his is a 

list of the highest-grossing media franchises. This includes media franchises that started

as a book, film, video game, comic book, animated film or television series and have expanded to
other forms of media. For each franchise listed below the revenue total includes revenue from movie
tickets, home entertainment, video games, merchandise, and any other franchise-related products
when such information is available.
The list includes the total estimated revenue figure and the revenue breakdown. Estimates are
based on combined revenue from different media and merchandise, based on publicly available
data.

Contents

 1List

o 1.1$50 billion+

o 1.2$20–50 billion

o 1.3$10–20 billion

o 1.4$5–10 billion

o 1.5$2–5 billion

 2See also

 3Notes

 4References

List[edit]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You
can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Year
Total Revenue
Franc of Original Creat
revenue  breakdown Owner(s)
hise incep media or(s)
(USD) (est.)
tion

$50 billion+[edit]
Pokémo 1996 est. $100  Licens Video game Satoshi Nintendo (tra
n billion[a] ed Tajiri demark)
mercha Ken The
ndise Sugimori Pokémon
– $76 Company
 Year
Total Revenue
Franc of Original Creat
revenue  breakdown Owner(s)
hise incep media or(s)
(USD) (est.)
tion

billion[b]
 Video
games 
– $22.7
16
billion[c]
 Box
office – 
$1.838
billion[d]
 Home
entertai (Nintendo, Ga
nment me
Freak, Creatur
– $144.
es)
3
(copyright)
million[e]
 Strateg
y
guide b
ooks
– $142
million[f]
 Jet
aircraft
sales – 
$3
million[g]
 Mercha
ndise Yuko
Hello est. $84.5 sales Cartoon char Shimizu
1974 Sanrio
Kitty billion – $84.5 acter[22] Shintaro
15 Tsuji
billion[h]
Winnie 1924 est. $80.3  Retail Book[49] A. A. The Walt
the billion sales Milne Disney
Pooh – $79.8 E. H. Company
23 Shepard
billion[i]
 Box
office
– $460
million[4
6]

 DVD & 
 Year
Total Revenue
Franc of Original Creat
revenue  breakdown Owner(s)
hise incep media or(s)
(USD) (est.)
tion

Blu-ray 
sales
– $64
million[4
7][48]

 Retail
sales
– $79.5
31
billion[j]
 Box Walt
Mickey The Walt
est. $80.3 office –  Animated Disney
Mouse & 1928 Disney
billion $457.4 cartoon Ub
Friends Company
million[k] Iwerks
 Home
video s
ales
– $293
million[l]
Star 1977 est. $68.7  Mercha Film George Lucasfilm
Wars billion[m] ndise Lucas (The Walt
sales Disney
– $42.2 Company)
17
billion[n]
 Box
office – 
$10.31
6
billion[o]
 Home
video – 
$9.071
billion[p]
 Video
games 
– $5.01
billion[q]
 Book
sales – 
$1.82
billion[67]
 TV
revenu
 Year
Total Revenue
Franc of Original Creat
revenue  breakdown Owner(s)
hise incep media or(s)
(USD) (est.)
tion

e
– $280
million[r]