Although the popularity of films has fluctuated recently due to various factors including streaming and pandemic, it doesn’t take Tom Cruise jumping off a building to demonstrate that the unique experience of watching films with others is preferred. Here are the top 10 box office hits of all time.
10. The Avengers (2012)
Gross Collection: $1,518,815,515
Super-team films initially became popular in 2012 with The Avengers, which brought together characters like Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, and The Hulk to battle Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, a fascinating adversary from Marvel’s first significant phase 1 release. The Avengers Hulk, unsurprisingly, made over $1.6 billion at the box office.
9. The Lion King (2019)
Gross Collection: $1,656,943,394
The Lion King is possibly the strangest and most perplexing of the Disney live-action remakes. Nevertheless, it turned out to be a wise financial choice as Jon Favreau’s movie, starring Donald Glover, Beyonce, Seth Rogan, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, dethroned Frozen as the all-time highest-grossing animated film, earning more than $1.6 billion.
8. Jurassic World (2015)
Gross Collection: $1,671,537,444
Spielberg’s Jurassic Park wasn’t spared from this fate either; in 2015, Chris Pratt led an update of everyone’s favourite island of dinosaur monsters. Two additional sequels to our initial revisit to Jurassic Park, now a fully-fledged SeaWorld-style theme park, were released after it, but only the original entry into the elite club of all-time highest-grossing movies.
7. Spider-man: No Way Home (2021)
Gross Collection: $1,921,847,111
The third installment of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man series, 2021’s Spider-man: No Way Home, blasted open the multiverse and brought Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield together in a heartwarming team-up that doubled as a group therapy session. It also threw together a number of well-known antagonists, including Jamie Foxx’s Electro, Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, and Alfred Molina’s Doc Oc.
6. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Gross Collection: $2,048,359,754
When the stakes in your interstellar superhero team-up continue to rise, the payoff will inevitably rise as well. The first installment of Marvel’s phase three showdown, Avengers: Infinity War, introduced the universe’s worst enemy – Thanos – and his terrifying click of death.
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Gross Collection: $2,068,223,624
The revival of the Star Wars franchise, the indisputable crown jewel of geek culture, was never going to be silent. Disney’s launch of a continued story far, far away, with familiar faces like Luke, Leia, and Han Solo and new ones like Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s Finn, was an undisputed hit.
4. Titanic (1997)
Gross Collection: $2,257,844,554
Unless you regard the actual Titanic as IP, these are the only non-franchised or existing IP films to appear on the list of the top-grossing films of all time. For an extended period, James Cameron’s dreamy romance at the centre of an oceanic tragedy was the unquestioned champion of the table.
3. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Gross Collection: $2,320,250,281
It took 15 years to create a sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar, which meant that the already-awesome visual effects of the original were even better, prompting more people to sink into a type of melancholy insanity that they wasn’t able immerse themselves into the world of the Na’vi.
2. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Gross Collection: $2,797,501,328
The endgame to end all endgames (at least until Marvel ups the ante with its next wave of superhero team-ups). The formal conclusion of Marvel’s third phase arrived with a bang, eventually addressing its cliffhanger of half the world’s population, notably certain superhero favourites, vanishing into thin air.
1. Avatar (2009)
Gross collection: $2,923,706,026
It ought to take a lot for James Cameron’s Avatar to be knocked off the top rank among the highest-grossing films of all time. Many have attempted, but just a few have come close in the 16 years since its debut. Avatar altered cinema as we know it, creating a whole universe of visual .
