10 Highest-Grossing Movies Of 2015 (So Far) - Ranked From Worst To Best

There was a time not so long ago that the studios were reluctant to release their big-budget movies outside of the summer months, based on the reasoning that it was the best time of year to maximize profits. However, in recent years, blockbuster season has been starting earlier and earlier. Heck, in 2015 five movies have already earned over $500m at the box office, including two of the five highest-grossing movies ever (with a third soon to join them), before we've even reached the halfway point of 2015.

Competition at the multiplex continues to be fierce for the rest of the summer, with Terminator Genisys, Ted 2, Fantastic Four, Minions, Ant-Man and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation all set for release in the next few weeks, with all of these movies more than capable of scoring huge box office numbers.

Many people have been predicting for years that 2015 was set to become the most lucrative year in the history of the movie business, with a schedule absolutely loaded with high-profile projects right up to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December. So with the year reaching its halfway point, what better time to rank the ten highest-grossing movies of 2015 so far from worst to best?

Fifty Shades Of Grey, the Twilight fan fiction turned best-selling novel (to the tune of over 100 million copies), became such a cultural phenomenon that a movie adaptation was inevitable. When Sam Taylor-Johnson's big screen version finally hit theatres, even fans of the source material must have been wondering how so-called 'erotic fiction' could be rendered so dull in live action.

Of course, it didn't help that stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan generated precisely zero chemistry together, and reportedly don't get along off-screen either. Anybody going in expecting boundary-pushing sex scenes instead had to sit through mountains of exposition regarding legal terminology and contracts. Kinky...

Despite the movie being incredibly dull and tedious, the popularity of the book ensured that it was still a box office smash. Opening to the tune of $83.8m domestically, Fifty Shades would go on to earn almost $570m worldwide, breaking a string of box office records and launching the most peculiar of blockbuster franchises in the process.