Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the highest-grossing film in the franchise, with a reported worldwide box office of $517,970,552. Here are all six theatrical Terminator movies ranked by the worldwide totals listed by The Numbers, accessed October 8, 2026.
Terminator movies ranked by worldwide box office
The figures below are nominal worldwide grosses, not adjusted for inflation. The Numbers lists the six theatrical films in this order:
| Rank | Film | Release year | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | $517,970,552 |
| 2 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | 2003 | $433,058,296 |
| 3 | Terminator Genisys | 2015 | $432,150,894 |
| 4 | Terminator Salvation | 2009 | $365,491,792 |
| 5 | Terminator: Dark Fate | 2019 | $250,367,666 |
| 6 | The Terminator | 1984 | $78,019,031 |
Source: The Numbers’ Terminator franchise table, accessed October 8, 2026. The table preserves the source’s reported precision.
How close are the second- and third-place films?
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines edges Terminator Genisys by $907,402 in The Numbers’ worldwide totals. The ranking is therefore narrow between those two entries, even though their order is clear in this dataset.
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What these box-office totals do—and do not—measure
A worldwide gross is the reported amount earned at the box office, not the studio’s profit. It does not account for costs such as marketing or for how ticket revenue is divided among studios, distributors, and theaters. A gross-to-budget comparison alone cannot establish a film’s return.
The ranking is also not inflation-adjusted, so it compares the listed dollar totals rather than the films’ purchasing power across their release eras. An inflation-adjusted ranking would be a different comparison.
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- Action since 1984 by James Cameron with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.
Why other box-office listings may differ
Box Office Mojo’s Terminator franchise page orders its entries by domestic lifetime gross and lists some Terminator 2 re-releases separately, including 2017 and 2026 entries. The Numbers’ franchise table instead provides the worldwide totals used here. The databases also show some domestic-gross differences, reflecting differences in reporting and release accounting. For a consistent ranking, use one source and its stated grouping rather than combining figures across databases.
For example, The Numbers’ individual Terminator 2: Judgment Day page reports $517,970,552 worldwide: $206,089,758 domestic and $311,880,794 international. It also records later theatrical releases; those release details do not change the basis of the franchise-table ranking above.
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Rank #4
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- A decade has passed since John Connor (NICK STAHL) helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives "off the grid" - no home, no credit cards, no cell phone and no job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Until, out of the shadows of the
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