World's favourite film franchise TOPS Star Wars, MCU, James Bond, Harry Potter: Guess No 1

Over the last century, there have been some huge film franchises. From James Bond and Star Wars to Harry Potter and the MCU, many are based on much-loved stories. Now the world’s favourite has been determined by a detailed analysis based on production budget, box office earnings, IMDb score, metascore, award nominations and award wins of high-earning film franchises.

And according to SlotsOnlineCanada’s research, Peter Jackson’s adaptations of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit make the Middle-earth series the world’s favourite film franchise.

Coming out at No 1 makes a lot of sense considering the critical and financial success of the six fantasy films.

Together they made an incredible $5.85 billion at the global box office alone.

Here are the full top 10 of the world’s best-loved film franchises.

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Marvel fans may be scratching their heads at that one.

After all, Hawkeye is probably the least popular of the six original Avengers considering he doesn’t have any superpowers and hasn’t played a huge role in the MCU.

Nevertheless, the films he has appeared in, and for however long, were very successful and critically acclaimed hence he came out at No 1.

Meanwhile, Lord of the Rings recently had an incredible virtual reunion just last week.