With The Twilight Saga now having put $2.5 billion in the bank, the series’ Melissa Rosenberg has taken the title of Highest Grossing Female Screenwriter!
In the last two weeks, the total grosses for movies Rosenberg has written surpassed those of Linda Woolverton, whose 20-year career had its biggest hit in 2010 with the Tim Burton-directed Alice in Wonderland adaptation. That Disney release cleared the billion-dollar mark ($1.024 billion) and stands as the ninth-highest-grossing movie of all time. The Lion King, which Woolverton also co-wrote, is now 14th on that list thanks to a recent 3D re-release, with $945.6 million in worldwide revenue. Combined with her other produced work, those movies contribute the lion’s share of Woolverton’s $2.39 billion total.
Steve Kloves – the screenwriter of all but one Harry Potter film – is the male with the highest-grossing set of films.
Congrats to Rosenberg on this impressive title!
(Pictured above: Melissa Rosenberg on the set of Twilight with Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.)