The statistics on international films' Box Office in Malaysia has started in 2008. Box Office Mojo is the only website that provides the box office numbers for international films released in Malaysia. However, this does not include the numbers for local films. For top local films gross, please view Cinema of Malaysia. Box Office - Yahoo! Malaysia and Cinema Online Malaysia are two current websites that show the ranking of films weekly inclusive of local films, but not providing any box office number. Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) also provide only the ranking of both local and international films weekly, based on the popularity at its own cinema. The ranking can be accessed at the right bottom corner of GSC's website.
Highest-grossing local films in Malaysia
Below is the list of top 30 highest-grossing local films ever in Malaysia.
List of grossing local films
, Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan directed by Syamsul Yusof is currently the highest-grossing local film (and overall) of all time in Malaysia.
Highest-grossing international films in Malaysia
Below is the list of top 50 highest-grossing international films ever in Malaysia. Note: All grosses are based on the final week of the film in local theatres and taken in estimation of local currency, as different rates between USD and Ringgit of Malaysia applied every week.
List of grossing international films
Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed RM34,661,020 but due to the exchange rates, United International Pictures claimed that the film banked in a total of RM37,252,441.
^^ Note 2: Including the total gross of the re-release of the special edition. Note 3: Films that are currently running in theatres nationwide.
Highest opening weekend films in history
Below is the list of the 30 biggest opening weekend of all time in Malaysia. As of 4 August 2019, Avengers: Endgame has the biggest opening weekend of all time in Malaysia, grossing RM 41,835,999 in the opening weekend alone and surpassed RM 10,000,000 on the opening day itself As of 31 May 2023
^ Note 1: Furious 7 grossed RM20,769,458 on its opening weekend from Thursday to Sunday. However, if include sneak previews from 9pm onward on Wednesday, it opened to a total of RM26,623,534.
^^ Note 2: Avengers: Age of Ultron grossed RM17,876,018 on its opening weekend from Thursday to Sunday. If include sneak previews from Wednesday midnight onward, it opened to RM19,351,790.
^^^ Note 3: Iron Man 3 was considered to have higher opening weekend as it was a 3-day opening weekend compared to Transformers: Dark of the Moon 4-day opening weekend. The list ranks the films according to the total gross of opening weekend regardless of total days of opening weekend.
List of highest-grossing Indian films
2.0 holds the record for the biggest opening day (MYR 2,730,000) and the biggest opening weekend of any Indian movie in Malaysia.
Highest-grossing animated films in Malaysia
Below is the list of highest-grossing animated films ever in Malaysia (More than 1 million RM).
List of grossing animated films
Mechamato Movie is currently the highest-grossing animated film in Malaysia for local films.While Frozen II is the highest-grossing animated film for international films Background colour indicates films that are currently in cinema
Year to year international films box office in Malaysia
For list of highest-grossing local production films in history: Highest-grossing local production films.
The historical box office record in Malaysia was made by Furious 7 in April 2015, which held the 4-day opening record of RM26,623,534 and the highest-grossing film of RM60,659,547. In 2012, while The Avengers broke the best Friday opening day gross of all time, it was unable to break Transformers: Dark of the Moon 4-day weekend opening record gross, making RM10,050,983 from 26 to 29 April 2012. On 28 April 2014, Iron Man 3 broke a new 3-day opening record by grossing RM14,263,206. The film later surpassed Transformers: Dark of the Moon to be the highest-grossing film of all time, earning a gross of RM45,268,519 until Furious 7 took the crown after becoming the first film to gross over RM50 million. Transformers: Dark of the Moon was the first film to break US$10 million in Malaysia - $10,881,761. The film was retained in the cinema for 15 weeks.
Year 2007
Transformers grossed more than $5 million in cinemas. It was retained in cinemas for a total of 14 weeks.
Note: Total gross are retrieved based on estimation from Box Office Mojo.