Top 5 Franchises of All-Time

[Poetic Chaos]

1. Star Wars
Movies: 7 (?)
WW Gross: $4,342,748,947

2. James Bond
Movies: 21
WW Gross: $3,958,127,960

3. Harry Potter
Movies: 4
WW Gross: $3,538,297,759

4. Lord of the Rings
Movies: 3
WW Gross: $2,922,994,795

5. Batman
Movies: 6 (?)
WW Gross: $1,645,743,975

Was lookin' up various movie records and found this. Pretty much confirmed that Harry Potter is going to be the biggest franchise ever with 3 movies left. Of course it'll probably be passed by the 30somethingeth James Bond movie a few decades from now...but that's a joke anyway with the amount movies they have. And what the hell is the 7th Star Wars movie?! And the 6th Batman movie for that matter.

 

[MulligaN Stew]

Batman
Batman Returns
Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm [animated, but still wide theater release]
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin
Batman Begins
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For your Star Wars question, wasn't there a christmas movie special with Chewbacca? I'm not sure if that's the answer you're looking for, but it was the only thing that I could think of.

Geez, Harry Potter is WB's primary cash cow; I knew that 3 and 4 did a lot of business, but I wasn't aware that the combined amount of the saga was that exhorbitant.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

No Star Trek? Figured that would be second to Star Wars, but with a different value or something.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

The other 5 that round out the top 10 are

6. Spider-Man
7. Jurassic Park
8. Star Trek
9. Pirates of the Caribbean
10. Shrek

So Star Trek made it.

 

[Cinemaman]

I wouldn't rate movie franchises only because of their numbers in box office.

This is mine (without including comic book and superhero movies):

1. Indiana Jones
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Star Wars
4. The Godfather
5. The Terminator

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I didn't make this out of my personal opinion. My top 5 definitely wouldn't have James Bond.

 

[MR.Fixit]

1.Rocky
2.Rambo
3.Terminator
4.Godfather
5.Back To The Future/Die Hard

 

[Galactus]

1. Star Wars
Movies: 7 (?)
WW Gross: $4,342,748,947

2. James Bond
Movies: 21
WW Gross: $3,958,127,960

3. Harry Potter
Movies: 4
WW Gross: $3,538,297,759

4. Lord of the Rings
Movies: 3
WW Gross: $2,922,994,795

5. Batman
Movies: 6 (?)
WW Gross: $1,645,743,975

Was lookin' up various movie records and found this. Pretty much confirmed that Harry Potter is going to be the biggest franchise ever with 3 movies left. Of course it'll probably be passed by the 30somethingeth James Bond movie a few decades from now...but that's a joke anyway with the amount movies they have. And what the hell is the 7th Star Wars movie?! And the 6th Batman movie for that matter.

The seventh movie is the IMAX-version of AOTC:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/StarWars.php

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Um i think Pirates and Spiderman and well Shrek should be up there for they should pass rings for they have made abit more money with the second movie with another on the way. Harry Potter is likely to over take it but Lets not assume Pirates will be done at 3. For anything can happen.

I agree that franchises cane be not so big but have substance to make them just as great. There doesn't have to be Star Wars or Harry Potter numbers to be a good trilogy or franchise.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I think my top3 is something like this:

1. Back to the Future
Part 1 and 2 are pure genius, and 3 is really fun to.
2. Indiana Jones
Raiders and Crusade are all-time classic adventure movies, but Temple of Doom is not as great as those two.

Can't really think of a good 3rd one now...

 

[Erzengel]

Franchises that I feel have been somewhat consistant

1. Star Wars
2. Indiana Jones
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Harry Potter
5. Back to the Future

I wanted to add Batman but it doesn't really follow a linear progression like the rest of the movies. Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins

I wish I could add Godfather to the list but 3 just doesn't compare to the first 2.

I'm hoping the next movie to add will be Spiderman. (I consider 3 movies or more franchises).

 

[The_Vision]

This would be mine

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Star Wars
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
4. The Godfather
5. Harry Potter

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Harry Potter would be my first. Only franchise, imo, that has gotten better with each movie. Hard to do when you're already 4 deep. I'm pretty sure they've gotten a higher rating with each film on Rotten Tomatoes so I guess the critics agree. Hope Order of the Phoenix can live up.

 

[DACrowe]

I wouldn't call The Godfather a franchise (the movies anyway).

Okay, now some movies are great and have ****ty sequels (Jaws, Jurassic Park, etc.) so as an overall franchise I cannot count those so:

1. Star Wars
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Indiana Jones
4. Back to the Future
5. Harry Potter (this is a tough one because, lets be honest and say the first two weren't very good).

That's it for now. If Spider-Man 3 lives up to the hype I'll let it in, but until BB gets at least one solid sequel, B&R is too heavy to put that franchise up there hence. X3 ruined the X-Men franchise unfortunately.

 

[Erzengel]

Next year is the Year of the 2nd Sequel

Spiderman
Pirates of the Caribbean
Bourne Ultimatum
Shrek 3

If all 4 are successful financially, I'd still be more inclined to include only Spiderman and Bourne based on quality movies. Shrek was amusing is just a series of cultural references and Pirates is all pretty pictures and no substance.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Forgot Ocean's 13.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Raiders and Crusade are all-time classic adventure movies, but Temple of Doom is not as great as those two.

Really? Opposite for me. I use to prefer Crusade over Temple, and then when they came out on DVD, Temple had gotten better for me while Crusade was almost hard to watch. Still like Crusade, but that kinetic b-movie charm was noticeably absent and stole a lot of the fun out of the film.

 

[Erzengel]

Forgot Ocean's 13.

Whoops. And although I understand, Ocean's 12 went in a different direction, it just didn't do it for me. 13 would have to be phenominal to suade me.

 

[CrypticOne]

This is my list:

Star Wars
The Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Pirates of the Caribbean
Spider-Man

 

[PowersOfMind]

The Lord of The Rings
Pirates of the Caribbean
Harry Potter
Indiana Jones
Spiderman

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

What's the longest franchise, though ?

I know Zatoichi has 29 or so movies. Godzilla has 29 movies (so both way more than James bond, though it depends if you count the american Godzilla for it to equal Zatoichi) and there was a serie of film about Wong Fei Hong (the character from Once upon a time in china) who had more than 90 Hong Kong movies in the 50's.

Was there a bigger franchise then 90 or so movies ?

 

[TKing]

What about the X-Men? Surely that must have been in the top 5, with all the money it's achieved in box office and DVD sales.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

What about the X-Men? Surely that must have been in the top 5, with all the money it's achieved in box office and DVD sales.

X-Men is #12 behind Indiana Jones. And I don't think this list includes DVD sales.

 

[XwolverineX]

1. Star Wars
Movies: 7 (?)
WW Gross: $4,342,748,947

2. James Bond
Movies: 21
WW Gross: $3,958,127,960

3. Harry Potter
Movies: 4
WW Gross: $3,538,297,759

4. Lord of the Rings
Movies: 3
WW Gross: $2,922,994,795

5. Batman
Movies: 6 (?)
WW Gross: $1,645,743,975

Was lookin' up various movie records and found this. Pretty much confirmed that Harry Potter is going to be the biggest franchise ever with 3 movies left. Of course it'll probably be passed by the 30somethingeth James Bond movie a few decades from now...but that's a joke anyway with the amount movies they have. And what the hell is the 7th Star Wars movie?! And the 6th Batman movie for that matter.

7 Star Wars movies..

 

[FaT_tONle]

Godfather wasn't really a franchise... I think you need more than a couple good movies...

The Lord of The Rings
James Bond
Harry Potter
Indiana Jones
Star Wars

Up and coming:

POTC
Spiderman
Shrek