All 53 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion at the Box Office

The movies that have cleared the $1 billion mark at the box office belong to a pretty exclusive club. To date, there are only 53 members.

The newest initiate is 2023’s Barbie, the Greta Gerwig–directed juggernaut that star Margot Robbie pitched to Warner Bros. as a film that would net $1 billion. “Which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, OK?!” Robbie told Collider last month. Not only did Barbie hit $1 billion, it managed to do so in less than three weeks. (For the record, the movie to gross $1 billion the fastest is Avengers: Endgame, which managed the feat in just five days.)

Barbie isn’t the only 2023 film to make the list. The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in early April, is in 15th place with a worldwide gross of a little over $1.35 billion. As of August 7, Barbie is in 45th place, but it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that it won’t stay there. It only needs to rake in about $3 million more to overtake Despicable Me 3 (2017).

Though both 2023 entries are based on existing intellectual properties, they can still be considered original films, in a way—a marked departure from last year’s trend. All three 2022 films to make $1 billion at the box office were sequels: Avatar: The Way of Water, Top Gun: Maverick, and Jurassic World Dominion.

Unsurprisingly, most billion-dollar blockbusters draw from existing IP. There are more straight sequels (2019’s Frozen II and 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens); live-action remakes (2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast); adaptations of beloved novels (2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2012’s The Hobbit); and, of course, plenty of superhero movies.

The notable exceptions to that rule mainly come from James Cameron, including the original Avatar and 1997’s unsinkable Titanic, which grossed a hardy $2.26 billion. Oh, and Disney’s Zootopia is also on the list. (It’s hard to beat a talking fox voiced by Jason Bateman.)

We’ll have to wait and see whether the other half of the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon makes it into the billion-dollar club. Right now, Oppenheimer’s worldwide gross is just shy of $553 million.

Find out if your favorite spectacle on the silver screen made the list below, and see which flicks just missed it via Box Office Mojo.

1. Avatar (2009) // $2,923,706,026
2. Avengers: Endgame (2019) // $2,799,439,100
3. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) // $2,320,250,281
4. Titanic (1997) // $2,264,743,305
5. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) // $2,071,310,218
6. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) // $2,052,415,039
7. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) // $1,921,847,111
8. Jurassic World (2015) // $1,671,537,444
9. The Lion King (2019) // $1,663,075,401
10. The Avengers (2012) // $1,520,538,536
11. Furious 7 (2015) // $1,515,341,399
12. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) // $1,495,696,292
13. Frozen II (2019) // $1,453,683,476
14. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) // $1,405,018,048
15. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) // $1,352,756,895
16. Black Panther (2018) // $1,349,926,083
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) // $1,342,359,942
18. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) // $1,334,407,706
19. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) // $1,310,466,296
20. Frozen (2013) // $1,284,540,518
21. Beauty and the Beast (2017) // $1,266,115,964
22. Incredibles 2 (2018) // $1,243,225,667
23. The Fate of the Furious (2017) // $1,236,005,118
24. Iron Man 3 (2013) // $1,215,577,205
25. Minions (2015) // $1,159,444,662
26. Captain America: Civil War (2016) // $1,155,046,416
27. Aquaman (2018) // $1,148,528,393
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) // $1,147,633,833
29. Skyfall (2012) // $1,142,471,295
30. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) // $1,131,927,996
31. Captain Marvel (2019) // $1,131,416,446
32. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) // $1,123,794,079
33. Jurassic Park (1993) // $1,109,802,321
34. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) // $1,104,054,072
35. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) // $1,081,169,825
36. Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) // $1,077,022,372
37. Joker (2019) // $1,074,458,282
38. Toy Story 4 (2019) // $1,073,841,394
39. Toy Story 3 (2010) // $1,067,316,101
40. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) // $1,066,179,747
41. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) // $1,058,682,142
42. Aladdin (2019) // $1,054,304,000
43. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) // $1,046,721,266
44. Despicable Me 3 (2017) // $1,034,800,131
45. Barbie (2023) // $1,031,481,000
46. Finding Dory (2016) // $1,029,266,989
47. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) // $1,027,082,707
48. Zootopia (2016) // $1,025,521,689
49. Alice in Wonderland (2010) // $1,025,468,216
50. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) // $1,023,842,938
51. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) // $1,017,030,651
52. The Dark Knight (2008) // $1,006,234,167
53. Jurassic World Dominion (2022) // $1,001,978,080

This article was published earlier in 2023 and has been updated.

This article was originally published on www.mentalfloss.com as All 53 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion at the Box Office.