Top 20 Films of 2015
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Top films of the year 2015 by box office grosses, led by Star Wars, Jurassic World, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out and Minions.
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Top 20 Films of 2015
#20 Mad Max: Fury Road $154 m
- Rebooted a 30 year old franchise
- Potential Oscar contender with high critical acclaim
#19 San Andreas $155 m
- One of two $150 m + films for Dwayne Johnson in 2015
- His 7th $100 m + movie since 2010
#18 Straight Outta Compton $161 m
- Grossed 6X its $28 m budget globally
- Highest grossing music biopic ever
#17 Spongebob 2 $163 m
- Went up 91% from 2004 predecessor
- #2 animated TV adaption of all time behind The Simpsons Movie
#16 Fifty Shades of Grey $166 m
- Biggest February opening of all time ($85 m)
- Made $570 m worldwide
#15 Hotel Transylvania 2 $169 m
- Biggest September opening weekend of all time ($48 m)
- Adam Sandler's highest grossing film ever
#14 Home $177 m
- Big turnaround for Dreamworks Animation after difficult 2014
- #3 animated film of 2015
#13 Ant-Man $180 m
- Hugely successful making $518 m worldwide
- Continued Marvel's winning streak of films
#12 Pitch Perfect 2 $184 m
- Grossed 10X its $29 m budget globally
- Opening weekend of $69 m was larger than total gross of first film ($65 m)
#11 Mission Impossible 5 $195 m
- Made $682 m worldwide
- Tom Cruise's 17th $100 m movie of his career
#10 Spectre $200 m
- Big $100 m dropoff from Skyfall's $304 m tally
- Second biggest James Bond movie of all time
#9 Cinderella $201 m
- Made $543 m worldwide
- Trailed Maleficent's $759 m global tally from 2014
#8 The Martian $235 m +
- #2 October opening weekend of all time
- Beat Gladiator to become director Ridley Scott's biggest film ever
Likely A Major Oscar Contender
Critical acclaim and huge box office success
#7 Mockingjay Part 2 $270 m +
- Lowest grossing film of the Hunger Games franchise
- Jennifer Lawrence's 8th $100 m + film since 2011
May have suffered from franchise fatigue
4th Hunger Games movie in 3.5 years
#6 Minions $338 m
- Made $1.1 B + globally (#10 of all time)
- Enormously profitable: grossed 16X its budget
#2 animated movie of all time worldwide
#5 Furious 7 $353 m
- Biggest April opening of all time ($147 m)
- Doubled Fast 6's global tally with $1.5 B
#5 biggest film of all time worldwide
#4 Inside Out $356 m
- Pixar's second biggest film ever behind Toy Story 3
- More than tripled Pixar's The Good Dinosaur tally
$851 m worldwide
#3 The Avengers 2 $459 m
- $164 m drop off from previous Avengers film
- #8 biggest film of all time domestically
$1.4 B global tally
#2 Jurassic World $652 m
- Broke opening weekend record held by The Avengers with $209 m
- Chris Pratt starred in top films of summer 2014 and 2015
First film to top Titanic since Avatar
#1 Star Wars Ep. 7 $800 m +
- Biggest opening weekend of all time with $248 m
- Projected to become the #1 movie of all time beating Avatar's $760 m tally
Top Films of All Time Domestic
Will make $2 B + worldwide
May not top Avatar's $2.8 B tally globally
