The 50 Highest-Grossing Movies of All Time: Your Top Box Office Earners Ever Worldwide

The 50 Highest-Grossing Movies of All Time: Your Top Box Office Earners Ever Worldwide

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Avatar: The Way of Water soars to No. 3 and The Super Mario Bros. Movie bounds to No. 21 in our guide to the highest-grossing movies of all time.
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Mario and Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Photo by Universal Pictures) [Box office figures as of 5/24/2023]  While Avengers: Endgame and Avatar recently duked it out for bragging rights as the all-time highest-grossing movie, 2021 surprised everyone — to an extent — with the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which blew everyone away, setting new records and entertaining fans all over...

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Avatar: The Way of Water soars to No. 3 and The Super Mario Bros. Movie bounds to No. 21 in our guide to the highest-grossing movies of all time.
TAGGED AS: Box Office, movies, Summer
Mario and Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Photo by Universal Pictures) [Box office figures as of 5/24/2023]  While Avengers: Endgame and Avatar recently duked it out for bragging rights as the all-time highest-grossing movie, 2021 surprised everyone — to an extent — with the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which blew everyone away, setting new records and entertaining fans all over the world even as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the industry. With No Way Home landing at No. 6 and Disney’s absorption of what used to be 21st Century Fox, Disney now occupies seven of the 10 top box office rankings of all time worldwide (eight, if you count its joint ownership of Titanic with Paramount).
But even after the release of would-be juggernauts like The Batman, Jurassic World Dominion, The Batman, and a pair of Marvel movies in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder, only one film has managed to crack this list in 2022, and boy was it a big one. Tom Cruise suited up again to play ace pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s three-and-a-half-decades-later sequel Top Gun: Maverick and delivered what was easily the biggest movie of the summer (and probably the entire year), landing at N0. 13 in the worldwide box office rankings. Who would have thought?
In 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie surprised everyone by jolting into the top half of this list in its first six weeks of release. Beyond that, the year does not have a lot of contenders to crack the billion club. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is likely to come up short. Can the farewell of Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny go where the archaeologist has never gone before — without an inflation calculator that is? Can Tom Cruise finally get a Mission: Impossible into the club it deserves? After that, there are no guarantees and we likely won’t need to reconvene until 2024.
For the list below, we’ve included global box office performance, as well as domestic, and release date. We included dollars earned in re-releases, and in each of our descriptions, we look at where the film stood record-wise at the time of its run, and dive into things like critical and audience reception. We’ll be here to track the progress of new blockbusters and regularly update this list of top box office performers. So keep your eyes here, and check in with our weekly weekend box office wrap-ups.   1. $2.924 Billion 2. $2.799 Billion 3. $2.320 Billion 4. $2.265 Billion 5. $2.071 Billion 6. $2.052 Billion Check out the latest Weekend Box Office Results 7. $1.922Billion 8. $1.672 Billion 9. $1.663 Billion 10. $1.521 Billion 11. $1.515 Billion 12. $1.494 Billion 13. $1.454 Billion 14. $1.405 Billion 15. $1.350 Billion 16. $1.342 Billion 17. $1.334 Billion 18. $1.311 Billion 19. $1.285 Billion 20. $1.274 Billion 21. $1.256 Billion 22. $1.243 Billion Check out the latest Weekend Box Office Results 23. $1.236 Billion 24. $1.215 Billion 25. $1.159 Billion 26. $1.155 Billion 27. $1.149 Billion 28. $1.148 Billion 29. $1.142 Billion 30. $1.132 Billion 31. $1.132 Billion 32. $1.124 Billion 33. $1.110 Billion 34. $1.104 Billion 35. $1.081 Billion 36. $1.077 Billion 37. $1.074 Billion 38. $1.073 Billion 39. $1.067 Billion 40. $1.066 Billion 41. $1.059 Billion 42. $1.051 Billion 43. $1.047 Billion 44. $1.035 Billion 45. $1.029 Billion 46. $1.027 Billion 47. $1.026 Billion 48. $1.026 Billion 49. $1.023 Billion 50. $1.017 Billion On an Apple device? Follow Rotten Tomatoes on Apple News. Thumbnail image courtesy Sony Pictures Releasing, Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures, Warner...