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, 1984 and 1989 as well. But Endgamebegan to show signs early in its run that its impressive sprinting start might not be enough for it to ultimately come out ahead of James Camerons epic; it only had the second-biggest second weekend ever and the fourth-best third weekend. The world had to wait some 12 years for James Cameron to follow up the biggest film of all time with what would become the new biggest film of all time. WithNo Way Home landing at No. [24] Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses. Only 11 films have held the title of highest-grossing films of all time. The 21st century has seen an increasing dependence on franchises and adaptations, with the box-office dominance of films based on pre-existing intellectual property at record levels.[46]. [59] Through 1956, MGM reported cumulative North American earnings of $30,015,000 and foreign earnings of $18,964,000, from three releases. Beyond Disney and Pixar animation, the Despicable Me, Shrek, and Ice Age series have met with the most success. But combined it remains the champion overall in worldwide gross (and bonus for the studio: it had one of the series lowest budgets). With the advent of sound in 1927, the musicalthe genre best placed to showcase the new technologytook over as the most popular type of film with audiences, with 1928 and 1929 both being topped by musical films. The Sorcerers Stonesfinal domestic total ranked sixth all-time behind the initial runs of Titanic, The Phantom Menace, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Forrest Gump. Commonly mistaken for home video revenue, distributor rentals are the distributor's share of the film's theatrical revenue (i.e. The project was met with skepticism, and then it began a run on the festival circuit. It began with the third-highest opening weekend for an animated film (after Pixar sequelsIncredibles 2andFinding Dory) $130.26 million and then became the highest-grossing film over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday, which was all the more impressive given it had opened the prior weekend. Although the nominal earnings chart is dominated by films adapted from pre-existing properties and sequels, it is headed by Avatar, which is an original work. FBox Office Mojo stopped updating its main total for Frozen in August 2014, while it was still in release. [25] Social and economic factors such as population change[26] and the growth of international markets[27][28][29] 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. In 1984, Linda Lovelace testified to a United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on juvenile justice that the film had earned $600million;[82] 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 approach was to mix the old and the new, and it worked. Avengers: Endgame (2019) - $2,797,501,328 (Photo by Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures). The Star Wars franchise has had the highest-grossing film in 8 different years since 1977. The movie became the fifth film in history to have a $200 million opening weekend, and just the third film ever to gross over $700 million in North America, outlasting even Avengers: Infinity War that summer. In its fourth weekend of release, it became Disneys sixth billion-dollar film of 2019, pushingJumanji: Welcome to the Jungleout of the Top 50 on the same weekend that its sequelThe Next Levelopened. After getting tag-teased at the end ofInfinity War, Brie Larsons Carol Danvers made herdebut in the MCU as the universes first headlining female superhero in 2019sCaptain Marvel. Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. (And, if you are are keeping track, it is the 12th Disney property in thetop 20.). Box-office figures are reported in either gross revenue or distributor rentals, the latter being especially true of older films. and 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. 13 with over $1.3 billion in receipts. A $90.2 million opening weekend crushed the previous title holder from four years earlier, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, by over $18 million. From 2006 until Toy Story 3 was released in 2010, Dead Mans Chestwas the highest-grossing domestic release in Disneys history. After 15 straight weeks at number 1, 14 Oscar nominations and 11 statuettes, Titanic, its stars and its song were ingrained in the hearts and tear ducts of the world, and the movie would hold the all-time box office record for 12 years until Cameron would eclipse himself once again with Avatar. Now, the movie has overtaken the originalFrozento become the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Opening weekend for Avengers: Endgame in April 2019surpassed Infinity Wars year-long record by nearly $100 million. No, it was unexpected because it managed this herculean feat even as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to keep audiences largely at home. Though the third film in the Despicable Mefranchise made just $13 million more than the original at the domestic box office, internationally the Despicable Me films had a 164% increase from the first film ($543.1 million) to the third ($1.035 billion). Then, two days later on Feb. 2, 2010, its 47th day of release,the movie became the highest domestic earner ever. Spider-Man: No Way Home wasnt unexpected because of the film itself, which was an ambitious, multiverse-expanding entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that brought together some of the most beloved characters in the web-slingers big-screen history in a funny, heartbreaking, thrilling spectacle. The second-bestreviewed film in the Jurassicseries(72% on the Tomatometer vs. the originals 91%), Jurassic Worldtrampled a competitive summer full of Avengers, Minions, and inner feelings, and became just the third film since Titanic in 1998 to pass $600 million in domestic box office. Because it remains the only post-Avengers film in the MCU to make less money internationally than domestically. Thoughstill Fresh (67% on the Tomatometer), it was the lowest-scored Fast and Furiousmovieamong critics since the fourth film. 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. Follow Rotten Tomatoes on Apple News. In just under three weeks, The Force Awakens became the all-time domestic champion, passing Avatar and joining the $2 billion clubwithin54 days. The general moviegoing public ate it up, though. Who would have thought? Peter Jacksons (first) epic trilogy unfolded over three straight holiday seasons and its finale was rewarded in every fashion:Return of the Kinghistorically won all 11 Oscars that it was nominated for, including Best Picture and Best Director;it was one of the best-reviewed films of the year (Certified Fresh at 93%);anditbecame the fourth-highest domestic grosser of all time behind justTitanic,The Phantom Menace,and Sam Raimis firstSpider-Manfilm. Counting . [37], TGuinness' 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. As of June 2022, the Marvel Cinematic Universe series was the highest-grossing film franchise with total worldwide box office revenue of 26.6 billion U.S. dollars. A series that has existed for 50-plus years is going to get a little help from inflation Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice would have been $300 million grossers today but were not doing inflation here. Speaking of gathering Marvel characters for an epic showdown, 2021 provided an unexpected box office champion that would swing triumphantly into the top 10. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) was . The Abyss, Terminator 2, and True Lies were all the most expensive movies of their time upon release. The director ofThe Hangoverfilms wanted to make an origin story out of Batmans most infamous nemesis. Wonder Womans solid domestic numbers were nearly matched internationally, but even those figures came up short of Suicide Squad and the goal. If there was one movie in all of 2021 or, hell, even going back as far as 2020 that moviegoers were willing to risk going to the theater for, it was absolutelyNo Way Home, and boy did they ever show up. King Solomon's Mines (1950) Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. By the end of that summer only four films had grossed more domestically in their initial runs thanThe Dark Knight Rises:Avatar, Titanic, The Dark Knight,and Marvels The Avengers, which was the only film to eclipse Risesin all of 2012. His adaptation of Michael Crichtons novel,Jurassic Park, was a return to the revered popcorn blockbusters he made his name on and it replaced the previous yearsBatman Returnsas the top opener ever with $47 million and went on to gross over $357 million that summer. A year after J.J. Abrams launched the record-breaking continuation of George Lucas Skywalker saga, audiences were given a go-between tale to help fill in the gaps that led to the destruction of the first Death Star. Domestic audiences showed up for the revamped outing with Jack Sparrow, just not in the expected droves, and a mammoth international total ($804.6 million)kept Stranger Tidesin the record books. The total for Avatar'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. After just six weeks of release,Endgamewasabout$73 million away from dethroningAvatar substantial ground to make up. But it was the full embrace of the series now-signature bombast, as well as the untimely death of Paul Walker, that brought the combo of curiosity and tribute that helped make James WansFurious 7the franchises most successful entry. [26] 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",[24][31] so there is little incentive to switch to a more robust analysis from a marketing or even newsworthy point of view.
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