Highest grossing films - adjusting for inflation

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Speedy wrote:
[quote=jdc]
Why not just go with ticket sales?

Article seems to be full of excuses as to why they cant compare past with present -- such as: "Notably, the number of options of what movie to see in theaters is so much larger than 50 years ago."

Ugh. Either you beat them or not.

Endgame: 95M = not on the top 10.
Gone with the Wind: 200M <-- winner by a landslide.

I thought the same. But I imagine a Bollywood or a Chinese film has sold more tickets. The most viewed ‘film’ was by Abraham Zapruder and it was free.
Complicating things further, those 200M tickets sold for .75¢ - $1.00 versus something like $9.00 - $11.00 today. How do those figures compare as, say, a percentage of a weekly paycheck for comparisons sake?

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Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
[quote=jdc]
Why not just go with ticket sales?

Article seems to be full of excuses as to why they cant compare past with present -- such as: "Notably, the number of options of what movie to see in theaters is so much larger than 50 years ago."

Ugh. Either you beat them or not.

Endgame: 95M = not on the top 10.
Gone with the Wind: 200M <-- winner by a landslide.

I thought the same. But I imagine a Bollywood or a Chinese film has sold more tickets. The most viewed ‘film’ was by Abraham Zapruder and it was free.
Complicating things further, those 200M tickets sold for .75¢ - $1.00 versus something like $9.00 - $11.00 today. How do those figures compare as, say, a percentage of a weekly paycheck for comparisons sake?
The Inflation Calculator says:

$1 in 1939 is worth $17.05 in 2015

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How about 1965? Two of the top ten grossing/ticket sales movies in one year.

(...which was a surprise to me - I thought Sound pf Music came out before '65. And I had no idea that Dr. Z was that popular.)

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jdc wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
No surprises on that list. Great films, every one of them.

edit: ok, one not so great - Titanic. I mentally blocked that one out.

It was immersive.
I see what you did there.