So Dark Knight is currently the 8th highest grossing film of all time.

[Love is beautiful thing]

it can happen

 

[tibberon00250]

WERD

 

[Teach31]

$380 million in 2008 = about 35 million tickets sold.
$600 million in 1997 = about 75 million tickets sold.
$460 million in 1977 = about 250 million tickets sold.

There's no comparison at all.

 

[Chargers Worldwide]

ET is #4? Really wasn't expecting that

 

[Pachia]

i still cant believe people have seen the dark knight more than once and dont see all the flaws in the movie

 

[weight of the world]

Oh now thats just cheating.

 

[0r39middayway (US)]

ET fucking sucked too

 

[NR :]]

The special editions only ran for like a week. They didn't affect the total much at all.

 

[puneeth s]

Adjusted for inflation:

1 ????Gone with the Wind ????MGM ????$1,430,476,000 ????$198,676,459 ????1939^
2 ????Star Wars ????Fox ????$1,261,086,700 ????$460,998,007 ????1977^
3 ????The Sound of Music ????Fox ????$1,008,300,900 ????$158,671,368 ????1965
4 ????E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ????Uni. ????$1,004,328,700 ????$435,110,554 ????1982^
5 ????The Ten Commandments ????Par. ????$927,480,000 ????$65,500,000 ????1956
6 ????Titanic ????Par. ????$908,688,900 ????$600,788,188 ????1997
7 ????Jaws ????Uni. ????$906,798,000 ????$260,000,000 ????1975
8 ????Doctor Zhivago ????MGM ????$878,879,000 ????$111,721,910 ????1965
9 ????The Exorcist ????WB ????$782,826,200 ????$232,671,011 ????1973^
10 ????Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ????Dis. ????$771,720,000 ????$184,925,486 ????1937^

. . .

66 ????The Dark Knight ????WB ????$394,887,000 ????$394,887,000 ????2008

 

[Luke Dj]

just spent money on my second ticket to the theatres.

 

[daniel_fnsc]

tickets sold > gross

 

[O/Y :)]

It's amazing that Star Wars grossed that much back then.

 

[natalym98]

Titanic and Star Wars were in theaters for a year. Movies go to DVD much faster now.

 

[Zawadi S]

when i was little i saw alien before i saw ET, so when i saw ET i was like "wtf, he's supposed to be KILLING EVERYONE "

 

[haohui_xie]

they should really go by how many tickets were sold for each movie for the wow factor.

I still believe gone w/ the wind or a movie during that time is still #1 in terms of tickets sold.

 

[stevenc]

NOT IN 1982

 

[Napz]

holy shit, star wars has 4 in the top 20

 

[justine D]

You son of a bitch I though you were lying:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_en_ce/people_morgan_freeman_2

 

[iwhisperwolf]

James Cameron>>>*

 

[bobbyboy]

I bolded the ones I haven't seen. I've missed a lot of movies.