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Highest-grossing franchises and film series[§] (The films in each franchise can be viewed by selecting "show".)
Rank Series Total worldwide gross No. of films Average of films Highest-grossing film


High-grossing films by year of release[1][2]
Year Title Domestic gross Ref(s)
1924 The Sea Hawk ($−3,000,000) [3]
1925 Ben-Hur ($9,000,000) [4]
1926 Aloma of the South Seas ($3,000,000) [4]
1927 The Jazz Singer $7,630,000 ($3,500,000) [5]
1928 The Singing Fool $10,900,000 ($5,000,000) [6]
1929 Sunny Side Up $3,500,000 [7]
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front $1,500,000 [8]
1931 City Lights $2,000,000 [9]
1932 Shanghai Express $3,700,000 [10]
1933 King Kong $5,347,000 ($1,856,000) [11]
I'm No Angel $2,250,000 [12]
1934 It Happened One Night $2,500,000 [13]
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty $2,250,000 [14]
1936 San Francisco $2,868,000 [15]
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $184,925,486 ($3,500,000) [16][17]
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band $4,000,000 [18]
1939 Gone with the Wind $198,676,459 [19]
1940 Pinocchio $84,254,167 ($1,600,000) [20][21]
1941 Sergeant York $16,361,885 [22]
1942 Bambi $102,247,150 ($1,640,000) [23][24]
Mrs. Miniver $5,358,000 [14]
1943 This Is the Army $8,500,000 [25]
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis $12,800,000 ($5,016,000) [26][14]
Going My Way $6,500,000 [25]
1945 The Bells of St. Mary's $21,333,333 ($8,000,000) [27][25]
1946 Song of the South $65,000,000 ($3,300,000) [28][29]
The Best Years of Our Lives $23,650,000 [30]
1947 Welcome Stranger $6,100,000 [25]
1948 Red River $9,012,000 [31]
1949 Samson and Delilah $7,976,730 [32]
1950 Cinderella $88,000,466 ($7,800,000) [33][34]
1951 Quo Vadis $21,037,000 ($11,143,000) [14]
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth $12,800,000 ($12,000,000) [35][36][37][25]
This Is Cinerama $12,500,000 [25]
1953 Peter Pan $145,000,000 ($7,000,000) [38]
The Robe $36,000,000 ($17,500,000) [39][25]
1954 Rear Window $36,764,313 ($5,300,000) [40][41]
1955 Lady and the Tramp $93,602,326 ($7,500,000) [42][43]
1956 The Ten Commandments $65,500,000 ($23,900,000) [44][45]
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai $27,200,000 [46]
1958 South Pacific $36,800,000 [47]
1959 Ben-Hur $74,000,000 [48]
1960 Swiss Family Robinson $40,356,000 [49]
1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians $144,880,014 ($6,400,000) [50][51]
1962 The Longest Day $39,100,000 ($13,900,000) [52][53]
1963 Cleopatra $57,777,778 [54]
1964 Mary Poppins $102,272,727 ($31,000,000) [55]
1965 The Sound of Music $158,671,368 ($68,313,000) [56][57]
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning $34,900,023 ($15,000,000) [58][59]
Hawaii $34,562,222 [60]
1967 The Jungle Book $141,843,612 ($73,741,048) [61]
The Graduate $104,642,560 [62]
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey $56,954,992 ($15,000,000) [63][64]
Funny Girl $52,223,306 [65]
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid $102,308,889 [66]
1970 Love Story $106,397,186 [67]
1971 Diamonds Are Forever $43,819,547 [68]
1972 The Godfather $134,966,411 ($81,500,000) [69][70]
1973 The Exorcist $232,906,145 ($193,000,000) [71]
1974 Blazing Saddles $119,601,481 [72]
1975 Jaws $260,000,000 ($123,100,000) [73]
1976 Rocky $117,235,147 [74]
1977 Star Wars $460,998,007 ($307,263,857) [75]
1978 Grease $188,755,690 ($159,978,870) [76]
1979 Kramer Vs. Kramer $106,260,000 [77]
1980 The Empire Strikes Back $290,475,067 ($209,398,025)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark $248,159,971 ($212,222,025)
1982 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $435,110,554 ($359,197,037)
1983 Return of the Jedi $309,306,177 ($252,583,617)
1984 Ghostbusters $242,212,467 ($229,242,989) [78]
Beverly Hills Cop $234,760,478
1985 Back to the Future $210,609,762
1986 Top Gun $179,800,601 ($176,781,728)
1987 Three Men and a Baby $167,780,960
1988 Rain Man $172,825,435
1989 Batman $251,188,924
1990 Home Alone $285,761,243
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day $204,843,345
1992 Aladdin $217,350,219
1993 Jurassic Park $402,453,882 ($357,067,947)
1994 The Lion King $422,783,777 ($312,855,561) [79]
Forrest Gump $329,694,499
1995 Toy Story $191,796,233
1996 Independence Day $306,169,268
1997 Titanic $658,672,302 ($600,788,188)
1998 Saving Private Ryan $216,540,909
1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $474,544,677 ($431,088,295)
2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas $260,044,825
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $317,575,550
2002 Spider-Man $403,706,375
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $377,845,905 ($377,027,325)
2004 Shrek 2 $441,226,247
2005 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith $380,270,577
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423,315,812
2007 Spider-Man 3 $336,530,303
2008 The Dark Knight $534,858,444 ($533,345,358)
2009 Avatar $760,507,625 ($749,766,139)
2010 Toy Story 3 $415,004,880
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 $381,011,219
2012 The Avengers $623,357,910
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $424,668,047
2014 American Sniper $350,126,372
2015 Jurassic World † $635,673,840
Established Title Record setting gross Ref
1916 The Birth of a Nation $5,320,000 [80]
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1967 James Bond $4,464,949,296 [81]
2007 Harry Potter $4,487,220,561 [82]
2008 James Bond $5,051,040,023 [83]
2009 Harry Potter $7,723,431,572 [84]
2015 Marvel Cinematic Universe $8,956,146,220 [85]
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  11. ^ King Kong
    • Jewel, Richard (1994). "RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951". Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television. 14 (1): 39. 1933 release: $1,856,000; 1938 release: $306,000; 1944 release: $685,000
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  12. ^ "I'm No Angel (1933) – Notes". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved January 7, 2012. According to a modern source, it had a gross earning of $2,250,000 on the North American continent...
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  17. ^ Gabler, Neal (2007). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. New York: Random House. pp. 276–277. ISBN 978-0-679-75747-4.
  18. ^ "Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)". The Numbers. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  19. ^ "Gone with the Wind (1939)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  20. ^ "Pinocchio (1940)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  21. ^ Block & Wilson 2010
    p. 255. "On its initial release Pinocchio brought in only $1.6 million in domestic rentals (compared with Snow White's $4.2 million) and $1.9 million in foreign rentals (compared with Snow White's $4.3 million)."
  22. ^ "Sergeant York (1941)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  23. ^ "Bambi (1942)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
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  27. ^ "The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
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  40. ^ "Rear Window (1954)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
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  44. ^ "The Ten Commandments (1956)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
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  47. ^ "South Pacific (1958)". The Numbers. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
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  53. ^ Hall & Neale 2010, p. 165–166 "Darryl's most ambitious independent production was The Longest Day (1962), a three-hour reconstruction of D-Day filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope at a cost of $8 million. It grossed over $30 million worldwide as a roadshow followed by general release, thereby helping the studio regain stability during its period of reorganization."
  54. ^ "Cleopatra (1963)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  55. ^ "Mary Poppins (1964)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
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  61. ^ "The Jungle Book (1967)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
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  80. ^ The Birth of a Nation
    • Wasko, Janet (1986). "D.W. Griffiths and the banks: a case study in film financing". In Kerr, Paul (ed.). The Hollywood Film Industry: A Reader. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 9780710097309. Various accounts have cited $15 to $18 million profits during the first few years of release, while in a letter to a potential investor in the proposed sound version, Aitken noted that a $15 to $18 million box-office gross was a 'conservative estimate'. For years Variety has listed The Birth of a Nation's total rental at $50 million. (This reflects the total amount paid to the distributor, not box-office gross.) This 'trade legend' has finally been acknowledged by Variety as a 'whopper myth', and the amount has been revised to $5 million. That figure seems far more feasible, as reports of earnings in the Griffith collection list gross receipts for 1915–1919 at slightly more than $5.2 million (including foreign distribution) and total earnings after deducting general office expenses, but not royalties, at about $2 million.
    The Fall of a Nation
    • Stokes, Melvyn (2007). D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford University Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 978-0-19-533678-8. Most of Dixon's films over the next few years would have a clear didactic purpose. His first film, The Fall of a Nation (1916), a clear attempt to cash in on the success of Birth ... The film premiered at Clune's Auditorium and had its East Coast opening at the Liberty Theater. The trade press was enthusiastic and the movie made a total profin of $120,000
  81. ^ James Bond
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  83. ^ James Bond
  84. ^ "Harry Potter – Worldwide (Unadjusted)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  85. ^ "Harry Potter – Worldwide (Unadjusted)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
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