The best tribute posters among the highest grossing films

Little by little, the film industry begins to return to normal. A new milestone was even set in terms of box-score. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Avatar was once again the highest grossing film in history thanks to its re-release in China, where it achieved a global gross of almost $ 2.8 billion.

Previously, this privilege was held by Avengers: Endgame, the film by the Russo brothers that had achieved a global box office of almost 2,797 million dollars. However, more than 10 years later, James Cameron's film was re-released in China and, raising about $ 8 million in its first afternoon, surpassed Marvel's figure and managed to mark a milestone in the film industry.

The really funny thing is that, as the industry is used to, Marvel and the Russo directors themselves decided to congratulate director James Cameron for his feat. They even decided to make a special poster to honor that "transition" in terms of the box office. Against this background, we decided to review other iconic poster transitions between very important films.

Jaws – Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope (1977)

We begin with the one that inaugurated this tradition. Steven Spielberg is known to be a close friend of George Lucas. This relationship has been so fruitful that it  "changed science fiction" … but also box office successes.

At the time, George Lucas' Star Wars was a real success that completely changed the film industry. The truth is that he got to surpass Jaws, the 1975 film by his friend Spielberg. For this reason, the latter dedicated a nice poster to him in which the character R2-D2 appears fishing the protagonist, where it is accompanied by a text in which the author is congratulated.

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Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope – ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

If the previous one was a beautiful gesture, the next one would be even more so. For the year 1982 ET appeared, a film that was a real success and that showed that science fiction could be extremely popular. Again, the contest was between Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, as Star Wars remained at the top of the highest-grossing films.

So by 1982 ET, the alien managed to make history after surpassing the history of a galaxy far, far away. So, taking advantage of the fact that both films belonged to the same genre, Lucas decided to return the dedication with a very beautiful image, where he commemorates the “intergalactic friendship” that they were able to harvest.

The Avengers – Jurassic World: Jurassic World (2015)

Many years later, we began to see that these nods between hit movies would be repeated. In this case, we had seen that Marvel managed to revolutionize the entire superhero genre by presenting for the first time a film in which the most important characters of the entire saga met, which came out in 2012.

While they stayed at the top of the rankings for a long time, there would come a time when this would change. In 2015, Colin Trevorrow's film managed to displace Joss Whedon's, which is why Marvel Studios decided to congratulate their rivals for this achievement, with an image where the superheroes saw the Tyrannosaurus rex surprised.

Star Wars: Episode VII, The Force Awakens – Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

The return of Star Wars to the cinemas marked a before and after. Mainly because it is one of the most beloved franchises of all time and, seeing the characters of the classic trilogy again generated a lot of expectations in the fans, which resulted in a record in sales, according to Espinof.

This lasted until 2018, when the masterful film by the Russo brothers, Avengers: Infinity War, managed to displace it within the box office. Interestingly, these are two productions belonging to the same company (Disney), although that did not prevent the producer Kathleen Kennedy from congratulating Marvel on Lucasfilm's part.

Titanic – Avengers: Endgame (2019)

However, Marvel still wanted to set more records. In 2019, Avengers: Endgame had reached number 2 at the box office in history, after displacing Titanic. Curiously, until that moment he had not beaten Avatar, also from the same director. However, that did not prevent him from generating a congratulations poster.

In a funny way, the director mentioned that the superheroes "sank their Titanic", which is why he decided to congratulate the entire Marvel Studios production, saying that it was a "milestone for the industry". Anyway, as we can see, now he returned to the top thanks to the re-release of Avatar.

As we can see, sometimes there is a lot of affection between the directors of the most important films in the history of cinema.