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Top Grossing Story Creator at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,001-1,100)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Directors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Story Creators - Top Worldwide Story Creators
This list shows the highest grossing Story Creators based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
Since we are still actively researching technical roles, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. The table includes data for movies in The Numbers database. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,001 | John McLoughlin | $70,278,893 | 1 | $70,278,893 |
| 1,002 | Donna McLoughlin | $70,278,893 | 1 | $70,278,893 |
| 1,003 | William Jimeno | $70,278,893 | 1 | $70,278,893 |
| 1,004 | Philip Pullman | $70,107,728 | 1 | $70,107,728 |
| 1,005 | Ron Kovic | $70,001,698 | 1 | $70,001,698 |
| 1,006 | Peter Masterson | $69,701,637 | 1 | $69,701,637 |
| 1,007 | Larry L. King | $69,701,637 | 1 | $69,701,637 |
| 1,008 | Patrick Braoude | $69,660,733 | 1 | $69,660,733 |
| 1,009 | Allen Irwin | $69,117,629 | 1 | $69,117,629 |
| 1,010 | Alvin Schwartz | $68,947,075 | 1 | $68,947,075 |
| 1,011 | Michael Ritchie | $68,856,263 | 1 | $68,856,263 |
| 1,012 | Lynn Siefert | $68,856,263 | 1 | $68,856,263 |
| 1,013 | Clive Cussler | $68,671,925 | 1 | $68,671,925 |
| 1,014 | John Bellairs | $68,549,695 | 1 | $68,549,695 |
| 1,015 | Jim Piddock | $68,352,976 | 2 | $34,176,488 |
| 1,016 | Mike Judge | $68,177,994 | 2 | $34,088,997 |
| 1,017 | Jerome Salle | $67,631,157 | 1 | $67,631,157 |
| 1,018 | Adele Lim | $67,620,821 | 2 | $33,810,411 |
| 1,019 | Louis Sachar | $67,383,924 | 1 | $67,383,924 |
| 1,020 | Dana Stevens | $67,328,130 | 1 | $67,328,130 |
| 1,021 | Maria Bello | $67,328,130 | 1 | $67,328,130 |
| 1,022 | David F. Sandberg | $67,268,835 | 1 | $67,268,835 |
| 1,023 | Ken Carter | $67,264,877 | 1 | $67,264,877 |
| 1,024 | Erik Skjoldjaerg | $67,263,182 | 1 | $67,263,182 |
| 1,025 | Judith Viorst | $66,954,149 | 1 | $66,954,149 |
| 1,026 | Brian Regan | $66,941,559 | 1 | $66,941,559 |
| 1,027 | Kristen Buckley | $66,941,559 | 1 | $66,941,559 |
| 1,028 | James Jones | $66,900,491 | 2 | $33,450,246 |
| 1,029 | William Peter Blatty | $66,826,602 | 2 | $33,413,301 |
| 1,030 | Chap Taylor | $66,790,248 | 1 | $66,790,248 |
| 1,031 | Lucas Martell | $66,757,013 | 1 | $66,757,013 |
| 1,032 | Cindy Davis | $66,757,013 | 1 | $66,757,013 |
| 1,033 | George Crile | $66,661,095 | 1 | $66,661,095 |
| 1,034 | Arnaldur Indridason | $66,528,000 | 1 | $66,528,000 |
| 1,035 | Oskar Jonasson | $66,528,000 | 1 | $66,528,000 |
| 1,036 | Jim Harrison | $66,502,573 | 1 | $66,502,573 |
| 1,037 | Jeffery Deaver | $66,488,090 | 1 | $66,488,090 |
| 1,038 | Kevin O'Neill | $66,465,204 | 1 | $66,465,204 |
| 1,039 | Daniel Wallace | $66,432,867 | 1 | $66,432,867 |
| 1,040 | Isaac Marion | $66,380,662 | 1 | $66,380,662 |
| 1,041 | Erich Kastner | $66,308,518 | 1 | $66,308,518 |
| 1,042 | Uma Thurman | $66,207,920 | 1 | $66,207,920 |
| 1,043 | Gordon Buford | $66,010,682 | 1 | $66,010,682 |
| 1,044 | John Byrne | $65,845,974 | 1 | $65,845,974 |
| 1,045 | George Gallo | $65,647,413 | 1 | $65,647,413 |
| 1,046 | David Gordon Green | $65,537,395 | 1 | $65,537,395 |
| 1,047 | John Godey | $65,452,312 | 1 | $65,452,312 |
| 1,048 | Cal Brunker | $65,343,309 | 1 | $65,343,309 |
| 1,049 | Bob Barlen | $65,343,309 | 1 | $65,343,309 |
| 1,050 | Duane Adler | $65,328,121 | 1 | $65,328,121 |
| 1,051 | Peter Chiarelli | $65,075,540 | 1 | $65,075,540 |
| 1,052 | Joel Chandler Harris | $65,000,000 | 1 | $65,000,000 |
| 1,053 | Melisa Wallack | $64,935,167 | 1 | $64,935,167 |
| 1,054 | Bruce Cameron | $64,735,086 | 2 | $32,367,543 |
| 1,055 | Sam Fell | $64,665,672 | 1 | $64,665,672 |
| 1,056 | Josh Trank | $64,575,175 | 1 | $64,575,175 |
| 1,057 | W.P. Kinsella | $64,431,625 | 1 | $64,431,625 |
| 1,058 | Bruce W. Cameron | $64,321,890 | 1 | $64,321,890 |
| 1,059 | Fredrik Backman | $64,304,784 | 2 | $32,152,392 |
| 1,060 | Hannes Holm | $64,267,657 | 1 | $64,267,657 |
| 1,061 | Daniel Woo | $64,251,538 | 1 | $64,251,538 |
| 1,062 | Peter Lepeniotis | $64,251,538 | 2 | $32,125,769 |
| 1,063 | Aubrey Solomon | $64,063,008 | 1 | $64,063,008 |
| 1,064 | John Updike | $63,749,955 | 1 | $63,749,955 |
| 1,065 | Alvin Sargent | $63,710,000 | 1 | $63,710,000 |
| 1,066 | Laura Ziskin | $63,710,000 | 1 | $63,710,000 |
| 1,067 | Didier van Cauwelaert | $63,686,397 | 1 | $63,686,397 |
| 1,068 | Anthony Yerkovich | $63,478,838 | 1 | $63,478,838 |
| 1,069 | Audrey Niffeneger | $63,414,846 | 1 | $63,414,846 |
| 1,070 | Sol Saks | $63,313,159 | 1 | $63,313,159 |
| 1,071 | Dorothy Parker | $63,129,898 | 1 | $63,129,898 |
| 1,072 | Alan Campbell | $63,129,898 | 1 | $63,129,898 |
| 1,073 | Brian Garfield | $63,079,589 | 2 | $31,539,795 |
| 1,074 | Frederick Loewe | $62,781,356 | 2 | $31,390,678 |
| 1,075 | Anthony Swofford | $62,647,540 | 1 | $62,647,540 |
| 1,076 | Dick Lehr | $62,575,678 | 1 | $62,575,678 |
| 1,077 | Gerard O'Niell | $62,575,678 | 1 | $62,575,678 |
| 1,078 | Michael Frost Beckner | $62,362,560 | 1 | $62,362,560 |
| 1,079 | John Hlavin | $62,321,039 | 1 | $62,321,039 |
| 1,080 | Justin Rhodes | $62,253,077 | 1 | $62,253,077 |
| 1,081 | Charles Eglee | $62,253,077 | 1 | $62,253,077 |
| 1,082 | Curt Siodmak | $62,189,884 | 1 | $62,189,884 |
| 1,083 | Reid Carolin | $61,778,069 | 1 | $61,778,069 |
| 1,084 | Brett Rodriguez | $61,778,069 | 1 | $61,778,069 |
| 1,085 | Christy Beam | $61,705,123 | 1 | $61,705,123 |
| 1,086 | Tom Junod | $61,696,436 | 1 | $61,696,436 |
| 1,087 | Cliff Hollingsworth | $61,649,911 | 1 | $61,649,911 |
| 1,088 | Thomas Berger | $61,476,284 | 3 | $20,492,095 |
| 1,089 | James Webb | $61,322,858 | 1 | $61,322,858 |
| 1,090 | Andrew Neiderman | $61,007,424 | 1 | $61,007,424 |
| 1,091 | Marsha Norman | $60,619,191 | 1 | $60,619,191 |
| 1,092 | Will Smith | $60,522,097 | 1 | $60,522,097 |
| 1,093 | Valerie Walsh Valdes | $60,477,943 | 1 | $60,477,943 |
| 1,094 | Eric Weiner | $60,477,943 | 1 | $60,477,943 |
| 1,095 | Chris Gifford | $60,477,943 | 1 | $60,477,943 |
| 1,096 | Ian Helfer | $60,323,786 | 1 | $60,323,786 |
| 1,097 | Garry Marshall | $60,300,486 | 2 | $30,150,243 |
| 1,098 | John Katzenbach | $60,279,483 | 3 | $20,093,161 |
| 1,099 | Lou Holtz, Jr. | $60,240,295 | 1 | $60,240,295 |
| 1,100 | Dan Aykroyd | $60,083,467 | 1 | $60,083,467 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.