The 10 most successful movie franchises, ranked (10 Photos)

Jul 21, 2022

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What makes a movie franchise great? Award winning performances? Breakneck action sequences? Good old fashioned T&A? Yes. But does that make it successful? Not necessarily. When it comes to movies, success isn’t really limited by one factor but a number of them, at least according to a recent study that analyzed movie franchises by box office revenue, profitability performance (box office earnings divided by budget), and scores from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic. The study then gave a score based on the average from all the movies in the franchise and behold, you have your most successful franchises ever. See who made the cut.