#Highest grossing movies per year movie#
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) // $1,142,456,987īox office totals courtesy of Box Office Mojo.Ī version of this story ran in 2019 it has been updated for 2022. By the time it hit 13 million domestically, Like Water for Chocolate had already become the highest-grossing foreign-language movie in 14 years.Its box office feats didnt stop there thanks to it.Beauty and the Beast (2017) // $1,273,576,220 Rajamouli have been the highest-grossing film of the year on four occasions, and on three occasions have been the highest-grossing film of all time.Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) // $1,332,698,830 MUMBAI: In just 18 days since its theatrical release, Spider-Man: No Way Home, with Tom Holland and Zendaya playing the lead roles, has become the third highest grosser among Hollywood films in India, after Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).Rank Film Year Director Studio Worldwide gross Source 1 Baahubali 2: The Conclusion: 2017 S. Marvel's The Avengers (2012) // $1,518,815,515 Implies that the film is multilingual and the gross collection figure includes the worldwide collection of the other simultaneously filmed version.Avengers: Infinity War (2018) // $2,048,359,754 Spider-Man: No Way Home Global box office: 1.08 billion The American superhero film based on Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures is the highest grossing film.It was a big enough number to catapult Avatar back to the top of the list, though it now looks as if Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) is trying to climb its way to the top of the list of the 25 biggest movies of all-time In March 2021, Avatar made a triumphant return to theaters in China, where it ended up grossing an impressive $3.5 million, bringing its total haul to just over $2.8 billion. And within just a few months, it officially unseated James Cameron's Avatar-which had held the number one spot for 10 years-to become the highest-grossing movie of all time. However, theatrical box office earnings are the primary metric for trade publications in assessing the success of a film, mostly because of the. The epic MCU team-up demolished all previous box office records by making a cool $1.2 billion in just its first few days in theaters. Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising. When Avengers: Endgame arrived in theaters in April 2019, box office insiders had no doubt it would be a hit-but few people had predicted just how big a dent the superhero movie would make in its opening weekend alone.