Highest-grossing film at the global box office

Highest-grossing film at the global box office
Who
Avatar
What
2,923,706,026 US dollar(s)
Where
Not Applicable ()
When

The highest-grossing film at the global box office is Avatar (USA/UK, 2009), which had a worldwide lifetime gross of $2,923,706,026 (£2,410,657,016/€2,729,224,025) according to The Numbers as of 14 March 2023.


Avatar held this title for nine years before Avengers: Endgame (USA, 2019) surpassed it as the highest-grossing film in 2019. Avatar was able to reclaim the title following its re-release in China as theatres reopened having been closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Avatar's director James Cameron (Canada) can also lay claim to the first movie to gross $1 billion: Titanic (USA, 1997).