Top 30 Highest Grossing Movies Filmed in Austin
Austin’s filmmaking community is alive and well. With high-end production facilities such as Austin Studios in Round Rock, Spiderwood Studios in Ulty, East Side Stages Downtown, and dozens of smaller studios available, the hills are alive with the sound of…movies.
You may be curious about what major movies were made in Austin. Here is a list of the top (US) grossing films, ordered by total box office sales, that were produced (or at least partially produced) in Austin, Texas.
- True Grit (2010) $171M
- Spy Kids (2001) $113M
- Spy Kids 3D (2003) $112M
- Miss Congeniality (2000) $107M
- Phenomenon (1996) $105M
- Michael (1996) $95.3M
- Spy Kids 2 (2002) $85.6M
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) $80.1M
- The Rookie (2002) $75.6M
- Sin City (2005) $74.1M
- Mortal Kombat (1995) $70.4M
- Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003) $70.1M
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) $69.7M
- Road Trip (2000) $68.5M
- Friday the 13th (2009) $65M
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) $63.1M
- Friday Night Lights (2004) $61.2M
- Hope Floats (1998) $60M
- Courage Under Fire (1996) $59M
- Varsity Blues (1999) $52.9M
- Predators (2010) $52M
- Secondhand Lions (2003) $41.4M
- The Faculty (1998) $40.1M
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) $39.5
- Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl 3D (2005) $39.2
- Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011) $37.8M
- The Ringer (2005) $35.4M
- Where the Heart Is (2000) $33.8M
- A Perfect World (1993) $31.2M
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) $30.9M
You may have noticed that a rather large piece of the box-office pie went to Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios, producers of the Spy Kids franchise. Although box-office success isn’t going to get any easier, we have yet to see the best movies come out of Austin.
