{"page":{"title":"The Highest-Grossing Films of All Time","url":"https://topideo.com/highest-grossing-films/","description":"The 100 highest-grossing films of all time by lifetime worldwide box office, and how the all-time ranking changed since 1975.","updated":"2026-10-15T16:16:46.763773Z"},"faq_url":"https://topideo.com/highest-grossing-films/#faq","questions":[{"question":"What is the highest-grossing film of all time?","answer":"Avengers: Endgame (2019), with $2,938 million worldwide, ahead of Avatar ($2,924 million) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day ($2,513 million), as of October 15, 2026."},{"question":"What are the 10 highest-grossing films?","answer":"Lifetime worldwide box office as of October 15, 2026:","list":["Avengers: Endgame (2019): $2,938 million","Avatar (2009): $2,924 million","Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026): $2,513 million","Avatar: The Way of Water (2022): $2,334 million","Ne Zha 2 (2025): $2,271 million","Titanic (1997): $2,265 million","Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015): $2,071 million","Avengers: Infinity War (2018): $2,052 million","Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): $1,921 million","Zootopia 2 (2025): $1,870 million"]},{"question":"Is Avatar still the highest-grossing film?","answer":"No. Avengers: Endgame moved back ahead of Avatar with its re-release in September 2026: $2,938 million against $2,924 million. Avatar had held the record since its re-release in China in 2021."},{"question":"How many films have grossed more than $1 billion?","answer":"66 films as of October 15, 2026, and 8 of them passed $2 billion: Avengers: Endgame, Avatar, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Avatar: The Way of Water, Ne Zha 2, Titanic, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity War."},{"question":"Which film held the box office record the longest?","answer":"Titanic, the highest-grossing film from 1997 to 2008, ranked on lifetime totals. Before it came Jaws (1975), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and after it Avatar (2009), Avengers: Endgame (2019)."},{"question":"What is the highest-grossing film made outside the United States?","answer":"Ne Zha 2 (2025), a film from China, 5th of all time with $2,271 million, almost all of it earned outside North America."},{"question":"Are box office figures adjusted for inflation?","answer":"No. They are in current dollars, as the studios report them: a ticket cost far less decades ago, so older films such as Gone with the Wind (1939) or The Sound of Music (1965) sold many more tickets than their totals suggest, and records keep being broken by recent films."}],"about_the_data":{"url":"https://topideo.com/highest-grossing-films/#about-data","notes":["Lifetime worldwide theatrical gross in current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation, as published by Box Office Mojo on October 15, 2026: every release of a film is counted, re-releases included. Each year ranks the films released up to that year by their lifetime gross, so the value shown for a past year is the film's total today, not what it had earned at that date.","For many films released before the 1980s, the source gives little more than the US and Canada gross: their worldwide totals are understated, and the rankings of 1975–1985 should be read with caution. Films of 2026 may still be in theatres.","Cross-checked with the top 100 of The Numbers: the same films and the same top ten, with a median difference of 0.3%; Box Office Mojo counts recent re-releases of two Harry Potter films and a higher Chinese gross for Ne Zha 2."],"sources":[{"name":"Box Office Mojo, worldwide lifetime gross","url":"https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/ww_top_lifetime_gross/"},{"name":"The Numbers, all-time worldwide box office (cross-check)","url":"https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cumulative/all-time"},{"name":"Wikidata, country of origin of each film","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P495"}]},"chart_data":"https://topideo.com/api/chart/highest-grossing-films","citation":"Topideo, The Highest-Grossing Films of All Time, https://topideo.com/highest-grossing-films/, from the sources listed in about_the_data."}