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The first movie to reach this milestone was Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope on Feb 7, 1997, [83] [# 8] during its 20-year anniversary re-release. As of September 2024, 48 films have grossed over $400 million at the US and Canadian box office. [# 8] The list below is restricted to the fastest 10.
Because of the effects of inflation on cinema ticket prices, a list unadjusted for inflation gives much more weight to later actors. [1] Therefore, gross revenue lists are largely meaningless for comparing acting careers widely separated in time, as many actors from earlier eras will not appear on a modern, unadjusted list, despite their films achieving higher commercial success when adjusted ...
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is 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 ...
This chart ranks films by gross adjusted for ticket price inflation up to 2020 levels, based on data from Box Office Mojo, which was last updated in 2019 based on an average domestic movie ticket price of $9.01, and applying the Template:Inflation for the following years up to 2023 levels, due to the lack of updates on the original source. [7]
The films are listed by in-year release, rather than the gross they accumulated during a calendar year. [ 1 ] Six different directors have directed the highest-grossing film on multiple occasions: George Lucas , Steven Spielberg , James Cameron , Sam Raimi , Robert Zemeckis , and Chris Columbus .
Anna Kendrick directed and stars in a Netflix film based on the real-life serial killer Rodney Alcala. Alcala appeared on the TV show "The Dating Game" in 1978, and was subsequently convicted of ...
List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union; List of highest-grossing films in Spain. List of highest-grossing films in Catalan; List of highest-grossing films in Taiwan; List of highest-grossing films in Thailand; List of highest-grossing films in Turkey; List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom
James Cameron wrote, directed, and produced Avatar. Avatar was released in December 2009 and went on to break multiple box office records in various markets. Worldwide, it became the highest-grossing movie of all time and the fastest movie to gross $1 billion through $2.5 billion, while also setting the records for the highest grosses in the 3D and IMAX formats, respectively. In its domestic ...