The following is a page of the highest-grossing
Christmas-themed films.
Highest-grossing Christmas films
Highest grossing Christmas film series and franchises
The following is a list of highest grossing Christmas film series and franchises. ''The Santa Clause'' tops the list with $470.1 million and also has the best average with $156.8 million.
Biggest worldwide openings for Christmas films
This list charts the largest opens for Christmas films worldwide. Since Christmas films do not open on Fridays in many markets, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday.
Figures are given in
United States dollar
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s (USD).
This list does not take into account country-by-country variations in release dates. Therefore, in some cases opening weekend grosses from many, or even most countries may not be included.
See also
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Lists of highest-grossing films
The following are lists of high-grossing films.
Worldwide grosses
* List of highest-grossing films
** List of highest-grossing non-English films
** List of highest-grossing puppet films
** List of highest-grossing R-rated films
** List of high ...
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List of Christmas films
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year d ...
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Santa Claus in film
Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre. Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas Eve visit to children. In 1897, in a short film called ''Santa Cla ...
References
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Christmas films