Avatar unsurprisingly comes in second place, making $466 million of its domestic haul in 2010, 62 percent of its total.
However, Star Wars isn’t the movie with the biggest box office haul in the year after release – not by a long shot.
Traditionally sites tend to sort movies based on their release year, regardless of how staggered their cinema run actually was.
Of course, that’s nothing on The Force Awakens, which is particularly impressive for having still made most of its $936.7 million total in 2015 (its opening weekend was a record-breaker by itself).