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KamikazePotato posted...

This is the adjusted-for-inflation version.

1 - Gone with the Wind - $3,739,000,000 - 1939
2 - Avatar - $3,286,000,000 - 2009
3 - Titanic - $3,108,000,000 - 1997
4 - Star War - $3,071,000,000 - 1977
5 - Avengers: Endgame - $2,823,000,000 - 2019
6 - The Sound of Music - $2,572,000,000 - 1965
7 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - $2,511,000,000 - 1982
8 - The Ten Commandments - $2,377,000,000 - 1956
9 - Doctor Zhivago - $2,253,000,000 - 1965
10 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $2,221,000,000 - 2015

Gone with the Wind's inflation-adjusted numbers are so insane that it's sort of difficult for me to wrap my head around - like it makes me wonder if adjusting for inflation doesn't really give an accurate picture either. Like, if Avatar, Star Wars 7, and Endgame all can't beat it, nothing will.

It's mildly annoying to me that it's always revenue that's reported rather than tickets sold - would give us a better idea of how popular the movie actually was, given the moving target of ticket prices.