Almost three decades ago, Armageddon was the movie that opened up to mixed critical reviews worldwide and still managed to set records with its commercial performance. For one, the sci-fi thriller-disaster flick from Michael Bay became the highest-grossing film of 1998, and the highest-grossing film to be released by Touchstone Pictures with its $553.7 million worldwide gross against a $140 million budget (as of March 11th, 2026, via Box Office …
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