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Highest-Grossing Film Franchises
The highest-grossing film series and franchises.
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Year↕ | Title↕ | Worldwide gross↕ | Budget↕ | References↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,915 | The Birth of a Nation | $50,000,000–100,000,000$20,000,000+ ($5,200,000) | 110,000 | |
| 1,916 | Intolerance | 1,750,000 | 385,907 | |
| 1,917 | Cleopatra | 500,000 | 300,000 | |
| 1,918 | Mickey | 8,000,000 | 250,000 | |
| 1,919 | The Miracle Man | 3,000,000 | 120,000 | |
| 1,920 | Way Down East | $5,000,000 ($4,000,000) | 800,000 | |
| 1,921 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | $5,000,000 ($4,000,000) | $600,000–800,000 | |
| 1,922 | Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood | 2,500,000 | 930,042.78 | |
| 1,923 | The Covered Wagon | 5,000,000 | 800,000 | |
| 1,924 | The Sea Hawk | 3,000,000 | 700,000 | |
| 1,925 | The Big Parade | $18,000,000–22,000,000 ($6,131,000) | 382,000 | |
| Ben-Hur | $10,738,000 ($9,386,000) | 3,967,000 | — | |
| 1,926 | For Heaven's Sake | 2,600,000 | 150,000 | |
| 1,927 | Wings | 3,600,000 | 2,000,000 | |
| 1,928 | The Singing Fool | 5,900,000 | 388,000 | |
| 1,929 | The Broadway Melody | $4,400,000–4,800,000 | 379,000 | |
| Sunny Side Up | $3,500,000 | 600,000 | — | |
| 1,930 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 3,000,000 | 1,250,000 | |
| 1,931 | Frankenstein | $12,000,000 ($1,400,000) | 250,000 | |
| City Lights | $5,000,000 | 1,607,351 | — | |
| 1,932 | The Sign of the Cross | 2,738,993 | 694,065 | |
| 1,933 | King Kong | $5,347,000 ($1,856,000) | 672,255.75 | |
| I'm No Angel | $3,250,000+ | 200,000 | — | |
| Cavalcade | $3,000,000–4,000,000 | 1,116,000 | — | |
| She Done Him Wrong | $3,000,000+ | 274,076 | — | |
| 1,934 | The Merry Widow | 2,608,000 | 1,605,000 | |
| It Happened One Night | $2,500,000 | 325,000 | — | |
| 1,935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 4,460,000 | 1,905,000 | |
| 1,936 | San Francisco | $6,044,000+ ($5,273,000) | 1,300,000 | |
| 1,937 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | $418,000,000+ ($8,500,000) | 1,488,423 | |
| 1,938 | You Can't Take It with You | 5,000,000 | 1,200,000 | |
| 1,939 | Gone with the Wind | $390,525,192–402,382,193 ($32,000,000) | $3,900,000–4,250,000 | |
| 1,940 | Pinocchio | $87,000,862 ($3,500,000) | 2,600,000 | |
| Boom Town | $4,600,000 | 2,100,000 | — | |
| 1,941 | Sergeant York | 7,800,000 | 1,600,000 | |
| 1,942 | Bambi | $267,997,843 ($3,449,353) | $1,700,000–2,000,000 | |
| Mrs. Miniver | $8,878,000 | 1,344,000 | — | |
| 1,943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 11,000,000 | 2,681,298 | |
| This Is the Army | $9,555,586.44 | 1,400,000 | — | |
| 1,944 | Going My Way | 6,500,000 | 1,000,000 | |
| 1,945 | Mom and Dad | $80,000,000/$22,000,000 | 65,000 | |
| The Bells of St. Mary's | $11,200,000 | 1,600,000 | — | |
| 1,946 | Song of the South | $65,000,000 ($3,300,000) | 2,125,000 | |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | $14,750,000 | 2,100,000 | — | |
| Duel in the Sun | $10,000,000 | 5,255,000 | — | |
| 1,947 | Forever Amber | 8,000,000 | 6,375,000 | |
| Unconquered | $7,500,000 | 4,200,000 | — | |
| 1,948 | Easter Parade | 5,918,134 | 2,500,000 | |
| The Red Shoes | $5,000,000 | £505,581 (~$2,000,000) | — | |
| The Snake Pit | $4,100,000 | 3,800,000 | — | |
| 1,949 | Samson and Delilah | 14,209,250 | 3,097,563 | |
| 1,950 | Cinderella | $263,591,415($20,000,000/$7,800,000) | 2,200,000 | |
| King Solomon's Mines | $10,050,000 | 2,258,000 | — | |
| 1,951 | Quo Vadis | $21,037,000–26,700,000 | 7,623,000 | |
| 1,952 | This Is Cinerama | 50,000,000 | 1,000,000 | |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | $18,350,000 | 3,873,946 | — | |
| 1,953 | Peter Pan | $145,000,000 ($7,000,000) | $3,000,000–4,000,000 | |
| The Robe | $25,000,000–26,100,000 | 4,100,000 | — | |
| 1,954 | Rear Window | $24,500,000 ($5,300,000) | 1,000,000 | |
| White Christmas | $26,000,050 ($12,000,000) | 3,800,000 | — | |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | $25,000,134($6,800,000–8,000,000) | $4,500,000–9,000,000 | — | |
| 1,955 | Lady and the Tramp | $187,000,000 ($6,500,000) | 4,000,000 | |
| Cinerama Holiday | $21,000,000 | 2,000,000 | — | |
| Mister Roberts | $9,900,000 | 2,400,000 | — | |
| 1,956 | The Ten Commandments | $90,066,230($122,700,000/$55,200,000) | 13,270,000 | |
| 1,957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 30,600,000 | 2,840,000 | |
| 1,958 | South Pacific | 30,000,000 | 5,610,000 | |
| 1,959 | Ben-Hur | $90,000,000($146,900,000/$66,100,000) | 15,900,000 | |
| 1,960 | Swiss Family Robinson | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | |
| Spartacus | $60,000,000 ($22,105,225) | 10,284,014 | — | |
| Psycho | $50,000,000+ ($14,000,000) | 800,000 | — | |
| 1,961 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 303,000,000 | $3,600,000–4,000,000 | |
| West Side Story | $105,000,000 ($31,800,000) | 7,000,000 | — | |
| 1,962 | Lawrence of Arabia | $77,324,852 ($69,995,385) | 13,800,000 | |
| How the West Was Won | $35,000,000 | 14,483,000 | — | |
| The Longest Day | $33,200,000 | 8,600,000 | — | |
| 1,963 | Cleopatra | 40,300,000 | 31,115,000 | |
| From Russia with Love | $78,900,000/$29,400,000($12,500,000) | 2,000,000 | — | |
| 1,964 | My Fair Lady | 55,000,000 | 17,000,000 | |
| Goldfinger | $124,900,000 ($46,000,000) | 3,000,000 | — | |
| Mary Poppins | $44,000,000–$50,000,000 | 5,200,000 | — | |
| 1,965 | The Sound of Music | $287,814,441 ($114,600,000) | 8,000,000 | |
| 1,966 | The Bible: In the Beginning | 25,325,000 | 18,000,000 | |
| Hawaii | $34,562,222 ($15,600,000) | 15,000,000 | — | |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | $33,736,689 ($14,500,000) | 7,613,000 | — | |
| 1,967 | The Jungle Book | $378,000,000 ($23,800,000) | $3,900,000–4,000,000 | |
| The Graduate | $85,000,000 | 3,100,000 | — | |
| 1,968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | $141,000,000–190,000,000($21,900,000) | 10,300,000 | |
| Funny Girl | $80,000,000–100,000,000 | 8,800,000 | — | |
| 1,969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | $152,308,525 ($37,100,000) | 6,600,000 | |
| 1,970 | Love Story | $173,400,000 ($80,000,000) | 2,260,000 | |
| 1,971 | The French Connection | 75,000,000 | 3,300,000 | |
| Fiddler on the Roof | $49,400,000 ($100,000,000/$45,100,000) | 9,000,000 | — | |
| Diamonds Are Forever | $116,000,000 ($45,700,000) | 7,200,000 | — | |
| 1,972 | The Godfather | $246,120,974–287,000,000 ($127,600,000–142,000,000) | $6,000,000–7,200,000 | |
| 1,973 | The Exorcist | $430,872,776 ($112,300,000) | 10,000,000 | |
| The Sting | $115,000,000 | 5,500,000 | — | |
| 1,974 | The Towering Inferno | $203,336,412 ($104,838,000) | 14,300,000 | |
| 1,975 | Jaws | $495,201,848 ($193,700,000) | 9,000,000 | |
| 1,976 | Rocky | $225,000,000 ($77,100,000) | 1,075,000 | |
| 1,977 | Star Wars | $775,398,507 ($530,000,000/$268,500,000) | 11,293,151 | |
| 1,978 | Grease | $396,271,103 ($341,000,000) | 6,000,000 | |
| 1,979 | Moonraker | 210,308,099 | 31,000,000 | |
| Rocky II | $200,182,160 | 7,000,000 | — | |
| 1,980 | The Empire Strikes Back | $550,016,086 ($413,562,607) | $23,000,000–32,000,000 | |
| 1,981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | $389,925,971 ($321,866,000–353,988,025) | $18,000,000–22,800,000 | |
| 1,982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $797,307,407 ($619,000,000–664,000,000) | $10,500,000–12,200,000 | |
| 1,983 | Return of the Jedi | $482,466,382 ($385,845,197) | $32,500,000–42,700,000 | |
| 1,984 | Ghostbusters | $370,000,000 ($355,200,000) | $25,000,000–30,000,000 | |
| 1,985 | Back to the Future | $402,420,713 ($381,109,762) | $19,000,000–22,000,000 | |
| 1,986 | Top Gun | $357,288,178 ($345,000,000) | $14,000,000–19,000,000 | |
| 1,987 | Fatal Attraction | 320,145,693 | 14,000,000 | |
| 1,988 | Rain Man | 354,825,435 | 30,000,000 | |
| 1,989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | $474,171,806–494,000,000 | $36,000,000–55,400,000 | |
| 1,990 | Ghost | $505,870,681 ($505,702,588) | 22,000,000 | |
| 1,991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $523,774,456 ($519,843,345) | 94,000,000 | |
| 1,992 | Aladdin | 504,050,219 | 28,000,000 | |
| 1,993 | Jurassic Park | $1,037,535,230 ($912,667,947) | $63,000,000–70,000,000 | |
| 1,994 | The Lion King | $970,946,637 ($763,455,561) | $45,000,000–79,300,000 | |
| 1,995 | Toy Story | $384,990,631 ($363,007,140) | 30,000,000 | |
| Die Hard with a Vengeance | $366,101,666 | 70,000,000 | — | |
| 1,996 | Independence Day | 817,400,891 | 75,000,000 | |
| 1,997 | Titanic | $2,257,906,828 ($1,843,373,318) | 200,000,000 | |
| 1,998 | Armageddon | 553,709,788 | 140,000,000 | |
| 1,999 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | $1,046,515,409 ($924,317,558) | $115,000,000–127,500,000 | |
| 2,000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | 546,388,108 | $100,000,000–125,000,000 | |
| 2,001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | $1,009,046,830 ($974,755,371) | 125,000,000 | |
| 2,002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $948,945,489 ($936,689,735) | 94,000,000 | |
| 2,003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $1,147,997,407 ($1,140,682,011) | 94,000,000 | |
| 2,004 | Shrek 2 | $932,536,239 ($929,098,316) | 150,000,000 | |
| 2,005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $896,346,413 ($895,921,036) | 150,000,000 | |
| Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | $905,595,947 ($849,997,605) | 113,000,000 | — | |
| 2,006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 1,066,179,747 | 225,000,000 | |
| 2,007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 960,996,492 | 300,000,000 | |
| 2,008 | The Dark Knight | $1,008,294,632 ($997,039,412) | 185,000,000 | |
| 2,009 | Avatar | $2,923,710,708 ($2,743,577,587) | 237,000,000 | |
| 2,010 | Toy Story 3 | 1,066,970,811 | 200,000,000 | |
| 2,011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | $1,342,139,727 ($1,341,511,219) | 250,000,000 | |
| 2,012 | The Avengers | 1,518,815,515 | 220,000,000 | |
| 2,013 | Frozen | $1,290,000,000 ($1,287,000,000) | 150,000,000 | |
| 2,014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | 1,104,039,076 | 210,000,000 | |
| 2,015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2,068,223,624 | 245,000,000 | |
| 2,016 | Captain America: Civil War | $1,153,337,496 ($1,153,296,293) | 250,000,000 | |
| 2,017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 1,332,539,889 | 200,000,000 | |
| 2,018 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2,048,359,754 | $316,000,000–400,000,000 | |
| 2,019 | Avengers: Endgame | 2,797,501,328 | 356,000,000 | |
| 2,020 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train | $512,704,063 ($507,119,058) | 15,750,000 | |
| 2,021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $1,922,598,800 ($1,912,233,593) | 200,000,000 | |
| 2,022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $2,334,484,620 ($2,320,250,281) | $350,000,000–460,000,000 | |
| 2,023 | Barbie | 1,447,138,421 | $128,000,000–145,000,000 | |
| 2,024 | Inside Out 2 | 1,698,863,816 | 200,000,000 | |
| 2,025 | Ne Zha 2 | 2,215,690,000 | 80,000,000 | |
| 2,026 | Pegasus 3 † | 276,790,000 | 70,000,000 |
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