What are the top 10 Highest Grossing Airplane movies from the year 2016 to 2001?
In every category there will always be the top grossing movie and included on the lists below are the top grossing airplane movies from 2016 up to 2001. The charts were ranked internationally based on their box office performance.
Here they are:
1. Pearl Harbor, 2001 = about $450 million globally
The movie is about the dramatic narration again of the Japanese assault on December 1941 on Pearl Harbor and with the Doolittle Raid. In spite of the negative assessments of their critics, the movie was really a major box office victory that earned $59 million during their opening weekend. It was even nominated for 4 Academy Awards and won in the Best Sound Editing category.
2. Planes, 2013 = $239.3 million
This is a kind of another 3D computer-animated comedy and sports movie under the production of DisneyToon Studios but released by the Pictures of Walt Disney. Just like the other DisneyToon’s movies, it was primarily set to be published as a kind of direct-to-video movie, but was instead released in RealD, the Disney Digital 3D and 3D formats.
3. Sully: Miracle on the Hudson, 2016 = $238 million
The film goes after Sullenberger’s January, 2009 urgent landing of Flight 1549 of the US Airways at Hudson River, where in all of the total 155 passengers with their crews has survived, having only minor injury, and following the investigation and publicity. The movie gained positive feedback from critics and made a controversy because of the portrayal of the NTSB or the National Transportation Safety Board. The American Movie Institute included it to be in the 10 Movies of the Year.
4. Flightplan, 2005 = $223.4 million
The movie talks about Kyle Pratt, the US aircraft engineer that works in Berlin, Germany, together with her husband and the 6 year-old daughter. Right after her husband died, Kyle settles on coming back home and with her daughter and a casket to the US. After some hours in their flight Julia and Kyle fell asleep, and Kyle awakens after moments of sleep, only to discover that Julia is gone. She started to panic when nobody from her co-passengers sees and recalls her daughter, and when a steward told her that the daughter she is looking is not in the flight, it reveals to the plane staff to start thinking that Kyle is on delusion.
5. Non-Stop, 2014 = $222.8 million
The movie is about Bill Marks, an alcoholic air marshal that boards a Boeing 767 to London Heathrow from New York City of the British Aqualantic Airlines. He sat after Jen Summers, who switched seats by the window. Right after takeoff, Marks got a text message with his secured phone telling that somebody will be killed every 20 minutes not unless there will be $150 million to be transferred to a certain bank account. Marks cracks the protocol and consulted Jack Hammond together with the other air marshal that dismisses the threat. The movie was a mixed positive reviews coming from their critics and a real box office success.
6. The Aviator, 2004 = $214 million
This is a kind of American biographical movie drama of director Martin Scorsese. It is from the 1993 reference book of Howard Hughes, director of Hell’s Angels and aviation pioneer. The film describes his life, starting from 1927 to 1947 where Hughes became an aviation magnate and a victorious movie producer while simultaneously rising to more unstable because of severe OCD or obsessive–compulsive disorder. The movie was voted for 11 Academy Awards but won five awards.
7. Black Hawk Down, 2001 = $173 million
The film was directed and co-produced by Scott, Ridley. The screenplay made by Ken Nolan is taken from a factual book of identical title by Bowden, Mark, which is from the series of the published articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The 29-partial sequences of a chronicled event of the 1993 Mogadishu raid by the US military aimed by capturing the group head Mohamed Farrah Aidid and following firefight, called as the Fight of Mogadishu. The movie won 2 Oscars for Best Movie Editing and Top Sound Mixing at its 74th Academy Awards. The film received positive American movie critics, but had been strongly analyzed by some military and group of officials. For the movie trailer you can see it here.
8. Flight, 2012 = $161 million
The film was the initial live-action movie of director Robert Zemeckis ever since What Lies Beneath and Cast Away, and his first ever R-rated movie since the 1980 Used Cars. It was the next collaboration of John Goodman and Denzel Washington, who had formerly worked in the 1998 movie Fallen. The movie was a box office victory and received mostly positive feedbacks. The movie was also nominated twice during the 85th Academy Awards.
9. Planes: Fire and Rescue, 2014 = $151.4 million
This is another American comedy-adventure and 3D computer-animated film. It is the sequel to the 2013 movie Planes, produced by the DisneyToon Studios and released on July 18, 2014 by the Walt Disney Pictures. Since being successful in the Wings Around a Globe race in the primary movie, Dusty Crophopper had the victorious career of being a racer. But, the engine’s gearbox was damaged since Dusty regularly functions the engine ahead of the design limits. Since he cannot race anymore, Dusty goes with the defiant flight and tested his limits again.
10. Behind Enemy Lines, 2001 = $92 million
This action war movie is directed by Moore, John as his directorial debut, and stars Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson. The movie is about Lieutenant Chris Burnett, the American naval flight official who is blasting down over Bosnia and exposed genocide in the Bosnian War. The movie plot is from the 1995 Mrkonjić Grad happening that took place during the war. The film is considered a box office from its $40 million budget. Watch Behind Enemy Lines online free.
