Box Office

Domestic box office · 2009

The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.

Worldwide Domestic International

#	Title	Domestic	Adjusted for inflation
1	Avatar	$749.8M	$1.15B
2	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$402.1M	$618.5M
3	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	$302.0M	$464.5M
4	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	$296.6M	$456.3M
5	Up	$293.0M	$450.7M
6	The Hangover	$277.3M	$426.6M
7	Star Trek	$257.7M	$396.4M
8	The Blind Side	$256.0M	$393.7M
9	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel	$219.6M	$337.8M
10	Sherlock Holmes	$209.0M	$321.5M
11	Monsters vs. Aliens	$198.4M	$305.1M
12	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	$196.6M	$302.4M
13	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	$179.9M	$276.7M
14	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	$177.2M	$272.6M
15	2012	$166.1M	$255.5M
16	The Proposal	$164.0M	$252.2M
17	Fast & Furious	$155.1M	$238.5M
18	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	$150.2M	$231.0M
19	Paul Blart: Mall Cop	$146.3M	$225.1M
20	A Christmas Carol	$137.9M	$212.0M
21	Angels & Demons	$133.4M	$205.2M
22	Terminator Salvation	$125.3M	$192.8M
23	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	$124.9M	$192.1M
24	Inglourious Basterds	$120.5M	$185.4M
25	G-Force	$119.4M	$183.7M
26	District 9	$115.6M	$177.9M
27	It's Complicated	$112.7M	$173.4M
28	Couples Retreat	$109.2M	$168.0M
29	Paranormal Activity	$107.9M	$166.0M
30	Watchmen	$107.5M	$165.4M
31	The Princess and the Frog	$104.4M	$160.6M
32	Public Enemies	$97.1M	$149.4M
33	Julie & Julia	$94.1M	$144.8M
34	He's Just Not That Into You	$94.0M	$144.5M
35	The Fighter	$93.6M	$144.0M
36	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	$90.8M	$139.6M
37	Madea Goes to Jail	$90.5M	$139.2M
38	The Ugly Truth	$88.9M	$136.8M
39	Up in the Air	$83.8M	$128.9M
40	Hannah Montana: The Movie	$79.6M	$122.4M
41	Where the Wild Things Are	$77.2M	$118.8M
42	Zombieland	$75.6M	$116.3M
43	Coraline	$75.3M	$115.8M
44	Law Abiding Citizen	$73.4M	$112.8M
45	Hotel for Dogs	$73.0M	$112.3M
46	This Is It	$72.1M	$110.9M
47	I Love You, Man	$71.4M	$109.9M
48	Obsessed	$68.3M	$105.0M
49	Race to Witch Mountain	$67.2M	$103.3M
50	The Final Destination	$66.5M	$102.3M
51	The Taking of Pelham 123	$65.5M	$100.7M
52	Friday the 13th	$65.0M	$100.0M
53	17 Again	$64.2M	$98.7M
54	The Time Traveler's Wife	$63.4M	$97.5M
55	Brüno	$60.1M	$92.4M
56	Bride Wars	$58.7M	$90.3M
57	The Haunting in Connecticut	$55.4M	$85.2M
58	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	$55.3M	$85.0M
59	Funny People	$51.9M	$79.8M
60	My Bloody Valentine	$51.5M	$79.3M
61	Old Dogs	$49.5M	$76.1M
62	Land of the Lost	$49.4M	$76.0M
63	My Sister's Keeper	$49.2M	$75.7M
64	Precious	$47.6M	$73.2M
65	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	$45.8M	$70.5M
66	Confessions of a Shopaholic	$44.3M	$68.1M
67	The Lovely Bones	$44.1M	$67.9M
68	Year One	$43.3M	$66.7M
69	The Unborn	$42.7M	$65.6M
70	Planet 51	$42.2M	$64.9M
71	Drag Me to Hell	$42.1M	$64.8M
72	Orphan	$41.6M	$64.0M
73	Duplicity	$40.6M	$62.4M
74	Surrogates	$38.6M	$59.3M
75	Ninja Assassin	$38.1M	$58.6M
76	Invictus	$37.5M	$57.7M
77	State of Play	$37.0M	$56.9M
78	Under the Sea 3D	$36.3M	$55.8M
79	The Pink Panther 2	$35.9M	$55.3M
80	Green Zone	$35.1M	$53.9M
81	The Men Who Stare at Goats	$32.4M	$49.9M
82	500 Days of Summer	$32.4M	$49.8M
83	Did You Hear About the Morgans?	$29.6M	$45.5M
84	Saw VI	$27.7M	$42.6M
85	The International	$25.5M	$39.1M
86	Aliens in the Attic	$25.2M	$38.8M
87	Fame	$22.5M	$34.5M
88	Nine	$19.7M	$30.3M
89	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	$10.1M	$15.5M
90	Dragonball Evolution	$9.4M	$14.4M
91	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	$7.7M	$11.8M
92	The Girl Who Played with Fire	$7.6M	$11.7M
93	3 Idiots	$6.5M	$10.0M
94	Red Cliff II	—	—
95	Rookies the Movie: Graduation	—	—
96	Tidal Wave	—	—
97	Little Nicholas	—	—
98	Vicky the Viking	—	—
99	Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard	—	—
100	Take Off	—	—

“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.

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