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I received a recent, rather snarky, comment on one of the box office posts: “Films of the past increasingly underrepresented because of an insistance of using present day dollars as the only measurement.

The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Avengers, The $623,357,910 2 Dark Knight Rises, The $448,139,099 3 Hunger Games, The $408,010,692 4 Skyfall $304,360,277 5 Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey $303,003,568 6 Twilight Saga: Breaki…

The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II $381,011,219 2 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $352,390,543 3 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I, The $281,287,133 4 Hangover Part II, The $254,464,3…

The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Toy Story 3 $415,004,880 2 Alice in Wonderland $334,191,110 3 Iron Man 2 $312,433,331 4 Twilight Saga: Eclipse $300,531,751 5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I $295,983,305 6 Inception…

You can read more about this year in film here.

“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more.

The Top 50 Films – Domestic Gross Rk FILM GROSS 1 Top Gun: Maverick $718,732,821 2 Avatar: The Way of Water $684,075,767 3 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever $453,829,060 4 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $411,331,607 5 Jurassic World: Dominion $3…

The Top 100 Domestic Box Office Rk Year Rk FILM GROSS 1 2009 1 Avatar $749,766,139 2 2008 1 Dark Knight, The $533,345,358 3 2004 1 Shrek 2 $441,226,247 4 2006 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $423,315,812 5 2002 1 Spider-Man $403,706,375 6 2009

The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Avatar $749,766,139 2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $402,111,870 3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $301,959,197 4 Twilight Saga: New Moon $296,623,634 5 Up $293,004,164 6 Hangover,…

The Top 50 Domestic Box Office (Gross – BOM) Rk FILM GROSS 1 Dark Knight, The $533,345,358 2 Iron Man $318,412,101 3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $317,101,119 4 Hancock $227,946,274 5 Wall-E $223,808,164 6 Kung Fu Panda $215,434,591 7

You can read more about this year in film here.

“I like to be in America” My Top 10 West Side Story Nightmare Alley Cyrano The Power of the Dog Dune: Part One Spider-Man: No Way Home The Tragedy of Macbeth The Lost Daughter The Last Duel Shiva Baby note: It’s not a great Top 5 but it’s a much stronger…

The Top 50 Films – Domestic Gross Rk FILM GROSS 1 Spider-Man: No Way Home $804,667,830 2 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $224,543,292 3 Venom: Let There Be Carnage $213,550,366 4 Black Widow $183,651,655 5 F9: The Fast Saga $173,005,945 6 Eterna…