#1 of 98 Captain America: Civil War (2016)
2016 · Action, Adventure
$1.2B worldwide · 14% of the chart's total
Captain America: Civil War (2016) is the highest-grossing sci-fi movie released in 2016, with $1.2B worldwide, ahead of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) at $1.1B and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) at $874.4M. 98 sci-fi films released in 2016 report a worldwide gross, $8.4B in all, 36% of it from the US & Canada. 2 films crossed $1 billion and 17 crossed $100 million. That is down 17% on 2015, whose releases took $10.2B. By language, English leads with $7.9B across 64 sci-fi releases.
#1 of 98 Captain America: Civil War (2016)
2016 · Action, Adventure
$1.2B worldwide · 14% of the chart's total
Captain America: Civil War (2016) leads with $1.2B, 14% of the total. The top 5 together took $4.5B, 54% of what all 98 films earned. Each bar splits a film's gross into the US & Canada and the rest of the world.
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Number 5 US & Canada (domestic) Rest of the world
Ranks 1 to 50 of 98. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in 2016.
May 6, 2016 US and Canada: $408.1M Rest of the world: $747M Worldwide: $1.2B
Aug 5, 2016 US and Canada: $325.1M Rest of the world: $424.1M Worldwide: $749.2M
Nov 4, 2016 US and Canada: $232.6M Rest of the world: $445.2M Worldwide: $677.8M
May 27, 2016 US and Canada: $155.4M Rest of the world: $388.5M Worldwide: $543.9M
Jul 22, 2016 US and Canada: $158.8M Rest of the world: $184.6M Worldwide: $343.5M
Dec 21, 2016 US and Canada: $100M Rest of the world: $203.1M Worldwide: $303.1M
Dec 21, 2016 US and Canada: $54.6M Rest of the world: $186M Worldwide: $240.7M
Jul 15, 2016 US and Canada: $128.4M Rest of the world: $100.8M Worldwide: $229.1M
Nov 11, 2016 US and Canada: $100.5M Rest of the world: $112.2M Worldwide: $212.8M
Jul 1, 2016 US and Canada: $79.2M Rest of the world: $39.4M Worldwide: $118.6M
Mar 11, 2016 US and Canada: $72.1M Rest of the world: $38.1M Worldwide: $110.2M
Jan 22, 2016 US and Canada: $34.9M Rest of the world: $75M Worldwide: $109.9M
Jul 27, 2016 US and Canada: $38.6M Rest of the world: $46.7M Worldwide: $85.3M
Jul 25, 2016 US and Canada: $6M Rest of the world: $76.1M Worldwide: $82.1M
Apr 15, 2016 US and Canada: $14.7M Rest of the world: $24.1M Worldwide: $38.8M
May 13, 2016 US and Canada: $9.1M Rest of the world: $8.5M Worldwide: $17.6M
Apr 8, 2016 US and Canada: $9.3M Rest of the world: $7.6M Worldwide: $16.8M
Apr 29, 2016 US and Canada: $8.8M Rest of the world: $4.6M Worldwide: $13.4M
Sep 2, 2016 US and Canada: $3.9M Rest of the world: $4.9M Worldwide: $8.8M
2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $7.4M
Mar 18, 2016 US and Canada: $3.7M Rest of the world: $3.4M Worldwide: $7.1M
Oct 14, 2016 US and Canada: $3.8M Rest of the world: $2.5M Worldwide: $6.3M
Apr 29, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $5.5M
Jan 29, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $5.4M
Apr 22, 2016 US and Canada: $30.2K Rest of the world: $4.7M Worldwide: $4.8M
Jul 25, 2016 US and Canada: $3.8M Rest of the world: $687K Worldwide: $4.5M
May 13, 2016 US and Canada: $346.5K Rest of the world: $3.9M Worldwide: $4.3M
Jul 15, 2016 US and Canada: $33.3K Rest of the world: $2.1M Worldwide: $2.1M
Apr 5, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M
Jan 27, 2016 US and Canada: $1.2M Rest of the world: $220.1K Worldwide: $1.4M
Feb 1, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.4M
Jul 8, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.3M
Jul 22, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $634K Of the top 10, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) earned the biggest share at home (50% in the US & Canada), while Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) made 84% of its gross abroad. Across all 98 films, $3.1B (36%) came from the US & Canada.
17 of 98 films crossed $100M and took $7.8B between them, 92% of the total. 68 films, 69% of the list, earned under $10M.
May releases took the most, $1.7B from 7 films, led by Captain America: Civil War (2016). February was the quietest month ($1.8M). Each column is a release month and links to that month's chart.
Of these 10 years, 2015 earned the most: $10.2B from 84 films, led by Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). 2016 took $8.4B.
| Year | Films | Worldwide | Change | Biggest film |
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| 2007 37 films | 37 | $2.5B | – | Transformers (2007) $709.7M |
| 2008 46 films · +25% | 46 | $3.2B | +25% | Iron Man (2008) $585.8M |
| 2009 60 films · +150% | 60 | $7.9B | +150% | Avatar (2009) $2.9B |
| 2010 48 films · −50% | 48 | $3.9B | −50% | Inception (2010) $839.4M |
| 2011 46 films · +23% | 46 | $4.8B | +23% | Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) $1.1B |
| 2012 49 films · +17% | 49 | $5.6B | +17% | The Avengers (2012) $1.5B |
| 2013 60 films · +53% | 60 | $8.6B | +53% | Iron Man 3 (2013) $1.2B |
| 2014 61 films · +13% | 61 | $9.7B | +13% | Transformers: Age Of Extinction (2014) $1.1B |
| 2015 84 films · +5% | 84 | $10.2B | +5% | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) $2.1B |
| 2016 98 films · −17% | 98 | $8.4B | −17% | Captain America: Civil War (2016) $1.2B |
English-language sci-fi films took $7.9B across 64 films, 94% of the total, ahead of Japanese-language sci-fi films ($341.6M) and Chinese-language sci-fi films ($63.6M).
Every year from 1933 to 2026 with its total and its biggest film. 2018 leads with $15.1B, led by Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
The chart's numbers in short: the #1 film, the total, the billion-dollar hits and the US & Canada share, answered from the same 98 films as the chart.
Captain America: Civil War (2016) leads with $1.2B worldwide, $408.1M of it in the US & Canada. Next come Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) at $1.1B and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) at $874.4M.
98 sci-fi films released in 2016 report a worldwide gross, $8.4B in all, or $85.8M per film on average. 2015 releases took $10.2B.
2 films crossed $1 billion worldwide: Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). 17 crossed $100 million.
Films are ranked by lifetime worldwide gross in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and grouped by their release date in 2016. The figures are the reported box office grosses in our database. A gross that looks misattributed, such as one figure shared by two unrelated films or a blockbuster total on an obscure title, is left out rather than shown as a fact.
Grosses change while films are in theaters and whenever a new figure is reported; this chart reads the latest numbers in our database, so an older film can still move after a re-release.