highest grossing films of all time

Last year, we wrote about Hollywood accounting and how the big studios set up "corporations" for each movie, specifically designed to "lose money," often by paying money back to the studio itself.

Basically, the studio sets up this "company," but then charges the company a huge "fee," such that the company itself rarely, if ever, becomes profitable.

Of course, hugely successful films usually still get past the threshold, but perhaps not all of them.

Hollywood is having a pretty good summer.

The latest Harry Potter flick will be the 16th $100 million earner of 2009, and the Transformers sequel has already made over $350 million at the US box office — good for a spot in the top 15 highest grossing films of all time.

But if you want your movie experience to extend beyond the theater, where should you turn?