Anthony Hopkins Movies that Made Over $100 Million at the Box Office

Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins was superb playing the creepy sociopath and his performance made the movie.

Today Anthony Hopkins is considered to be one of the best actors in Hollywood. To date he has starred in 46 movies including his newest movie The Rite. Out of those 46 movies these are the 9 that made over $100 million dollars at the box office.

Hopkins has been in his share of movies that flopped at the box office. You can see his biggest flops at 10 Anthony Hopkins Movies That Flopped at the Box Office.

These are all the Anthony Hopkins movies that made over $100 million dollars worldwide at the box office. Given the fact that only 20% of Hopkins movies have gone over the $100 million dollar mark it's likely that The Rite will not reach that mark.

Anthony Hopkins Movies That Made Over $100 Million Dollars at the Box Office

1. Mission: Impossible II (2000) - $546 million

Tom Cruise is the biggest star in Mission: Impossible II but the movie also co-starred Anthony Hopkins and had a budget of $125 million. Sort of odd that this is the biggest grossing Anthony Hopkins movie of all time.

2. Hannibal (2001) - $352 million

In the $87 million budget sequel to Silence of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins stars again as the creepy but brilliant Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Though not as good as its predecessor and even though Julianne Moore replaced Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling Hannibal made more money at the box office. $79 million more to be exact though if you take into account their production budgets Hannibal only cleared $11 million more than Silence of the Lambs did.

3. Silence of the Lambs (1991) - $273 million

The creepy Silence of the Lambs starred Anthony Hopkins in the role he will always be remembered for Hannibal Lecter. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his brilliant performance of the sociopath. Jodie Foster co-starred as Clarice Starling and the movie had a $19 million budget.

4. The Mask of Zorro (1998) - $250 million

Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones co-starred in the $85 million budget The Mask of Zorro.

5. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - $216 million

Anthony Hopkins actually plays a good guy as he starred as Van Helsing in Dracula which co-starred Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves and had a $40 million budget.

6. Red Dragon (2002) - $209 million

Anthony Hopkins again plays Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon. Edward Norton and Ralph Fiennes co-star in the $78 million budget thriller.

This movie is by far the least successful commercially of the three Hannibal Lecter movies. Red Dragon cleared $131 million at the box office compared to Hannibal which cleared $265 million and Silence of the Lambs which cleared $254 million.

7. Alexander (2004) - $167 million

Alexander the movie co-starred Colin Farrell as Alexander and Angelina Jolie as his mother. Alexander which was directed by Oliver Stone bombed domestically at the box office but made back its budget of $155 million overseas.

8. Legends of the Fall (1994) - $161 million

Brad Pitt co-starred.

9. Meet Joe Black (1998) - $143 million

Again Brad Pitt co-starred. Meet Joe Black had a $90 million budget.

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