Best of 2015: Part 2: Box Office - Top Grossing Films

Though it seems far away the best sort of reviews happens in retrospect. You can't really tell what was the best, most successful or popular in a year until some time has passed. So all those websites out there that try to tell you what the top films were that year before the year is even up is clearly limiting itself.  As such, in the next few months, we will be releasing the best of 2015 and 2016 as 2017 is approaching its end.

Of the top 250 highest grossing films in the worldwide boxoffice, 20 were able to make records in 2015 with one unique entry that broke only US records (Pitch Perfect 2). By records, this doesn't mean the fastest or most furious film to $100 million but simply the films that made enough money to list it among the top 250 highest grossing films of all time. Clearly, the overall winner of the 2015 boxoffice is Star Wars: The Force Awakens as it currently stands at the #3 most successful film of all time worldwide shadowing just behind James Cameron's two beasts, Titanic and Avatar. Yet, it made nearly all its wealth throughout 2016. Like in 2014, nearly all the films on the list are Action/Sci-Fi/Fantasy with high special effects budgets or children films. Though as Gone Girl was 2014s outlier to this trend, this year we have three including Pitch Perfect 2. The other two, deserve attention in an of themselves.

1)  Fifty Shades of Grey - say what you want of the contents of the film, it made money. In many ways, it stands as one of the strangest anomalies in boxoffice history beating out Twilight (2008) (currently scoring 5.2 on IMDB) in terms of how much money it made ($571million) making it the 119th most successful film ever (Twilight is currently 222th) but it has by far the lowest score on IMDB of any film in the top 250 boxoffice with just 4.1.

2) The Revenant (136th place of all time) - Leo has been desperate for an Oscar for years and this year he finally decided to stop playing the rich asshole and try something new. The result was a masses turning out to see what he did next. Now that he got his wish, Leo took a backseat to the acting gig having no films in 2016 or 2017.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$2,068.2	IMDB 8.1
Jurassic World	$1,671.7	IMDB 7.0
Furious 7	$1,516.0	IMDB 7.2
Avengers: Age of Ultron	$1,405.4	IMDB 7.4
Minions	$1,159.4	IMDB 6.4
Spectre	$880.7	IMDB 6.8
Inside Out	$857.6	IMDB 8.2
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	$682.7	IMDB 7.4
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	$653.4	IMDB 6.6
The Martian	$630.2	IMDB 8.0
Fifty Shades of Grey	$571.0	IMDB 4.1
Cinderella (2015)	$543.5	IMDB 7.0
The Revenant	$533.0	IMDB 8.0
Ant-Man	$519.3	IMDB 7.3
San Andreas	$474.0	IMDB 6.1
Hotel Transylvania 2	$473.2	IMDB 6.7
Terminator: Genisys	$440.6	IMDB 6.5
Kingsman: The Secret Service	$414.4	IMDB 7.7
Home (2015)	$386.0	IMDB 6.7
Mad Max: Fury Road	$378.9	IMDB 8.1
Pitch Perfect 2	$184.2	IMDB 6.5

Michael's Top Choices
Mad Max: Fury Road - Review Here
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The Martian
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - Podcast Talk Here
Inside Out
Spectre
Furious 7

Links
Best of 2015: Part 0: Michael's Best Films Seen in 2015 (Not best of 2015)
Best of 2015: Part 1: The 100 Best Films of 2015