The top 10 films released in 2011 by worldwide gross are as follows:
Box office records 2011 was the first year to have three films cross the billion-dollar milestone, surpassing the
previous year's record of two films and also the first time when at least 10 films grossed more than $500 million worldwide (in 11th and 12th place,
Puss in Boots and
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows also earned over $500 million making it twelve films to do so) •
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed $1,045,713,802, becoming the second film in the
franchise to have grossed over $1 billion, and the
37th-highest-grossing film of all time. •
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed $1,342,511,219, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of all time during its theatrical run, the highest-grossing film in the
Harry Potter franchise, the highest grossing
Warner Bros film and the highest grossing book adaptation and the highest of 2011 worldwide. • In the US and Canada, it set single-day and opening-weekend records, with $91,071,119 and $169,189,427, respectively. In addition, the film set a worldwide opening-weekend record with $483,189,427. •
Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed $1,123,794,079 and is currently the highest-grossing in the
franchise. It also held the record as the highest-grossing film worldwide ever distributed only by
Paramount for 11 years until it was surpassed by
Top Gun: Maverick in 2022. •
Pirates of the Caribbean became the first franchise to have more than one film gross over $1 billion, with
On Stranger Tides joining
2006's ''
Dead Man's Chest''. •
On Stranger Tides also became the fifth film of
the decade to surpass the billion-dollar milestone, breaking the previous record of four films (
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in
2003, ''
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006, The Dark Knight in 2008, and Avatar'' in
2009) during the
2000s. • The
Shrek franchise became the
first animated film series to gross more than $3 billion with the release of
Puss in Boots. •
The Smurfs surpassed
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel as the
highest-grossing live-action/animated film of all time with $563.7 million. ==Events==