Movies

All-time records

Movies — every all-time record, with sources cited.

Box office, opening weekends, production budgets, inflation-adjusted leaders. Tracking 2,063 films sourced from Box Office Mojo + Wikidata.

View in 2026 dollars

Top 10 by metric

Source · Box Office Mojo
Box office · WW

Highest-grossing worldwide

  1. 1Avatar2009$2.92B
  2. 2Avatar2022$2.85B
  3. 3Avengers: Endgame2019$2.8B
  4. 4Avengers: Endgame2019$2.8B
  5. 5Avatar: The Way of Water2022$2.32B
  6. 6Titanic1997$2.26B
  7. 7Avatar: The Way of Water2025$2.18B
  8. 8Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens2015$2.07B
  9. 9Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens2016$2.07B
  10. 10Avengers: Infinity War2018$2.05B
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Box office · Opening

Biggest opening weekends

  1. 1Avengers: Endgame2019$357.12M
  2. 2Spider-Man: No Way Home2021$260.14M
  3. 3Avengers: Infinity War2018$257.7M
  4. 4Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens2015$247.97M
  5. 5Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi2017$220.01M
  6. 6Deadpool & Wolverine2024$211.44M
  7. 7Jurassic World2015$208.81M
  8. 8The Avengers2012$207.44M
  9. 9Black Panther2018$202M
  10. 10The Lion King2019$191.77M
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Production cost

Highest budgets

  1. 1Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011$410M
  2. 2Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning2025$400M
  3. 3Avengers: Infinity War2018$400M
  4. 4Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011$379M
  5. 5Avengers: Age of Ultron2015$365M
  6. 6Avengers: Endgame2019$356M
  7. 7Avengers: Endgame2019$356M
  8. 8Avatar: The Way of Water2022$350M
  9. 9Fast X2023$340M
  10. 10Avengers: Infinity War2018$321M
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Inflation-adjusted · CPI-U

All-time, in 2026 dollars

  1. 1Gone with the Wind1939$9.41B
  2. 2Titanic1997$4.59B
  3. 3Avatar2009$4.43B
  4. 4Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope1978$3.87B
  5. 5Titanic1998$3.69B
  6. 6Avengers: Endgame2019$3.56B
  7. 7Avengers: Endgame2019$3.56B
  8. 8Avatar2022$3.16B
  9. 9The Exorcist1974$2.91B
  10. 10Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens2015$2.84B
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Browse by decade

14 decades · 1,000 records
1900s0
No records yet.Browse · 1900–1909
1910s0
No records yet.Browse · 1910–1919
1920s0
No records yet.Browse · 1920–1929
1930s1
Gone with the Wind· 1939Browse · 1930–1939
1940s0
No records yet.Browse · 1940–1949
1950s1
Ben-Hur· 1959Browse · 1950–1959
1960s2
Thunderball· 1966Browse · 1960–1969
1970s16
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope· 1978Browse · 1970–1979
1980s37
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial· 1982Browse · 1980–1989
1990s143
Titanic· 1997Browse · 1990–1999
2000s270
Avatar· 2009Browse · 2000–2009
2010s440
Avengers: Endgame· 2019Browse · 2010–2019
2020s90
Avatar· 2022Browse · 2020–2029
2030s0
No records yet.Browse · 2030–2039