Catching Fire has amassed $336 million after only three weeks and will clear $400 million no problem, and its $673 million worldwide total is good for 5th place among 2013 releases. Although the film's 64% drop-off is rather steep, the folks at Lionsgate still have plenty to be happy about. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire fell to the number 2 spot (after two straight weeks of box office dominance) with $27 million. Now at $134 million, Frozen is well on its way to becoming Disney Animation's highest grossing film ever. Although the film opened in the number 2 spot last weekend, Frozen was able to leapfrog the reigning box office king thanks to a record-breaking post-Thanksgiving performance. In at number 1 is Disney Animation's Frozen with $31 million.
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With the continued success of the Marvel and Star Wars universes and the expansion of these products in series form, along with a number of planned live action remakes and Pixar titles, it is likely that Disney films will feature at the top of this list for years to come.A significant shake-up in the top spot highlighted an otherwise slow box office weekend.
After acquiring Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012, in deals worth 4.24 billion and 4.05 billion dollars respectively, Disney built upon its position as the largest entertainment company in the world and has dominated the international box office over the last decade. Although this is not a new trend in Hollywood, the box office pull of such "expanded universes" has exploded in recent years, and these films dominate the annual lists Disney in particular has been the most successful studio in this regard. When looking at the companies behind the films featured on this list, we can see that Disney and Paramount Pictures (in all of their forms) have each produced and/or distributed 23 of the films on this list, at the time of their release.Ä«etween 19, each year's highest grossing film was a sequel or part of a film franchise. His Star Wars co-star, Carrie Fisher, has appeared in five films listed here, more than any other actress. Looking at those in front of the camera, Harrison Ford, through his roles in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, has appeared in the highest number of films listed here featuring in seven titles. 2012's Frozen is the only film made by a female director Jennifer Lee, and until 2020, Mission: Impossible 2 was the only film made by a non-white director John Woo. DeMille, a "founding father" of American Cinema, and Disney's Hamilton Luske, have each directed (or co-directed) five movies on this list. Stephen Spielberg has directed more of these films than any other director, with six titles to his name. Throughout the list, many of the same directors and actors appear in multiple films. The pandemic also accelerated the trend of major releases coming to streaming platforms, and 2021 has seen many of the previous year's postponements released simultaneously in theaters and online (often at a premium) it remains to be seen how this will impact overall box office grosses. Varying restrictions per country saw Asian markets eventually overtake North American and European markets as the largest worldwide, and five of the ten highest grossing films in 2020 were either Chinese or Japanese productions.
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The significant drop off in global revenues in 2020 was due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw thousands of movie theaters close across the world. The highest grossing film of 2020 was The Eight Hundred, which took over 460 million dollars worldwide the first ever non-Hollywood production to feature on this list. When adjusted for inflation, 1939's Gone With the Wind is considered the highest grossing film of all time, with some sources claiming that it has generated approximately 3.4 billion dollars in today's money***. Before Avatar, the record had been held by 1997's Titanic (also directed by James Cameron). The difference between Endgame and Avatar's totals was fewer than ten million dollars by the end of 2019, however Avatar re-took the top spot in 2021 due to theatrical re-releases in China this gap is likely to grow in the coming years as Avatar will be shown again in theaters prior to midnight releases of it's four sequels (the first of which is due in 2022).
In 2019, Avengers: Endgame overtook 2009's Avatar as the highest grossing film of all time at the international Box Office.