Every other day, my friends and I wonder what the top boxoffice winners have been this year and I seem to always forget to look it up. Today, for some unknown reason, I finally remembered.
Here are the top twenty grossing films so far this year.
1 Revenge of the Sith $380.21 m (05/19/05)
2 War of the Worlds * $233.33 m (06/29/05)
3 Wedding Crashers $206.54 m (07/15/05)
4 Batman Begins $205.09 m (06/15/05)
5 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory $204.48 m (07/15/05)
6 Madagascar * $192.93 m (05/27/05)
7 Mr. & Mrs. Smith $185.77 m (06/10/05)
8 Hitch $177.58 m (02/11/05)
9 The Longest Yard * $158.12 m (05/27/05)
10 Fantastic Four $154.04 m (07/08/05)
11 Robots $128.20 m (03/11/05)
12 The Pacifier $113.01 m (03/04/05)
13 The 40 Year-Old Virgin $101.41 m (08/19/05)
14 Monster-in-Law $82.93 m (05/13/05)
15 Are We There Yet? $82.30 m (01/21/05)
16 The Dukes of Hazzard $79.90 m (08/05/05)
17 The Ring Two $75.89 m (03/18/05)
18 Constantine * $75.50 m (02/18/05)
19 March of the Penguins $74.52 m (07/22/05)
20 Sin City $74.10 m (04/01/05)
You will notice that only 13 films have grossed over $100 million. With two months left in the year, this does seem a low figure. On average, 21 to 25 films gross more than $100 million in a single year.
In perspective, the number of films to gross more than $100 million last year (2004) was 23 films; in 2003 = 29 films; in 2002 = 24 films; in 2001 = 20 films; 2000 = 22 films; 1999 = 21 films.
Are there seven upcoming films that could break $100 million? Possibly. Consider the blockbusters yet to be released: Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, The Legend of Zorro, Chicken Little, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Peter Jackson's King Kong.
As for dramas, well, I'm sad to admit....they just don't bring in the green too well, do they? But potential break-throughs could be George Clooney's Good Night, And Good Luck, James Mangold's film about Johnny Cash called Walk the Line, Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, Steven Zallian's All the King's Men, and Ang Lee's critically acclaimed, though highly controversial cowboy film Brokeback Mountain.
Can you think of any other films that might be high grossing hits?
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