DISASTER FILM GUIDE
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DISASTER FILM DATA (LAST UPDATE 3/19/22) |
STUDIO/DIVISION/PROD. CO. |
USA RELEASE DATE |
MPAA RATING |
US GROSS MILLIONS |
BUDGET MILLIONS |
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII |
RKO |
October 18 1935 |
NR |
1 |
|
SAN FRANCISCO |
MGM |
June 26 1936 |
NR |
1.3 |
|
IN OLD CHICAGO |
Fox |
April 15 1938 |
NR |
3.0 |
1.8 |
LIFEBOAT |
Fox |
January 12 1944 |
NR |
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TITANIC |
Fox |
April 16 1953 |
NR |
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THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY |
Warner Brothers/Paramount |
July 3 1954 |
NR |
5.2 |
|
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER |
Rank |
December 16 1958 |
NR |
1.6 |
|
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA |
Fox |
July 12 1961 |
PG |
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CRACK IN THE WORLD |
Paramount |
April 15 1965 |
NR |
.6 |
|
AIRPORT |
Universal |
March 5 1970 |
G |
100.5 |
10 |
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN |
Universal |
March 12 1971 |
G |
16.4 |
|
SKYJACKED |
MGM |
May 24 1972 |
PG |
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THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) |
Fox |
December 12 1972 |
PG |
84.6 |
5 |
THE NEPTUNE FACTOR |
Fox |
June 26 1973 |
G |
2.5 |
|
JUGGERNAUT |
UA |
September 25 1974 |
PG |
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AIRPORT 1975 |
Universal |
October 18 1974 |
PG |
56.2 |
3 |
EARTHQUAKE |
Universal |
November 15 1974 |
PG |
79.7 |
7 |
THE TOWERING INFERNO |
Fox/Warner Bros. |
December 14 1974 |
PG |
116.0 |
14 |
THE HINDENBURG |
Universal |
December 25 1975 |
PG |
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TWO-MINUTE WARNING |
Universal |
November 12 1976 |
R |
|
|
THE CASSANDRA CROSSING |
AVCO Embassy |
February 9 1977 |
R |
15.3 |
|
AIRPORT ‘77 |
Universal |
March 11 1977 |
PG |
33.5 |
|
BLACK SUNDAY |
Paramount |
March 11 1977 |
R |
||
ROLLERCOASTER |
Universal |
June 17 1977 |
PG |
||
GRAY LADY DOWN |
Universal |
March 10 1978 |
PG |
||
THE SWARM |
Warner Brothers |
July 14 1978 |
PG |
10.0 |
21 |
AVALANCHE |
New World |
September 29 1978 |
PG |
||
HURRICANE |
Paramount |
April 12 1979 |
PG |
20 |
|
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE |
Warner Brothers |
May 18 1979 |
PG |
10 |
|
THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT ‘79 |
Universal |
August 3 1979 |
PG |
13.0 |
10 |
CITY ON FIRE |
AVCO Embassy |
August 31 1979 |
R |
.7 |
5.3 |
METEOR |
AIP |
October 19 1979 |
PG |
8.4 |
16 |
WHEN TIME RAN OUT... |
Warner Brothers |
March 28 1980 |
PG |
3.8 |
20 |
ST. HELENS |
Parnell |
1981 |
PG |
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TESTAMENT |
Paramount |
November 4 1983 |
PG |
2.0 |
|
THE DAY AFTER |
Buena Vista/ABC TV |
November 20 1983 |
NR |
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MIRACLE MILE |
Columbia |
May 19 1989 |
R |
1.1 |
3 |
ALIVE |
Buena Vista/Touchstone/Paramount |
January 15 1993 |
R |
36.7 |
32 |
OUTBREAK |
Warner Brothers |
March 10 1995 |
R |
67.6 |
50 |
APOLLO 13 |
Universal/Amblin |
June 30 1995 |
PG-13 |
173.8 |
62 |
TWISTER |
Warner Brothers/Universal/Amblin |
May 10 1996 |
PG-13 |
241.7 |
92 |
INDEPENDENCE DAY |
Fox |
July 3 1996 |
PG-13 |
306.1 |
75 |
THE TRIGGER EFFECT |
Universal |
August 30 1996 |
PG-13 |
3.6 |
8 |
DAYLIGHT |
Universal |
December 6 1996 |
PG-13 |
33.0 |
80 |
MARS ATTACKS |
Warner Brothers |
December 13 1996 |
PG-13 |
37.7 |
70 |
DANTE’S PEAK |
Universal |
February 7 1997 |
PG-13 |
67.1 |
104 |
VOLCANO |
Fox |
April 25 1997 |
PG-13 |
49.3 |
90 |
SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL |
Fox |
June 13 1997 |
PG-13 |
48.0 |
110 |
TITANIC |
Paramount/Fox/Lightstorm |
December 19 1997 |
PG-13 |
658.6 |
200 |
FIRESTORM |
Fox |
January 9 1998 |
R |
8.1 |
19 |
HARD RAIN |
Paramount |
January 16 1998 |
R |
19.8 |
70 |
DEEP IMPACT |
Paramount |
May 8 1998 |
PG-13 |
140.4 |
75 |
ARMAGEDDON |
Buena Vista/Touchstone |
July 1 1998 |
PG-13 |
201.5 |
140 |
THE PERFECT STORM |
Warner Brothers |
June 30 2000 |
PG-13 |
182.6 |
140 |
THE SUM OF ALL FEARS |
Paramount |
May 31 2002 |
PG-13 |
118.5 |
68 |
THE CORE |
Paramount |
March 28 2003 |
PG-13 |
31.1 |
60 |
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW |
Fox/Lions Gate |
May 28 2004 |
PG-13 |
186.7 |
125 |
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX |
Fox |
December 17 2004 |
PG-13 |
21.0 |
45 |
WAR OF THE WORLDS |
Paramount/Dreamworks/Amblin |
June 29 2005 |
PG-13 |
234.2 |
128 |
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005) |
NBC TV |
November 20 2005 |
NR |
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UNITED 93 (story of hijacked flight on 9/11) |
Universal/Working Title |
April 28 2006 |
R |
31.4 |
15 |
POSEIDON |
Warner Brothers/Virtual |
May 12 2006 |
PG-13 |
60.6 |
160 |
WORLD TRADE CENTER (Oliver Stone/Nicolas Cage 9/11 drama) |
Paramount |
August 9 2006 |
PG-13 |
70.2 |
63 |
SUNSHINE (team is trying to re-ignite the sun) |
Fox Searchlight |
July 20 [Limited], July 27 2007 [Wider] |
R |
3.6 |
15 |
DOOMSDAY (about a lethal virus) |
Universal/Focus/Rogue |
March 14 2008 |
R |
10.9 |
30 |
THE HAPPENING (Shyamalan disaster film) |
Fox/Spyglass |
June 13 2008 |
R |
64.4 |
57 |
KNOWING (Nicolas Cage supernatural disaster thriller) |
Summit Entertainment |
March 20 2009 |
PG-13 |
79.9 |
50 |
2012 (Roland Emmerich disaster film) |
Sony/Columbia |
November 13 2009 |
PG-13 |
166.1 |
200 |
CONTAGION (all-star Steven Soderburgh virus epidemic film) |
Warner Bros. |
September 9 2011 |
PG-13 |
75.6 |
60 |
THE IMPOSSIBLE (about 2004 Thailand tsunami) |
Lionsgate/Summit/Warner Bros. |
Dec. 21 2012 [Limited], Jan. 4 2013 [Wide] |
PG-13 |
19.0 |
20 |
THIS IS THE END (Seth Rogan/Jonah Hill disaster comedy) |
Sony/Columbia/Mandate |
June 12 2013 |
R | 100.8 |
32 |
POMPEII (about eruption of Mt. Vesuvius) |
Sony/Tristar/Film District/Constantin/Lionsgate |
February 21 2014 |
PG-13 |
23.2 |
100 |
NOAH (Biblical epic by Darren Aronofsky) |
Paramount/New Regency |
March 28 2014 |
PG-13 | 101.2 | 125 |
INTO THE STORM (found footage tornado disaster) |
Warner Bros./New Line/Village Roadshow |
August 8 2014 |
PG-13 | 47.6 | 50 |
SAN ANDREAS (earthquake disaster film with Dwayne Johnson) |
Warner Bros./New Line/Village Roadshow |
May 29 2015 |
PG-13 |
155.2 |
114 |
THE 33 (Chilean miner disaster film with Antonio Banderas) |
Warner Bros./Alcon |
November 13 2015 |
PG-13 |
12.2 |
25 |
DEEPWATER HORIZON (true oil rig disaster with Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell) |
Lionsgate/Summit/Participant Media |
September 30 2016 |
PG-13 |
61.4 |
110 |
GEOSTORM (sci-fi disaster thriller about weather controlling satellites with Gerard Butler) |
Warner Bros./Skydance/RatPac/Electric |
October 20 2017 |
PG-13 |
33.7 |
130 |
THE HURRICANE HEIST (heist of U.S. Treasury during a hurricane) |
Entertainment Studios |
March 9 2018 |
PG-13 |
6.1 |
35 |
SKYSCRAPER (Dwayne Johnson plays a security specialist framed for arson of the world's tallest building) |
Universal/Legendary |
July 13 2018 |
PG-13 |
67.8 |
125 |
ASHFALL (foreign volcano disaster) |
Capelight Pictures/CJ Entertainment |
December 20 2019 [Limited] |
|
.3 |
17 |
GREENLAND (survival after a comet strike to Earth with Gerard Butler) |
STXfilms/Thunder Road |
December 18 2020 [On Demand] |
PG-13 |
|
34 |
13 MINUTES (four families try to survive a tornado) |
Quiver Distribution |
October 29 2021 [Limited, PVOD] |
PG-13 |
|
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DON'T LOOK UP (all-star comet disaster comedy drama) |
Netflix |
Dec. 10, 24 2021 [Limited, On Netflix] |
R |
|
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MOONFALL (the moon is on a collision course with Earth with Halle Berry) |
Lionsgate/AGC/Centropolis |
February 4 2022 |
PG-13 |
19.0 |
146 |
GREENLAND: MIGRATION (disaster sequel with Gerard Butler) |
STXfilms/Thunder Road |
? |
|
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SAN ANDREAS 2 (sequel to disaster film with Dwayne Johnson) |
Warner Bros./New Line |
? |
|
|
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TWISTER REBOOT |
Universal |
? |
|
|
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EARTHQUAKE (new disaster film is not a remake) |
Universal/Bad Robot |
? |
|
|
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G (the Earth stops spinning and loses its gravity) |
? |
? |
|
|
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1906 (about San Francisco earthquake) |
Warner Bros./Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar |
? |
|
|
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SUMMER'S END (virus kills adult population) |
Focus/Rogue |
? |
|
|
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THE SWARM (remake of 1978 killer bees thriller) |
? |
? |
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