The 30 Biggest Box Office Hits of the Last 30 Years
By Tom Fish
On 4/5/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
Money talks in Hollywood, and for all the movie awards and critical acclaim, there s still only one way to judge a blockbuster: the box office takings.
And in general, films that fill the most seats in cinemas are the movies that cost the most money to make.
Newsweek reveals the 30 biggest U.S. box office hits from the past three decades including several surprising entries tucked-in amongst the big-budget blockbusters.
2020: Bad Boys For Life ($204,417,855)
The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) return together for one final ride.
2. V For Vendetta
Sunday, January 24
Sky Cinema Sci-fi (Sky 311), 6.45pm.
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political action movie written by the Wachowskis starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving as V, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry and John Hurt.
V For Vendetta. Picture: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
- Credit: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
In a Britain crushed by a cruel dictator, a masked avenger enlists Natalie Portman in a fight for freedom.
The film opens with Guy Fawkes being executed in scenes filmed outside the South Front of Hatfield House.
It’s fitting as it was one of the current Lord Salisbury’s ancestors who helped to foil the real Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.