document_title: Would You Rather (film)

question_text: who plays the brother in would you rather

text: Would You Rather (film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: Iris, a young woman caring for her sick brother Raleigh, is unable to afford the costs of his treatment for leukemia. Her brother's oncologist, Dr. Barden, introduces Iris to Shepard Lambrick, a philanthropist, who offers her a deal: if she wins a parlor game at a dinner party, his charitable foundation will pay for Raleigh's treatment and locate a bone marrow donor for him immediately. Dr. Barden was a former winner of the game. Iris reluctantly accepts.

text: The next day at Lambrick's manor, Iris is introduced to his son Julian and the other contestants: Lucas; Travis, a war veteran; Linda, a paralyzed elderly woman; Peter, a gambling addict; Cal; Amy; and Conway, an alcoholic debtor. A steak and foie gras dinner is served but Iris, a vegetarian, initially declines to eat it. Shepard then offers her $10,000 to compromise her principles; she accepts his offer and eats the steak. When Shepard realizes Conway is a recovering alcoholic, he offers him $10,000 to drink a glass of wine. When Conway declines, Shepard offers him $50,000 to drink an entire decanter of Scotch. Conway accepts the $50,000 and reluctantly drinks the Scotch.

text: After dinner ends, the game begins. Shepard reveals it to be a version of the party game "Would you rather...?", in which players must choose between two options. Shepard gives his guests the opportunity to leave without playing, but everyone stays. After Shepard's butler, a former MI5 agent named Bevans, wheels in an electric shock machine, the drunken Conway attempts to leave but is shot dead. Each contestant is then given 15 seconds to choose between shocking themselves or another person. Cal shocks himself instead of Amy. Amy shocks Linda, who temporarily passes out. Linda shocks Peter, who attempts to leave but is threatened by Bevans. Lucas is shocked next by Travis; then Lucas refuses to shock Iris, instead, shocking himself for the second time in a row and passing out. Iris then chooses to shock herself instead of Cal. During the break, Travis and Julian get into an argument.

text: In the second round, each contestant has 30 seconds to choose between stabbing someone in the thigh with an ice pick or whipping Travis three times with a sjambok. After Iris debates her options of stabbing Cal or whipping Travis, Travis willingly submits to being whipped by Iris and Lucas to save anyone from being stabbed. Julian smirks and snickers as Travis is whipped, revealing that Julian is behind Travis' fate. Travis is then given the option to either stab Lucas or take three lashes from Bevans. He chooses to take the lashings, despite Lucas' attempts to stop him from doing so. Knowing Travis will not survive another whipping, Peter stabs and accidentally kills Linda when he hits her femoral artery. Linda stabs Amy right before she dies, and Amy elbows her in the nose. Amy, who is more focused on eliminating everyone else, is allowed to stab any player she likes and chooses Iris. Instead of stabbing Iris in the leg she stabs her on her side, close to her lung, trying to get Iris eliminated by killing her. With Travis and Lucas' help, Iris lives. Cal chooses to whip Travis so he'll have a higher chance of winning by rendering Travis unresponsive.

text: Lucas causes a distraction, and everyone but Amy attempts to escape the room. Cal advances on Shepard with the sjambok as Lucas attacks the guards and Iris escapes. After Shepard shoots and kills Cal, the others surrender. Shepard sends Bevans and Julian after Iris. Julian finds Iris first and attempts to rape her, but she stabs him with the ice pick. Dr. Barden, who has had second thoughts about sending Iris to Shepard, breaks into the mansion to save her. Drawn by her cries, Barden and Bevans converge on her. Bevans kills Barden, escorts Iris back to the game, and sends Julian upstairs.

text: After Bevans and Shepard apologize to Iris for Julian's behavior, the third round begins a 30 second choice between getting dunked in a barrel for two minutes or an unknown task written on a card sealed until after the player chooses. Peter chooses his card, which requires him to light a firecracker in his hand. Shepard has Bevans secure a quarter stick of dynamite in place with duct tape. The explosion destroys Peter's hand, causing a heart attack, and he dies. Lucas' card forces him to slit open his own eye within 30 seconds. Iris chooses the barrel and survives; her card is revealed to have been the extraction of all of her teeth. Amy, whose ex-husband drowned her daughter, chooses her card and finds that she must be dunked for four minutes. Amy drowns.

text: Only Iris and Lucas remain for the fourth round. Iris wins a coin toss to go first. She is given the choice to either shoot and kill Lucas to win the game, or spare him which would result in both walking away empty-handed. As Lucas attempts to talk her into sparing him and explains the struggles of his family, she abruptly shoots and kills him. Shepard crowns her the champion, gives her a bag full of money and explains that a donor has already been located for her brother and he will have surgery later that week as well as financial support to her continuing her studies. At home, Iris finds Raleigh asleep on his bed so she heads to shower the blood off her. After the shower, she goes to her brother's room only to find Raleigh was not sleeping but had committed suicide by overdosing on his medication, and Iris cries out in anguish.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Brittany Snow as Iris
Jeffrey Combs as Shepard Lambrick
Jonny Coyne as Bevans
Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. as Dr. Case Barden
Logan Miller as Raleigh
Enver Gjokaj as Lucas
Sasha Grey as Amy
John Heard as Conway
Charlie Hofheimer as Travis Schulke

Eddie Steeples as Cal
June Squibb as Linda
Robin Lord Taylor as Julian Lambrick
Robb Wells as Peter
Larry Cedar as Driver
Ptolemy Slocum as Shift Manager
Bobby C. King as Steward 1
Adam Mayfield as Steward 2

text: Production[edit]

text: The film's shooting began in July 2011.[2] It was filmed on location in Pasadena, Woodland Hills, and Los Angeles, CA.

text: Reception[edit]

text: Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 55% of 20 surveyed critics gave it a positive review; the average rating is 4.8/10.[3] Metacritic rated it 20/100 based on 11 reviews.[4]


document_title: The Lorax (film)

question_text: who did zac efron voice in the lorax

question_tokens: who did zac efron voice in the lorax

root

text: The Lorax (film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: Ted Wiggins is a 12-year-old, idealistic boy, who lives in Thneedville, a walled city that, aside from the human citizens, is completely artificial; everything is made of plastic, metal, or synthetics with no living plants. Ted has a crush on local environmentalist Audrey, who wants to see a "real tree" more than anything in the world, so he decides to find one in order to impress her. His energetic Granny Norma secretly tells Ted the legend of the Once-ler, who will tell anyone about trees if they bring him fifteen cents, a nail, and a shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail. When Ted leaves Thneedville in search of the Once-ler, he discovers that the outside world is a contaminated, empty, barren wasteland. Once the boy finds him, the Once-ler agrees to tell Ted about the trees on the condition that he listens to the story over multiple visits. Ted agrees, but on his next trip, he encounters the mayor of Thneedville, Aloysius O'Hare, who is also the proprietor of a company that sells bottled oxygen ("fresh air") to Thneedville residents. O'Hare explains to Ted that trees produce oxygen free of charge, and therefore, he considers them and/or people talking about them to be a threat to his business. After revealing that he has "security camera eyes" all over the city, O'Hare pressures Ted to stay in town. However, Ted continues to sneak out of O'Hare's sight with his grandmother's encouragement and learns more of the trees' history.

tag: p

text: Over Ted's various visits, the Once-ler recounts the story that when he was a young man, he departed his family to find good material for his Thneed invention and make a business. The Once-ler meets the guardian of the forest, the Lorax, after cutting down a Truffula tree in a lush Truffula tree forest valley. The Lorax urges the Once-ler to leave the forest, but the Once-ler refuses. Eventually, the Once-ler promises not to chop another tree down, and the two seem to begin a friendship of sorts. Then, the young businessman's Thneed invention becomes a major success and the Once-ler's family arrives to participate in the business. At first keeping his promise, the Once-ler continues Thneed production by harvesting the Truffula tree tufts in a slow, but sustainable manner. However, his greedy and lazy relatives soon convince him to resume chopping down the trees. Overtime, the Once-ler's deforestation spirals into a mass overproduction. Flushed with wealth, the Once-ler rationalizes his short-sighted needs into arrogant self-righteousness, and the Lorax's helpless protests do not stop him. The Once-ler pollutes the sky, river, and landscape, until the very last Truffula tree falls. With no further chance of business, he is left broken and his mother disowns him. With the region uninhabitable because of the pollution and deforestation from the Once-ler's business, the Lorax sends the animals off to find a new place to live before the Once-ler sees him depart into the sky, leaving only a stone-cut word: "Unless". Distraught and ruined, the Once-ler becomes a recluse.

text: After he finishes telling his story, the Once-ler finally understands the meaning behind the Lorax's last message, and gives Ted the last Truffula seed in hopes that he can use it to regrow the forest and make others care about real trees once more. Ted's desire to impress Audrey therefore becomes a personal mission to remind his town of the importance of nature. O'Hare, still determined not to have trees undercut his business, takes heavy-handed steps such as covering Audrey's nature paintings, closing off the door that Ted uses to see the Once-ler, and forcibly searching Ted's room for the seed, which has begun to grow after coming into contact with some water from Ted's falling bottle. Ted enlists his family and Audrey to help plant the seed. O'Hare and his two henchmen pursue the dissidents until they manage to elude him and reach the town center. When Ted finally attempts to plant the seed, he is interrupted by O'Hare, who rallies the population to stop them by telling the people that trees are extremely dangerous and filthy. To convince them otherwise, Ted takes an earthmover and rams down a section of the city wall to reveal the environmental destruction outside, thereby showing them what O'Hare is encouraging. Horrified at the sight and inspired by Ted's conviction (as though a part of the Lorax is within him), the crowd turns against O'Hare when they discover his true nature, with his own henchmen expelling him from the town with his jet pack-like helmet, and the seed is finally planted. Time passes and the land starts to recover; new trees sprout, the animals begin to return, and the redeemed, now-mustached Once-ler happily reunites with the Lorax.

text: Voice cast[edit]

text:
Danny DeVito as the Lorax[5]
Ed Helms as the Once-ler.[5] Neither the book nor the TV special reveal the Once-ler's face, but instead throughout the book, the Once-ler is pictured by what appears to be green arms and yellow eyes. The filmmakers used that as the basis for the Once-ler's character design. They interpreted the Once-ler as a human, and also featured his green gloves and showed his face for the first time in this film.
Zac Efron as Theodore "Ted" Wiggins, an idealistic 12-year-old boy.[6] He is named after the author of the book, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel).[7]
Taylor Swift as Audrey, Ted's love interest.[1] She is named after Audrey Geisel, Dr. Seuss' wife.[7]
Betty White as Grammy Norma, Ted's wise-cracking grandmother.[1]
Rob Riggle as Aloysius O'Hare, the greedy mayor of Thneedville and head of the "O'Hare Air" company that supplies fresh air to Thneedville residents.[5]
Jenny Slate as Mrs. Wiggins, Ted's neurotic mother.[8]
Nasim Pedrad as the Once-ler's mother.
Stephen Tobolowsky as Uncle Ubb, the Once-ler's uncle.
Elmarie Wendel as Aunt Grizelda, the Once-ler's aunt.
Danny Cooksey as Brett and Chet, the Once-ler's twin brothers.
Fletcher Sheridan (uncredited) as Cy, the O'Hare Air delivery guy
Chris Renaud as Assorted forest animals

tag: ul

text: Production[edit]

text: The film is the fourth feature film based on a book by Dr. Seuss, the second fully computer-animated adaptation (the first one being Horton Hears a Who!), and the first to be released in 3-D. The Lorax was also Illumination's first film presented in IMAX 3D (known as "IMAX Tree-D" in publicity for the film).[9] The idea for the film was initiated by Audrey Geisel, Dr. Seuss' wife, who had an established partnership with Chris Meledandri, the producer of the film, from a collaboration on Horton Hears a Who!. Geisel approached Meledandri when he launched Illumination Entertainment, saying "This is the one I want to do next".[10] The film was officially announced in July 2009, with Meledandri attached as the producer and Geisel as the executive producer. Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda were announced as the director and co-director of the film, while Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the duo who wrote the script for Horton Hears a Who!, were set to write the screenplay.[11] In 2010, it was announced that Danny DeVito would be voicing the titular character.[12]

text: The film was fully produced at the French studio "Illumination Mac Guff", which was the animation department of Mac Guff which was acquired by Illumination Entertainment in the summer of 2011.[13] DeVito reprised his role in five different languages, including the original English audio, and also for the Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian language dub editions.[14] Universal added an environmental message to the film's website after a fourth-grade class in Brookline, Massachusetts launched a successful petition through Change.org.[15]

text: Release[edit]

text: The film was released on March 2, 2012 in the United States and Canada and was released on July 27, 2012 in the United Kingdom.

text: Marketing controversy[edit]

text: Mazda used the likeness of The Lorax's setting and characters in an advertisement for their CX-5 SUV.[16] This was seen by some as the complete opposite of the work's original meaning.[17] In response, Stephanie Sperber, president of Universal partnerships and licensing, said Universal chose to partner with the Mazda CX-5 because it is "a really good choice for consumers to make who may not have the luxury or the money to buy electric or buy hybrid. It's a way to take the better environmental choice to everyone."[18]

text: The film has also been used to sell Seventh Generation disposable diapers.[19] In total, Illumination Entertainment struck more than 70 different product integration deals for the film.[20]

text: Home media[edit]

text: The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 7, 2012.

text: Mini-movies[edit]

text: Three mini-movies were released on the Lorax Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on August 7, 2012: Serenade, Wagon Ho!, and Forces of Nature.[21]

text: Lou wants to impress a girl Barbaloot, but he has some competition.

text: The Once-ler arrives with his wagon and Melvin. Then Pipsqueak and Lou arrive. The Once-ler tells them not to have joyrides. When the Once-ler goes inside his house, Pipsqueak and Lou start cranking up the wagon, but Melvin refuses to pull it because he is angry that they whipped the reins. So Pipsqueak hangs a Truffula fruit in front of Melvin as an incentive. However, Melvin gets exhausted going up a steep hill. Then the wagon gets unhooked from Melvin, and it rolls downhill backwards while Pipsqueak and Lou scream in terror. Melvin chases the runaway wagon. Lou tries to stop the wagon by stabbing a stick in one of its wheels, but he gets stuck on the wheel instead. Finally, he lands back on the seat next to Pipsqueak, who hugs him happily. The wagon hits a rock and is propelled downhill even faster. When it approaches a cliff, Pipsqueak panics and grabs the wagon canopy, which flies off—only to be held in place by Lou. The wagon flies off the cliff, but the canopy acts as a parachute and they make their descent calmly, landing in the same place they left. Melvin appears shortly after. The Once-ler comes out of the house and is surprised to see them. He expresses surprise that they listened to instructions, but just when it seems like they fooled him, Lou sneezes and the wagon falls apart. Melvin hides beneath his hooves and Lou and Pipsqueak curl up into a ball. The Once-ler looks annoyed and makes a small, disgruntled "Grr" sound, causing Lou and Pipsqueak to run away into the trees.

text: The Lorax makes Pipsqueak an Honorary Lorax and team up to scare the Once-ler by using two sticks that looks like a monster's hand to freak him out. The Once-ler finds out it is fake and sprays water on the Lorax, which makes his fur puff up. When the Lorax tells Pipsqueak that he is going to turn out like him, Pipsqueak gets scared and runs away. The short ends with the Lorax telling Pipsqueak that he has lost his Honorary Lorax title.

text: Video game[edit]

text: Blockdot created a mobile puzzle game based on the film, titled Truffula Shuffula. The game was released on February 1, 2012, for iOS and Android platforms.[22]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: The film earned a rating of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 151 reviews and an average rating of 5.9/10, with the critical consensus saying, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is cute and funny enough, but the moral simplicity of the book gets lost with the zany Hollywood production values."[23] It also has a score of 46 on Metacritic based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[24]

text: New York magazine film critic David Edelstein on NPR's All Things Considered strongly objected to the movie, arguing that the Hollywood animation and writing formulas washed out the spirit of the book.[25] "This kind of studio 3-D feature animation is all wrong for the material," he wrote. Demonstrating how the book's text was used in the movie in this excerpt from the review, Edelstein discusses Audrey describing the truffula trees to Ted:

text: Lou Dobbs, the host of Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network, has criticized the film as being "insidious nonsense from Hollywood", and accused Hollywood of "trying to indoctrinate children".[26] The film also garnered some positive reviews from critics such as Richard Roeper, who called it a "solid piece of family entertainment".[27] Roger Moore of the Pittsburgh Tribune called the film "a feast of bright, Seuss colors, and wonderful Seuss design", and supported its environmentalist message.[28]

text: Box office[edit]

text: The film has grossed $214 million in North America, and $134.8 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $348.8 million.[3]

text: The film topped the North American box office with $17.5 million on its opening day (Friday, March 2, 2012).[29] During the weekend, it grossed $70.2 million, easily beating the other new nationwide release, Project X ($21 million), and all other films.[30] This was the biggest opening for an Illumination Entertainment film,[31] and for a feature film adaptation of a book by Dr. Seuss,[32] as well as the second-largest for an environmentalist film.[33] It also scored the third-best debut for a film opening in March,[34] and the eighth-best of all time for an animated film.[35] The Lorax stayed at #1 the following weekend, dropping 45% to $38.8 million and beating all new nationwide releases, including Disney's John Carter (second place).[36] On April 11, 2012, it became the first animated film in nearly a year to gross more than $200 million in North America, since Walt Disney Animation Studios' Tangled.[37][38]

text: Music[edit]

text:
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Motion Picture Score

Film score by John Powell

Released
March 6, 2012

Genre
Score

Length
45:51

Label
Varèse Sarabande

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text: All tracks composed by John Powell[39]

text:
No.
Title
Length

1.
"Ted, Audrey and the Trees"
2:36

2.
"Granny to the Edge"
2:33

3.
"Wasteland"
2:17

4.
"Truffula Valley Fantasy (featuring The Lorax Humming Fish)"
5:00

5.
"Once-ler & Lorax Meet"
2:35

6.
"O'Hare Warns Ted"
3:21

7.
"The River Bed"
4:03

8.
"Houseguests"
3:12

9.
"Valley Exodus"
4:54

10.
"The Last Seed"
4:54

11.
"Thneedville Chase"
5:04

12.
"At the Park"
3:12

13.
"Funeral For a Tree"
2:10

Total length:
45:51

text:
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Songs from the Motion Picture

Film score by John Powell and Cinco Paul

Released
February 28, 2012

Genre
Soundtrack

Length
34:00

Label
Interscope, Geffen

text: All tracks written by John Powell and Cinco Paul[40].

text:
No.
Title
Music
Length

1.
"Let It Grow (Celebrate the World)"
Ester Dean
3:39

2.
"Thneedville"
Fletcher Sheridan, Antonio Sol, Beth Anderson, Oliver Powell, Edie Lehmann Boddicker, Missi Hale, and Rob Riggle
2:44

3.
"This is the Place"
Ed Helms
2:24

4.
"Everybody Needs a Thneed"
Ed Helms, Randy Crenshaw, Fletcher Sheridan, Edie Lehmann Boddicker, Monique Donnelly, Ty Taylor, and The 88
1:31

5.
"How Bad Can I Be?"
Ed Helms and Kool Kojak
2:52

6.
"Let It Grow"
Fletcher Sheridan, Dan Navarro, Edie Lehmann Boddicker, Jenny Slate, Claira Titman, Betty White, Rob Riggle, and Ed Helms
3:17

7.
"Let It Grow Gospel Ending (Original Demo)"
Jenny Slate
0:52

8.
"Thneedville (Original Demo)"
Fletcher Sheridan
3:58

9.
"The Once-ler's Traveling Madness (Original Demo)"
Ed Helms
1:35

10.
"I Love Nature (Original Demo)"
Randy Crenshaw
2:43

11.
"You Need a Thneed (Original Demo)"
Keith Slettedahl and The 88 featuring Antonio Sol, Fletcher Sheridan, and Taylor Graves
1:32

12.
"Nobody Needs a Thneed (Original Demo)"
Fletcher Sheridan and Randy Crenshaw
1:52

13.
"Biggering (Original Demo)"
Gabriel Mann, Randy Crenshaw, and The 88
5:01

Total length:
34:00


document_title: List of highest-grossing films

question_text: what is the movie with the highest box office

text: List of highest-grossing films

text: Highest-grossing films

text: With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.7 billion, Avatar is often proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film's earnings. Once revenue from home entertainment is factored in it is not immediately clear which film is the most successful. Titanic earned $1.2 billion from video and DVD sales and rentals,[1] in addition to the $2.2 billion it grossed in theaters. While complete sales data are not available for Avatar, it earned $345 million from the sale of sixteen million DVD and Blu-ray units in North America,[2] 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.

text: When a film is highly exploitable as a commercial property, its ancillary revenues can dwarf its income from direct film sales.[5] 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[9]—generated global merchandise sales of over $8 billion in the five years after its 2006 release.[10][11] 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.[12]

text: 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.

text:
Highest-grossing films[13]

Rank

Peak

Title

Worldwide gross

Year

Reference(s)

1

1

Avatar

$2,787,965,087

2009

[# 1][# 2]

2

1

Titanic

$2,187,463,944

1997

[# 3][# 4]

3

3

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

$2,068,223,624

2015

[# 5][# 6]

4

3

Jurassic World

$1,671,713,208

2015

[# 7][# 8]

5

3

The Avengers

$1,518,812,988

2012

[# 9][# 10]

6

4

Furious 7

$1,516,045,911

2015

[# 11][# 12]

7

5

Avengers: Age of Ultron

$1,405,403,694

2015

[# 13][# 12]

8

3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

$1,341,511,219

2011

[# 14][# 15]

9

9

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

$1,332,757,449

2017

[# 16]

10

10

Black Panther

$1,324,656,634

2018

[# 17]

11F

5

Frozen

$1,290,000,000

2013

[# 18][# 19]

12

10

Beauty and the Beast

$1,263,521,126

2017

[# 20][# 21]

13

11

The Fate of the Furious

$1,238,764,765F8

2017

[# 22][# 21]

14

5

Iron Man 3

$1,214,811,252

2013

[# 23][# 24]

15

10

Minions

$1,159,398,397

2015

[# 25][# 8]

16

12

Captain America: Civil War

$1,153,304,495

2016

[# 26][# 27]

17

4

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

$1,123,794,079

2011

[# 28][# 15]

18

2

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

$1,120,237,002

2003

[# 29][# 30]

19

7

Skyfall

$1,108,561,013

2012

[# 31][# 32]

20

10

Transformers: Age of Extinction

$1,104,054,072

2014

[# 33][# 34]

21

7

The Dark Knight Rises

$1,084,939,099

2012

[# 35][# 36]

22

4TS3

Toy Story 3

$1,066,969,703

2010

[# 37][# 38]

23

3

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

$1,066,179,725

2006

[# 39][# 40]

24

20

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

$1,056,057,273

2016

[# 41][# 42]

25

6

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

$1,045,713,802

2011

[# 43][# 44]

26

24

Despicable Me 3

$1,034,799,409

2017

[# 45][# 21]

27

1

Jurassic Park

$1,029,939,903

1993

[# 46][# 47]

28

22

Finding Dory

$1,028,570,889

2016

[# 48][# 49]

29

2

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

$1,027,044,677

1999

[# 50][# 4]

30

5

Alice in Wonderland

$1,025,467,110

2010

[# 51][# 52]

31

24

Zootopia

$1,023,784,195

2016

[# 53][# 27]

32

14

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

$1,021,103,568

2012

[# 54][# 55]

33

4

The Dark Knight

$1,004,558,444

2008

[# 56][# 57]

34

2

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

$974,755,371

2001

[# 58][# 59]

35

19DM2

Despicable Me 2

$970,761,885

2013

[# 60][# 61]

36

2

The Lion King

$968,483,777

1994

[# 62][# 47]

37

30

The Jungle Book

$966,550,600

2016

[# 63][# 64]

38

5

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

$963,420,425

2007

[# 65][# 66]

39

10

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

$960,283,305

2010

[# 67][# 68]

40

24

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

$958,366,855

2013

[# 69][# 70]

41

41

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

$956,618,644

2017

[# 71]

42

26

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

$956,019,788

2014

[# 72][# 73]

43

8FN

Finding Nemo

$940,335,536

2003

[# 74][# 30]

44

6

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

$939,885,929

2007

[# 75][# 66]

45

8

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

$934,416,487

2009

[# 76][# 77]

46

4

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

$926,349,708

2002

[# 78][# 79]

47

6

Shrek 2

$919,838,758

2004

[# 80][# 81]

48

8

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

$896,911,078

2005

[# 82][# 83]

49

10

Spider-Man 3

$890,871,626

2007

[# 84][# 85]

50

15

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

$886,686,817

2009

[# 86][# 77]

text:
FBox 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.
F8In 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.[14] In view of what appears to be an aberration in the source an alternative figure is provided.
TS3The 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.
FNFinding 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.

text: This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (February 2018)

text: Because of the long-term effects of inflation, notably the significant increase of movie theater ticket prices, the list unadjusted for inflation gives far more weight to later films.[15] The unadjusted list, while commonly found in the press, is therefore largely meaningless for comparing films widely separated in time, as many films from earlier eras will never appear on a modern unadjusted list, despite achieving higher commercial success when adjusted for price increases.[16] To compensate for the devaluation of the currency, some charts make adjustments for inflation, but not even this practice fully addresses the issue since ticket prices and inflation do not necessarily parallel one another. For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars.[17] Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses.[15]

text: Another complication is release in multiple formats for which different ticket prices are charged. One notable example of this phenomenon is Avatar, which was also released in 3D and IMAX: almost two-thirds of tickets for that film were for 3D showings with an average price of $10, and about one-sixth were for IMAX showings with an average price over $14.50, compared to a 2010 average price of $7.61 for 2D films.[18] Social and economic factors such as population change[19] and the growth of international markets[20][21][22] also impact on the number of people purchasing theater tickets, along with audience demographics where some films sell a much higher proportion of discounted children's tickets, or perform better in big cities where tickets cost more.[16]

text: The measuring system for gauging a film's success is based on unadjusted grosses, mainly because historically this is the way it has always been done because of the practices of the film industry: the box office receipts are compiled by theaters and relayed to the distributor, which in turn releases them to the media.[23] Converting to a more representative system that counts ticket sales rather than gross is also fraught with problems because the only data available for older films are the sale totals.[19] As the motion picture industry is highly oriented towards marketing currently released films, unadjusted figures are always used in marketing campaigns so that new blockbuster films can much more easily achieve a high sales ranking, and thus be promoted as a "top film of all time",[17][24] so there is little incentive to switch to a more robust analysis from a marketing or even newsworthy point of view.[23]

text: Despite the inherent difficulties in accounting for inflation, several attempts have been made. Estimates depend on the price index used to adjust the grosses,[24] and the exchange rates used to convert between currencies can also impact upon the calculations, both of which can have an effect on the ultimate rankings of an inflation adjusted list. Gone with the Wind—first released in 1939—is generally considered to be the most successful film, with Guinness World Records in 2014 estimating its adjusted global gross at $3.4 billion. Estimates for Gone with the Wind's adjusted gross have varied substantially: its owner, Turner Entertainment, estimated its adjusted earnings at $3.3 billion in 2007, a few years earlier than the Guinness estimate;[25] other estimates fall either side of this amount, with one putting its gross just under $3 billion in 2010,[26] while another provided an alternative figure of $3.8 billion in 2006.[27] Which film is Gone with the Wind's nearest rival depends on the set of figures used: Guinness had Avatar in second place with $3 billion, while other estimates saw Titanic in the runner-up spot with first-run worldwide earnings of almost $2.9 billion at 2010 prices. The only other film that all sources agreed grossed in excess of $2 billion at recent prices is Star Wars; according to Guinness it has earned $2.8 billion at 2014 price levels, while other sources from 2010/2011 put its adjusted earnings at $2.2–2.6 billion.[26][28]

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Highest-grossing films adjusted for inflation as of  2014[update][29][30][TFA]

Rank

Title

Worldwide gross  (2014 $)

Year

1

Gone with the Wind

$3,440,000,000

1939

2

Avatar

$3,020,000,000

2009

3

Star Wars

$2,825,000,000

1977

4

Titanic

$2,516,000,000T$2,516,000,000

1997

5

The Sound of Music

$2,366,000,000

1965

6

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

$2,310,000,000

1982

7

The Ten Commandments

$2,187,000,000

1956

8

Doctor Zhivago

$2,073,000,000

1965

9

Jaws

$2,027,000,000

1975

10

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

$1,819,000,000S$1,819,000,000

1937

text: TFAEven though the nominal gross for Star Wars: The Force Awakens surpasses the inflation-adjusted gross for both Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Jaws, inflation has occurred in the interim so it is not possible to rank it until Guinness World Records provide an updated chart of adjusted grosses.

text: TThe figure for Titanic is most likely based on the gross from its 1997 theatrical release, and does not incorporate earnings from the 2012 reissue. According to the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records, the adjusted total for Titanic as of 2011 stood at $2,413,800,000, and a re-release in 2012 added a further $343,550,770 to the total.[31] However, the 2015 edition put the adjusted total at $2,516,000,000—an increase of just $102,000,000; this is a rise of 4.2% since 2011, an increase shared by the other adjusted totals in the chart.

text: SThe 2015 edition of Guinness World Records does not provide an explicit figure for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, it does state that it is one of only two pre-1955 films—the other being Gone with the Wind—that are among the adjusted top ten. It placed tenth in the 2012 edition, and the eleventh highest-grossing film according to the 2015 edition is The Exorcist, which has grossed $1.794 billion adjusted to 2014 prices. The adjusted grosses for the other films on the chart increased by 4.2 percent between 2011 and 2014 according to Guinness, and using this apparent rate of inflation would take the adjusted gross for Snow White from $1.746 billion at 2011 prices to $1.819 billion at 2014 prices.

text: High-grossing films by year

text:
Glossary: Distributor rentals

Box-office figures are reported in the form of gross or distributor rentals, the latter being especially true of older films. Commonly mistaken for home video revenue, the rentals are the distributor's share of the film's theatrical revenue i.e. the box office gross less the exhibitor's cut.[32][33] Historically, the rental price averaged at 30–40% when the distributors owned the theater chains, equating to just over a third of the gross being paid to the distributor of the film.[34] In the modern marketplace, rental fees can vary greatly—depending on a number of factors—although the films from the major studios average out at 43%.[32]

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text: Audience tastes were fairly eclectic during the 20th century, but several trends did emerge. During the silent era, films with war themes were popular with audiences, with The Birth of a Nation (American Civil War), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Big Parade and Wings (all World War I) becoming the most successful films in their respective years of release, with the trend coming to an end with All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930. With the advent of sound in 1927, the musical—the genre best placed to showcase the new technology—took over as the most popular type of film with audiences, with 1928 and 1929 both being topped by musical films. The genre continued to perform strongly in the 1930s, but the outbreak of World War II saw war themed films dominate again during this period, starting with Gone with the Wind (American Civil War) in 1939, and finishing with The Best Years of Our Lives (World War II) in 1946. Samson and Delilah (1949) saw the beginning of a trend of increasingly expensive historical dramas set during Ancient Rome/biblical times throughout the 1950s as cinema competed with television for audiences,[35] with Quo Vadis, The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and Spartacus all becoming the highest-grossing film of the year during initial release, before the genre started to wane after several high-profile failures.[36] The success of White Christmas and South Pacific in the 1950s foreshadowed the comeback of the musical in the 1960s with West Side Story, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and Funny Girl all among the top films of the decade. The 1970s saw a shift in audience tastes to high concept films, with six such films made by either George Lucas or Steven Spielberg topping the chart during the 1980s. The 21st century has seen an increasing dependence on franchises and adaptations, with the box office dominance of films based on pre-existing intellectual property at record levels.[37]

text: Steven Spielberg is the most represented director on the chart with six films to his credit, occupying the top spot in 1975, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989 and 1993. Cecil B. DeMille (1932, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1956) and William Wyler (1942, 1946, 1959 and 1968) are in second and third place with five and four films respectively, while D. W. Griffith (1915, 1916 and 1920), George Roy Hill (1966, 1969 and 1973) and James Cameron (1991, 1997 and 2009) all feature heavily with three films apiece. George Lucas directed two chart-toppers in 1977 and 1999, but also served in a strong creative capacity as a producer and writer in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1989 as well. The following directors have also all directed two films on the chart: Frank Lloyd, King Vidor, Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Guy Hamilton, Mike Nichols, William Friedkin, Peter Jackson, Gore Verbinski and Michael Bay; Mervyn LeRoy, Ken Annakin and Robert Wise are each represented by one solo credit and one shared credit, and John Ford co-directed two films. Disney films are usually co-directed and some directors have served on several winning teams: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, Wolfgang Reitherman and Bill Roberts have all co-directed at least two films on the list. Only five directors have topped the chart in consecutive years: McCarey (1944 and 1945), Nichols (1966 and 1967), Spielberg (1981 and 1982), Jackson (2002 and 2003) and Verbinski (2006 and 2007).

text: Because of release schedules—especially in the case of films released towards the end of the year—and different release patterns across the world, many films can do business in two or more calendar years; therefore the grosses documented here are not confined to just the year of release. Grosses are not limited to original theatrical runs either, with many older films often being re-released periodically so the figures represent all the business a film has done since its original release; a film's first-run gross is included in brackets after the total if known. Because of incomplete data it cannot be known for sure how much money some films have made and when they made it, but generally the chart chronicles the films from each year that went on to earn the most. In the cases where estimates conflict both films are recorded, and in cases where a film has moved into first place because of being re-released the previous record-holder is also retained. At least one film every year has generated $100 million in gross revenue at the box office since 1967, and from 2008 each year has succeeded in producing a billion dollar grossing film.

text:
High-grossing films by year of release[38][39][40]

Year

Title

Worldwide gross

Budget

Reference(s)

1915

The Birth of a Nation

7007500000000000000♠$50,000,000–7008100000000000000♠100,000,0007007200000000000000♠$20,000,000+R (7006520000000000000♠$5,200,000)R

7005110000000000000♠$110,000

[# 87][# 88][# 89]

1916

Intolerance

7006100000000000000♠$1,000,000*R IN

7005489653000000000♠$489,653

[# 90][# 91]

1917

Cleopatra

7005500000000000000♠$500,000*R

7005300000000000000♠$300,000

[# 90]

1918

Mickey

7006800000000000000♠$8,000,000

7005250000000000000♠$250,000

[# 92]

1919

The Miracle Man

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000R

7005120000000000000♠$120,000

[# 93]

1920

Way Down East

7006500000000000000♠$5,000,000R (7006400000000000000♠$4,000,000)R

7005800000000000000♠$800,000

[# 94][# 95]

1921

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

7006500000000000000♠$5,000,000R (7006400000000000000♠$4,000,000)R

7005600000000000000♠$600,000–7005800000000000000♠800,000

[# 96]

1922

Robin Hood

7006250000000000000♠$2,500,000R

7005930042780000000♠$930,042.78

[# 97][# 98]

1923

The Covered Wagon

7006500000000000000♠$5,000,000R

7005800000000000000♠$800,000

[# 99][# 100]

1924

The Sea Hawk

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000R

7005700000000000000♠$700,000

[# 99]

1925

The Big Parade

7007180000000000000♠$18,000,000–7007220000000000000♠22,000,000R  (7006613100000000000♠$6,131,000)R

7005382000000000000♠$382,000

[# 101][# 102][# 103]

Ben-Hur

7007107380000000000♠$10,738,000R (7006938600000000000♠$9,386,000)R

7006396700000000000♠$3,967,000

[# 104][# 105]

1926

For Heaven's Sake

7006260000000000000♠$2,600,000R FH

7005150000000000000♠$150,000

[# 94][# 106]

1927

Wings

7006360000000000000♠$3,600,000R

7006200000000000000♠$2,000,000

[# 94][# 107][# 108]

1928

The Singing Fool

7006590000000000000♠$5,900,000R

7005388000000000000♠$388,000

[# 108][# 109]

1929

The Broadway Melody

7006440000000000000♠$4,400,000–7006480000000000000♠4,800,000R

7005379000000000000♠$379,000

[# 110][# 111]

Sunny Side Up

7006350000000000000♠$3,500,000*R SS

7005600000000000000♠$600,000

[# 112][# 113]

1930

All Quiet on the Western Front

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000R

7006125000000000000♠$1,250,000

[# 94][# 114][# 115][# 116]

1931

Frankenstein

7007120000000000000♠$12,000,000R (7006140000000000000♠$1,400,000)R

7005250000000000000♠$250,000

[# 117][# 118]

City Lights

7006500000000000000♠$5,000,000R

7006160735100000000♠$1,607,351

[# 119]

1932

The Sign of the Cross

7006273899300000000♠$2,738,993R

7005694065000000000♠$694,065

[# 100][# 120][# 121][# 122]

1933

King Kong

7006534700000000000♠$5,347,000R (7006185600000000000♠$1,856,000)R

7005672255750000000♠$672,255.75

[# 123]

I'm No Angel

7006325000000000000♠$3,250,000+R

7005200000000000000♠$200,000

[# 124][# 125]

Cavalcade

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000–7006400000000000000♠4,000,000R

7006111600000000000♠$1,116,000

[# 95][# 115]

She Done Him Wrong

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000+R

7005274076000000000♠$274,076

[# 126][# 127][# 128]

1934

The Merry Widow

7006260800000000000♠$2,608,000R

7006160500000000000♠$1,605,000

[# 129][# 121]

It Happened One Night

7006100000000000000♠$1,000,000R ON

7005325000000000000♠$325,000

[# 130][# 131]

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

7006446000000000000♠$4,460,000R

7006190500000000000♠$1,905,000

[# 121]

1936

San Francisco

7006604400000000000♠$6,044,000+R (7006527300000000000♠$5,273,000)R

7006130000000000000♠$1,300,000

[# 129][# 121]

1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

7008418000000000000♠$418,000,000+S7 (7006850000000000000♠$8,500,000)R

7006148842300000000♠$1,488,423

[# 132][# 133]

1938

You Can't Take It With You

7006500000000000000♠$5,000,000R

7006120000000000000♠$1,200,000

[# 134][# 135]

1939

Gone with the Wind

7008390525192000000♠$390,525,192–7008401776459000000♠401,776,459  (7007320000000000000♠$32,000,000)R GW

7006390000000000000♠$3,900,000–7006425000000000000♠4,250,000

[# 136][# 137][# 138][# 139]

1940

Pinocchio

7007870008620000000♠$87,000,862* (7006350000000000000♠$3,500,000)R

7006260000000000000♠$2,600,000

[# 140][# 133][# 141]

Boom Town

7006460000000000000♠$4,600,000*R

7006210000000000000♠$2,100,000

[# 142][# 143]

1941

Sergeant York

7006780000000000000♠$7,800,000R

7006160000000000000♠$1,600,000

[# 144][# 145]

1942

Bambi

7008267997843000000♠$267,997,843 (7006344935300000000♠$3,449,353)R

7006170000000000000♠$1,700,000–7006200000000000000♠2,000,000

[# 146][# 147][# 148]

Mrs. Miniver

7006887800000000000♠$8,878,000R

7006134400000000000♠$1,344,000

[# 149][# 150]

1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

7007110000000000000♠$11,000,000R

7006268129800000000♠$2,681,298

[# 151][# 152][# 153]

This Is the Army

7006955558644000000♠$9,555,586.44*R

7006140000000000000♠$1,400,000

[# 154][# 155][# 153]

1944

Going My Way

7006650000000000000♠$6,500,000*R

7006100000000000000♠$1,000,000

[# 156][# 157][# 158]

1945

Mom and Dad

7007800000000000000♠$80,000,000MD/7007220000000000000♠$22,000,000R

7004650000000000000♠$65,000

[# 159]

The Bells of St. Mary's

7007112000000000000♠$11,200,000R

7006160000000000000♠$1,600,000

[# 160]

1946

Song of the South

7007650000000000000♠$65,000,000* (7006330000000000000♠$3,300,000)R

7006212500000000000♠$2,125,000

[# 161][# 162][# 163]

The Best Years of Our Lives

7007147500000000000♠$14,750,000R

7006210000000000000♠$2,100,000

[# 164][# 165]

Duel in the Sun

7007100000000000000♠$10,000,000*R

7006525500000000000♠$5,255,000

[# 156][# 166]

1947

Forever Amber

7006800000000000000♠$8,000,000R

7006637500000000000♠$6,375,000

[# 112][# 166]

Unconquered

7006750000000000000♠$7,500,000R UN

7006420000000000000♠$4,200,000

[# 167][# 168]

1948

Easter Parade

7006591813400000000♠$5,918,134R

7006250000000000000♠$2,500,000

[# 158][# 169]

The Red Shoes

7006500000000000000♠$5,000,000*R

7006200000000000000♠7005505581000000000♠£505,581 (7006200000000000000♠~$2,000,000)

[# 156][# 170][# 171]

The Snake Pit

7006410000000000000♠$4,100,000*R

7006380000000000000♠$3,800,000

[# 172][# 173]

1949

Samson and Delilah

7007142092500000000♠$14,209,250R

7006309756300000000♠$3,097,563

[# 174][# 100]

1950

Cinderella

7008263591415000000♠$263,591,415(7007200000000000000♠$20,000,000/7006780000000000000♠$7,800,000R)

7006220000000000000♠$2,200,000

[# 175][# 176][# 177]

King Solomon's Mines

7007100500000000000♠$10,050,000R

7006225800000000000♠$2,258,000

[# 178]

1951

Quo Vadis

7007210370000000000♠$21,037,000–7007267000000000000♠26,700,000R

7006762300000000000♠$7,623,000

[# 174][# 179][# 180]

1952

This Is Cinerama

7007500000000000000♠$50,000,000CI

7006100000000000000♠$1,000,000

[# 181][# 182]

The Greatest Show on Earth

7007183500000000000♠$18,350,000R GS

7006387394600000000♠$3,873,946

[# 183][# 184][# 100]

1953

Peter Pan

7008145000000000000♠$145,000,000

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000–7006400000000000000♠4,000,000

[# 185]

The Robe

7007250000000000000♠$25,000,000–7007261000000000000♠26,100,000R

7006410000000000000♠$4,100,000

[# 186][# 187][# 180]

1954

Rear Window

7007245000000000000♠$24,500,000* (7006530000000000000♠$5,300,000)*R

7006100000000000000♠$1,000,000

[# 188][# 179]

White Christmas

7007260000500000000♠$26,000,050* (7007120000000000000♠$12,000,000)*R

7006380000000000000♠$3,800,000

[# 189][# 190][# 191]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

7007250001340000000♠$25,000,134*(7006680000000000000♠$6,800,000–7006800000000000000♠8,000,000)*R

7006450000000000000♠$4,500,000–7006900000000000000♠9,000,000

[# 192][# 193][# 156][# 194]

1955

Lady and the Tramp

7008187000000000000♠$187,000,000 (7006650000000000000♠$6,500,000)*R

7006400000000000000♠$4,000,000

[# 195][# 156][# 196]

Cinerama Holiday

7007210000000000000♠$21,000,000CI

7006200000000000000♠$2,000,000

[# 197][# 198]

Mister Roberts

7006990000000000000♠$9,900,000R

7006240000000000000♠$2,400,000

[# 199]

1956

The Ten Commandments

7007900662300000000♠$90,066,230R(7008122700000000000♠$122,700,000/7007552000000000000♠$55,200,000R)

7007132700000000000♠$13,270,000

[# 100][# 200][# 201]

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai

7007306000000000000♠$30,600,000R

7006284000000000000♠$2,840,000

[# 201]

1958

South Pacific

7007300000000000000♠$30,000,000R

7006561000000000000♠$5,610,000

[# 202]

1959

Ben-Hur

7007900000000000000♠$90,000,000R(7008146900000000000♠$146,900,000/7007661000000000000♠$66,100,000R)

7007159000000000000♠$15,900,000

[# 203][# 204]

1960

Swiss Family Robinson

7007300000000000000♠$30,000,000R

7006400000000000000♠$4,000,000

[# 205]

Spartacus

7007600000000000000♠$60,000,000 (7007221052250000000♠$22,105,225)R

7007102840140000000♠$10,284,014

[# 206][# 207]

Psycho

7007500000000000000♠$50,000,000+ (7007140000000000000♠$14,000,000)R

7005800000000000000♠$800,000

[# 208]

1961

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

7008215880212000000♠$215,880,212

7006360000000000000♠$3,600,000–7006400000000000000♠4,000,000

[# 209][# 210][# 148]

West Side Story

7008105000000000000♠$105,000,000 (7007318000000000000♠$31,800,000)R

7006700000000000000♠$7,000,000

[# 211][# 212]

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

7007773248520000000♠$77,324,852 (7007699953850000000♠$69,995,385)

7007138000000000000♠$13,800,000

[# 213][# 214]

How the West Was Won

7007350000000000000♠$35,000,000R

7007144830000000000♠$14,483,000

[# 215]

The Longest Day

7007332000000000000♠$33,200,000R

7006860000000000000♠$8,600,000

[# 212][# 214]

1963

Cleopatra

7007403000000000000♠$40,300,000R

7007311150000000000♠$31,115,000

[# 212][# 214]

From Russia with Love

7007789000000000000♠$78,900,000/7007294000000000000♠$29,400,000R(7007125000000000000♠$12,500,000)R

7006200000000000000♠$2,000,000

[# 216][# 217][# 218]

1964

My Fair Lady

7007550000000000000♠$55,000,000R

7007170000000000000♠$17,000,000

[# 219]

Goldfinger

7008124900000000000♠$124,900,000 (7007460000000000000♠$46,000,000)R

7006300000000000000♠$3,000,000

[# 216][# 218]

Mary Poppins

7007440000000000000♠$44,000,000–7007500000000000000♠$50,000,000R

7006520000000000000♠$5,200,000

[# 220][# 219]

1965

The Sound of Music

7008286214076000000♠$286,214,076 (7008114600000000000♠$114,600,000)R

7006800000000000000♠$8,000,000

[# 221][# 212]

1966

The Bible: In the Beginning

7007253000000000000♠$25,300,000R

7007180000000000000♠$18,000,000

[# 207]

Hawaii

7007345622220000000♠$34,562,222* (7007156000000000000♠$15,600,000)*R

7007150000000000000♠$15,000,000

[# 222][# 156]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

7007300000000000000♠$30,000,000* (7007145000000000000♠$14,500,000)*R

7006761300000000000♠$7,613,000

[# 223][# 156][# 224]

1967

The Jungle Book

7008378000000000000♠$378,000,000 (7007238000000000000♠$23,800,000)R

7006390000000000000♠$3,900,000–7006400000000000000♠4,000,000

[# 195][# 225][# 226][# 148]

The Graduate

7007850000000000000♠$85,000,000R

7006310000000000000♠$3,100,000

[# 227][# 228]

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

7008138000000000000♠$138,000,000–7008190000000000000♠190,000,000(7007219000000000000♠$21,900,000)R

7007103000000000000♠$10,300,000

[# 229][# 230][# 212]

Funny Girl

7007800000000000000♠$80,000,000–7008100000000000000♠100,000,000

7006880000000000000♠$8,800,000

[# 231][# 232]

1969

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7008152308525000000♠$152,308,525 (7007371000000000000♠$37,100,000)R

7006660000000000000♠$6,600,000

[# 233][# 212][# 228]

1970

Love Story

7007800000000000000♠$80,000,000R

7006226000000000000♠$2,260,000

[# 234][# 235]

Airport

7007750000000000000♠$75,000,000R

7007100000000000000♠$10,000,000

[# 236][# 237]

1971

The French Connection

7007750000000000000♠$75,000,000R

7006330000000000000♠$3,300,000

[# 112]

Fiddler on the Roof

7007494000000000000♠$49,400,000R  (7008100000000000000♠$100,000,000/7007451000000000000♠$45,100,000R)

7006900000000000000♠$9,000,000

[# 238][# 239]

Diamonds Are Forever

7008116000000000000♠$116,000,000 (7007457000000000000♠$45,700,000)R

7006720000000000000♠$7,200,000

[# 216][# 217]

1972

The Godfather

7008245066044000000♠$245,066,044–7008286000000000000♠286,000,000  (7008127600000000000♠$127,600,000–7008142000000000000♠142,000,000)R

7006620000000000000♠$6,200,000

[# 240][# 239][# 241][# 242]

1973

The Exorcist

7008413071948000000♠$413,071,948 (7008110000000000000♠$110,000,000)R

7007100000000000000♠$10,000,000

[# 243][# 244]

The Sting

7008115000000000000♠$115,000,000R

7006550000000000000♠$5,500,000

[# 245][# 246]

1974

The Towering Inferno

7007918380000000000♠$91,838,000R

7007143000000000000♠$14,300,000

[# 247][# 248][# 249][# 250]

Blazing Saddles

7007800000000000000♠$80,000,000+R

7006260000000000000♠$2,600,000

[# 251][# 252]

1975

Jaws

7008470653591000000♠$470,653,591 (7008193700000000000♠$193,700,000)R

7006900000000000000♠$9,000,000

[# 253][# 254][# 255]

1976

Rocky

7008225000000000000♠$225,000,000 (7007771000000000000♠$77,100,000)R

7006107500000000000♠$1,075,000

[# 256][# 239][# 257]

1977

Star Wars

7008775398007000000♠$775,398,007  (7008530000000000000♠$530,000,000SW/7008268500000000000♠$268,500,000R)

7007112931510000000♠$11,293,151

[# 258][# 259][# 239][# 260]

1978

Grease

7008394954752000000♠$394,954,752 (7008341000000000000♠$341,000,000)

7006600000000000000♠$6,000,000

[# 261][# 262][# 227]

1979

Moonraker

7008210300000000000♠$210,300,000

7007310000000000000♠$31,000,000

[# 216][# 263]

Rocky II

7008200182289000000♠$200,182,289

7006700000000000000♠$7,000,000

[# 264][# 265][# 263]

1980

The Empire Strikes Back

7008547969004000000♠$547,969,004 (7008413562607000000♠$413,562,607)SW

7007230000000000000♠$23,000,000–7007320000000000000♠32,000,000

[# 266][# 267]

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark

7008389925971000000♠$389,925,971  (7008321866000000000♠$321,866,000–7008353988025000000♠353,988,025)

7007180000000000000♠$18,000,000–7007228000000000000♠22,800,000

[# 268]

1982

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

7008792910554000000♠$792,910,554  (7008619000000000000♠$619,000,000–7008664000000000000♠664,000,000)

7007105000000000000♠$10,500,000–7007122000000000000♠12,200,000

[# 269][# 259][# 270][# 271]

1983

Return of the Jedi

7008475106177000000♠$475,106,177 (7008385845197000000♠$385,845,197)SW

7007325000000000000♠$32,500,000–7007427000000000000♠42,700,000

[# 272][# 267]

1984

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

7008333107271000000♠$333,107,271

7007270000000000000♠$27,000,000–7007282000000000000♠28,200,000

[# 273][# 274][# 275]

1985

Back to the Future

7008389053797000000♠$389,053,797 (7008381109762000000♠$381,109,762)

7007190000000000000♠$19,000,000–7007220000000000000♠22,000,000

[# 276][# 277]

1986

Top Gun

7008356830601000000♠$356,830,601 (7008345000000000000♠$345,000,000)

7007140000000000000♠$14,000,000–7007190000000000000♠19,000,000

[# 278][# 279][# 274]

1987

Fatal Attraction

7008320145905000000♠$320,145,905

7007140000000000000♠$14,000,000

[# 280][# 274]

1988

Rain Man

7008354825476000000♠$354,825,476

7007300000000000000♠$30,000,000

[# 281][# 282]

1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

7008474171806000000♠$474,171,806–7008494000000000000♠494,000,000

7007360000000000000♠$36,000,000–7007554000000000000♠55,400,000

[# 283][# 274][# 284]

1990

Ghost

7008505702423000000♠$505,702,423

7007220000000000000♠$22,000,000

[# 285][# 274]

1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

7008523774456000000♠$523,774,456 ($519,843,345)

7007940000000000000♠$94,000,000

[# 286][# 287]

1992

Aladdin

7008504050045000000♠$504,050,045

7007280000000000000♠$28,000,000

[# 288][# 148]

1993

Jurassic Park

7009102993990300000♠$1,029,939,903 (7008914691118000000♠$914,691,118)

7007630000000000000♠$63,000,000–7007700000000000000♠70,000,000

[# 46]

1994

The Lion King

7008968483777000000♠$968,483,777 (7008763455561000000♠$763,455,561)

7007450000000000000♠$45,000,000–7007793000000000000♠79,300,000

[# 62]

1995

Toy Story

7008373554033000000♠$373,554,033 (7008364873776000000♠$364,873,776)

7007300000000000000♠$30,000,000

[# 289][# 290]

Die Hard with a Vengeance

7008366101666000000♠$366,101,666

7007700000000000000♠$70,000,000

[# 291][# 292]

1996

Independence Day

7008817400891000000♠$817,400,891

7007750000000000000♠$75,000,000

[# 293]

1997

Titanic

7009218746394400000♠$2,187,463,944 (7009184320126800000♠$1,843,201,268)

7008200000000000000♠$200,000,000

[# 3]

1998

Armageddon

7008553709626000000♠$553,709,626

7008140000000000000♠$140,000,000

[# 294][# 295]

1999

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

7009102704467700000♠$1,027,044,677 (7008924317558000000♠$924,317,558)

7008115000000000000♠$115,000,000–7008127500000000000♠127,500,000

[# 50][# 267]

2000

Mission: Impossible 2

7008546388105000000♠$546,388,105

7008100000000000000♠$100,000,000–7008125000000000000♠125,000,000

[# 296][# 274]

2001

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

7008974755371000000♠$974,755,371

7008125000000000000♠$125,000,000

[# 58]

2002

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

7008926349708000000♠$926,349,708 (7008921780457000000♠$921,780,457)

7007940000000000000♠$94,000,000

[# 78]

2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

7009112023700200000♠$1,120,237,002 (7009111911094100000♠$1,119,110,941)

7007940000000000000♠$94,000,000

[# 29]

2004

Shrek 2

7008919838758000000♠$919,838,758

7008150000000000000♠$150,000,000

[# 80]

2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

7008896911078000000♠$896,911,078

7008150000000000000♠$150,000,000

[# 82]

2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

7009106617972500000♠$1,066,179,725

7008225000000000000♠$225,000,000

[# 39]

2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

7008963420425000000♠$963,420,425

7008300000000000000♠$300,000,000

[# 65]

2008

The Dark Knight

7009100455844400000♠$1,004,558,444 (7008997039412000000♠$997,039,412)

7008185000000000000♠$185,000,000

[# 56]

2009

Avatar

7009278796508700000♠$2,787,965,087 (7009274906432800000♠$2,749,064,328)

7008237000000000000♠$237,000,000

[# 1][# 297]

2010

Toy Story 3

7009106696970300000♠$1,066,969,703

7008200000000000000♠$200,000,000

[# 37]

2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

7009134151121900000♠$1,341,511,219

7008250000000000000♠$250,000,000HP

[# 14][# 298]

2012

The Avengers

7009151881298800000♠$1,518,812,988

7008220000000000000♠$220,000,000

[# 9]

2013

Frozen

7009129000000000000♠$1,290,000,000 (7009128700000000000♠$1,287,000,000)

7008150000000000000♠$150,000,000

[# 18]

2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction

7009110403907600000♠$1,104,039,076

7008210000000000000♠$210,000,000

[# 33]

2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

7009206822362400000♠$2,068,223,624

7008245000000000000♠$245,000,000

[# 5]

2016

Captain America: Civil War

7009115330449500000♠$1,153,304,495

7008250000000000000♠$250,000,000

[# 26]

2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

7009133265941000000♠$1,332,659,410

7008200000000000000♠$200,000,000

[# 16]

2018

Black Panther

7009132398410900000♠$1,323,984,109

7008200000000000000♠$200,000,000

[# 17]

text: ( ... ) Since grosses are not limited to original theatrical runs, a film's first-run gross is included in brackets after the total if known.

text: *Canada and U.S. gross only.

text: RDistributor rental.

text: TBATo be ascertained.

text: INNo contemporary sources provide figures for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, although The Numbers provides a figure of $8,000,000 for the North American box office gross.[41] However, it is possible this figure has been mistaken for the gross of the 1954 remake which also earned $8,000,000 in North American rentals.[42]

text: FHSome sources such as The Numbers state that Aloma of the South Seas is the highest grossing film of the year, earning $3 million.[43] However, no contemporary sources provide figures for Aloma of the South Seas, so it is unclear what the $3 million figure relates to. If it were the rental gross then that would have made it not only the highest-grossing film of the year, but one of the highest-grossing films of the silent era, and if that is the case it would be unusual for both International Motion Picture Almanac and Variety to omit it from their lists.

text: SSIt is not clear if the figure for Sunny Side Up is for North America or worldwide. Other sources put its earnings at $2 million,[44] which may suggest the higher figure is the worldwide rental, given the confusion over international figures during this period.[45]

text: ONThe figure for It Happened One Night is not truly representative of its success: it was distributed as a package deal along with more than two dozen other Columbia films, and the total earnings were averaged out; the true gross would have been much higher.

text: S7Snow White's $418 million global cume omits earnings outside of North America from 1987 onwards.

text: GWIt is not absolutely clear how much Gone with the Wind earned from its initial release. Contemporary accounts often list it as earning $32 million in North American rentals and retrospective charts have often duplicated this claim; however, it is likely this was the worldwide rental figure. Trade journals would collate the data by either obtaining it from the distributors themselves, who were keen to promote a successful film, or by surveying theaters and constructing an estimate. Distributors would often report the worldwide rental since the higher figure made the film appear more successful, while estimates were limited to performance in North America; therefore it was not unusual for worldwide and North American rentals to be mixed up. Following the outbreak of World War II, many of the foreign markets were unavailable to Hollywood so it became standard practice to just report on North American box-office performance.[45] In keeping with this new approach, the North American rental for Gone with the Wind was revised to $21 million in 1947 ($11 million lower than the previous figure),[46] and as of 1953—following the 1947 re-release—Variety was reporting earnings of $26 million.[47] Through 1956, MGM reported cumulative North American earnings of $30,015,000 and foreign earnings of $18,964,000, from three releases.[48] Worldwide rentals of $32 million from the initial release is consistent with the revised figures and later reported worldwide figures: they indicate that the film earned $21 million in North America and $11 million overseas from the initial release, and added a further $9 million in North America and $8 million overseas from subsequent re-releases up to 1956.

text: MDMom and Dad does not generally feature in 'high-gross' lists such as those published by Variety due to its independent distribution. Essentially belonging to the exploitation genre, it was marketed as an educational sex hygiene film in an effort to circumvent censorship laws. Falling foul of the Motion Picture Production Code, Mom and Dad was prevented from obtaining mainstream distribution and restricted to independent and drive-in theaters. It was the biggest hit of its kind, and remained in continual distribution until the 1970s when hardcore pornography eventually took over. At the end of 1947 it had earned $2 million, and by 1949, $8 million; by 1956 it had earned $22 million in rentals, representing a gross of $80 million, and would have easily placed in the top ten films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Estimates of its total earnings are as high as $100 million.

text: UNChopra-Gant stipulates that the figure given for Unconquered is for North American box-office, but as was common at the time, the chart confuses worldwide and North American grosses. Other sources state that the takings for Forever Amber ($8 million) and Life with Father ($6.5 million)[49] were in fact worldwide rental grosses, so it is possible this is also true of Unconquered.

text: CIThe Cinerama figures represent gross amounts. Since the Cinerama corporation owned the theaters there were no rental fees for the films, meaning the studio received 100% of the box-office gross, unlike the case with most other films where the distributor typically receives less than half the gross. Since Variety at the time ranked films by their US rental, they constructed a hypothetical rental figure for the Cinerama films to provide a basis for comparison to other films in their chart: in the case of This Is Cinerama, the $50 million worldwide gross was reconfigured as a $12.5 million US rental gross; this is exactly 25% of the amount reported by Cinerama, so Variety's formula seemingly halved the gross to obtain an estimate for the US share, and halved it again to simulate a rental fee. Variety's 'rental' amounts are often repeated, but have no basis in the reality of what the films actually earned—they are hypothetical figures conceived for comparative analysis.[50] All five Cinerama features collectively generated $120 million in worldwide box office receipts.[51]

text: GSVariety put the worldwide rental for The Greatest Show on Earth at around $18.35 million (with $12.8 million coming from the United States[42]) a year after its release; however, Birchard puts its earnings at just over $15 million up to 1962. It is likely that Birchard's figure is just the North American gross rental, and includes revenue from the 1954 and 1960 reissues.

text: SWThe "first run" Star Wars grosses do not include revenue from the 1997 special-edition releases; however, the figure does include revenue from the re-releases prior to the special editions.

text: HPProduction costs were shared with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

text: Timeline of highest-grossing films

text: At least ten films have held the record of 'highest-grossing film' since The Birth of a Nation assumed the top spot in 1915. Both The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind spent twenty-five consecutive years apiece as the highest-grosser, with films directed by Steven Spielberg holding the record on three occasions and James Cameron—the current holder—twice. Spielberg became the first director to break his own record when Jurassic Park overtook E.T., and Cameron emulated the feat when Avatar broke the record set by Titanic.

text: Some sources claim that The Big Parade superseded The Birth of a Nation as highest-grossing film, eventually being replaced by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which in turn was quickly usurped by Gone with the Wind.[52] Exact figures are not known for The Birth of a Nation, but contemporary records put its worldwide earnings at $5.2 million as of 1919.[53] Its international release was delayed by World War I, and it was not released in many foreign territories until the 1920s; coupled with further re-releases in the United States, its $10 million earnings as reported by Variety in 1932 are consistent with the earlier figure.[54] At this time, Variety still had The Birth of a Nation ahead of The Big Parade ($6,400,000) on distributor rentals and—if its estimate is correct—Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ($8,500,000)[55] would not have earned enough on its first theatrical run to take the record;[56] although it would have been the highest-grossing 'talkie',[57] displacing The Singing Fool ($5,900,000).[58] Although received wisdom holds that it is unlikely The Birth of a Nation was ever overtaken by a silent-era film,[59] the record would fall to 1925's Ben-Hur ($9,386,000) if The Birth of a Nation earned significantly less than its estimated gross.[60] In addition to its gross rental earnings through public exhibition, The Birth of a Nation played at a large number of private, club and organizational engagements which figures are unavailable for.[61] It was hugely popular with the Ku Klux Klan who used it to drive recruitment,[62] and at one point Variety estimated its total earnings to stand at around $50 million.[63] Despite later retracting the claim, the sum has been widely reported even though it has never been substantiated.[53] While it is generally accepted that Gone with the Wind took over the record of highest-grossing film on its initial release—which is true in terms of public exhibition—it is likely it did not overtake The Birth of a Nation in total revenue until a much later date, with it still being reported as the highest earner up until the 1960s.[61] Gone with the Wind itself may have been briefly overtaken by The Ten Commandments (1956), which closed at the end of 1960 with worldwide rentals of $58–60 million[64][65] compared to Gone with the Wind's $59 million;[66] if it did claim the top spot its tenure there was short-lived, since Gone with the Wind was re-released the following year and increased its earnings to $67 million. Depending on how accurate the estimates are, the 1959 remake of Ben-Hur may also have captured the record from Gone with the Wind: as of the end of 1961 it had earned $47 million worldwide,[67] and by 1963 it was trailing Gone with the Wind by just $2 million with international takings of $65 million,[68] ultimately earning $66 million from its initial release.[69]

text: Another film purported to have been the highest-grosser is the 1972 pornographic film, Deep Throat. In 1984, Linda Lovelace testified to a United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on juvenile justice that the film had earned $600 million;[70] this figure has been the subject of much speculation, since if it is accurate then the film would have made more money than Star Wars, and finished the 1970s as the highest-grossing film. The main argument against this figure is that it simply did not have a wide enough release to sustain the sort of sums that would be required for it to ultimately gross this amount.[71] Exact figures are not known, but testimony in a federal trial in 1976—about four years into the film's release—showed the film had grossed over $25 million.[72] Roger Ebert has reasoned it possibly did earn as much as $600 million on paper, since mobsters owned most of the adult movie theaters during this period and would launder income from drugs and prostitution through them, so probably inflated the box office receipts for the film.[73]

text: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. and Avatar all increased their record grosses with re-releases. The grosses from their original theatrical runs are included here along with totals from re-releases up to the point that they lost the record; therefore the total for The Birth of a Nation includes income from its reissues up to 1940; the total for Star Wars includes revenue from the late 1970s and early 1980s reissues but not from the 1997 Special Edition; the total for E.T. incorporates its gross from the 1985 reissue but not from 2002; the total for Avatar—as the current record-holder—includes all its earnings at the present time. Gone with the Wind is represented twice on the chart: the 1940 entry includes earnings from its staggered 1939–1942 release (roadshow/general release/second-run)[74] along with all of its revenue up to the 1961 reissue prior to losing the record to The Sound of Music in 1966; its 1971 entry—after it took back the record—includes income from the 1967 and 1971 reissues but omitting later releases. The Godfather was re-released in 1973 after its success at the 45th Academy Awards, and Jaws was released again in 1976, and their grosses here most likely include earnings from those releases. The Sound of Music, The Godfather, Jaws, Jurassic Park and Titanic increased their earnings with further releases in 1973, 1997, 1979, 2013 and 2012 respectively, but they are not included in the totals here since they had already conceded the record prior to being re-released.

text:
Timeline of the highest-grossing film record

Established

Title

Record setting gross

Reference(s)

1915[52]

The Birth of a Nation

$5,200,000R

[# 88]

1940

$15,000,000R ‡

[# 299]

1940[25]

Gone with the Wind

$32,000,000R

[# 138]

1963

$67,000,000R ‡

[# 300]

1966[52]

The Sound of Music

$114,600,000R

[# 212]

1971[52]

Gone with the Wind

$116,000,000R ‡

[# 301]

1972[52]

The Godfather

$127,600,000–142,000,000R

[# 239][# 302]

1976[75][76]

Jaws

$193,700,000R

[# 254]

1978[77][78]

Star Wars

$410,000,000/$268,500,000R

[# 303][# 239]

1982

$530,000,000 ‡

[# 259]

1983[79]

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

$619,000,000–664,000,000

[# 259][# 270]

1993

$701,000,000 ‡

[# 304]

1993[52]

Jurassic Park

$914,691,118

[# 46]

1998[80]

Titanic

$1,843,201,268

[# 3]

2010[81][82]

Avatar

$2,749,064,328

[# 1]

$2,787,965,087 ‡

text: RDistributor rental.

text: Includes revenue from re-releases. If a film increased its gross through re-releases while holding the record, the year in which it recorded its highest gross is also noted in italics.

text: Prior to 2000, only seven film series had grossed over $1 billion at the box office: James Bond,[83] Star Wars,[84] Indiana Jones,[85] Rocky,[86][87][88] Batman,[89] Jurassic Park[90] and Star Trek.[91] Since the turn of the century that number has increased to over fifty (not including one-off hits such as Avatar, Titanic and Frozen).[92] This is partly due to inflation and market growth, but also to Hollywood's adoption of the franchise model: films that have built-in brand recognition, such as being based on a well known literary source or an established character. The methodology is based on the concept that films associated with things audiences are already familiar with can be more effectively marketed to them, and as such are known as "pre-sold" films within the industry.[28]

text: The films in the cross-franchise Marvel Cinematic Universe have collectively grossed the most, amassing over $14 billion at the box office. The Harry Potter films are the highest-grossing series based on a single property, earning nearly $8 billion at the box office (although the Eon James Bond films have earned over $14 billion in total when adjusted to current prices[93]); Harry Potter has also generated at least $3.5 billion in home video revenue,[94] taking total consumer spending on the films to over $11 billion. If ancillary income from merchandise is included, then Star Wars is the most lucrative property;[95] it holds the Guinness world record for the "most successful film merchandising franchise" and was valued at £19.51 billion in 2012 (approximately $30 billion).[96][97] Only two franchises have had more than two films gross over $1 billion: the Marvel Cinematic Universe with five, and Star Wars with four. The two Avengers films comprise the only franchise where each installment has grossed over $1 billion. Avengers is also the only franchise to have a series average of over $1 billion per film, although the Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jurassic Park and Finding Nemo franchises, Harry Potter films, and Peter Jackson's Middle-earth adaptation also average over $1 billion adjusted for inflation.[28][98]

text:
Highest-grossing franchises and film series[§]

(The films in each franchise can be viewed by selecting "show".)

Rank

Series

Total worldwide gross

No. of films

Average of films

Highest-grossing film

1

[show]Marvel Cinematic Universe

$14,835,837,043

18

$824,213,169

The Avengers ($1,518,812,988)

[show]Phase Three

$5,752,901,350

6

$958,816,892

Black Panther ($1,323,984,109)

1

Black Panther (2018)

$1,323,984,109

2

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

$1,153,304,495

3

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

$880,166,924

4

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

$863,756,051

5

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

$853,971,376

6

Doctor Strange (2016)

$677,718,395

[show]Phase Two

$5,271,691,209

6

$878,615,202

Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1,405,403,694)

1

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

$1,405,403,694

2

Iron Man 3 (2013)

$1,214,811,252

3

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

$773,328,629

4

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

$714,264,267

5

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

$644,571,402

6

Ant-Man (2015)

$519,311,965

[show]Phase One

$3,811,244,484

6

$635,207,414

The Avengers ($1,518,812,988)

1

The Avengers (2012)

$1,518,812,988

2

Iron Man 2 (2010)

$623,933,331

3

Iron Man (2008)

$585,174,222

4

Thor (2011)

$449,326,618

5

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

$370,569,774

6

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

$263,427,551

2

[show]Star Wars

$8,848,894,112

10

$884,889,411

The Force Awakens ($2,068,223,624)

[show]Sequel trilogy

$3,400,883,034

2

$1,700,441,517

The Force Awakens ($2,068,223,624)

1

VII – The Force Awakens (2015)

$2,068,223,624

2

VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)

$1,332,659,410

[show]Prequel trilogy

$2,525,197,773

3

$841,732,591

The Phantom Menace ($1,027,044,677)

1

I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

$1,027,044,677

2

III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

$848,754,768

3

II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

$649,398,328

[show]Original trilogy

$1,798,473,188

3

$599,491,063

A New Hope ($775,398,007)

1

IV – A New Hope (1977)

$775,398,007

2

V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

$547,969,004

3

VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

$475,106,177

[show]Anthology films

$1,056,057,273

1

$1,056,057,273

Rogue One ($1,056,057,273)

1

Rogue One (2016)

$1,056,057,273

The Clone Wars (2008)

$68,282,844

3

[show]Wizarding World

$8,539,253,704

9

$948,805,967

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($1,341,511,219)

[show]Harry Potter series

$7,725,216,129

8

$965,652,016

Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($1,341,511,219)

1

Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)

$1,341,511,219

2

Philosopher's Stone (2001)

$974,755,371

3

Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)

$960,283,305

4

Order of the Phoenix (2007)

$939,885,929

5

Half-Blood Prince (2009)

$934,416,487

6

Goblet of Fire (2005)

$896,911,078

7

Chamber of Secrets (2002)

$878,979,634

8

Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

$796,688,549

9

IMAX Marathon (2016)

$1,784,557

[show]Fantastic Beasts series

$814,037,575

1

$814,037,575

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ($814,037,575)

1

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

$814,037,575

4

[show]James Bond

$7,040,275,645

26

$270,779,833

Skyfall ($1,108,561,013)

[show]Eon series

$6,838,530,927

24

$284,938,789

Skyfall ($1,108,561,013)

[show]Daniel Craig's Bond

$3,174,372,309

4

$793,593,077

Skyfall ($1,108,561,013)

1

Skyfall (2012)

$1,108,561,013

2

Spectre (2015)

$880,674,609

3

Casino Royale (2006)

$599,045,960

4

Quantum of Solace (2008)

$586,090,727

[show]Pierce Brosnan's Bond

$1,479,008,618

4

$369,752,155

Die Another Day ($431,971,116)

1

Die Another Day (2002)

$431,971,116

2

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

$361,832,400

3

GoldenEye (1995)

$352,194,034

4

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

$333,011,068

[show]Roger Moore's Bond

$1,151,600,000

7

$164,514,286

Moonraker ($210,300,000)

1

Moonraker (1979)

$210,300,000

2

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

$194,900,000

3

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

$185,400,000

4

Octopussy (1983)

$183,700,000

5

A View to a Kill (1985)

$152,400,000

6

Live and Let Die (1973)

$126,400,000

7

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

$98,500,000

[show]Sean Connery's Bond

$621,500,000

6

$103,583,333

Thunderball ($141,200,000)

1

Thunderball (1965)

$141,200,000

2

Goldfinger (1964)

$124,900,000

3

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

$116,000,000

4

You Only Live Twice (1967)

$101,000,000

5

From Russia with Love (1963)

$78,900,000

6

Dr. No (1962)

$59,500,000

[show]Timothy Dalton's Bond

$347,400,000

2

$173,700,000

The Living Daylights ($191,200,000)

1

The Living Daylights (1987)

$191,200,000

2

Licence to Kill (1989)

$156,200,000

[show]George Lazenby's Bond

$64,600,000

1

$64,600,000

On Her Majesty's Secret Service ($64,600,000)

1

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

$64,600,000

Never Say Never Again (1983)

$160,000,000

Casino Royale (1967)

$41,744,718

5

[show]J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

$5,884,488,087

7

$840,641,155

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1,120,237,002)

[show]Jackson series

$5,853,780,255

6

$975,630,043

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1,120,237,002)

[show]The Hobbit

$2,935,490,211

3

$978,496,737

An Unexpected Journey ($1,021,103,568)

1

An Unexpected Journey (2012)

$1,021,103,568

2

The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

$958,366,855

3

The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

$956,019,788

[show]The Lord of the Rings

$2,918,526,456

3

$972,842,152

The Return of the King ($1,120,237,002)

1

The Return of the King (2003)

$1,120,237,002

2

The Two Towers (2002)

$926,349,708

3

The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

$871,939,746

The Lord of the Rings (1978)

$30,471,420

6

[show]The Fast and the Furious

$5,134,895,344

8

$641,861,918

Furious 7 ($1,516,045,911)

1

Furious 7 (2015)

$1,516,045,911

2

The Fate of the Furious (2017)F8

$1,238,764,765

3

Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

$788,679,850

4

Fast Five (2011)

$626,137,675

5

Fast & Furious (2009)

$363,164,265

6

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

$236,350,661

7

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

$207,283,925

8

Tokyo Drift (2006)

$158,468,292

7

[show]X-Men

$4,998,857,842

10

$499,885,784

Deadpool ($783,112,979)

[show]Main series

$2,808,832,317

6

$468,138,720

Days of Future Past ($747,862,775)

1

Days of Future Past (2014)

$747,862,775

2

Apocalypse (2016)

$543,934,787

3

The Last Stand (2006)

$459,359,555

4

X2 (2003)

$407,711,549

5

First Class (2011)

$353,624,124

6

X-Men (2000)

$296,339,527

[show]Wolverine series

$1,406,912,546

3

$468,970,849

Logan ($619,021,436)

1

Logan (2017)

$619,021,436

2

The Wolverine (2013)

$414,828,246

3

Origins: Wolverine (2009)

$373,062,864

[show]Deadpool series

$783,112,979

1

$783,112,979

Deadpool ($783,112,979)

1

Deadpool (2016)

$783,112,979

8

[show]Batman

$4,995,812,576

15

$333,054,172

The Dark Knight Rises ($1,084,939,099)

[show]Nolan series

$2,463,716,216

3

$821,238,739

The Dark Knight Rises ($1,084,939,099)

1

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

$1,084,939,099

2

The Dark Knight (2008)

$1,004,558,444

3

Batman Begins (2005)

$374,218,673

[show]Burton/Schumacher series

$1,335,009,923

5

$267,001,985

Batman ($411,348,924)

[show]Main series

$1,252,907,544

4

$313,226,886

Batman ($411,348,924)

1

Batman (1989)

$411,348,924

2

Batman Forever (1995)

$336,529,144

3

Batman Returns (1992)

$266,822,354

4

Batman & Robin (1997)

$238,207,122

Catwoman (2004)

$82,102,379

[show]DC Extended Universe

$873,634,919

1

$873,634,919

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873,634,919)

1

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

$873,634,919

The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

$311,950,384

Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

$5,617,391

[show]DC Universe Animated Original Movies

$4,501,125

2

$2,250,563

The Killing Joke ($4,462,034)

1

The Killing Joke (2016)

$4,462,034

2

Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)

$39,091

[show]1960s TV series

$1,757,343

2

$878,672

Batman: The Movie ($1,700,000)

1

Batman: The Movie (1966)*R

$1,700,000

2

Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)

$57,343

9

[show]Spider-Man

$4,843,426,428

6

$807,237,738

Spider-Man 3 ($890,871,626)

[show]Raimi series

$2,496,346,518

3

$832,115,506

Spider-Man 3 ($890,871,626)

1

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

$890,871,626

2

Spider-Man (2002)

$821,708,551

3

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

$783,766,341

[show]Webb series

$1,466,912,986

2

$733,456,493

The Amazing Spider-Man ($757,930,663)

1

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

$757,930,663

2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

$708,982,323

[show]Marvel Cinematic Universe

$880,166,924

1

$880,166,924

Homecoming ($880,166,924)

1

Homecoming (2017)

$880,166,924

10

[show]Pirates of the Caribbean

$4,524,439,761

5

$904,887,952

Dead Man's Chest ($1,066,179,725)

1

Dead Man's Chest (2006)

$1,066,179,725

2

On Stranger Tides (2011)

$1,045,713,802

3

At World's End (2007)

$963,420,425

4

Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

$794,861,794

5

The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

$654,264,015

11

[show]Transformers

$4,385,136,428

6

$730,856,071

Dark of the Moon ($1,123,794,079)

[show]Bay series

$4,379,286,781

5

$875,857,356

Dark of the Moon ($1,123,794,079)

1

Dark of the Moon (2011)

$1,123,794,079

2

Age of Extinction (2014)

$1,104,054,072

3

Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

$836,303,693

4

Transformers (2007)

$709,709,780

5

The Last Knight (2017)

$605,425,157

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

$5,849,647

12

[show]DC Extended Universe

$3,768,298,638

5

$753,659,728

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873,634,919)

1

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

$873,634,919

2

Wonder Woman (2017)

$821,847,012

3

Suicide Squad (2016)

$746,846,894

4

Man of Steel (2013)

$668,045,518

5

Justice League (2017)

$657,924,295

13

[show]Despicable Me

$3,708,073,676

4

$927,018,419

Minions ($1,159,398,397)

[show]Main series

$2,548,675,279

3

$849,558,426

Despicable Me 3 ($1,034,799,409)

1

Despicable Me 3 (2017)

$1,034,799,409

2

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

$970,761,885

3

Despicable Me (2010)

$543,113,985

Minions (2015)

$1,159,398,397

14

[show]Jurassic Park

$3,689,072,919

4

$922,268,230

Jurassic World ($1,671,713,208)

1

Jurassic World (2015)

$1,671,713,208

2

Jurassic Park (1993)

$1,029,939,903

3

The Lost World (1997)

$618,638,999

4

Jurassic Park III (2001)

$368,780,809

15

[show]Shrek

$3,510,794,482

5

$702,158,896

Shrek 2 ($919,838,758)

[show]Main series

$2,955,807,005

4

$738,951,751

Shrek 2 ($919,838,758)

1

Shrek 2 (2004)

$919,838,758

2

Shrek the Third (2007)

$798,958,162

3

Shrek Forever After (2010)

$752,600,867

4

Shrek (2001)

$484,409,218

Puss in Boots (2011)

$554,987,477

16

[show]The Twilight Saga

$3,346,157,056

5

$669,231,411

Breaking Dawn – Part 2 ($829,746,820)

1

Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)

$829,746,820

2

Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

$712,205,856

3

New Moon (2009)

$709,711,008

4

Eclipse (2010)

$698,491,347

5

Twilight (2008)

$393,616,788

6

Twilight/New Moon (Combo)

$2,385,237

17

[show]Ice Age

$3,217,251,681

5

$643,450,336

Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($886,686,817)

1

Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

$886,686,817

2

Continental Drift (2012)

$877,244,782

3

The Meltdown (2006)

$661,483,908

4

Collision Course (2016)

$408,579,038

5

Ice Age (2002)

$383,257,136

18

[show]The Hunger Games

$2,968,191,442

4

$742,047,861

Catching Fire ($865,011,746)

1

Catching Fire (2013)

$865,011,746

2

Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)

$755,356,711

3

The Hunger Games (2012)

$694,394,724

4

Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)

$653,428,261

19

[show]Avengers

$2,924,216,682

2

$1,462,108,341

The Avengers ($1,518,812,988)

1

The Avengers (2012)

$1,518,812,988

2

Age of Ultron (2015)

$1,405,403,694

20

[show]Mission: Impossible

$2,778,977,995

5

$555,795,599

Ghost Protocol ($694,713,380)

1

Ghost Protocol (2011)

$694,713,380

2

Rogue Nation (2015)

$682,330,139

3

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

$546,388,105

4

Mission: Impossible (1996)

$457,696,359

5

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

$397,850,012

21

[show]Superman

$2,554,201,360

8

$319,275,170

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873,260,194)

[show]DC Extended Universe

$1,541,305,712

2

$770,652,856

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873,260,194)

1

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

$873,260,194

2

Man of Steel (2013)

$668,045,518

[show]Original series

$621,814,456

5

$124,362,891

Superman ($300,218,018)

[show]Christopher Reeve films

$607,518,018

4

$151,879,505

Superman ($300,218,018)

1

Superman (1978)

$300,218,018

2

Superman II (1980)

$190,400,000

3

Superman III (1983)

$80,200,000

4

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

$36,700,000

Supergirl (1984)*

$14,296,438

Superman Returns (2006)

$391,081,192

22

[show]Iron Man

$2,423,918,805

3

$807,972,935

Iron Man 3 ($1,214,811,252)

1

Iron Man 3 (2013)

$1,214,811,252

2

Iron Man 2 (2010)

$623,933,331

3

Iron Man (2008)

$585,174,222

23

[show]Star Trek

$2,266,723,196

13

$174,363,323

Into Darkness ($467,381,584)

[show]Kelvin Timeline

$1,189,710,370

3

$396,570,123

Into Darkness ($467,381,584)

1

Into Darkness (2013)

$467,381,584

2

Star Trek (2009)

$385,680,446

3

Beyond (2016)

$336,648,340

[show]The Original Series

$621,900,000

6

$103,650,000

The Motion Picture ($139,000,000)

1

The Motion Picture (1979)

$139,000,000

2

IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

$133,000,000

3

VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

$96,900,000

4

II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

$95,800,000

5

III: The Search for Spock (1984)

$87,000,000

6

V: The Final Frontier (1989)

$70,200,000

[show]The Next Generation

$455,112,826

4

$113,778,207

First Contact ($150,000,000)

1

First Contact (1996)

$150,000,000

2

Generations (1994)

$120,000,000

3

Insurrection (1998)

$117,800,000

4

Nemesis (2002)

$67,312,826

24

[show]Madagascar

$2,256,517,920

4

$564,129,480

Europe's Most Wanted ($746,921,274)

[show]Main series

$1,883,502,299

3

$627,834,100

Europe's Most Wanted ($746,921,274)

1

Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

$746,921,274

2

Escape 2 Africa (2008)

$603,900,354

3

Madagascar (2005)

$532,680,671

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

$373,015,621

25

[show]Captain America

$2,238,138,536

3

$746,046,179

Civil War ($1,153,304,495)

1

Civil War (2016)

$1,153,304,495

2

The Winter Soldier (2014)

$714,264,267

3

The First Avenger (2011)

$370,569,774

text: *Canada and U.S. gross only.

text: RDistributor rental.


document_title: It's Raining, It's Pouring

question_text: where did the song its raining its pouring come from

text: It's Raining, It's Pouring

text:
"It's Raining, It's Pouring"

Nursery rhyme

Recorded
1939

Songwriter(s)
Unknown

text: Children's literature portal

text: "It's Raining, It's Pouring" is an English language nursery rhyme and children's song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16814.

text: Lyrics[edit]

text: Common, modern versions include:

text: Origins and interpretation[edit]

text: The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in The Little Mother Goose, published in the US in 1912.[2] The melody most often associated with it is the same as "A Tisket, A Tasket", which is in the public domain. The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress.[3] It was noted in 1939 in New York by Charles Ives (1874–1954) and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff.[4]

text: It has been suggested that the verse is a "classic description" of a head injury ("bumped his head"), followed by a lucid interval and an inability to resume normal activity ("couldn't get up in the morning").[5]


document_title: Bigg Boss Telugu

question_text: where is bigg boss house located in hyderabad

text: Bigg Boss Telugu

text: Overview[edit]

text: Bigg Boss Telugu is a reality show based on the Hindi show Bigg Boss which too was based on the original Dutch Big Brother format developed by John de Mol. A number of contestants (known as "housemates") live in a purpose-built house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction, and the housemates who receives the most nominations would face a public vote. Eventually, one housemate would leave after being "evicted" from the House. In the final week, there were five housemates remaining, and the public voted for who they wanted to win. Unlike other versions of Big Brother, the Indian version uses celebrities as housemates, not members of the general public.

text: Rules[edit]

text: While all the rules have never been told to the audience, the most prominent ones are clearly seen. The inmates are not permitted to talk in any other language except Telugu.

text: They always have to wear the lapel. They cannot leave the House premises at any time unless they are evicted or decided by Big Boss. They can not discuss the nomination process with anyone. They are not allowed to sleep without the permission of Bigg Boss.

text: House[edit]

text: The house for season one was set up at Lonavala. For season two, the house was set up in Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad.

text: Broadcast[edit]

text: Bigg Boss Telugu is aired on Star Maa. Every day's episodes contain the main happenings of the previous day. Every Saturday episode mainly focuses on an interview of the evicted contestant by the host.

text: Seasons details[edit]

text:
Season

Main host

Launch date

Final date

Days

Cameras

Housemates

Prize money

Launch Ratings

Final Ratings

Winner

Runner-up

1

Jr. NTR

16 July 2017

24 September 2017

70

60

16

₹50 lakh (US$70,000)

16.2 TRP

15.2 TRP

Siva Balaji

Aadarsh Balakrishna

2

Nani

10 June 2018

30 September 2018

112

96

18

15.1 TRP

14.7 TRP

Kaushal Manda

Geetha Madhuri

text: Male Contestants.       Female Contestants.

text: Housemate Pattern[edit]

text:
Clique

Season 1

Season 2

Film Actor/Actress

Aadarsh

Amit Tiwari

Archana

Bhanu Sree

Hari Teja

Deepthi Sunaina

Siva Balaji

Kaushal Manda

Sameer Hasan

Kireeti Damaraju

Jyothi

Tejaswi Madivada

Diksha Panth (Wild Card)

Nandini Rai(Wild Card)

Prince Cecil

Samrat Reddy

Mumaith Khan

Navdeep (Wild Card)

Pooja Ramachandran (Wild Card)

Sampoornesh Babu

Tanish

TV Anchor

Kathi Karthika

Deepti Nallamothu

Syamala

Comedian

Dhanraj

None

Singer

Madhu Priya

Geetha Madhuri

Kalpana Raghavendar

Roll Rida

Film Critic/ Humanist

Mahesh Kathi

Babu Gogineni

Commoner

None

Ganesh

Sanjana Anne

Nutan Naidu