Hollywood cinema in the 21st century
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Hollywood movies refers to the cinema of United States of America. The Hollywood cinema industry plays an important role among the world movie making studios. It is the third largest film market in the world.[1] Hollywood movies in the 21st century are sometimes called "New Hollywood". Beginning in the 2000s, American movies began to attract more fans and to impact total box office receipts. Science fiction, fantasy films, and animated movies have been globally impacting the movie industry. Research shows that compared to 20th century, the value of the movies approximately doubled.[2] International advertising had a crucial role in making "New Hollywood" bigger, compared to 20th century.[according to whom?] Most of the movies` box office numbers are increased by overseas viewers.[according to whom?]
Academy Award for Best Picture
[edit]The Academy Awards is also considered the most prestigious award within American cinema. As of 2018, the Academy has given 17 Best Picture awards to drama movies and 1 to Chicago (2002 film), which is musical and crime film.[3] Among the winners, the highest-grossing movie is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with 1.12 billion dollars worldwide.[4]
| Film | Year |
|---|---|
| Gladiator | 2000 |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2001 |
| Chicago | 2002 |
| The Lord of the Rings: | 2003 |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2004 |
| Crash | 2005 |
| The Departed | 2006 |
| No Country For Old Men | 2007 |
| The Hurt Locker | 2009 |
| Argo | 2012 |
| 12 Years a Slave | 2013 |
| Birdman | 2014 |
| Spotlight | 2015 |
| Moonlight | 2016 |
| The Shape of Water | 2017 |
| Green Book | 2018 |
| Parasite | 2019 |
| Nomadland | 2020 |
| CODA | 2021 |
| Everything Everywhere All At Once | 2022 |
Adventure genre
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Adventure movies are the most commercially successful films in terms of box office figures.[5] Since 2009, Avatar is the highest grossing from of all time, with $2.8 billion at the box office, 72.7% coming internationally and 27.3% domestically.[6] The rights are owned by Fox Filmed Entertainment, and it was directed by James Cameron. The movie cost $237 million dollars and took 10 years to produce. The movie won 88 awards, three of which were Academy Awards that included Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Visual Effects, and Best Achievement in Art Direction.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also an adventure film, is the second-highest grossing film of all time. The movie is the highest-grossing movie in the entire series, created by George Lucas and directed by J. J. Abrams. The Force Awakens is the seventh episode out of nine since 1977 and the first of the last trilogy since 2015. The film series is currently owned by LucasFilm, Ltd. and The Walt Disney Company. The movie won 62 awards (including five Academy Awards). The movie cost $253 million and grossed about $2 billion worldwide, with 45.3% coming domestically and 53.7% from international box offices.[7]
One of the most awarded film series in the Adventure genre is J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (film series). It received 17 Oscars in total: four for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, two for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and 11 for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The trilogy cost $281 million and brought it about $2.9 billion at the box office worldwide.[8]
J. K. Rowling`s Wizarding World series considered the third highest earning series in the Adventure genre, with $8.537 billion in box office receipts (the highest grossing being Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2), but has never received an Academy Award.[9] In recent years, animated feature films have become high-grossing ventures, with several of them surpassing $1 billion worldwide.[10] The most successful is Frozen (2013 film) by The Walt Disney Company, with $1.272 billion gross worldwide[11] and two Academy Awards (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song).[12]
The other genres
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Action movies is the second most famous genre in North America in current century.[5] Marvel Cinematic Universe has an important place in it. Totally 18 movies has been made, starting from Iron Man (2008 film) to Ant-Man and the Wasp, and the box office total is 17.527 billion dollars so far. The highest-grossing movie of this universe in Avengers: Infinity War, which is the 3rd movie in the series. The movie has more international gross, 1.368 billion dollars, and the remaining 6.788 comes from domestic viewers.[13] It is expected that the sequel Avengers: Endgame will surpass that success, that will release on May 3, 2019.
Comedy is the 4th top grossing genre of current century.[5] In this genre, The Hangover Part II is considered as the highest grossing comedy movie of 21st century. The Production Budget for the movie was 80 million dollars, and the worldwide box office numbers were 5.865 million dollars. The following genre is thriller. Inception by the director Christopher Nolan is the most successful Hollywood movie both in the worldwide box numbers (8.324 million dollars)[14] and in number of Academy Awards (Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Achievement in Visual Effects).[15]
Overall, 36 films have passed 1 billion dollars in the world, and 32 of them have been made in 21st century by cinema of United States. Wizarding World (Warner Bros. Pictures) and Middle-earth films (New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures) are considered as British-American.
| All-time
International Rank |
Released in | Movie | Worldwide
Box Office |
Domestic
Box Office |
International
Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2009 | Avatar | $2,776,345,279 | $760,507,625 | $2,015,837,654 |
| 3 | 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $2,053,311,220 | $936,662,225 | $1,116,648,995 |
| 4 | 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | $2,008,425,124 | $678,815,482 | $1,329,609,642 |
| 5 | 2015 | Jurassic World | $1,648,893,208 | $652,270,625 | $996,622,583 |
| 6 | 2015 | Furious 7 | $1,518,722,794 | $353,007,020 | $1,165,715,774 |
| 7 | 2012 | The Avengers | $1,517,935,897 | $623,279,547 | $894,656,350 |
| 8 | 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $1,403,013,963 | $459,005,868 | $944,008,095 |
| 9 | 2018 | Black Panther | $1,347,071,259 | $700,059,566 | $647,011,693 |
| 10 | 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (British-American) | $1,341,511,219 | $381,011,219 | $960,500,000 |
| 11 | 2017 | Star Wars The Last Jedi | $1,316,764,784 | $620,181,382 | $696,583,402 |
| 12 | 2018 | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | $1,304,866,322 | $416,769,345 | $888,096,977 |
| 13 | 2013 | Frozen | $1,272,469,910 | $400,738,009 | $871,731,901 |
| 14 | 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | $1,259,199,706 | $504,014,165 | $755,185,541 |
| 15 | 2018 | Incredibles 2 | $1,238,502,902 | $608,508,728 | $629,994,174 |
| 16 | 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | $1,234,908,020 | $225,764,765 | $1,009,143,255 |
| 17 | 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $1,215,392,272 | $408,992,272 | $806,400,000 |
| 18 | 2015 | Minions | $1,160,336,173 | $336,045,770 | $824,290,403 |
| 19 | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (British-American) | $1,141,403,341 | $377,845,905 | $763,557,436 |
| 20 | 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | $1,140,871,507 | $408,084,349 | $732,787,158 |
| 21 | 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | $1,123,790,543 | $352,390,543 | $771,400,000 |
| 23 | 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | $1,104,039,076 | $245,439,076 | $858,600,000 |
| 24 | 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | $1,084,439,099 | $448,139,099 | $636,300,000 |
| 25 | 2010 | Toy Story 3 | $1,069,666,004 | $415,004,880 | $654,661,124 |
| 26 | 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | $1,066,215,812 | $423,315,812 | $642,900,000 |
| 27 | 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $1,049,175,577 | $532,177,324 | $516,998,253 |
| 28 | 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | $1,045,663,875 | $241,063,875 | $804,600,000 |
| 30 | 2017 | Despicable Me 3 | $1,034,748,190 | $264,624,300 | $770,123,890 |
| 32 | 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $1,025,491,110 | $334,191,110 | $691,300,000 |
| 33 | 2016 | Finding Dory | $1,021,350,883 | $486,295,561 | $535,055,322 |
| 34 | 2016 | Zootopia | $1,019,704,348 | $341,268,248 | $678,436,100 |
| 35 | 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (British-American) | $1,017,003,568 | $303,003,568 | $714,000,000 |
| 36 | 2008 | The Dark Knight | $1,001,620,618 | $533,345,358 | $468,275,260 |
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