The highest-grossing actor duo is Massimo Boldi and Christian De Sica (both Italy) whose 24 movies have grossed a total of 205,904,522 Euros (£184,508,174; $272,443,744) from 1991 to 2006. Much of the popularity of the duo’s films, which has often confounded cinema critics, is also based on De Sica’s and Boldi’s ability to make Italians laugh at their own faults and peculiarities. Their respective roles represent conflicting elements of Italy’s national character. De Sica tends to play the charming – often sexist – rascal, who
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2010) has so far taken $10.1 million (£6.4 million) at the US box office and $104 million (£65.6 million) worldwide. The three Girl With…films, all released in 2010, have so far grossed over $210 million (£132.5 million) internationally – a figure set to grow, as they are all still on release.
Toy Story 3 (USA, 2010) took US$41 million (then £25.9 million) on its opening day at 4,028 locations across the USA on 18 June 2010, beating the previous record of $38,426,991 (then £24.5 million) set by Shrek the Third (USA, 2007) on 18 May 2007. Figures available at http://www.boxofficemojo.com
Walt Disney’s first full length feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (USA 1937), took US$184.9 million (then £37,378,867) at the box office world-wide, equivalent to US$1,633,582,523 (£1,020,989,077) today. The film took four years to make at a cost of US$1.5 million (then £303,398) equivalent to US$13,252,424 (£8,282,765). The “special” Academy Award granted to the picture on 10 March 1938 consisted of one regular sized award and seven smaller sized awards.
Disney/Pixar’s toy Story 3 (USA, 2010) earned over $1 billion, or $1,050 million (£664 million), at the global box office from its opening on 18 June 2010 to October 2010.
La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) (Italy 1997), released by Miramax and starring the director, Roberto Benigni (Italy), had a worldwide gross of US$229 million (£143 million). It also became the highest grossing foreign language film in North America with US$57.6 million (£36 million), overtaking the previous record of US$21.8 million (£13.62 million) set by Il Postino (It 1994), another Miramax film. And in the UK, it became the highest grossing foriegn-language film at £3.03 million, overtaking the £2.45 million gross of Cyrano de
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Shrek the Third (USA, 2007) grossed $121,629,270 (£79.2 million) at the domestic box office over its opening weekend beginning on 18 May 2007.
Although many successful Hollywood movie franchises – including Harry Potter, James Bond and Sherlock Holmes – are filmed in the UK or feature British actors, the most successful UK-produced film of all time is currently Slumdog Millionaire(2008), which has grossed $141 million (£100.6 million) in the USA and a total of $378 million (£234 million) worldwide, making it the 143rd most successful film of all time. Despite the success of Scotland-set films such as Braveheart (1995) and Trainspotting (1996), the highest-grossing film produced in Scotland
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Warrior King (2005) took $11.9 million (£7.9 million) at the US box office.
Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan (2008) has taken $5.7 million (£3.2 million) in the USA and $26.5 million (£16.5 million) worldwide.