10. "The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers"
Release date: Dec. 18, 2002
Domestic boxoffice: $341.8 million
Opening weekend: $62 million
9. "The Passion of the Christ"
Release date: Feb. 25, 2004
Domestic boxoffice: $370.3 million
Opening weekend: $83.8 million
8. "Spider-Man 2"
Release date: June 30, 2004
Domestic boxoffice: $373.4 million
Opening weekend: $115.8 million
7. "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King"
Release date: Dec. 17, 2003
Domestic boxoffice: $377 million
Opening weekend: $72.6 million
6. "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith"
Release date: May 19, 2005
Domestic boxoffice: $380.3 million
Opening weekend: $108.4 million
5. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
Release date: June 24, 2009
Domestic boxoffice: $402.1 million
Opening weekend: $109 million
4. Spider-Man"
Release date: May 3, 2002
Domestic boxoffice: $403.7 million
Opening weekend: $114.8 million
3. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
Release date: July 7, 2006
Domestic boxoffice: $423.3 million
Opening weekend: $135.6 million
2. "Shrek 2"
Release date: May 19, 2004
Domestic boxoffice: $436.7 million
Opening weekend: $108 million
And the #1 movie of the 2000-2009 decade is...
1. "The Dark Knight"
Release date: July 18, 2008
Domestic boxoffice: $533.3 million
Opening weekend: $158.4 million
Avatar-This is what you are up against to crack the top 10! All in all, I would say a pretty good decade! 2010-2019 should be even better. Worldwide, CBM's did not fare as well with only The Dark Knight making the top 10. The rest are pretty much all LOTR, Pirates and Harry Potter movies. That did not seem as much fun or relative to this site...So I went with U.S. numbers!