Avatar (2009) currently holds the record. It grossed over $2.7 billion in its run.
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As of May 01st 2018, Black Panther is the highest grossing superhero movie in America [& the third highest grossing movie ever]Worldwide box office, The Avengers is the highest grossing superhero movie followed by Avengers Age of Ultron & Black Panther.
The sentence should be hyphenated thus: 'It is the highest-grossing movie of the year.' The adjective is 'highest-grossing' - the superlative form of 'high-grossing'.
By highest selling, I assume you mean highest grossing. Highest Grossing Movie in the U.S.A (not adjusted for inflation): Titanic (1997) -- $600,779,824 (not adjusted) or $908,688,900 (adjusted) Highest Grossing Movie in the U.S.A (adjusted for inflation): Gone with the Wind -- $198,676,459 (not adjusted) or $1,430,476,000 (adjusted)
Yes. The Harry Potter series is the highest grossing movie series ever.
the top grossing movie of 2004 was titanic but now the top grossing movie is avatar and they are both by James something i cant spell his last name
In current amounts, Avatar is highest grossing film in history.
Avatar has entered record books as the highest grossing movie of all time. Avatar has collected Rs 67 crore, making it the second-biggest Hollywood film ever in India after 2012. It released with only 45 prints
Harry Potter is the highest grossing film series ever. The Twilight Saga is the sixteen highest grossing film series. The Chronicles of Narnia is the eighteenth highest grossing film series.
James Cameron's Avatar, the top grossing movie of all time, was nominated for nine Academy Awards. Avatar grossed $2.8 billion from worldwide theatres. Ironically, The Hurt Locker took home the Oscar for Best Film that year, the lowest-grossing movie to ever win the award.
I don't think they use "highest-grossing" as a criterion to determine the movie's quality.