a new number 1 for the all time world wide box office!

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venice w

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i have had an interest in the world wide box office run down for quite some time now.

i never thought the original number 1, Titanic, would ever be beaten - $1.8 billion for over 10 years now. even over the last couple of years, there has been 2 $1 billion earners - Return of the king $1.1 billion and Pirates 2 earning just over $1 billion.

however - a new movie has just broke the record by miles...

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide
 
Lol..that figure it well off the mark!

ETA: Pretty sure TDK will eventually take the no.2 spot though. God knows why anyone went to see Titanic at all....:eek:

ETA: Wow The Shawshank Redemption is now top of the IMDb top 250....:cool:
 
Can't see Titanic getting beat anytime soon, actually not ever as times have simply moved on since the days when Titanic was released.

Hell even I got dragged to the Cinema by my girlfriend at the time to see Titanic.
 
I have seen some of it on TV...it made me want to puke up! On the plus side, I find the scene where Jack dies hysterically funny.....don't think it's meant to be though...:p
 
i may have been hasty in setting up this thread in responce to what i saw!

it certanly looks like a mistake - but i just wonder how making such a mistake is possibly??

5 billion my ass!
 
I didn't see it at the Cinema, which must make me one of the few. Have seen it since though, decent film but God knows how it's number one.
 
Seen bits and pieces of it on TV. I'm a big fan of James Cameron but this was one movie of his I wasn't in any hurry to see. I think it was Celine Dion that really put me off...
 
I think I saw this about 4 times in the cinema, haha. It was with my mum though, who adores the film and needed someone to go with. She made me do it!

But the actual sinking of the ship is still pretty awe-inspiring even if the first half is uncomfortably corny.

It'd take some film to ever knock it off of it's perch though. I just don't think people turn out to see films multiple times anymore what with the internet, dvRAB/hd and home cinema setups
 
With respect, there's no such thing as an all time box office film. Ever heard of inflation?

Ya know, that thing that makes most things rise in price, including cinema tickets. LOL

The cost of seeing Titanic in 1997 is not the same as the cost of seeing The Dark Knight in 2008. And the same will be true of a big blockbuster in ten years time. If people don't realize that I suggest they do a basic evening course in economics. No sarcasm intended.:)

The most successful theatrical film is the one with the most tickets sold - not the most money made from the tickets sold. I don't know what film that is, it could be Titanic, it could be Star Wars, Thunderball, Gone With The Wind, etc. Who knows, who cares!
 
And to think they could have just stayed at home, and watched someone playing the inevitable game based on the film (the film and game will be interchangeable in both style and substance; that's the future!).
 
Here's a question...

If 1000 people saw a film 10 years ago and it made 1,000 quid profit...

If the same 1000 people see a new film 10 years later (i.e. the present day) it will make more than 1,000 quid.

So which is the box office champion? The first or second film?

Answer - neither - it's a draw. Same amount of tickets sold. The second film has made more money but that's due to inflation, not its greater popularity. This is why you can't say there's an all time box office film. Even adjusting for inflation cannot be seen as wholly accurate. Tickets sold during its first run is the only accurate way to measure a film's popularity.

And this is how the record industry works. When a song reaches number one in the UK Top 40 chart it's based on units sold. It's not based on total revenue but total number of singles bought per week.

By the way, virtually all the top grossing films on the IMDB top ten list are from this decade!

Rank Title Worldwide Box Office
1. Titanic (1997) $1,835,300,000
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $1,129,219,252
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $1,060,332,628
4. The Dark Knight (2008) $971,441,786
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) $968,657,891
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) $958,404,152
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) $937,000,866
8. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $922,379,000
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $921,600,000
10. Jurassic Park (1993) $919,700,000

Three films from the 1990s - all the rest from this decade. Don't you think that's a bit strange? Well it's not strange when you see how cinema prices have shot up over the last decade - therefore proving my point! Even if the original 1977 Star Wars had more ticket admissions than most of the films on that top ten list, it's not going to make the top ten. And guess what, each year it's almost certain a new film will be added to that list. Why? Because inflation keeps hiking up those pesky cinema tickets (and the popcorn too). :D

US ticket price increases:



http://pioneerplus.ejournalism.ca/?q=node/2745

See how the box office stats become a little meaningless. Within the next five to ten years a movie will open with a 200 million dollar box office. It will happen. The Dark Knight opened huge and it's just a taste of things to come. And the media will claim it's the biggest opening ever when it won't be. The price of tickets will be the main reason.
 
Most figure it would be the 1977 Star Wars film, which tenRAB to be credited as most total tickets sales for a single film.
 
I also heard that Lucas made more money from the merchandise than from tickets - you'd have thought he would have had enough money to not balls up any prequels he had in the pipeline... :D
 
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