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On this chart, films are ranked by the revenues from theatrical exhibition at their nominal value, along with the highest positions they attained. Six films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.
With the addition of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Barbie, the top 50 has lost Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit movie and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. For the list below, we’ve included...
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- Erik Childress,RT Staff
Apr 8, 2024 · Every few years, a blockbuster movie comes along and breaks the box office, joining the list of highest-grossing movies of all time.
- Speed Racer
- Gladiator
- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
- Marvel’s The Avengers
- Batman Begins
- X-Men
- Wonder Woman
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Stardust
- Spider-Man 2
Studio: Warner Bros. Budget: $120 million Total box office: $93.9 million Number in franchise: 1 of 1 Speed Racer may be the least-watched film on this list. The anime adaptation was a flop at the box office and, unlike some blockbusters on this list, never really found its audience even after it left the cinemas. That’s too bad because The Wachows...
Studio: Dreamworks Pictures/Universal Pictures Budget: $103 million Total box office: $457.6 million Number in franchise: 1 of 1 While Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is ultimately a downer, the ride itself is a whole lot of bloody fun. Russell Crowe appears as Maximus, a Gladiator intent on getting revenge for the murders of his wife and child at the han...
Studio: Warner Bros. Budget: $130 million Total box office: $797.7 million Number in franchise: 3 of 8 The Harry Potter franchise is impressively consistent for a series that spans eight installments. That being said, the first two films were more competent than notable. This all changed when Alfonso Cuaron took over the franchise with Prisoner of ...
Studio: Marvel/Disney Budget: $220 million Total box office: $1.5 billion Number in franchise: 6 of 15 The Avengers may not be the best film in the MCU, but it is the film that proved Marvel wasn’t crazy when it dared to launch a shared fictional universe that would span both standalone and ensemble crossover films. It’s also a heck of a lot of fun...
Studio: Warner Bros. Budget: $150 million Total box office: $374.2 million Number in franchise: 1 of 3 While most of the attention for Christopher Nolan’s Batman franchise is understandably directed towards The Dark Knight, Batman Begins is a stellar blockbuster movie in its own right, a more traditional origin story that set the foundation for wha...
Studio: 20thCentury Fox Budget: $75 million Box office total: $296.3 million Number in franchise: 1 of 10 Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe cemented superhero film franchises as the most lucrative of Hollywood genres, the X-Men series paved the way by proving that it was possible to make grounded comic book movies that the general public could c...
Studio: DC/Warner Bros. Budget: $149 million Total box office: $438.5 million (so far) Number in franchise: 4 of 4 The only film on this list to either be directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins) or to have a female protagonist as its main lead, Wonder Woman is a blockbuster that transcends the category to become something much more important. Within a ...
Studio: DreamWorks Animation/Paramount Budget: $165 million Total box office: $495.8 million Number in franchise: 1 of 3 With some badass aerial dragon battles and a Viking-dragon friendship at its heart, How to Train Your Dragon burst onto the animated blockbuster scene in 2010 and would not be ignored. How to Train Your Dragontells the story of H...
Studio: Paramount Budget: $65 million Total box office: $135.6 million Number in franchise: 1 of 1 Stardust is one of the films on this list that falls on the blockbuster/non-blockbuster line. With a budget that’s high for a mid-sized Hollywood film, but low for a traditional blockbuster, Stardust never quite found its audience despite the fact tha...
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Budget: $200 million Total box office: $783.8 million Number in franchise: 2 of 3 While X-Men may have proved it was possible to make a successful comic book movie, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 proved it was possible to make a successful comic book movie that wasn’t afraid to lean in to the campiness of its comic boo...
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- Star Wars (1977) Watch on Prime Video. George Lucas, no doubt emboldened by his pal Steven Spielberg’s inordinate success with Jaws, soon had his own elephantine hit on his hands.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Watch on Prime Video. What do you get if you pair Steven Spielberg with George Lucas? Indiana Jones of course. How could he, or this film, fail?
- Jurassic Park (1993) Watch on Prime Video. Steven Spielberg pretty much wrote the rulebook for summer blockbusters, so it’s unsurprising to see another one of his films feature in this list.
- Back to the Future (1985) Watch on Prime Video. Great Scott! Back to the Future brought a dream combination together - a universally relatable idea (were your parents ever young?)
1. Spider-Man: No Way Home. 2021 2h 28m PG-13. 8.2 (889K) Rate. 71 Metascore. With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
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Feb 13, 2023 · Blockbuster Movies. A "blockbuster" movie describes any film made by a large film studio with a big budget that achieves commercial and popular success. The term originates from the 1920s when advertisers would describe films as being as impactful as a type of bomb; a blockbuster.
