Low Budget vs High Budet Films

High Budget films 

1. Avatar - $237 million 
2. Hobbit Trilogy - $248.3 million each ($745 million total for all 3)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead mans chest - $250 million
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - $250 million 
5. The Amazing Spider-man 2 -$255 million
6. Spider-man 3 - $258 million 
7. Tangled - $260 million
8. John Carter - $306.6 million
9. Avengers age of Ultron - $330.6 million
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On stranger tides -$410.6 million

Low Budget Films 

1. Napoleon Dynamite - Budget = $400,000 Worldwide Gross =$46,140,956 Return = 5,668%
2. Once - Budget = $150,000 Worldwide Gross = $18,997,174 Return = 6,232%
3. Clerks - Budget = $27,000 Worldwide Gross =$3,894,240 Return =7,112%
4. Halloween - Budget = $325,000 Worldwide Gross = $70,000,000 Return = 10,669%
5. American Graffiti - Budget = $770,000 Worldwide Gross = $ 140,000,000 Return =8,909%
6. Night of the Living Dead - Budget = $114,000 Worldwide Gross =$ 30,000,000 Return = 13,058%
7. El Mariachi - Budget = $7,000 Worldwide Gross = $2,041,928 Return = 14,485%
8. The Blair Witch Project - Budget = 600,000 Worldwide Gross = $248,300,000 Return = 20,592%
9. Mad Max - Budget = $200,000 Worldwide Gross =$ 99,750,000 Return = 24,838%
10. Paranormal Activity - Budget = $15,000 Worldwide Gross = $196,681,656 Return = 655,506%