Editing 2000 in film (section)

==Highest-grossing films==
{{see also|Lists of box office number-one films#2000}}
The top 10 films released in 2000 by worldwide gross are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2000/?ref_=bo_cso_table_1|title=2000 Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Top 2000 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-2000 |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Numbers}}</ref>
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! Rank!! Title !! Distributor !! Worldwide gross
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! style="text-align:center;"| 1
| ''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $546,388,108
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 2
| ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''
| [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] / [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]
| $465,516,248
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 3
| ''[[Cast Away]]''
| [[20th Century Fox]] / [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]]
| $429,632,142
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 4
| ''[[What Women Want]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $374,111,707
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 5
| ''[[Dinosaur (2000 film)|Dinosaur]]''
| [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista]]
| $349,822,765
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 6
| ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''
| [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]
| $346,524,444
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 7
| ''[[Meet the Parents]]''
| [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] / [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]]
| $330,444,045
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 8
| ''[[The Perfect Storm (film)|The Perfect Storm]]''
| [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]]
| $328,711,434
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 9
| ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]''
| [[20th Century Fox]]
| $296,339,528
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 10
| ''[[What Lies Beneath]]''
| [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] / [[20th Century Fox]]
| $291,420,351
|}

=== 2000 box office records ===
* ''[[Chicken Run]]'' became the [[List of highest-grossing animated films#Stop motion animation|highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever]].
* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film)|Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''{{'}}s $55.1 million opening weekend became the highest debut for a Christmas-themed film. It had the highest opening weekend for a [[Jim Carrey]] film and a [[Ron Howard]] film, surpassing both ''[[Batman Forever]]'' and ''[[Ransom (1996 film)|Ransom]]'' simultaneously.<ref>{{cite news|title=Box Office: Grinch Steals Holiday Hearts |work=[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=113107&page=1|access-date=November 13, 2010}}</ref>