Top movies by ticket sales of all time năm 2024

The charts below show the top ten movies of all-time box office records, as they would have been calculated at the end of each calendar year. The amounts shown are the estimated number of tickets sold domestically. (U.S. and Canada)

Many high-ranking films have been released multiple times over the past century, and the ticket amounts reflect that. Several films, such as Avatar and The Birth of a Nation, sold tickets at premium prices. Their ticket sale numbers may be lower than would be expected from looking at their total gross.

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[Box office figures as of 11/20/2023]

After Avengers: Endgame and Avatar duked it out for bragging rights as the all-time highest-grossing movie in 2019, the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which effectively shuttered theaters (some of them never to reopen), and this list seemed safe for the time being. But in late 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home blew everyone away and nostalgia-bombed its way into the top 10.

Just a few months later, the decades-in-the-making sequel Top Gun: Maverick also shocked the world by swooping past the $1 billion mark, and another half year later, Avatar: The Way of Water proved James Cameron is the box office GOAT by shooting all the way up to the No. 3 spot. And with the latter’s ascension, Disney laid claim to a whopping seven of the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time (eight, if you count its joint ownership of Titanic with Paramount).

In 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie surprised everyone by jolting into the top half of this list in just its first six weeks of release, ultimately landing at No. 16, and most were ready to call it a year. Nobody was going to beat Mario. Then Barbenheimer fever hit, and before we knew it, we had a new champion that was not only the highest-grossing film ever solo-directed by a woman, but also the highest-grossing film in Warner Bros. studio history. With the addition of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Barbie, the top 50 has lost Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit movie and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

For the list below, we’ve included global box office performance, as well as domestic, and release date. We included dollars earned in re-releases, and in each of our descriptions, we look at where the film stood record-wise at the time of its run, and dive into things like critical and audience reception. We’ll be here to track the progress of new blockbusters and regularly update this list of top box office performers. So keep your eyes here, and check in with our weekly weekend box office wrap-ups.

1. $2.924 Billion

2. $2.799 Billion

3. $2.320 Billion

4. $2.265 Billion

5. $2.071 Billion

6. $2.052 Billion

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7. $1.921 Billion

8. $1.672 Billion

9. $1.663 Billion

10. $1.521 Billion

11. $1.515 Billion

12. $1.496 Billion

13. $1.454 Billion

14. $1.441 Billion

15. $1.405 Billion

16. $1.362 Billion

17. $1.350 Billion

18. $1.342 Billion

19. $1.334 Billion

20. $1.334 Billion

21. $1.310 Billion

22. $1.266 Billion

23. $1.243 Billion

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24. $1.236 Billion

25. $1.216 Billion

26. $1.159 Billion

27. $1.156 Billion

28. $1.155 Billion

29. $1.149 Billion

30. $1.142 Billion

31. $1.132 Billion

32. $1.131 Billion

33. $1.124 Billion

34. $1.113 Billion

35. $1.104 Billion

36. $1.085 Billion

37. $1.079 Billion

38. $1.077 Billion

39. $1.073 Billion

40. $1.067 Billion

41. $1.066 Billion

42. $1.059 Billion

43. $1.054 Billion

44. $1.047 Billion

45. $1.035 Billion

46. $1.029 Billion

47. $1.027 Billion

48. $1.026 Billion

49. $1.025 Billion

50. $1.024 Billion

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What movie has the highest ticket sales of all time?

By Adjusted Gross.

What is the highest selling movie of all time?

Top Lifetime Grosses.

What movie sold the most tickets in 24 hours?

Top Single Day Grosses.

What actor has sold the most movie tickets?

As of August 2023, Samuel L. Jackson was the highest-grossing leading actor in the United States and Canada, which combined are known as the North American movie market. Movies featuring Jackson as a protagonist collectively amassed 5.72 billion U.S. dollars domestically. Robert Downey Jr.