See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2016 Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made Creed, or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic Shutter Island, or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything." Highest-grossing films comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. The top ten films released in 2016 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2016Ĭaptain America: Civil War, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Finding Dory, and Zootopia grossed more than $1 billion each, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time. Walt Disney Studios reached $1 billion at the domestic box office faster than any other studio it reached this goal on the 128th day of 2016, beating Universal Studios' record of reaching the goal on the 165th day of 2015.This is the first year that two animated films ( Finding Dory and Zootopia) grossed over $1 billion in a single year, and are among the highest-grossing animated films.Ĭaptain America: Civil War, Zootopia, Kung Fu Panda 3, Warcraft, and The Great Wall have all grossed more than ¥1 billion at the Chinese box office, making them among the highest-grossing films in China. Disney's previous record for reaching $1 billion was on the 174th day of 2015. The studio became the first to have five of its releases ( Rogue One, Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War, The Jungle Book, and Zootopia) from a single year reach $300 million domestically. Disney also eclipsed Universal's 2015 record for most films from a single year crossing $1 billion worldwide with four ( Captain America: Civil War, Rogue One, Finding Dory, and Zootopia), setting a new record for most billion-dollar-grossing films over two years with six (including Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Walt Disney Studios has also become the first studio to have the five highest-grossing films worldwide, and the first since at least 1913 to have the three highest-grossing films in the U.S., both in a single year. Disney became the first studio to gross more than $3 billion at the domestic box office and, with the release of Rogue One, became the first to gross more than $7 billion at the global box office, surpassing Universal's previous record of $6.9 billion in 2015. Disney later passes $7 billion at the global box office again in 2018. Deadpool became the second-highest-grossing R-rated domestic film of all time with $363.1 million, after The Passion of the Christ ($370.8 million in 2004).Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first film franchise to have four of its films gross over $1 billion with Captain America: Civil War joining 2012's The Avengers, 2013's Iron Man 's Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the first to gross more than $10 billion with the release of Civil War.Disney is also the first studio to have three films gross over $400 million domestically in a single year ( Rogue One, Finding Dory, and Captain America: Civil War), and the first to fill in all slots of the top five films of any particular year. It later became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time worldwide, surpassing The Matrix Reloaded, with $783.1 million. Zootopia became the highest-grossing original animated film of all time, surpassing Finding Nemo ($940.3 million in 2003).It also became the highest-grossing superhero film not to feature Batman, Spider-Man, or Iron Man in any capacity. The film, along with Captain America: Civil War, were the most expensive films of the year ($250 million).īatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had the biggest worldwide opening weekend ever for a superhero film with $422.5 million, surpassing The Avengers ($392.5 million in 2012).Along with Finding Dory, it became one of two animated films to earn over $1 billion in the same year, a first. Dangal became the highest-grossing Indian film of all-time, partly due to successful ticket-sales in China.