Box Office

International 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	International	Adjusted for inflation
1	Avatar	$1.99B	$3.06B
2	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	$690.1M	$1.06B
3	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	$632.0M	$968.7M
4	2012	$603.6M	$925.1M
5	Up	$442.1M	$677.6M
6	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$434.2M	$665.5M
7	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	$413.2M	$633.3M
8	Angels & Demons	$352.6M	$540.4M
9	Sherlock Holmes	$315.0M	$482.8M
10	Terminator Salvation	$246.0M	$377.1M
11	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	$245.6M	$376.4M
12	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	$235.9M	$361.5M
13	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel	$223.5M	$342.6M
14	Fast & Furious	$205.3M	$314.7M
15	Inglourious Basterds	$200.9M	$307.9M
16	This Is It	$195.9M	$300.2M
17	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	$193.2M	$296.1M
18	The Hangover	$191.5M	$293.5M
19	A Christmas Carol	$187.4M	$287.3M
20	Monsters vs. Aliens	$183.2M	$280.7M
21	G-Force	$173.4M	$265.7M
22	The Princess and the Frog	$162.6M	$249.3M
23	The Proposal	$153.4M	$235.1M
24	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	$152.3M	$233.4M
25	Star Trek	$128.0M	$196.1M
26	The Final Destination	$119.7M	$183.4M
27	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	$118.1M	$181.1M
28	Public Enemies	$117.0M	$179.3M
29	The Ugly Truth	$116.4M	$178.4M
30	It's Complicated	$106.4M	$163.0M
31	District 9	$95.2M	$146.0M
32	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	$94.3M	$144.6M
33	Paranormal Activity	$85.4M	$130.9M
34	He's Just Not That Into You	$84.9M	$130.1M
35	Invictus	$84.7M	$129.9M
36	The Taking of Pelham 123	$84.7M	$129.8M
37	Surrogates	$83.9M	$128.5M
38	Up in the Air	$83.0M	$127.2M
39	Brüno	$78.8M	$120.7M
40	Watchmen	$77.9M	$119.4M
41	Hannah Montana: The Movie	$76.0M	$116.4M
42	17 Again	$72.1M	$110.6M
43	Confessions of a Shopaholic	$64.1M	$98.3M
44	Planet 51	$63.5M	$97.3M
45	Couples Retreat	$62.6M	$96.0M
46	Green Zone	$59.8M	$91.7M
47	The Girl Who Played with Fire	$59.5M	$91.2M
48	Bride Wars	$56.7M	$86.8M
49	Did You Hear About the Morgans?	$55.7M	$85.4M
50	Fame	$54.8M	$83.9M
51	Law Abiding Citizen	$54.6M	$83.7M
52	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	$54.1M	$82.9M
53	3 Idiots	$53.7M	$82.4M
54	The Blind Side	$53.2M	$81.6M
55	Coraline	$51.4M	$78.8M
56	State of Play	$50.8M	$77.9M
57	The Lovely Bones	$49.5M	$75.9M
58	My Bloody Valentine	$49.2M	$75.4M
59	Drag Me to Hell	$48.7M	$74.7M
60	Old Dogs	$47.3M	$72.4M
61	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	$47.1M	$72.2M
62	My Sister's Keeper	$46.5M	$71.3M
63	Dragonball: Evolution	$46.4M	$71.1M
64	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	$46.4M	$71.1M
65	Hotel for Dogs	$44.2M	$67.8M
66	Saw VI	$40.5M	$62.1M
67	The Pink Panther 2	$40.1M	$61.5M
68	Race to Witch Mountain	$39.2M	$60.1M
69	The Time Traveler's Wife	$37.9M	$58.1M
70	Duplicity	$37.6M	$57.6M
71	Paul Blart: Mall Cop	$37.0M	$56.7M
72	The Men Who Stare at Goats	$36.7M	$56.2M
73	Orphan	$36.3M	$55.7M
74	The Fighter	$35.6M	$54.5M
75	Julie & Julia	$35.4M	$54.3M
76	The International	$34.8M	$53.3M
77	Nine	$34.3M	$52.6M
78	The Unborn	$33.8M	$51.9M
79	Aliens in the Attic	$32.7M	$50.1M
80	500 Days of Summer	$28.3M	$43.4M
81	Zombieland	$26.8M	$41.1M
82	Friday the 13th	$26.5M	$40.6M
83	Ninja Assassin	$23.5M	$36.0M
84	Where the Wild Things Are	$22.9M	$35.1M
85	The Haunting in Connecticut	$22.1M	$33.9M
86	I Love You, Man	$20.5M	$31.5M
87	Funny People	$19.7M	$30.2M
88	Under the Sea 3D	$19.6M	$30.1M
89	Land of the Lost	$19.3M	$29.6M
90	Year One	$19.0M	$29.2M
91	Precious	$16.1M	$24.7M
92	Obsessed	$5.6M	$8.5M
93	Red Cliff II	$0	$0
94	Madea Goes to Jail	$0	$0
95	Rookies the Movie: Graduation	$0	$0
96	Tidal Wave	$0	$0
97	Little Nicholas	$0	$0
98	Vicky the Viking	$0	$0
99	Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard	$0	$0
100	Take Off	$0	$0

“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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