{"id":40568,"date":"2010-11-19T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=40568"},"modified":"2010-11-19T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:43:15","slug":"highest-grossing-movie-franchises-of-all-time-lotr-is-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/11\/19\/40568-highest-grossing-movie-franchises-of-all-time-lotr-is-fifth\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest Grossing Movie Franchises of All Time &#8211; LOTR is Fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/40259653?slide=12\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40569 no-lazyload\" title=\"SS_highest_grossing_movie_franchise_lotr\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SS_highest_grossing_movie_franchise_lotr-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SS_highest_grossing_movie_franchise_lotr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SS_highest_grossing_movie_franchise_lotr.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>With the release of the latest Harry Potter film, CNBC has a slide show featuring the highest grossing movie franchises of all time. Here are the top five&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Star Wars (6 Films, $5.49 Billion)<\/li>\n<li>Harry Potter (6 Films, $5.42 Billion)<\/li>\n<li>James Bond (23 Films, $3.55 Billion)<\/li>\n<li>Shrek (4 Films, $2.94 Billion)<\/li>\n<li>The Lord of the Rings \u00a0(3 Films, $2.91 Billion)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As you can see The Lord of the Rings makes the top five, but, just as a point of observation, if you average the number of films to the dollar total, you&#8217;ll see that The Lord of the Rings has the highest per film average &#8211; around $970,000,000 per film.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/40259653?slide=01\" target=\"_blank\">See the full list<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the latest Harry Potter film, CNBC has a slide show featuring the highest grossing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[197,4,5,148,149,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-movies","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ayk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}