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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.
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]
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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 ...
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 .
Record Figure Previous record holder Surpassed by Notes Highest-grossing film: $2.797 billion [1]: Avatar – $2.789 billion [1]: Avatar – $2.922 billion [19]: Endgame became the highest-grossing movie in history on July 21, 2019, after 89 days of release, [20] [21] and had become the second-highest-grossing movie worldwide 12 days after its initial release. [22]
This list charts films the 50 biggest worldwide openings. Since many films do not open on Fridays in many markets, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the movie's release. Figures prior to the year 2002 are not available.