The top ten films released in 2016 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2016Ĭaptain America: Civil War, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Finding Dory, and Zootopia grossed more than $1 billion each, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time. See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2016 Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made Creed, or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic Shutter Island, or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything.' Highest-grossing films
comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. It takes in huge amounts of money from the sale of mass-market commodities and cleanses some of it with the production of cinematic masterworks. In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of The New Yorker stated, 'Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine.
