Domestic Box Office Rankings

Explore annual domestic box office rankings based on original theatrical performance. Re-releases are excluded, and each film's initial uninterrupted theatrical run is treated as a single release.

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Rank
Movie
Box Office
1
The Avengers
$623,357,910
2
The Dark Knight Rises
$448,139,099
3
The Hunger Games
$408,010,692
4
Skyfall
$304,360,277
5
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
$303,003,568
6
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
$292,324,737
7
The Amazing Spider-Man
$262,030,663
8
Brave
$237,283,207
9
Ted
$218,815,487
10
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
$216,391,482
11
The Lorax
$214,151,550
12
Wreck-It Ralph
$189,422,889
13
Lincoln
$182,207,973
14
Men in Black 3
$179,020,854
15
Django Unchained
$162,805,434
16
Ice Age: Continental Drift
$161,321,843
17
Snow White and the Huntsman
$155,332,381
18
Les Misérables
$148,809,770
19
Hotel Transylvania
$148,313,048
20
Taken 2
$139,854,287
21
21 Jump Street
$138,447,667
22
Argo
$136,025,503
23
Silver Linings Playbook
$132,092,958
24
Prometheus
$126,477,084
25
Safe House
$126,373,434
26
The Vow
$125,014,030
27
Life of Pi
$124,987,023
28
Magic Mike
$113,721,571
29
The Bourne Legacy
$113,203,870
30
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
$103,860,290
31
Rise of the Guardians
$103,412,758
32
Zero Dark Thirty
$95,720,716
33
Flight
$93,772,375
34
Think Like a Man
$91,547,205
35
The Campaign
$86,907,746
36
The Expendables 2
$85,028,192
37
Wrath of the Titans
$83,670,083
38
Jack Reacher
$80,070,736
39
Dark Shadows
$79,727,149
40
Parental Guidance
$77,267,296
41
John Carter
$73,078,100
42
Act of Valor
$70,012,847
43
This Is 40
$67,544,505
44
Contraband
$66,528,000
45
Looper
$66,486,205
46
Madea's Witness Protection
$65,653,242
47
Battleship
$65,422,625
48
Pitch Perfect
$65,001,093
49
Mirror Mirror
$64,935,167
50
Chronicle
$64,575,175

Box Office notes

About the Domestic Box Office Rankings

Hollywood Rankings compiles annual domestic box office rankings to provide a consistent view of theatrical performance across different eras of film history. Each yearly list ranks films by their original domestic theatrical gross and applies the same release rules throughout the historical data.

Re-releases are excluded from the annual rankings. A film's initial theatrical run is treated as a single release as long as that run remains uninterrupted, while later theatrical returns are not added to the original ranking total. This approach is designed to make yearly box office results more directly comparable.

The historical archive is being expanded to include earlier decades, with particular attention given to years where complete and consistently structured annual box office rankings are difficult to find. Box office data is compiled and curated for use within the Hollywood Rankings database. More information about the underlying sources is available on the Data Sources page.