list of highest-grossing films

|The Birth of a Nation

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|110000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Monaco |first=James |title=How to Read a Film:Movies, Media, and Beyond |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-975579-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bgbOsjnppAcC&pg=PA262 262] |quote=The Birth of a Nation, costing an unprecedented and, many believed, thoroughly foolhardy $110,000, eventually returned $20 million and more. The actual figure is hard to calculate because the film was distributed on a "states' rights" basis in which licenses to show the film were sold outright. The actual cash generated by The Birth of a Nation may have been as much as $50 million to $100 million, an almost inconceivable amount for such an early film.}}{{cite book |last=Wasko |first=Janet |chapter=D.W. Griffiths and the banks: a case study in film financing |editor-last=Kerr |editor-first=Paul |title=The Hollywood Film Industry: A Reader |publisher=Routledge |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-7100-9730-9 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jMINAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 34] |quote=Various accounts have cited $15 to $18 million profits during the first few years of release, while in a letter to a potential investor in the proposed sound version, Aitken noted that a $15 to $18 million box-office gross was a 'conservative estimate'. For years Variety has listed The Birth of a Nation{{'}}s total rental at $50 million. (This reflects the total amount paid to the distributor, not box-office gross.) This 'trade legend' has finally been acknowledged by Variety as a 'whopper myth', and the amount has been revised to $5 million. That figure seems far more feasible, as reports of earnings in the Griffith collection list gross receipts for 1915–1919 at slightly more than $5.2 million (including foreign distribution) and total earnings after deducting general office expenses, but not royalties, at about $2 million.}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lang |editor-first=Robert |title=The Birth of a nation: D.W. Griffith, director |publisher=Rutgers University Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-8135-2027-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rKOgVk13vawC&pg=PA30 30] |quote=The film eventually cost $110,000 and was twelve reels long. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813520278/page/30}}

|Intolerance

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1750000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |Intolerance|IN}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|385907}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine |title=Griffith's 20 Year Record |magazine=Variety |date=September 5, 1928 |page=12 |access-date=March 21, 2023|url=https://archive.org/details/variety92-1928-09/page/n12/mode/1up}}{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Schickel |year=1996 |title=D. W. Griffith: An American Life |series=Limelight Series |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-87910-080-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-YFNfV5fRDgC&pg=PA326 326] |quote=...there exists a very precise production accountant's statement, drawn up some time after the picture was finished, previews had been held and release prints struck. This document shows that the negative cost of the picture was precisely $385,906.77...}}

|Cleopatra

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA26 26]}}.

• Cleopatra: "Domestic Rentals: $0.5; Production Cost: $0.3 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."{{citation |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=Intolerance |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA45 45] |quote=Intolerance was the most expensive American film made up until that point, costing a total of $489,653, and its performance at the box ... but it did recoup its cost and end with respectable overall numbers.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.

|Mickey

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last=Coons |first=Robin |work=The Daytona Beach News-Journal |title=Hollywood Chatter |date=June 30, 1939 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eHIoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C8cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4926%2C5479066 6]}}

|The Miracle Man

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|120000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Shipman |first=David |title=The great movie stars: the golden years |publisher=Crown Publishing Group |year=1970 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatmoviestarst00ship 98] |quote=It was a low budgeter—$120,000—but it grossed world-wide over $3 million and made stars of Chaney and his fellow-players, Betty Compson and Thomas Meighan.}}

|Way Down East

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Biggest Money Pictures |work=Variety |date=June 21, 1932 |page=1|url=https://archive.org/details/variety106-1932-06/page/n120/mode/1up|via=Archive.org}} Cited in {{cite web |title=Biggest Money Pictures |publisher=Cinemaweb |url=http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |access-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708155503/http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |archive-date=July 8, 2011}}

|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|600000}}–{{nts|800000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA53 53]}}. "The Four Forsemen of the Apocalypse was to become Metro's most expensive production and one of the decade's biggest box-office hits. Its production costs have been estimated at "something between $600,000 and $800,000." Variety estimated its worldwide gross at $4 million in 1925 and at $5 million in 1944; in 1991, it estimated its cumulative domestic rentals at $3,800,000."

|Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2500000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|930042.78}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Brownlow |first=Kevin |title=The parade's gone by .. |publisher=University of California Press |year=1968 |isbn=978-0-520-03068-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wCD5EH64Qw8C&pg=PA255 255] |quote=The negative cost was about $986,000, which did not include Fairbanks' own salary. Once the exploitation and release prints were taken into account, Robin Hood cost about $1,400,000—exceeding both Intolerance ($700,000) and the celebrated "million dollar movie" Foolish Wives. But it earned $2,500,000.}}{{cite book |last=Vance |first=Jeffrey |title=Douglas Fairbanks |publisher=University of California Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-520-25667-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=e3DVBxGQ95YC&pg=PA146 146] |quote=The film had a production cost of $930,042.78—more than the cost of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and nearly as much as Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922).}}

|The Covered Wagon

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|800000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine |title=Business: Film Exports |magazine=Time |date=July 6, 1925 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728553,00.html |access-date=July 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105030518/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728553,00.html |archive-date=November 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription}}

|The Sea Hawk

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|The Big Parade

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({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:4990000+1141000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|382000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Citation |last=May |first=Richard P. |title=Restoring The Big Parade |journal=The Moving Image |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=140–146 |issn=1532-3978 |doi=10.1353/mov.2005.0033 |date=Fall 2005 |s2cid=192076406 |quote=...earning somewhere between $18 and $22 million, depending on the figures consulted}}{{cite book |last=Robertson |first=Patrick |title=Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats |publisher=Abbeville Publishing Group |year=1991 |edition=4 |isbn=978-1-55859-236-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jdjsQY5qkbEC&q=%22samson+and+delilah%22+worldwide+million+rentals 30] |quote=The top grossing silent film was King Vidor's The Big Parade (US 25), with worldwide rentals of $22 million.}}{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA58 58–59]}}. "Even then, at a time when the budget for a feature averaged at around $300,000, no more than $382,000 was spent on production...According to the Eddie Mannix Ledger at MGM, it grossed $4,990,000 domestically and $1,141,000 abroad."

|For Heaven's Sake

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2600000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}} {{ref |For Heaven's Sake|FH}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Frank |title=For Heaven's Sake (1926) – Articles |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/410794/for-heavens-sake#articles-reviews |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090237/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/410794/For-Heaven-s-Sake/articles.html |url-status=live }}

|Wings

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3600000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&q=wings+%242+million&pg=PA188 188]}}. "At a cost of $2 million Wings was the studio's most expensive movie of the decade, and though it did well it was not good enough to earn a profit."

|The Singing Fool

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| style="text-align:center;" |The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool

• {{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=The Jazz Singer |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA113 113] |quote=The film brought in $2.6 million in worldwide rentals and made a net profit of $1,196,750. Jolson's follow-up Warner Bros. film, The Singing Fool (1928), brought in over two times as much, with $5.9 in worldwide rentals and a profit of $3,649,000, making them two of the most profitable films in the 1920s.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.{{cite book |last=Crafton |first=Donald |title=The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926–1931 |publisher=University of California Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-520-22128-4 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=KFB_oT-jupQC&pg=PA549 549]–552 |quote=The Singing Fool: Negative Cost ($1000s): 388}}

|The Broadway Melody

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4400000}}–{{nts|4800000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|379000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{citation |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=The Broadway Melody |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA121 121] |quote=It earned $4.4 million in worldwide rentals and was the first movie to spawn sequels (there were several until 1940).}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.{{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=Edwin M. |title=The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932 |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2004 |orig-year=1st. pub. 1996 |isbn=978-0-7864-2029-2}}

• The Singing Fool: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA12 12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001730/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA12 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Ego aside, Jolson was at the top of his powers in The Singing Fool. The $150,000 Warner Bros. paid him to make it, and the $388,000 it took to produce the film, were drops in the hat next to the film's world gross of $5.9 million. Its $3.8-million gross in this country set a box-office record that would not be surpassed until Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)."
• The Broadway Melody: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA24 24] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404044842/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA24 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "The Broadway Melody with a negative cost of $379,000, grossed $2.8 million in the United States, $4.8 million worldwide, and made a recorded profit of $1.6 million for MGM."
• Gold Diggers of Broadway: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&q=%22gold%20diggers%20of%20broadway%22%20worldwide 58] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001730/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&q=%22gold%20diggers%20of%20broadway%22%20worldwide |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "It grossed an impressive $2.5 million domestically and nearly $4 million worldwide."

|All Quiet on the Western Front

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1250000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Cormack |first=Mike |title=Ideology and Cinematography in Hollywood, 1930–1939 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-312-10067-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=w0JSFWpr2gAC&pg=PA28 28] |quote=Although costing $1250000—a huge sum for any studio in 1929—the film was a financial success. Karl Thiede gives the domestic box-office at $1500000, and the same figure for the foreign gross.}}Hell's Angels

• {{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |title=United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=1976 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QljKdIYzncoC&pg=PA110 110] |quote=Hughes did not have the "Midas touch" the trade press so often attributed to him. Variety, for example, reported that Hell's Angels cost $3.2 million to make, and by July, 1931, eight months after its release, the production cost had nearly been paid off. Keats claimed the picture cost $4 million to make and that it earned twice that much within twenty years. The production cost estimate is probably correct. Hughes worked on the picture for over two years, shooting it first as a silent and then as a talkie. Lewis Milestone said that in between Hughes experimented with shooting it in color as well. But Variety{{'}}s earnings report must be the fabrication of a delirious publicity agent, and Keats' the working of a myth maker. During the seven years it was in United Artists distribution, Hell's Angels grossed $1.6 million in the domestic market, of which Hughes' share was $1.2 million. Whatever the foreign gross was, it seems unlikely that it was great enough to earn a profit for the picture.}}

|Frankenstein

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |last=Feaster |first=Felicia |title=Frankenstein (1931) |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/18617 |access-date=July 4, 2011 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221174009/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/373967%7C18617/Frankenstein.html |url-status=live }}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA163 163]}}. "It drew $1.4 million in worldwide rentals in its first run versus $1.2 million for Dracula, which had opened in February 1931."

|The Sign of the Cross

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|694065}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite journal |editor-last=Ramsaye |editor-first=Terry |title=The All-Time Best Sellers – Motion Pictures |journal=International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 |year=1937 |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up 942–943] |quote=Kid from Spain: $2,621,000 (data supplied by Eddie Cantor)}}Shanghai Express

• {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA165 165]}}. "Shanghai Express was Dietrich's biggest hit in America, bringing in $1.5 million in worldwide rentals."

|King Kong

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|672,255.75}}

| style="text-align:center;" |King Kong

• {{cite journal |first=Richard |last=Jewel |title=RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951 |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=14 |issue=1 |year=1994 |page=39 |quote=1933 release: $1,856,000; 1938 release: $306,000; 1944 release: $685,000}}
• {{cite web |title=King Kong (1933) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2690/king-kong#notes |access-date=January 7, 2012 |quote=1952 release: $2,500,000; budget: $672,254.75 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20151117145708/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2690/King-Kong/notes.html |url-status=live }}

|The Merry Widow

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1605000}}

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|Mutiny on the Bounty

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4460000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

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|San Francisco

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:5273000+124000+647000}}}}+{{ref |Rentals|R}} ({{nts|prefix=$|5273000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1300000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Turk |first=Edward Baron |title=Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald |publisher=University of California Press |year=2000 |orig-year=1st. pub. 1998 |isbn=978-0-520-22253-3}}

• The Merry Widow: p. [https://archive.org/details/hollywooddivabio0000turk/page/361 361] Cost: $1,605,000. Earnings: domestic $861,000; foreign $1,747,000; total $2,608,000. Loss: $113,000.
• San Francisco: p. [https://archive.org/details/hollywooddivabio0000turk/page/364 364] Cost: $1,300,000. Earnings: domestic $2,868,000; foreign $2,405,000; total $5,273,000. Profit: $2,237,000. [Reissues in 1938–39 and 1948–49 brought profits of $124,000 and $647,000 respectively.]{{cite book |last=Sedgwick |first=John |title=Popular Filmgoing In 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures |publisher=University of Exeter Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-85989-660-3 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsUfc8Ijb-wC&pg=PA146 146]–148 |quote=Sources: Eddie Mannix Ledger, made available to the author by Mark Glancy...}}
• Grand Hotel: Production Cost $000s: 700; Distribution Cost $000s: 947; U.S. box-office $000s: 1,235; Foreign box-office $000s: 1,359; Total box-office $000s: 2,594; Profit $000s: 947.
• The Merry Widow: Production Cost $000s: 1,605; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,116; U.S. box-office $000s: 861; Foreign box-office $000s: 1,747; Total box-office $000s: 2,608; Profit $000s: -113.
• Viva Villa: Production Cost $000s: 1,022; Distribution Cost $000s: 766; U.S. box-office $000s: 941; Foreign box-office $000s: 934; Total box-office $000s: 1,875; Profit $000s: 87.
• Mutiny on the Bounty: Production Cost $000s: 1,905; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,646; U.S. box-office $000s: 2,250; Foreign box-office $000s: 2,210; Total box-office $000s: 4,460; Profit $000s: 909.
• San Francisco: Production Cost $000s: 1,300; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,736; U.S. box-office $000s: 2,868; Foreign box-office $000s: 2,405; Total box-office $000s: 5,273; Profit $000s: 2,237.

|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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| style="text-align:center;" |Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

• {{cite book |last=Monaco |first=Paul |title=A History of American Movies: A Film-By-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8108-7434-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tgnKY6k5tHYC&pg=PA54 54] |quote=Considered a highly risky gamble when the movie was in production in the mid-1930s, by the fiftieth anniversary of its 1937 premiere Snow White{{'}}s earnings exceeded $330 million.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Wilhelm |first1=Henry Gilmer |last2=Brower |first2=Carol |title=The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures |publisher=Preservation Pub |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-911515-00-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22snow+white%22+million+worldwide+grosses 359] |quote=In only 2 months after the 1987 re-release, the film grossed another $45 million—giving it a total gross to date of about $375 million! |url=https://archive.org/details/permanencecareof00henr/page/359 }}
• {{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1987 Re-issue) |website=Boxoffice |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9400/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1987-re-issue |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=North American box-office: $46,594,719 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108051803/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9400/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1987-re-issue |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1993 Re-issue) |website=Boxoffice |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9401/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1993-re-issue |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=North American box-office: $41,634,791 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034721/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9401/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1993-re-issue |url-status=live }}Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio
• {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}

::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=When%20the%20budget%20rose%20from%20%24250%2C000%20to%20%241%2C488%2C423&pg=PA207 207] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404050856/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=When%20the%20budget%20rose%20from%20$250,000%20to%20$1,488,423&pg=PA207 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "When the budget rose from $250,000 to $1,488,423 he even mortgaged his own home and automobile. Disney had bet more than his company on the success of Snow White."

::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22%248%20million%20in%20worldwide%20rentals%22%20george%20lucas%20blockbusting&pg=PA237 237] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001733/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22$8%20million%20in%20worldwide%20rentals%22%20george%20lucas%20blockbusting&pg=PA237 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "By the end of 1938, it had grossed more than $8 million in worldwide rentals and was ranked at the time as the second-highest-grossing film after the 1925 epic Ben-Hur".

::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22foreign%20rentals%22&pg=PA255 255] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234803/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22foreign%20rentals%22&pg=PA255 |date=April 3, 2023 }}. "On its initial release Pinocchio brought in only $1.6 million in domestic rentals (compared with Snow White{{'}}s $4.2 million) and $1.9 million in foreign rentals (compared with Snow White{{'}}s $4.3 million)."

|You Can't Take It with You

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| style="text-align:center;" |1938

• You Can't Take It with You:{{cite web |title=You Can't Take It With You Premieres |publisher=Focus Features |url=http://focusfeatures.com/flashback?article_url=you_can_t_take_it_with_you_premieres |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6AeWlL1hk?url=http://focusfeatures.com/flashback?article_url=you_can_t_take_it_with_you_premieres |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |quote=You Can't Take It With You received excellent reviews, won Best Picture and Best Director at the 1938 Academy Awards, and earned over $5 million worldwide.}}{{cbignore}}
• Boys Town: {{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=Boys Town |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA215 215] |quote=The film quickly became a smash nationwide, making a profit of over $2 million on worldwide rentals of $4 million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.
• The Adventures of Robin Hood: {{cite journal |last=Glancy |first=H. Mark |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger |year=1995 |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=1 |issue=15 |pages=55–60 |doi=10.1080/01439689500260031 |quote=$3.981 million. |issn=0143-9685 }}
• Alexander's Ragtime Band: {{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=Alexander's Ragtime Band |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide%20rentals%22&pg=PA213 213] |quote=Once the confusion cleared, however, the film blossomed into a commercial success, with a profit of $978,000 on worldwide rentals of $3.6 million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.{{cite magazine |last=Chartier |first=Roy |title=You Can't Take It With You |date=September 6, 1938 |magazine=Variety |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117796537 |access-date=September 13, 2011 |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913175420/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117796537 |url-status=live }}

|Gone with the Wind

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Gone with the Wind |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1939/0GWTW.php |access-date=February 8, 2013 |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201012023/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1939/0GWTW.php |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/4094/gone-with-the-wind |title=Gone with the Wind |website=Boxoffice |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034141/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/4094/gone-with-the-wind |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0031381/ |title=Gone with the Wind (1939) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=October 1, 2024}}{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA283 283]}} ."The final negative cost of Gone with the Wind (GWTW) has been variously reported between $3.9 million and $4.25 million."

|Pinocchio

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Pinocchio (1940) |website=Boxoffice |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/7922/pinocchio-1940 |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073253/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/7922/pinocchio-1940 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Barrier |first=Michael |year=2003 |title=Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-983922-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xt5k08yuAXIC&q=pinocchio%20%22negative%20cost%20was%20%242.6%20million%22 266] |quote=The film's negative cost was $2.6 million, more than $1 million higher than Snow White{{'}}s.}}

|Sergeant York

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=sergeant%20york%20worldwide&pg=PA267 267]}}. "With worldwide rentals of $7.8 million in its initial release, the movie made a net profit of over $3 million."{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA301 301]}}. "The studio did particularly well with its war-related pictures, such as Sergeant York (1941), which cost $1.6 million but was the studio's biggest hit of the decade aside from This is the Army (1943), the Irving Berlin musical for which the profits were donated to the Army Emergency Relief fund."

|Bambi

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Bambi |website=Boxoffice |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/810/bambi |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073254/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/810/bambi |url-status=live }}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA281 281]}}. "Worldwide rentals of $3,449,353 barely recouped the film's nearly $2 million production cost."{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA712 712–713]}}.

• Bambi: "Worldwide Box Office: $266.8; Production Cost: $1.7 (Millions of $s)"
• 101 Dalmatians: "Worldwide Box Office: $215.0; Production Cost: $3.6 (Millions of $s)"
• The Jungle Book: "Worldwide Box Office: $170.8"; Production Cost: $3.9 (Millions of $s)"
• Aladdin: "Worldwide Box Office: $505.1"; Production Cost: $28.0 (Millions of $s)"

|For Whom the Bell Tolls

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{citation |last=McAdams |first=Frank |title=For Whom the Bell Tolls |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA287 287] |quote=Despite the early furor over the novel being "pro-red and immoral," the film opened to strong and favorable reviews and brought in $11 million in worldwide rentals in its initial release.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.{{cite web |title=For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75353/for-whom-the-bell-tolls#notes |access-date=June 24, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090231/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75353/For-Whom-the-Bell-Tolls/notes.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=A Guy Named Joe (1944) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/191/a-guy-named-joe#notes |access-date=August 29, 2012 |quote=According to M-G-M studio records at the AMPAS Library, the film had a negative cost of $2,627,000 and took in $5,363,000 at the box office. When the picture was re-issued for the 1955–56 season, it took in an additional $150,000. |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217022123/https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090236/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/191/A-Guy-Named-Joe/notes.html |url-status=live }}

|Going My Way

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22going%20my%20way%22&pg=PA420 420]}}. "(Unadjusted $s) in Millions of $s – Production Cost: $1.0"

|Mom and Dad

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Schaefer |first=Eric |title="Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959 |year=1999 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-2374-7 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CSBZqe0zPaMC&pg=PA197 197]–199 |quote=Leading the pack of postwar sex hygiene films was Mom and Dad (1944), which would become not only the most successful sex hygiene film in history but the biggest pre-1960 exploitation film of any kind. At the end of 1947, the Los Angeles Times reported that Mom and Dad had grossed $2 million. By 1949 Time had estimated that Mom and Dad had taken in $8 million from twenty million moviegoers. And publicity issuing from Mom and Dad{{'}}s production company indicated that by the end of 1956 it had grossed over $80 million worldwide. Net rentals of around $22 million by 1956 would easily place it in the top ten films of the late 1940s and early 1950s had it appeared on conventional lists. Some estimates have placed its total gross over the years at up to $100 million, and it was still playing drive-in dates into 1975...The film was made for around $65,000 with a crew of Hollywood veterans including director William "One Shot" Beaudine, cinematographer Marcel LePicard, and a cast that sported old stalwarts Hardie Albright, Francis Ford, and John Hamilton.}}

|Song of the South

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Song of the South |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1946/0SOTS.php |access-date=July 10, 2011 |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903154448/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1946/0SOTS.php |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Gabler |first=Neal |title=Walt Disney: the biography |year=2007 |publisher=Aurum Press |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EX0WAQAAIAAJ&q=%22song+of+the+south%22+%22million%22 438] |quote=Still, the film wound up grossing $3.3 million...}}{{cite web |title=Song of the South (1946) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90871/song-of-the-south#notes |access-date=July 25, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090242/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90871/Song-of-the-South/notes.html |url-status=live }}

|Forever Amber

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book|title=Twentieth Century-Fox: a corporate and financial history|last=Solomon|first=Aubrey|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2002|isbn=978-0-8108-4244-1|series=Filmmakers series|volume=20|orig-year=First published 1988}}

• Sunny Side Up: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA10 10] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240210232404/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=February 10, 2024 }}. "Sunny Side Up, a musical starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, showed domestic rentals of $3.5 million, a record for the company."
• Forever Amber: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&q=%22on+the+surface%22+%22world+rentals%22+%248 66] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107234333/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&q=%22on+the+surface%22+%22world+rentals%22+%248#v=snippet&q=%22on%20the%20surface%22%20%22world%20rentals%22%20%248&f=false |date=November 7, 2023 }}. "On the surface, with world rentals of $8 million, Forever Amber was considered a hit at distribution level."
• The French Connection

::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA167 167] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107234333/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=November 7, 2023 }}. "The Planet of the Apes motion pictures were all moneymakers and Zanuck's record would have immediately improved had he stayed through the release of The French Connection, which took in rentals of approximately $75 million worldwide."

::p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=w70iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22french+connection%22 256] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107234334/https://books.google.com/books?id=w70iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22french+connection%22 |date=November 7, 2023 }}. "$3,300,00".{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA285 285] (note 6.56)}}. "The cost of Duel in the Sun has been reported as both $5,255,000 (Haver, David O'Selznick's Hollywood, 361) and $6,480,000 (Thomson, Showman: The Life of David O'Selznick, 472); the latter figure may include distribution expenses. Forever Amber cost $6,375,000 (Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, 243)."

|Easter Parade

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA232 232]}}.

• Mrs. Miniver: "Domestic Rentals: $5,358,000; Foreign Rentals: $3,520,000 (Unadjusted $s)"
• Meet Me in St. Louis: "Domestic Rentals: $5,016,000; Foreign Rentals: $1,623,630 (Unadjusted $s)"
• Easter Parade: "Domestic Rentals: $4,144,000; Foreign Rentals: $1,774,134 (Unadjusted $s)"{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Frank |title=Easter Parade (1948) – Articles |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2332/easter-parade#articles-reviews |access-date=July 19, 2012 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090241/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2332/Easter-Parade/articles.html |url-status=live }}

|Samson and Delilah

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|Cinderella

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2200000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Cinderella (1950) |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Cinderella-(1950) |access-date=January 2, 2017 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605170703/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Cinderella-(1950) |url-status=live }}{{cite book |first1=Michael D. |last1=Eisner |first2=Tony |last2=Schwartz |title=Work in Progress |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7868-8507-7 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=73_WAAAAMAAJ&q=cinderella+%22Released+in+February+1950,+it+cost+nearly+%243+million+to+make+but+earned+more+than+%2420+million+worldwide%22 178] |quote=Cinderella revived its fortunes. Re-released in February 1950, it cost nearly $3 million to make but earned more than $20 million worldwide. |url=https://archive.org/details/workinprogress00eisn_0/page/178}}{{cite book |last=Barrier |first=Michael |title=Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-19-516729-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=zDJXnzMh7bkC&q=%242.2+million+cinderella+gross+rentals+disney+and+rko+%247.8+million&pg=PA401 401] |quote=It cost around $2.2 million, little more than each of the two package features, Melody Time and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (as Tluo Fabulous Characters had ultimately been named), that just preceded it, but its gross rentals—an amount shared by Disney and RKO—were $7.8 million, almost twice as much as the two package features combined.}}

|Quo Vadis

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|7623000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA136 136]–139}}

• Samson and Delilah: "...the film became the highest grosser in the studio's history to date, with domestic rentals of $7,976,730 by 1955 and a further $6,232,520 overseas...For all their spectacle, Samson and David were quite economically produced, costing $3,097,563 and $2,170,000 respectively."
• Quo Vadis: "Production costs totaled a record $7,623,000...Worldwide rentals totaled $21,037,000, almost half of which came from the foreign market."{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA335 335]}}.
• The Robe: "Domestic Rentals: $16.7; Foreign Rentals: $9.4; Production Cost: $4.1 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• Quo Vadis: "Domestic Rentals: $11.1; Foreign Rentals: $15.6; Production Cost: $7.5 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|This Is Cinerama

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last=Mulligan |first=Hugh A. |newspaper=The Register-Guard |location=Eugene, Oregon |title=Cinerama Pushing Ahead As Biggest Money-Maker |date=September 23, 1956 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GPRVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899,3861317 7B]}}{{cite book |last=Zone |first=Ray |title=3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-8131-3611-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=k2Ajw-EEOEkC&pg=PA71 71] |quote=Produced at a cost of $1 million, This is Cinerama ran 122 weeks, earning $4.7 million in its initial New York run alone and eventually grossed over $32 million. It was obvious to Hollywood that the public was ready for a new form of motion picture entertainment. The first five Cinerama feature-length travelogues, though they only played in twenty-two theaters, pulled in a combined gross of $82 million.}}

|Peter Pan

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Peter Pan (1953) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86554/peter-pan#notes |access-date=July 24, 2011 |archive-date=September 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903110329/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86554/Peter-Pan/notes.html |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety193-1954-01#page/n301/mode/2up |title=Top Grossers of 1953 |page=10 |magazine=Variety |date=January 13, 1954 |access-date=September 12, 2019}}

|Rear Window

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/8393/rear-window |title=Rear Window |website=Boxoffice |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530073625/http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/8393/rear-window |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Lev |first=Peter |title=Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 |publisher=University of California Press |year=2006 |volume=7 of History of the American Cinema |isbn=978-0-520-24966-0}}

• Quo Vadis: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA15 15] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001736/https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA15 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "MGM's most expensive film of the period, Quo Vadis (1951) also did extremely well. The cost was $7,623,000, earnings were an estimated $21.2 million (with foreign earnings almost 50 percent of this total), and profit was estimated at $5,562,000."
• Rear Window: pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA203 203] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404053920/https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA203 |date=April 4, 2023 }}–[https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA204 204] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001740/https://books.google.com/books?id=TEGl2Ele_XoC&pg=PA204 |date=April 4, 2023 }}. "Rear Window (1954) was an excellent commercial success, with a cost of $1 million and North American rentals of $5.3 million."

|Lady and the Tramp

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|187000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|6500000}}){{ref |USgross|*}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine |first=Anthony |last=D'Alessandro |title=Disney Animated Features at the Worldwide Box Office |date=October 27, 2003 |magazine=Variety |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tooned+in%3A+Disney%27s+ani+classics+set+the+bar+and+lit+the+way+for...-a0110473946 |access-date=July 4, 2022 |via=The Free Library |quote=The Jungle Book $378 million; One Hundred and One Dalmatians $303 million; Lady and the Tramp $187 million |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104215642/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tooned+in%3a+Disney%27s+ani+classics+set+the+bar+and+lit+the+way+for...-a0110473946 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Lady and the Tramp (1955) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80607/lady-and-the-tramp#notes |access-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928004123/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80607/Lady-and-the-Tramp/notes.html |url-status=live }}

|The Ten Commandments

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|90066230}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
({{nts|prefix=$|122700000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|55200000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|13270000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA327 327]}}. "Production cost: $13.3 million; Domestic Film Rental: $31.3; Foreign Film Rental: $23.9; Worldwide Box office (estimated): $122.7 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA159 159]–161}}

• The Ten Commandments: "No film did more to entrench roadshow policy than The Ten Commandments. While the success of This Is Cinerama, The Robe, and even Eighty Days could be attributed, at least in part, to their respective photographic and projection formats, that of DeMille's film (which cost a record $13,266,491) could not...General release began at normal prices in 1959 and continued until the end of the following year, when the film was temporarily withdrawn (the first of several reissues came in 1966). The worldwide rental by this time was around $60 million. In the domestic market it dislodged Gone with the Wind from the number one position on Variety's list of All-Time Rentals Champs. GWTW had hitherto maintained its lead through several reissues (and was soon to regain it through another in 1961)."
• The Bridge on the River Kwai: Columbia's Anglo-American war film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) opened on a roadshow basis in selected U.S. cities (including New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles) and in London. Costing only $2,840,000 to produce, it grossed $30.6 million worldwide on first release."

|The Bridge on the River Kwai

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| style="text-align:center;" |

|South Pacific

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|5610000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA153 153]}}. "South Pacific also became for a time the most successful film ever released in the United Kingdom, where it earned a box-office gross three times its negative cost of $5,610,000. Anticipated global rentals after three years were $30 million."

|Ben-Hur

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|90000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}
({{nts|prefix=$|146900000}}/{{nts|prefix=$|66100000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|15900000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Steven J. |year=2011 |title=Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-991143-1 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=pn1CuZUHk9MC&pg=PA278 278–279] |quote=Costing $15 million to produce, the film earned $47 million by the end of 1961 and $90 million worldwide by January 1989.}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA324 324]}}. "Worldwide box office: $146.9 million; Worldwide rentals: $66.1 million; Production cost: $15.9 million. (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)"

|Swiss Family Robinson

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|4000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |title=America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies |volume=14 of Hollywood classics |publisher=Lulu |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4116-7877-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=zCm5aNkafSYC&pg=PA243 243]–245 |quote=Negative cost: around $4 million; Worldwide film rentals gross (including 1968 American reissue) to 1970: $30 million.}}

|One Hundred and One Dalmatians

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|303000000}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3600000}}–{{nts|4000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=One Hundred and One Dalmatians |website=Daily Variety |date=January 18, 1961 |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793715 |author=Tube. |access-date=August 23, 2011 |archive-date=November 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109003703/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793715/ |url-status=live }}

|Lawrence of Arabia

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:44824852+32500000}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|69995385}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|13800000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Lawrence of Arabia

• 1962 release: {{cite web |title=Lawrence of Arabia |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1962/0LWRN.php |access-date=August 15, 2011 |quote=Worldwide Box Office: $69,995,385; International Box Office: $32,500,000 |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316043153/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1962/0LWRN.php |url-status=live }}
• U.S. total (including reissues): {{cite web |title=Lawrence of Arabia |website=Boxoffice |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/5851/lawrence-of-arabia |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=$44,824,852 |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810204006/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1962/0LWRN.php |url-status=live }}{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA165 165]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA166 166]}}
• Lawrence of Arabia: Columbia released the $13.8 million Lawrence of Arabia (1962), filmed in Super Panavision 70, exclusively on a hard-ticket basis, but opened Barabbas (1962), The Cardinal (1963), and the $12 million Joseph Conrad adaptation Lord Jim (1965) as 70 mm roadshows in selected territories only."
• The Longest Day: "Darryl's most ambitious independent production was The Longest Day (1962), a three-hour reconstruction of D-Day filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope at a cost of $8 million. It grossed over $30 million worldwide as a roadshow followed by general release, thereby helping the studio regain stability during its period of reorganization."
• Cleopatra: "With top tickets set at an all-time high of $5.50,Cleopatra had amassed as much as $20 million in such guarantees from exhibitors even before its premiere. Fox claimed the film had cost in total $44 million, of which $31,115,000 represented the direct negative cost and the rest distribution, print and advertising expenses. (These figures excluded the more than $5 million spent on the production's abortive British shoot in 1960–61, prior to its relocation to Italy.) By 1966 worldwide rentals had reached $38,042,000 including $23.5 million from the United States."

|Cleopatra

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|31115000}}

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|My Fair Lady

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|55000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|17000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA184 184]}}

• My Fair Lady: "My Fair Lady (1964) cost Warners $17 million to make, including a record $5.5 million just for the film rights to the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe stage show and a million-dollar fee for star Audrey Hepburn. By 1967 it was reported to have grossed $55 million from roadshowing worldwide."
• Mary Poppins: "Mary Poppins (1964), which cost $5.2 million, was neither a stage adaptation nor a roadshow. But by the end of its first release, it had grossed nearly $50 million worldwide."

|The Sound of Music

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|286214076}} ({{nts|prefix=$|114600000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|8000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9495/the-sound-of-music |title=The Sound of Music |website=Boxoffice |access-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225034614/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9495/the-sound-of-music |url-status=live }}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA434 434]}}.

• The Sound of Music: "Domestic Rentals: $68.4; Foreign Rentals: $46.2; Production Cost: $8.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• The Dirty Dozen: "Domestic Rentals: $20.1; Foreign Rentals: $11.2; Production Cost: $5.4 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• 2001: A Space Odyssey: "Domestic Rentals: $16.4; Foreign Rentals: $5.5; Production Cost: $10.3 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• Cleopatra: "Domestic Rentals: $22.1; Foreign Rentals: $18.2; Production Cost: $44.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• West Side Story: "Domestic Rentals: $16.2; Foreign Rentals: $15.6; Production Cost: $7.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• The Longest Day: "Domestic Rentals: $13.9; Foreign Rentals: $19.3; Production Cost: $8.6 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: "Domestic Rentals: $29.2; Foreign Rentals: $7.9; Production Cost: $6.6 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|The Bible: In the Beginning

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|25325000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|18000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M |title=The Fox that got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox |year=1988 |location=Secaucus, N.J. |publisher=L. Stuart |page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/325 325] |isbn=978-0-8184-0485-6}}

|The Jungle Book

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|378000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|23800000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3900000}}–{{nts|4000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Animals Portray Parts in Disney's "Robin Hood" |date=October 18, 1970 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |at=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19701018&id=k8hOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xQEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2133,463153 Sec. G, p. 7] |quote="The Jungle Book," in {{sic|it|'s|nolink=y|expected=its}} initial world-wide release, has grossed $23.8 million to date...}}{{cite magazine |title=The Jungle Book |magazine=Variety |date=October 4, 1967 |last=Murphy |first=A.D. |page=6 |url=https://variety.com/1966/film/reviews/the-jungle-book-1200421257/ |access-date=March 14, 2018 |quote=It was filmed at a declared cost of $4 million over a 42-month period. |archive-date=March 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315200013/http://variety.com/1966/film/reviews/the-jungle-book-1200421257/ |url-status=live }}

|2001: A Space Odyssey

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({{nts|prefix=$|21900000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10300000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |2001: A Space Odyssey

• Total: {{cite web |last=Miller |first=Frank |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Articles |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/628/2001-A-Space-Odyssey/articles.html |access-date=August 24, 2011 |quote=2001: A Space Odyssey made $15 million on its initial U.S. release, and currently shows a worldwide gross of over $190 million. |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212151721/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/628/2001-A-Space-Odyssey/articles.html |url-status=live }}
• As of 2006: {{cite book |last=Palmer |first=R. Barton |chapter=2001: The Critical Reception and the Generation Gap |editor-last=Kolker |editor-first=Robert Phillip |title=Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey: New Essays |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-19-517452-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YpritcZXPFoC&pg=PA16 16] |quote=With its initial and subsequent releases, domestic and worldwide, Kubrick's arty, intellectual film earned nearly $138 million, which was, at that time, an astounding figure.}}
• 2013 re-release: {{cite web |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (2013 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012013.htm |access-date=September 26, 2018 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $214,618; United Kingdom: $568,997 |archive-date=June 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615183917/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012013.htm |url-status=live }}
• 2014 re-release: {{cite web |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (2014 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=20012014.htm |access-date=September 26, 2018 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $135,370 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605170631/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=20012014.htm |url-status=live }}
• 2018 re-release: {{cite web |title=2001: A Space Odyssey (2018 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012018.htm |access-date=September 26, 2018 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $1,283,820; Australia: $192,457; Greece: $27,510; Netherlands: $159,068; New Zealand: $5,046; Russia: $155,841; United Kingdom: $296,525 |archive-date=June 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615183917/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=20012013.htm |url-status=live }}

|Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6600000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

• United States and Canada: {{cite web |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/1631/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid |title=Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |website=Boxoffice |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=$102,308,525 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108201341/https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/1631/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid |url-status=live }}
• Outside North America: {{cite book |title=Vanity Fair |year=2008 |issue=577–578 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=VloTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22by+the+spring+of+1970+it+had+taken+in+$46+million+in+North+America+and+grossed+another+$50+million+abroad%22 388] |quote=Butch Cassidy went on to be a huge hit—by the spring of 1970 it had taken in $46 million in North America and grossed another $50 million abroad.|title-link=Vanity Fair (magazine)}}

|Love Story

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|173400000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|80000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|2260000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Top 50 worldwide grossers|date=July 15, 2002|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|page=52, Paramount at 90 supplement}}{{cite news |title='Love Story' II: Ryan Redux? |magazine=New York |year=1976 |volume=9 |page=389 |quote=Bring those handkerchiefs out of retirement. ... After all, the first movie made around $80 million worldwide.}}{{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=Love Story |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA545 545] |quote=The final cost came in at $2,260,000.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.

|The French Connection

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|75000000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|3300000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

|The Godfather

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({{nts|prefix=$|127600000}}–{{nts|142000000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6000000}}–{{nts|7200000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |The Godfather

• 1974: {{cite book |title=Newsweek |volume=84 |issue=19–27 |year=1974 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=sCXkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%24285+million%22 74] |quote=The original Godfather has grossed a mind-boggling $285 million...|title-link=Newsweek}}
• 1991: {{cite book |last=Von Gunden |first=Kenneth |title=Postmodern auteurs: Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Spielberg, and Scorsese |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-89950-618-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/postmodernauteur0000vong/page/36 36] |quote=Since The Godfather had earned over $85 million in U.S.-Canada rentals (the worldwide box-office gross was $285 million), a sequel, according to the usual formula, could be expected to earn approximately two-thirds of the original's box-office take (ultimately Godfather II had rentals of $30 million). |url=https://archive.org/details/postmodernauteur0000vong/page/36 }}
• Releases: {{cite web |title=The Godfather (1972) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0068646/ |access-date=January 22, 2020 |quote=Original release: $243,862,778; 1997 re-release: $1,267,490; 2009 re-release: $121,323; 2011 re-release: $818,333; 2014 re-release: $29,349; 2018 re-release: $21,701; Budget: $6,000,000 |archive-date=February 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206182459/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0068646/ |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Jacobs |first=Diane |title=Hollywood Renaissance |publisher=Dell Publishing |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-440-53382-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=KP0HAQAAMAAJ&q=%22million+in+worldwide+sales%22+godfather 115] |quote=The Godfather catapulted Coppola to overnight celebrity, earning three Academy Awards and a then record-breaking $142 million in worldwide sales. |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodrenaiss00jaco/page/115}}{{cite web |title=The Godfather (1972) – Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/443184/The-Godfather/notes.html |access-date=January 23, 2020 |archive-date=June 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615192047/http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/443184/The-Godfather/notes.html |url-status=live }}

|The Exorcist

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|430872776}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:66300000+46000000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0070047/|title=The Exorcist (1973)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=September 5, 2024|archive-date=November 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101025010/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0070047/|url-status=live}}{{cite book |first1=Robert Henry |last1=Stanley |first2=Charles Side |last2=Steinberg |title=The media environment: mass communications in American society |publisher=Hastings House |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-8038-4681-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z30tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+sting%22+million+worldwide+exorcist 76] |quote=...further reflected by the phenomenal successes of The Sting, Chinatown and The Exorcist. The latter film, which cost about $10 million to produce, has grossed over $110 million worldwide.}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=January 8, 1975|page=24|title=Big Rental Films of 1974 |quote=U.S-Canada market only $66,300,000|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1975-01-08_277_9/page/24/mode/1up|access-date=July 4, 2022|via=Archive.org}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Daily Variety|title=WB Adds To Its Record Collection|page=1|last=Pollock|first=Dale|date=May 9, 1979|quote="Towering Inferno" did $56,000,000 overseas in billings while "The Exorcist" totted up $46,000,000}}

|The Towering Inferno

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|203336412}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:48838000+56000000}}}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14300000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=It Towers $203,336,412 (advertisement)|date=June 2, 1976|pages=8–9|url=https://varietyultimate.com/archive/issue/WV-06-02-1976-8|url-access=subscription|access-date=October 31, 2020|archive-date=January 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108042413/https://varietyultimate.com/archive/issue/WV-06-02-1976-8|url-status=dead}}{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro0hASPfC68C&pg=PA354 206]–208}}. "The most successful entry in the disaster cycle was the $15 million The Towering Inferno which earned over $48,650,000 in domestic rentals and about $40 million foreign."{{cite news |first=Leonard |last=Klady |title=All-Time Top Film Rentals |date=1998 |work=Variety |url=https://www.variety.com:80/numbers/video.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991007042514/http://www.variety.com/numbers/video.asp |archive-date=October 7, 1999 |quote=Domestic rentals: $48,838,000}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=568}}. "Production Cost: $14.3 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|Jaws

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|477220580}} ({{nts|prefix=$|193700000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|9000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Jaws (1975) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0073195/ |access-date=January 4, 2024 |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402223250/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0073195/ |url-status=live }}{{cite book |first=Steven |last=Priggé |title=Movie Moguls Speak: Interviews With Top Film Producers |year=2004 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-1929-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=40UTI-uUHpwC&pg=PA8 8] |quote=The budget for the first Jaws was $4 million and the picture wound up costing $9 million.}}

|Rocky

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|225000000}} ({{nts|prefix=$|77100000}}){{ref |Rentals|R}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|1075000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Cite The Numbers|id=Rocky|title=Rocky (1976)|access-date=October 2, 2023}}{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA214 214]}}. "Rocky was the "sleeper of the decade". Produced by UA and costing just under $1 million, it went on to earn a box-office gross of $117,235,247 in the United States and $225 million worldwide."{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA527 527]}}.

• Star Wars: "Domestic Rentals: $127.0; Foreign Rentals: $141.5; Production Cost: $13.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• The Godfather: "Domestic Rentals: $85.6; Foreign Rentals: $42.0; Production Cost: $7.2 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• Fiddler on the Roof: "Domestic Rentals: $34.0; Foreign Rentals: $11.1; Production Cost: $9.0 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• Rocky: "Domestic Rentals: $56.0; Foreign Rentals: $21.1; Production Cost: $1.6 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."{{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=Rocky |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA583 583] |quote=The budget was $1,075,000 plus producer's fees of $100,000.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.

|Star Wars

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|775398007}}
({{nts|prefix=$|530000000}}{{ref |Star Wars|SW}}/{{nts|prefix=$|268500000}}{{ref |Rentals|R}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|11293151}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Star Wars (1977) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0076759/ |access-date=October 1, 2023 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305182237/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0076759/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Wuntch |first=Philip |work=The Dallas Morning News |title=Return of E.T. |date=July 19, 1985 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_text_direct-0=0ED3CD81CFEA1C2E&p_field_direct-0=document_id |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 6, 2012 |quote=Its worldwide box-office gross was $619 million, toppling the record of $530 million set by Star Wars. |archive-date=May 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517022355/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_text_direct-0=0ED3CD81CFEA1C2E&p_field_direct-0=document_id |url-status=live }}{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA218 218]}}. "Eventually costing $11,293,151, Star Wars was previewed at the Northpoint Theatre in San Francisco on May 1, 1977."

|Grease

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|396271103}} ({{nts|prefix=$|341000000}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|6000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Grease (1978) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0077631/ |access-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522151012/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0077631/ |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Hofler |first=Robert |title=Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4596-0007-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=iqRezpQzUcAC&pg=PA145 145] |quote=Despite the fact that Grease was well on its way to becoming the highest-grossing movie musical in the world, and eventually grossed over $341 million...}}

|Moonraker

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|210308099}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|31000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079574/|title=Moonraker (1979)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 2, 2023|archive-date=January 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131155637/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079574/|url-status=live}}Kramer vs. Kramer

• {{cite book |title=United & Babson Investment Report |year=1980 |volume=72 |publisher=Babson-United, Inc. |page=262 |quote=Columbia Pictures Industries is continuing to rake in the box office dollars from its Oscar-winning Kramer vs. Kramer, which has topped $100 million in domestic grosses and $70 million overseas. Kramer, which cost less than $8 million to make, is now the second...}}
• {{cite book |last=Prince |first=Stephen |title=A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989 |publisher=University of California Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-520-23266-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step/page/7 7] |quote=Much of this was attributable to the performance of its hit film, Kramer vs. Kramer ($94 million worldwide and the number two film in the domestic market).}}

|The Empire Strikes Back

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|550016086}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:538375067-67597694-57214766}}}}){{ref |Star Wars|SW}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|23000000}}–{{nts|32000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |The Empire Strikes Back

• Total up to 2014: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (1980) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0080684/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |quote=$538,375,067}}
• Special edition: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2194166277/ |access-date=October 1, 2023 |quote=North America: $67,597,694; Overseas: $57,214,766}}
• 2015 re-release: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (2015 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2210943493/ |access-date=October 1, 2023 |quote=United Kingdom: $9,593,937}}
• 2020 re-release: {{cite web |title=The Empire Strikes Back (2020 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3349238277/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |quote=$3,137,879}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA519 519]}}.
• The Empire Strikes Back: "Production Cost: $32.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• Return of the Jedi: "Production Cost: $42.7 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."
• The Phantom Menace: "Production Cost: $127.5 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|Raiders of the Lost Ark

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|389925971}}
({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:180100000+141766000}}}}–{{nts|{{#expr:212222025+141766000}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|18000000}}–{{nts|22800000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Raiders of the Lost Ark

• {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0082971/ |title=Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=June 4, 2023 |quote=Total: $389,925,971; North America: $212,222,025 (original run); Overseas: $141,766,000}}
• {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA625 625]}}. Domestic Box office: $180.1; "Production Cost: $22.8 (Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|797307407}}
({{nts|prefix=$|619000000}}–{{nts|664000000}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|10500000}}–{{nts|12200000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0083866/ |access-date=September 5, 2024}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA609 609]}}. "Steven Spielberg, by far the most successful director of the decade, had the highest-grossing movie with 1982's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, which grossed over $664 million in worldwide box office on initial release."{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA652 652]}}. "Production Cost: $12.2 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|Return of the Jedi

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|482466382}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:475106177-45470437-43790543}}}}){{ref |Star Wars|SW}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|32500000}}–{{nts|42700000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Return of the Jedi

• Total: {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi (1983) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0086190/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |quote=$482,466,382}}
• Special edition: {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi (Special Edition) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr604787205/ |access-date=April 28, 2023 |quote=$89,388,357}}
• 2023 Re-release: {{cite web |title=Return of the Jedi (2023 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2342081029/ |access-date=May 5, 2023 |quote=$7,259,924}}

|Ghostbusters

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:243640120+126000000+161688+60823+101133 round -5}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:229200000+126000000}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|25000000}}–{{nts|30000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Ghostbusters

• US and Canada: {{cite web |title=Ghostbusters (1984) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0087332/|access-date=December 31, 2024|quote=Original release: $229,242,989; Lifetime: $243,640,120}}
• Outside of United States (as of 1999): {{cite magazine|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=December 28, 1999|title=All-time Boxoffice Champs|page=|url=https://x.com/THRArchives/status/1873071661144260886|quote=International: $126.0 million}}
• Outside of United States (since 1999): {{cite web |title=Ghostbusters (1984) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0087332/|access-date=December 31, 2024|quote=2011 re-release (United Kingdom): $161,688; 2019 re-release (Asia-Pacific): $60,823; 2020 re-release (Asia Pacific): $101,133 }}{{cite web| first=Stephen| last=Galloway | title=The Making of a Comedy Classic: Director Ivan Reitman Spills the Secrets Behind the Original Ghostbusters| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ghostbusters-director-ivan-reitman-making-911408| date=July 15, 2016| website=The Hollywood Reporter| access-date=December 18, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219000830/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ghostbusters-director-ivan-reitman-making-911408| archive-date=December 19, 2018| url-status=live}}{{cite web| first=Lesley M. M.| last=Blume|website=Vanity Fair | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/06/ghostbusters-making-of| title=The Making of Ghostbusters: How Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and "The Murricane" Built "The Perfect Comedy"| date=June 4, 2014| access-date=December 20, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317063300/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/06/ghostbusters-making-of| archive-date=March 17, 2018| url-status=live}}

|Back to the Future

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:381109762+5641847+567495+1430000+476685}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|381109762}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|19000000}}–{{nts|22000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Back to the Future

• Original release: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0088763/ |title=Back to the Future (1985) |website=Box Office Mojo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806181828/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0088763/ |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |access-date=October 2, 2023 |quote=Worldwide: $381,109,762; Production Budget: $19 million}}
• 2014 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2014 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1325224453/ |access-date=October 2, 2023 |quote=$5,641,847}}
• 2020 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2020 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr782324229/ |access-date=October 2, 2023 |quote=$567,495}}
• 2021 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2021 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr4236988933/ |access-date=October 2, 2023 |quote=$1,430,000}}
• 2023 re-release: {{cite web |title=Back to the Future (2023 re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr4288500229/ |access-date=October 25, 2023 |quote=$476,685}}{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA268 268]}}. "The studio had a record operating income of $212 million in 1982, the year of Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (which had cost only slightly over $10 million) and $150 million in 1985, mainly due to another Spielberg production, the $22 million Back to the Future, which became the top box office hit of the year."

|Top Gun

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|357288178}} ({{nts|prefix=$|345000000}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14000000}}–{{nts|19000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0092099/|title=Top Gun (1986)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=September 17, 2023}}{{citation |last=McAdams |first=Frank |title=Top Gun |year=2010 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA678 678–679] |quote=Production Cost: $19.0 (Millions of $s) ... Despite mixed reviews, it played in the top 10 for an extended period and was a huge hit, grossing almost $345 million in worldwide box office.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.{{harvnb|Finler|2003|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA190 190–191]}}.

|Fatal Attraction

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|320145693}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|14000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Fatal Attraction

• {{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0093010/|title=Fatal Attraction (1987)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=September 17, 2023}}
• {{cite news |last=Scott |first=Vernon |agency=Hollywood (UPI) |work=The Daily Gazette |location=New York |title='Three Men and Baby' Sequel Adds Cazenove to Original Cast |date=June 15, 1990 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FHMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tIgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4281,3825772 9] (TV Plus – The Daily Gazette Supplement) |quote=That legacy is the $167,780,960 domestic box-office and $75 million foreign gross achieved by the original...}}

|Rain Man

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|354825435}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0095953/|title=Rain Man (1988)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=September 17, 2023}}{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA244 244]}}. "Rain Man: 30.0 (cost in million $s)"

|Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|474171806}}–{{nts|494000000}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|36000000}}–{{nts|55400000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0097576/ |title=Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=September 17, 2023}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA694 694–695]}}. "Production Cost: $55.4 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s) ... The film went on to haul in over $494 million worldwide."

|Ghost

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|505870681}} ($505,702,588)

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|22000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0099653/ |title=Ghost (1990) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=July 12, 2020}}

|Terminator 2: Judgment Day

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:519843345+(1037809)+(2893302)}}}} (${{formatnum:519843345}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|94000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Terminator 2

• Original release: {{cite web |title=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626051349/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2017 |quote=$519,843,345}}
• 3D re-release: {{cite web |title=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=judgmentday3d.htm |access-date=September 20, 2017}}{{Cite news |last=Ansen |first=David |work=Newsweek |date=July 8, 1991 |title=Conan The Humanitarian |url=http://www.newsweek.com/1991/07/07/conan-the-humanitarian.html |access-date=September 19, 2013}}

|Aladdin

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|504050219}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|28000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0103639/|title=Aladdin (1992)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=September 17, 2023}}

|Jurassic Park

| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1033928303+270700+3336227}}}} (${{formatnum:912667947}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|63000000}}–{{nts|70000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Jurassic Park

• Pre-2022 releases: {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (1993) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0107290/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126121145/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0107290/?ref_=bo_cso_table_42 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=March 7, 2022 |website=Box Office Mojo |quote=Worldwide: $1,033,928,303; Original Release: $912,667,947; Production Budget: $63 million}}
• 2022 re-release: {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (2022 Re-release) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr4086256133/ |access-date=July 1, 2022 |website=Box Office Mojo |quote=Mexico: $270,700}}
• 2023 re-release: {{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (2023 Re-release) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr966611461/ |access-date=September 8, 2023 |website=Box Office Mojo |quote=$3,336,227}}
• As of 2010: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA756 756–757]}}. "Production Cost: $70.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s) ... Jurassic Park was a smash at the box office, bringing in $920 million in worldwide box office and spawning two sequels."

|The Lion King

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:968511805+2195958}}}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:312855561+450600000}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|45000000}}–{{nts|79300000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |The Lion King

• Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0110357/ |title=The Lion King (1994) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=July 28, 2024 |quote=Worldwide: $970,707,763; Production Budget: $45 million}}
• Lifetime grosses (US & Canada): {{cite web |title=The Lion King (1994) – Release Summary |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=lionking.htm |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=Initial: $312,855,561; IMAX: $15,686,215; 3D: $94,242,001}}
• Lifetime grosses (outside U.S. & Canada): {{cite web |first=Brad |last=Brevert |title='X-Men' & 'Alice' Lead Soft Memorial Day Weekend; Disney Tops $4 Billion Worldwide |date=May 29, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4191 |access-date=May 29, 2016 |quote=...the original release of The Lion King made $450.6 million internationally, an additional $3.8 million with the 2002 IMAX reissue, and another $91.3 million from 2011's 3D reissue for an international total of $545.7 million.}}
• As of 2010: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA764 764]}}. "Production Cost: $79.3 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|Toy Story

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|373554033}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:373554033-8680257}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|30000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Toy Story

• Total: {{cite web |title=Toy Story (1995) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=toystory.htm |access-date=November 16, 2014 |quote=Worldwide: $373,554,033}}
• 3D release: {{cite web |title=Toy Story in 3D (2009) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&view=bycountry&id=_fTOYSTORYIN3D01 |access-date=November 16, 2014 |quote=Foreign Total: $8,680,257}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA776 776]}}. "Production Cost: $30.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)"

|Independence Day

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|817400891}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|75000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0116629/ |title=Independence Day (1996) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=September 13, 2009}}

|Titanic

| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1843373318+343550770+691642+71352+70157472}}}} (${{formatnum:1843373318}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Titanic

• Pre-2020 releases: {{cite web |title=Titanic (1997) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027003338/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120338/ |archive-date=October 27, 2019 |quote=Worldwide: $2,187,615,730; Original release: $1,843,373,318; 2012 3D Release: $343,550,770; 2017 Re-release: $691,642}}
• 2020 Re-release: {{cite web |title=Titanic (2020 Re-release) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2694926853/ |quote=2020 Re-release: $71,352}}
• 2023 Re-release: {{cite web |title=Titanic (25 Year Anniversary) |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3800912389/ |quote=2023 Re-release: $70,157,472}}

|Armageddon

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|553709788}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|140000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120591/ |title=Armageddon (1998) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=January 18, 2023}}{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA509 509]}}. "Production Cost: $140.0 (Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)."

|Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1046515409}} (${{formatnum:924317558}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|115000000}}–{{nts|127500000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

• Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120915/ |title=Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=June 2, 2024 |quote=$1,046,515,409}}
• Original release: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars.htm |title=Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=November 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719051149/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |quote=$924,317,558}}

|Mission: Impossible 2

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|546388108}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|100000000}}–{{nts|125000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi2.htm |title=Mission: Impossible II |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=September 17, 2023}}

|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1023842938-3552958-4410216-4328645-2504289}}}}{{ref |HP1 gross|HP1}} ({{nts|prefix=$|{{#expr:974755371}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|125000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

• Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0241527 |title=Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=January 20, 2021}}

|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|948945489}} ({{nts|prefix=$|936689735}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|94000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167261/ |access-date=December 20, 2023 |quote=Worldwide: $948,945,489; Original Release: $936,689,735}}

|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1147997407}} (${{formatnum:1140682011}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|94000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

|Shrek 2

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|932530034}} ({{nts|prefix=$|928965305}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0298148/ |title=Shrek 2 (2002) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=February 4, 2025}}

|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|896346413}} ({{nts|prefix=$|895921036}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

• Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0330373/ |title=Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=June 15, 2020}}

|Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1066179747}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|225000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0383574/ |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=January 18, 2023}}

|Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|960996492}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|300000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4100490753/ |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=January 18, 2023}}

|The Dark Knight

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1007336937}} (${{formatnum:{{#expr:531039412+466000000}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|185000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |The Dark Knight

• Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0468569/ |title=The Dark Knight (2008) |website=Box Office Mojo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114135109/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0468569/ |archive-date=November 14, 2023 |access-date=November 29, 2023}}
• Original release (excluding 2009 IMAX reissue): {{cite web |title=The Dark Knight |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/BATM2.php |access-date=October 28, 2012 |quote=North America: $531,039,412 (as of January 22, 2009); Overseas: $466,000,000; IMAX re-release: January 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208015630/http://the-numbers.com/movies/2008/BATM2.php |archive-date=February 8, 2009}}
• 2009 IMAX re-release: {{cite web |title=Warner Bros. Entertainment Wraps Record-Breaking Year |date=January 8, 2009 |publisher=Warner Bros. |url=https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/news/warner-bros-entertainment-wraps-record-breaking-year |access-date=April 22, 2016 |quote=With worldwide receipts of $997 million, "The Dark Knight" is currently fourth on the all-time box office gross list, and the film is being re-released theatrically on January 23.}}
• First-run gross and IMAX reissue: {{cite web |first=Brandon |last=Gray |title=Billion Dollar Batman |website=Box Office Mojo |date=February 20, 2009 |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2551 |access-date=June 7, 2014 |quote=The Dark Knight had been hovering just shy of $1 billion for several months and reportedly sat at $997 million when Warner Bros. modestly relaunched it on Jan. 23, timed to take advantage of the announcement of the Academy Awards nominations on Jan. 22.}}

|Avatar

| align="right" |${{formatnum:2923706026}} (${{formatnum:2743577587}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|237000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|title=Avatar (2009)|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0499549/|access-date=March 21, 2023|website=Box Office Mojo|quote=Worldwide: $2,923,706,026; Original Release: $2,743,577,587; 2010 Special Edition: $44,838,548; 2020 Re-release: $1,281,204; 2021 Re-release: $57,995,770; 2022 Re-release: $76,012,917}}

|Toy Story 3

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1066970811}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0435761/ |title=Toy Story 3 (2010) |website=Box Office Mojo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106231628/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0435761/?ref_=bo_cso_table_38 |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |access-date=January 18, 2023}}

|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

| align="right" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:1356841356-181938-38277-14481414}}}} (${{formatnum:1341511219}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|250000000}}{{ref |HP8 budget|HP8}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

• Total: {{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1201607/ |title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=November 29, 2023}}
• Production cost: {{cite news |last=Frankel |first=Daniel |title=Get Ready for the Biggest 'Potter' Opening Yet |work=The Wrap |date=November 17, 2010 |url=https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/get-ready-biggest-potter-opening-yet-22607 |access-date=August 27, 2011 |archive-date=November 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120233859/http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/get-ready-biggest-potter-opening-yet-22607 |url-status=dead }}

|The Avengers

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1518815515}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|220000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

|Frozen

| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:1274219009-247650477+249036646-21668593+22492845+167333+(40960083-39090985)/0.63866+(41087765-40960083)/0.64136+(41170608-41087765)/0.636+(42840559-41170608)/0.7497+(42976318-42840559)/0.742+42526744-35098170 round -6}}}} (${{formatnum:{{#expr:1274219009-247650477+249036646-21668593+22492845+167333+(40960083-39090985)/0.63866+(41087765-40960083)/0.64136+(41170608-41087765)/0.636+42526744-35098170 round -6}}}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|150000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |Frozen

• {{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=frozen2013.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809232736/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=frozen2013.htm |archive-date=August 9, 2014 |quote=Worldwide – $1,274,219,009 (total as of August 8, 2014; including Japanese gross up to August 3, Spanish gross up to July 27, UK gross up to June 8, German gross up to March 30, and omitting Nigerian gross)}}
• {{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Japan |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=JP&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=September 3, 2014}}

::Total as of August 3, 2014: $247,650,477

::Total as of August 31, 2014: $249,036,646

• {{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Nigeria |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=NG&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=September 3, 2014}}

::Total as of August 17, 2014: $167,333

• {{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Spain |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=ES&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=November 6, 2014}}

::Total as of July 27, 2014: $21,668,593

::Total as of November 2, 2014: $22,492,845

• {{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: United Kingdom |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=UK&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=March 30, 2016}}

::Total as of June 8, 2014: £39,090,985

::Total as of November 30, 2014: £40,960,083 ($1 = £0.63866)

::Total as of December 7, 2014: £41,087,765 ($1 = £0.64136)

::Total as of December 14, 2014: £41,170,608 ($1 = £0.636)

::Total as of November 26, 2017: £42,840,559 ($1 = £0.7497)

::Total as of December 3, 2017: £42,976,318 ($1 = £0.742)

• {{cite web |title=Frozen (2013) – International Box Office Results: Germany |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=DE&id=frozen2013.htm |access-date=March 30, 2016}}

::Total as of March 30, 2014: €35,098,170

::Total as of October 18, 2015: €42,526,744

:::nb. the exact euro to dollar conversion rate is unknown for earnings since April 2014, but the euro never fell below parity with the dollar during 2014 and 2015 (as can be verified by comparing the exchange rate on the individual date entries at the provided reference) so an approximate conversion rate of €1: $1 is used here to give a lower-bound.

|Transformers: Age of Extinction

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1104039076}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|210000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

|Star Wars: The Force Awakens

| align="right" |${{formatnum:2068223624}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|245000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

|Captain America: Civil War

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1153337496}} (${{formatnum:1153296293}})

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|250000000}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

|Star Wars: The Last Jedi

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1332539889}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|200000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" |

|Avengers: Infinity War

| align="right" |${{formatnum:2048359754}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|316000000}}–{{nts|400000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/avengers-infinity-war-biggest-box-office-opening-ever-1202791751/ |title='Avengers: Infinity War' Officially Lands Biggest Box Office Opening of All Time |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |website=Variety |date=April 30, 2018 |access-date=May 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502205129/http://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/avengers-infinity-war-biggest-box-office-opening-ever-1202791751/ |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |url-status=live}}

|Avengers: Endgame

| align="right" |${{formatnum:2797501328}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|356000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" |

|Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

| align="right" |${{formatnum:507119058}}

| align="right" |${{formatnum:15750000}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{Cite The Numbers|id=Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Mugen-Ressha-Hen-(2020-Japan)|title=Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-Hen (2020)|access-date=November 13, 2023}}

|Spider-Man: No Way Home

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1922598800}} (${{formatnum:1912233593}})

| align="right" |${{formatnum:200000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=December 14, 2021 |title=Box Office Preview: Spider-Man: No Way Home Eyes Mighty, Massive, Marvelous $150 Million-Plus Debut |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/spider-man-no-way-home-opening-weekend-estimate-tom-holland-1235132943/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205932/https://variety.com/2021/film/news/spider-man-no-way-home-opening-weekend-estimate-tom-holland-1235132943/ |archive-date=December 14, 2021 |access-date=December 14, 2021 |website=Variety}}

|Avatar: The Way of Water

| align="right" |${{formatnum:2320250281}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|350000000}}–{{nts|460000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{cite web |first=Pamela |last=McClintock |title=Box Office: 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Lands Coveted China Release |date=November 22, 2022 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-china-release-1235268699/ |access-date=January 10, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-1235200714/|title='Avatar: The Way Of Water' Opens To $134M; Why Pic's Box Office Fate Will Be Determined Through The Holidays – Sunday AM Update|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|work=Deadline|date=December 18, 2022|access-date=January 10, 2023}}

|Barbie

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1447038421}}

| align="right" |{{nts|prefix=$|128000000}}–{{nts|145000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{cite news |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=July 23, 2023 |title='Barbie' Still Gorgeous With Best YTD $155M Opening; 'Oppenheimer' Ticking To $80M+ In Incredible $300M+ U.S. Box Office Weekend – Sunday AM Update |url=https://deadline.com/2023/07/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-1235443828/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721142533/https://deadline.com/2023/07/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-1235443828/ |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |access-date=July 23, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}{{cite magazine |last=Paskin |first=Willa |title=Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' Dream Job |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html |magazine=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=July 11, 2023 |date=July 11, 2023 |url-access=limited |archive-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711163054/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html/ |url-status=live}}

|Inside Out 2

| align="right" |${{formatnum:1698863816}}

| align="right" |${{formatnum:200000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=June 11, 2024 |title=Box Office: Inside Out 2 Aims to Reverse Pixar's Woes With $85 Million Debut |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/box-office-inside-out-2-opening-weekend-projection-pixar-woes-1236032726/ |website=Variety |access-date=June 23, 2024}}

! scope="row" style="background:#b6fcb6;" | Ne Zha 2 †

| align="right" |${{formatnum:{{#expr:2090940000+20858156+4716410+970308+7327452+1596106+568260}}}}

| align="right" |${{formatnum:80000000}}

|style="text-align:center;" |

| rowspan="2" | The Birth of a Nation

| style="text-align:right;" | $5,200,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:right;" | $15,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}} {{ref |Reissue|‡}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine |title=Show Business: Record Wind |date=February 19, 1940 |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763541,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202110029/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763541,00.html |archive-date=February 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 19, 2013 |url-access=subscription}}

| rowspan="2" | Gone with the Wind

| style="text-align:right;" | $32,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |first1=Frank |last1=Miller |first2=Jeff |last2=Stafford |title=Gone With the Wind (1939) – Articles |date=January 5, 2007 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414427/gone-with-the-wind#articles-reviews |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728160304/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414427/Gone-With-the-Wind/articles.html |archive-date=July 28, 2013}}

| style="text-align:right;" | $67,000,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}} {{ref |Reissue|‡}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Thomas (reporter) |agency=Associated Press |work=The Robesonian |title=Movie Finances Are No Longer Hidden From Scrutiny |date=August 1, 1963 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QsBVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iUANAAAAIBAJ&pg=7022,1836881 10]}}

| Jaws

| style="text-align:right;" | $193,700,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |work=The Victoria Advocate |title=Director of 'Jaws II' Abandons His 'Ship' |date=July 5, 1977 |page=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xy4PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WYUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4243,812320 6B]}}

| rowspan="2" | Star Wars

| style="text-align:right;" | $410,000,000/$268,500,000{{ref |Rentals2|R}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last=Harmetz |first=Aljean |work=The New York Times |title=The Saga Beyond 'Star Wars' |date=May 18, 1980 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0617FE345D17728DDDA10994DD405B8084F1D3 |access-date=January 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520094753/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0617FE345D17728DDDA10994DD405B8084F1D3 |archive-date=May 20, 2013 |quote="Star Wars" has brought 20th Century-Fox approximately $250 million in film rentals ... "Star Wars" grossed $410 million, and his share was enough to allow him to finance its sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back," himself.}}

| style="text-align:right;" | $530,000,000 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}

| style="text-align:center;" |

| rowspan="2" | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

| style="text-align:right;" | $619,000,000–664,000,000

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:right;" | $701,000,000 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Jurassic Park (1993) – Miscellaneous notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80025/jurassic-park#notes |access-date=July 9, 2011}}

| Titanic

| style="text-align:right;" | $1,843,373,318

| style="text-align:center;" |

| rowspan="2" | Avatar

| style="text-align:right;" | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:2743577587}}}}

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |

| Avengers: Endgame

| style="text-align:right;" | $2,797,501,328

| style="text-align:center;" |

| rowspan="2" | Avatar

| style="text-align:right;" | $2,847,397,339 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:right;" | $2,923,706,026 {{ref |Reissue|‡}}