A few other sites post alltime boxoffice information, including the internet movie database, boxoffice. From the star wars films to the james bond series, many of these franchises have had staying power over the course of decades. Oct 24, 2016 top highestgrossing horror film franchises, ever. To determine the top grossing movie franchises of all time, 247 tempo looked at the combined domestic box office gross for all movies in franchises listed by box office data website box office. The 25 highestgrossing movies of all time updated 2020. Directed by joss whedon, the first of the avengers movies in the mcu was the highest grossing film of 2012. The khiladi franchise was the first film franchise to gross over. Though it seems a bit unfair, the whole of the marvel cinematic universe.
Alltime highest grossing films by genre type or subgenre. We ran the totals from worldwide box office returns to find out the 10 highest grossing movie franchises and the numbers might just surprise you. Alex maidy as movie studios continue to develop films solely for the purpose of turning them into franchises we have seen a. Nowadays, its very rare to spot a brand new movie at the cinema. The top 5 highestgrossing film series and franchises of all time. As of 30th june 2016, these are top 35 highest grossing actors of all time according to their total gross. Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home. Jul 25, 2015 top 10 highest grossing movie franchises worldwide. Which of them do you think is most worth the money. Included on the list are charts of the top box office earners ranked by both the 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.
The marvel cinematic universe is the highest grossing film series in. With millions of fans around the world, its no surprise that the highest grossing movie franchises of all time have been around for many years. It just seems nobody can quite let it go when it comes to frozen, with the disney princess movie not only being the highest grossing princess film of all time, but it actually topped the charts as the highest grossing animated movie ever made. Sep 12, 2019 here are the current top 20 highest grossing movies of alltime. Maybe its the dynamic characters that somehow know how to keep on saving the day. Dreamworks animation has never known any more successful animation film ever than shrek 2. Far from home stole its thunder, and the highestgrossing film in the uk. Aug 07, 2017 despicable me is now the highest grossing animated franchise in movie history. Your top box office earners ever worldwide frozen ii enters the top 10 in our guide to the highest grossing movies of all time from avengers. We run down the list of the 15 highest grossing rrated movies of all time, ranked according to their domestic box office from the passion of the christ to deadpool to beverly hills cop.
One of the most expensive scifi films ever made, but the second highest grossing film of all time, avatar may well beat titanic to being the film james camerons legacy rests upon, especially with multiple sequels incoming. From iconic figures like jason, freddy krueger, and michael meyers, one has to wonder where all the horror greats fit in on a complete ranking of the top highest grossing horror franchises. James camerons 10 highestgrossing films according to. All time single market all time animated worldwide all time sequel worldwide all time nonsequel worldwide top 2019 worldwide top 2020 worldwide. This is one of the amazing and shocking movie series ever it is my all time favorite series. For each franchise listed below the revenue total includes revenue from movie tickets, home entertainment, video games.
Top films by decade and year highestgrossing films by genre type greatest boxoffice bombs. May 06, 2019 the films in some pretty good company in the top 10 also with a fair few of the other avengers movies but just what are the highestgrossing movies of all time that its overtaken. Inflationadjusted figures are based on ticket sale estimates. Mar 18, 2020 top 20 highest grossing films of all time avengers endgame here we are, at the top, avengers. The marvel cinematic universe is by far the highest grossing film series ever, but franchises like star wars, james bond, and xmen, which all churn out movies to high opening weekends, each have billions of dollars in box office sales. Endgame to avatar and the dark knight with key details on box office performance and records broken.
Top 20 highest grossing films of all time update freak. They are a mix highly enjoyable movies and some films that we can only shake our heads at. Based on the dc character of the same name, aquaman follows jason momoa aquaman as he fights to lead the underwater kingdom of atlantis to stop his half brother, king orm, destroying the surface world by uniting the seven underwater kingdoms. It was the lowestgrossing box office film for the franchise. An rrated film is a film that has been assessed as having material which may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17 by the motion picture association of america.
This is a list of the highest grossing media franchises. The above picture is actually bumblebees new look in the upcoming installment. Broadway revenue since 1982 the following is a list of the top 15 highest grossing broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the broadway league. The final and most successful film in the series was both its highest grossing and one of only three films ever to win 11 academy awards.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. Jul 26, 2015 as jurassic world 2015 storms into the top three highest grossing movies ever made, we look at the top 50 blockbusters that made a fortune. Harrison ford was born on july, 1942 in chicago, illinois, to dorothy nidelman, a radio actress, and christopher ford born john william ford, an actor. However, it was still enough to crack the top 10 for tom hanks highest grossing movies worldwide over his illustrious career.
The film is overly long and unengaging at multiple points, but its visual beauty and technological brilliance cannot be. Sam raimi sam raimis second turn at the franchise helm yielded what at the time was arguably the best superhero film ever, and one that, as. Starring keanu reeves and laurence fishburne, the matrix won four academy awards and was added to the. Most successful movie franchises of all time at box office. The highestgrossing movie franchises of all time work.
It was the first film to reach the billiondollar mark and became the. These are the 50 highest grossing film franchises of all time. Star wars is also represented in the nominal earnings chart with four films, while the harry potter, jurassic park and pirates of the caribbean franchises along with peter jackson s middleearth series feature prominently. List of highestgrossing media franchises wikipedia. To illustrate the immense might of franchise filmmaking, were looking at the top 15 highest grossing franchises at the box office. All time worldwide box office where data and the movie. A fourth michael bay visual spectacular is under works with mark wahlberg in the cast no shia lebeouf or megan fox. Despite the death of series star paul walker during the filming of furious 7, it became the most profitable movie of the franchise.
This is a list of the highestgrossing media franchises. What are the highest grossing movies of all time at the box. Despicable me becomes topgrossing animated film franchise. Fallen kingdom was released in 2018 and is an american science fiction adventure film. The team comes together for the first time to defeat thors brother loki tom. Mar 18, 2019 10 highest grossing movie franchises of all time. The only entry from the beloved bourne franchise in the top five. List of highestgrossing science fiction films wikipedia. This article ranks every one of those subgenres side by side and accounts for inflation in order to determine the true highest grossing horror movies ever.
Aug 06, 2017 illuminations despicable me series of films has surpassed the shrek movies to become the highestgrossing animated franchise of all time worldwide. The twentysecond highest grossing film of all time is the 2018 superhero film, aquaman. All time domestic all time international other worldwide cumulative records. While infinity war currently holds the marvel cinematic universes top spot for highest grossing film with. What makes a movie franchise rate among the best of all time is box office success, critical praise, and positive audience reaction. Measured worldwide unadjusted for ticket price inflation. The film, starring ellen degeneres in the title role, was a favorite of audiences and.
Theres something about a movie franchise that makes us come back over and over again. The highest grossing rrated movies of all time collider. Apr 09, 2020 the marvel cinematic universe series was the highest grossing film franchise in the world as of april 2020, with total worldwide box office revenue of 22. Jun 18, 2019 the second shrek film happens to be the franchises top. Box office, worldwide box office, first year, last year, no. Despicable me is the highest grossing animated franchise in. Global box office revenue of the most successful movies of all time as of.
That position will be improved upon, however, when the newest installment is released this december. This chart contains the top movies based on the cumulative worldwide box office. List of highestgrossing video game franchises wikipedia. The next highestgrossing movie of all time is jurassic world. Jul 14, 2018 ethan hunt returns once more to the list of the five highest grossing spy movies ever. Most successful movie franchises of all time at box office business. This is a list of the highest grossing rrated films. Psthe figure given for harry potter and the philosophers stone is the initial box office gross, which in 2001 was the second highest ever, after titanic. As of december 2019, 27 of the top 50 are superhero films, many of which are among the highest grossing superhero films. Click through to see the 55 highestgrossing movie franchises of all time, as determined by box office mojo. The marvel cinematic universe is the highest grossing film series in unadjusted us dollar figures, surpassing the wizarding world, star wars, james bond, and j. The highestgrossing film franchises the 50 biggest film.
Avatar, in second place on the nominal chart, is the highestgrossing film. The top 5 highestgrossing film series and franchises of. For example, the 2004 box office year ended on sunday, january 2, 2005. Oct 27, 2015 click ahead for the top 10 horror franchises for 2015, including how much they made in u. For earlier years the total box office is sometimes assigned to the release year of a movie, while the box office amount could have been earned during two or even more years. Jan 24, 2019 the list of top grossing films of all time is one that doesnt often shift its a capsule of important moments in pop culture, if not critical acclaim one does not preclude the other. The following is a list of the highest grossing science fiction films of all time. Further, for over five years, shrek 2 held the title of being the highestgrossing anime movie of all time until toy story 3 took the spot in 2010. The marvel cinematic universe series was the highest grossing film. The 25 highestgrossing movies of all time worldwide. These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent broadway shows.
Here are the highestgrossing marvel movies by box office. With his threepart version of tolkiens prequel the hobbit jackson is continuing to push new film frontiers by filming at 48 frames per second and turning out threehour plus films. Infinity war, the marvel cinematic universes catalog of films gives it a commanding lead among the top movie franchises of all time. Endgame to avatar and the dark knight with key details on box office. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. Have you ever been curious as to what the most successful horror franchises of all time are. Here are the current top 20 highest grossing movies of alltime. And if it is an original film, chances are its gonna kick off a. Hard to believe this franchise started off as toys. Highest grossing franchises of all time at the box office. See top 2020 movies at the domestic box office for the total domestic box office for the top 100 movies released in 2020, and movie index 2020 for an overview of all movies released in 2020.
This includes media franchises that started as a book, film, video game, comic book, animated film or television series and have expanded to other forms of media. We only have detailed box office data from 1977 onwards. Top grossing movie franchises of all time 247 wall st. Top 10 greatest movie franchises of all time july 11, 2014 by. The highest grossing horror film franchises of all time at the u. Oh, horror movies they scare us, they thrill us, they make us lose hours of sleep, yet we. See top 1993 movies at the domestic box office for the total domestic box office for the top 100 movies released in 1993, and movie index 1993 for an overview of all movies released in 1993. Highest grossing film franchises and series worldwide 2020 statista. The marvel cinematic universe series was the highest grossing film franchise in the world as of april 2020, with total worldwide box office revenue of 22. However, star wars is the highest grossing when adjusted for inflation.
May 24, 2019 what makes a movie franchise rate among the best of all time is box office success, critical praise, and positive audience reaction. While franchises are known for their ability to generate franchise fatigue, the following film series listed in order of the number of films within the franchise have found ongoing success at the box office and with fans. The film perfumed outstandingly well at the box office, becoming the only installment in the franchise to ever exceed 1 billion dollars in worldwide gross, the highestgrossing film worldwide for both sony pictures and mgm until 2019s spiderman. Box office simon thompson contributor opinions expressed by forbes contributors are their own. Most such films include science fiction elements but are most associated with the superhero genre. May 22, 2014 top 10 highest grossing films ever 10.
The 10 highestgrossing tom hanks movies of all time. Feb 05, 2020 the fifth star wars film released failed to perform as well as many others in the franchise, yet it still managed to rank among the 100 top grossing movies of all time. The 25 highestgrossing superhero movies of all time paste. And for many of them, the box office is only the start, with. Your top box office earners ever worldwide frozen ii enters the top 10 in our guide to the highestgrossing movies of all time from avengers. These are the top, highest grossing domestic films in all the various subcategories or genres types of films. No word yet on if well get another alien film in the future but if so, it could knock the conjuring out of the top spot. Endgame is the 22nd movie in the infinity saga of the mcu.
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