By Dustin Rowles | Box Office Round-Ups | January 1, 2014 |
By Dustin Rowles | Box Office Round-Ups | January 1, 2014 |
Facts and Figures Based on the 25 Highest Grossing Films Worldwide
Number of superhero Films: 5
Films that were either sequels/reboots/prequel/remakes: 16
Films Based on Original Ideas: 6
Films with the highest percentage from International grosses: Smurfs 2 (79 percent) and A Good Day to Die Hard (77 percent).
Films with the highest percentage domestic gross: Frozen (51 percent) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (49 percent)
PG-13 Films: 14
R-Rated Films: 3
Films in the top 25 with Less than $100 Million Budgets: Now You See Me, Despicable Me 2, The Conjuring, A Good Day to Die Hard
Films in the top 25 with $200 million budgets or higher: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Oz: The Great and Powerful
Percentage-wise, the Most Profitable Movie: The Conjuring $316 million on a $20 million budget.
Lowest Grossing Movie of the Year Storage 24 (starring Doctor Who’s Noel Clark): $72
Movies that Were Domestically in the Top 25 of 2013 but Not in the Worldwide Top 25: The Heat, We’re the Millers, Identity Thief, Grown Ups 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
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The Top 25
1. Iron Man 3 — $1.25 billion
2. Despicable Me 2 — $918 million
3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — $797 million
4. Fast and Furious 6 — $787 million
5. Monsters University — $743 million
6. Man of Steel — $662 million
7. Gravity — $653 million
8. Thor: The Dark World — $629 million
9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — $625 million
10. The Croods — $587 million
11. World War Z — $540 million
12. Frozen — $506 million
13. Oz The Great and Powerful — $493 million
14. Star Trek Into Darkness — $467 million
15. The Wolverine — $414 million
16. Pacific Rim — $407 million
17. G.I. Joe: Retaliation — $375 million
18. Now You See Me — $351 million
19. The Hangover Part III — $351 million
20. The Great Gatsby — $348 million
21. The Smurfs 2 — $347 million
22. The Conjuring — $316 million
23. A Good Day to Die Hard — $304 million
24. Oblivion — $286.2 million
25. Elysium — $286.1 million
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