25. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Worldwide Gross: $1,131,927,996
Director: Jon Watts
IMDB Rating: 7.5
Fun Fact: Spider-Man wasn’t actually going to be a spider based superhero. Stan Lee actually wanted to base a comic on a fly or insect but decided on a spider.
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Worldwide Gross: $1,142,456,987
Director: Peter Jackson
IMDB Rating: 8.9
Fun Fact: John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli, is actually the tallest of any of the actors in the fellowship.
23. Aquaman (2018)
Worldwide Gross: $2,787,965,087
Director: James Wan
IMDB score: 6.9
Fun Fact: Although he originally was depicted as speaking to sea creatures in their own language, Aquaman doesn’t actually talk to fish anymore. Apparently, fish brains are too primitive to carry on a decent conversation so he uses his telepathy to order sea creatures to do whatever he wants.
22. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Worldwide Gross: $1,153,561,649
Director: Russo Brothers
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Fun Fact: In the film, the Falcon utilizes a falcon drone called Redwing. In the mainstream Marvel comics, Redwing was an actual falcon, which was Sam Wilson’s sidekick.
21. Minions (2015)
Worldwide Gross: $1,159,444,662
Director: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
IMDB Rating: 6.4
Fun Fact: Believe it or not, Despicable Me and Minions co-director Pierre Coffin voices all of the minions himself. For the new film, Coffin voiced 899 of the little yellow henchmen.
20. Iron Man – 3 (2013)
Worldwide Gross: $1,214,811,252
Director: Shane Black
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Fun Fact: J.A.R.V.I.S stands for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.” Well named Stark, Well named.
19. The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Worldwide Gross: $1,236,005,118
Director: F. Gary Gray
IMDB Rating: 6.7
Fun Fact: The Fate of the Furious features a Ripsaw “luxury tank,”all thanks to the U.S Department of Defense.
18. Incredibles 2 (2018)
Worldwide Gross: $1,242,805,359
Director: Brad Bird
IMDB Rating: 7.6
Fun Fact: Bob’s style is based on American actor, Paul Newman.
17. Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Worldwide Gross: $1,264,064,386
Director: Bill Condon
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Fun Fact: Ryan Gosling was offered the role of the Beast, but turned it down to appear in La La Land (2016) instead. Emma Watson was offered the lead role in that movie, but turned down that movie to star in this one.
16. Frozen (2013)
Worldwide Gross: $1,281,019,275
Director: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck
IMDB Rating: 7.4
Fun Fact: Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Snow Queen in 1844, which is what Frozen is based on. As a nod to the author the team decided to name four of the characters Hans, Kristoff, Anna, and Sven.
15. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Worldwide Gross: $1,310,464,680
Director: J.A. Bayona
IMDB Rating: 6.2
Fun Fact: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom features more dinosaurs than any previous movie in the franchise.
14. Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Episode VIII (2017)
Worldwide Gross: $1,332,697,499
Director: Rain Johnson
IMDB Rating: 7
Fun Fact: Prince William and Prince Harry make cameos as Stormtroopers in The Last Jedi.
13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
Worldwide Gross: $1,342,223,936
Director: David Yates
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Fun Fact: Remember the scene with the seven Harrys?
This one scene turned out to be so complex that it once took Daniel Radcliffe 90 takes to do a single shot. Well, it was worth it.
12. Black Panther (2018)
Worldwide Gross: $1,347,597,973
Director: Ryan Coogler
IMDB Rating: 7.3
Fun Fact: Black Panther Was the First Black Superhero Character in Mainstream Comics.
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Worldwide Gross: $1,402,809,540
Director: Joss Whedon
IMDB score: 7.3
Fun Fact: An early script of movie was that Ultron was created by government to eliminate the need of Avengers but Ultron turns on its creators and then Avengers again team up to stop him. However this draft was changed.
10. Frozen 2 (2019)
Worldwide Gross: $1,450,026,933
Director: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck
IMDB Rating: 6.9
Fun Fact: Frozen 2 is the highest grossing animated movie of all time.
9. Furious 7 (2015)
Worldwide Gross: $1,515,253,888
Director: James Wan
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Fun Fact: Paul Walker’s brothers, Caleb and Cody, were used as stand-ins for his remaining scenes.
8. The Avengers (2012)
Worldwide Gross: $1,518,815,515
Director: Joss Whedon
IMDB Rating: 8
Fun Fact: The Avengers had over 2,200 visual effect shots created by 14 different companies. This means most of this movie was made behind the camera.
7. The Lion King (2019)
Worldwide Gross: $1,657,138,876
Director: Jon Favreau
IMDB score: 6.9
Fun Fact: Favreau took a three-week trip to Kenya with his team to study animals in their natural habitat. This research gave them first-hand perspective on how the animals behaved while they were running, lounging, eating, sleeping, and interacting with one another.
6. Jurassic World (2015)
Worldwide Gross: $1,670,401,444
Director: Colin Trevorrow
IMDB Rating: 7
Fun Fact: For the season two Parks and Recreation (2009) DVD, Chris Pratt made a behind the scenes video. In the video, he reads a fake text from Steven Spielberg about being cast in Jurassic Park IV. Pratt was cast as the lead in the fourth Jurassic Park movie.
5. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Worldwide Gross: $2,787,965,087
Director’s: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
IMDB Rating: 8.4
Fun Fact: At the start Thanos doesn’t use the Power Stone while fighting the Hulk at the movie’s start this is to show that “Thanos, the Genghis Khan of the universe, is unbeatable in one-on-one battle”.
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Episode VII (2015)
Worldwide Gross: $2,068,454,133
Director: J.J. Abrams
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Fun Fact: John Boyega (who plays Finn) was afraid to let his parents know he’d been cast as a lead in the film in case they didn’t believe him, so he waited to tell them until the first cast photo was posted on the official Star Wars twitter page.
3. Titanic (1997)
Worldwide Gross: $2,471,751,922
Director: James Camron
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Fun Fact: The nude sketch of Rose wearing the Heart of the Ocean was actually done by the film’s director, James Cameron.
2. Avatar (2009)
Worldwide Gross: $2,790,439,092
Director: James Cameron
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Fun Fact: James Cameron was convinced that CGI effects had progressed enough to make this film when he saw Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
1. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Worldwide Gross: $2,797,800,564
Directors: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
IMDB Rating: 8.4
Fun Fact: Bruce Banner’s explanation of time travel is straight from a quantum physicist.
Bonus Fact: The Russos say Tony Stark thought of Peter Parker as his other child.
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