BOX OFFICE COMPARISON Working Title v Warp Films

TBC
(but here's a start)

WORKING TITLE

BJ:Edge of Reason The-Number.com report; box office report; with the 2001 original taking $282m and the 2004 sequel $264m, only Les Miserables (2012) keeps the franchise off WT's all-time top spot ($442m) [the-numbers all-time list].

Other films that come close: Bean (1997) $257m, Love Actually (2003) $248m, 4 Weddings (1994) $242m [their most profitable film as a $4.5m budget!], Everest (2015) $204m. Those are the 7 WT films that grossed $200m+ worldwide.

9 more top $100m: Burn After Reading (2008) $168m, Johnny English Reborn (2011) $165m, The Interpreter (2005) $163m, About a Boy (2001) $131m,  Atonement (2007) $130m, Everest (1998 44min IMAX film) $128m, The Theory of Everything (2014) $122m, Billy Elliot (2000) $110m [2nd most profitable as a $5m WT2 production], Paul (2011) $101m.

Thats 16 grossing $100m+ in total, with several more at $90m+.

The-Numbers.com provides estimated average figures for WT:

AVERAGE BUDGET: $23M
AVERAGE US BOX OFFICE: $26M
AVERAGE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE: $80M