Avatar, the highest-grossing film, was written and directed by James Cameron.
The only five movies in history to surpass the $2 billion mark are “Avatar” ($2.9 billion), “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.79 billion), “Titanic” ($2.2 billion), “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($2.069 billion) and “Avengers: Infinity War” ($2.04 billion).
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.
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.
Last but not least, the most expensive movie ever made: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — the only Pirates movie to near a $400 million budget.
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As of September 2022, "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" (2015) remained the highest-grossing Disney movie of all time in Canada and the United States, having grossed almost 934 million U.S. dollars across the two countries - collectively known as the North American box office market.
Primer is a 2004 American science fiction film written, directed and produced by Shane Carruth, a former mathematician and engineer, who also starred, and was completed on a budget of only $7,000.
Director Robert Rodriguez's breakthrough 1993 feature film, El Mariachi, was created on a shoestring budget of only $7,000, launching his career. It still holds the Guinness World Record for the lowest-budget film to gross $1 million at the box office.
Five films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.
Worldwide ticket sales for Disney and James Cameron's “Avatar: The Way of Water” have topped $1 billion. The milestone comes 14 days after “The Way of Water” debuted in theaters, five days faster than “Avatar” achieved the same benchmark in 2009.
Now, it may not beat the current box office gross of its prequel (more than $2.9 billion, including rerelease receipts), considering the uninterrupted reign it has in our theatres until the end of January, at the least, it does look, yes, like it will beat 'Avengers: Endgame'.
To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 251 positive reviews.
Filmmaker-actor Rishab Shetty's Kantara has become one of the highest-rated Indian films on IMDb with a rating of 9.5 out of 10.
The first film to have a budget of US$100 million (the £64.1 million) was True Lies (US 1994), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.