Highest grossing movies of all-time in the European Union (+UK)

[Sophia Jane]

Star Wars(1977)

UK:20.76M

France:6.45m

Germany:8.02m

Spain:6.95m

Poland:5m

Italy:4.88m

These 6 markets combine:52m

[Sophia Jane]

James Bond on its peak era

 

Thunderball (1965)

UK:15.6m

France:5.7m

Germany:12m

Italy:14.1m

Netherlands:2.04m

Spain:3.6m

These 6 markets combine:53m

 

Goldfinger(1964)

UK:13.9M

France:6.6m

Germany:11m

Italy:15.8m

Spain:2.56m

Netherlands:2.27m

These 6 markets combie:52m

[Sophia Jane]

E.T

UK:13.13m

France:9.42m

Germany:8.32m

Italy:10.29m

Spain:8.14m

These 5 markets combine:49.3m

[Pypa94]

20 minutes ago, Bruce said:

Gone with the wind in admissions

UK:35M

France:16.7M

Germany:13.3M

Spain:5.8M

Poland:10M

Netherlands:3.13m

These 6 markets combine:84m

I had number in Poland with 7 748 956

source: http://boxoffice-bozg.pl/wszechczasow45-89/ [no. 31 Przeminęło z wiatrem]

[Sophia Jane]

1 minute ago, Pypa94 said:

I had number in Poland with 7 748 956

source: http://boxoffice-bozg.pl/wszechczasow45-89/ [no. 31 Przeminęło z wiatrem]

Ok,correct

[Sophia Jane]

If we count Soviet Union, then everything changed,so that's not count that.

China have same problem,admission number in 80s is super boomed,A movie called "地道战“ attracted more than 2B people watch it,the biggest admissions number in the movie history and more than 4 Titanic's admissions combined,and many foreign film also had a huge admissions number in China,the Yugoslavia film called "the bridge" have over 500m admissions in China,Rambo  have over 80m admissions and the first Superman movie also have huge 80m admissions in China.

but that's meaningless,for example ,it's just like Despacito have over 5B views on Youtube but doesn't mean there are real 5B people have watched this video.

Edited January 24, 2022 by Bruce

[Pypa94]

 

20 minutes ago, Bruce said:

Star Wars(1977)

UK:20.76M

France:6.45m

Germany:8.02m

Spain:6.95m

Poland:5m

Italy:4.88m

These 6 markets combine:52m

Poland: 5 494 919

16 minutes ago, Bruce said:

E.T

UK:13.13m

France:9.42m

Germany:8.32m

Italy:10.29m

Spain:8.14m

These 5 markets combine:49.3m

Poland: 4 556 430 

source: http://boxoffice-bozg.pl/wszechczasow45-89/

[peludo]

1 hour ago, Bruce said:

The admission number have something wrong,lumiere wrong about HP1's UK admissions

I know there are some mistakes (I have seen more than HP1 you say), but in general it is quite accurate

[peludo]

38 minutes ago, Bruce said:

If we count Soviet Union, then everything changed,so that's not count that.

China have same problem,admission number in 80s is super boomed,A movie called "地道战“ attracted more than 2B people watch it,the biggest admissions number in the movie history and more than 4 Titanic's admissions combined,and many foreign film also had a huge admissions number in China,the Yugoslavia film called "the bridge" have over 500m admissions in China,Rambo  have over 80m admissions and the first Superman movie also have huge 80m admissions in China.

but that's meaningless,for example ,it's just like Despacito have over 5B views on Youtube but doesn't mean there are real 5B people have watched this video.

Well, here we are talking about European Union+UK, so USSR or China do not count. In fact the numbers which I gave do not include countries like Norway or Switzerland, since both are not in the EU. Anyway, there is another thread about WW admissions.

[MG10]

1 hour ago, Bruce said:

James Bond on its peak era

 

Thunderball (1965)

UK:15.6m

France:5.7m

Germany:12m

Italy:14.1m

Netherlands:2.04m

Spain:3.6m

These 6 markets combine:53m

 

Goldfinger(1964)

UK:13.9M

France:6.6m

Germany:11m

Italy:15.8m

Spain:2.56m

Netherlands:2.27m

These 6 markets combie:52m

 

The numbers of Italy are simply incredible, it's sad that now even Skyfall didn't manage to reach 2 million admissions

 

And it isn't just a problem of the actor who plays Bond, I think that among the 5 main EU countries we are the one with the biggest decline over the various decades...

[Jiffy]

FOTR having more admissions than SW7 is crazy.

[Sophia Jane]

11 hours ago, peludo said:

Well, here we are talking about European Union+UK, so USSR or China do not count. In fact the numbers which I gave do not include countries like Norway or Switzerland, since both are not in the EU. Anyway, there is another thread about WW admissions.

I just wanna say I think that boost admission in some market is meaningless,just like Youtube views,special era..

Edited January 25, 2022 by Bruce

[peludo]

11 hours ago, MG10 said:

 

The numbers of Italy are simply incredible, it's sad that now even Skyfall didn't manage to reach 2 million admissions

 

And it isn't just a problem of the actor who plays Bond, I think that among the 5 main EU countries we are the one with the biggest decline over the various decades...

Same applies here. Just for reference, Spain was selling well over 300 million admissions in late 60s (376 million admissions in 1968, first year I have found data) with about 33 million inhabitants. Today, with 47 million people, a normal year is bordering just 100 million.

[peludo]

10 hours ago, Jiffy said:

FOTR having more admissions than SW7 is crazy.

ERs destroyed both HP1 and FOTR

[Sophia Jane]

3 hours ago, peludo said:

Same applies here. Just for reference, Spain was selling well over 300 million admissions in late 60s (376 million admissions in 1968, first year I have found data) with about 33 million inhabitants. Today, with 47 million people, a normal year is bordering just 100 million.

But Spain single movie admissions far increase,in 60s ,the movie attracted 2m admissions can called the blockbuster,biggest admissions in Spain is Ben-Hur,James Bond Dr.No which have over 4－5m admissions,for now Biggest admissions in Spain is Titanic over 10m admissions.

Edited January 25, 2022 by Bruce

[Sophia Jane]

14 hours ago, MG10 said:

 

The numbers of Italy are simply incredible, it's sad that now even Skyfall didn't manage to reach 2 million admissions

 

And it isn't just a problem of the actor who plays Bond, I think that among the 5 main EU countries we are the one with the biggest decline over the various decades...

Let's depend on Ranking

Goldfinger shatters all-time B.O reocrd at the time in Italy ,Skyfall is just top 9 of 2012 in Italy.

[peludo]

23 minutes ago, Bruce said:

But Spain single movie admissions far increase,in 60s ,the movie attracted 2m admissions can called the blockbuster,biggest admissions in Spain is Ben-Hur,James Bond Dr.No which have over 4－5m admissions,for now Biggest admissions in Spain is Titanic over 10m admissions.

Well, there were not exactly blockbusters at 60s. Ben-Hur was the Titanic of 50s with 11 Oscars, and James Bond is probably the first franchise ever and the only one during 60s. At least, the first global phenomenon. I do not find so crazy those results. People here could go to cinemas all the afternoon-evening seeing 2 or even 3 films in a row with a single ticket. People devoured every film shown. Tons of films sold 1 or 2 million admissions in those years by this system, although a bunch of them as you say reached higher amounts, but not just Ben-Hur or Dr. No.

 

There are more films in the 4-5 million or even 6 million during 60s and early 70s: Mary Poppins (4.98 million), The godfather (5 million), For a few dollars more (5.5 million), The graduate (5.3 million) or The little priest (6.5 million), and there are at least 3 local films over 4 million, with Jungle Book bordering 4 million (3.8 million).

 

And the political situation in Spain did not help either. For instance, Doctor Zhivago was banned until Franco's death because political context. When it was released it sold 7.2 million admissions. Gone with the Wind was just released in 2 theaters during the original release, one in Madrid and another one in Barcelona. Just with those 2 theaters, it sold 1 million admissions... in just 2 theaters. After that it has been probably released in more cities and theaters and it sold more admissions, but at the beginning the releases were very conditioned by censorship. Spanish market was not exactly normal along the dictatorship (1939-1975).

 

Just to notice that Titanic is at 11.26 million after 2012 re-release.

[peludo]

I update the list of admissions with last DC films, MCU until 2020... and No way home.

 

For No way home I have taken data from insidekino.de and jpbox-office.com. Numbers taken are missing latest weekends and of course there are many countries I do not have info, but at least I have numbers for the big 5 and we can add countries. Please, feel free to correct my data since I have not been following closely the NWH run:

 

No way home ranks right now #42 thanks to these 12 figures (so there are 16 countries I have not found info):

France: 6,630,704
Hungary: 512,169
Romania: 422,884
UK: 9,915,148
Germany: 3,747,469
Bulgaria: 166,938
Finland: 159,988
Greece: 420,591
Italy: 3,086,546
Portugal: 534,889
Slovakia: 73,027
Spain: 3,877,383
 

And the most attended films in EU+UK are (I will continue adding movies in order to get a more complete ranking):

1. Titanic: 103,677,749
2. Avatar: 75,232,618
3. FOTR: 58,450,513
4. HP1: 57,665,887
5. SW7: 54,904,160
6. TTT: 52,949,112
7. ROTK: 52,340,950
8. The Lion King (2019): 50,607,213
9. HP2: 50,392,567
10. SW1: 46,988,347
11. Skyfall: 43,858,506
12. Finding Nemo: 43,849,813
13. Endgame: 42,999,239
14. POTC2: 42,596,314
15. HP4: 42,339,201
16. Ice Age 3: 40,424,589
17. Intouchables: 40,136,593
18. Minions: 39,467,819
19. Frozen 2: 39,283,168
20. HP3: 38,756,203
21. Spectre: 38,739,090
22. HP8: 38,082,527
23. Ice Age 2: 37,843,253
24. Joker: 36,926,362
25. HP5: 36,776,239
26. The Sixth Sense: 35,307,868
27. POTC3: 34,807,421
28. Hobbit 1: 34,804,863
29. SW8: 34,783,553
30. The Da Vinci Code: 34,136,616
31. HP6: 34,042,461
32. HP7: 33,923,705
33. Despicable me 3: 32,701,882
34. SW3: 31,965,323
35. Ice Age 4: 31,915,014
36. Infinity War: 31,739,148
37. SW2: 30,709,623
38. SW9: 30,560,871
39. Jurassic World: 30,396,761
40. Beauty and the beast: 30,095,665
41. Hobbit 2: 29,613,296
42. No way home: 29,547,736
43. POTC1: 29,457,078
44. Casino Royale: 28,960,782
45. Incredibles 2: 28,496,352
46. Toy Story 3: 28,092,518
47. Hobbit 3: 28,091,800
48. Frozen: 27,952,553
49. Alice in Wonderland: 27,339,572
50. Furious 7: 26,861,905

 

Spoiler

51. Rogue One: 26,719,753
52. The Dark Knight Rises: 25,654,925
53. POTC4: 25,641,580
54. Despicable me 2: 25,553,838
55. Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis: 25,528,334
56. Toy Story 2: 25,287,540
57. Finding Dory: 24,806,782
58. The Avengers: 23,557,397
59. The Dark Knight: 23,550,970
60. Toy Story 4: 23,362,123
61. Jurassic World 2: 22,575,046
62. Age of Ultron: 22,335,112
63. Zootopia: 22,290,564
64. Ice Age: 22,201,775
65. Furious 8: 22,192,397
66. The Jungle Book: 21,084,405
67. Aladdin (2019): 20,777,347
68. POTC5: 20,074,687
69. Iron Man 3: 19,612,375
70. Black Panther: 19,402,591
71. Captain Marvel: 18,990,183
72. Far from home: 18,650,935
73. Toy Story: 18,424,898
74. Guardians of the Galaxy 2: 17,499,249
75. Ice Age 5: 15,744,146
76. BvS: 15,468,025
77. Despicable me: 15,034,514
78. Aquaman: 14,942,072
79. Thor 3: 14,919,878
80. Transformers 3: 14,873,326
81. Guardians of the Galaxy: 13,585,063
82. Civil War: 13,533,412
83. Homecoming: 13,386,870
84. Venom: 13,298,974
85. Transformers 4: 12,904,439
86. Doctor Strange: 11,835,601
87. Thor 2: 11,759,234
88. Iron Man 2: 11,441,236
89. Man of steel: 11,410,701
90. Batman Begins: 10,522,730
91. Iron Man: 10,097,061
92. Wonder woman: 9,969,661
93. Captain America 2: 9,503,268
94. Justice League: 9,035,637
95. Ant-Man 2: 9,018,285
96. Thor: 8,040,244
97. Ant-Man: 7,416,396
98. Shazam!: 6,278,340
99. Captain America: 5,421,704
100. The Incredible Hulk: 5,130,075
101. Birds of Prey: 4,949,321

[charlie Jatinder]

Just make it entire Europe no? Including Russia.

[charlie Jatinder]

On 1/23/2022 at 10:00 PM, MG10 said:

I decided to create a thread dedicated to the European box office because I find it very interesting, and unfortunately the old thread about a similar topic is completely abandoned (but also quite different from what I had in mind)

 

The main topic of this thread will be to have a list of the highest grossing movies ever by adding up the gross of the 27 countries that make up the European Union, plus the former member UK and also the members of the European Economic Area (EEA) Norway, Iceland and Switzerland, which could basically be defined "half members" of the EU. In this way the only relevant European markets left out will be Russia, Ukraine and Turkey

 

The countries considered have a total of 530 million inhabitants and a number of tickets sold of over one billion a year, equal to USA+Canada (and also China), but with a slightly lower box office given the lower average cost of tickets especially due to Central/Eastern Europe

 

Although 19 out of 31 countries use the Euro, the ranking is in dollars for obvious reasons of convenience and functionality, and to have also a better comparison with the North American and woldwide total

 

 

ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE EU+UK

 

 

Avatar

Total Gross : $938M

Biggest markets : FRA 175M, GER 162M, UK 151M

Note : It must be noted that the film was greatly helped by the exchange rate of the period

 

Titanic

Total Gross : $665M

Biggest markets : GER 130M, FRA 129M, UK 114M

 

Star Wars : The Force Awakens

Total Gross : $585M

Biggest markets : UK 180M, GER 111M, FRA 88M

 

Skyfall

Total Gross : $492M

Biggest markets : UK 165M, GER 85M, FRA 60M

 

The Lion King (2019)

Total Gross : $460M

Biggest markets : UK 100M, FRA 80M, GER 57M

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Total Gross : $460M

Biggest markets : UK 106M, GER 87M, FRA 48M

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Total Gross: $426M

Biggest markets : UK 120M, GER 78M, FRA 67M

 

Avengers: Endgame

Total Gross : $420M

Biggest markets : UK 115M, GER 63M, FRA 62M

 

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Total Gross : $417M

Biggest markets : UK 111M, GER 83M, FRA 65M

 

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Total Gross : $410M

Biggest markets : GER 82M, FRA 69M, UK 67M

Note : the film was greatly helped by the exchange rate of the period

 

Spectre

Total Gross : $397M

Biggest markets : UK 143M, GER 73M, FRA 39M

 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Total Gross : $383M

Biggest markets : GER 89M, UK 82M, FRA 41M

 

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Total Gross : $376M

Biggest markets : UK 92M, GER 78M, FRA 41M

 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Total Gross : $360M

Biggest markets : UK 101M, GER 66M, FRA 52M

 

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Total Gross : $360M

Biggest markets : GER 88M, UK 70M, FRA 44M

 

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Total Gross : $358M

Biggest markets : UK 90M, GER 78M, FRA 35M

 

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Total Gross : $358M

Biggest markets : UK 98M, GER 61M, FRA 46M

 

The Intouchables

Total Gross : $350M

Biggest markets : FRA 166M, GER 79M, SPA 21M

Note : Third film ever for number of tickets sold in France

 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Total Gross : $343M

Biggest markets : UK 84M, GER 65M, FRA 54M

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Total Gross : $341M

Biggest markets : UK 86M, GER 66M, FRA 51M

A rough conversion in EUR & GBP. And for consistency purpose, I am converting GBP to EUR at present rate i.e. €1 = £0.84

 

1. Avatar - €543M + £94M = €655M
2. Titanic - €500M + £67M = €580M (I believe this is first run only. inc 3D should be more)
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - €376M + £123M = €522M
4. The Lion King - €320M + £76M = €410M
5. LOTR: FOTR - €303M + £63M = €378M
6. Avengers: Endgame - €271M + £89M = €377M
7. Skyfall - €252M + £103M = €375M
8. Harry Potter & Philospher's Stone - €289M + £64M = €365M
9. LOTR: ROTK - €283M + £61M = €355M
10. Spider-man: No Way Home - €240M + £93M = €350M expected
11. Spectre - €229M + £95M = €342M
12. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - €251M + £83M = €340M

 

Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows 2 - €214M + £73M = €301M

 

Not perfect numbers. Can be +/- €5M depending on accuracy of USD numbers of MG10.

Edited January 26, 2022 by charlie Jatinder