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Planet Of The Apes Films 1968 – 2017

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1968 PLANET OF THE APES Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall 2 $198,090,000 7
1970 BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES James Franciscus, Kim Hunter 1 1 $95,990,000 14
1971 ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter 2 $58,300,000 18
1972 CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Roddy McDowall, Don Murray 5 $45,790,000 32
1973 BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins 2 $39,360,000 39
2001 PLANET OF THE APES Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth 1 1 $275,092,800 10
2011 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES James Franco, Freida Pinto 1 2 $192,609,300 11
2014 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Gary Oldman, Keri Russell 1 2 $223,223,900 11
2017 WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES  Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson 1 1 $142,787,094*

*as of 27 August 2017

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King Arthur Films 1949 – 2017

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1949 A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming 1 3 $112,830,000 19
1953 KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner 1 6 $140,250,000 8
1963 THE SWORD IN THE STONE Animated 3 $91,590,000 23
1967 CAMELOT Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave 2 $176,600,000 10
1972 THE SWORD IN THE STONE Animated [Re-issue] $20,350,000 72
1973 CAMELOT Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave [Re-issue]  7 $17,100,000 74
1975 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Graham Chapman, John Cleese 4 $43,630,000 47
1981 EXCALIBUR Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren 1 2 $108,801,600 19
1995 FIRST KNIGHT Sean Connery, Richard Gere 3 $74,768,700 46
1995 A KID IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT Thomas Ian Nicholas, Joss Ackland 9 $26,659,300 101
1998 QUEST FOR CAMELOT Animated 3 $41,517,800 83
2004 KING ARTHUR Clive Owen, Keira Knightley 3 $72,267,500 60
2017 KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey 3 $39,175,066

 

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Robin Hood Films 1922 – 2010

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1922 ROBIN HOOD Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery 1 2 $188,040,000 1
1936 ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO Warner Baxter, Ann Loring 5 $28,570,000 102
1938 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland 1 3 $133,420,000 6
1946 THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST Anita Louise, Jill Esmond 2 $148,290,000 34
1952 THE STORY OF ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRIE MEN Richard Todd, Joan Rice 1 1 $68,550,000 48
1964 ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin 4 $83,710,000 16
1973 ROBIN HOOD Animated 2 $99,300,000 16
1976 ROBIN AND MARIAN Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn 3 $32,490,000 65
1991 ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman 1 2 $340,029,100 2
1993 ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis 6 $74,673,600 46
2010 ROBIN HOOD Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett 2 $114,538,800 26
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A Star Is Born Films 1937 – 1976

STORY: A young actress meets Hollywood success and marries a famous leading man, whose star wanes as hers shines brighter.

1937 VERSION REVIEW: Abrasive romantic melodrama which is also the most accurate study of Hollywood ever put on film.

1954 VERSION REVIEW: Musical remake which begins very strongly and has two splendid performances, but suffers in the second half from a lack of writing strength and heavy post-production cutting. The numbers add very little except length.

1976 VERSION REVIEW: Interminable remake set in the pop world amid screaming crowds and songs at high decibel level; also an insufferable piece of showing off by the star. But some of the handling has style.

BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: Although the third version of “A Star Is Born” received bad reviews in 1976, it’s the biggest box office earner with adjusted gross of more than 300 million (US domestic gross only). The soundtrack album was also a #1 record on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1937 A STAR IS BORN Janet Gaynor, Fredric March 1 1 $124,560,000 8
1954 A STAR IS BORN Judy Garland, James Mason 1 2 $234,510,000 7
1976 A STAR IS BORN Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson 2 $301,330,000 2

 

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James Bond Films 1962 – 2015

Note: “Dr. No” and “From Russia With Love” were released in 1962 and 1963 respectively, in the United Kingdom. The dates on the list below are for the US releases only.

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1963 DR. NO Sean Connery, Ursula Andress 4 $109,970,000 44
1964 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi 3 $169,000,000 15
1964 GOLDFINGER Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe 1 7 $411,960,000 3
1965 THUNDERBALL Sean Connery, Claudine Auger 1 9 $477,480,000 3
1967 YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi 1 6 $273,130,000 7
1969 ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE George Lazenby, Diana Rigg 1 4 $111,080,000 11
1971 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER Sean Connery, Jill St. John 1 7 $206,830,000 3
1973 LIVE AND LET DIE Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto 1 5 $155,650,000 9
1974 THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Roger Moore, Christopher Lee 2 $87,340,000 27
1977 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME Roger Moore, Barbara Bach 2 $189,020,000 7
1979 MOONRAKER Roger Moore, Lois Chiles 1 4 $233,820,000 9
1981 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet 3 $170,550,600 8
1983 OCTOPUSSY Roger Moore, Maud Adams 2 $186,438,000 6
1985 A VIEW TO A KILL Roger Moore, Christopher Walken 2 $122,630,100 13
1987 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Timothy Dalton, Maryam d’Abo 1 2 $113,237,300 19
1989 LICENSE TO KILL Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi 4 $75,533,900 36
1995 GOLDENEYE Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean 1 1 $211,094,100 6
1997 TOMORROW NEVER DIES Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce 2 $232,781,700 10
1999 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau 1 1 $214,985,400 14
2002 DIE ANOTHER DAY Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry 1 2 $238,601,900 12
2006 CASINO ROYALE Daniel Craig, Eva Green 2 $219,958,100 9
2008 QUANTUM OF SOLACE Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko 1 1 $202,839,400 9
2012 SKYFALL Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem 1 2 $327,333,300 4
2015 SPECTRE Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz 1 2 $200,074,609 10
Un-Official Films:
1967 CASINO ROYALE David Niven, Peter Sellers 1 6 $147,050,000 12
1983 NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Sean Connery, Kim Basinger 1 4 $152,220,300 14
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Top James Bond Actors 1962 – 2015

Rank Actor Average Gross Films Total Adjusted Grosses
1 Sean Connery $274,728,000 6 $1,648,370,000
2 Daniel Craig $237,551,000 4 $950,205,000
3 Pierce Brosnan $224,365,000 4 $897,463,000
4 Roger Moore $163,635,000 7 $1,145,448,000
5 George Lazenby $111,080,000 1 $111,080,000
6 Timothy Dalton $94,385,600 2 $188,771,000
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The Prisoner Of Zenda Films 1922 – 1979

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1922 THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Lewis Stone, Alice Terry 1 2 $60,410,000 7
1937 THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll 1 1 $100,340,000 19
1952 THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr 2 $68,550,000 47
1979 THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick 6 $33,700,000 76
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King Kong Films 1933 – 2017

Year Film – Actors Rank Wks
 Adjusted Gross Annual Rank
1933 KING KONG Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong 1 1 $51,550,000 17
1933 THE SON OF KONG Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack 10 $19,910,000 169
1938 KING KONG Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong [Re-issue]  $10,730,000 154
1942 KING KONG Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong [Re-issue]  $10,900,000
1952 KING KONG Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong [Re-issue]   3 $52,490,000 73
1963 KING KONG VS. GODZILLA Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara $25,440,000 67
1968 KING KONG ESCAPES Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama $13,210,000 100
1976 KING KONG Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange 1 5 $299,830,000 3
1986 KING KONG LIVES Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin 12 $10,649,500 114
2005 KING KONG Jack Black, Naomi Watts 1 2 $292,115,700 5
2017 KONG: SKULL ISLAND Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson 1 1 $168,052,812
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The Mummy Films 1932 – 2017

There are many film versions of the Mummy, but prior to 1999 only the original film with Boris Karloff made an impact at the US Box Office.

Released in 1932, “The Mummy” (directed by Karl Freund) was a modest box office hit, peaking at No.8 on the weekly US Box Office chart in January 1933 and it grossed $370,000 in rentals (adjustment gross: nearly $24,000,000 in 2016 US Dollars).

It was the Number 131 film of the year on the annual grosses in 1932. Boris Karloff had a much bigger B.O. hit, a year earlier with “Frankenstein” which was Number One for two weeks in December 1931.

The next 9 “Mummy” movies flopped badly at the Box Office. A series of four films that featured a mummy named Kharis, started in early forties, starring Tom Tyler in the first film but Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the role for the following three sequels.

Then, came the 1955 horror comedy “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” which was one of the last films for the famous comedy duo, and unlike their first movies in the 1940s, this one bombed.

The most memorable of the next four pictures was the 1959 version of the “Mummy” starring the great Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It was a British production, and once again it failed to make an impression at the Box Office.

In 1999, the 11th film release of “The Mummy” directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz became the biggest B.O. success so far with a US gross of $155 million, and it spent two weeks at Number one in May 1999.

The 2001 sequel “The Mummy Returns” grossed even better ($202 million) and also spent 2 weeks at the top of the B.O. charts.

The third film with Brendan Fraser “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”, wasn’t received well, peaking at No.2 in August 2008 with a total US gross of $102 million. Also starring in this film, the popular Jet Li, Maria Bello and Michelle Yeoh.

Finally, the 2017 remake with Tom Cruise and Algerian actress Sofia Boutella, flopped in America. The movie cost an amazing $125 million and made a poor $31 million, the first weekend (it debuted at No.2, behind “Wonder Woman”), not to mention the bad reviews that it received from most of the critics.

Here are the 14 “Mummy” films in chronological order:

NO FILM TITLE YEAR ACTORS
1 The Mummy 1932 Boris Karloff
2 The Mummy’s Hand 1940 Tom Tyler
3 The Mummy’s Tomb 1942 Lon Chaney, Jr.
4 The Mummy’s Ghost 1944 Lon Chaney, Jr.
5 The Mummy’s Curse 1944 Lon Chaney, Jr.
6 Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy 1955 Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
7 The Mummy 1959 Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
8 The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb 1964 Terence Morgan
9 The Mummy’s Shroud 1967 André Morell, David Buck
10 Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb 1971 Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon
11 The Mummy 1999 Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz
12 The Mummy Returns 2001 Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz
13 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008 Brendan Fraser
14 The Mummy 2017 Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella