12. Split (2016)
Profit: $100,962,199
Budget: $5,000,000
The genius who came up with the masterpiece that is The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan returned in 2016 with yet another psychological thriller. Technically, the film earned the big bucks in 2017 as it was released in the US in January 2017, but since it had been screened in film festivals in the year 2016, and is officially a 2016 movie, we have considered it to be the most profitable movie of 2016.
