The statistics on international films' Box Office in Malaysia has started in 2008. Box Office Mojo is the only website that provides the box office numbers for international films released in Malaysia. However, this does not include the numbers for local films. For top local films gross, please view Cinema of Malaysia. Box Office - Yahoo! Malaysia and Cinema Online Malaysia are two current websites that show the ranking of films weekly inclusive of local films, but not providing any box office number. Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) also provide only the ranking of both local and international films weekly, based on the popularity at its own cinema theatres. The ranking can be accessed at the right bottom corner of GSC's website.
Contents
- Highest grossing international films in Malaysia
- List of grossing international films
- Highest opening weekend films in history
- List of highest grossing Tamil films
- Year to year international films box office in Malaysia
- Year 2007
- Year 2008
- Year 2009
- Year 2010
- Year 2011
- List of highest grossing Chinese language film 2011
- Year 2012
- Year 2013
- Year 2014
- Year 2015
- Year 2016
- References
Highest grossing international films in Malaysia
Below is the list of top 10 highest grossing international films ever in Malaysia.
List of grossing international films
As of May 2016, Furious 7 is currently the highest-grossing film of all-times in Malaysia and holds several records - Highest-grossing film in 2015, highest opening records of all-times and the only film to gross above RM 60 million.
^ Note 1: Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed RM34,661,020 but due to the exchange rates, United International Pictures claimed that the film banked in a total of RM37,252,441.
^^ Note 2: Including the total gross of re-release of special edition.
Highest opening weekend films in history
^ Note 1: Furious 7 grossed RM20,769,458 on its opening weekend from Thursday to Sunday. However, if include sneak previews from 9pm onward on Wednesday, it opened to a total of RM26,623,534.
^^ Note 2: Avengers: Age of Ultron grossed RM17,876,018 on its opening weekend from Thursday to Sunday. If include sneak previews from Wednesday midnight onward, it opened to RM19,351,790.
^^^ Note 3: Iron Man 3 was considered to have higher opening weekend as it was a 3-day opening weekend compared to Transformers: Dark of the Moon 4-day opening weekend. The list ranks the films according to the total gross of opening weekend regardless of total days of opening weekend.
List of highest grossing Tamil films
Below are the ranking of highest grossing Tamil language movie in Malaysia. This list not include other Indian language movie like the Bollywood. Telugu, Punjabi and Malayalam. Dilwale emerge as highest grossing Indian movie in Malaysia with a gross of $3,533,374.
^ Note : Kabali which released in All-Time record number of 133 screens in Malaysia has taken a historical opening in Malaysia. The movie has collected 6,642,913 MYR in just 3 days. It's the highest opening weekend gross for any Indian Movie in Malaysia.However, Kabali Fails to beat all time Box office collection of Dilwale(Bollywood) in Malaysia.
Year to year international films box office in Malaysia
For list of highest grossing local production films in history: Highest-grossing local production films.
The historical box office record in Malaysia was made by Furious 7 in April 2015, which held the 4-day opening record of RM26,623,534 and the highest-grossing film of RM60,659,547. In 2012, while The Avengers broke the best Friday opening day gross of all-time, it was unable to break Transformers: Dark of the Moon 4-day weekend opening record gross, making RM10,050,983 from 26–29 April 2012. On 28 April 2014, Iron Man 3 broke a new 3-day opening record by grossing RM14,263,206. The film later surpassed Transformers: Dark of the Moon to be the highest-grossing film of all time, earning a gross of RM45,268,519 until Furious 7 took the crown after becoming the first film to gross over RM50 million. Transformers: Dark of the Moon was the first film to break USD $10 million in Malaysia - $10,881,761. The film was retained in the cinema for 15 weeks.
Year 2007
Transformers grossed more than $5 million in cinemas. It was retained in cinemas for a total of 14 weeks. No Chinese movies made the top 10 list whereas Sivaji became the only Tamil movie to make in the top 10 list.
Year 2008
The top film in Malaysia for year 2008 was CJ7 Cheung Gong 7 Hou which grossed RM11,715,385. This was the only year when a non-Hollywood movie became the highest-grossing film in Malaysia.
Year 2009
In 2009, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen topped the box office, grossing RM28,154,004, which was a record in Malaysia box office. It was latter surpassed by its own sequel, Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 2011.
Year 2010
In year 2010, the top film was Avatar, which made RM26,159,953 including RM1,123,320 of its 3D-reissued on 25 August 2010. Not counting the re-released version, the original film was one of the film that was retained the most longest in cinema, for a total of 29 weeks. Meanwhile, Tamil movie Enthiran became the first Tamil movie to be #1 for two consecutive weeks.
Year 2011
The highest-grossing film was Transformers: Dark of the Moon that made RM34,661,020, which was one of the biggest record in Malaysia's film industry. It was also the only film that made over $10 million (USD) in 2011 and in Malaysia's Box Office history. Followed by this were Kung Fu Panda 2 and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol grossing RM18,048,666 and RM17,297,093 respectively. In 2012, The Avengers became the second film after Transformers: Dark of the Moon to earn more than $10 million (USD) in Malaysia's Box Office.
List of highest-grossing Chinese language film (2011)
Below are list of highest grossing Chinese/ Cantonese language films from overseas in Malaysia.
Year 2012
In 2012, the top film was The Avengers which grossed RM33,983,208, followed by The Amazing Spider-Man, grossing RM21,993,313. On 8 July, The Amazing Spider-Man surpassed The Avengers (RM10,050,983) to score the best opening weekend this year with RM10,107,973. However, The Avengers still scored the biggest Friday's single opening day gross of the year. Both are still unable to top Transformers: Dark of the Moon with advance ticketing sales and more addition of midnight shows. The Avengers was retained in cinema for 15 weeks. On 22 July, The Dark Knight Rises opened to RM6,972,371, which is more than double the debut of The Dark Knight, RM3,249,930 back in 2008. The Dark Knight Rises was the second film retained the longest in cinema for 17 weeks while Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted was the animated film retained the longest in cinema for 24 weeks in 2012.
Year 2013
Both CZ12 and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey continued their strength from last year holiday weekend to dominate the box office for several weeks consecutively. Heading into January, CZ12 broke record by becoming the second highest grossing Chinese film in Malaysia, earning RM20,278,439. It is also the Jackie Chan's highest-grossing film in local box office. Meanwhile, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey had grossed RM15,100,342. It was basically higher than The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The top film of the year in Malaysia was Iron Man 3, grossing RM45,268,519. It had officially become the first film ever to gross over RM40 million. This was followed by Fast & Furious 6 which grossed a total of RM31,462,780. On 26 April, Iron Man 3 broke the highest opening day record previously held by The Avengers. It also opened to RM14,263,206, which was the highest opening record for 3 days opening after advance ticketing showed a strong selling out. On 4 July, Despicable Me 2 broke the highest opening weekend record for an animated film which was previously held by Kung Fu Panda 2. The minion comedy opened to RM5,596,983 even after a strong RM1,098,734 limited sneak previews from its previous weekend, which was higher than Kung Fu Panda 2 's RM5,025,339 back in 2011. Meanwhile, directed by Malaysian director James Wan, The Conjuring is the highest grossing horror film ever in Malaysia with RM11,800,000 until it was later surpassed by its own spin-off Annabelle in 2014.
Note: By comparing opening gross, Transformers: Dark of the Moon still hold the best opening weekend with RM 14.8 million while Iron Man 3 trailed behind with RM 13.8 million. However, with inflation and IMAX boost, Iron Man 3 could be considered scoring the best opening weekend since it had already grossed RM 13.8 million in just 3 days. The opening record for Transformers: Dark of the Moon was a 4 days opening record. All of the records were later surpassed by Transformers: Age of Extinction, Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Meanwhile, in terms of US Dollar, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters grossed less than Oz: The Great and Powerful.
Year 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction is the highest-grossing film of the year with a stunning gross of RM44,081,548. The robots adventure broke all of its predecessors' opening records, earning RM21,421,683 on its first weekend of release. The total gross of box office on that weekend was RM22,800,872, marking the biggest opening weekend of the year in local box office and has once again proven how popular is Transformers franchise here. It is followed by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with a tremendous gross of RM29,893,163. It scored the second best opening weekend of the year, shattering the previous record held by Transformers: Dark of the Moon, grossing RM14,947,576, which was also a significant improvement over The Amazing Spider-Man's opening weekend of RM10,107,973. In third, Captain America: The Winter Soldier grossed a total of RM27,083,626, which was three times bigger than Captain America: The First Avenger back in 2011.
Year 2015
The three top films were Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Jurassic World with each grossing above RM40 million for a combination total of RM160 million. Furious 7 surprised local box office by its outstanding performance, breaking all of the records held by Transformers and The Avengers franchise. It opened to RM20,769,458 on its opening weekend and RM26,623,534, if inclusive of sneak previews beginning at 9pm on Wednesday. It is the highest-grossing film of the year with a shocking RM60,659,547, marking the first film to fly pass RM50 million in local box office history. Avengers: Age of Ultron followed at #2, its opening weekend of RM17,816,018 was the second highest opening weekend of the year and nearly doubled of The Avengers's opening weekend back in 2012. Coming in third is Jurassic World with a RM48,511,938.