After looking at the biggest box office bombs of 2016, let us now countdown the ten highest
grossing movies of the year.
Rogue One: A Star
Wars Story*
Set in a time of conflict, the story follows an unlikely group of heroes
whom band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the
Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars
timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things,
and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.
Worldwide Gross:
$707.054.705
Domestic Gross:
$393.554.705
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: UK with $44.487.768
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Slovenia with $71.349
Suicide Squad
It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous,
incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the
government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic,
insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has
determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals
with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they
weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they
inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s
every man for himself?
Worldwide Gross:
$745.600.054
Domestic Gross: $325.100.054
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: UK with $43.800.000
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Slovenia with $255.362
Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has
just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array
of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he
might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American
for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of
Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and
No-Maj worlds.
Worldwide Gross: $750.240.251
Domestic Gross:
$221.440.251
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: China with $84.541.217
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Paraguay with $149.252
Deadpool
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool tells the
origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson,
who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with
accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new
abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who
nearly destroyed his life.
Worldwide Gross:
$783.112.979
Domestic Gross:
$363.070.709
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: UK with $53.538.139
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Ethiopia with $71.779
Batman v Superman:
Dawn of Justice
Fearing the actions
of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own
formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day
savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs.
And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly
arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
Worldwide Gross:
$873.260.196
Domestic Gross:
$330.360.194
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: China with $95.769.365
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Slovenia with $166.343
The Secret Life of
Pets
For their fifth fully-animated movie collaboration, Illumination
Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy
about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
Worldwide Gross: $875.457.937
Domestic Gross:
$368.384.330
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: China with $58.307.653
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Pakistan with $76.366
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book is an
all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a
man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no
longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of Idris
Elba), who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a
threat. Urged to abandon the only home he’s ever known, Mowgli embarks on a
captivating journey of self-discovery, guided by panther-turned-stern mentor
Bagheera (voice of Ben Kingsley), and the freespirited bear Baloo (voice of
Bill Murray). Along the way, Mowgli encounters jungle creatures who don’t
exactly have his best interests at heart, including Kaa (voice of Scarlett
Johannsson), a python whose seductive voice and gaze hypnotizes the man-cub,
and the smooth-talking King Louie (voice of Christopher Walken), who tries to
coerce Mowgli into giving up the secret to the elusive and deadly red flower:
fire.
Worldwide Gross: $966.550.600
Domestic Gross:
$364.001.123
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: China with $150.140.000
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Serbia & Montenegro with $28.626
Zootopia
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other.
Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid
Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a
place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest
shrew, you can be anything. But when rookie Officer Judy Hopps (voice of
Ginnifer Goodwin) arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police
force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she
jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a
fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde (voice of Jason Bateman), to solve
the mystery.
Worldwide Gross:
$1.023.784.195
Domestic Gross:
$341.268.248
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: China with $235.591.257
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Oman with $94.375
Finding Dory
Disney
and Pixar's “Finding Dory” reunites everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang,
Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past.
What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak
Whale?
Worldwide Gross:
$1.027.771.569
Domestic Gross:
$486.295.561
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: Japan with $65.982.721
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Slovenia with $145.145
Marvel's Captain
America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War picks up where
Avengers: Age of Ultron left off, as Steve Rogers leads the new team of
Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another
international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage,
political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing
body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo
fractures the Avengers while they try to protect the world from a new and
nefarious villain.
Worldwide Gross:
$1.153.304.495
Domestic Gross:
$408.084.349
Highest Grossing Foreign
Country: China with $190.429.000
Lowest Grossing Foreign
Country: Slovenia with $104.910
* at the time of
writing
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