Rather than an opinion top 10 list of some random stuff, which I may do at some point soon anyway, I’ll start with something simple.
The Top 10 Grossing Movies Worldwide, 2000-2009:
| Rank | Title | Box Office | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $892,194,397 | 2005 |
| 9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $921,600,000 | 2002 |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $933,956,980 | 2009 |
| 7 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | $937,000,866 | 2007 |
| 6 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | $958,404,152 | 2007 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | $968,657,891 | 2001 |
| 4 | The Dark Knight | $1,001,921,825 | 2008 |
| 3 | Avatar | $1,018,811,000 | 2009 |
| 2 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | $1,060,332,628 | 2006 |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $1,129,219,252 | 2003 |
A few interesting points about the top grossing movies of the decade:
- Only two years of the past decade are not represented in the Top 10: 2000 & 2004
- Top Grossing Film released in 2000: Mission Impossible II, Overall Rank: 47th ($545,300,000)
- Top Grossing Film released in 2004: Shrek 2, Overall Rank: 13th ($880,871,036)
- The six Harry Potter movies released to date, all in the past decade, rank (in order of release) 5th, 14th, 21st, 10th, 7th, and 8th and grossed a combined $5,387,568,861
- The three Lord of the Rings movies were released in the past decade, and rank (in order of release) 16th, 9th, and 1st, and grossed a combined $2,911,519,252
- The three Pirates of the Caribbean movies were released in the past decade, and rank (in order of release) 30th, 2nd and 6th, and grossed a combined $2,671,936,780
Thanks to IMDB.com for the box office stats, I manually dug through the info to pull the tidbits of information above, mainly because I had nothing better to do.
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