The Top 5 Highest Grossing Action Movies Ever

  Movie Domestic Box Office Gross Release Date Budget Distributor
1 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope $460,99 million May 25th, 1977 $13 million Twentieth Century-Fox
2 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $431,08 million May 19th, 1999 $115 million Twentieth Century-Fox
3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423,31 million June 24th, 2006 $225 million Buena Vista Pictures
4 Spider-Man $403,70 million April 30th, 2002 $139 million Columbia Pictures
5 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith $380,27 million May 15th, 2005 $113 million Twentieth Century-Fox
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Sources:  Various including: Box Office Mojo, The Numbers, IMDB Pro.

List Notes: All figures are domestic (Canada & US) box office gross in US dollars. List is accurate as of February 2008. Data is for 1979 to present.
Highest Grossing Action Movies Ever

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