Box office numbers, adjusted for hype — worldwide theatrical gross, not adjusted for inflation. Only seven films in history have ever crossed $2 billion.
Pictured: Avatar (2009), #1 with $2.92 billion worldwide.
| Rank | Film | Worldwide gross | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar (2009) | $2.92B | Disney |
| 2 | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | $2.80B | Disney |
| 3 | Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) | $2.32B | Disney |
| 4 | Titanic (1997) | $2.26B | Paramount |
| 5 | Ne Zha 2 (2025) | $2.22B | Beijing Enlight Pictures |
| 6 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | $2.07B | Disney |
| 7 | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | $2.05B | Disney |
| 8 | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | $1.92B | Sony |
| 9 | Inside Out 2 (2024) | $1.70B | Disney |
| 10 | Jurassic World (2015) | $1.67B | Universal |
| 11 | The Lion King (2019) | $1.66B | Disney |
| 12 | The Avengers (2012) | $1.52B | Disney |
| 13 | Furious 7 (2015) | $1.52B | Universal |
| 14 | Top Gun: Maverick (2022) | $1.49B | Paramount |
| 15 | Frozen II (2019) | $1.45B | Disney |
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James Cameron's effects-driven sci-fi epic briefly lost the top spot to Avengers: Endgame in 2019, then reclaimed it after a 2021 re-release in Chinese theaters pushed its total back into first place. Cameron first conceived the project in 1994 but delayed production for over a decade until visual-effects technology could catch up to his vision, eventually spending roughly $237 million to build Pandora on screen.[1]
The fastest film ever to cross $1 billion, hitting the mark in just five days. It capped off 22 interconnected Marvel films released over 11 years.[1]
Arriving 13 years after the original, it proved Avatar's box office power wasn't a one-off — becoming only the third film ever to cross $2 billion. That real-world gap happened to mirror the story's own timeline, and to capture actors underwater, Cameron built a specialized 90,000-gallon tank rigged to simulate ocean waves and currents.[1]
Held the all-time #1 spot for 12 straight years until Avatar dethroned it in 2010 — and it's still adding to its total, thanks to periodic theatrical re-releases decades after 1997. It swept the 1998 Academy Awards, winning 11 of its 14 nominations including Best Picture — tying Ben-Hur's record for most Oscars won by a single film — on a then-unprecedented budget of roughly $200 million.[1]
A Chinese animated film based on the mythological figure Nezha, it became the first non-Hollywood film and the first animated film ever to cross $2 billion — almost entirely on the strength of the domestic Chinese box office. Directed by Yang Yu (known as Jiaozi), it took just 33 days to cross that mark, the product of five years of work by more than 4,000 crew members across 138 Chinese animation studios.[2]
J.J. Abrams' 2015 relaunch of the saga, the first Star Wars film made under Disney's ownership of Lucasfilm, set the then-record for the biggest domestic (North American) opening weekend in box-office history. Production was interrupted midway through when a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon set fell on Harrison Ford and broke his leg, sidelining him for months without ultimately delaying the film's release.[1]
The first Marvel Studios film to cross $2 billion worldwide, it ended on a cliffhanger — half of all life in the universe turned to dust — that went unresolved until Endgame arrived a year later. To guard against leaks, cast members received only the pages relevant to their own scenes rather than the full script, and many didn't learn which characters would be dusted by Thanos's snap until the day those scenes were filmed.[1]
A multiverse-spanning crossover reuniting actors from all three previous Spider-Man film series, it was the first film of the COVID-19 pandemic era to cross $1 billion worldwide. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's returns as earlier screen Spider-Men were kept secret through the marketing campaign, and once the film opened, the two actors skipped the premiere and instead snuck into a regular theater together, incognito, to watch it with an unsuspecting audience.[1]
Pixar's sequel introduced new emotions like Anxiety and Envy alongside the original cast, and became the highest-grossing animated film in history upon its 2024 release. Anxiety was voiced by Maya Hawke, who drew on her own inner worrying voice for the performance — some of her hand gestures during recording sessions were even incorporated into the character's final animation.[1]
Released 14 years after the previous entry in the franchise, it revived the Jurassic Park series with a then-record-breaking global opening weekend. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay, it launched a trilogy that became one of only three franchise trilogies in history to gross over $1 billion with every entry, combining for roughly $4 billion total.[1]