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Muppet All-Time Box Office Rankings

frogboy4

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:search:For what it's worth I found the listings for theatrical Muppet/Henson film domestic (US) box office grosses. Of course they are not adjusted for inflation or ticket prices. Some kind of surprised me. I still believe a movie's worth comes from the individual viewer, but this is interesting. Who'd have known that Elmo can't get the movie crowds?

Jim Henson / Muppets: Box Office​

1. THE MUPPET MOVIE 1979 = $65,200,000
2. THE DARK CRYSTAL 1982 = $40,577,001
3. MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND 1996 = $34,327,391
4. THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER 1981 = $31,206,251
5. THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL 1992 = $27,281,507
6. THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN 1984 = $25,534,703
7. MUPPETS FROM SPACE 1999 = $16,625,807
8. FOLLOW THAT BIRD 1985 = $13,961,370
9. LABYRINTH 1986 = $12,729,917
10.THE ADVENTURES OF ELMO IN GROUCHLAND 1999 = $11,683,047


I don't tend to lump these in with the rest:

GOOD BOY! 2003 = $37,667,746
THE WITCHES 1990 = $10,360,553
BUDDY 1997 = $10,113,400
MIRRORMASK 2005 = $866,999
 

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I just hope the next one it the biggest and not necessarily the best.
 

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GOOD BOY! 2003 = $37,667,746
THE WITCHES 1990 = $10,360,553
BUDDY 1997 = $10,113,400
MIRRORMASK 2005 = $866,999
Good Boy did better than Follow that Bird and Muppets take manhatten? To quote Alluicious Pig, "That's not right!"
 

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Oh, by the way. The Muppet Movie was the fourth largest grosser for 1979! It was barely beat out for the third slot by some little Coppola film called Apocalypse Now. :wink:
 
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