
Avengers: Endgame set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. By June 14, 2019, Detective Pikachu became the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America, surpassing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). Pokémon Detective Pikachu earned the best North American opening for a film based on a video game, with a $58 million debut. The Wandering Earth set the all-time opening record in China, grossing $349 million in its first seven days, which also made it the second biggest opening in any territory (after Star Wars: The Force Awakens in North America). #14 and under 1973 movie wiki series#
With Toy Story 4, Pixar became the first animation studio to have four animated films (along with Toy Story 3, Finding Dory, and Incredibles 2) each surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and also the second animated film series to have two installments that have surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, after the Despicable Me franchise in 2017. Spider-Man: Far From Home became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film. Walt Disney Studios became the first studio in history to surpass $10 billion in worldwide box office grosses in a year. The month's highest-grossing film was the domestic Chinese film The Wandering Earth, while the highest-grossing foreign film that month was Alita: Battle Angel. China set the all-time biggest global one-month record in February 2019 with CN¥11.09 billion ($1.63 billion), as a result of Chinese New Year season, surpassing the previous record set by China in February 2018. The Star Wars franchise became the second film franchise to gross $10 billion with the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first film franchise to gross $18 billion, $19 billion, $20 billion, $21 billion, and $22 billion with the release of Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Joker became the first R-rated film in history to surpass $1 billion. The Lion King, Frozen II, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Captain Marvel, Joker, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, and Aladdin all grossed $1 billion, with the second, third, and eighth as the first, second, and fifth highest-grossing animated films, respectively. The top films released in 2019 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2019 RankĪvengers: Endgame became the fifth film to gross $2 billion worldwide and the highest-grossing film of all time. See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2019 Versions of that refrain come up every year, but what used to be merely a gap between the multiplexes and limited releases has now become an abyss." Highest-grossing films
It's a terrific year for movies, but it would seem much less so if we only considered movies in wide release. The major crisis specific to cinema outleaps even the great merits of individual movies and invokes basic and comprehensive questions of which movies can be seen and how those movies are acknowledged. At the same time, it's a year of inside-movies practicalities, of special attention to the business at hand, because of the structural threats to the movie business from new and powerful players. In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power.