Movies are exceedingly costly to make, and the financial success of a film is never a guarantee.
According to the box office database websiteTheNumbers.com,only 54 movies have grossed more than a billion dollars globally.
These are 10 movies that came painstakingly close to reaching that coveted billion-dollar mark.

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An experiment known as The Trinity Test would lead to Oppenheimer’s greatest success and worst nightmares.
The massive success ofOppenheimershouldn’t have been surprising.
Still, the sheercultural impact ofOppenheimeris hard to quantify.

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That girl is none other than teenager America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez).
Their mission is complicated when Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) succumbs to the wicked allure of dark witchcraft.
His existence is threatened by the arrival of a villainous tiger named Shere Khan (voiced byIdris Elba).

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