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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 Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph. The film is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis , and shows how the 2007–2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble . [ 4 ]
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 ...
For example, Cleopatra is blamed for a decline in big-budget epic films in the 1960s. [10] The COVID-19 pandemic, starting around March 2020, caused temporary closure of movie theatres, and distributors moved several films to premier to streaming services such as HBO Max, Disney+, and Peacock with little to no box-office takes. While these ...
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.
The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing films that have sold at least 100 million tickets worldwide. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of box office territories. Therefore, it is not an exhaustive list of all the highest-grossing ...
With the inclusion of the Labor Day holiday, The Butler was #1 (for the third consecutive week) during the four-day time-frame. Also, The Butler became the first 2013 film to win three consecutive weekends. One Direction: This Is Us was #2 ($18,472,875) for the four-day frame. [41] 36: September 8, 2013: Riddick: $19,030,375 [42] 37: September ...
The following is a list of highest grossing comedy films of all time. Only Barbie sits along the highest grossing films of all time, being 14th place. 2018 was the most frequent year, with three films. 50% of films have placed since 2000, and all had a theatrical run since 1987.