If adjusted these are the all time top 10 movies as per revenue collection(US Only) 1 Gone with the Wind $1,485,028,000 1939^ 2 Star Wars $1,309,179,000 1977^ 3 The Sound of Music $1,046,753,000 1965 4 E.T. $1,042,629,400 1982^ 5 Ten Commandments $962,850,000 1956 6 Titanic $943,342,300 1997 7 Jaws $941,379,300 1975 8 Doctor Zhivago $912,395,600 1965 9 The Exorcist $812,679,700 1973^ 10 Snow White $801,150,000 1937^
Re: Inflation not adjusted...
by Sameer Mansukhani on Jan 26, 2010 10:43 AM
inflation is adjusted in the price of movie tickets. In 2000 price of the ticket would be $5 and now it would be $10 as the inflation has been positive. So inflation automatically gets adjusted!!
Re: Inflation not adjusted...
by Sameer Mansukhani on Jan 26, 2010 10:43 AM
inflation is adjusted in the price of movie tickets. In 2000 price of the ticket would be $5 and now it would be $10 as the inflation has been positive. So inflation automatically gets adjusted!!
Re: Inflation not adjusted...
by Gunjan Gupta on Jan 25, 2010 09:24 PM
Make again calculation adjust only 2-3% inflation in USA in terms of dollar. Film is made in USA and dollar has been called a world reserve currency to store against inflation (like as gold). Secondly, USA has mostly 2-3 % inflation so if this figure will be adjusted still it did WELL!!! 3 idiots is in India and from Sholay to 3 idiots if you will adjust inflation at 8 % it need 10 times more profit...
Re: Inflation not adjusted...
by Sameer Mansukhani on Jan 26, 2010 10:43 AM
inflation is adjusted in the price of movie tickets. In 2000 price of the ticket would be $5 and now it would be $10 as the inflation has been positive. So inflation automatically gets adjusted!!
Re: I want to watch this film.. tell me how I can?
by CHATUR on Jan 25, 2010 09:32 PM
go to HYDERABAD EXHIBITON, they are selling DVD with 25 movies in it, including avatar, 3 idots etc..costs around 150
Re: I want to watch this film.. tell me how I can?
by Ibu Hatela on Jan 25, 2010 08:25 PM
go to cinema hall, buy a ticket, enter the hall, sit and watch.
Re: Re: I want to watch this film.. tell me how I can?
by Hariharasudhan T on Jan 25, 2010 10:22 PM
Thats the ideal way to watch movies. But unless movies are in the reach of people, these pirated DVDs will rule
If Titanic grossed 1.843 Billion ten years back then Avatar to beat Titanic has to gross more than double. Merely crossing 1.843 Billion doesn't help !! in short it means the movie is less than 50% in value compared to Titanic. Cost of tickets 10 years back were much less the then what we are paying today. If $ 1.843 was kept in the bank for say 8% interest – what would have been the value today. However in business 2 2 is not 4 it has to 6 or 7
Re: Nonsense - please redo your calculations
by patel ravjibhai on Jan 26, 2010 05:51 AM
Titanic had an estimated of 128 Millions tickets sold alone in US, compare to Avatar's 73 Millions till date...!!! While Gone with the Wind still hold the record tickets sold with more than 202 millions...!!
Re: Nonsense - please redo your calculations
by yogesh agarwal on Jan 25, 2010 06:32 PM
Very true... On the same grounds, you cannot say that 3 idiots have surpassed Sholay.
Re: Nonsense - please redo your calculations
by V SR on Jan 25, 2010 06:38 PM
Consider recession into account. Those days to get money a movie has to run 100 days to call it succesful and still not enough, if many theaters do not show for 100 days. Nowadays, with multiplexes, a week run is quite adquate to earn the money if shows runs full house. Moreover, Titanic being good ran many days to reach the figure of 1.843 and over the period earned that money. Avatar is just 6 months baby and more weeks and years to go. Certainly, this will be the biggest grocer. And sales do not count, DVDs, BlueRays, which will come soon. Keeps your maths correct.
Re: Re: Nonsense - please redo your calculations
by Arun Jacob on Jan 25, 2010 07:22 PM
well whatever u say....no matter what....james cameroon is the victor....titanic or avatar....appreciate the genius of the man behind the scenes...
Re: Re: Re: Nonsense - please redo your calculations
by Parashar Das on Jan 25, 2010 08:48 PM
These figures are not inflation adjusted figures...If adjusted Gone with the winds will dwarf all of them.Its figure was $400.2 million in 1939.Yes..you read it right 1939.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Nonsense - please redo your calculations
by Gunjan Gupta on Jan 25, 2010 09:21 PM
Film is made in USA and dollar has been called a world reserve currency to store as inflation (like as gold). Secondly, USA has mostly 2-3 % inflation so if this figure will be adjusted still it did WELL!!! 3 idiots is in India and from Sholay to 3 idiots if you will adjust inflation at 8 % it need 10 times more profit...
If Titanic grossed 1.843 Billion ten years back then Avatar to beat Titanic has to gross more than double. Merely crossing 1.843 Billion doesn't help !! in short it means the movie is less than 50% in value compared to Titanic. Cost of tickets 10 years back were much less the then what we are paying today. If $ 1.843 Billion was kept in the bank for say 8% interest – what would have been the value today. However in business 2 2 is not even 4 it has to 6 or 7
Re: NONSENSE - Pls redo your calculations
by Zahir Sayyad on Jan 25, 2010 06:17 PM
Redo your calculations too. 10 years back how many people knew about torrents? How many people did illegal downloads of movie? How many people knew of Blu-Ray & Hi-Def DVDs? These are changed times and the movie has performed during recession. It has beaten all odds and it can definitely cross 2 billion dollars.
May be Avatar has got more collection than Titanic. But still Titanic is a better film than Avatar, since it has touched the hearts of millions. Titanic left us in tears.
Re: ...
by hate religions on Jan 25, 2010 05:51 PM
Titanic as a movie had nothing in it... except for the grand disaster towards the end... romance between the lead was only a gap filler before they could actually show the ship sinking...
If you compare Titanic with Avatar, artistically both are same, i.e. not good, but I would say Avatar is better over all... coz it is stronger technically N deals with a current problem (US takeover of the M-E)
Re: ...
by hate religions on Jan 25, 2010 05:52 PM
Titanic as a movie had nothing in it... except for the grand disaster towards the end... romance between the lead was only a gap filler before they could actually show the ship sinking...
If you compare Titanic with Avatar, artistically both are same, i.e. not good, but I would say Avatar is better over all... coz it is stronger technically N deals with a current problem (US takeover of the M-E)
