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'Avatar' Officially Overtakes 'Titanic' For Global Box Office Record With $1.85 Billion - Yahoo! Movies
It will eventually beat it domestically by next month.
We all know Gone With the Wind is the all time adjusted gross leader...but it's box office record is deceiving as well.
For one thing, Gone With the Wind had absolutely no competition whatsoever.
No TV, no cable with hundreds of channels, no multiple other movies for competition, no video games, no cineplexes, no DVDs, no piracy, no Netflix/Blockbuster, no Walmart, no internet, and the list goes on.
Plus...
The most common mistake is to adjust all of Gone With the Wind's 198m gross from 1939 ticket prices into today's ticket prices...
But GWTW had plenty of re-releases and therefore cannot be adjusted in one single calculation. Even worse are worldwide adjustments as the movie opened in most European countries many years later because of World War II (for example France in 1950 and Germany in 1953).
Back in 1946 the bible of the business, Variety, started to compile a list of the biggest rental grossers (the studio's share of the box office gross) of the year and in 1948 it began an All-Time Rentals list...
To make things easier I will simply post the total rental amount earned by GWTW every ten years:
1948: $22,000,000 Number 1 of all-time*
1958: $33,500,000 Number 1 of all-time
1968: $70,400,000 Number 2 of all-time
1978: $76,700,000 Number 9 of all-time
It is obvious that GWTW made the most of its money in its third decade of release, adjusting the total gross by 1939 ticket prices is just foolish...
BTW...Star Wars was re-released as well.
There's no denying...Avatar's run has shocked everyone...I myself though Titanic's box office was untouchable for decades to come...but man...James Cameron is truly the king of the world...the dude has the midas touch.
It will eventually beat it domestically by next month.
We all know Gone With the Wind is the all time adjusted gross leader...but it's box office record is deceiving as well.
For one thing, Gone With the Wind had absolutely no competition whatsoever.
No TV, no cable with hundreds of channels, no multiple other movies for competition, no video games, no cineplexes, no DVDs, no piracy, no Netflix/Blockbuster, no Walmart, no internet, and the list goes on.
Plus...
The most common mistake is to adjust all of Gone With the Wind's 198m gross from 1939 ticket prices into today's ticket prices...
But GWTW had plenty of re-releases and therefore cannot be adjusted in one single calculation. Even worse are worldwide adjustments as the movie opened in most European countries many years later because of World War II (for example France in 1950 and Germany in 1953).
Back in 1946 the bible of the business, Variety, started to compile a list of the biggest rental grossers (the studio's share of the box office gross) of the year and in 1948 it began an All-Time Rentals list...
To make things easier I will simply post the total rental amount earned by GWTW every ten years:
1948: $22,000,000 Number 1 of all-time*
1958: $33,500,000 Number 1 of all-time
1968: $70,400,000 Number 2 of all-time
1978: $76,700,000 Number 9 of all-time
It is obvious that GWTW made the most of its money in its third decade of release, adjusting the total gross by 1939 ticket prices is just foolish...
BTW...Star Wars was re-released as well.
There's no denying...Avatar's run has shocked everyone...I myself though Titanic's box office was untouchable for decades to come...but man...James Cameron is truly the king of the world...the dude has the midas touch.
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