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  1. On this chart, films are ranked by the revenues from theatrical exhibition at their nominal value, along with the highest positions they attained. Six films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.

  2. Dwayne Johnson was the highest-paid actor in 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Julia Roberts was the highest-paid actress in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Forbes publishes yearly lists of the highest-paid actors and actresses based on total earnings from 1 June the previous year to 1 June the current year.

  3. Fastest to $450 million. The first movie to reach this milestone was Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope on Mar 7, 1997, [82] [# 9] during its 20-year anniversary re-release. As of July 2024, 27 films have grossed over $450 million at the US and Canadian box office. [# 9] The list below is restricted to the fastest 10.

    • Model One: Oscar-Worthy Dramas
    • Model Two: Lowbrow Comedies with Broad Appeal
    • Model Three: High Concept Thrillers
    • Model Four: Adaptations of Books with An Established Audience
    • Model Five: High Concept Romances
    • Model Six: Age-Reversal Family Films
    • Analysis
    • Notes
    • About The Authors
    Dramas which have been nominated for either Best Picture or a Best Screenplay award at the Academy Awards.
    Including: The Help, Silver Linings Playbook, The Blind Side, Million Dollar Baby, Finding Neverland, About a Boy, True Grit, Ray, American Hustle, Straight Outta Compton and Bridge of Spies.
    50% were PG-13, 43% were R-rated and one film was rated PG.
    Comedies with a gross-out component and broad appeal.
    Including: The Hangover, Ted, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Bridesmaids, Old School, We’re the Millers, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Ride Along, Zombieland, Mr. Bean’s Holiday and 21 Jump Street.
    75% were R-rated.
    Thrillers with a clear, one-line hook.
    Including: Taken, Lucy, Limitless, District 9, Looper and V for Vendetta.
    Mostly sci-fi with Takenbeing the only exception.
    Based on a highly successful novel, and often produced by a Hollywood major.
    Including: Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Notebook, The Maze Runner, Shrek, Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl’s Moving Castle), Bridge to Terabithia and Dear John.
    Movies targeted almost exclusively at women.
    Including: The Devil Wears Prada, The Proposal, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Sweet Home Alabama, P.S. I Love You and Serendipity.
    All but one are PG-13.
    Family films with either adults acting like children or children acting like adults.
    Including: Elf, Freaky Friday, The Karate Kid, Spy Kids and The Game Plan.
    All were PG-rated.

    The main takeaway from this research is that these types of breakout hits are very clear, high concept movies. They promise the audience one particular thing… and then fully deliver on that pitch. It’s almost like the filmmakers are saying to the audience “We’re not being clever – it’s a film about x”. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we can see the effect ...

    In order to conduct this study, we began with a list of over 3,000 films from The Numbers’ financial database, investigating full financial details, including North American (i.e. “domestic”) and i...
    The financial figures come from a variety of sources, including people directly connected to the films, verified third-party data and computation models based on partial data and industry norms. It...
    Sequels were excluded as their success could be attributed to their existing audience. This affected Pitch Perfect 2, The Fast and The Furious, Twilight: New Moon and Taken 2.
    We had audience data for 77% of the films in our dataset, hence why some movies are missing the final charts.

    Stephen Follows is a writer, producer and film industry analyst. His film research has been featured in the New York Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Evening Standard, Newsweek, The New Statesman, AV Club and Indiewire. He acted as an industry consultant and guest on the BBC Radio 4 series The Business ...

  4. Dec 16, 2015 · Note: Budget numbers for movies can be both difficult to find and unreliable. Studios and film-makers often try to keep the information secret and will use accounting tricks to inflate or reduce announced budgets. This chart shows the budget of every film in our database, where we have it.

  5. Jun 28, 2024 · From Avatar and Black Panther to Star Wars, it's all the movies that made over a billion bucks at the box office ranked by how the critics reviewed them!

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  7. Dec 8, 2012 · We salute 50 of the finest contemporary films with budgets of less than $10million. Did your favorite make the list…?