Iron Wanker
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Endgame is currently only 174M away from tying with Avatar at the all time world wide box office. This is gonna be a close one.
I’d be surprised if it didn’t get it at this point. 174 million worldwide is a gap I’m confident it will close.
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The worst thing of all apparently: Independent Women.
Destiny’s Child – Independent Women
IW - infinity ward makers of the CoD series.
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Didn’t realize Far From Home tickets were already on sale for my local theater on Fandango.
Still super weird it’s coming out on a Tuesday. I got a 1pm showing. The other showing was at 10am but I don’t want to get up that early.
That link is absolutely not a fair comparison, especially to older movies when you consider inflation. A movie like Gone with the Wind would’ve only cost an individual $1.00 for evening tickets while the average for End Game is literally 10x that.
When adjusted with inflation and the totality of it all End Game actually sits at around 5th place.
So this is how it really should look like,
- Gone with the Wind $3,728,000,000 released in 1939
- Avatar $3,273,000,000 released in 2009
- Titanic $3,099,000,000 released in 1997
- Star Wars $3,061,000,000 released in 1977
- Avengers: Endgame film currently still playing $2,620,013,227 released in 2019
Truly amazing on Endgames part however they’re still a significant 500+ million away from Star Wars while still a whopping 1billion+ short from Gone with the Wind which still stands undisputed at #1.
It will probably be sometime before their is ever a movie that topples Gone with the Wind, or more than likely it may never happen considering that movie has held on to the one spot for 80 years and counting now.
Padding that box office total through the weekend.
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May be because schools start to get out around then
July 4th tentpoles always have a variable release that is basically anytime during the same week as the 4th.
As Optimus124 said , they can artificially inflate BO numbers by stretching it over many days even ones that are not part of the weekend.
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Exactly. It’s a trick that Paramount often used with the Transformer movies.
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Oh yeah cause box office mojo totally doesn’t have a category for unadjusted totals or anything 
LOL so we have to wait like 60 - 70 years for the inflation to make Endgame the highest grossing movie of all time? GTFO…with the wind
Not the particular link you posted, why all the salt? I’m specifically speaking that we can’t judge the success of the movie today by the past simply because of inflation. We have to adjust in order to present them all equally.
This made absolutely No Sense whatsoever. Inflation won’t “magically” make End Game the highest grossing film if the adjustments don’t even add up to it. It has yet to even beat Star Wars much less the other movies on top of it right now.
If you say say Gone With The Wind is the highest grossing movie when you adjust for inflation, then you are not considering all the facts. You can’t just do a straight conversion. You would have to average out ticket prices and what they were charging at every single time it hit the theater, which is impossible.
That $3.7 billion figure is a 1-to-1 conversion based on what a dollar would be worth in 1939 ($18 and change today). The problem is, the actual $200 million that Gone with the Wind has made includes all undocumented re-releases, not just opening year, so the numbers are massively inflated. It took 80 years to make $200 million, unadjusted for inflation.
The site I linked below at least tried to account for that. It still puts GwtW at the top, but it’s about half of the $3.7 bill when you actually take into account some of these factors. And it even admits that these number are way inflated due to all the re-releases.
I’d like to see what the actual numbers are for its first run in the theater compared to some of the more modern heavy hitters.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
If a dollar in 1939 is equal to $18 today, those were some expensive ass movie tickets. And that even further muddies the water when trying to make this comparison. What was the actual value of the ticket? If it was equal to what $18 is now (I think I paid $10 for mine), then it only took just more than half the people, in 80 years, to make all the revenue for Gone with the Wind. I’d be interested to see the actual number of tickets sold.
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Because you’re trying to correct people on something that doesn’t need correcting. Lmao.