Without adjusting for inflation, 52 movies have grossed $1 billion or more at the box office. Using data from Box Office Mojo, we compiled a list of the highest-grossing movies worldwide.
Five films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.
Titanic. Titanic became the first movie, on March 1, 1998, the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide, in just 74 days of release.
Fastest to $1.5 billion
Titanic became the first movie to gross over $1.5 billion worldwide no later than June 23, 1998, within 188 days of release. The list below is restricted to the 10 movies that reached the milestone the fastest.
All 51 Billion-Dollar Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer << Rotten Tomatoes – Movie and TV News.
The Rise of Skywalker was the last movie to gross over $1 billion before the COVID-19 pandemic, but fan reception to the grand finale of the Star Wars Skywalker saga continues to be mixed.
As of August 2021, Daniel Craig was the best-paid actor worldwide with an estimated income of 100 million U.S. dollars after, earlier that year, Netflix bought the rights for two sequels of "Knives Out" (2019).
The Top Gun sequel overtakes Trolls World Tour's previous record. Reaching its eighth non-consecutive week at Number 1, Top Gun: Maverick becomes the longest-reigning film of all time on the Official Film Chart.
Without adjusting for inflation, 15 superhero movies have grossed at least $1 billion at the box office. Using data from Box Office Mojo, we compiled the highest-grossing superhero movies worldwide. The list is mostly dominated by recent Marvel movies.
Since Disney, which holds the rights to “Avatar” after acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019, spent at least $350 million to make “Avatar” and more than $100 million more to market the grand return to Pandora, Cameron suggested the film needed to gross $2 billion globally to become financially successful.
Director James Cameron said Avatar: The Way Of Water will pass its break-even point, $2 billion, “in the next few days,” after he said the film needed to become one of the highest-grossing ever in order for it to be profitable. A scene from "Avatar: The Way Of Water."
Who is the richest actor in the world of all time? As of 2022, Jerry Seinfeld and Tyler Perry are the richest actor in the world with a net worth of $1 Billion.
As of September 2022, Jerry Seinfeld, an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and producer is the No 1 Richest Actor in the World with the net worth of US $ 1 Billion.
As of July 2022, Samuel L. Jackson was the highest-grossing leading actor in the United States and Canada, which combined are known as the North American movie market. Movies featuring Jackson as a protagonist collectively amassed 5.7 billion U.S. dollars domestically.
Guinness World Records says the longest film ever made is "The Cure for Insomnia" released in 1987. The 85-hour experimental film was directed by John Henry Timmis IV.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Writers, directors and editors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez spent between $35,000 and $60,000 shooting “The Blair Witch Project,” making it arguably the cheapest movie ever made. It later received between $200,000 and $750,000 from Artisan Entertainment for post-production.
Though the number isnt known, it has been estimated that there are approximately 500,000 movies (or, narrative fiction feature-length, theatrical-cinema films) currently in existence.