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Top 10 Grossing Christmas Movies

posted 17 years ago by FrostyHornyPie
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Hey, hey, this list is according to Box Office Mojo and doesn't take inflation into account...It still is a good ballpark approximation of the most popular Christmas movies.

CHRISTMAS
Movies About the Holiday
Grosses for 1980-Present

1 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Uni. $260,044,825
2 The Polar Express WB $177,139,993
3 Elf NL $173,398,518
4 The Santa Clause BV $144,833,357
5 The Santa Clause 2 BV $139,236,327
6 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause BV $84,500,122
7 Christmas with the Kranks SonR $73,780,539
8 Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas BV $73,565,632
9 Christmas Vacation WB $71,319,526
10 Fred Claus WB $60,622,212

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[–] TrekkerUK 17 years ago

What what? Where on Earth is Santa Claus: The Movie!?!

After a little research, it seems the film only made £23,500,000, apparently less than half of it's budget. Oh, and it's apparently universally hated.

I'm... shocked. It's on *every* year in the UK, and I love that film - best by far.

Why is it so bad... :(.

[–] scoutfl 17 years ago

ummm which movie are you talking about? On IMDB I only see a "Santa Claus: The Movie" (Claus, not Clause) and one movie from the UK called Santa Clause. The one from the UK it says is from 1912. The box office list that was posted here says 1980-present, however. So if that is the one you were referring to then no wonder it is not on that list. Neither is It's a Wonderful Life by the way for the same reason :-)

[–] TrekkerUK 17 years ago

Well I feel slightly foolish. It's Santa Claus: The Movie - I'll blame my eager fingers on reading up on The Santa Clause films before writing that post.