‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ (#9) has now joined the elite club of 10 films that have grossed more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Interestingly, 9 out of 10 are science fiction or fantasy films. It joins with 2 other films this year that have crossed that threshold – ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ (#6) and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ (#7). It took 37 days for ‘Transformers’ to cross that while ‘Tides’ took 46 days and ‘Hallows’ took just 19 days to hit the magic number. ‘Transformers’ does have a chance to move up the list. The film probably has enough steam left to possibly make it to number 7.
Here’s the Top 10 list:
1. ‘Avatar'(2009) $2,782.3 billion
2. ‘Titanic’ (1997) $1,843.2 billion
3. ‘Lord of the Rings:ROTK'(2003) $1,119.1 billion
4. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: DMC’ (2006) 1,066.2 billion
5. ‘Toy Story 3’ (2010) $1,063.2 billion
6. ‘Harry Potter ATDH Part 2’ (2011) $1,038.3 billion
7. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: OST’ (2011) $1,033.0 billion
8. ‘Alice In Wonderland’ (2010) $1,024.3 billion
9. ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ (2011) $1,003.9 billion
10. ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) $1,001.9 billion
