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Nov 20, 2023 · 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...
- 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...
- Avengers: Endgame. Here it is. The biggest film not just of the century, but all time. And when we say big, we don't just mean box office (though it's got the world record on that front).
- The Dark Knight. Do we even need to tell you why this one is good? Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight isn't just a perfect blockbuster, or superhero movie, it's almost the perfect movie, albeit very long.
- Avengers: Infinity War. The only downside to Avengers: Infinity War was the niggling feeling we all had that our favourite heroes, dusted into non-existence by Thanos, weren't really gone forever (and that if you hadn't seen any other Marvel movie, you'd be lost).
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. "You bow to no-one." If that single line of dialogue, coupled with the sight of an entire city kneeling before a band of four (very small) Hobbits, doesn't bring on the waterworks, your heart is darker than Sauron's.
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All charts are ranked by international theatrical box-office performance where possible, excluding income derived from home video, broadcasting rights, and merchandise. Traditionally, war films , musicals , and historical dramas have been the most popular genres, but franchise films have been among the best performers of the 21st century.
Jul 1, 2022 · Hollywood blockbuster movies: the best blockbusters ever. Fetch the popcorn, these are the Hollywood blockbuster movies that demand a watch. By Marc Chacksfield. 01 July 2022. Since Jaws forever changed Hollywood, moviemakers have relied upon the annual blockbuster season to get bums on seats.
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