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3. January 20, 2008. Cloverfield. $40,058,229. Cloverfield broke Star Wars (Special Edition) ' s record ($35.9 million) for the highest weekend debut in January, Black Hawk Down ' s record ($28.6 million) for the highest Martin Luther King Jr. Day long-weekend debut, and Titanic ' s record ($30.0 million) for the highest Martin Luther King Jr ...
2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to The Dark Knight.
Highest-grossing films of 2008 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 The Dark Knight: Warner Bros. $533,345,358 2 Iron Man: Paramount: $318,604,126 3
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 ...
Pages in category "Lists of 2008 box office number-one films" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Spielberg has the record, directing four of the yearly highest-grossing films: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Lucas has directed three such films, all of which are part of the Star Wars franchise, which he created: the original Star Wars (1977), and two of ...
Budget. $130 million [ 2 ] Box office. $211.8 million [ 2 ] Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann [ 3 ] and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan.
This is a list of the highest-grossing superhero film series at the box office. The Marvel Cinematic Universe ranks as the highest-grossing film series of all time grossing over $29.8 billion. Avengers has the best average with an average of nearly $1.9 billion per film. A series must have at least two released films to qualify for this list.