The motion pictures that have actually cleared the$1 billion mark at the
box office come from a pretty special club. To date, there are just 51 members. The latest initiate is 2022’s Avatar: The Method of Water, which, as of this writing, is sitting smugly in 13th place with an around the world gross of more than$1.4 billion. It’s an impressive feat for a follow up that hit theaters less than 3 weeks ago– and premiered an excellent 13 years after its predecessor. It will need to make another $1.5 billion or two if it wishes to unseat Avatar (2009) as the ruling champ of this list.
Two other 2022 movies got entry, both of which are also follow-ups to very popular flicks: Top Gun: Maverick, which missed the leading 10 by a single spot; and Jurassic World Dominion, in last place. In reality, the majority of these billion-dollar blockbusters draw from existing intellectual property. There are straight follows up (2019’s Frozen II and 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens); live-action remakes (2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Beauty and the Monster); adjustments of cherished books (2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2012’s The Hobbit); and, naturally, plenty of superhero films.
The significant exceptions to that rule mainly originated from James Cameron, including the aforementioned Avatar movies and 1997’s unsinkable juggernaut Titanic, which earned a sturdy $2.2 billion. Oh, and Disney’s Zootopia likewise makes the list. (It’s hard to beat a talking fox voiced by Jason Bateman.)
Find out if your favorite phenomenon on the silver screen made the list listed below, and see which snaps simply missed it by means of Ticket office Mojo.
- Avatar (2009)// $2,922,917,914 Avengers: Endgame(2019)//$
- 2,797,501,328 Titanic (1997)// $2,201,647,264
- Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)// $2,069,521,700
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)// $2,048,359,754
- Spider-Man: No Other Way Home (2021)// $1,916,306,995
- Jurassic World (2015)// $1,671,537,444
- The Lion King (2019)// $1,663,075,401
- The Avengers (2012)// $1,518,815,515
- Furious 7 (2015)// $1,515,341,399
- Leading Gun: Radical (2022)// $1,488,732,821
- Frozen II (2019)// $1,450,026,933
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)// $1,443,938,691
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)// $1,402,809,540
- Black Panther (2018)// $1,382,248,826
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)// $1,342,359,942
- Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)// $1,332,698,830
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)// $1,310,466,296
- Frozen (2013)// $1,281,508,100
- Charm and the Beast (2017)// $1,264,435,322
- Incredibles 2 (2018)// $1,243,089,244
- The Fate of the Furious (2017)// $1,236,005,118
- Iron Man 3 (2013)// $1,214,811,252
- Minions (2015)// $1,159,444,662
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)// $1,153,337,496
- Aquaman (2018)// $1,148,528,393
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)// $1,146,457,748
- Spider-Man: Far From House (2019)// $1,131,927,996
- Captain Marvel (2019)// $1,128,462,972
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)// $1,123,794,079
- Jurassic Park (1993)// $1,109,802,321
- Skyfall (2012)// $1,108,569,499
- Transformers: Age of Termination (2014)// $1,104,054,072
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)// $1,081,169,825
- Joker (2019)// $1,074,458,282
- Star Wars: Episode IX – The Increase of Skywalker (2019)// $1,074,149,279
- Toy Story 4 (2019)// $1,073,394,593
- Toy Story 3 (2010)// $1,066,179,747
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)// $1,066,179,747
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)// $1,058,682,142
- Aladdin (2019)// $1,050,693,953
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)// $1,045,713,802
- Zootopia (2016)// $1,042,533,689
- Despicable Me 3 (2017)// $1,034,800,131
- Finding Dory (2016)// $1,028,570,942
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Hazard (1999)// $1,027,082,707
- Alice in Wonderland (2010)// $1,025,468,216
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)// $1,023,842,938
- The Hobbit: An Unforeseen Journey (2012)// $1,017,030,651
- The Dark Knight (2008)// $1,006,234,167
- Jurassic World Dominion (2022)// $1,001,978,080
[h/t Ticket office Mojo]