Star Wars: A New Hope entered theaters back in 1977 and ever since then it has been in the Top 10 highest grossing domestic films of all time until last week when
Disney's Beauty and the Beast knocked it down to number 11 on the all time list. This occurred exactly last Thursday. As of now
Beauty and the Beast has made
$472.4 million and is set to pass another Star Wars film (
The Phantom Menace) by the end of this week.
Let's look at a quick breakdown at the box office history of
Star Wars: A New Hope. Back in 1977, the film became the highest grossing film of all time with $317 million. In 1997, it was given a re-release in theaters and that gave its box office another $138 million bringing its overall domestic cume to
$461 million. It remained in the Top 5 domestic all time films until it was knocked out by
Marvel's The Avengers back in the summer of 2012. Whether or not Disney decides to re-release
Star Wars: A New Hope again so it could once again enter the Top 10 all time remains to be seen.
Here is the Top 10 all time list:
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $936.6 million
2. Avatar - $760.5 million
3. Titanic - $658.6 million
4. Jurassic World - $652.2 million
5. Marvel's The Avengers - $623.3 million
6. The Dark Knight - $534.8 million
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - $532.1 million
8. Finding Dory - $486.3 million
9. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - $474.5 million
10. Beauty and the Beast - $472.4 million