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The Top 50 Films – Domestic Gross Rk FILM GROSS 1 Top Gun: Maverick $718,732,821 2 Avatar: The Way of Water $684,075,767 3 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever $453,829,060 4 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $411,331,607 5 Jurassic World: Dominion $376,851,080 6 Minions: The Rise of Gru $369,500,210 7 Batman, The $369,345,583 8 Thor: [ ]
The Top 100 Domestic Box Office Rk Year Rk FILM GROSS 1 2009 1 Avatar $749,766,139 2 2008 1 Dark Knight, The $533,345,358 3 2004 1 Shrek 2 $441,226,247 4 2006 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man s Chest $423,315,812 5 2002 1 Spider-Man $403,706,375 6 2009 2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $402,111,870 7 [ ]
The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Avatar $749,766,139 2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $402,111,870 3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $301,959,197 4 Twilight Saga: New Moon $296,623,634 5 Up $293,004,164 6 Hangover, The $277,322,503 7 Star Trek $257,730,019 8 Blind Side, The $255,959,475 9 Alvin and [ ]
The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Dark Knight, The $533,345,358 2 Iron Man $318,412,101 3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $317,101,119 4 Hancock $227,946,274 5 Wall-E $223,808,164 6 Kung Fu Panda $215,434,591 7 Twilight $192,769,854 8 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $180,010,950 9 Quantum of [ ]
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes section). Films in blue were nominated. Films in green were semi-finalists in those categories where the Oscars announce those. Films [ ]
My Top 10 West Side Story Nightmare Alley Cyrano The Power of the Dog Dune: Part One Spider-Man: No Way Home The Tragedy of Macbeth The Lost Daughter The Last Duel Shiva Baby note: It s not a great Top 5 but it s a much stronger Top 10 than the year before. And, of course, the [ ]
The Top 50 Films – Domestic Gross Rk FILM GROSS 1 Spider-Man: No Way Home $804,667,830 2 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $224,543,292 3 Venom: Let There Be Carnage $213,550,366 4 Black Widow $183,651,655 5 F9: The Fast Saga $173,005,945 6 Eternals $164,870,234 7 Sing 2 $162,790,990 8 No Time to Die [ ]
You don t have to see all 200 of these films of course. But it s hard to take anything you might want to say about film seriously if you haven t seen them. Let me be quick about what this list is before I get into a very long digression (regular readers should not be surprised). This [ ]
The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Spider-Man 3 $336,530,303 2 Shrek the Third $322,719,944 3 Transformers $319,246,193 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World s End $309,420,425 5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $292,004,738 6 I Am Legend $256,393,010 7 Bourne Ultimatum, The $227,471,070 8 National [ ]
The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man s Chest $423,315,812 2 Night at the Museum $250,863,268 3 Cars $244,082,982 4 X-Men: The Last Stand $234,362,462 5 Da Vinci Code, The $217,536,138 6 Superman Returns $200,081,192 7 Happy Feet $198,000,317 8 Ice Age: The Meltdown [ ]