{"id":2231633,"date":"2026-01-12T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2231633"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:14:30","slug":"tom-cruise-is-still-the-only-star-who-doesnt-need-marvel-and-dc-to-rule-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-cruise-is-still-the-only-star-who-doesnt-need-marvel-and-dc-to-rule-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Is Still the Only Star Who Doesn\u2019t Need Marvel and DC to Rule Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000129\/\">Tom Cruise<\/a> has the ability to pull the crowd to the theaters with his shear star power. He is one of the highest grossing stars in the industry, with only a few other actors ahead of him. However, if a separate list is made with no Marvel or DC movies included, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14545248\/\">Cruise<\/a> will be the highest-grossing movie star.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0757855\/\">Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a> has become the highest-grossing star after her current movie, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1757678\/\">Avatar: Fire &amp; Ash<\/a>, hit the $1.2 billion mark at the box office (via GamesRadar). Salda\u00f1a has also been lucky enough to be part of the two highest-grossing movies of all time: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0499549\/\">Avatar<\/a> ($2.9 billion) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4154796\/\">Avengers: Endgame<\/a> ($2.79 billion).<\/p>\n<p>She&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise has the ability to pull the crowd to the theaters with his shear star power. He is one of the highest grossing stars in the industry, with only a few other actors ahead of him. However, if a separate list is made with no Marvel or DC movies included, Cruise will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2231634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2231633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tom-Cruise-Is-Still-the-Only-Star-Who-Doesnt-Need.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231635,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231633\/revisions\/2231635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}