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The data from April 9, 1969, is per Variety's weekly 50 Top-Grossing Films chart which was first published on April 23, 1969. The earlier data is per their weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Highest-grossing films of 1969 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 20th Century Fox: $102,308,900 2 The Love Bug: Walt Disney: $50,576,808 3 Midnight Cowboy: MGM: $44,785,053 4 Easy Rider: Columbia Pictures: $41,728,598 5 Hello, Dolly: 20th Century Fox $33,208,099 6 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: Columbia ...
The movie was an instant success, grossing $103 million worldwide, and it became Disney's highest-grossing film at the time. Nevertheless, P.L. Travers hated the adaptation and cried out of ...
The film’s box office numbers have benefitted from multiple re-releases. ... and continued to be shown in theaters until Labor Day weekend 1969. ... modern gangster classic was the top box ...
Steven Spielberg has directed a record four films to end the year as the highest-grossing in the U.S. This is a listing of the highest-grossing films by year, based on their United States box-office gross. The films are listed by in-year release, rather than the gross they accumulated during a calendar year. [1]
Still the reigning highest-grossing film of all time, James Cameron's Avatar broke audiences' brains when it first premiered in theaters in 2009. The computer-animated world of Pandora was like ...
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...