We have finally got a new film on the throne as Avengers: Endgame has become the highest grossing movie of all time having taken down Avatar. James Cameron’s masterpiece was sitting on the throne for the last 10 years. But now we finally have a new successor. The last 10 years have produced so many huge films and at least one movie has crossed a Billion Dollars in every year this decade. So, let’s take a look at the highest grossing films of every year in the past decade:
2010
Toy Story 3
The third instalment of the Toy Story Franchise won all the hearts and broke all box office records. Toy Story 3 is an emotional movie, and it was , loved by fans all over the globe.
Competition: Iron Man 2, Inception
US Domestic Box Office: $415 million
International Box Office: $654 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.069 Billion
2011
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Final chapter of the Epic Wizardly Saga and one of the best fantasy story ever created, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was a bittersweet movie for all of us. We were all excited to see Harry, finally defeat the one who cannot be named and at the same time this was the last time we saw these characters.
Competition: Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Fast Five, Pirates of the Caribbean-On stranger Tides
US Domestic Box Office: $382 million
International Box Office: $961 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.343 Billion
2012
The Avengers
One of the most ambitious superhero crossover movie ever made. Through this movie, Marvel Cinematic Universe made their intentions clear for the future. They kickstarted the trend of franchise building in the Hollywood.
Competition: The Dark Knight Rises, The hunger games, Skyfall
US Domestic Box Office: $624 million
International Box Office: $895 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.519 Billion
2013
Frozen
The Box Office results of this movie was surprising for everyone. It exceed the expectations of the studio itself as no one thought this movie would go on to be this big. This movie is a proof that Disney is the undisputed King of Animated movies.
Competition: Iron Man 3, Hunger games 2, Man of Steel
US Domestic Box Office: $401 million
International Box Office: $872 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.273 Billion
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Age of Extinction was a proper popcorn movie full of entertaining elements. The movie was not very hot with critics as they battered it, but that did not affect its box office, as evident.
Competition: Guardians of The Galaxy, The Winter Soldier, X-Men: Days of Future Past
US Domestic Box Office: $246 million
International Box Office: $856 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.102 Billion
2015
Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens
Star Wars Episode 7 was one of the most awaited movies ever as the fans were dying to know about how their favourite sci-fi saga would turn out.
Competition: Jurassic World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7
US Domestic Box Office: $937 million
International Box Office: $1.117 billion
Worldwide Box Office: $2.054 Billion
2016
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man Vs Captain America. It was amazing to see two of our favourite superheroes go head to head with each other and the fans showed their love by making it the highest grossing movie of 2016.
Competition: Deadpool, Rogue One, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
US Domestic Box Office: $409 million
International Box Office: $732 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.141 Billion
2017
Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi
Force Awakens was loved by the fans and it was almost obvious that this movie would out-perform all the other movies without breaking any sweat.
Competition: Wonder Woman, GOTG 2, Thor: Ragnarök, Logan
US Domestic Box Office: $621 million
International Box Office: $697 million
Worldwide Box Office: $1.318 Billion
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
We were introduced to the biggest Baddy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe through this movie. This movie was not about the Avengers, it was about Thanos.
Competition: Black Panther, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2
US Domestic Box Office: $679 million
International Box Office: $1.370 Billion
Worldwide Box Office: $2.049 Billion
2019
Avengers: Endgame
We are only almost halfway done with 2019, but we are absolutely sure that there is not even a single movie which is lined up for release in the upcoming months which can dethrone this movie.
Competition: None
US Domestic Box Office: $854 million
International Box Office: $1.930 Billion
Worldwide Box Office: $2.784 Billion
