Steven Spielberg's movies have reached the $10 billion mark throughout his career after his latest motion picture, "Ready Player One," took in $475.1 million.
It was the first time ever for a director to reach the worldwide gross total, which stands at $10.009 billion worldwide for such movies as "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Jaws," and the "Indiana Jones" franchise, the HuffPost wrote.
When Box Office Mojo adjusted his movies for ticket price inflation, Spielberg's total jumped to $10.4 billion. The HuffPost wrote that if Spielberg produced movies are factored in, the total increases to $17.2 billion.
The HuffPost wrote that directors Michael Bay and Peter Jackson are next on the list with their movies reaching $6.5 billion globally each.
Spielberg, 71, has a real time net worth of $3.6 billion after nearly six decades of filmmaking, according to Forbes magazine. The winner of two Academy Awards for directing – "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" – he also founded DreamWorks Animation with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. It was sold to Comcast in 2016, per Forbes.
In 2016, Spielberg told Wired magazine that he still depends on what he calls "that old familiar feeling" in deciding what films to direct after reading the script.
"It's the only way I can test how emotionally involved I want to be," Spielberg told the magazine. "I'm getting married to a movie. I've got to know it's true love. And every time I read the script again, I say, 'This read — this time around — I'm going to find the fatal flaw that will turn me away from this.' And when I can't find it, I throw my hands up in the air, and I say, 'I surrender, dear!'"
In actual dollars, "Jurassic Park" has been Spielberg's biggest money maker at $983 million worldwide followed by "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at $786.6 million. When adjusted for inflation, "E.T." leads the pack at $1.3 billion followed by "Jaws" at $1.17 billion, per Box Office Mojo.
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