Box Office
Worldwide 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 | Worldwide | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | $1.34B | $1.97B |
| 2 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | $1.12B | $1.65B |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | $1.05B | $1.53B |
| 4 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | $712.2M | $1.04B |
| 5 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | $694.7M | $1.02B |
| 6 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $665.7M | $976.6M |
| 7 | Fast Five | $626.1M | $918.6M |
| 8 | The Hangover Part II | $586.8M | $860.8M |
| 9 | The Smurfs | $563.7M | $827.1M |
| 10 | Cars 2 | $559.9M | $821.3M |
| 11 | Puss in Boots | $555.0M | $814.2M |
| 12 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | $543.8M | $797.9M |
| 13 | Rio | $483.9M | $709.9M |
| 14 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $481.8M | $706.8M |
| 15 | Thor | $449.3M | $659.2M |
| 16 | The Intouchables | $426.6M | $625.8M |
| 17 | The Adventures of Tintin | $374.0M | $548.7M |
| 18 | Captain America: The First Avenger | $370.6M | $543.6M |
| 19 | X-Men: First Class | $352.6M | $517.3M |
| 20 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | $342.7M | $502.8M |
| 21 | Real Steel | $299.3M | $439.0M |
| 22 | Bridesmaids | $288.4M | $423.1M |
| 23 | Super 8 | $260.1M | $381.6M |
| 24 | Rango | $245.7M | $360.5M |
| 25 | Green Lantern | $237.2M | $348.0M |
| 26 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | $232.6M | $341.3M |
| 27 | The Green Hornet | $227.8M | $334.2M |
| 28 | Immortals | $226.9M | $332.9M |
| 29 | The Help | $216.6M | $317.8M |
| 30 | Bad Teacher | $216.2M | $317.2M |
| 31 | Just Go with It | $214.9M | $315.3M |
| 32 | Battle Los Angeles | $211.8M | $310.8M |
| 33 | Horrible Bosses | $209.8M | $307.8M |
| 34 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $207.0M | $303.7M |
| 35 | Gnomeo & Juliet | $194.0M | $284.6M |
| 36 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | $187.4M | $274.9M |
| 37 | The Lion King 2011 3D Release | $186.0M | $272.9M |
| 38 | Hugo | $185.8M | $272.5M |
| 39 | Hop | $184.0M | $269.9M |
| 40 | War Horse | $177.6M | $260.5M |
| 41 | The Descendants | $177.2M | $260.0M |
| 42 | Cowboys & Aliens | $174.8M | $256.5M |
| 43 | In Time | $173.9M | $255.2M |
| 44 | Zookeeper | $169.9M | $249.2M |
| 45 | The Muppets | $165.2M | $242.3M |
| 46 | Limitless | $161.8M | $237.4M |
| 47 | Johnny English Reborn | $160.1M | $234.8M |
| 48 | Happy Feet Two | $159.2M | $233.6M |
| 49 | Final Destination 5 | $157.9M | $231.6M |
| 50 | Tower Heist | $152.9M | $224.4M |
| 51 | Midnight in Paris | $151.7M | $222.5M |
| 52 | I Am Number Four | $149.9M | $219.9M |
| 53 | Jack and Jill | $149.7M | $219.6M |
| 54 | Friends with Benefits | $149.5M | $219.4M |
| 55 | No Strings Attached | $149.2M | $218.9M |
| 56 | Arthur Christmas | $147.4M | $216.3M |
| 57 | Source Code | $147.3M | $216.1M |
| 58 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. | $145.1M | $212.8M |
| 59 | New Year's Eve | $142.0M | $208.4M |
| 60 | Contagion | $136.5M | $200.3M |
| 61 | Unknown | $135.7M | $199.1M |
| 62 | The Artist | $133.4M | $195.8M |
| 63 | The Three Musketeers | $132.3M | $194.1M |
| 64 | We Bought a Zoo | $120.1M | $176.2M |
| 65 | Hankyu Railways - A 15-minute Miracle | $118.8M | $174.3M |
| 66 | Water for Elephants | $117.1M | $171.8M |
| 67 | The Iron Lady | $115.9M | $170.0M |
| 68 | Moneyball | $110.2M | $161.7M |
| 69 | Insidious | $99.6M | $146.1M |
| 70 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | $99.0M | $145.3M |
| 71 | Paul | $98.0M | $143.7M |
| 72 | Scream 4 | $97.1M | $142.5M |
| 73 | The Rite | $96.6M | $141.7M |
| 74 | Dolphin Tale | $95.9M | $140.7M |
| 75 | Nothing to Declare | $93.8M | $137.6M |
| 76 | Season of the Witch | $91.6M | $134.4M |
| 77 | Red Riding Hood | $90.3M | $132.4M |
| 78 | Sucker Punch | $89.8M | $131.7M |
| 79 | The Inbetweeners | $88.8M | $130.3M |
| 80 | The Lincoln Lawyer | $86.8M | $127.3M |
| 81 | Hall Pass | $86.2M | $126.4M |
| 82 | Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World | $85.6M | $125.5M |
| 83 | J. Edgar | $84.9M | $124.6M |
| 84 | Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | $82.7M | $121.3M |
| 85 | Abduction | $82.1M | $120.4M |
| 86 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | $81.2M | $119.2M |
| 87 | Priest | $78.3M | $114.9M |
| 88 | The Ides of March | $76.3M | $112.0M |
| 89 | Drive | $76.3M | $112.0M |
| 90 | The Mechanic | $76.1M | $111.7M |
| 91 | The Change-Up | $75.5M | $110.7M |
| 92 | Larry Crowne | $75.1M | $110.1M |
| 93 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | $72.5M | $106.4M |
| 94 | The Dilemma | $69.7M | $102.3M |
| 95 | Something Borrowed | $65.1M | $95.5M |
| 96 | The Darkest Hour | $64.6M | $94.8M |
| 97 | Hanna | $63.8M | $93.6M |
| 98 | Footloose 2011 Re-release | $63.5M | $93.2M |
| 99 | Conan the Barbarian | $63.5M | $93.2M |
| 100 | Colombiana | $63.5M | $93.1M |
“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.