Box Office
Domestic box office · 2011
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.
| # | Title | Domestic | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | $381.0M | $557.0M |
| 2 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | $352.4M | $515.1M |
| 3 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | $281.3M | $411.2M |
| 4 | The Hangover Part II | $254.5M | $372.0M |
| 5 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | $241.1M | $352.4M |
| 6 | Fast Five | $209.8M | $306.7M |
| 7 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | $209.4M | $306.1M |
| 8 | Cars 2 | $191.5M | $279.9M |
| 9 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | $186.8M | $273.1M |
| 10 | Thor | $181.0M | $264.6M |
| 11 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $176.8M | $258.4M |
| 12 | Captain America: The First Avenger | $176.7M | $258.2M |
| 13 | The Help | $169.7M | $248.1M |
| 14 | Bridesmaids | $169.3M | $247.6M |
| 15 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $165.2M | $241.6M |
| 16 | Puss in Boots | $149.3M | $218.2M |
| 17 | X-Men: First Class | $146.4M | $214.0M |
| 18 | Rio | $143.6M | $209.9M |
| 19 | The Smurfs | $142.6M | $208.5M |
| 20 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | $133.1M | $194.6M |
| 21 | Super 8 | $127.0M | $185.7M |
| 22 | Rango | $123.5M | $180.5M |
| 23 | Hankyu Railways - A 15-minute Miracle | $118.8M | $173.7M |
| 24 | Horrible Bosses | $117.5M | $171.8M |
| 25 | Green Lantern | $116.6M | $170.4M |
| 26 | Hop | $108.1M | $158.0M |
| 27 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $104.0M | $152.1M |
| 28 | Just Go with It | $103.0M | $150.6M |
| 29 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | $102.5M | $149.9M |
| 30 | Bad Teacher | $100.3M | $146.6M |
| 31 | Cowboys & Aliens | $100.2M | $146.5M |
| 32 | Gnomeo & Juliet | $100.0M | $146.1M |
| 33 | The Green Hornet | $98.8M | $144.4M |
| 34 | The Lion King 2011 3D Release | $94.2M | $137.8M |
| 35 | Nothing to Declare | $93.8M | $137.1M |
| 36 | The Muppets | $88.6M | $129.6M |
| 37 | Real Steel | $85.5M | $124.9M |
| 38 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. | $84.4M | $123.3M |
| 39 | Battle Los Angeles | $83.6M | $122.1M |
| 40 | Immortals | $83.5M | $122.1M |
| 41 | The Descendants | $82.6M | $120.7M |
| 42 | Zookeeper | $80.4M | $117.5M |
| 43 | War Horse | $79.9M | $116.8M |
| 44 | Limitless | $79.2M | $115.8M |
| 45 | Tower Heist | $78.0M | $114.1M |
| 46 | The Adventures of Tintin | $77.6M | $113.4M |
| 47 | Contagion | $75.7M | $110.6M |
| 48 | We Bought a Zoo | $75.6M | $110.5M |
| 49 | Moneyball | $75.6M | $110.5M |
| 50 | Jack and Jill | $74.2M | $108.4M |
| 51 | Hugo | $73.9M | $108.0M |
| 52 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | $73.0M | $106.7M |
| 53 | Dolphin Tale | $72.3M | $105.7M |
| 54 | No Strings Attached | $70.7M | $103.3M |
| 55 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | $68.2M | $99.7M |
| 56 | Happy Feet Two | $64.0M | $93.6M |
| 57 | Unknown | $63.7M | $93.1M |
| 58 | Water for Elephants | $58.7M | $85.8M |
| 59 | The Lincoln Lawyer | $58.0M | $84.8M |
| 60 | Midnight in Paris | $56.8M | $83.1M |
| 61 | Friends with Benefits | $55.8M | $81.6M |
| 62 | I Am Number Four | $55.1M | $80.5M |
| 63 | Source Code | $54.7M | $80.0M |
| 64 | New Year's Eve | $54.5M | $79.7M |
| 65 | Insidious | $54.0M | $79.0M |
| 66 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | $52.7M | $77.0M |
| 67 | Footloose Original Release | $51.8M | $75.7M |
| 68 | The Dilemma | $48.5M | $70.9M |
| 69 | Arthur Christmas | $46.5M | $67.9M |
| 70 | Hall Pass | $45.1M | $65.9M |
| 71 | The Artist | $44.7M | $65.3M |
| 72 | Final Destination 5 | $42.6M | $62.3M |
| 73 | The Ides of March | $41.0M | $59.9M |
| 74 | Hanna | $40.3M | $58.9M |
| 75 | Something Borrowed | $39.0M | $57.1M |
| 76 | Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World | $38.5M | $56.3M |
| 77 | Scream 4 | $38.2M | $55.8M |
| 78 | Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | $37.9M | $55.4M |
| 79 | Red Riding Hood | $37.7M | $55.1M |
| 80 | In Time | $37.5M | $54.8M |
| 81 | Paul | $37.4M | $54.7M |
| 82 | J. Edgar | $37.3M | $54.5M |
| 83 | The Change-Up | $37.1M | $54.2M |
| 84 | Colombiana | $36.7M | $53.6M |
| 85 | Sucker Punch | $36.4M | $53.2M |
| 86 | Larry Crowne | $35.6M | $52.1M |
| 87 | Drive | $35.1M | $51.3M |
| 88 | The Rite | $33.0M | $48.3M |
| 89 | The Iron Lady | $30.0M | $43.9M |
| 90 | Priest | $29.1M | $42.6M |
| 91 | The Mechanic | $29.1M | $42.6M |
| 92 | Abduction | $28.1M | $41.1M |
| 93 | Season of the Witch | $24.8M | $36.3M |
| 94 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | $24.1M | $35.3M |
| 95 | The Darkest Hour | $21.4M | $31.3M |
| 96 | Conan the Barbarian | $21.3M | $31.1M |
| 97 | The Three Musketeers | $20.4M | $29.8M |
| 98 | The Intouchables | $10.2M | $14.9M |
| 99 | Johnny English Reborn | $8.3M | $12.1M |
| 100 | The Inbetweeners | $36K | $53K |
“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.