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All 53 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion at the Box Office

'Barbie' hit Barbillion. How much higher will it rise?

By Ellen Gutoskey

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in 'Barbie.'
Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in 'Barbie.' / Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
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The movies that have cleared the $1 billion mark at the box office belong to a pretty exclusive club. To date, there are only 53 members.

The newest initiate is 2023’s Barbie, the Greta Gerwig–directed juggernaut that star Margot Robbie pitched to Warner Bros. as a film that would net $1 billion. “Which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, OK?!” Robbie told Collider last month. Not only did Barbie hit $1 billion, it managed to do so in less than three weeks. (For the record, the movie to gross $1 billion the fastest is Avengers: Endgame, which managed the feat in just five days.)

Barbie isn’t the only 2023 film to make the list. The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in early April, is in 15th place with a worldwide gross of a little over $1.35 billion. As of August 7, Barbie is in 45th place, but it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that it won’t stay there. It only needs to rake in about $3 million more to overtake Despicable Me 3 (2017).

Though both 2023 entries are based on existing intellectual properties, they can still be considered original films, in a way—a marked departure from last year’s trend. All three 2022 films to make $1 billion at the box office were sequels: Avatar: The Way of Water, Top Gun: Maverick, and Jurassic World Dominion.

Unsurprisingly, most billion-dollar blockbusters draw from existing IP. There are more straight sequels (2019’s Frozen II and 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens); live-action remakes (2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast); adaptations of beloved novels (2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2012’s The Hobbit); and, of course, plenty of superhero movies.

The notable exceptions to that rule mainly come from James Cameron, including the original Avatar and 1997’s unsinkable Titanic, which grossed a hardy $2.26 billion. Oh, and Disney’s Zootopia is also on the list. (It’s hard to beat a talking fox voiced by Jason Bateman.)

We’ll have to wait and see whether the other half of the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon makes it into the billion-dollar club. Right now, Oppenheimer’s worldwide gross is just shy of $553 million.

Find out if your favorite spectacle on the silver screen made the list below, and see which flicks just missed it via Box Office Mojo.

  1. Avatar (2009) // $2,923,706,026
  2. Avengers: Endgame (2019) // $2,799,439,100
  3. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) // $2,320,250,281
  4. Titanic (1997) // $2,264,743,305
  5. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) // $2,071,310,218
  6. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) // $2,052,415,039
  7. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) // $1,921,847,111
  8. Jurassic World (2015) // $1,671,537,444
  9. The Lion King (2019) // $1,663,075,401
  10. The Avengers (2012) // $1,520,538,536
  11. Furious 7 (2015) // $1,515,341,399
  12. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) // $1,495,696,292
  13. Frozen II (2019) // $1,453,683,476
  14. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) // $1,405,018,048
  15. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) // $1,352,756,895
  16. Black Panther (2018) // $1,349,926,083
  17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) // $1,342,359,942
  18. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) // $1,334,407,706
  19. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) // $1,310,466,296
  20. Frozen (2013) // $1,284,540,518
  21. Beauty and the Beast (2017) // $1,266,115,964
  22. Incredibles 2 (2018) // $1,243,225,667
  23. The Fate of the Furious (2017) // $1,236,005,118
  24. Iron Man 3 (2013) // $1,215,577,205
  25. Minions (2015) // $1,159,444,662
  26. Captain America: Civil War (2016) // $1,155,046,416
  27. Aquaman (2018) // $1,148,528,393
  28. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) // $1,147,633,833
  29. Skyfall (2012) // $1,142,471,295
  30. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) // $1,131,927,996
  31. Captain Marvel (2019) // $1,131,416,446
  32. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) // $1,123,794,079
  33. Jurassic Park (1993) // $1,109,802,321
  34. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) // $1,104,054,072
  35. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) // $1,081,169,825
  36. Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) // $1,077,022,372
  37. Joker (2019) // $1,074,458,282
  38. Toy Story 4 (2019) // $1,073,841,394
  39. Toy Story 3 (2010) // $1,067,316,101
  40. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) // $1,066,179,747
  41. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) // $1,058,682,142
  42. Aladdin (2019) // $1,054,304,000
  43. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) // $1,046,721,266
  44. Despicable Me 3 (2017) // $1,034,800,131
  45. Barbie (2023) // $1,031,481,000
  46. Finding Dory (2016) // $1,029,266,989
  47. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) // $1,027,082,707
  48. Zootopia (2016) // $1,025,521,689
  49. Alice in Wonderland (2010) // $1,025,468,216
  50. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) // $1,023,842,938
  51. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) // $1,017,030,651
  52. The Dark Knight (2008) // $1,006,234,167
  53. Jurassic World Dominion (2022) // $1,001,978,080

This article was published earlier in 2023 and has been updated.

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