Highest grossing movies of all time

The two highest-grossing films have both been directed and written by James Cameron.

With a worldwide box office gross of over $2.7 billion, Avatar is the “highest-grossing” picture, but such claims typically refer to theatrical revenues only, ignoring home video and television revenue, which can account for a major amount of a film’s earnings.

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When home entertainment revenue is taken into account, it is difficult to say which picture is the most successful.

In addition to the $2.2 billion it made in theatres, Titanic made $1.2 billion in video and DVD sales and rentals.

While complete sales figures for Avatar are unavailable, it made $345 million in North America from the sale of sixteen million DVD and Blu-ray copies

and ultimately sold a total of thirty million DVD and Blu-ray units worldwide.[3] After home video income is accounted for, both films have earned over $3 billion. Television broadcast rights will also substantially add to a film’s earnings, with a film often earning as much as 20–25% of its theatrical box-office for a couple of television runs on top of pay-per-view revenues;[4] Titanic earned a further $55 million from the NBC and HBO broadcast rights,[1] 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. The Lion King earned over $2 billion in box-office and home video sales,[6] but this pales in comparison to the $6 billion earned at box offices around the world by the stage adaptation.[7] Merchandising can be extremely lucrative too: The Lion King also sold $3 billion of merchandise,[8] while Pixar’s Cars—which earned $462 million in theatrical revenues and was only a modest hit by comparison to other Pixar films—generated global merchandise sales of over $8 billion in the five years after its 2006 release. Pixar also had another huge hit with Toy Story 3, which generated almost $10 billion in merchandise retail sales in addition to the $1 billion it earned at the box office.

Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, The Avengers are 5 of the Highest grossing films of all time confirm MarkMeets.com

On this chart, films are ranked by the revenues from theatrical exhibition at their nominal value, along with the highest positions they attained. Thirty-three films in total have grossed in excess of $1 billion worldwide, of which three have grossed over $2 billion, 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.

Rank	Peak	Title	Worldwide gross	Year
1	1	Avatar	$2,787,965,087	2009
2	1	Titanic	$2,187,463,944	1997
3	3	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$2,068,223,624	2015
4	3	Jurassic World	$1,671,713,208	2015
5	3	The Avengers	$1,518,812,988	2012
6	4	Furious 7	$1,516,045,911	2015
7	5	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$1,405,403,694	2015
8	3	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	$1,341,511,219	2011
9	9	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	$1,332,654,992	2017
10	10	Black Panther	$1,302,387,938	2018
11^F	5	Frozen	$1,290,000,000	2013
12	10	Beauty and the Beast	$1,263,521,126	2017
13	11	The Fate of the Furious	$1,238,764,765	2017
14	5	Iron Man 3	$1,214,811,252	2013
15	10	Minions	$1,159,398,397	2015
16	12	Captain America: Civil War	$1,153,304,495	2016
17	4	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	$1,123,794,079	2011
18	2	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	$1,120,237,002	2003
19	7	Skyfall	$1,108,561,013	2012
20	10	Transformers: Age of Extinction	$1,104,054,072	2014
21	7	The Dark Knight Rises	$1,084,939,099	2012
22	4	Toy Story 3	$1,066,969,703	2010
23	3	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest	$1,066,179,725	2006
24	20	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	$1,056,057,273	2016
25	6	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	$1,045,713,802	2011
26	24	Despicable Me 3	$1,034,799,409	2017
27	1	Jurassic Park	$1,029,939,903	1993
28	22	Finding Dory	$1,028,570,889	2016
29	2	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	$1,027,044,677	1999
30	5	Alice in Wonderland	$1,025,467,110	2010
31	24	Zootopia	$1,023,784,195	2016
32	14	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	$1,021,103,568	2012
33	4	The Dark Knight	$1,004,558,444	2008
34	2	Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone	$974,755,371	2001
35	19	Despicable Me 2	$970,761,885	2013
36	2	The Lion King	$968,483,777	1994
37	30	The Jungle Book	$966,550,600	2016
38	5	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End	$963,420,425	2007
39	10	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	$960,283,305	2010
40	24	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	$958,366,855	2013
41	26	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	$956,019,788	2014
42	42	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	$950,828,438	2017
43	8	Finding Nemo	$940,335,536	2003
44	6	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	$939,885,929	2007
45	8	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	$934,416,487	2009
46	4	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	$926,349,708	2002
47	6	Shrek 2	$919,838,758	2004
48	8	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	$896,911,078	2005
49	10	Spider-Man 3	$890,871,626	2007
50	15	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	$886,686,817	2009

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. It was re-released in the United Kingdom in December 2017 with Olaf’s Frozen Adventure earning an additional $1,655,398. The total is rounded to $1 million to compensate for the numerical inaccuracy.

In the case of The Fate of the Furious the gross is sourced from BoxOffice rather than the chart’s regular source, Box Office Mojo, after irregularities were discovered in the latter’s figure. Ongoing weekly drops in the totals for several countries—Argentina being the worst affected—led to a drop in the overall worldwide total. In view of what appears to be an aberration in the source an alternative figure is provided.

The gross for Toy Story 3 has been corrected to $1,066,969,703, meaning that it finished one place higher at the end of its release.

^DM2Disney issued an erratum to the gross for The Lion King, correcting its gross from $987.5 million to $968.5 million. This means that Despicable Me 2 finished its run ahead of it and would have ranked one place higher at the end of its release.

Finding Nemo finished one place higher at the end of its original release, after taking corrections into account. Its total now stands at $940.3 million, which would put the first run at $871.0 million after deducting the 3D reissue gross of $69.3 million. Meanwhile, the total gross for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has been corrected to $871.5 million, which would rank below Finding Nemo’s first run once its 2011 reissue gross is deducted.

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