{"id":159155,"date":"2021-01-04T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/first-movies-gross-billion-box-office\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:30:12","slug":"the-first-10-movies-to-gross-1-billion-ranked-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/the-first-10-movies-to-gross-1-billion-ranked-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"The First 10 Movies To Gross $1 Billion, Ranked | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These days, it\u2019s common for a big blockbuster to clear $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Now, that\u2019s the standard turnover for a Marvel movie and billion-grossing efforts make up almost all of the top 50 highest-grossing films of all time. But it was once a rarity reserved for must-see movies like the final Harry Potter<\/em> entry or the greatest Batman movie ever made<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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No movie cleared this bar until 1997 when James Cameron came along with a little movie called Titanic<\/em> and it wouldn\u2019t become the norm for summer tentpoles to rake in this much money until the 2010s.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1,045,713,802)<\/h2>\n
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After a lackluster threequel, the Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> franchise really started to lose the plot in its fourth installment. On Stranger Tides<\/em> ditches virtually all connections to the past three movies, only keeping Johnny Depp\u2019s Jack Sparrow long after the schtick had gotten old.<\/p>\n

But enough fans still got a kick out of Depp\u2019s performance to push the movie into the $1 billion club. The franchise wouldn\u2019t underperform at the box office until the next movie, Dead Men Tell No Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>Transformers: Dark Of The Moon ($1,123,794,079)<\/h2>\n
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Michael Bay was the perfect director to adapt action figures into a movie, because his \u201cBayhem\u201d filmmaking style is the cinematic equivalent of a kid playing with toys.<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s a marked improvement over its predecessor, Revenge of the Fallen<\/em>, Dark of the Moon<\/em> still falls into the same trappings of all Bay\u2019s Transformers<\/em> movies: loud, bombastic, offensive, and proudly unsubtle.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>Alice In Wonderland ($1,025,467,110)<\/h2>\n
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Before Jon Favreau\u2019s The Jungle Book<\/em> kickstarted a relentless barrage of live-action remakes of animated Disney classics, Tim Burton updated Alice in Wonderland<\/em> with his own bleak, gothic visual style.<\/p>\n

Like many of the Disney remakes that would follow, Alice in Wonderland<\/em> is a visually stunning, but artistically vacant endeavor that fails to live up to its classic source material.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man\u2019s Chest ($1,066,179,725)<\/h2>\n
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When a movie based on a theme park ride defied the odds to become Disney\u2019s next big franchise, the Mouse House couldn\u2019t wait to rush out a sequel. Dead Man\u2019s Chest<\/em> relies on the supernatural elements more than its predecessor, but it\u2019s still an action-packed spectacle.<\/p>\n

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As a big-budget adventure movie harking back to swashbuckler classics, Dead Man\u2019s Chest<\/em> recaptures more of the first movie\u2019s magic than any of the subsequent sequels.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>Avatar ($2,744,336,793)<\/h2>\n
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Due to its use of a Pocahontas<\/em>-esque story on a foreign planet populated with blue-skinned aliens, James Cameron\u2019s Avatar<\/em> was mockingly nicknamed \u201cDances with Smurfs.\u201d Sure, the plot is derivative and the environmentalist message is on-the-nose, but that wasn\u2019t the attraction of this movie.<\/p>\n

The reason why Avatar<\/em> became the highest-grossing movie of all time \u2013 a record it held until Avengers: Endgame<\/em> came along<\/a> \u2013 is that moviegoers were excited by its technological advancements. It was the most immersive, cutting-edge CGI ever created.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>Titanic ($2,127,488,188)<\/h2>\n
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James Cameron only promised 20th Century Fox a movie about the sinking of the Titanic because he wanted the studio to pay for him to explore the shipwreck. With a ballooning budget accommodating the construction of half a ship, many industry pundits expected Titanic<\/em> to bomb, and the premise already provided them with a perfect metaphor to describe box office failure.<\/p>\n

And then it hit theaters and became the first film in history to gross over $1 billion worldwide. It broke that record with such oomph that it almost made it to $2 billion, a bar it would later clear with subsequent re-releases.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2 ($1,341,511,219)<\/h2>\n
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Setting a trend that continues to affect book adaptations to this day, the producers of the Harry Potter<\/em> franchise decided to split the final book, Deathly Hallows<\/em>, into two movies. After getting all the exposition out of the way in the first part, the second could focus on the Battle of Hogwarts.<\/p>\n

Eight years before Avengers: Endgame<\/em> did the same thing, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2<\/em> concluded a long-running franchise with an action-packed epic that feels like a hugely satisfying series finale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King ($1,140,682,011)<\/h2>\n
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Peter Jackson took a huge risk with The Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy. There was no guarantee that this lofty, thought-provoking high fantasy epic would attract any moviegoers, and Jackson was shooting three big-budget movies back-to-back banking on their success.<\/p>\n

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Of course, as it turned out, the financiers had nothing to worry about. The Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies were praised by critics as ranking among the greatest ever made. All three of them were box office hits and the third one, The Return of the King<\/em>, became the second ever movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n

2 <\/span>The Dark Knight ($1,005,973,645)<\/h2>\n
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After saving Bruce Wayne\u2019s big-screen adventures from their post-Batman & Robin<\/em> slump with the refreshing gritty realism of Batman Begins<\/em>, Christopher Nolan really pushed the boat out for the sequel, The Dark Knight<\/em>, arguably the Bat\u2019s greatest on-screen outing to date<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the star of the show here is Heath Ledger\u2019s chilling Oscar-winning portrayal of the Joker, but the movie as a whole is a poignant post-9\/11 noir about the fear of terrorism<\/a> that happens to take place in Gotham City.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>Toy Story 3 ($1,066,969,703)<\/h2>\n
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In the summer of 2010, a decade after the franchise\u2019s last installment, Toy Story 3<\/em> managed to pull in more money at the box office than its two predecessors combined. It was the first Pixar movie to gross over $1 billion.<\/p>\n

Although its perfect ending was undermined by Toy Story 4<\/em> nine years later, Toy Story 3<\/em> provided fans of the franchise with plenty of closure in what was supposed to be the final chapter.<\/p>\n

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