Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
There was a time that no movie had ever grossed in excess of $1 billion at the global box office… but you may have noticed that that time has long since passed.
The biggest grossing movie to precede the first billion dollar movie was Jurassic Park back in 1993, which took an impressive $914 million.
However today, almost twenty years later, that movie is now just the nineteenth biggest of all time - which is still quite remarkable achievement.
And do you recall the first film to break $1 billion? Of course it was Titanic, a movie that was the biggest grossing film of all time for over a decade, until a little movie called Avatar came along.
But in more recent year’s movies breaking that magical billion dollar mark at the box office is becoming a more common feat as movie fans have flocked to cinemas to catch the latest blockbusters.
There are currently ten movies that had reached this milestone, three coming this year; the most in any one year - and they haven’t wasted anytime is getting there.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides needed just six weeks to reach the $1 billion target, and it is the third movie from Johnny Depp to achieve this; the others being Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Alice In Wonderland.
Not to surprisingly the second film needed just half that time as fans came out in force to say goodbye to the Harry Potter franchise.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is so far sitting on a worldwide gross of $1,041 billion and is the biggest film of 2011 so far - and I doubt it will be topped.
This week it was announced that Transformers: Dark of the Moon had also joined the billion dollar club - reaching that goal in just five weeks.
In 2010 two movies broke $1 billion coming in the form of Alice In Wonderland and Toy Story 3, the only animation movie on this very prestigious list.
But it was the 2009 movie Avatar that really paved the way as it grossed in excess of $2,782 billion, the only movie to break $2 billion, as well as thrilling audiences and critics around the world.
And we potentially could see even more movies join the $1 billion club over the next couple of years with The Avengers, The Amazing Spider Man, Superman: Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit, which is split into two movies, having the potential to be huge box office smashes.
The Billion Dollar Club
- Avatar
- Titanic
- The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
- Toy Story 3
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- Alice In Wonderland
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- The Dark Knight
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