Most Profitable Film Franchises of All Time
About This Dataset
Most Profitable Film Franchises of All Time
Movie franchises ranked by total worldwide box office gross across all entries in the series, measured in billions of USD. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the highest-grossing film franchise in history with over $30 billion in cumulative worldwide box office revenue — an achievement built across more than 30 interconnected films released between 2008 and 2025 and spread across a single shared narrative universe.
Analysis
The top three in Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD) are Marvel Cinematic Universe (30), Star Wars (10.3) and Harry Potter / Fantastic Beasts (9.80). The 8 entries cover a range of 25.2, from 30 down to 4.80. Most of that gap is between first and second alone (19.7 of 25.2); the other 7 are separated by just 5.50. The other 6 are bunched between 4.80 and 9.80.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Marvel Cinematic Universe leads in Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD) with 30.
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Average Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD): 10 · median: 8.
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Gap: Marvel Cinematic Universe is 6.3× larger than Transformers.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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