posted November 26, 2000 03:12 AM            

Highest Grossing Film accolades are put on such films as Titanic, Star Wars, E.T. Jaws, and the like. Question here is:

That is in dollars received from theaters for leasing the film to show, right? Or maybe it is for Dollars Received for Tickets sold?

Either way...

Back in the 30's, Gone with the Wind was in thaters for a couple years, and constantly showing, and seen by almost the entire country. Unfortunately, tickets back then were a nickel, or something. And leasing a film from a studio must have been something like $100 per week?

So in that relevence, in 100 years, when tickets cost $25, a film could be seem by a hundred million people, and be a moderate success, but blow Jaws off the charts for Highest Grossing film.

Wouldn't it be interesting to see that statistics for a film, any film in history, showing How many Tickets were sold over the course of the film in theaters?

What would change? Anything? is it a moot point? Did as many people see Titanic as did see Jaws? Does it matter?

I just see too much effort put on rating the total Dollar amount, rather than the popularity. I have seen a few charts occasionally (Once in a USA Today box on the front page) showing most profitable projects. Like Blair witch. Made for a few dollars, gross millions, seen by many. It also included other products, like the Computer Game MYST, which cost like $800,000 to make, but grossed $400,000...

Just some thoughts...

posted November 26, 2000 08:17 AM            

It turns out that the movie that did the worst EVER in the American box office didn't have Shaq in it. In fact, it was made in 1981, long before the Time of Shaq. The movie was called Inchon, and it was about the U.N. raiding of the Communist controlled South Korean city of...Inchon.

Net gain: $1,000

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