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Looking at those in front of the camera, Harrison Ford, through his roles in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, has appeared in the highest number of films listed here featuring in seven titles. 2012's Frozen is the only film made by a female director Jennifer Lee, and until 2020, Mission: Impossible 2 was the only film made by a non-white director John Woo.
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DeMille, a "founding father" of American Cinema, and Disney's Hamilton Luske, have each directed (or co-directed) five movies on this list.
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Stephen Spielberg has directed more of these films than any other director, with six titles to his name. Throughout the list, many of the same directors and actors appear in multiple films. could return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022. It remains to be seen how these developments will impact overall box office grosses, however, a strong domestic performance of Spider-Man: No Way Home at the end of 2021 is a sign that attendance in the U.S. The pandemic also accelerated the trend of major releases coming to streaming platforms, and 2021 has seen many of the previous year's postponements released simultaneously in theaters and online (often at a premium). Varying restrictions per country saw Asian markets eventually overtake North American and European markets as the largest worldwide, and five of the ten highest grossing films in 2020 were either Chinese or Japanese productions.
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The significant drop off in global revenues in 2020 was due to the Covid-19 pandemic, where lockdowns saw thousands of movie theaters close across the world. The highest grossing film of 2020 was The Eight Hundred, which took over 460 million dollars worldwide the first ever non-Hollywood production to feature on this list. When adjusted for inflation, 1939's Gone With the Wind is considered the highest grossing film of all time, with some sources claiming that it has generated approximately 3.4 billion dollars in today's money***. Before Avatar, the record had been held by 1997's Titanic (also directed by James Cameron). The difference between Endgame and Avatar's totals was fewer than ten million dollars by the end of 2019, however Avatar re-took the top spot in 2021 due to theatrical re-releases in China this gap is likely to grow in the coming years as Avatar will be shown again in theaters prior to midnight releases of it's four sequels (the first of which is due in 2022). In 2019, Avengers: Endgame overtook 2009's Avatar as the highest grossing film of all time at the international Box Office.