Here are the 20 non-franchise movies that have made the most money across the entire history of the domestic box office…
There is this belief out there that all Hollywood makes at this point are sequels and remakes and extensions of massive cinematic universes.
That list gets even smaller if you eliminate the films that were created as standalone movies that then spawned sequels (like Frozen), or remakes (like The Lion King) or television series (like Pixar’s Up).
After you weed all of those movies out, what you’re left with is an interesting batch of titles.