Board 8 > Harry Potter: Deahtly Hallows Pt. 2 is now the 3rd highest grossing movie...

(+) Yeah! (+)

... Of All time, after of course the two Cameron movies.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Thoughts?

--
The Gamer In Me
His dark secret is he's really Spark Brushel in disguise. If people knew, he'd be ruined. - Spiral on the black psyche locks

of those top five movies Return of the King is the best by a good deal

overseas audiences are goddamned idiots

--
Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive

Just say HP7 part 2 tonight and it was actually maybe the best of all 8.

--
Warning_Crazy
i am not black turtle as i did not win the guru

CherryCokes posted...
overseas audiences are goddamned idiots

Agreed, the domestic top 10 is much better, even if there is a lot of the same.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic.htm

--
http://oi51.tinypic.com/s1hkdj.jpg - Thanks POT8O!
Adam/Mada

7 Transformers: Dark of the Moon



--
http://i.imgur.com/WRgfu.gif

9. Alice in Wonderland (2010)

whaaaaaaat the ****

--
A hare like me couldn't catch up to Black Turtle.

WazzupGenius00 posted...
9. Alice in Wonderland (2010)

whaaaaaaat the ****

To be fair, this movie had a huge amount of hype. Sure it fopped hard critically, but the kind of people who still like Tim Burton are the same people who think every new movie of his will be the next Nightmare before Christmas.

--
http://i.imgur.com/WRgfu.gif

Also add in that the movie had Johnny Depp in it and it was automatically going to get 500M.

--
The Gamer In Me
His dark secret is he's really Spark Brushel in disguise. If people knew, he'd be ruined. - Spiral on the black psyche locks

Don't forget 3D!

--
Currently playing: Portal 2

avatar's numbers crush second place, wow

--
Virtue - "You don't need a reason to lynch people."

International numbers are going to be really biased towards recent movies (even if you take inflation into account), since the international market has grown a lot in recent years

--
"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross

For easy year reference...

It's kind of strange to think the all time international record has only been broken three times in my life. When I was born #1 was Return of the Jedi, which was beaten by Jurassic Park, then Titanic, then Avatar. Jurassic Park being number 1 for four years is pretty awesome though.

--
http://i.imgur.com/WRgfu.gif

Overseas market is really huge to put them all at the same level. South America is more animation friendly, Europe is good for art-house cinema and then Asia loves movies with explosions and a huge budget

--
Dr Football > Dr Soccer

And yeah, Yesmar is right. Asia and especially South America are a big deal more important at the present time.

--
Dr Football > Dr Soccer

Is this just because of people watching it in 3D? More money, etc?

--
Oops! I'm breaking the fourth wall!
http://imgon.net/di-CFMD.gif

Actually, 3-D is largely an American thing (Avatar did most of its worldwide business in 2-D). Surging international grosses are more a function of globalization and the rapidly growing middle class around the world. Countries like Russia and China weren't seeing American movies in any significant amounts back in 1995.

--
"The U.S. should detonate all its nukes on its own soil."-Terran [Evil Republican]
Play Der Langrisser.

Yeah, I'd really like to see this list adjusted for inflation.

--
~Pinkie Pie is the best pony~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpfwpOPXNc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

From: BoshStrikesBack | #018
Yeah, I'd really like to see this list adjusted for inflation.

Gone with the Wind wins.

--
Always.

Actually, 3-D is largely an American thing (Avatar did most of its worldwide business in 2-D). Surging international grosses are more a function of globalization and the rapidly growing middle class around the world.

3D's bigger internationally than it is in America (I think Japan's the biggest country for 3D overall). Most of the big movies this year made 2/3 of their money in 3D.

--
All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.

SubDeity posted...
Actually, 3-D is largely an American thing (Avatar did most of its worldwide business in 2-D). Surging international grosses are more a function of globalization and the rapidly growing middle class around the world. Countries like Russia and China weren't seeing American movies in any significant amounts back in 1995.

3D is a big deal here and it is massively promoted

--
http://i48.tinypic.com/2q8zwvs.png

Without adjustment for inflation, this is a trivia answer and nothing more.

--
If you are reading this signature, then you are wasting a great deal of your time.

It's a great movie. Way better than Titanic and Avatar too so it deserves #1.

--
Kiwi

Again, people have already said that adjusting for inflation wouldn't change a thing, due to the growth of the international market.

--
All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.

nintendogirl1 posted...
From: BoshStrikesBack | #018
Yeah, I'd really like to see this list adjusted for inflation.

Gone with the Wind wins.

I know it crushes everything else domestically, but does it actually have any overseas gross to speak of? Box Office Mojo doesn't have an international adjusted for inflation list.

Gone With The Wind, adjusted for inflation, made $1,628,479,686 in America. Avatar in 2009 dollars made $2,782,275,172 worldwide.

Did Gone With The Wind internationally actually draw in enough to cover that extra billion dollars?

--
Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
http://img.imgcake.com/Icon/Punkjpguh.jpg

GWTW's numbers are messed up as well since it doesn't take into account all the times it was re-released, which happened all the time prior to the advent of home video. I'm sure that the numbers for GWTW's initial run would be near the top of an all time adjusted list, but I don't know if it's possible to tell, at least not with the numbers that are widely quoted, where exactly it would lie.

Not to mention that there's plenty of other factors to take into account, like population (a movie making 100 million in adjusted 1939 numbers obviously reached a greater percentage of the population than a movie of comparable numbers did today), and ticket prices (both the average ones for the time, and for "spectacles" such as GWTW. I'm not familiar with what tickets for GWTW cost, but in the 1950's it was common for spectacle films to run in roadshows for a year prior to general release and in these formats ticket prices could cost between 20-35 dollars in today's prices.)

--
"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Honestly, I'm pretty surprised.

I understand that people can always go back to the old movies later, but still....

--
I like how each new topic you make reveals such varied facets of your idiocy. - foolmo
Now this is entertainment!