating life of Christ, ''[[The Greatest Story Ever Told]]'' (1965), which had been in planning since 1954 and in production since 1962, earned domestic rentals of $6,962,715 on a $21,481,745 negative cost, the largest amount yet spent on a production made entirely within the United States. ''[[The Bible: In the Beginning...]]'' (1966) was financed by the Italian producer [[Dino De Laurentiis]] from private investors and Swiss banks. He then sold distribution rights outside Italy jointly to [[Twentieth Century Fox|Fox]] and [[Seven Arts Productions|Seven Arts]] for $15&nbsp;million (70 percent of which came from Fox), thereby recouping the bulk of his $18&nbsp;million investment. Although ''The Bible'' returned a respectable world rental of $25.3&nbsp;million, Fox was still left with a net loss of just over $1.5&nbsp;million. It was the last biblical epic to be released by any major Hollywood studio for nearly twenty years."}}</ref> The success of ''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]'' and ''[[South Pacific (1958 film)|South Pacific]]'' in the 1950s foreshadowed the comeback of the musical in the 1960s with ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'', ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'', ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'', ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'' and ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]'' all among the top films of the decade. The 1970s saw a shift in audience tastes to [[high concept]] films, with six such films made by either [[George Lucas]] or [[Steven Spielberg]] topping the chart during the 1980s. The 21st century has seen an increasing dependence on franchises and [[Film adaptation|adaptations]], with the box-office dominance of films based on pre-existing intellectual property at record levels.<ref>{{cite web |first=Trey |last=Williams |title=Ridley Scott's latest 'Alien' announcement drives Hollywood's sequel problem |date=September 25, 2015 |website=[[MarketWatch]] |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ridley-scotts-latest-alien-announcement-drives-hollywoods-sequel-problem-2015-09-25 |access-date=May 12, 2016 |archive-date=June 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608132003/http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ridley-scotts-latest-alien-announcement-drives-hollywoods-sequel-problem-2015-09-25 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Steven Spielberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Films directed by Steven Spielberg have been the highest-grossing film of the year on five occasions, and on three occasions have been the highest-grossing film of all time.|alt=A portrait of a bespectacled middle aged man.]]

Steven Spielberg (1975, 1981, 1982, 1989 and 1993) and [[Cecil B. DeMille]] (1932, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1956) tie as the most represented directors on the chart with five films apiece occupying the annual top spot. [[William Wyler]] (1942, 1946, 1959 and 1968) and [[James Cameron]] (1991, 1997, 2009 and 2022) are each represented by four films, whilst [[D. W. Griffith]] (1915, 1916 and 1920), [[George Roy Hill]] (1966, 1969 and 1973) and the [[Russo brothers]] (2016, 2018 and 2019) all feature heavily with three films apiece. George Lucas directed two chart-toppers in 1977 and 1999, but also served in a strong creative capacity as a producer and writer in 1980, 1981, 1983, and 1989 as well. The following directors have also all directed two films on the chart: [[Frank Lloyd]], [[King Vidor]], [[Frank Capra]], [[Michael Curtiz]], [[Leo McCarey]], [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[David Lean]], [[Stanley Kubrick]], [[Guy Hamilton]], [[Mike Nichols]], [[William Friedkin]], [[Peter Jackson]], [[Gore Verbinski]], and [[Michael Bay]]; [[Mervyn LeRoy]], [[Ken Annakin]] and [[Robert Wise]] are each represented by one solo credit and one shared credit, and [[John Ford]] co-directed two films. Disney films are usually co-directed and some directors have served on several winning teams: [[Wilfred Jackson]], [[Hamilton Luske]], [[Clyde Geronimi]], [[David Hand (animator)|David Hand]], [[Ben Sharpsteen]], [[Wolfgang Reitherman]] and Bill Roberts have all co-directed at least two films on the list. Only seven directors have topped the chart in consecutive years: McCarey (1944 and 1945), Nichols (1966 and 1967), Spielberg (1981 and 1982), Jackson (2002 and 2003), Verbinski (2006 and 2007) and the Russo brothers (2018 and 2019).

Because of release schedules—especially in the case of films released towards the end of the year—and different release patterns across the world, many films can do business in two or more calendar years; therefore the grosses documented here are not confined to just the year of release. Grosses are not limited to original theatrical runs either, with many older films often being re-released periodically so the figures represent all the business a film has done since its original release; a film's first-run gross is included in brackets after the total if known. Because of incomplete data it cannot be known for sure how much money some films have made and when they made it, but generally the chart chronicles the films from each year that went on to earn the most. In the cases where estimates conflict both films are recorded, and in cases where a film has moved into first place because of being re-released the previous record-holder is also retained.

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|+High-grossing films by year of release<ref>{{cite web |title=Yearly Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?view2=worldwide&view=releasedate&p=.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |archive-date=July 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729050238/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?view2=worldwide&view=releasedate&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Movie Index By Year |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies |access-date=January 6, 2012 |archive-date=December 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221072403/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Dirks (year)">{{cite web |last=Dirks |first=Tim |website=[[Filmsite.org]] |publisher=[[AMC Networks|American Movie Classics]] |title=All-Time Box-Office Hits By Decade and Year |url=http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice2.html |access-date=January 5, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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! Title
! Worldwide gross
! Budget
! References
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! scope="row" | [[1915 in film|1915]]
|''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|50000000}}–{{nts|100000000}}<br />{{nts|prefix=$|20000000}}+{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|5200000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|110000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Monaco |first=James |title=How to Read a Film:Movies, Media, and Beyond |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-975579-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bgbOsjnppAcC&pg=PA262 262] |quote=The Birth of a Nation, costing an unprecedented and, many believed, thoroughly foolhardy $110,000, eventually returned $20&nbsp;million and more. The actual figure is hard to calculate because the film was distributed on a "states' rights" basis in which licenses to show the film were sold outright. The actual cash generated by The Birth of a Nation may have been as much as $50&nbsp;million to $100&nbsp;million, an almost inconceivable amount for such an early film.}}</ref><ref name="Wasko" group="#">{{cite book |last=Wasko |first=Janet |chapter=D.W. Griffiths and the banks: a case study in film financing |editor-last=Kerr |editor-first=Paul |title=The Hollywood Film Industry: A Reader |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-7100-9730-9 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jMINAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 34] |quote=Various accounts have cited $15&nbsp;to&nbsp;$18&nbsp;million profits during the first few years of release, while in a letter to a potential investor in the proposed sound version, Aitken noted that a $15&nbsp;to&nbsp;$18&nbsp;million box-office gross was a 'conservative estimate'. For years ''Variety'' has listed ''The Birth of a Nation''{{'}}s total rental at $50&nbsp;million. (This reflects the total amount paid to the distributor, not box-office gross.) This 'trade legend' has finally been acknowledged by ''Variety'' as a 'whopper myth', and the amount has been revised to $5&nbsp;million. That figure seems far more feasible, as reports of earnings in the Griffith collection list gross receipts for 1915–1919 at slightly more than $5.2&nbsp;million (including foreign distribution) and total earnings after deducting general office expenses, but not royalties, at about $2&nbsp;million.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |editor-last=Lang |editor-first=Robert |title=The Birth of a nation: D.W. Griffith, director |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-8135-2027-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rKOgVk13vawC&pg=PA30 30] |quote=The film eventually cost $110,000 and was twelve reels long. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813520278/page/30}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1916 in film|1916]]
|''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1750000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |Intolerance|IN}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|385907}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Griffith's 20 Year Record |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=September 5, 1928 |page=12 |access-date=March 21, 2023|url=https://archive.org/details/variety92-1928-09/page/n12/mode/1up}}</ref><ref name=Schickel>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Schickel |year=1996 |title=D. W. Griffith: An American Life |series=Limelight Series |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]] |isbn=978-0-87910-080-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-YFNfV5fRDgC&pg=PA326 326] |quote=...there exists a very precise production accountant's statement, drawn up some time after the picture was finished, previews had been held and release prints struck. This document shows that the negative cost of the picture was precisely $385,906.77...}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1917 in film|1917]]
|''[[Cleopatra (1917 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|500000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|300000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson26">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA26 26]}}.
*''Cleopatra'': "Domestic Rentals: $0.5; Production Cost: $0.3 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref><ref group="#">{{citation |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=Intolerance |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA45 45] |quote=Intolerance was the most expensive American film made up until that point, costing a total of $489,653, and its performance at the box ... but it did recoup its cost and end with respectable overall numbers.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1918 in film|1918]]
|''[[Mickey (1918 film)|Mickey]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8000000}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|250000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="mickey">{{cite news |last=Coons |first=Robin |work=[[The Daytona Beach News-Journal]] |title=Hollywood Chatter |date=June 30, 1939 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eHIoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C8cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4926%2C5479066 6]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1919 in film|1919]]
|''[[The Miracle Man (1919 film)|The Miracle Man]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|120000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Shipman |first=David |title=The great movie stars: the golden years |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group]] |year=1970 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatmoviestarst00ship 98] |quote=It was a low budgeter—$120,000—but it grossed world-wide over $3&nbsp;million and made stars of Chaney and his fellow-players, Betty Compson and Thomas Meighan.}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1920 in film|1920]]
|''[[Way Down East]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|4000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="Variety (1932)" group="#">{{cite news |title=Biggest Money Pictures |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=June 21, 1932 |page=1|url=https://archive.org/details/variety106-1932-06/page/n120/mode/1up|via=[[Archive.org]]}} Cited in {{cite web |title=Biggest Money Pictures |publisher=Cinemaweb |url=http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |access-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708155503/http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |archive-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Solomon (2011)" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[1921 in film|1921]]
|''[[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|4000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|600000}}–{{nts|800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA53 53]}}. "''The Four Forsemen of the Apocalypse'' was to become Metro's most expensive production and one of the decade's biggest box-office hits. Its production costs have been estimated at "something between $600,000 and $800,000." ''Variety'' estimated its worldwide gross at $4&nbsp;million in 1925 and at $5&nbsp;million in 1944; in 1991, it estimated its cumulative domestic rentals at $3,800,000."</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1922 in film|1922]]
|''[[Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2500000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|930042.78}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Brownlow |first=Kevin |title=The parade's gone by .. |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1968 |isbn=978-0-520-03068-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wCD5EH64Qw8C&pg=PA255 255] |quote=The negative cost was about $986,000, which did not include Fairbanks' own salary. Once the exploitation and release prints were taken into account, ''Robin Hood'' cost about $1,400,000—exceeding both ''Intolerance'' ($700,000) and the celebrated "million dollar movie" ''Foolish Wives''. But it earned $2,500,000.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Vance |first=Jeffrey |title=Douglas Fairbanks |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-520-25667-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=e3DVBxGQ95YC&pg=PA146 146] |quote=The film had a production cost of $930,042.78—more than the cost of D.W. Griffith's ''Intolerance'' and nearly as much as Erich von Stroheim's ''Foolish Wives'' (1922).}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1923 in film|1923]]
|''[[The Covered Wagon]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Time (1925)">{{cite magazine |title=Business: Film Exports |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=July 6, 1925 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728553,00.html |access-date=July 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105030518/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728553,00.html |archive-date=November 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Birchard (2009)" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[1924 in film|1924]]
|''[[The Sea Hawk (1924 film)|The Sea Hawk]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|700000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Time (1925)" />
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1925 in film|1925]]
|''[[The Big Parade]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|18000000}}–{{nts|22000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:4990000+1141000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|382000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="May (2005)">{{Citation |last=May |first=Richard P. |title=Restoring The Big Parade |journal=The Moving Image |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=140–146 |issn=1532-3978 |doi=10.1353/mov.2005.0033 |date=Fall 2005 |s2cid=192076406 |quote=...earning somewhere between $18&nbsp;and&nbsp;$22&nbsp;million, depending on the figures consulted}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Robertson |first=Patrick |title=Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats |publisher=[[Abbeville Publishing Group]] |year=1991 |edition=4 |isbn=978-1-55859-236-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jdjsQY5qkbEC&q=%22samson+and+delilah%22+worldwide+million+rentals 30] |quote=The top grossing silent film was King Vidor's ''The Big Parade'' (US 25), with worldwide rentals of $22&nbsp;million.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA58 58–59]}}. "Even then, at a time when the budget for a feature averaged at around $300,000, no more than $382,000 was spent on production...According to the Eddie Mannix Ledger at MGM, it grossed $4,990,000 domestically and $1,141,000 abroad."</ref>
|-
|''[[Ben-Hur (1925 film)|Ben-Hur]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10738000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|9386000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3967000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Ben-Hur (1925)">{{cite web |title=Ben-Hur (1925) – Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/35/ben-hur#notes |access-date=December 19, 2017 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724083359/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/35/Ben-Hur/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale163">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA163 163]. "MGM's silent ''Ben-Hur'', which opened at the end of 1925, had out-grossed all the other pictures released by the company in 1926 combined. With worldwide rentals of $9,386,000 on first release it was, with the sole possible exception of ''The Birth of a Nation'', the highest-earning film of the entire silent era. (At a negative cost of $3,967,000, it was also the most expensive.)"}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1926 in film|1926]]
|''[[For Heaven's Sake (1926 film)|For Heaven's Sake]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2600000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |For Heaven's Sake|FH}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Variety (1932)" /><ref group="#">{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Frank |title=For Heaven's Sake (1926) – Articles |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/410794/for-heavens-sake#articles-reviews |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090237/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/410794/For-Heaven-s-Sake/articles.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1927 in film|1927]]
|''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3600000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Variety (1932)" /><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&q=wings+%242+million&pg=PA188 188]}}. "At a cost of $2&nbsp;million ''Wings'' was the studio's most expensive movie of the decade, and though it did well it was not good enough to earn a profit."</ref><ref group="#" name="Jolson" />
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! scope="row" | [[1928 in film|1928]]
|''[[The Singing Fool]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5900000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|388000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Jolson">''The Jazz Singer'' and ''The Singing Fool''
*{{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=The Jazz Singer |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA113 113] |quote=The film brought in $2.6&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals and made a net profit of $1,196,750. Jolson's follow-up Warner Bros. film, ''The Singing Fool'' (1928), brought in over two times as much, with $5.9 in worldwide rentals and a profit of $3,649,000, making them two of the most profitable films in the 1920s.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#" name="Crafton">{{cite book |last=Crafton |first=Donald |title=The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926–1931 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-520-22128-4 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=KFB_oT-jupQC&pg=PA549 549]–552 |quote=''The Singing Fool'': Negative Cost ($1000s): 388}}</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1929 in film|1929]]
|''[[The Broadway Melody]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4400000}}–{{nts|4800000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|379000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{citation |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=The Broadway Melody |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA121 121] |quote=It earned $4.4&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals and was the first movie to spawn sequels (there were several until 1940).}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#" name="bradley">{{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=Edwin M. |title=The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2004 |orig-year=1st. pub. 1996 |isbn=978-0-7864-2029-2}}
*''The Singing Fool'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA12 12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001730/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA12 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Ego aside, Jolson was at the top of his powers in ''The Singing Fool''. The $150,000 Warner Bros. paid him to make it, and the $388,000 it took to produce the film, were drops in the hat next to the film's world gross of $5.9&nbsp;million. Its&nbsp;$3.8-million gross in this country set a box-office record that would not be surpassed until Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937)."
*''The Broadway Melody'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA24 24] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404044842/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA24 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "''The Broadway Melody'' with a negative cost of $379,000, grossed $2.8&nbsp;million in the United States, $4.8&nbsp;million worldwide, and made a recorded profit of $1.6&nbsp;million for MGM."
*''Gold Diggers of Broadway'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&q=%22gold%20diggers%20of%20broadway%22%20worldwide 58] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001730/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&q=%22gold%20diggers%20of%20broadway%22%20worldwide |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "It grossed an impressive $2.5&nbsp;million domestically and nearly $4&nbsp;million worldwide."</ref>
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|''[[Sunny Side Up (1929 film)|Sunny Side Up]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3500000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |Sunny Side Up|SS}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|600000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Solomon (1988)" /><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA46 46]}}. "Production Cost: $0.6 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1930 in film|1930]]
|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1250000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Variety (1932)" /><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Cormack |first=Mike |title=Ideology and Cinematography in Hollywood, 1930–1939 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-312-10067-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=w0JSFWpr2gAC&pg=PA28 28] |quote=Although costing $1250000—a huge sum for any studio in 1929—the film was a financial success. Karl Thiede gives the domestic box-office at $1500000, and the same figure for the foreign gross.}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Balio (1996)" /><ref group="#" name="Balio (1976)">''Hell's Angels''
*{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |title=United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |year=1976 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QljKdIYzncoC&pg=PA110 110] |quote=Hughes did not have the "Midas touch" the trade press so often attributed to him. ''Variety'', for example, reported that ''Hell's Angels'' cost $3.2&nbsp;million to make, and by July, 1931, eight months after its release, the production cost had nearly been paid off. Keats claimed the picture cost $4&nbsp;million to make and that it earned twice that much within twenty years. The production cost estimate is probably correct. Hughes worked on the picture for over two years, shooting it first as a silent and then as a talkie. Lewis Milestone said that in between Hughes experimented with shooting it in color as well. But ''Variety''{{'}}s earnings report must be the fabrication of a delirious publicity agent, and Keats' the working of a myth maker. During the seven years it was in United Artists distribution, ''Hell's Angels'' grossed $1.6&nbsp;million in the domestic market, of which Hughes' share was $1.2&nbsp;million. Whatever the foreign gross was, it seems unlikely that it was great enough to earn a profit for the picture.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1931 in film|1931]]
|''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|12000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|1400000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|250000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |last=Feaster |first=Felicia |title=Frankenstein (1931) |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/18617 |access-date=July 4, 2011 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221174009/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/373967%7C18617/Frankenstein.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA163 163]}}. "It drew $1.4&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals in its first run versus $1.2&nbsp;million for ''Dracula'', which had opened in February 1931."</ref>
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|''[[City Lights]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1607351}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Vance |first=Jeffrey |title=Chaplin: genius of the cinema |publisher=[[Abrams Books]] |year=2003 |page=[https://archive.org/details/chaplingeniusofc00vanc 208] |quote=Chaplin's negative cost for City Lights was $1,607,351. The film eventually earned him a worldwide profit of $5&nbsp;million ($2&nbsp;million domestically and $3&nbsp;million in foreign distribution), an enormous sum of money for the time.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1932 in film|1932]]
|''[[The Sign of the Cross (1932 film)|The Sign of the Cross]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2738993}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|694065}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Birchard (2009)" /><ref group="#" name="IMPA (1937)">{{cite journal |editor-last=Ramsaye |editor-first=Terry |title=The All-Time Best Sellers – Motion Pictures |journal=International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 |year=1937 |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up 942–943] |quote=''Kid from Spain'': $2,621,000 (data supplied by Eddie Cantor)}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Sedgwick" /><ref group="#" name="shanghai">''Shanghai Express''
*{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA165 165]}}. "''Shanghai Express'' was Dietrich's biggest hit in America, bringing in $1.5&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="4" | [[1933 in film|1933]]
|''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:1856000+306000+685000+2500000}}}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|1856000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|672,255.75}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''King Kong''
*{{cite journal |first=Richard |last=Jewel |title=RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951 |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=14 |issue=1 |year=1994 |page=39 |quote=1933 release: $1,856,000; 1938 release: $306,000; 1944 release: $685,000}}
*{{cite web |title=King Kong (1933)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2690/king-kong#notes |access-date=January 7, 2012 |quote=1952 release: $2,500,000; budget: $672,254.75 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20151117145708/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2690/King-Kong/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|''[[I'm No Angel]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:2250000+1000000}}}}+{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=I'm No Angel (1933)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79021/im-no-angel#notes |access-date=January 7, 2012 |quote=According to a modern source, it had a gross earning of $2,250,000 on the North American continent, with over a million more earned internationally. |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217022041/https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090234/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79021/I-m-No-Angel/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&q=angel%20rock-bottom%20cost&pg=PA188 188]}}. "The studio released its most profitable pictures of the decade in 1933, ''She Done Him Wrong'' and ''I'm No Angel'', written by and starring Mae West. Produced at a rock-bottom cost of $200,000 each, they undoubtedly helped Paramount through the worst patch in its history..."</ref>
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|''[[Cavalcade (1933 film)|Cavalcade]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}–{{nts|4000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1116000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Solomon (2011)">{{cite book |last=Solomon |first=Aubrey |title=The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935: A History and Filmography |year=2011 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=978-0-7864-6286-5}}
*''Way Down East'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA52 52] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001622/https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA52 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "D.W. Griffith's ''Way Down East'' (1920) was projected to return rentals of $4,000,000 on an $800,000 negative. This figure was based on the amounts earned from its roadshow run, coupled with its playoff in the rest of the country's theaters. Griffith had originally placed the potential film rental at $3,000,000 but, because of the success of the various roadshows that were running the $4,000,000 total was expected. The film showed a profit of $615,736 after just 23 weeks of release on a gross of $2,179,613."
*''What Price Glory?'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&q=What%20Price%20Glory%20hit%20the%20jackpot%20with%20massive%20world%20rentals%20of%20%242%2C429%2C000%2C%20the%20highest%20figure%20in%20the%20history%20of%20the%20company.%20Since%20it%20was%20also%20the%20most%20expensive%20production%20of%20the%20year%20at%20%24817%2C000%20the%20profit%20was%20still%20a%20healthy%20%24796%2C000&pg=PA122 112] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001729/https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&q=What%20Price%20Glory%20hit%20the%20jackpot%20with%20massive%20world%20rentals%20of%20$2,429,000,%20the%20highest%20figure%20in%20the%20history%20of%20the%20company.%20Since%20it%20was%20also%20the%20most%20expensive%20production%20of%20the%20year%20at%20$817,000%20the%20profit%20was%20still%20a%20healthy%20$796,000&pg=PA122 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "What Price Glory hit the jackpot with massive world rentals of $2,429,000, the highest figure in the history of the company. Since it was also the most expensive production of the year at $817,000 the profit was still a healthy $796,000..."
*''Cavalcade'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA170 170] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001726/https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA170 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "The actual cost of ''Cavalcade'' was $1,116,000 and it was most definitely not guaranteed a success. In fact, if its foreign grosses followed the usual 40 percent of domestic returns, the film would have lost money. In a turnaround, the foreign gross was almost double the $1,000,000 domestic take to reach total world rentals of $3,000,000 and Fox's largest profit of the year at $664,000."
*''State Fair'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA170 170] . "''State Fair'' did turn out to be a substantial hit with the help of Janet Gaynor boosting Will Rogers back to the level of money-making star. Its prestige engagements helped raked in a total $1,208,000 in domestic rentals. Surprisingly, in foreign countries unfamiliar with state fairs, it still earned a respectable $429,000. With its total rentals, the film ended up showing a $398,000 profit."</ref><ref group="#" name="Balio (1996)">{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |year=1996 |title=Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939 |volume=5 of History of the American Cinema |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0-520-20334-1}}
*''Cavalcade'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_J9HTLOI08wC&pg=PA182 182] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404044843/https://books.google.com/books?id=_J9HTLOI08wC&pg=PA182 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Produced by Winfield Sheehan at a cost of $1.25&nbsp;million, ''Cavalcade'' won Academy Awards for best picture, director, art direction and grossed close to $4&nbsp;million during its first release, much of which came from Great Britain and the Empire."
*''Whoopee'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_J9HTLOI08wC&pg=PA212 212] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001724/https://books.google.com/books?id=_J9HTLOI08wC&pg=PA212 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Produced by Sam Goldwyn at a cost of $1&nbsp;million, the picture was an adaptation of a smash musical comedy built around Eddie Cantor...A personality-centered musical, ''Whoopee!'' made little attempt to integrate the comedy routines, songs, and story. Nonetheless, Cantor's feature-film debut grossed over $2.6&nbsp;million worldwide and started a popular series that included ''Palmy Days'' (1931), ''The Kid from Spain'' (1932), and ''Roman Scandals'' (1933)."</ref>
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|''[[She Done Him Wrong]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}+{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|274076}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson173">{{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=She Done Him Wrong |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA173 173] |quote=The worldwide rentals of over $3&nbsp;million keep the lights on at Paramount, which did not shy away from selling the movie's sex appeal.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#" name="Phillips (2008)">{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Kendall R. |title=Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America |year=2008 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=978-1-56720-724-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ViQzDunkm9QC&pg=PA26 26] |quote=The reaction to West's first major film, however, was not exclusively negative. Made for a mere $200,000, the film would rake in a healthy $2&nbsp;million in the United States and an additional million in overseas markets.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA135 135]}}. "Total production cost: $274,076 (Unadjusted $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1934 in film|1934]]
|''[[The Merry Widow (1934 film)|The Merry Widow]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:2608000}}}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1605000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Turk" /><ref group="#" name="Sedgwick" />
|-
|''[[It Happened One Night]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2500000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |One Night|ON}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|325000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite magazine |title=Wall St. Researchers' Cheery Tone|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=November 7, 1962 |page=7}}</ref><ref group="#">{{Cite book |last=Dick |first=Bernard F. |title=Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-60473-087-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=P3P9efYabOQC&pg=PA79 79] |quote=Although Columbia's president, Harry Cohn, had strong reservations about ''It Happened One Night'', he also knew that it would not bankrupt the studio; the rights were only $5,000, and the budget was set at $325,000, including the performers' salaries.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1935 in film|1935]]
|''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4460000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1905000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Sedgwick" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[1936 in film|1936]]
|''[[San Francisco (1936 film)|San Francisco]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:5273000+124000+647000}}}}+{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|5273000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1300000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Turk">{{cite book |last=Turk |first=Edward Baron |title=Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2000 |orig-year=1st. pub. 1998 |isbn=978-0-520-22253-3}}
*''The Merry Widow'': p. [https://archive.org/details/hollywooddivabio0000turk/page/361 361] Cost: $1,605,000. Earnings: domestic $861,000; foreign $1,747,000; total $2,608,000. Loss: $113,000.
*''San Francisco'': p. [https://archive.org/details/hollywooddivabio0000turk/page/364 364] Cost: $1,300,000. Earnings: domestic $2,868,000; foreign $2,405,000; total $5,273,000. Profit: $2,237,000. [Reissues in 1938–39 and 1948–49 brought profits of $124,000 and $647,000 respectively.]</ref><ref group="#" name="Sedgwick">{{cite book |last=Sedgwick |first=John |title=Popular Filmgoing In 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures |publisher=[[University of Exeter Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-85989-660-3 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsUfc8Ijb-wC&pg=PA146 146]–148 |quote=Sources: Eddie Mannix Ledger, made available to the author by Mark Glancy...}}
*''Grand Hotel'': Production Cost $000s: 700; Distribution Cost $000s: 947; U.S. box-office $000s: 1,235; Foreign box-office $000s: 1,359; Total box-office $000s: 2,594; Profit $000s: 947.
*''The Merry Widow'': Production Cost $000s: 1,605; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,116; U.S. box-office $000s: 861; Foreign box-office $000s: 1,747; Total box-office $000s: 2,608; Profit $000s: -113.
*''Viva Villa'': Production Cost $000s: 1,022; Distribution Cost $000s: 766; U.S. box-office $000s: 941; Foreign box-office $000s: 934; Total box-office $000s: 1,875; Profit $000s: 87.
*''Mutiny on the Bounty'': Production Cost $000s: 1,905; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,646; U.S. box-office $000s: 2,250; Foreign box-office $000s: 2,210; Total box-office $000s: 4,460; Profit $000s: 909.
*''San Francisco'': Production Cost $000s: 1,300; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,736; U.S. box-office $000s: 2,868; Foreign box-office $000s: 2,405; Total box-office $000s: 5,273; Profit $000s: 2,237.</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1937 in film|1937]]
|''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:418000000}}}}+{{ref |Snow White|S7}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:4200000+4300000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1488423}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''
*{{cite book |last=Monaco |first=Paul |title=A History of American Movies: A Film-By-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8108-7434-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tgnKY6k5tHYC&pg=PA54 54] |quote=Considered a highly risky gamble when the movie was in production in the mid-1930s, by the fiftieth anniversary of its 1937 premiere ''Snow White''{{'}}s earnings exceeded $330&nbsp;million.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Wilhelm |first1=Henry Gilmer |last2=Brower |first2=Carol |title=The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures |publisher=Preservation Pub |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-911515-00-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22snow+white%22+million+worldwide+grosses 359] |quote=In only 2 months after the 1987 re-release, the film grossed another $45&nbsp;million—giving it a total gross to date of about $375&nbsp;million! |url=https://archive.org/details/permanencecareof00henr/page/359 }}
*{{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1987 Re-issue) |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9400/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1987-re-issue |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=North American box-office: $46,594,719 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108051803/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9400/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1987-re-issue |url-status=live }}
*{{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1993 Re-issue) |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9401/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1993-re-issue |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=North American box-office: $41,634,791 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034721/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9401/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1993-re-issue |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Snow White & Pinocchio">''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and ''Pinocchio''
*{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}
::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=When%20the%20budget%20rose%20from%20%24250%2C000%20to%20%241%2C488%2C423&pg=PA207 207] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404050856/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=When%20the%20budget%20rose%20from%20$250,000%20to%20$1,488,423&pg=PA207 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "When the budget rose from $250,000 to $1,488,423 he even mortgaged his own home and automobile. Disney had bet more than his company on the success of ''Snow White''."
::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22%248%20million%20in%20worldwide%20rentals%22%20george%20lucas%20blockbusting&pg=PA237 237] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001733/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22$8%20million%20in%20worldwide%20rentals%22%20george%20lucas%20blockbusting&pg=PA237 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "By the end of 1938, it had grossed more than $8&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals and was ranked at the time as the second-highest-grossing film after the 1925 epic ''Ben-Hur''".
::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22foreign%20rentals%22&pg=PA255 255] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234803/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22foreign%20rentals%22&pg=PA255 |date=April 3, 2023 }}. "On its initial release ''Pinocchio'' brought in only $1.6&nbsp;million in domestic rentals (compared with ''Snow White''{{'}}s $4.2&nbsp;million) and $1.9&nbsp;million in foreign rentals (compared with ''Snow White''{{'}}s $4.3&nbsp;million)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1938 in film|1938]]
|''[[You Can't Take It with You (film)|You Can't Take It with You]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">1938
*''You Can't Take It with You'':{{cite web |title=You Can't Take It With You Premieres |publisher=[[Focus Features]] |url=http://focusfeatures.com/flashback?article_url=you_can_t_take_it_with_you_premieres |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6AeWlL1hk?url=http://focusfeatures.com/flashback?article_url=you_can_t_take_it_with_you_premieres |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |quote=''You Can't Take It With You'' received excellent reviews, won Best Picture and Best Director at the 1938 Academy Awards, and earned over $5&nbsp;million worldwide.}}{{cbignore}}
*''Boys Town'': {{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=Boys Town |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA215 215] |quote=The film quickly became a smash nationwide, making a profit of over $2&nbsp;million on worldwide rentals of $4&nbsp;million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.
*''The Adventures of Robin Hood'': {{cite journal |last=Glancy |first=H. Mark |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger |year=1995 |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=1 |issue=15 |pages=55–60 |doi=10.1080/01439689500260031 |quote=$3.981&nbsp;million. |issn=0143-9685 }}
*''Alexander's Ragtime Band'': {{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=Alexander's Ragtime Band |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide%20rentals%22&pg=PA213 213] |quote=Once the confusion cleared, however, the film blossomed into a commercial success, with a profit of $978,000 on worldwide rentals of $3.6&nbsp;million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#">{{cite magazine |last=Chartier |first=Roy |title=You Can't Take It With You |date=September 6, 1938 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117796537 |access-date=September 13, 2011 |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913175420/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117796537 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1939 in film|1939]]
|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|390525192}}–{{nts|402382193}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|32000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |GWTW|GW}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3900000}}–{{nts|4250000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Gone with the Wind |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1939/0GWTW.php |access-date=February 8, 2013 |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201012023/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1939/0GWTW.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/4094/gone-with-the-wind |title=Gone with the Wind |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034141/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/4094/gone-with-the-wind |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0031381/ |title=Gone with the Wind (1939) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=October 1, 2024}}</ref><ref group="#" name="gwtw tcm" /><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA283 283]}} ."The final negative cost of ''Gone with the Wind'' (''GWTW'') has been variously reported between $3.9&nbsp;million and $4.25&nbsp;million."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1940 in film|1940]]
|''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|87000862}}{{ref |USgross|*}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:1600000+1900000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2600000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Pinocchio (1940) |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/7922/pinocchio-1940 |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073253/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/7922/pinocchio-1940 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Snow White & Pinocchio" /><ref group="#" name="Barrier602">{{cite book |last=Barrier |first=Michael |year=2003 |title=Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-983922-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xt5k08yuAXIC&q=pinocchio%20%22negative%20cost%20was%20%242.6%20million%22 266] |quote=The film's negative cost was $2.6&nbsp;million, more than $1&nbsp;million higher than ''Snow White''{{'}}s.}}</ref>
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|''[[Boom Town (film)|Boom Town]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4600000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2100000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Schatz (1999)">{{cite book |last=Schatz |first=Thomas |title=Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s |volume=6 of History of the American Cinema |year=1999 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |orig-year=1st. pub. 1997 |isbn=978-0-520-22130-7 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=dwf5SUcfousC&pg=PA466 466] |quote=''Boom Town'' ($4.6&nbsp;million).}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA258 258]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=boom%20town%20biggest%20moneymaker&pg=PA259 259]}}. "Production Cost: $2.1 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s) ... ''Boom Town'' was the biggest moneymaker of 1940 and one of the top films of the decade."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1941 in film|1941]]
|''[[Sergeant York (film)|Sergeant York]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7800000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1600000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=sergeant%20york%20worldwide&pg=PA267 267]}}. "With worldwide rentals of $7.8&nbsp;million in its initial release, the movie made a net profit of over $3&nbsp;million."</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA301 301]}}. "The studio did particularly well with its war-related pictures, such as ''Sergeant York'' (1941), which cost $1.6&nbsp;million but was the studio's biggest hit of the decade aside from ''This is the Army'' (1943), the Irving Berlin musical for which the profits were donated to the Army Emergency Relief fund."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1942 in film|1942]]
|''[[Bambi]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|267997843}} ({{nts|prefix=$|3449353}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1700000}}–{{nts|2000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Bambi |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/810/bambi |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073254/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/810/bambi |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA281 281]}}. "Worldwide rentals of $3,449,353 barely recouped the film's nearly $2&nbsp;million production cost."</ref><ref group="#" name="Disney">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA712 712–713]}}.
*''Bambi'': "Worldwide Box Office: $266.8; Production Cost: $1.7 (Millions of $s)"
*''101 Dalmatians'': "Worldwide Box Office: $215.0; Production Cost: $3.6 (Millions of $s)"
*''The Jungle Book'': "Worldwide Box Office: $170.8"; Production Cost: $3.9 (Millions of $s)"
*''Aladdin'': "Worldwide Box Office: $505.1"; Production Cost: $28.0 (Millions of $s)"</ref>
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|''[[Mrs. Miniver]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8878000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1344000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Glancy |first=Mark |title=When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939–1945 |year=1999 |publisher=[[Manchester University Press]] |isbn=978-0-7190-4853-1 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=T_Yryky_eA4C&pg=PA94 94]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=T_Yryky_eA4C&pg=PA95 95] |quote=''Mrs Miniver'' was a phenomenon. It was the most popular film of the year (from any studio) in both North America and Britain, and its foreign earnings were three times higher than those of any other MGM film released in the 1941–42 season. The production cost ($1,344,000) was one of the highest of the season, indicating the studio never thought of the film as a potential loss-maker. When the film earned a worldwide gross of $8,878,000, MGM had the highest profit ($4,831,000) in its history. ''Random Harvest'' nearly matched the success of ''Mrs Miniver'' with worldwide earnings of $8,147,000 yielding the second-highest profit in MGM's history ($4,384,000). ''Random Harvest'' was also the most popular film of the year in Britain, where it proved to be even more popular than Britain's most acclaimed war film, ''In Which We Serve''.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}
*''Mrs. Miniver'': {{citation |last=Burns |first=Douglas |title=Mrs. Miniver |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA279 279] |quote=''Mrs. Miniver''{{'}}s galvanizing effect on Americans spawned a record-breaking ten-week run at Radio City Music Hall and garnered a $5.4&nbsp;million take in domestic rentals (making ''Mrs. Miniver'' 1942's top grosser), with a $4.8&nbsp;million profit on worldwide rentals of $8.9&nbsp;million.}}
*''Yankee Doodle Dandy'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA275 275] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001735/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA275 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "It became the second biggest box-office hit of 1942 (after Mrs. Miniver) and was praised by critics, making a profit of $3.4&nbsp;million on worldwide rentals of $6.5&nbsp;million."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1943 in film|1943]]
|''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|11000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2681298}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{citation |last=McAdams |first=Frank |title=For Whom the Bell Tolls |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA287 287] |quote=Despite the early furor over the novel being "pro-red and immoral," the film opened to strong and favorable reviews and brought in $11&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals in its initial release.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75353/for-whom-the-bell-tolls#notes |access-date=June 24, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090231/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75353/For-Whom-the-Bell-Tolls/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="guy-named-joe">{{cite web |title=A Guy Named Joe (1944) – Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/191/a-guy-named-joe#notes |access-date=August 29, 2012 |quote=According to M-G-M studio records at the AMPAS Library, the film had a negative cost of $2,627,000 and took in $5,363,000 at the box office. When the picture was re-issued for the 1955–56 season, it took in an additional $150,000. |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217022123/https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090236/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/191/A-Guy-Named-Joe/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|''[[This Is the Army]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|9555586.44}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1400000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite journal |last=Bergreen |first=Laurence |title=Irving Berlin: This Is the Army |date=Summer 1996 |volume=28 |issue=2 |journal=[[Prologue (magazine)|Prologue]] |url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-1.html |access-date=August 22, 2012 |at=[https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-3.html Part 3] |archive-date=August 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811114838/https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-1.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=This Is the Army (1943)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92968/this-is-the-army#notes |access-date=July 9, 2011 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715004430/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92968/This-Is-the-Army/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="guy-named-joe" />
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! scope="row" | [[1944 in film|1944]]
|''[[Going My Way]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6500000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Finler356" /><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22going%20my%20way%22&pg=PA420 420]}}. "(Unadjusted $s) in Millions of $s – Production Cost: $1.0"</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson232" />
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1945 in film|1945]]
|''[[Mom and Dad (1945 film)|Mom and Dad]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|80000000}}{{ref |Mom and Dad|MD}}/{{nts|prefix=$|22000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|65000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Schaefer (1999)">{{cite book |last=Schaefer |first=Eric |title="Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959 |year=1999 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8223-2374-7 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CSBZqe0zPaMC&pg=PA197 197]–199 |quote=Leading the pack of postwar sex hygiene films was ''Mom and Dad'' (1944), which would become not only the most successful sex hygiene film in history but the biggest pre-1960 exploitation film of any kind. At the end of 1947, the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported that ''Mom and Dad'' had grossed $2&nbsp;million. By 1949 ''Time'' had estimated that ''Mom and Dad'' had taken in $8&nbsp;million from twenty&nbsp;million moviegoers. And publicity issuing from ''Mom and Dad''{{'}}s production company indicated that by the end of 1956 it had grossed over $80&nbsp;million worldwide. Net rentals of around $22&nbsp;million by 1956 would easily place it in the top ten films of the late 1940s and early 1950s had it appeared on conventional lists. Some estimates have placed its total gross over the years at up to $100&nbsp;million, and it was still playing drive-in dates into 1975...The film was made for around $65,000 with a crew of Hollywood veterans including director William "One Shot" Beaudine, cinematographer Marcel LePicard, and a cast that sported old stalwarts Hardie Albright, Francis Ford, and John Hamilton.}}</ref>
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|''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|11200000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1600000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}
*p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA296 296] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001739/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA296 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Production Cost: $1.6 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)"
*{{citation |last=Wasson |first=Sam |title=The Bells of St. Mary's |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA297 297] |quote=This was that rare sequel that did even better at the box office than the original, bringing in a $3.7&nbsp;million profit on $11.2&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1946 in film|1946]]
|''[[Song of the South]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|65000000}}{{ref |USgross|*}} ({{nts|prefix=$|3300000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2125000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Song of the South |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1946/0SOTS.php |access-date=July 10, 2011 |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903154448/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1946/0SOTS.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Gabler |first=Neal |title=Walt Disney: the biography |year=2007 |publisher=[[Aurum Press]] |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EX0WAQAAIAAJ&q=%22song+of+the+south%22+%22million%22 438] |quote=Still, the film wound up grossing $3.3&nbsp;million...}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Song of the South (1946)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90871/song-of-the-south#notes |access-date=July 25, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090242/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90871/Song-of-the-South/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14750000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2100000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010}}
*p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA132 132] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234810/https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA132 |date=April 3, 2023 }}."''Best Years'' was considerably cheaper, costing only $2.1&nbsp;million, and therefore vastly more profitable."
*p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA286 286] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234813/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA286 |date=April 3, 2023 }} (note 6.70). "Worldwide rentals for ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' amounted to $14,750,000."</ref><ref group="#">{{citation |last=Burns |first=Douglas |title=The Best years of Our Lives |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA301 301] |quote=The film made a $5&nbsp;million profit on worldwide rentals of $14.8&nbsp;million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref>
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|''[[Duel in the Sun (film)|Duel in the Sun]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10000000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5255000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Finler356" /><ref group="#" name="HallNeale285" />
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1947 in film|1947]]
|''[[Forever Amber (film)|Forever Amber]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6375000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Solomon (1988)">{{cite book|title=Twentieth Century-Fox: a corporate and financial history|last=Solomon|first=Aubrey|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|year=2002|isbn=978-0-8108-4244-1|series=Filmmakers series|volume=20|orig-year=First published 1988}}<!--If page links die, try [https://books.google.com/books?id=w70iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22on+the+surface%22+%22world+rentals%22+%248]-->

*''Sunny Side Up'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA10 10] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240210232404/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=February 10, 2024 }}. "''Sunny Side Up'', a musical starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, showed domestic rentals of $3.5&nbsp;million, a record for the company."
*''Forever Amber'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&q=%22on+the+surface%22+%22world+rentals%22+%248 66] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107234333/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&q=%22on+the+surface%22+%22world+rentals%22+%248#v=snippet&q=%22on%20the%20surface%22%20%22world%20rentals%22%20%248&f=false |date=November 7, 2023 }}. "On the surface, with world rentals of $8&nbsp;million, ''Forever Amber'' was considered a hit at distribution level."
*''The French Connection''

::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA167 167] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107234333/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=November 7, 2023 }}. "The ''Planet of the Apes'' motion pictures were all moneymakers and Zanuck's record would have immediately improved had he stayed through the release of ''The French Connection'', which took in rentals of approximately $75&nbsp;million worldwide."
::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=w70iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22french+connection%22 256] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107234334/https://books.google.com/books?id=w70iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22french+connection%22 |date=November 7, 2023 }}. "$3,300,00".</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale285">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA285 285] (note 6.56)}}. "The cost of ''Duel in the Sun'' has been reported as both $5,255,000 (Haver, ''David O'Selznick's Hollywood'', 361) and $6,480,000 (Thomson, ''Showman: The Life of David O'Selznick'', 472); the latter figure may include distribution expenses. ''Forever Amber'' cost $6,375,000 (Solomon, ''Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History'', 243)."</ref>
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|''[[Unconquered (1947 film)|Unconquered]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7500000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |Unconquered|UN}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Chopra-Gant |first=Mike |title=Hollywood Genres and Post-war America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir |year=2006 |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |isbn=978-1-85043-815-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=RVdCSSVd_KQC&pg=PA18 18] |quote=''Forever Amber'': $8&nbsp;million; ''Unconquered'': $7.5&nbsp;million; ''Life with Father'': $6.25&nbsp;million}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Unconquered (1947)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4415/unconquered#notes |access-date=January 10, 2012 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715003119/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4415/Unconquered/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1948 in film|1948]]
|''[[Easter Parade (film)|Easter Parade]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:4144000+1774134}}}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2500000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson232">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA232 232]}}.
*''Mrs. Miniver'': "Domestic Rentals: $5,358,000; Foreign Rentals: $3,520,000 (Unadjusted $s)"
*''Meet Me in St. Louis'': "Domestic Rentals: $5,016,000; Foreign Rentals: $1,623,630 (Unadjusted $s)"
*''Easter Parade'': "Domestic Rentals: $4,144,000; Foreign Rentals: $1,774,134 (Unadjusted $s)"</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Frank |title=Easter Parade (1948) – Articles |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2332/easter-parade#articles-reviews |access-date=July 19, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090241/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2332/Easter-Parade/articles.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|''[[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|The Red Shoes]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5000000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{ntsh|2000000}}{{nts|prefix=£|505581}} ({{nts|prefix=~$|2000000}})
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Finler356" /><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Street |first=Sarah |title=Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the United States |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8264-1395-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5cn_OiCJRkC&pg=PA110 110] |quote=Although both films had higher than average budgets (''The Red Shoes'' cost £505,581 and ''Hamlet'' cost £572,530, while the average cost of the other thirty films for which Rank supplied information was £233,000), they resulted in high takings at home and abroad.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |first=Lawrence H. |last=Officer |title=Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791 |publisher=MeasuringWorth |year=2011 |url=http://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangepound/result.php?year_source=1791&year_result=2011 |access-date=November 18, 2012 |quote=1947–1948: $4.03 (per British pound) |archive-date=November 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118093356/http://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangepound/result.php?year_source=1791&year_result=2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|''[[The Snake Pit]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4100000}}{{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=The Snake Pit |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1948/0SNPI.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228005949/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1948/0SNPI.php |archive-date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite news |title='Snake Pit' Seen No Problem After All |date=January 19, 1949 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=[https://archive.org/stream/variety173-1949-01#page/n348/mode/1up 7]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[1949 in film|1949]]
|''[[Samson and Delilah (1949 film)|Samson and Delilah]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:7976730+6232520}}}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3097563}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale136" /><ref group="#" name="Birchard (2009)" />
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1950 in film|1950]]
|''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|263591415}}<br />({{nts|prefix=$|20000000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|7800000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Cinderella (1950) |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Cinderella-(1950) |access-date=January 2, 2017 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605170703/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Cinderella-(1950) |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |first1=Michael D. |last1=Eisner |first2=Tony |last2=Schwartz |title=Work in Progress |publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7868-8507-7 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=73_WAAAAMAAJ&q=cinderella+%22Released+in+February+1950,+it+cost+nearly+%243+million+to+make+but+earned+more+than+%2420+million+worldwide%22 178] |quote=''Cinderella'' revived its fortunes. Re-released in February 1950, it cost nearly $3&nbsp;million to make but earned more than $20&nbsp;million worldwide. |url=https://archive.org/details/workinprogress00eisn_0/page/178}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Barrier |first=Michael |title=Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-19-516729-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=zDJXnzMh7bkC&q=%242.2+million+cinderella+gross+rentals+disney+and+rko+%247.8+million&pg=PA401 401] |quote=It cost around $2.2&nbsp;million, little more than each of the two package features, Melody Time and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (as Tluo Fabulous Characters had ultimately been named), that just preceded it, but its gross rentals—an amount shared by Disney and RKO—were $7.8&nbsp;million, almost twice as much as the two package features combined.}}</ref>
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|''[[King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)|King Solomon's Mines]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10050000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2258000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Mannix">{{cite book |title=The E. J. Mannix ledger |year=1962 |publisher=Howard Strickling Collection |location=Margaret Herrick Library, [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1951 in film|1951]]
|''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|21037000}}–{{nts|26700000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7623000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale136">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA136 136]–139}}
*''Samson and Delilah'': "...the film became the highest grosser in the studio's history to date, with domestic rentals of $7,976,730 by 1955 and a further $6,232,520 overseas...For all their spectacle, ''Samson'' and ''David'' were quite economically produced, costing $3,097,563 and $2,170,000 respectively."
*''Quo Vadis'': "Production costs totaled a record $7,623,000...Worldwide rentals totaled $21,037,000, almost half of which came from the foreign market."</ref><ref group="#" name="Lev" /><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson335">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA335 335]}}.
*''The Robe'': "Domestic Rentals: $16.7; Foreign Rentals: $9.4; Production Cost: $4.1 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''Quo Vadis'': "Domestic Rentals: $11.1; Foreign Rentals: $15.6; Production Cost: $7.5 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1952 in film|1952]]
|''[[This Is Cinerama]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|50000000}}{{ref |Cinerama|CI}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite news |last=Mulligan |first=Hugh A. |newspaper=[[The Register-Guard]] |location=Eugene, Oregon |title=Cinerama Pushing Ahead As Biggest Money-Maker |date=September 23, 1956 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GPRVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899,3861317 7B]}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Zone |first=Ray |title=3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-8131-3611-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=k2Ajw-EEOEkC&pg=PA71 71] |quote=Produced at a cost of $1&nbsp;million, ''This is Cinerama'' ran 122 weeks, earning $4.7&nbsp;million in its initial New York run alone and eventually grossed over $32&nbsp;million. It was obvious to Hollywood that the public was ready for a new form of motion picture entertainment. The first five Cinerama feature-length travelogues, though they only played in twenty-two theaters, pulled in a combined gross of $82&nbsp;million.}}</ref>
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|''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (film)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|18350000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |Greatest Show|GS}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3873946}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{citation |last=Burns |first=Douglas |year=2010 |title=The Greatest Show on Earth |pages=354–[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA355 355] |quote=By May 1953, ''Variety'' was reporting that the Best Picture winner had amassed $18.35&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4608/the-greatest-show-on-earth#notes |access-date=January 8, 2012 |archive-date=July 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714222444/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4608/The-Greatest-Show-on-Earth/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Birchard (2009)">{{Cite book |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood |year=2009 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |isbn=978-0-8131-3829-9}}
*ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT104 45. The Ten Commandments] (1923). "Cost: $1,475,836.93; Gross: $4,169,798.38"
*ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT138 56. The Sign of the Cross] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234754/https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT138 |date=April 3, 2023 }}. "Cost: $694,064.67; Gross: $2,738,993.35 (to 1937)"
*ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT177 68. Samson and Delilah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404044845/https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT177 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Cost: $3,097,563.05"
*ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT181 69. The Greatest Show on Earth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234757/https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT181 |date=April 3, 2023 }}. "Cost: $3,873,946.50; Gross receipts: $15,797,396.36 (to December 29, 1962)"
*ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT185 70. The Ten Commandments] (1956). "Cost: $13,272,381.87; Gross receipts: $90,066,230.00 (to June 23, 1979)"</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1953 in film|1953]]
|''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|145000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|7000000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}–{{nts|4000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Peter Pan (1953)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86554/peter-pan#notes |access-date=July 24, 2011 |archive-date=September 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903110329/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86554/Peter-Pan/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety193-1954-01#page/n301/mode/2up |title=Top Grossers of 1953 |page=10 |magazine=Variety |date=January 13, 1954 |access-date=September 12, 2019}}</ref>
|-
|''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|25000000}}–{{nts|{{#expr:16700000+9400000}}}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4100000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale147">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA147 147]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA148 148]}}. "To take full advantage of CinemaScope's panoramic possibilities, shooting was delayed for the sets to be redesigned and rebuilt, adding $500,000 to the eventual $4.1&nbsp;million budget...It ultimately returned domestic rentals of $17.5&nbsp;million and $25&nbsp;million worldwide, placing it second only to ''Gone with the Wind'' in ''Variety''{{'}}s annually updated chart."</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22foreign%20rentals%22&pg=PA367 367]}}. "It brought in $16.7&nbsp;million in domestic rentals, $9.4&nbsp;million in foreign rentals, and made a net profit of $8.1&nbsp;million."</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson335" />
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1954 in film|1954]]
|''[[Rear Window]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|24500000}}{{ref |USgross|*}} ({{nts|prefix=$|5300000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/8393/rear-window |title=Rear Window |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073625/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/8393/rear-window |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Lev">{{cite book |last=Lev |first=Peter |title=Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2006 |volume=7 of History of the American Cinema |isbn=978-0-520-24966-0}}
*''Quo Vadis'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA15 15] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001736/https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA15 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "MGM's most expensive film of the period, ''Quo Vadis'' (1951) also did extremely well. The cost was $7,623,000, earnings were an estimated $21.2&nbsp;million (with foreign earnings almost 50 percent of this total), and profit was estimated at $5,562,000."
*''Rear Window'': pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA203 203] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404053920/https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA203 |date=April 4, 2023 }}–[https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA204 204] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001740/https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA204 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Rear Window (1954) was an excellent commercial success, with a cost of $1&nbsp;million and North American rentals of $5.3&nbsp;million."</ref>
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|''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|26000050}}{{ref |USgross|*}} ({{nts|prefix=$|12000000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=White Christmas |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/11167/white-christmas |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073627/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/11167/white-christmas |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA420 420]}}. "Domestic Box Office: $19.6&nbsp;million; Production Cost: $3.8&nbsp;million."</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA149 149]}}. "VistaVision was first used for the musical ''White Christmas'' (1954), which ''Variety'' named the top grosser of its year with anticipated domestic rentals of $12&nbsp;million."</ref>
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|''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|25000134}}{{ref |USgross|*}}<br />({{nts|prefix=$|6800000}}–{{nts|8000000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4500000}}–{{nts|9000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=20000 Leagues Under The Sea |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/14246/20000-leagues-under-the-sea |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034753/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/14246/20000-leagues-under-the-sea |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |last=Miller |first=John M |title=20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) – Articles |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/20642/20-000-leagues-under-the-sea#articles-reviews |access-date=January 9, 2012 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221175536/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/20642/20-000-Leagues-Under-the-Sea/articles.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler356" /><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA320 320]}}. "It was up and running in time to handle Disney's most elaborate expensive feature, ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', based on the book by Jules Verne, starring James Mason and Kirk Douglas and directed by Richard Fleischer at a cost of $4.5&nbsp;million."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1955 in film|1955]]
|''[[Lady and the Tramp]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|187000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|6500000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="DisneyWWVariety2003">{{cite magazine |first=Anthony |last=D'Alessandro |title=Disney Animated Features at the Worldwide Box Office |date=October 27, 2003 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tooned+in%3A+Disney%27s+ani+classics+set+the+bar+and+lit+the+way+for...-a0110473946 |access-date=July 4, 2022 |via=The Free Library |quote=The Jungle Book $378&nbsp;million; One Hundred and One Dalmatians $303&nbsp;million; Lady and the Tramp $187&nbsp;million |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104215642/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tooned+in%3a+Disney%27s+ani+classics+set+the+bar+and+lit+the+way+for...-a0110473946 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler356" /><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Lady and the Tramp (1955)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80607/lady-and-the-tramp#notes |access-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928004123/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80607/Lady-and-the-Tramp/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|''[[Cinerama Holiday]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|21000000}}{{ref |Cinerama|CI}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite news |last=Minego |first=Pete |work=[[Portsmouth Daily Times]] |location=Portsmouth, Ohio |title=Pete's Pungent Patter |date=May 21, 1956 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I7dQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6M8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4059,7032150&dq=cinerama-holiday+million 19]}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Cinerama Holiday (1955)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493857/cinerama-holiday#notes |access-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090239/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493857/Cinerama-Holiday/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|9900000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2400000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}
*p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA382 382] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234816/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA382 |date=April 3, 2023 }}. "Production Cost: $2.4 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)"
*{{citation |last=Burns |first=Douglas |title=Mister Roberts |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22%249.9+million%22&pg=PA383 383] |quote=''Mister Roberts'' sailed onto movie screens buoyed by enthusiastic reviews and receptive audiences. For pr, Fonda, Cagney, and lemmon reenacted several scenes on ed sullivan's popular ''Toast of the Town'' television variety show. It returned a net profit of $4.5&nbsp;million on worldwide rentals of $9.9&nbsp;million, putting it in the top 5 domestic films of 1955.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1956 in film|1956]]
|''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|90066230}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}<br />({{nts|prefix=$|122700000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|55200000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|13270000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Birchard (2009)" /><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson327">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA327 327]}}. "Production cost: $13.3&nbsp;million; Domestic Film Rental: $31.3; Foreign Film Rental: $23.9; Worldwide Box office (estimated): $122.7 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale159">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA159 159]–161}}
*''The Ten Commandments'': "No film did more to entrench roadshow policy than ''The Ten Commandments''. While the success of ''This Is Cinerama'', ''The Robe'', and even ''Eighty Days'' could be attributed, at least in part, to their respective photographic and projection formats, that of DeMille's film (which cost a record $13,266,491) could not...General release began at normal prices in 1959 and continued until the end of the following year, when the film was temporarily withdrawn (the first of several reissues came in 1966). The worldwide rental by this time was around $60&nbsp;million. In the domestic market it dislodged ''Gone with the Wind'' from the number one position on Variety's list of All-Time Rentals Champs. ''GWTW'' had hitherto maintained its lead through several reissues (and was soon to regain it through another in 1961)."
*''The Bridge on the River Kwai'': Columbia's Anglo-American war film ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957) opened on a roadshow basis in selected U.S. cities (including New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles) and in London. Costing only $2,840,000 to produce, it grossed $30.6&nbsp;million worldwide on first release."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1957 in film|1957]]
|''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30600000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2840000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale159" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[1958 in film|1958]]
|''[[South Pacific (1958 film)|South Pacific]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5610000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA153 153]}}. "''South Pacific'' also became for a time the most successful film ever released in the United Kingdom, where it earned a box-office gross three times its negative cost of $5,610,000. Anticipated global rentals after three years were $30&nbsp;million."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1959 in film|1959]]
|''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|90000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}<br />({{nts|prefix=$|146900000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|66100000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|15900000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Steven J. |year=2011 |title=Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-991143-1 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=pn1CuZUHk9MC&pg=PA278 278–279] |quote=Costing $15&nbsp;million to produce, the film earned $47&nbsp;million by the end of 1961 and $90&nbsp;million worldwide by January 1989.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA324 324]}}. "Worldwide box office: $146.9&nbsp;million; Worldwide rentals: $66.1&nbsp;million; Production cost: $15.9&nbsp;million. (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)"</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1960 in film|1960]]
|''[[Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)|Swiss Family Robinson]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |title=America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies |volume=14 of Hollywood classics |publisher=[[Lulu (company)|Lulu]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4116-7877-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=zCm5aNkafSYC&pg=PA243 243]–245 |quote=Negative cost: around $4&nbsp;million; Worldwide film rentals gross (including 1968 American reissue) to 1970: $30&nbsp;million.}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|60000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:12462044+9643181}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10284014}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{Cite book |last=Webster |first=Patrick |year=2010 |title=Love and Death in Kubrick: A Critical Study of the Films from Lolita Through Eyes Wide Shut |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=978-0-7864-5916-2 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bz_x37RSSqIC&pg=PA298 298] (note 2.23) |quote=''Spartacus'' cost $12&nbsp;million and grossed some $60&nbsp;million at the box office, figures Kubrick rarely again matched.}}</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale179">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA179 179]}}.
*''Spartacus'': "In the case of ''Spartacus'', overseas earnings to 1969 amounted to $12,462,044, while U.S. and Canadian rentals (even including a million-dollar TV sale) were only $10,643,181. But the film failed to show a profit on production costs of $10,284,014 because of the distribution charges and expenses amounting to an additional $15,308,083."
*''The Bible'': "''The Bible—In the Beginning...'' (1966) was financed by the Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis from private investors and Swiss banks. He then sold distribution rights outside Italy jointly to Fox and Seven Arts for $15&nbsp;million (70 percent of which came from Fox), thereby recouping the bulk of his $18&nbsp;million investment. Although ''The Bible'' returned a respectable world rental of $25.3&nbsp;million, Fox was still left with a net loss of just over $1.5&nbsp;million. It was the last biblical epic to be released by any major Hollywood studio for nearly twenty years."</ref>
|-
|''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|50000000}}+ ({{nts|prefix=$|14000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |last=Nixon |first=Rob |title=Psycho (1960) – Articles |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24944/psycho#articles-reviews |access-date=January 9, 2012 |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912071710/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24944/Psycho/articles.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1961 in film|1961]]
|''[[One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|303000000}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3600000}}–{{nts|4000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="DisneyWWVariety2003" /><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=One Hundred and One Dalmatians |website=[[Daily Variety]] |date=January 18, 1961 |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793715 |author=Tube. |access-date=August 23, 2011 |archive-date=November 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109003703/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793715/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Disney" />
|-
|''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|105000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|31800000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=West Side Story |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA449 449] |quote=With its three rereleases, it took in over $105&nbsp;million in worldwide box office ($720&nbsp;million in 2005 dollars).}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434" />
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1962 in film|1962]]
|''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:44824852+32500000}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|69995385}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|13800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Lawrence of Arabia''
*1962 release: {{cite web |title=Lawrence of Arabia |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1962/0LWRN.php |access-date=August 15, 2011 |quote=Worldwide Box Office: $69,995,385; International Box Office: $32,500,000 |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316043153/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1962/0LWRN.php |url-status=live }}
*U.S. total (including reissues): {{cite web |title=Lawrence of Arabia |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/5851/lawrence-of-arabia |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=$44,824,852 |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810204006/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1962/0LWRN.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale165">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA165 165]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA166 166]}}
*''Lawrence of Arabia'': Columbia released the $13.8&nbsp;million ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), filmed in Super Panavision 70, exclusively on a hard-ticket basis, but opened ''Barabbas'' (1962), ''The Cardinal'' (1963), and the $12&nbsp;million Joseph Conrad adaptation ''Lord Jim'' (1965) as 70&nbsp;mm roadshows in selected territories only."
*''The Longest Day'': "Darryl's most ambitious independent production was ''The Longest Day'' (1962), a three-hour reconstruction of D-Day filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope at a cost of $8&nbsp;million. It grossed over $30&nbsp;million worldwide as a roadshow followed by general release, thereby helping the studio regain stability during its period of reorganization."
*''Cleopatra'': "With top tickets set at an all-time high of $5.50,''Cleopatra'' had amassed as much as $20&nbsp;million in such guarantees from exhibitors even before its premiere. Fox claimed the film had cost in total $44&nbsp;million, of which $31,115,000 represented the direct negative cost and the rest distribution, print and advertising expenses. (These figures excluded the more than $5&nbsp;million spent on the production's abortive British shoot in 1960–61, prior to its relocation to Italy.) By 1966 worldwide rentals had reached $38,042,000 including $23.5&nbsp;million from the United States."</ref>
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|''[[How the West Was Won (film)|How the West Was Won]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|35000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14483000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale164">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA164 164]}}. "''West'' cost $14,483,000; although it earned $35&nbsp;million worldwide in just under three years, with ultimate domestic rentals totaling $20,932,883, high distribution costs severely limited its profitability."</ref>
|-
|''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|33200000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8600000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434" /><ref group="#" name="HallNeale165" />
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1963 in film|1963]]
|''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|40300000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|31115000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434" /><ref group="#" name="HallNeale165" />
|-
|''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|78900000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|29400000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}<br />({{nts|prefix=$|12500000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Bond grosses" /><ref group="#" name="Chapman (2007)">{{cite book |last=Chapman |first=James |title=Licence to thrill: a cultural history of the James Bond films |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84511-515-9 }}
*''From Russia With Love'': "The American release of ''From Russia With Love'' again followed on some six months after it had been shown in Britain. North American rentals of $9.9&nbsp;million were an improvement on its predecessor, helped by a slightly wider release, though they were still only half the $19.5&nbsp;million of foreign rentals... ([https://books.google.com/books?id=E8wqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+american+release+of+from+russia+with+love%22 Online copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404055441/https://books.google.com/books?id=E8wqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+american+release+of+from+russia+with+love%22 |date=April 4, 2023 }} at [[Google Books]])"
*''Diamonds Are Forever'': "''Diamonds Are Forever'' marked a return to the box-office heights of the Bond films of the mid-1960s. Its worldwide rentals were $45.7&nbsp;million..."{{page needed|date=November 2018}}
*''Moonraker'': "These figures were surpassed by ''Moonraker'', which earned total worldwide rentals of $87.7&nbsp;million, of which $33&nbsp;million came from North America. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=E8wqAQAAIAAJ&q=$87.7+million Online copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404055433/https://books.google.com/books?id=E8wqAQAAIAAJ&q=$87.7+million |date=April 4, 2023 }} at [[Google Books]])"</ref><ref group="#" name="Balio (2009)">{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |year=2009 |title=United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978: the Company that Changed the Film Industry |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |isbn=978-0-299-23014-2 |page=261}}
*''From Russia With Love'': "The picture grossed twice as much as ''Dr. No'', both domestic and foreign—$12.5&nbsp;million worldwide ([https://books.google.com/books?id=KKoLAQAAMAAJ&q=%22%2412.5+million+worldwide%22 Online copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404055431/https://books.google.com/books?id=KKoLAQAAMAAJ&q=%22$12.5+million+worldwide%22 |date=April 4, 2023 }} at [[Google Books]])"
*''Goldfinger'': "Produced on a budget of around $3&nbsp;million, ''Goldfinger'' grossed a phenomenal $46&nbsp;million worldwide the first time around. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=KKoLAQAAMAAJ&q=Goldfinger+%22$46+million+worldwide%22 Online copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404055439/https://books.google.com/books?id=KKoLAQAAMAAJ&q=Goldfinger+%22$46+million+worldwide%22 |date=April 4, 2023 }} at [[Google Books]])"</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1964 in film|1964]]
|''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|55000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|17000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale184">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA184 184]}}
*''My Fair Lady'': "''My Fair Lady'' (1964) cost Warners $17&nbsp;million to make, including a record $5.5&nbsp;million just for the film rights to the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe stage show and a million-dollar fee for star Audrey Hepburn. By 1967 it was reported to have grossed $55&nbsp;million from roadshowing worldwide."
*''Mary Poppins'': "''Mary Poppins'' (1964), which cost $5.2&nbsp;million, was neither a stage adaptation nor a roadshow. But by the end of its first release, it had grossed nearly $50&nbsp;million worldwide."</ref>
|-
|''[[Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|124900000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|46000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Bond grosses" /><ref group="#" name="Balio (2009)" />
|-
|''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|44000000}}–{{nts|prefix=$|50000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{citation |last=Burns |first=Douglas |title=Mary Poppins |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA469 469] |quote=In its initial run, ''Poppins'' garnered an astounding $44&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals and became the company's first Best Picture Oscar contender.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale184" />
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! scope="row" | [[1965 in film|1965]]
|''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|287814441}} ({{nts|prefix=$|114600000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{Cite The Numbers|id=Sound-of-Music-The|title=The Sound of Music (1965)|access-date=October 8, 2025}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA434 434]}}.
*''The Sound of Music'': "Domestic Rentals: $68.4; Foreign Rentals: $46.2; Production Cost: $8.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''The Dirty Dozen'': "Domestic Rentals: $20.1; Foreign Rentals: $11.2; Production Cost: $5.4 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''2001: A Space Odyssey'': "Domestic Rentals: $16.4; Foreign Rentals: $5.5; Production Cost: $10.3 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''Cleopatra'': "Domestic Rentals: $22.1; Foreign Rentals: $18.2; Production Cost: $44.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''West Side Story'': "Domestic Rentals: $16.2; Foreign Rentals: $15.6; Production Cost: $7.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''The Longest Day'': "Domestic Rentals: $13.9; Foreign Rentals: $19.3; Production Cost: $8.6 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'': "Domestic Rentals: $29.2; Foreign Rentals: $7.9; Production Cost: $6.6 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1966 in film|1966]]
|''[[The Bible: In the Beginning]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|25325000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|18000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="HallNeale179" /><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M |title=The Fox that got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox |year=1988 |location=Secaucus, N.J. |publisher=L. Stuart |page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/325 325] |isbn=978-0-8184-0485-6}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|34562222}}{{ref |USgross|*}} ({{nts|prefix=$|15600000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|15000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Hawaii |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0HWII.php |access-date=August 18, 2011 |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316041415/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0HWII.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler356">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA356 356]–363}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|33736689}}{{ref |USgross|*}} ({{nts|prefix=$|14500000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7613000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (1966) |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Wolf#tab=summary |access-date=February 3, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112022640/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Wolf#tab=summary |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler356" /><ref group="#" name="HallNeale188">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA188 188]}}. "The negative cost of Warners' adaptation of Edward Albee's play ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1966)—filmed in widescreen and black-and-white, largely set in domestic interiors and with a cast of only four principal actors—amounted to $7,613,000, in part because stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton received up-front fees of $1&nbsp;million and $750,000 respectively, against 10 percent of the gross apiece. (Their participation was presumably added to the budget)."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1967 in film|1967]]
|''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|378000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|23800000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3900000}}–{{nts|4000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="DisneyWWVariety2003" /><ref group="#">{{cite news |title=Animals Portray Parts in Disney's "Robin Hood" |date=October 18, 1970 |newspaper=[[The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)|Toledo Blade]] |at=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19701018&id=k8hOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xQEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2133,463153 Sec. G, p. 7] |quote="The Jungle Book," in {{sic|it|'s|nolink=y|expected=its}} initial world-wide release, has grossed $23.8&nbsp;million to date...}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite magazine |title=The Jungle Book |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=October 4, 1967 |last=Murphy |first=A.D. |page=6 |url=https://variety.com/1966/film/reviews/the-jungle-book-1200421257/ |access-date=March 14, 2018 |quote=It was filmed at a declared cost of $4&nbsp;million over a 42-month period. |archive-date=March 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315200013/http://variety.com/1966/film/reviews/the-jungle-book-1200421257/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="Disney" />
|-
|''[[The Graduate]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|85000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3100000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Denisoff & Romanowski (1991)">{{cite book |first1=R. Serge |last1=Denisoff |first2=William D. |last2=Romanowski |author-link2=William D. Romanowski|title=Risky Business: Rock in Film |year=1991 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=978-0-88738-843-9}}
*''The Graduate'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kT0fKUCTUC4C&pg=PA167 167] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605170632/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kT0fKUCTUC4C&pg=PA167 |date=June 5, 2019 }}. "World net rental was estimated at more than $85&nbsp;million by January 1971."
*''Grease'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kT0fKUCTUC4C&pg=PA236 236] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001744/https://books.google.com/books?id=kT0fKUCTUC4C&pg=PA236 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "The film was produced for $6&nbsp;million and Paramount reportedly spent another $3&nbsp;million on promotion."</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale191">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA191 191]–192}}
*''The Graduate'': "''The Graduate'' eventually earned U.S. rentals of $44,090,729 on a production cost of $3.1&nbsp;million to become the most lucrative non-roadshow picture (and independent release) to date."
*''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'': "None of these films was roadshown in the United States; most were set in contemporary America or had a contemporary "take" on the past (the casting of genuine teenagers to play Romeo and Juliet, the urbane sophistication of the dialogue in ''Butch Cassidy'', the antiauthoritarianism of ''Bonnie and Clyde'' and ''MASH''); most were produced on modest or medium-sized budgets (as low as $450,000 for ''Easy Rider'' and no higher than $6,825,000 for ''Butch Cassidy''); and all grossed upward of $10&nbsp;million domestically."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1968 in film|1968]]
|''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:138000000+214618+568997+135370+1283820+192457+27510+159068+5046+155841+296525 round -6}}}}–{{nts|{{#expr:190000000+214618+568997+135370+1283820+192457+27510+159068+5046+155841+296525 round -7}}}}<br />({{nts|prefix=$|21900000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10300000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''2001: A Space Odyssey''
*Total: {{cite web |last=Miller |first=Frank |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)&nbsp;– Articles |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/628/2001-A-Space-Odyssey/articles.html |access-date=August 24, 2011 |quote=2001: A Space Odyssey made $15 million on its initial U.S. release, and currently shows a worldwide gross of over $190 million. |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212151721/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/628/2001-A-Space-Odyssey/articles.html |url-status=live }}
*As of 2006: {{cite book |last=Palmer |first=R. Barton |chapter=2001: The Critical Reception and the Generation Gap |editor-last=Kolker |editor-first=Robert Phillip |title=Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey: New Essays |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-19-517452-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YpritcZXPFoC&pg=PA16 16] |quote=With its initial and subsequent releases, domestic and worldwide, Kubrick's arty, intellectual film earned nearly $138&nbsp;million, which was, at that time, an astounding figure.}}
*2013 re-release: {{cite web |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (2013 re-release) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012013.htm |access-date=September 26, 2018 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $214,618; United Kingdom: $568,997 |archive-date=June 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615183917/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012013.htm |url-status=live }}
*2014 re-release: {{cite web |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (2014 re-release) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=20012014.htm |access-date=September 26, 2018 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $135,370 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605170631/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=20012014.htm |url-status=live }}
*2018 re-release: {{cite web |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (2018 re-release) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012018.htm |access-date=September 26, 2018 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $1,283,820; Australia: $192,457; Greece: $27,510; Netherlands: $159,068; New Zealand: $5,046; Russia: $155,841; United Kingdom: $296,525 |archive-date=June 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615183917/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012013.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434" />
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|''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|80000000}}–{{nts|100000000}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite news |last=Haber |first=Joyces |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title='Funny Girl' a Box Office Winner |date=March 27, 1969 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/672252782.html?dids=672252782:672252782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI |access-date=March 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724135213/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/672252782.html?dids=672252782:672252782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI |archive-date=July 24, 2012 |quote=..."Funny Girl" will gross an estimated $80&nbsp;to&nbsp;$100&nbsp;million worldwide.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite news |last=Welles |first=Chris |title=Behind the Silence at Columbia Pictures—No Moguls, No Minions, Just Profits |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]  |date=September 7, 1970 |volume=3 |issue=36 |pages=42–[https://books.google.com/books?id=8-ICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47 47] |quote=While Columbia, battling Ray Stark over every dollar, did ''Funny Girl'' for around $8.8&nbsp;million, a million or so over budget, Fox spent nearly $24&nbsp;million on ''Hello, Dolly!'', more than twice the initial budget, and the film will thus have to gross three times as much to break even.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1969 in film|1969]]
|''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|152308525}} ({{nts|prefix=$|37100000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6600000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''
*United States and Canada: {{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/1631/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid |title=Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=$102,308,525 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108201341/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/1631/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid |url-status=live }}
*Outside North America: {{cite book |title=Vanity Fair |year=2008 |issue=577–578 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=VloTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22by+the+spring+of+1970+it+had+taken+in+$46+million+in+North+America+and+grossed+another+$50+million+abroad%22 388] |quote=''Butch Cassidy'' went on to be a huge hit—by the spring of 1970 it had taken in $46&nbsp;million in North America and grossed another $50&nbsp;million abroad.|title-link=Vanity Fair (magazine)}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434" /><ref group="#" name="HallNeale191" />
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! scope="row" | [[1970 in film|1970]]
|''[[Love Story (1970 film)|Love Story]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|173400000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|80000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2260000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Top 50 worldwide grossers|date=July 15, 2002|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|page=52, Paramount at 90 supplement}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite news |title='Love Story' II: Ryan Redux? |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |year=1976 |volume=9 |page=389 |quote=Bring those handkerchiefs out of retirement. ... After all, the first movie made around $80&nbsp;million worldwide.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=Love Story |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA545 545] |quote=The final cost came in at $2,260,000.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[1971 in film|1971]]
|''[[The French Connection (film)|The French Connection]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|75000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3300000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Solomon (1988)" />
|-
|''[[Fiddler on the Roof (film)|Fiddler on the Roof]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|49400000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|100000000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|45100000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|9000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA549 549]}}. "Fiddler had the highest domestic box office of 1971 (it was second in worldwide box office after ''Diamonds Are Forever''), with more than $100&nbsp;million in unadjusted worldwide box office on its initial release. The soundtrack album was also a huge seller. The 1979 rerelease was not as successful, with the $3.8&nbsp;million print and ad costs almost as high as the $4.3&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals."</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson527" />
|-
|''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|116000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|45700000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Bond grosses">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA428 428–429]}}
*''From Russia With Love'': "Worldwide Box Office: 78.9; Production Cost: 2.0 (in millions of $s)"
*''Goldfinger'': "Worldwide Box Office: 124.9; Production Cost: 3.0 (in millions of $s)"
*''Diamonds Are Forever'': "Worldwide Box Office: 116; Production Cost: 7.2 (in millions of $s)"
*''Moonraker'': "Worldwide Box Office: 210.3; Production Cost: 34.0 (in millions of $s)"</ref><ref group="#" name="Chapman (2007)" />
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! scope="row" | [[1972 in film|1972]]
|''[[The Godfather]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:<!--Original-->243862778+<!--Re-releases-->1267490+121323+818333+29349+21701}}}}–{{nts|{{#expr:<!--Up to 1991-->285000000+<!--Re-releases-->1267490+121323+818333+29349+21701 round -6}}}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|127600000}}–{{nts|142000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6000000}}–{{nts|7200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''The Godfather''
*1974: {{cite book |title=Newsweek |volume=84 |issue=19–27 |year=1974 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=sCXkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%24285+million%22 74] |quote=The original ''Godfather'' has grossed a mind-boggling $285&nbsp;million...|title-link=Newsweek}}
*1991: {{cite book |last=Von Gunden |first=Kenneth |title=Postmodern auteurs: Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Spielberg, and Scorsese |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-89950-618-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/postmodernauteur0000vong/page/36 36] |quote=Since ''The Godfather'' had earned over $85&nbsp;million in U.S.-Canada rentals (the worldwide box-office gross was $285&nbsp;million), a sequel, according to the usual formula, could be expected to earn approximately two-thirds of the original's box-office take (ultimately ''Godfather II'' had rentals of $30&nbsp;million). |url=https://archive.org/details/postmodernauteur0000vong/page/36 }}
*Releases: {{cite web |title=The Godfather (1972) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0068646/ |access-date=January 22, 2020 |quote=Original release: $243,862,778; 1997 re-release: $1,267,490; 2009 re-release: $121,323; 2011 re-release: $818,333; 2014 re-release: $29,349; 2018 re-release: $21,701; Budget: $6,000,000 |archive-date=February 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206182459/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0068646/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson527" /><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Jacobs |first=Diane |title=Hollywood Renaissance |publisher=[[Dell Publishing]] |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-440-53382-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=KP0HAQAAMAAJ&q=%22million+in+worldwide+sales%22+godfather 115] |quote=The Godfather catapulted Coppola to overnight celebrity, earning three Academy Awards and a then record-breaking $142&nbsp;million in worldwide sales. |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodrenaiss00jaco/page/115}}</ref><ref group="#" name="godfather-tcm">{{cite web |title=The Godfather (1972)&nbsp;– Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/443184/The-Godfather/notes.html |access-date=January 23, 2020 |archive-date=June 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615192047/http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/443184/The-Godfather/notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1973 in film|1973]]
|''[[The Exorcist]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|430872776}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:66300000+46000000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0070047/|title=The Exorcist (1973)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 5, 2024|archive-date=November 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101025010/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0070047/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |first1=Robert Henry |last1=Stanley |first2=Charles Side |last2=Steinberg |title=The media environment: mass communications in American society |publisher=Hastings House |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-8038-4681-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z30tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+sting%22+million+worldwide+exorcist 76] |quote=...further reflected by the phenomenal successes of ''The Sting'', ''Chinatown'' and ''The Exorcist''. The latter film, which cost about $10&nbsp;million to produce, has grossed over $110&nbsp;million worldwide.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 8, 1975|page=24|title=Big Rental Films of 1974 |quote=U.S-Canada market only $66,300,000|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1975-01-08_277_9/page/24/mode/1up|access-date=July 4, 2022|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref><ref group="#" name="WBos">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|title=WB Adds To Its Record Collection|page=1|last=Pollock|first=Dale|date=May 9, 1979|quote="Towering Inferno" did $56,000,000 overseas in billings while "The Exorcist" totted up $46,000,000}}</ref>
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|''[[The Sting]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|115000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5500000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{Citation |title=New York |year=1975 |volume=8 |quote=...''Jaws'' should outstrip another MCA hit, ''The Sting'', which had world-wide revenues of $115&nbsp;million. |title-link=New York (magazine)}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=jW8pAQAAIAAJ&q=%22world-wide%20revenues%22 Online copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001745/https://books.google.com/books?id=jW8pAQAAIAAJ&q=%22world-wide%20revenues%22 |date=April 4, 2023 }} at [[Google Books]])</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson560">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA560 560]}}. "Production Cost: $5.5 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1974 in film|1974]]
|''[[The Towering Inferno]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|203336412}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:48838000+56000000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14300000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=It Towers $203,336,412 (advertisement)|date=June 2, 1976|pages=8–9|url=https://varietyultimate.com/archive/issue/WV-06-02-1976-8|url-access=subscription|access-date=October 31, 2020|archive-date=January 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108042413/https://varietyultimate.com/archive/issue/WV-06-02-1976-8|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA354 206]–208}}. "The most successful entry in the disaster cycle was the $15&nbsp;million ''The Towering Inferno'' which earned over $48,650,000 in domestic rentals and about $40&nbsp;million foreign."</ref><ref group="#">{{cite news |first=Leonard |last=Klady |title=All-Time Top Film Rentals |date=1998 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://www.variety.com:80/numbers/video.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991007042514/http://www.variety.com/numbers/video.asp |archive-date=October 7, 1999 |quote=Domestic rentals: $48,838,000}}</ref><ref group="#" name=WBos /><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson568">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=568}}. "Production Cost: $14.3 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1975 in film|1975]]
|''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:<!--LIFETIME DOMESTIC-->280083300+<!--ORIGINAL INTERNATIONAL-->210653000+<!--RE-RELEASE INTERNATIONAL-->507140+42864+27747+532047+3642+3352108<!-- NOTE: BOM HAS NOT ADDED THE INTERNATIONAL REISSUE GROSSES TO THE TOTAL SO THEY ARE ADDED IN MANUALLY-->}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|193700000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|9000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Jaws''
*Original release: {{cite web |title=Jaws (1975) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0073195/ |access-date=October 4, 2025 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200402223250/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0073195/ |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |url-status=unfit |quote=Original Release: $260,000,000 (domestic); $210,653,000 (international); $470,653,000 (worldwide)}}
*Re-release grosses: {{cite web |title=Jaws (1975) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0073195/ |access-date=October 4, 2025 |quote=$280,083,300 (all-release domestic); $507,140 (2012 international); $42,864 (2019 international); $27,747 (2020 international); $532,047 (2022 international); $3,642 (2024 international); $3,352,108 (2025 international)}}</ref><ref group="#" name="jaws" /><ref group="#">{{cite book |first=Steven |last=Priggé |title=Movie Moguls Speak: Interviews With Top Film Producers |year=2004 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=978-0-7864-1929-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=40UTI-uUHpwC&pg=PA8 8] |quote=The budget for the first ''Jaws'' was $4&nbsp;million and the picture wound up costing $9&nbsp;million.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1976 in film|1976]]
|''[[Rocky]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|225000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|77100000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1075000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{Cite The Numbers|id=Rocky|title=Rocky (1976)|access-date=October 2, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="HallNeale214">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA214 214]}}. "''Rocky'' was the "sleeper of the decade". Produced by UA and costing just under $1&nbsp;million, it went on to earn a box-office gross of $117,235,247 in the United States and $225&nbsp;million worldwide."</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson527">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA527 527]}}.
*''Star Wars'': "Domestic Rentals: $127.0; Foreign Rentals: $141.5; Production Cost: $13.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''The Godfather'': "Domestic Rentals: $85.6; Foreign Rentals: $42.0; Production Cost: $7.2 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''Fiddler on the Roof'': "Domestic Rentals: $34.0; Foreign Rentals: $11.1; Production Cost: $9.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''Rocky'': "Domestic Rentals: $56.0; Foreign Rentals: $21.1; Production Cost: $1.6 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson583">{{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=Rocky |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA583 583] |quote=The budget was $1,075,000 plus producer's fees of $100,000.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1977 in film|1977]]
|''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|775398507}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|530000000}}{{ref |Star Wars|SW}}/{{nts|prefix=$|268500000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|11293151}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="star-wars-se">{{cite web |title=Star Wars (1977) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0076759/ |access-date=August 31, 2025 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305182237/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0076759/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="et first-run">{{cite news |last=Wuntch |first=Philip |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=Return of E.T. |date=July 19, 1985 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_text_direct-0=0ED3CD81CFEA1C2E&p_field_direct-0=document_id |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 6, 2012 |quote=Its worldwide box-office gross was $619&nbsp;million, toppling the record of $530&nbsp;million set by Star Wars. |archive-date=May 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517022355/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_text_direct-0=0ED3CD81CFEA1C2E&p_field_direct-0=document_id |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson527" /><ref group="#" name="HallNeale218">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA218 218]}}. "Eventually costing $11,293,151, ''Star Wars'' was previewed at the Northpoint Theatre in San Francisco on May 1, 1977."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1978 in film|1978]]
|''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|396271103}} ({{nts|prefix=$|341000000}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Grease (1978) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0077631/ |access-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522151012/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0077631/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Hofler |first=Robert |title=Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4596-0007-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=iqRezpQzUcAC&pg=PA145 145] |quote=Despite the fact that Grease was well on its way to becoming the highest-grossing movie musical in the world, and eventually grossed over $341&nbsp;million...}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Denisoff & Romanowski (1991)" />
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1979 in film|1979]]
|''[[Moonraker (film)|Moonraker]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|210308099}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|31000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079574/|title=Moonraker (1979)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=October 2, 2023|archive-date=January 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131155637/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079574/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Bond grosses" /><ref group="#" name="kramer">''Kramer vs. Kramer''
*{{cite book |title=United & Babson Investment Report |year=1980 |volume=72 |publisher=[[Babson-United, Inc.]] |page=262 |quote=Columbia Pictures Industries is continuing to rake in the box office dollars from its Oscar-winning ''Kramer vs. Kramer'', which has topped $100&nbsp;million in domestic grosses and $70&nbsp;million overseas. ''Kramer'', which cost less than $8&nbsp;million to make, is now the second...}}
*{{cite book |last=Prince |first=Stephen |title=A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-520-23266-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step/page/7 7] |quote=Much of this was attributable to the performance of its hit film, ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' ($94&nbsp;million worldwide and the number two film in the domestic market).}}</ref>
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|''[[Rocky II]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200182160}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{Cite The Numbers|id=Rocky-2|title=Rocky 2 (1979)|access-date=October 2, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite magazine |last=Kilday |first=Greg |title=Rules of the Game |date=May 22, 1992 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=119 |url=https://ew.com/article/1992/05/22/our-guide-successful-sequels/ |access-date=July 4, 2012 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034800/https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,310543,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="#" name="kramer" />
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! scope="row" | [[1980 in film|1980]]
|''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|550016086}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:538375067-67597694-57214766}}}}){{ref |Star Wars|SW}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|23000000}}–{{nts|32000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''The Empire Strikes Back''
*Total up to 2014: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (1980) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0080684/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |quote=$538,375,067}}
*Special edition: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2194166277/ |access-date=October 1, 2023 |quote=North America: $67,597,694; Overseas: $57,214,766}}
*2015 re-release: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (2015 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2210943493/ |access-date=October 1, 2023 |quote=United Kingdom: $9,593,937}}
*2020 re-release: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (2020 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3349238277/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |quote=$3,137,879}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson519">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA519 519]}}.
*''The Empire Strikes Back'': "Production Cost: $32.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''Return of the Jedi'': "Production Cost: $42.7 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
*''The Phantom Menace'': "Production Cost: $127.5 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1981 in film|1981]]
|''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|389925971}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:180100000+141766000}}}}–{{nts|{{#expr:212222025+141766000}}}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|18000000}}–{{nts|22800000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Raiders of the Lost Ark''
*{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0082971/ |title=Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 4, 2023 |quote=Total: $389,925,971; North America: $212,222,025 (original run); Overseas: $141,766,000}}
*{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA625 625]}}. Domestic Box office: $180.1; "Production Cost: $22.8 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1982 in film|1982]]
|''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|797307407}} <br /> ({{nts|prefix=$|619000000}}–{{nts|664000000}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10500000}}–{{nts|12200000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="ET">{{cite web |title=E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0083866/ |access-date=September 5, 2024}}</ref><ref group="#" name="et first-run" /><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson609">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA609 609]}}. "Steven Spielberg, by far the most successful director of the decade, had the highest-grossing movie with 1982's ''E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial'', which grossed over $664&nbsp;million in worldwide box office on initial release."</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson652">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA652 652]}}. "Production Cost: $12.2 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1983 in film|1983]]
|''[[Return of the Jedi]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|482466382}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:475106177-45470437-43790543}}}}){{ref |Star Wars|SW}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|32500000}}–{{nts|42700000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Return of the Jedi''
*Total: {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi (1983) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0086190/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |quote=$482,466,382}}
*Special edition: {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi (Special Edition) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr604787205/ |access-date=April 28, 2023 |quote=$89,388,357}}
*2023 Re-release: {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi (2023 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2342081029/ |access-date=May 5, 2023 |quote=$7,259,924}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson519" />
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! scope="row"| [[1984 in film|1984]]
|''[[Ghostbusters]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:243640120+126000000+161688+60823+101133 round -5}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:229200000+126000000}}}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|25000000}}–{{nts|30000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Ghostbusters''
* US and Canada: {{cite web |title=Ghostbusters (1984) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0087332/|access-date=December 31, 2024|quote=Original release: $229,242,989; Lifetime: $243,640,120}}
* Outside of United States (as of 1999): {{cite magazine|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=December 28, 1999|title=All-time Boxoffice Champs|page=|url=https://x.com/THRArchives/status/1873071661144260886|quote=International: $126.0 million}}
* Outside of United States (since 1999): {{cite web |title=Ghostbusters (1984) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0087332/|access-date=December 31, 2024|quote=2011 re-release (United Kingdom): $161,688; 2019 re-release (Asia-Pacific): $60,823; 2020 re-release (Asia Pacific): $101,133 }}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web| first=Stephen| last=Galloway | title=The Making of a Comedy Classic: Director Ivan Reitman Spills the Secrets Behind the Original ''Ghostbusters''| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ghostbusters-director-ivan-reitman-making-911408| date=July 15, 2016| website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| access-date=December 18, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219000830/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ghostbusters-director-ivan-reitman-making-911408| archive-date=December 19, 2018| url-status=live}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web| first=Lesley M. M.| last=Blume|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/06/ghostbusters-making-of| title=The Making of ''Ghostbusters'': How Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and "The Murricane" Built "The Perfect Comedy"| date=June 4, 2014| access-date=December 20, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317063300/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/06/ghostbusters-making-of| archive-date=March 17, 2018| url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1985 in film|1985]]
! scope="row" style="background:#b6fcb6;" | ''[[Back to the Future]]'' †
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:381109762+5641847+571778+1437152+536629+13090200}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|381109762}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|19000000}}–{{nts|22000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Back to the Future''
*Original release: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0088763/ |title=Back to the Future (1985) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806181828/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0088763/ |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |access-date=October 24, 2025 |quote=Worldwide: $381,109,762; Production Budget: $19&nbsp;million}}
*2014 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2014 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1325224453/ |access-date=October 24, 2025 |quote=$5,641,847}}
*2020 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2020 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr782324229/ |access-date=October 24, 2025 |quote=$571,778}}
*2021 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2021 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr4236988933/ |access-date=October 24, 2025 |quote=$1,437,152}}
*2023 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2023 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr4288500229/ |access-date=October 24, 2025 |quote=$536,629}}
*2025 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (40th Anniversary) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3245363973/ |access-date=November 17, 2025 |quote=$13,090,200}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA268 268]}}. "The studio had a record operating income of $212&nbsp;million in 1982, the year of Spielberg's ''E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial'' (which had cost only slightly over $10&nbsp;million) and $150&nbsp;million in 1985, mainly due to another Spielberg production, the $22&nbsp;million Back to the Future, which became the top box office hit of the year."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1986 in film|1986]]
|''[[Top Gun]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|357288178}} ({{nts|prefix=$|345000000}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14000000}}–{{nts|19000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0092099/|title=Top Gun (1986)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#">{{citation |last=McAdams |first=Frank |title=Top Gun |year=2010 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA678 678–679] |quote=Production Cost: $19.0 (Millions of $s) ... Despite mixed reviews, it played in the top 10 for an extended period and was a huge hit, grossing almost $345&nbsp;million in worldwide box office.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler190">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA190 190–191]}}.</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1987 in film|1987]]
|''[[Fatal Attraction]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|320145693}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">''Fatal Attraction''
*{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0093010/|title=Fatal Attraction (1987)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 17, 2023}}
*{{cite news |last=Scott |first=Vernon |agency=Hollywood (UPI) |work=[[The Daily Gazette]] |location=New York |title='Three Men and Baby' Sequel Adds Cazenove to Original Cast |date=June 15, 1990 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FHMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tIgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4281,3825772 9] (TV Plus – The Daily Gazette Supplement) |quote=That legacy is the $167,780,960 domestic box-office and $75&nbsp;million foreign gross achieved by the original...}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler190" />
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! scope="row" | [[1988 in film|1988]]
|''[[Rain Man]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|354825435}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0095953/|title=Rain Man (1988)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA244 244]}}. "''Rain Man'': 30.0 (cost in million $s)"</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1989 in film|1989]]
|''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|474171806}}–{{nts|494000000}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|36000000}}–{{nts|55400000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0097576/ |title=Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler190" /><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson694">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA694 694–695]}}. "Production Cost: $55.4 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s) ... The film went on to haul in over $494&nbsp;million worldwide."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1990 in film|1990]]
|''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|505870681}} (${{formatnum:505702588}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|22000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0099653/ |title=Ghost (1990) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=July 12, 2020}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler190" />
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! scope="row" | [[1991 in film|1991]]
|''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:<!-- ORIGINAL RELEASE-->519843345+<!-- 3D REISSUE-->(<!--DOM-->1037809)+(<!--INT-->2893302)}}}} (${{formatnum:519843345}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|94000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Terminator 2">''Terminator 2''
*Original release: {{cite web |title=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626051349/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2017 |quote=$519,843,345}}
*3D re-release: {{cite web |title=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=judgmentday3d.htm |access-date=September 20, 2017}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Ansen (1991)">{{Cite news |last=Ansen |first=David |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=July 8, 1991 |title=Conan The Humanitarian |url=http://www.newsweek.com/1991/07/07/conan-the-humanitarian.html |access-date=September 19, 2013}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1992 in film|1992]]
|''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|504050219}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|28000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0103639/|title=Aladdin (1992)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Disney" />
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! scope="row" | [[1993 in film|1993]]
|''[[Jurassic Park]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1033928303+<!--2022 REISSUE-->270700+<!--2023 REISSUE-->3336227}}}} (${{formatnum:912667947}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|63000000}}–{{nts|70000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="jp">''Jurassic Park''
* Pre-2022 releases: {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (1993) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0107290/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126121145/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0107290/?ref_=bo_cso_table_42 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=March 7, 2022 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |quote=Worldwide: $1,033,928,303; Original Release: $912,667,947; Production Budget: $63&nbsp;million}}
* 2022 re-release: {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (2022 Re-release) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr4086256133/ |access-date=July 1, 2022 |website=Box Office Mojo |quote=Mexico: $270,700}}
* 2023 re-release: {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (2023 Re-release) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr966611461/ |access-date=September 8, 2023 |website=Box Office Mojo |quote=$3,336,227}}
* As of 2010: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA756 756–757]}}. "Production Cost: $70.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s) ... ''Jurassic Park'' was a smash at the box office, bringing in $920&nbsp;million in worldwide box office and spawning two sequels."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1994 in film|1994]]
|''[[The Lion King]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:968511805+<!--2024-->2195958}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:312855561+450600000}}}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|45000000}}–{{nts|79300000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="lion king">''The Lion King''
*Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0110357/ |title=The Lion King (1994) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=July 28, 2024 |quote=Worldwide: $970,707,763; Production Budget: $45&nbsp;million}}
*Lifetime grosses (US & Canada): {{cite web |title=The Lion King (1994) – Release Summary |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=lionking.htm |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=Initial: $312,855,561; IMAX: $15,686,215; 3D: $94,242,001}}
*Lifetime grosses (outside U.S. & Canada): {{cite web |first=Brad |last=Brevert |title='X-Men' & 'Alice' Lead Soft Memorial Day Weekend; Disney Tops $4 Billion Worldwide |date=May 29, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4191 |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=...the original release of The Lion King made $450.6&nbsp;million internationally, an additional $3.8&nbsp;million with the 2002 IMAX reissue, and another $91.3&nbsp;million from 2011's 3D reissue for an international total of $545.7&nbsp;million.}}
*As of 2010: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA764 764]}}. "Production Cost: $79.3 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[1995 in film|1995]]
! scope="row" style="background:#b6fcb6;" | ''[[Toy Story]]'' †<!-- DO NOT REMOVE THE HIGHLIGHTING. The accompanying source (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1853051653/) clearly shows Toy Story is still playing in France, Sweden, Argentina, Chile and Hong Kong as of November 9, 2025. The purpose of the highlighting is to let readers know the total has not been finalised and helps editors keep track of updating the figures. Premature removal of the highlighting is NOT HELPFUL. -->
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:363007140+10555852+11427639}}}} (${{formatnum:363007140}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Toy Story">''Toy Story''
*Original release: {{cite web |title=Toy Story (1995) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1400342017/ |access-date=September 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201161607/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1400342017/ |archive-date=December 1, 2020 |quote=Worldwide: $363,007,140}}
*3D release: {{cite web |title=Toy Story in 3D (2009) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3354350085/ |access-date=September 12, 2025 |quote=Foreign Total: $10,555,852}}
*2025 release: {{cite web |title=Toy Story (2025 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1853051653/ |access-date=November 3, 2025 |quote=Total: $11,427,639}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson776">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA776 776]}}. "Production Cost: $30.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)"</ref>
|-
|''[[Die Hard with a Vengeance]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|366101666}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|70000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0112864/|title=Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler123">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA123 123]}}.</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1996 in film|1996]]
|''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|817400891}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|75000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="id4">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0116629/ |title=Independence Day (1996) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=September 13, 2009}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1997 in film|1997]]
|''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1843373318+343550770+691642+71352+<!-- 2023 REISSUE -->70219746}}}} (${{formatnum:1843373318}}) <!-- NOTE: Please do not "fix" the gross for Titanic. BOM is double-counting in the 2012 3D gross. See archived citation for correct amounts. When updating the total just type the 2023 reissue gross into the formula. -->
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="titanic">''Titanic''
*Pre-2020 releases: {{cite web |title=Titanic (1997) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027003338/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |archive-date=October 27, 2019 |quote=Worldwide: $2,187,615,730; Original release: $1,843,373,318; 2012 3D Release: $343,550,770; 2017 Re-release: $691,642}}
*2020 Re-release: {{cite web |title=Titanic (2020 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2694926853/ |quote=2020 Re-release: $71,352}}
*2023 Re-release: {{cite web |title=Titanic (25 Year Anniversary) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3800912389/ |quote=2023 Re-release: $70,219,746}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1998 in film|1998]]
|''[[Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|553709788}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|140000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120591/ |title=Armageddon (1998) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA509 509]}}. "Production Cost: $140.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[1999 in film|1999]]
|''[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1046515409}} (${{formatnum:924317558}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|115000000}}–{{nts|127500000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="tpm">''Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace''
*Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120915/ |title=Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 2, 2024 |quote=$1,046,515,409}}
*Original release: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars.htm |title=Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=November 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719051149/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |quote=$924,317,558}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson519" />
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! scope="row" | [[2000 in film|2000]]
|''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|546388108}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|100000000}}–{{nts|125000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi2.htm |title=Mission: Impossible II |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="Finler190" />
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! scope="row" | [[2001 in film|2001]]
|''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1023842938-<!--BRAZIL 2020-->3552958-<!--ITALY 2021-->4410216-<!--NETHERLANDS 2021-->4328645-<!--SOUTH KOREA 2021-->2504289}}}}{{ref |HP1 gross|HP1}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:974755371}}}})<!-- Please do not "correct" the total. Box Office Mojo has double counted some of the reissue grosses so they have been deducted from the total. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Film/Film_finance_task_force#Box_Office_Mojo -->
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|125000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="hp1">''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''
*Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0241527 |title=Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 20, 2021}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2002 in film|2002]]
|''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|948945489}} ({{nts|prefix=$|936689735}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|94000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="lotr2">{{cite web |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167261/ |access-date=December 20, 2023 |quote=Worldwide: $948,945,489; Original Release: $936,689,735}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[2003 in film|2003]]
|''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1147997407}} (${{formatnum:1140682011}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|94000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="lotr3" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[2004 in film|2004]]
|''[[Shrek 2]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|932534181}} ({{nts|prefix=$|929098316}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="shrek2">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0298148/ |title=Shrek 2 (2002) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=October 20, 2025}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[2005 in film|2005]]
|''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|896346413}} ({{nts|prefix=$|895921036}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="hp4">''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''
*Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0330373/ |title=Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 15, 2020}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|905595947}} ({{nts|prefix=$|849997605}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|113000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0121766/|title=Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=May 27, 2025}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2006 in film|2006]]
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1066179747}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|225000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="potc2">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0383574/ |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[2007 in film|2007]]
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|960996492}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|300000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="potc3">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4100490753/ |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2008 in film|2008]]
|''[[The Dark Knight]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1007336937}} (${{formatnum:{{#expr:531039412+466000000}}}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|185000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="tdk">''The Dark Knight''
*Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0468569/ |title=The Dark Knight (2008) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114135109/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0468569/ |archive-date=November 14, 2023 |access-date=November 29, 2023}}
*Original release (excluding 2009 IMAX reissue): {{cite web |title=The Dark Knight |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/BATM2.php |access-date=October 28, 2012 |quote=North America: $531,039,412 (as of January 22, 2009); Overseas: $466,000,000; IMAX re-release: January 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208015630/http://the-numbers.com/movies/2008/BATM2.php |archive-date=February 8, 2009}}
*2009 IMAX re-release: {{cite web |title=Warner Bros. Entertainment Wraps Record-Breaking Year |date=January 8, 2009 |publisher=[[Warner Bros.]] |url=https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/news/warner-bros-entertainment-wraps-record-breaking-year |access-date=April 22, 2016 |quote=With worldwide receipts of $997&nbsp;million, "The Dark Knight" is currently fourth on the all-time box office gross list, and the film is being re-released theatrically on January 23.}}
*First-run gross and IMAX reissue: {{cite web |first=Brandon |last=Gray |title=Billion Dollar Batman |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |date=February 20, 2009 |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2551 |access-date=June 7, 2014 |quote=The Dark Knight had been hovering just shy of $1&nbsp;billion for several months and reportedly sat at $997&nbsp;million when Warner Bros. modestly relaunched it on Jan. 23, timed to take advantage of the announcement of the Academy Awards nominations on Jan. 22.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2009 in film|2009]]
|''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:2923710708}} (${{formatnum:2743577587}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|237000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="avatar">{{cite web|title=Avatar (2009)|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0499549/|access-date=September 3, 2025|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|quote=Worldwide: $2,923,710,708; Original Release: $2,743,577,587; 2010 Special Edition: $44,838,548; 2020 Re-release: $1,281,204; 2021 Re-release: $57,995,770; 2022 Re-release: $76,012,917; 2025 Re-release: $4,682}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2010 in film|2010]]
|''[[Toy Story 3]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1066970811}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="ts3">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0435761/ |title=Toy Story 3 (2010) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106231628/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0435761/?ref_=bo_cso_table_38 |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2011 in film|2011]]
|''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2]]''
| align="right" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:1356841356-181938-38277-14481414}}}}<!-- PER [[WP:BOXOFFICE]]. BOX OFFICE MOJO HAS DOUBLE-COUNTED THE 2018 AND 2021 DOMESTIC GROSSES AND THE 2023 RE-RELEASE SO THEY HAVE BEEN SUBTRACTED FROM THE TOTAL HERE.--> (${{formatnum:1341511219}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|250000000}}{{ref |HP8 budget|HP8}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="hp7.2">''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''
*Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1201607/ |title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=November 29, 2023}}
*Production cost: {{cite news |last=Frankel |first=Daniel |title=Get Ready for the Biggest 'Potter' Opening Yet |work=[[The Wrap]] |date=November 17, 2010 |url=https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/get-ready-biggest-potter-opening-yet-22607 |access-date=August 27, 2011 |archive-date=November 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120233859/http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/get-ready-biggest-potter-opening-yet-22607 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2012 in film|2012]]
|''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1518815515}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|220000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="avengers" group="#" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[2013 in film|2013]]
|''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1274219009-<!--JAPAN TOTAL BY 8/3/2014-->247650477+<!--JAPAN TOTAL-->249036646-<!--SPAIN TOTAL BY 7/27/2014-->21668593+<!--SPAIN TOTAL-->22492845+<!--NIGERIA TOTAL-->167333+<!--UK-->(40960083-39090985)/0.63866+(41087765-40960083)/0.64136+(41170608-41087765)/0.636+(42840559-41170608)/0.7497+(42976318-42840559)/0.742+<!--GERMANY-->42526744-35098170 round -6}}}} (${{formatnum:{{#expr:1274219009-<!--JAPAN TOTAL BY 8/3/2014-->247650477+<!--JAPAN TOTAL-->249036646-<!--SPAIN TOTAL BY 7/27/2014-->21668593+<!--SPAIN TOTAL-->22492845+<!--NIGERIA TOTAL-->167333+<!--UK-->(40960083-39090985)/0.63866+(41087765-40960083)/0.64136+(41170608-41087765)/0.636+<!--GERMANY-->42526744-35098170 round -6}}}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Frozen">''Frozen''
*{{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=frozen2013.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809232736/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=frozen2013.htm |archive-date=August 9, 2014 |quote=Worldwide – $1,274,219,009 (total as of August 8, 2014; including Japanese gross up to August 3, Spanish gross up to July 27, UK gross up to June 8, German gross up to March 30, and omitting Nigerian gross)}}
*{{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Japan |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=JP&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=September 3, 2014}}
::Total as of August 3, 2014: $247,650,477
::Total as of August 31, 2014: $249,036,646
*{{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Nigeria |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=NG&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=September 3, 2014}}
::Total as of August 17, 2014: $167,333
*{{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Spain |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=ES&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=November 6, 2014}}
::Total as of July 27, 2014: $21,668,593
::Total as of November 2, 2014: $22,492,845
*{{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: United Kingdom |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=UK&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=March 30, 2016}}
::Total as of June 8, 2014: £39,090,985
::Total as of November 30, 2014: £40,960,083 ($1 = £0.63866)
::Total as of December 7, 2014: £41,087,765 ($1 = £0.64136)
::Total as of December 14, 2014: £41,170,608 ($1 = £0.636)
::Total as of November 26, 2017: £42,840,559 ($1 = £0.7497)
::Total as of December 3, 2017: £42,976,318 ($1 = £0.742)
*{{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Germany |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=DE&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=March 30, 2016}}
::Total as of March 30, 2014: €35,098,170
::Total as of October 18, 2015: €42,526,744
:::nb. the exact euro to dollar conversion rate is unknown for earnings since April 2014, but the euro never fell below parity with the dollar during 2014 and 2015 (as can be verified by comparing the exchange rate on the individual date entries at the provided reference) so an approximate conversion rate of €1: $1 is used here to give a lower-bound.<!-- THIS HAS RECEIVED A CONSENSUS ON THE TALK PAGE AS IT IS BELIEVED TO BE CONSISTENT WITH WP:CALC WHICH PERMITS BASIC CALCULATIONS, SO IF YOU WISH TO CHALLENGE THE TOTAL INCLUDED HERE PLEASE RAISE THE ISSUE ON THE TALK PAGE FIRST --></ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2014 in film|2014]]
|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1104039076}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|210000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="transformers" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[2015 in film|2015]]
|''[[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:2068223624}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|245000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="sw7" group="#" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[2016 in film|2016]]
|''[[Captain America: Civil War]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1153337496}} (${{formatnum:1153296293}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|250000000}}
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref group="#" name="civil war" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[2017 in film|2017]]
|''[[Star Wars: The Last Jedi]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1332539889}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="sw8" group="#" />
|-
! scope="row" | [[2018 in film|2018]]
|''[[Avengers: Infinity War]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:2048359754}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|316000000}}–{{nts|400000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="infinity war" group="#" /><ref group="#" name="VarietyBudget">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/avengers-infinity-war-biggest-box-office-opening-ever-1202791751/ |title='Avengers: Infinity War' Officially Lands Biggest Box Office Opening of All Time |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=April 30, 2018 |access-date=May 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502205129/http://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/avengers-infinity-war-biggest-box-office-opening-ever-1202791751/ |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2019 in film|2019]]
|''[[Avengers: Endgame]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:2797501328}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|356000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="endgame" group="#" />
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! scope="row" | [[2020 in film|2020]]
|''[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:512704063}} (${{formatnum:507119058}})
| align="right" |${{formatnum:15750000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref group="#">{{Cite The Numbers|id=Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Mugen-Ressha-Hen-(2020-Japan)|title=Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限列車編) (2020)|access-date=October 4, 2025}}</ref><ref group="#">{{Cite The Numbers|id=Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Mugen-Ressha-Hen-(2020-Japan)|title=Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限列車編) (2020)|access-date=October 4, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250512001818/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Demon-Slayer-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-The-Movie-Mugen-Train-(2020-Japan)|archive-date=May 12, 2025|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2021 in film|2021]]
|''[[Spider-Man: No Way Home]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1922598800}} (${{formatnum:1912233593}})
| align="right" |${{formatnum:200000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="nwh" group="#" /><ref group="#" name="Budget">{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=December 14, 2021 |title=Box Office Preview: ''Spider-Man: No Way Home'' Eyes Mighty, Massive, Marvelous $150 Million-Plus Debut |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/spider-man-no-way-home-opening-weekend-estimate-tom-holland-1235132943/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205932/https://variety.com/2021/film/news/spider-man-no-way-home-opening-weekend-estimate-tom-holland-1235132943/ |archive-date=December 14, 2021 |access-date=December 14, 2021 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2022 in film|2022]]
|''[[Avatar: The Way of Water]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:2343096253}} (${{formatnum:2320250281}})
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|350000000}}–{{nts|460000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="avatar2" group="#">{{Cite web|title=Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1630029/|access-date=October 20, 2025|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|quote=Worldwide: $2,343,096,253; Original Release: $2,320,250,281; 2025 Re-release: $22,845,972}}</ref><ref group="#" name="budget 350–400">{{cite web |first=Pamela |last=McClintock |title=Box Office: 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Lands Coveted China Release |date=November 22, 2022 |publisher=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-china-release-1235268699/ |access-date=January 10, 2023}}</ref><ref group="#" name="budget 460">{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-1235200714/|title='Avatar: The Way Of Water' Opens To $134M; Why Pic's Box Office Fate Will Be Determined Through The Holidays – Sunday AM Update|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|date=December 18, 2022|access-date=January 10, 2023}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2023 in film|2023]]
|''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1447138421}}
| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|128000000}}–{{nts|145000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="Barbie" group="#" /><ref name="Deadline-Previews" group="#">{{cite news |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=July 23, 2023 |title='Barbie' Still Gorgeous With Best YTD $155M Opening; 'Oppenheimer' Ticking To $80M+ In Incredible $300M+ U.S. Box Office Weekend – Sunday AM Update |url=https://deadline.com/2023/07/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-1235443828/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721142533/https://deadline.com/2023/07/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-1235443828/ |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |access-date=July 23, 2023 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref><ref name="Paskin" group="#">{{cite magazine |last=Paskin |first=Willa |title=Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' Dream Job |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |access-date=July 11, 2023 |date=July 11, 2023 |url-access=limited |archive-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711163054/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2024 in film|2024]]
|''[[Inside Out 2]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:1698863816}}
| align="right" |${{formatnum:200000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="Inside Out 2" group="#" /><ref group="#">{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=June 11, 2024 |title=Box Office: ''Inside Out 2'' Aims to Reverse Pixar's Woes With $85 Million Debut |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/box-office-inside-out-2-opening-weekend-projection-pixar-woes-1236032726/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=June 23, 2024}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[2025 in film|2025]]
|''[[Ne Zha 2]]''
| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:<!--CHINA-->2155690000+<!--INTERNATIONAL-->60000000}}}}
| align="right" |${{formatnum:80000000}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref name="Ne Zha 2" group="#" /><ref name="Ne Zha 2 Caixin" group="#" />
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(...) Since grosses are not limited to original theatrical runs, a film's first-run gross is included in brackets after the total if known.

{{note label|USgross|*||Canada and U.S. gross only.}}

{{note label|Rentals|R||Distributor rental.}}

{{note label||TBA||To be ascertained.}}

{{note label|Intolerance|IN||No contemporary sources provide figures for ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', although [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] provides a figure of $8,000,000 for the North American box-office gross.<ref>{{cite web |title=20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1916/020LU.php |access-date=January 5, 2012}}</ref> However, it is possible this figure has been mistaken for the gross of the 1954 remake which also earned $8,000,000 in North American rentals.<ref name=Finler358 />}}

{{note label|For Heaven's Sake|FH||Some sources such as The Numbers state that ''[[Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)|Aloma of the South Seas]]'' is the highest grossing film of the year, earning $3&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite book |title=Milwaukee Magazine |volume=32 |issue=1–6 |year=2007 |quote=The year's top–grossing movie, ''Aloma'' made $3&nbsp;million in the first three months and brought Gray back to Milwaukee for its opening at the Wisconsin Theatre.|title-link=Milwaukee Magazine}}</ref> However, no contemporary sources provide figures for ''Aloma of the South Seas'', so it is unclear what the $3&nbsp;million figure relates to. If it were the rental gross then that would have made it not only the highest-grossing film of the year, but one of the highest-grossing films of the silent era, and if that is the case it would be unusual for both ''[[International Motion Picture Almanac]]'' and ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' to omit it from their lists.}}

{{note label|Sunny Side Up|SS||It is not clear if the figure for ''Sunny Side Up'' is for North America or worldwide. Other sources put its earnings at $2&nbsp;million,<ref>{{cite book |last=Parkinson |first=David |title=The Rough Guide to Film Musicals |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84353-650-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zff4BhUOOnwC&pg=PA28 28] |quote=But they had previously succeeded in showing how musicals could centre on ordinary people with ''Sunny Side Up'' (1929), which had grossed $2&nbsp;million at the box office and demonstrated a new maturity and ingenuity in the staging of story and dance.}}</ref> which may suggest the higher figure is the worldwide rental, given the confusion over international figures during this period.<ref name=HallNeale6 />}}

{{note label|One Night|ON||The figure for ''It Happened One Night'' is not truly representative of its success: it was distributed as a package deal along with more than two dozen other [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] films, and the total earnings were averaged out; the true gross would have been much higher.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McBride |first=Joseph |title=Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-60473-838-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=DMkLpTFBEtUC&pg=PA309 309] |quote=According to the studio's books ''It Happened One Night'' brought in $1&nbsp;million in film rentals during its initial release, but as Joe Walker pointed out, the figure would have been much larger if the film had not been sold to theaters on a block-booking basis in a package with more than two dozen lesser Columbia films, and the total rentals of the package spread among them all, as was customary in that era, since it minimized the risk and allowed the major studios to dominate the marketplace.}}</ref>}}

{{note label|Snow White|S7||''Snow White''{{'}}s $418&nbsp;million global [[cume]] omits earnings outside of North America from 1987 onwards.}}

{{note label|GWTW|GW||It is not absolutely clear how much ''Gone with the Wind'' earned from its initial release. Contemporary accounts often list it as earning $32&nbsp;million in North American rentals and retrospective charts have often duplicated this claim; however, it is likely this was the worldwide rental figure. Trade journals would collate the data by either obtaining it from the distributors themselves, who were keen to promote a successful film, or by surveying theaters and constructing an estimate. Distributors would often report the worldwide rental since the higher figure made the film appear more successful, while estimates were limited to performance in North America; therefore it was not unusual for worldwide and North American rentals to be mixed up. Following the outbreak of World War II, many of the foreign markets were unavailable to Hollywood so it became standard practice to just report on North American box-office performance.<ref name=HallNeale6>{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA6 6]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA7 7]}}. "For similar reasons of accountability, ''Variety'' has typically used figures for domestic (U.S. and Canadian) rather than worldwide revenue. This became its standard policy in 1940, when the advent of war in Europe persuaded the American film industry (temporarily, as it turned out) that it should be wholly reliant on the home market for profitability. Where specific rentals data are reported in ''Variety'' before this (which tended to be only sporadically) they were often for worldwide rather domestic performance. This was also the case with other trade sources, such as ''Quigley''{{'}}s annual ''Motion Picture Almanac'', which published its own all-time hits lists from the early 1930s onward. The subsequent confusion of domestic and worldwide figures, and of rental and box-office figures, has plagued many published accounts of Hollywood history (sometimes including those in ''Variety'' itself), and we have attempted to be diligant in clarifying the differences between them."</ref> In keeping with this new approach, the North American rental for ''Gone with the Wind'' was revised to $21&nbsp;million in 1947 ($11&nbsp;million lower than the previous figure),<ref>{{cite news |last=Shearer |first=Lloyd |title=GWTW: Supercolossal Saga of an Epic |date=October 26, 1947 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/wind-ar6.html |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref> and as of 1953—following the 1947 re-release—''Variety'' was reporting earnings of $26&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cinema: The Big Grossers |date=February 2, 1953 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817905,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222115657/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817905,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2008 |access-date=September 15, 2012}}</ref> Through 1956, [[MGM]] reported cumulative North American earnings of $30,015,000 and foreign earnings of $18,964,000, from three releases.<ref name=BlockWilson129>{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22Gone%20with%20the%20Wind%20includes%20initial%20release%20plus%20four%20rereleases%20(1941%2C1942%2C1947%20and%201954)%20since%20foreign%20rental%20revenues%20were%20available%20only%20cumulative%20through%201956.%22&pg=PA129 129]}}. "Domestic Rentals: $30,015,000 (61%); Foreign Rentals: $18,964,000 (39%)...Gone with the Wind includes initial release plus four rereleases (1941,1942,1947 and 1954) since foreign rental revenues were available only cumulative through 1956."</ref> Worldwide rentals of $32&nbsp;million from the initial release is consistent with the revised figures and later reported worldwide figures: they indicate that the film earned $21&nbsp;million in North America and $11&nbsp;million overseas from the initial release, and added a further $9&nbsp;million in North America and $8&nbsp;million overseas from subsequent re-releases up to 1956.}}

{{note label|Mom and Dad|MD||''Mom and Dad'' does not generally feature in 'high-gross' lists such as those published by ''Variety'' due to its independent distribution. Essentially belonging to the [[exploitation film|exploitation genre]], it was marketed as an educational [[Social guidance film|sex hygiene]] film in an effort to circumvent [[Film censorship|censorship laws]]. Falling foul of the [[Motion Picture Production Code]], ''Mom and Dad'' was prevented from obtaining mainstream distribution and restricted to independent and [[drive-in theater]]s. It was the biggest hit of its kind, and remained in continual distribution until the 1970s when [[hardcore pornography]] eventually took over. At the end of 1947 it had earned $2&nbsp;million, and by 1949, $8&nbsp;million; by 1956 it had earned $22&nbsp;million in rentals, representing a gross of $80&nbsp;million, and would have easily placed in the top ten films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Estimates of its total earnings are as high as $100&nbsp;million.}}

{{note label|Unconquered|UN||Chopra-Gant stipulates that the figure given for ''Unconquered'' is for North American box-office, but as was common at the time, the chart confuses worldwide and North American grosses. Other sources state that the takings for ''Forever Amber'' ($8&nbsp;million) and ''Life with Father'' ($6.5&nbsp;million)<ref>{{citation |last=McDermott |first=Christine |title=Life with Father |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA307 307] |quote=No matter what the billing, the movie became a worldwide hit with $6.5&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals, from Pappa och vi in Sweden to Vita col padre in Italy, although it booked a net loss of $350,000.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref> were in fact worldwide rental grosses, so it is possible this is also true of ''Unconquered''.}}

{{note label|Cinerama|CI||The [[Cinerama]] figures represent gross amounts. Since the Cinerama corporation owned the theaters there were no rental fees for the films, meaning the studio received 100% of the box-office gross, unlike the case with most other films where the distributor typically receives less than half the gross. Since ''Variety'' at the time ranked films by their U.S. and Canadian rental, they constructed a hypothetical rental figure for the Cinerama films to provide a basis for comparison to other films in their chart: in the case of ''This Is Cinerama'', the $50&nbsp;million worldwide gross was reconfigured as a $12.5&nbsp;million U.S. rental gross; this is exactly 25% of the amount reported by Cinerama, so ''Variety''{{'}}s formula seemingly halved the gross to obtain an estimate for the U.S. share, and halved it again to simulate a rental fee.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mulligan |first=Hugh A. |work=[[The Register-Guard]] |location=Eugene, Oregon |title=Cinerama Pushing Ahead As Biggest Money-Maker |date=September 23, 1956 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GPRVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899,3861317 7B]}}</ref> All five Cinerama features collectively generated $120&nbsp;million in worldwide box office receipts.<ref>{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA145 145]}}. "The commercial success of the five Cinerama travelogues, which earned an aggregate worldwide box-office gross of $120&nbsp;million by 1962 (including $82&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada), nevertheless demonstrated to the mainstream industry the market value of special screen formats."</ref>}}

{{note label|Greatest Show|GS||''Variety'' put the worldwide rental for ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' at around $18.35&nbsp;million (with $12.8&nbsp;million coming from the United States<ref name=Finler358>{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA358 358]}}</ref>) a year after its release; however, Birchard puts its earnings at just over $15&nbsp;million up to 1962. It is likely that Birchard's figure is just the North American gross rental, and includes revenue from the 1954 and 1960 reissues.}}

{{note label|Star Wars|SW||The "first run" ''Star Wars'' grosses do not include revenue from the 1997 special-edition releases; however, the figure does include revenue from the re-releases prior to the [[Star Wars (film)#Special Edition|special editions]].}}

{{note label|HP1 gross|HP1||The ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' reissue totals recorded by Box Office Mojo for Brazil (2020), Italy (2021), Netherlands (2021) and South Korea (2021) have been deducted from the lifetime gross due to Box Office Mojo double-counting the original release grosses in those countries.}}

{{note label|HP8 budget|HP8||Production costs were shared with ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&nbsp;– Part 1]]''.}}
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== Timeline of highest-grossing films ==
[[File:Birth of a Nation theatrical poster.jpg|thumb|upright|right|''The Birth of a Nation'' pioneered many of the techniques used in filmmaking today, becoming the most successful film ever made at the time of its release.|alt=The theatrical poster for ''The Birth of a Nation'' depicting a hooded man carrying a burning cross on horse back.]]

At least eleven films have held the record of 'highest-grossing film' since ''The Birth of a Nation'' assumed the top spot in 1915. Both ''The Birth of a Nation'' and ''Gone with the Wind'' spent twenty-five consecutive years apiece as the highest-grosser, with films directed by Steven Spielberg and James Cameron holding the record on three occasions each. Spielberg became the first director to break his own record when ''Jurassic Park'' overtook ''E.T.'', and Cameron emulated the feat when ''Avatar'' broke the record set by ''Titanic''. When it took over the top spot in 2019, ''Avengers: Endgame'' became the first sequel to hold the record of highest-grossing film, and in doing so interrupted thirty-six years of Spielberg/Cameron dominance before ''Avatar'' reclaimed the top spot two years later in 2021 upon a re-release.

Some sources claim that ''The Big Parade'' superseded ''The Birth of a Nation'' as highest-grossing film, eventually being replaced by ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', which in turn was quickly usurped by ''Gone with the Wind''.<ref name="Dirks (2010)" /> Exact figures are not known for ''The Birth of a Nation'', but contemporary records put its worldwide earnings at $5.2&nbsp;million as of 1919.<ref name="Wasko">{{cite book |last=Wasko |first=Janet |contribution=D.W. Griffiths and the banks: a case study in film financing |editor-last=Kerr |editor-first=Paul |title=The Hollywood Film Industry: A Reader |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-7100-9730-9 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jMINAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 34] |quote=Various accounts have cited $15&nbsp;to&nbsp;$18&nbsp;million profits during the first few years of release, while in a letter to a potential investor in the proposed sound version, Aitken noted that a $15&nbsp;to&nbsp;$18&nbsp;million box-office gross was a 'conservative estimate'. For years ''Variety'' has listed ''The Birth of a Nation''{{'}}s total rental at $50&nbsp;million. (This reflects the total amount paid to the distributor, not box-office gross.) This 'trade legend' has finally been acknowledged by ''Variety'' as a 'whopper myth', and the amount has been revised to $5&nbsp;million. That figure seems far more feasible, as reports of earnings in the Griffith collection list gross receipts for 1915–1919 at slightly more than $5.2&nbsp;million (including foreign distribution) and total earnings after deducting general office expenses, but not royalties, at about $2&nbsp;million.}}</ref> Its international release was delayed by World War I, and it was not released in many foreign territories until the 1920s; coupled with further re-releases in the United States, its $10&nbsp;million earnings as reported by ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' in 1932 are consistent with the earlier figure.<ref name="Variety (1932)">{{cite magazine |title=Biggest Money Pictures |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=June 21, 1932 |page=1|url=https://archive.org/details/variety106-1932-06/page/n120/mode/1up|via=[[Archive.org]]}} Cited in {{cite web |title=Biggest Money Pictures |publisher=Cinemaweb |url=http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |access-date=June 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105043830/http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |archive-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref> At this time, ''Variety'' still had ''The Birth of a Nation'' ahead of ''The Big Parade'' ($6,400,000) on distributor rentals and—if its estimate is correct—''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' ($8,500,000)<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[United Press International]] |work=[[Daily Record (Washington)|Daily Record]] |location=Ellensburg, Washington |title='Peter Pan' flies again |date=July 21, 1989 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r3dUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WY8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2540,2188129 16]}}</ref> would not have earned enough on its first theatrical run to take the record;<ref>{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA237 237]}}. "By the end of 1938, it had grossed more than $8&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals and was ranked at the time as the second-highest-grossing film after the 1925 epic ''Ben-Hur''".</ref> although it would have been the highest-grossing 'talkie',<ref>{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA47 47]}}. "Walt Disney took a big risk when he decided to invest $1.5&nbsp;million in his first feature-length animated film, ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. It became the biggest hit of the sound era and the largest-grossing movie since ''The Birth of a Nation'' – until the release of independent producer David O. Selznick's ''Gone with the Wind'' just two years later."</ref> displacing ''The Singing Fool'' ($5,900,000).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barrios |first=Richard |title=A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-19-508811-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/songindarkbirtho00barr/page/49 49] |quote=Since it's rarely seen today, ''The Singing Fool'' is frequently confused with ''The Jazz Singer''; although besides Jolson and a pervasively maudlin air the two have little in common. In the earlier film Jolson was inordinately attached to his mother and sang "Mammy"; here the fixation was on his young son, and "Sonny Boy" became an enormous hit. So did the film, which amassed a stunning world-wide gross of $5.9&nbsp;million...Some sources give it as the highest gross of ''any'' film in its initial release prior to ''Gone with the Wind''. This is probably overstating it—MGM's records show that ''Ben-Hur'' and ''The Big Parade'' grossed more, and no one knows just how much ''The Birth of a Nation'' brought in. Still, by the standards of the time it's an amazing amount. |url=https://archive.org/details/songindarkbirtho00barr/page/49}}</ref> Although received wisdom holds that it is unlikely ''The Birth of a Nation'' was ever overtaken by a silent-era film,<ref>{{cite book |last=Everson |first=William K. |year=1998 |orig-year=First published 1978 |title=American silent film |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |isbn=978-0-306-80876-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=pyQaKxBjjzMC&pg=PA374 374] |quote=Putting ''The Birth of a Nation'' in fifth place is open to question, since it is generally conceded to be the top-grossing film of all time. However, it has always been difficult to obtain reliable box-office figures for this film, and it may have been even more difficult in the mid-1930s. After listing it until the mid-1970s as ''the'' top-grosser, though finding it impossible to quote exact figures, ''Variety'', the trade journal, suddenly repudiated the claim but without giving specific details or reasons. On the basis of the number of paid admissions, and ''continuous'' exhibition, its number one position seems justified. |url=https://archive.org/details/americansilentfi00ever_0/page/374}}</ref> the record would fall to 1925's ''Ben-Hur'' ($9,386,000) if ''The Birth of a Nation'' earned significantly less than its estimated gross.<ref name="HallNeale163">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA163 163]}}. "MGM's silent ''Ben-Hur'', which opened at the end of 1925, had out-grossed all the other pictures released by the company in 1926 combined. With worldwide rentals of $9,386,000 on first release it was, with the sole possible exception of ''The Birth of a Nation'', the highest-earning film of the entire silent era."</ref> In addition to its gross rental earnings through public exhibition, ''The Birth of a Nation'' played at a large number of private, club and organizational engagements which figures are unavailable for.<ref name="du Brow">{{cite news |last=du Brow |first=Rick |work=[[The Columbus Dispatch]] |title=Documentary On The Klan Made Quite An Impact On Du Brow |date=September 22, 1965 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i9sbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ClEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7022,1479191 12]}}</ref> It was hugely popular with the [[Ku Klux Klan]] who used it to drive recruitment,<ref>{{cite news |last=Hodgkinson |first=Will |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |title=Culture quake: The Birth of a Nation |date=April 12, 2004 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3615281/Culture-quake-The-Birth-of-a-Nation.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3615281/Culture-quake-The-Birth-of-a-Nation.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=January 31, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and at one point ''Variety'' estimated its total earnings to stand at around $50&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Thomas (reporter) |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Reading Eagle]] |title='West Side Story' Earned $19 Million Last Year |date=January 18, 1963 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YxMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gpwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3048,210679 20]}}</ref> Despite later retracting the claim, the sum has been widely reported even though it has never been substantiated.<ref name="Wasko" /> While it is generally accepted that ''Gone with the Wind'' took over the record of highest-grossing film on its initial release—which is true in terms of public exhibition—it is likely it did not overtake ''The Birth of a Nation'' in total revenue until a much later date, with it still being reported as the highest earner up until the 1960s.<ref name="du Brow" /> ''Gone with the Wind'' itself may have been briefly overtaken by ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956), which closed at the end of 1960 with worldwide rentals of $58–60&nbsp;million<ref>{{cite book |first1=Louis |last1=Klopsch |first2=George Henry |last2=Sandison |first3=Thomas De Witt |last3=Talmage |title=[[Christian Herald]] |year=1965 |volume=88 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ou3eAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ten+commandments%22+rentals 68] |quote=Yet "The Ten Commandments" has earned 58&nbsp;million dollars in film rentals and is expected to bring in 10&nbsp;to&nbsp;15&nbsp;million each year it is reissued.}}</ref><ref name="HallNeale160">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA160 160–161]}}. "General release began at normal prices in 1959 and continued until the end of the following year, when the film was temporarily withdrawn (the first of several reissues came in 1966). The worldwide rental by this time was around $60&nbsp;million. In the domestic market it dislodged ''Gone with the Wind'' from the number one position on ''Variety''{{'}}s list of All-Time Rentals Champs. ''GWTW'' had hitherto maintained its lead through several reissues (and was soon to regain it through another in 1961)."</ref> compared to ''Gone with the Wind''{{'}}s $59&nbsp;million;<ref name="Oviatt (1961)">{{cite news |last=Oviatt |first=Ray |work=[[Toledo Blade]] |title=The Memory Isn't Gone With The Wind |date=April 16, 1961 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V75OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EAEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4564,6940480 67]–68}}</ref> if it did claim the top spot its tenure there was short-lived, since ''Gone with the Wind'' was re-released the following year and increased its earnings to $67&nbsp;million. Depending on how accurate the estimates are, the 1959 remake of ''Ben-Hur'' may also have captured the record from ''Gone with the Wind'': as of the end of 1961 it had earned $47&nbsp;million worldwide,<ref>{{cite web |title=Ben-Hur (1959) – Notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/415095/ben-hur#notes |access-date=November 17, 2012}}</ref> and by 1963 it was trailing ''Gone with the Wind'' by just $2&nbsp;million with international takings of $65&nbsp;million,<ref name="Thomas (1963)">{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Thomas (reporter) |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[The Robesonian]] |title=Movie Finances Are No Longer Hidden From Scrutiny |date=August 1, 1963 |page=[https://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=QsBVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iUANAAAAIBAJ&pg=7022,1836881 10]}}</ref> ultimately earning $66&nbsp;million from its initial release.<ref>{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA324 324]}}. "Worldwide rentals: $66.1&nbsp;million (initial release)"</ref>

[[File:Deep Throat poster 2.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The 1972 pornographic film ''Deep Throat'' reportedly earned as much as $600&nbsp;million, a figure that may have been inflated by gangsters in money-laundering schemes.]]

Another film purported to have been the highest-grosser is the 1972 [[pornographic film]] ''[[Deep Throat (film)|Deep Throat]]''. In 1984, [[Linda Lovelace]] testified to a [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|United States Senate Judiciary]] Subcommittee on juvenile justice that the film had earned $600&nbsp;million;<ref>{{cite news |author=Washington (AP) |work=[[The Free Lance–Star]] |title='Deep Throat' star against pornography |date=September 13, 1984 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=deJLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x4sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5792,1886785 12]}}</ref> this figure has been the subject of much speculation, since if it is accurate then the film would have made more money than ''Star Wars'', and finished the 1970s as the highest-grossing film. The main argument against this figure is that it simply did not have a wide enough release to sustain the sort of sums that would be required for it to ultimately gross this amount.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hiltzik |first=Michael |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title='Deep Throat' Numbers Just Don't Add Up |date=February 24, 2005 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-24-fi-golden24-story.html |access-date=February 2, 2012}}</ref> Exact figures are not known, but testimony in a federal trial in 1976—about four years into the film's release—showed the film had grossed over $25&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |author=Memphis (UPI) |work=[[The Palm Beach Post]] |title='Deep Throat' Defendant Found Guilty of Conspiring |date=May 1, 1976 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5lc0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YM0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1025,8602 A2]}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] has reasoned it possibly did earn as much as $600&nbsp;million on paper, since mobsters owned most of the [[adult movie theater]]s during this period and would [[Money laundering|launder]] income from drugs and prostitution through them, so probably inflated the box-office receipts for the film.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |website=[[rogerebert.com]] |publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |title=Inside Deep Throat |date=February 11, 2005 |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050210/REVIEWS/50128001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606050046/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20050210%2FREVIEWS%2F50128001 |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |url-status=live |access-date=February 2, 2012}}</ref>

''The Birth of a Nation'', ''Gone with the Wind'', ''The Godfather'', ''Jaws'', ''Star Wars'', ''E.T.'', and ''Avatar'' all increased their record grosses with re-releases. The grosses from their original theatrical runs are included here along with totals from re-releases up to the point that they lost the record; therefore the total for ''The Birth of a Nation'' includes income from its reissues up to 1940; the total for ''Star Wars'' includes revenue from the late 1970s and early 1980s reissues but not from the 1997 Special Edition; the total for ''E.T.'' incorporates its gross from the 1985 reissue but not from 2002. The total for ''Avatar''<nowiki/>'s first appearance on the chart includes revenue from the 2010 Special Edition, which represents all of its earnings up to the point it relinquished the record, whereas its second appearance also incorporates revenue from a 2020 re-release in the [[Asia-Pacific]] region as well as the 2021 re-release in China which helped it to reclaim the record. ''Gone with the Wind'' is likewise represented twice on the chart: the 1940 entry includes earnings from its staggered 1939–1942 release ([[Roadshow theatrical release|roadshow]]/{{zwsp}}[[Wide release|general release]]/{{zwsp}}[[Discount theater|second-run]])<ref name="Bartel">{{cite book |first=Pauline |last=Bartel |title=The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More |year=1989 |publisher=[[Taylor Trade Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-87833-619-7 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJLb5GC35E8C&pg=PA127 127] |quote=At the end of the 1941 general release, MGM decided to withdraw GWTW again. The prints were battered, but the studio believed one final fling for GWTW was possible. The film returned to movie theaters for the third time in the spring of 1942 and stayed in release until late 1943 ... When MGM finally pulled the film from exhibition, all worn-out prints were destroyed, and GWTW was at last declared out of circulation. MGM, which by then had sole ownership of the film, announced that GWTW had grossed over $32&nbsp;million. |url=https://archive.org/details/completegonewith00bart/page/127}}</ref> along with all of its revenue up to the 1961 reissue prior to losing the record to ''The Sound of Music'' in 1966; its 1971 entry—after it took back the record—includes income from the 1967 and 1971 reissues but omitting later releases. ''The Godfather'' was re-released in 1973 after its success at the [[45th Academy Awards]], and ''Jaws'' was released again in 1976, and their grosses here most likely include earnings from those releases. ''The Sound of Music'', ''The Godfather'', ''Jaws'', ''Jurassic Park'', and ''Titanic'' have all increased their earnings with further releases, but they are not included in the totals here because they had already conceded the record prior to being re-released.{{clear}}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Timeline of the highest-grossing film record

! scope="col" | Established
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Record-setting gross
! scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref|References}}
|-
! scope="row" | 1915<ref name="Dirks (2010)">{{cite web |last=Dirks |first=Tim |title=Top Films of All-Time: Part 1&nbsp;– Box-Office Blockbusters |publisher=[[Filmsite.org]] |url=http://www.filmsite.org/greatfilmssummary.html |access-date=August 11, 2010}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $5,200,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="Wasko" group="#" />
|-
! scope="row" | ''1940''
| style="text-align:right;" | $15,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}} {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Time (1940)">{{cite magazine |title=Show Business: Record Wind |date=February 19, 1940 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763541,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202110029/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763541,00.html |archive-date=February 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 19, 2013 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1940<ref name="gwtw tcm">{{cite web |first1=Frank |last1=Miller |first2=Jeff |last2=Stafford |title=Gone With the Wind (1939) – Articles |date=January 5, 2007 |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414427/gone-with-the-wind#articles-reviews |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926003430/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414427/Gone-With-the-Wind/articles.html |archive-date=September 26, 2013}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $32,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="gwtw tcm">{{cite web |first1=Frank |last1=Miller |first2=Jeff |last2=Stafford |title=Gone With the Wind (1939) – Articles |date=January 5, 2007 |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414427/gone-with-the-wind#articles-reviews |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728160304/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414427/Gone-With-the-Wind/articles.html |archive-date=July 28, 2013}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''1963''
| style="text-align:right;" | $67,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}} {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Thomas (1963)">{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Thomas (reporter) |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[The Robesonian]] |title=Movie Finances Are No Longer Hidden From Scrutiny |date=August 1, 1963 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QsBVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iUANAAAAIBAJ&pg=7022,1836881 10]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1966<ref name="Dirks (2010)" />
| ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $114,600,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson434" />
|-
! scope="row" | 1971<ref name="Dirks (2010)" />
| ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $116,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}} {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="Atlantic Monthly (1973)">{{cite book |title=The Atlantic Monthly |year=1973 |volume=231 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=38wmAQAAIAAJ&q=%22As+of+the+end+of+1971,+GWTW+stood+as+the+all-time+money-drawing+movie,+with+a+take+of+$116+million%22 2] |quote=As of the end of 1971, GWTW stood as the all-time money-drawing movie, with a take of $116&nbsp;million, and, with this year's reissues, it should continue to run ahead of the second place contender and all-time ''kaffee-mit-schlag'' spectacle.|title-link=The Atlantic Monthly}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1972<ref name="Dirks (2010)" />
| ''[[The Godfather]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $127,600,000–142,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="BlockWilson527" /><ref group="#">{{cite book |title=New Times |volume=2 |year=1974 |quote=Coppola is King Midas, the most individually powerful U.S. filmmaker ." His credits include directing the first ''Godfather'' (worldwide earnings: $142&nbsp;million, ahead of ''Gone with the Wind'', ''The Sound of Music'' and ''The Exorcist'')...|title-link=New Times (magazine)}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=YSBXAAAAMAAJ&q=142+million Online copy] at [[Google Books]])</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1976<ref>{{cite book |last=Dick |first=Bernard F. |title=City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-8131-2016-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=e5gzKoozo6sC&pg=PA168 168] |quote=''Jaws'' (1975) saved the day, grossing $104&nbsp;million domestically and $132&nbsp;million worldwide by January 1976.}}</ref><ref name="jaws">{{cite news |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |work=[[The Victoria Advocate]] |title=Director of 'Jaws II' Abandons His 'Ship' |date=July 5, 1977 |page=[https://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=xy4PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WYUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4243,812320 6B]}}</ref>
| ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $193,700,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="jaws">{{cite news |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |work=[[The Victoria Advocate]] |title=Director of 'Jaws II' Abandons His 'Ship' |date=July 5, 1977 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xy4PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WYUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4243,812320 6B]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1978<ref>{{cite news |author=New York (AP) |work=[[The StarPhoenix]] |title=Scariness of Jaws 2 unknown quantity |date=May 26, 1978 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TpZjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dnoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5679,3145694 21]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Fenner |first=Pat C. |work=[[Evening Independent]] |title=Independent Action |date=January 16, 1978 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JgAMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mVgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6721,49636 11-A]}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $410,000,000/$268,500,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="star-wars first-run">{{cite news |last=Harmetz |first=Aljean |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=The Saga Beyond 'Star Wars' |date=May 18, 1980 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0617FE345D17728DDDA10994DD405B8084F1D3 |access-date=January 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520094753/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0617FE345D17728DDDA10994DD405B8084F1D3 |archive-date=May 20, 2013 |quote="Star Wars" has brought 20th Century-Fox approximately $250&nbsp;million in film rentals ... "Star Wars" grossed $410&nbsp;million, and his share was enough to allow him to finance its sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back," himself.}}</ref><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson527" />
|-
! scope="row" | ''1982''
| style="text-align:right;" | $530,000,000 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="et first-run" />
|-
! scope="row" | 1983<ref name="Cook (2002)">{{cite book |last=Cook |first=David A. |title=Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970–1979 |volume=9 of History of the American Cinema, Charles Harpole |year=2002 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0-520-23265-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=HVygqYMVP2wC&pg=PA50 50] |quote=The industry was stunned when ''Star Wars'' earned nearly $3&nbsp;million in its first week and by the end of August had grossed $100&nbsp;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&nbsp;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.}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $619,000,000–664,000,000
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="et first-run" /><ref group="#" name="BlockWilson609" />
|-
! scope="row" | ''1993''
| style="text-align:right;" | $701,000,000 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (1993)&nbsp;– Miscellaneous notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80025/jurassic-park#notes |access-date=July 9, 2011}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1993<ref name="Dirks (2010)" />
| ''[[Jurassic Park]]''
| align="right" | $912,667,947
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="jp" />
|-
! scope="row" | 1998<ref name="BBC (1998)">{{cite news |title=''Titanic'' sinks competitors without a trace |work=[[BBC News]] |publisher=BBC |date=February 25, 1998 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/59913.stm |access-date=August 13, 2010}}</ref>
| ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $1,843,373,318
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="titanic" />
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2010<ref name="Cieply (2010)">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/movies/awardsseason/27record.html |title=He Doth Surpass Himself: 'Avatar' Outperforms 'Titanic' |work=[[The New York Times]] |last=Cieply |first=Michael |date=January 26, 2010 |access-date=January 27, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Segers (2010)">{{cite news |first=Frank |last=Segers |title='Avatar' breaks 'Titanic' worldwide record |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=January 25, 2010 |access-date=December 4, 2010 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/avatar-breaks-titanic-worldwide-record-19914}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:2743577587}}}}
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="avatar" />
|-
| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:2743577587+44838548}}}} {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
|-
! scope="row" |2019<ref>{{cite web |first=Sarah |last=Whitten |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/21/avengers-endgame-is-the-highest-grossing-film-of-all-time.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721154219/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/21/avengers-endgame-is-the-highest-grossing-film-of-all-time.html |title='Avengers: Endgame' is now the highest-grossing film of all time, dethroning 'Avatar' |website=[[CNBC]] |date=July 21, 2019|archive-date=July 21, 2019 |access-date=July 21, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Shawn |last=Robbins |title=Avengers: Endgame Surpasses Avatar As #1 Global Release of All Time on Saturday |date=July 20, 2019 |website=[[BoxOffice (magazine)|BoxOffice]] |url=https://www.boxofficepro.com/breaking-avengers-endgame-surpasses-avatar-as-1-global-release-of-all-time/ |access-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724232409/https://www.boxofficepro.com/breaking-avengers-endgame-surpasses-avatar-as-1-global-release-of-all-time/ |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $2,797,501,328
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="endgame" group="#" />
|-
! scope="row" |2021<ref>{{cite web |first=Nancy |last=Tartaglione |title='Avatar' Overtakes 'Avengers: Endgame' As All-Time Highest-Grossing Film At Global Box Office; China Reissue Growing |date=March 13, 2021 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/avatar-overtakes-avengers-endgame-highest-grossing-film-all-time-worldwide-box-office-china-james-cameron-disney-1234713788/ |access-date=March 13, 2021}}</ref>
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
| style="text-align:right;" | $2,847,397,339 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |<ref group="#" name="avatar" />
|-
! scope="row" |''2025''
| style="text-align:right;" | $2,923,710,708 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}
|}
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{{note label|Rentals2|R||Distributor rental.}}

{{note label|Reissue|{{‡|alt=Includes re-releases}}||Includes revenue from re-releases. If a film increased its gross through re-releases while holding the record, the year in which it recorded its highest gross is also noted in italics.}}
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== Highest-grossing franchises and film series ==
{{See also|List of highest-grossing media franchises}}
Prior to 2000, only seven [[film series]] had grossed over $1&nbsp;billion at the box office: ''[[List of James Bond films|James Bond]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Box Office History for James Bond Movies |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/JamesBond.php |access-date=January 4, 2012}}</ref> ''[[List of Star Wars films|Star Wars]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Box Office History for Star Wars Movies |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/StarWars.php |access-date=January 4, 2012}}</ref> ''[[Indiana Jones]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Indiana Jones – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=indianajones.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> ''[[Rocky (film series)|Rocky]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Dave |date=November 16, 2003 |title=Bayonne Bleeder Throws a Punch at the Italian Stallion |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/sports/othersports/16ANDE.html |access-date=January 4, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schneiderman |first=R. M. |date=August 10, 2006 |title=Stallone Settles With The 'Real' Rocky |work=[[Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/10/rocky-stallone-settlement-cx_rs_0810autofacescan04.html |access-date=January 4, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Poller |first=Kenneth G. |date=November 12, 2003 |title=Charles Wepner v. Sylvester Stallone |publisher=Mango & Iacoviello |url=http://www.mandilaw.com/files/complaint.pdf |access-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201713/http://www.mandilaw.com/files/complaint.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Batman in film|Batman]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Batman – Worldwide (Unadjusted) & Batman: Mask of the Phantasm |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=batman.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> ''[[Jurassic Park (franchise)|Jurassic Park]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Jurassic Park – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=jurassicpark.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> and ''[[List of Star Trek films|Star Trek]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Box Office History for Star Trek Movies |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/StarTrek.php |access-date=January 4, 2012}}</ref> Since the turn of the century, that number has increased to over a hundred.<ref name="Numbers franchises">{{cite web |title=Movie Franchises |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchises/sort/World#franchise_overview=l100:od4 |access-date=December 11, 2024 |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |publisher=Nash Information Services}}</ref> This is partly due to inflation and market growth, but it is also due to Hollywood's adoption of the [[media franchise|franchise]] model: films that have built-in brand recognition such as being based on a well-known literary source or an established character. The methodology is based on the concept that films associated with things audiences are already familiar with can be more effectively marketed to them, and as such are known as "pre-sold" films within the industry.<ref name="economist">{{Cite news |author=The Economist online |date=July 11, 2011 |title=Pottering on, and on |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/film-franchises |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711204558/https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/film-franchises |archive-date=July 11, 2011}}</ref>

A franchise is typically defined to be at least two works derived from a common [[intellectual property]]. Traditionally, the work has a tautological relationship with the property, but this is not a prerequisite. An enduring staple of the franchise model is the concept of the ''[[Crossover (fiction)|crossover]]'', which can be defined as "a story in which characters or concepts from two or more discrete texts or series of texts meet".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Jess |last=Nevins |date=August 23, 2011 |title=A Brief History of the Crossover |work=[[io9]] |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/5833704/a-brief-history-of-the-crossover |access-date=July 19, 2018}}</ref> A consequence of a crossover is that an intellectual property may be utilized by more than one franchise. For example, ''[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]]'' belongs to not only the [[Batman]] and [[Superman]] franchises, but also to the [[DC Extended Universe]], which is a ''[[shared universe]]''. A shared universe is a particular type of crossover where a number of characters from a wide range of fictional works wind up sharing a fictional world.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Jess |last=Nevins |date=September 9, 2011 |title=The First Shared Universes |work=[[io9]] |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/5838896/the-first-shared-universes |access-date=July 19, 2018}}</ref> The most successful shared universe in the medium of film is the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], a crossover between multiple superhero properties owned by [[Marvel Comics]]. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is also the highest-grossing franchise, amassing over $32&nbsp;billion at the box office.

The ''Spider-Man'' films are the highest-grossing series based on a single property, earning over $11&nbsp;billion at the box office (although the [[Eon Productions|Eon]] ''James Bond'' films have earned over $19&nbsp;billion in total when adjusted to current prices).{{efn|Prior to the release of ''Spectre'' in 2015, the James Bond series had grossed approximately $17.7&nbsp;billion at 2015 prices;<ref>{{cite news |title=How 'Spectre' May Stack Up With 'Thunderball' as a James Bond Blockbuster |date=November 6, 2015 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/05/business/media/james-bond-films-most-popular-box-office.html |access-date=January 7, 2018}}</ref> after factoring in earnings of over $1.6 billion from ''Spectre'' and ''No Time to Die'', the series has earned at least $19.3&nbsp;billion adjusted for inflation.}} The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had the most films gross over $1&nbsp;billion, with eleven. The four ''[[Avengers (comics) in other media#Live action|Avengers]]'' films, the two ''[[Frozen (franchise)|Frozen]]'' films, and the two ''[[Avatar (franchise)|Avatar]]'' films are the only franchises where each installment has grossed over $1&nbsp;billion, although the ''[[Black Panther (film series)|Black Panther]]'' and ''[[Inside Out (franchise)|Inside Out]]'' series<!-- But not The Lion King; while the 1994 original and 2019 remake averaged more than $1 billion, the overall average is below $1 billion as The Lion King 1½ had a brief theatrical run in South Korea in 2010. See https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0318403/ --> and the ''[[Fengshen Cinematic Universe]]''{{Efn|Consisting of ''[[Ne Zha (2019 film)|Ne Zha]]'' (2019), ''[[Jiang Ziya (film)|Jiang Ziya]]'' (2020), and ''[[Ne Zha 2]]'' (2025).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fengshen Cinematic Universe Franchise Box Office History |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Fengshen-Cinematic-Universe |access-date=October 12, 2025 |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]}}</ref>}} have averaged over $1&nbsp;billion per film.
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{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=1|title=''[[List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films|Marvel Cinematic Universe]]''{{ref |Shared|S}} †|total={{#expr:<!--INFINITY SAGA-->22589262908+<!--PHASE FOUR-->5712571367+<!--PHASE FIVE-->476071180+845555777+206136825+1338073645+415101577+382436917+<!--PHASE SIX--><!--F4-->521858728}}|number=37|highest=Avengers: Endgame|gross=2797501328|release=y
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|sub=y|title=''The Infinity Saga''|total={{#expr:13506562880+5269487547+3813212481}}|number=23|highest=Avengers: Endgame|gross=2797501328
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Three|Phase Three]]''|number=11|highest=Avengers: Endgame|gross=2797501328
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|[[Avengers: Endgame]] ''(2019)''
|2797501328
|[[Avengers: Infinity War]] ''(2018)''
|2048359754
|[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]] ''(2018)''
|1347280838
|[[Captain America: Civil War]] ''(2016)''
|1153337496
|[[Spider-Man: Far From Home]] ''(2019)''
|1132679685
|[[Captain Marvel (film)|Captain Marvel]] ''(2019)''
|1128274794
|[[Spider-Man: Homecoming]] ''(2017)''
|880918840
|[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2]] ''(2017)''
|863756051
|[[Thor: Ragnarok]] ''(2017)''
|853983879
|[[Doctor Strange (2016 film)|Doctor Strange]] ''(2016)''
|677796076
|[[Ant-Man and the Wasp]] ''(2018)''
|622674139
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Two|Phase Two]]''|number=6|highest=Avengers: Age of Ultron|gross=1402809540
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Avengers: Age of Ultron]] ''(2015)''
|1402809540
|[[Iron Man 3]] ''(2013)''
|1214811252
|[[Guardians of the Galaxy (film)|Guardians of the Galaxy]] ''(2014)''
|773350147
|[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]] ''(2014)''
|714421503
|[[Thor: The Dark World]] ''(2013)''
|644783140
|[[Ant-Man (film)|Ant-Man]] ''(2015)''
|519311965
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One|Phase One]]''|number=6|highest=The Avengers|gross=1518815515
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]] ''(2012)''
|1518815515
|[[Iron Man 2]] ''(2010)''
|623933331
|[[Iron Man (2008 film)|Iron Man]] ''(2008)''
|585796247
|[[Thor (film)|Thor]] ''(2011)''
|449326618
|[[Captain America: The First Avenger]] ''(2011)''
|370569774
|[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]] ''(2008)''
|264770996
}}
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|sub=y|title=''The Multiverse Saga'' †|total={{#expr:<!--PHASE FOUR-->379751655+432243292+402064899+1922598800+955775804+760928081+859208836+<!--PHASE FIVE-->476071180+845555777+206136825+1338073645+415101577+382436917+<!--PHASE SIX--><!--F4-->521858728}}|number=14|highest=Spider-Man: No Way Home|gross=1922598800|release=y
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four|Phase Four]]''|number=7|highest=Spider-Man: No Way Home|gross=1922598800
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Spider-Man: No Way Home]] ''(2021)''
|1922598800
|[[Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness]] ''(2022)''
|955775804
|[[Black Panther: Wakanda Forever]] ''(2022)''
|859208836
|[[Thor: Love and Thunder]] ''(2022)''
|760928081
|[[Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings]] ''(2021)''
|432243292
|[[Eternals (film)|Eternals]] ''(2021)''
|402064899
|[[Black Widow (2021 film)|Black Widow]] ''(2021)''
|379751655
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Five|Phase Five]]''|number=6|highest=Deadpool & Wolverine|gross=1338073645
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Deadpool & Wolverine]] ''(2024)''
|1338073645
|[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3]] ''(2023)''
|845555777
|[[Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania]] ''(2023)''
|476071180
|[[Captain America: Brave New World]] ''(2025)''
|415101577
|[[Thunderbolts*]] ''(2025)''
|382436917
|[[The Marvels]] ''(2023)''
|206136825
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Six|Phase Six]]'' †|number=1|highest=The Fantastic Four: First Steps|gross=521858728|release=01
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|[[The Fantastic Four: First Steps]] ''(2025)'' †<!-- DO NOT REMOVE THE HIGHLIGHTING. The accompanying source (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt10676052/) clearly shows First Steps is still playing in United Arab Emirates as of November 9, 2025. The purpose of the highlighting is to let readers know the total has not been finalised and helps editors keep track of updating the figures. Premature removal of the highlighting is NOT HELPFUL. -->
|521858728
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{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=2|title=[[Spider-Man in film|Spider-Man]]|total={{#expr:<!--RAIMI-->{{#expr:825776725+789728142+895735062}}+<!--WEBB-->{{#expr:758682352+709734012}}+<!--MCU-->{{#expr:880918840+1132679685+1922598800}}+<!--SSU-->{{#expr:856085151+506813864+167460961+100498764+478937618+62076533}}+<!--SPIDER-VERSE-->{{#expr:375540831+690824738}}}}|number=16|highest=No Way Home|gross=1922598800
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Spider-Man (2017 film series)|Marvel Cinematic Universe]]''|number=3|highest=No Way Home|gross=1922598800
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Spider-Man: No Way Home|No Way Home]] ''(2021)''
|1922598800
|[[Spider-Man: Far From Home|Far From Home]] ''(2019)''
|1132679685
|[[Spider-Man: Homecoming|Homecoming]] ''(2017)''
|880918840
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Spider-Man (2002 film series)|Raimi series]]''|number=3|highest=Spider-Man 3|gross=895735062
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Spider-Man 3]] ''(2007)''
|895735062
|[[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]] ''(2002)''
|825776725
|[[Spider-Man 2]] ''(2004)''
|789728142
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Sony's Spider-Man Universe]]''|number=6|highest=Venom|gross=856085151
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Venom (2018 film)|Venom]] ''(2018)''
|856085151
|[[Venom: Let There Be Carnage]] ''(2021)''
|506813864
|[[Venom: The Last Dance]] ''(2024)''
|478937618
|[[Morbius (film)|Morbius]] ''(2022)''
|167460961
|[[Madame Web (film)|Madame Web]] ''(2024)''
|100498764
|[[Kraven the Hunter (film)|Kraven the Hunter]] ''(2024)''
|62076533
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[The Amazing Spider-Man (film series)|Webb series]]''|number=2|highest=The Amazing Spider-Man|gross=758682352
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Amazing Spider-Man (film)|The Amazing Spider-Man]] ''(2012)''
|758682352
|[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]] ''(2014)''
|709734012
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Spider-Verse (franchise)|Spider-Verse]]''|number=2|highest=Across the Spider-Verse|gross=690824738
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse|Across the Spider-Verse]] ''(2023)''
|690824738
|[[Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse|Into the Spider-Verse]] ''(2018)''
|375540831
}}
}}
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| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=3|title=[[Star Wars]]|total={{#expr:<!--ORIGINAL-->{{#expr:775398507+550016086+482466382}}+<!--PREQUELS-->{{#expr:1046515409+649398328+905595947}}+<!--CLONE WARS-->68282844+<!--SEQUELS-->{{#expr:2068223624+1332539889+1074144248}}+<!--STANDALONE-->{{#expr:1057420387+392924807}}}}|number=12|highest=The Force Awakens|gross=2068223624
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|sub=y|title=''Skywalker Saga''|total={{#expr:<!--ORIGINAL-->{{#expr:775398507+550016086+482466382}}+<!--PREQUELS-->{{#expr:1046515409+649398328+905595947}}+<!--SEQUELS-->{{#expr:2068223624+1332539889+1074144248}}}}|number=9|highest=The Force Awakens|gross=2068223624
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Star Wars sequel trilogy|Sequel trilogy]]''|number=3|highest=The Force Awakens|gross=2068223624
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Star Wars: The Force Awakens|VII – The Force Awakens]] ''(2015)''
|2068223624
|[[Star Wars: The Last Jedi|VIII – The Last Jedi]] ''(2017)''
|1332539889
|[[Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker|IX – The Rise of Skywalker]] ''(2019)''
|1074144248
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Star Wars prequel trilogy|Prequel trilogy]]''|number=3|highest=The Phantom Menace|gross=1046515409
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace|I – The Phantom Menace]] ''(1999)''
|1046515409
|[[Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith|III – Revenge of the Sith]] ''(2005)''
|905595947
|[[Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones|II – Attack of the Clones]] ''(2002)''
|649398328
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Star Wars original trilogy|Original trilogy]]''|number=3|highest=A New Hope|gross=775398507
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Star Wars (film)|IV – A New Hope]] ''(1977)''
|775398507
|[[The Empire Strikes Back|V – The Empire Strikes Back]] ''(1980)''
|550016086
|[[Return of the Jedi|VI – Return of the Jedi]] ''(1983)''
|482466382
}}
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Star Wars#Standalone films|Standalone films]]''|number=2|highest=Rogue One|gross=1057420387
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Rogue One]] ''(2016)''
|1057420387
|[[Solo: A Star Wars Story|Solo]] ''(2018)''
|392924807
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)|The Clone Wars]] ''(2008)''|total=68282844}}
}}
|-
|colspan="6"|
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=4|title=''[[Wizarding World]]''|total={{#expr:<!--HARRY POTTER-->{{#expr:1009046830+880684614+797568607+896815106+942201710+934483039+977070383+1342139727}}+<!--FANTASTIC BEASTS-->{{#expr:814038508+654855901+407150844}}}}|number=11|highest=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2|gross=1342139727
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter ''series'']]|number=8|highest=Deathly Hallows – Part 2|gross=1342139727
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2|Deathly Hallows – Part 2]] ''(2011)''
|1342139727
|[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Philosopher's Stone]] ''(2001)''
|1009046830
|[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1|Deathly Hallows – Part 1]] ''(2010)''
|977070383
|[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Order of the Phoenix]] ''(2007)''
|942201710
|[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|Half-Blood Prince]] ''(2009)''
|934483039
|[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Goblet of Fire]] ''(2005)''
|896815106
|[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Chamber of Secrets]] ''(2002)''
|880684614
|[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Prisoner of Azkaban]] ''(2004)''
|797568607
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[Fantastic Beasts (film series)|Fantastic Beasts ''series'']]|number=3|highest=Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them|gross=814038508
<!--- GROSSES --->
|[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]] ''(2016)''
|814038508
|[[Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald|The Crimes of Grindelwald]] ''(2018)''
|654855901
|[[Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore|The Secrets of Dumbledore]] ''(2022)''
|407150844
}}
}}
|-
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<!--BROSNAN-->{{#expr:352194034+333011068+361832400+431971116}}+
<!--CRAIG-->{{#expr:616505162+589580482+1108594137+880705312+<!-- CR SECRET CINEMA -->1119126+774153007}}+
<!--CR67-->41744718+<!--NSNA-->160000000}}
|number=27|highest=Skyfall|gross=1108594137
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|sub=y|title=''[[Eon Productions#Bond films|Eon series]]''|total={{#expr:
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<!--LAZENBY-->64600000+
<!--MOORE-->{{#expr:126400000+98500000+185400000+210300000+194900000+183700000+152400000}}+
<!--DALTON-->{{#expr:191200000+156200000}}+
<!--BROSNAN-->{{#expr:352194034+333011068+361832400+431971116}}+
<!--CRAIG-->{{#expr:616505162+589580482+1108594137+880705312+<!-- CR SECRET CINEMA -->1119126+774153007}}}}
|number=25|highest=Skyfall|gross=1108594137
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[James Bond filmography#Daniel Craig: 2005–present|Daniel Craig series]]''|number=5|highest=Skyfall|gross=1108594137
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Skyfall]] ''(2012)''
|1108594137
|[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]] ''(2015)''
|880705312
|[[No Time to Die]] ''(2021)''
|774153007
|[[Casino Royale (2006 film)|Casino Royale]] ''(2006)''
|616505162
|[[Quantum of Solace]] ''(2008)''
|589580482
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[James Bond filmography#Pierce Brosnan: 1995–2004|Pierce Brosnan series]]''|number=4|highest=Die Another Day|gross=431971116
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Die Another Day]] ''(2002)''
|431971116
|[[The World Is Not Enough]] ''(1999)''
|361832400
|[[GoldenEye]] ''(1995)''
|352194034
|[[Tomorrow Never Dies]] ''(1997)''
|333011068
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[James Bond filmography#Roger Moore: 1973–85|Roger Moore series]]''|number=7|highest=Moonraker|gross=210300000
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Moonraker (film)|Moonraker]] ''(1979)''
|210300000
|[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]] ''(1981)''
|194900000
|[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]] ''(1977)''
|185400000
|[[Octopussy]] ''(1983)''
|183700000
|[[A View to a Kill]] ''(1985)''
|152400000
|[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]] ''(1973)''
|126400000
|[[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|The Man with the Golden Gun]] ''(1974)''
|98500000
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[James Bond filmography#Sean Connery: 1962–67, 71 and 83|Sean Connery series]]''|number=6|highest=Thunderball|gross=141200000
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]] ''(1965)''
|141200000
|[[Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger]] ''(1964)''
|124900000
|[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]] ''(1971)''
|116000000
|[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]] ''(1967)''
|101000000
|[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]] ''(1963)''
|78900000
|[[Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]] ''(1962)''
|59500000
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[James Bond filmography#Timothy Dalton: 1986–94|Timothy Dalton series]]''|number=2|highest=The Living Daylights|gross=191200000
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Living Daylights]] ''(1987)''
|191200000
|[[Licence to Kill]] ''(1989)''
|156200000
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[James Bond filmography#George Lazenby: 1969|George Lazenby series]]''|number=1|highest=On Her Majesty's Secret Service|gross=64600000
|[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]] ''(1969)''
|64600000
}}
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Never Say Never Again]] ''(1983)''|total=160000000}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]] ''(1967)''|total=41744718}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|rank=6|title=[[Avengers (film series)|Avengers]]|number=4|highest=Endgame|gross=2797501328
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Avengers: Endgame|Endgame]] ''(2019)''
|2797501328
|[[Avengers: Infinity War|Infinity War]] ''(2018)''
|2048359754
|[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]] ''(2012)''
|1518815515
|[[Avengers: Age of Ultron|Age of Ultron]] ''(2015)''
|1402809540
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=7|title=[[X-Men (film series)|X-Men]]|total={{#expr:<!--XMEN-->{{#expr:296339528+407711549+460435291+352616690+746045700+543934105+252442974}}+<!--WOLVERINE-->{{#expr:373062864+414828246+619021436}}+<!--NEW MUTANTS-->{{#expr:49169594}}+<!--DEADPOOL-->{{#expr:782612155+785896609+1338073645}}}}|number=14|highest=Deadpool & Wolverine|gross=1338073645
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''Main series''|number=7|highest=Days of Future Past|gross=746045700
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[X-Men: Days of Future Past|Days of Future Past]] ''(2014)''
|746045700
|[[X-Men: Apocalypse|Apocalypse]] ''(2016)''
|543934105
|[[X-Men: The Last Stand|The Last Stand]] ''(2006)''
|460435291
|[[X2 (film)|X2]] ''(2003)''
|407711549
|[[X-Men: First Class|First Class]] ''(2011)''
|352616690
|[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]] ''(2000)''
|296339528
|[[Dark Phoenix (film)|Dark Phoenix]] ''(2019)''
|252442974
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[Deadpool (film series)|Deadpool ''series'']]|number=3|highest=Deadpool & Wolverine|gross=1338073645
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Deadpool & Wolverine]] ''(2024)''
|1338073645
|[[Deadpool 2]] ''(2018)''
|785896609
|[[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]] ''(2016)''
|782612155
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[Wolverine (film series)|Wolverine ''series'']]|number=3|highest=Logan|gross=619021436
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Logan (film)|Logan]] ''(2017)''
|619021436
|[[The Wolverine (film)|The Wolverine]] ''(2013)''
|414828246
|[[X-Men Origins: Wolverine|Origins: Wolverine]] ''(2009)''
|373062864
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[The New Mutants (film)|The New Mutants]] ''(2020)''|total=49169594}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=8|title=[[Fast & Furious]]|total={{#expr:<!--MAIN SERIES-->{{#expr:207517509+236350661+158964610+360366870+626137675+788680968+1515341399+1238764765+726229501+714375114}}+<!--HOBBS&SHAW-->760732926}}|number=11|highest=Furious 7|gross=1515341399
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''The Fast Saga''|number=10|highest=Furious 7|gross=1515341399
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Furious 7]] ''(2015)''
|1515341399
|[[The Fate of the Furious]] ''(2017)''{{ref|Fast 8|F8}}
|<!-- DO NOT CHANGE GROSS WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT ON TALK PAGE FIRST. SEE ATTACHED NOTE FOR REASONS. -->1238764765
|[[Fast & Furious 6]] ''(2013)''
|788680968
|[[F9 (film)|F9]] ''(2021)''
|726229501
|[[Fast X]] ''(2023)''
|714375114
|[[Fast Five]] ''(2011)''
|626137675
|[[Fast & Furious (2009 film)|Fast & Furious]] ''(2009)''
|360366870
|[[2 Fast 2 Furious]] ''(2003)''
|236350661
|[[The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)|The Fast and the Furious]] ''(2001)''
|207517509
|[[The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift|Tokyo Drift]] ''(2006)''
|158964610
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Hobbs & Shaw]] ''(2019)''|total=760732926}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|rank=9|title=''[[DC Extended Universe]]''{{ref |Shared|S}}|number=15|highest=Aquaman|gross=1148528393
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Aquaman (film)|Aquaman]] ''(2018)''
|1148528393
|[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]] ''(2016)''
|873637528
|[[Wonder Woman (2017 film)|Wonder Woman]] ''(2017)''
|822854286
|[[Suicide Squad (2016 film)|Suicide Squad]] ''(2016)''
|746846894
|[[Man of Steel (film)|Man of Steel]] ''(2013)''
|668045518
|[[Justice League (film)|Justice League]] ''(2017)''
|657926987
|[[Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom]] ''(2023)''
|439381226
|[[Black Adam (film)|Black Adam]] ''(2022)''
|393452111
|[[Shazam! (film)|Shazam!]] ''(2019)''
|365971656
|[[The Flash (film)|The Flash]] ''(2023)''
|271433313
|[[Birds of Prey (2020 film)|Birds of Prey]] ''(2020)''
|205358461
|[[Wonder Woman 1984]] ''(2020)''
|169601036
|[[The Suicide Squad (film)|The Suicide Squad]] ''(2021)''
|168717425
|[[Shazam! Fury of the Gods]] ''(2023)''
|134138006
|[[Blue Beetle (film)|Blue Beetle]] ''(2023)''
|130788072
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=10|title=[[Batman in film|Batman]]|total={{#expr:<!--TV SERIES-->{{#expr:3900000+57343}}+<!--BURTON/SCHU-->{{#expr:411508343+266822354+336529144+238207122+<!--FATHOM-->{{#expr:48482+10057+38014+373+28597+196}}+<!--CATWOMAN-->82102379}}+<!--MASK-->5617391+<!--NOLAN-->{{#expr:373672993+1007336937+1081169825}}+<!--BvS-->873637528+<!--ANIMATED-->{{#expr:4462034+39091}}+<!--LEGO-->311950384+<!--JOKER-->{{#expr:1074458282+207500287}}+<!--THEBATMAN-->772319315}}|number=18|highest=The Dark Knight Rises|gross=1081169825
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[The Dark Knight trilogy|The Dark Knight ''trilogy'']]|number=3|highest=The Dark Knight Rises|gross=1081169825
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Dark Knight Rises]] ''(2012)''
|1081169825
|[[The Dark Knight]] ''(2008)''
|1007336937
|[[Batman Begins]] ''(2005)''
|373672993
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Batman in film#Joker films|Joker series]]''|number=2|highest=Joker|gross=1074458282
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]] ''(2019)''
|1074458282
|[[Joker: Folie à Deux|Folie à Deux]] ''(2024)''
|207500287
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Batman (1989 film series)|Burton/Schumacher series]]''|number=4|highest=Batman|gross={{#expr:411508343+<!-- FATHOM UK -->48482}}
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Batman (1989 film)|Batman]] ''(1989)''
|{{#expr:411508343+<!-- FATHOM UK (US gross is included in total) -->48482}}
|[[Batman Forever]] ''(1995)''
|{{#expr:336529144+<!-- FATHOM -->38014+373}}
|[[Batman Returns]] ''(1992)''
|{{#expr:266822354+<!-- FATHOM UK (US gross is included in total)-->10057}}
|[[Batman & Robin (film)|Batman & Robin]] ''(1997)''
|{{#expr:238207122+<!-- FATHOM -->28597+196}}
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]] ''(2016)''|total=873637528}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[The Batman (film)|The Batman]] ''(2022)''|total=772319315}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[The Lego Batman Movie]] ''(2017)''|total=311950384}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]] ''(2004)''|total=82102379}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm|Mask of the Phantasm]] ''(1993)''|total=5617391}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[DC Universe Animated Original Movies]]''|number=2|highest=The Killing Joke|gross=4462034
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Batman: The Killing Joke (film)|The Killing Joke]] ''(2016)''
|4462034
|[[Batman and Harley Quinn]] ''(2017)''
|39091
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''[[Batman (TV series)|1960s TV series]]''|number=2|highest=Batman: The Movie|gross=3900000
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Batman (1966 film)|Batman: The Movie]] ''(1966)''{{ref |USgross3|*}}{{ref |Rentals3|R}}
|3900000
|[[Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders|Return of the Caped Crusaders]] ''(2016)''
|57343
}}
}}
|-
|colspan="6"|
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=11|title=[[Jurassic Park (franchise)|Jurassic Park]] †|total={{#expr:<!--JURASSIC PARK TRILOGY-->{{#expr:1037535230+618638999+368780809}}+<!--JURASSIC WORLD SERIES-->{{#expr:1671537444+1308473425+1004004592+<!--REBIRTH-->868823474}}}}|number=7|highest=Jurassic World|gross=1671537444|release=y
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=Jurassic World ''series'' †|number=4|highest=Jurassic World|gross=1671537444|release=04
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Jurassic World]] ''(2015)''
|1671537444
|[[Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom|Fallen Kingdom]] ''(2018)''
|1308473425
|[[Jurassic World Dominion|Dominion]] ''(2022)''
|1004004592
|[[Jurassic World Rebirth|Rebirth]] ''(2025)'' †<!-- DO NOT REMOVE THE HIGHLIGHTING. The accompanying source (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt31036941/) clearly shows Rebirth is still playing in several countries as of November 2025. The purpose of the highlighting is to let readers know the total has not been finalised and helps editors keep track of updating the figures. Premature removal of the highlighting is NOT HELPFUL. -->
|868823474
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=Jurassic Park ''trilogy''|number=3|highest=Jurassic Park|gross=1037535230
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Jurassic Park]] ''(1993)''
|1037535230
|[[The Lost World: Jurassic Park|The Lost World]] ''(1997)''
|618638999
|[[Jurassic Park III]] ''(2001)''
|368780809
}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=12|title=[[Middle-earth in motion pictures|Middle-earth]]|total={{#expr:<!--LOTR TRILOGY-->{{#expr:898748756+948945489+1147997407}}+<!--HOBBIT TRILOGY-->{{#expr:1017030651+959027992+956019788}}+<!--1978-->30471420+<!--ROHIRRIM-->20658572}}|number=8|highest=The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|gross=1147997407
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|sub=y|title=''[[Middle-earth in film#Warner Bros.|Jackson series]]''|total={{#expr:<!--LOTR TRILOGY-->{{#expr:898748756+948945489+1147997407}}+<!--HOBBIT TRILOGY-->{{#expr:1017030651+959027992+956019788}}}}|number=6|highest=The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|gross=1147997407
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]|number=3|highest=The Return of the King|gross=1147997407
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|The Return of the King]] ''(2003)''
|1147997407
|[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers|The Two Towers]] ''(2002)''
|948945489
|[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring|The Fellowship of the Ring]] ''(2001)''
|898748756
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=[[The Hobbit (film series)|The Hobbit]]|number=3|highest=An Unexpected Journey|gross=1017030651
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey|An Unexpected Journey]] ''(2012)''
|1017030651
|[[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug|The Desolation of Smaug]] ''(2013)''
|959027992
|[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies|The Battle of the Five Armies]] ''(2014)''
|956019788
}}
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|The Lord of the Rings]] ''(1978)''|total=30471420}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim|The War of the Rohirrim]] ''(2024)''|total=20658572}}
}}
|-
|colspan="6"|
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=13|title=[[Despicable Me]]|total={{#expr:<!--DESPICABLE ME-->{{#expr:543283815+970766005+1034800131+972964428}}+<!--MINIONS-->{{#expr:1159444662+940482695}}}}|number=6|highest=Minions|gross=1159444662
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''Main series''|number=4|highest=Despicable Me 3|gross=1034800131
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Despicable Me 3]] ''(2017)''
|1034800131
|[[Despicable Me 4]] ''(2024)''
|972964428
|[[Despicable Me 2]] ''(2013)''
|970766005
|[[Despicable Me (film)|Despicable Me]] ''(2010)''
|543283815
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=Minions ''series''|number=2|highest=Minions|gross=1159444662
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Minions (film)|Minions]] ''(2015)''
|1159444662
|[[Minions: The Rise of Gru|The Rise of Gru]] ''(2022)''
|940482695
}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=14|title=[[Transformers (film series)|Transformers]]|total={{#expr:<!--MAIN-->{{#expr:709709780+836303693+1123794079+1104054072+605425157+467989645+441656550+129408392}}+<!--1986-->5860601}}|number=9|highest=Dark of the Moon|gross=1123794079
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''Main series''|number=8|highest=Dark of the Moon|gross=1123794079
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon|Dark of the Moon]] ''(2011)''
|1123794079
|[[Transformers: Age of Extinction|Age of Extinction]] ''(2014)''
|1104054072
|[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|Revenge of the Fallen]] ''(2009)''
|836303693
|[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]] ''(2007)''
|709709780
|[[Transformers: The Last Knight|The Last Knight]] ''(2017)''
|605425157
|[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]] ''(2018)''
|467989645
|[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts|Rise of the Beasts]] ''(2023)''
|441656550
|[[Transformers One|One]] ''(2024)''
|129408392
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=film|sub=y|title=[[The Transformers: The Movie]] ''(1986)''|total=5860601}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|rank=15|title=[[Avatar (franchise)|Avatar]]|number=2|highest=Avatar|gross=2923710708
|[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]] ''(2009)''
<!--GROSSES-->
|2923710708
|[[Avatar: The Way of Water|The Way of Water]] ''(2022)''
|2343096253
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|rank=16|title=[[Mission: Impossible (film series)|Mission: Impossible]]|number=8|highest=Fallout|gross=791657398
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Mission: Impossible – Fallout|Fallout]] ''(2018)''
|791657398
|[[Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol|Ghost Protocol]] ''(2011)''
|694713380
|[[Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation|Rogue Nation]] ''(2015)''
|682716636
|[[Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning|The Final Reckoning]] ''(2025)''
|598767057
|[[Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One|Dead Reckoning]] ''(2023)''
|571125435
|[[Mission: Impossible 2]] ''(2000)''
|546388108
|[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]] ''(1996)''
|457696391
|[[Mission: Impossible III]] ''(2006)''
|398479497
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|rank=17|title=[[Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)|Pirates of the Caribbean]]|number=5|highest=Dead Man's Chest|gross=1066179747
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest|Dead Man's Chest]] ''(2006)''
|1066179747
|[[Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides|On Stranger Tides]] ''(2011)''
|1045713802
|[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End|At World's End]] ''(2007)''
|960996492
|[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales|Dead Men Tell No Tales]] ''(2017)''
|794861794
|[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl|The Curse of the Black Pearl]] ''(2003)''
|654264015
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=18|title=[[Shrek (franchise)|Shrek]]|total={{#expr:<!--SHREK-->{{#expr:484409218+932534181+813367380+752600867}}+<!--PUSS-->{{#expr:554987477+485254377}}}}|number=6|highest=Shrek 2|gross=932534181
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''Main series''|number=4|highest=Shrek 2|gross=932534181
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Shrek 2]] ''(2004)''
|932534181
|[[Shrek the Third]] ''(2007)''
|813367380
|[[Shrek Forever After]] ''(2010)''
|752600867
|[[Shrek]] ''(2001)''
|484409218
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=Puss in Boots ''series''|number=2|highest=Puss in Boots|gross=554987477
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[Puss in Boots (2011 film)|Puss in Boots]] ''(2011)''
|554987477
|[[Puss in Boots: The Last Wish|The Last Wish]] ''(2022)''
|485254377
}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|rank=19|title=[[The Twilight Saga (film series)|The Twilight Saga]]|number=5|highest=Breaking Dawn – Part 2|gross=829746820
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2|Breaking Dawn – Part 2]] ''(2012)''
|829746820
|[[The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1|Breaking Dawn – Part 1]] ''(2011)''
|712205856
|[[The Twilight Saga: New Moon|New Moon]] ''(2009)''
|711516904
|[[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse|Eclipse]] ''(2010)''
|698513085
|[[Twilight (2008 film)|Twilight]] ''(2008)''
|{{#expr:410787736-2258961<!-- SEE WP:BOXOFFICEMOJO -->}}
}}
|-
| colspan="6" |
{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=franchise|rank=20|title=[[The Lion King (franchise)|The Lion King]]|total={{#expr:970707763+1465+1656943394+722631756}}|number=4|highest=The Lion King ''(2019)''|gross=1656943394
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''CGI animated series''|number=2|highest=The Lion King ''(2019)''|gross=1656943394
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Lion King (2019 film)|The Lion King]] ''(2019)''
|1656943394
|[[Mufasa: The Lion King|Mufasa]] ''(2024)''
|722631756
}}
|{{Highest-grossing films franchise|type=series|sub=y|title=''Traditionally animated series''|number=2|highest=The Lion King ''(1994)''|gross=970707763
<!--GROSSES-->
|[[The Lion King]] ''(1994)''
|970707763
|[[The Lion King 1½]] ''(2004)''
|1465
}}
}}
|}
<!--DO NOT extend the chart beyond 20 without first discussing it on the talk page.-->
{{Refbegin}}
{{note label|Shared|S||Shared universes for which some properties also have their own entries.}}

{{note label|USgross3|*||Canada and U.S. gross only.}}

{{note label|Rentals3|R||Distributor rental.}}

{{refend}}</onlyinclude>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Film}}
* [[Lists of highest-grossing films]]

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

=== Box office sources ===
{{reflist|group="#"|30em}}

=== Franchise and series sources ===
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{note label|Franchise sources|§|§}}{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/ |access-date=April 23, 2015 |title=Franchise Index |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}
* ''Avengers''
** {{cite web |title=Avengers – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=avengersfranchise.htm |access-date=October 12, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Batman''
** {{cite web |title=Batman – Worldwide (Unadjusted) & Batman: Mask of the Phantasm |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=batman.htm |access-date=July 26, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** Fathom events
*** Batman (UK): {{cite web |title=Batman (1989) 30th Anniversary |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=batman30.htm |access-date=May 25, 2019 |quote=UK: $48,482}}
*** Batman Returns (UK): {{cite web |title=Batman Returns (Event) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=batmanreturnsevent.htm |access-date=May 25, 2019 |quote=UK: $10,057}}
*** Batman Forever: {{cite web |title=Batman Forever (Fathom Event) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=batmanforeverfathomevent.htm |access-date=May 25, 2019 |quote=US: $38,014; UK: $373}}
*** Batman and Robin: {{cite web |title=Batman and Robin (Fathom Event) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=batmanandrobinfathomevent.htm |access-date=May 25, 2019 |quote=US: $28,597; UK: $196}}
** ''Batman: The Movie'' (1966) {{ndash}} {{cite book |last1=Silverman |first1=Stephen M. |chapter=Breakeven for Feature Productions: 1966 Releases |title=The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox |date=1988 |publisher=L. Stuart |page=325 |isbn=978-0-8184-0485-6 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/325 |chapter-url-access=registration}}
** {{cite web |title=Catwoman (2004) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=catwoman.htm |access-date=July 22, 2012}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Batman-Return-of-the-Caped-Crusaders#tab=summary |title=Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date=December 17, 2016}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Batman-and-Harley-Quinn#tab=summary |title=Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date=August 22, 2017}}
** {{cite web |title=Joker (2019) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt7286456/ |access-date=November 11, 2019}}
* ''DC Extended Universe''
** {{cite web |title=DC Extended Universe – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dc.htm |access-date=May 8, 2019 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Despicable Me''
** {{cite web |title=Despicable Me (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=despicableme.htm |access-date=November 4, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''The Fast and the Furious''
** {{cite web |title=The Fast and the Furious – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=fastandthefurious.htm |access-date=October 23, 2019 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=furious8.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822151827/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=furious8.htm |title=The Fate of the Furious (2017) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|archive-date=August 22, 2017}}
* ''Wizarding World''
** {{cite web |title=J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=jkrowling.htm |access-date=November 17, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''James Bond''
** {{cite web |title=James Bond – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=jamesbond.htm |access-date=April 17, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}} (Brosnan and Craig)
** {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA428 428–429]}}. "James Bond Franchise Films: All-Release Worldwide Box Office." (Connery, Lazenby, Moore and Dalton)
** {{cite web |title=Never Say Never Again (1983) |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1983/0NSNA.php |access-date=November 25, 2012}}
** {{cite web |title=Casino Royale (1967) |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1967/0CARO.php |access-date=January 6, 2012}}
** {{cite web |title=Casino Royale (Secret Cinema 2019) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=UK&id=casinoroyale2019.htm |access-date=June 16, 2019 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Jurassic Park''
** {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=jurassicpark.htm |access-date=November 25, 2018 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (2011 re-release) |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fJURASSICPARK201&country=UK&wk=2011W38&id=_fJURASSICPARK201 |access-date=January 17, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo |quote=United Kingdom: $786,021}}
* ''Marvel Cinematic Universe''
** {{cite web |title=Marvel Cinematic Universe – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=avengers.htm |access-date=June 19, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Middle-earth''
** {{cite web |title=Middle Earth – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=middleearth.htm |access-date=November 18, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fTHELORDOFTHERING03 |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2017 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=February 6, 2017}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fTHELORDOFTHERING04 |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2017 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=February 6, 2017}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fTHELORDOFTHERING05 |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2017 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=February 6, 2017}}
** {{cite web |title=The Lord of the Rings – Worldwide (Unadjusted) & The Lord of the Rings (1978) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=lordoftherings.htm |access-date=April 23, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Mission: Impossible''
** {{cite web |title=Mission: Impossible – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=missionimpossible.htm |access-date=November 4, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Pirates of the Caribbean''
** {{cite web |title=Pirates of the Caribbean – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=piratesofthecaribbean.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Shrek''
** {{cite web |title=Shrek – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=shrek.htm |access-date=December 14, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Spider-Man''
** {{cite web |title=Spider-Man – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=spiderman.htm |access-date=December 15, 2014 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=Spider-Man / Men in Black II |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=spidermeninblack.htm |access-date=May 31, 2018}}
** {{cite web |title=Columbia 100th Anniversary Series |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4217536513/ |access-date=May 5, 2024}}
* ''Star Wars''
** {{cite web |title=Star Wars (1977) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars4.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=00&id=starwars5.htm |access-date=October 8, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars6.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=The Phantom Menace |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars.htm |access-date=November 25, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=Attack of the Clones |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars2.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=Revenge of the Sith |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars3.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |title=The Clone Wars |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwarsclonewars.htm |access-date=January 6, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** Disney releases (2015–present): {{cite web |title=Star Wars – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=starwars.htm |access-date=October 9, 2018 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''Transformers''
** {{cite web |title=Transformers – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=transformers.htm |access-date=May 17, 2015 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''The Twilight Saga''
** {{cite web |title=Twilight – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=twilight.htm |access-date=May 1, 2013 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
** {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=twilightnewmooncombo.htm |access-date=September 25, 2011 |title=Twilight/New Moon Combo (one-night-only) |website=Box Office Mojo}}
* ''X-Men''
** {{cite web |title=X-Men – Worldwide (Unadjusted) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=xmen.htm |access-date=March 12, 2017 |website=Box Office Mojo}}
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=== Bibliography ===
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Block |editor1-first=Alex Ben |editor2-last=Wilson |editor2-first=Lucy Autrey |year=2010 |title=George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=978-0-06-177889-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/georgelucassbloc00alex}}
* {{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodstory0000finl }}
* {{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Sheldon |last2=Neale |first2=Stephen |year=2010 |title=Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8143-3008-1 }}
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== External links ==
* [https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ All-Time Worldwide Box Office Grosses] at [[Box Office Mojo]]
* [https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cumulative/all-time All-Time Highest-Grossing Movies Worldwide] at [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]
* [http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice.html Box-Office Top 100 Films of All Time] at [[Filmsite.org]]

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