List of highest-grossing films

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A top-grossing movie is a motion picture that has received the most total revenue compared to all other movies ever made. Sources of these revenues include; ticket sales, merchandise and video rentals.

Contents

1 Top 25 highest-grossing films not adjusted for inflation

2 Highest-grossing adjusted for inflation

2.1 Film List

3 External links

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Top 25 highest-grossing films not adjusted for inflation

Here are the top 25 grossing movies of all time, based only on total worldwide box office receipts to June 22, 2005.

Note that the majority of these movies are in the genres of science fiction or fantasy.

1	Titanic (1997)	$1,845,034,188
2	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	$1,118,888,979
3	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001)	$976,475,550
4	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	$926,287,400
5	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)	$924,488,301
6	Shrek 2 (2004)	$918,506,048
7	Jurassic Park (1993)	$914,691,118
8	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)	$876,688,482
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	$871,368,364
10	Finding Nemo (2003)	$864,625,978
11	Spider-Man (2002)	$821,708,551
12	Independence Day (1996)	$816,969,268
13	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)	$792,910,554
14	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	$789,626,519
15	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	$783,949,228
16	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)	$775,398,007
17	The Lion King (1994)	$783,841,776
18	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	$738,599,701
19	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)	$709,281,058
20	Forrest Gump (1994)	$677,386,686
21	The Sixth Sense (1999)	$672,806,292
22	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	$653,913,918
23	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)	$649,476,740
24	The Incredibles (2004)	$617,419,089
25	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)	$614,300,000

Amounts are in United States dollars, include ticket sales only, and are not adjusted for inflation. Movies such as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope may well have earned more than more recent films such as Independence Day when adjusted for inflation. Given population growth as well as inflation, these numbers are not a very good indicator of the popularity of movies over time.

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Highest-grossing adjusted for inflation

This is a list of the highest-grossing movies of all time, where "gross" is defined as

US box-office revenues in U.S. dollars
adjusted for the effects of inflation using the U.S. consumer price index for January of the year of release (except for long runners, see below)

This list was compiled on December 17, 2004 based on data from boxofficemojo.com (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm).

The adjustment for inflation better reflects the importance of older films, as lists compiled without adjustment for inflation will consist almost entirely of films released in the last 20 years.

Note that this may tend to overstate the ranking of films that have long runs or repeated re-releases.

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