Steven Soderbergh's Career-Spanning Box Office Total Passes Martin Scorsese's, Despite 'Black Bag' Underperforming

Thanks to his two new releases this year — the horror film Presence and the recently released espionage thriller Black Bag — the prolific Steven Soderbergh has overtaken the legendary Martin Scorsese on the list of the highest-grossing filmmakers in global box office history. The irony is that both Presence and Black Bag under-performed at the box office, one more resoundingly than the other. Incidentally, even Scorsese's last film, the mega-budget Killers of the Flower Moon, failed to meet commercial expectations.