Movies James Cameron has 3 films in the top 5 most grossing movies of all-time.

[LEWIS540]

Here I found a more detailed look on adjusted for inflation and total amount of tickets sold.

Check out the estimated number of tickets sold. Look at Gone with the Wind with 202,286,200 million tickets sold. That's insane. It shows the product of the time, no TV, no video games, no computers/internet, streaming. Most people just went out and watched movies to escape from reality or just to be entertained.

And you got to remember it was just around the start of WWII.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjusted/?adjust_gross_to=2020

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Got to remember the world population was about 2 billion then, and the US about 125 million.

Also tickets to the movies have gone up at greater rate than inflation (especially when you consider 3d, Imax etc).

 

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

Got to remember the world population was about 2 billion then, and the US about 125 million.

Also tickets to the movies have gone up at greater rate than inflation (especially when you consider 3d, Imax etc).

The estimated ticket sales thing is very impressive considering the population wasn't as much as today.

 

[LEWIS540]

The estimated ticket sales thing is very impressive considering the population wasn't as much as today.

Yeah, remember reading that GWTW released today (with increased population, more expensive tickets, global release etc) would of made $4billion......though obviously there's factors that work against it too.

 

[avenue94]

Numbers don't lie. Am I a fan? No.

Sure, as we all know, ticket prices have not changed, nor is inflation a thing hahaha

 

[Kardashians]

The only one that matters on that list is Titanic

 

[genecop]

Titanic deserves to be there. Avatar is just terrrrrrrrrrrrible.

Especially the new one

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

1. Avatar - $2,923,706,026
2. Avengers: Endgame - $2,799,439,100
3. Titanic: $2,194,690,964
4. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens - $2,071,310,218
5. Avatar: The Way of the Water - $2,026,675,670

If not James Cameron, who's the blockbuster king of filmmaking?

 

[Crawler89]

I don't like any of em, and really would only watch star wars again for the lore in that list

 

[chrisdiaz]

Havent watched Titanic since it came on two VHS tapes but even I remember that movie was pretty epic. I still dont understand that fascination with Avatar other than the CGI, which I find odd since Cameron was one of the masters of practical effects. True Lies>Avatar anyday.

 

[aunshi189]

I'm not saying I have my finger on the pulse of popular opinions, but I know nobody who's mentioned seeing Avatar 2 or heard much talk of it generally. Impressed it's made so much money.

On topic for this thread: adjusting for inflation is mostly BS and films being measured by box office rather than tickets sold is a sad indictment of the industry.

 

[Brother Numsi]

No question

This dude has made only 3 movies in 25 years and all of them are in the Top 5 of highest grossing films

 

[Sweater of AV]

The adjusted rankings are much more meaningful.

 

[Sirwastealot]

No question

This dude has made only 3 movies in 25 years and all of them are in the Top 5 of highest grossing films

That's a pretty crazy stat.

I have to respect that as an accomplishment but i'd have preferred a lot more if after titanic he went back to making movies like terminator and aliens. Or at least had a mix of those movies.

I don't hate the avatar movies either, sure the story lines aren't great but they are unique there's never been anything like them. Just the 10 year per movie doesn't seem to be the best use of time.

 

[wildchild88]

He gave me terminator 2, so he's basically god to me..

 

[Bia]

I'm not saying I have my finger on the pulse of popular opinions, but I know nobody who's mentioned seeing Avatar 2 or heard much talk of it generally. Impressed it's made so much money.

i guess it's one of those CGI movies you need to see it in big screen and therefore drive up the profit from the ticket sales.

 

[LEWIS540]

I'm not saying I have my finger on the pulse of popular opinions, but I know nobody who's mentioned seeing Avatar 2 or heard much talk of it generally. Impressed it's made so much money.

On topic for this thread: adjusting for inflation is mostly BS and films being measured by box office rather than tickets sold is a sad indictment of the industry.

There's so many variables between 2023 and, say 1939, that comparing film finances between the two is just asinine.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

Meanwhile he's #2 behind George Lucas when it comes to fucking up home releases. He loves adding new effects and adding DNR (scrubbing grain from movies). The Terminator 2 4K UHD release is regarded as one of the worst UHD releases available because it's so smoothed out that it looks waxy. But Cameron approved it and somehow thought it looked good.

 

[djacobox372]

JC has an amazing track record, all of his movies in order:

Terminator
Aliens
Terminator 2
The Abyss
Titantic
Avatar
Avatar 2

The only movie that wasn't a huge hit was The Abyss, but it was still a stellar movie.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Adjusted for Inflation:
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=77d5...QzI4MiUyMCUyMDQxJTIwbW9yZSUyMHJvd3MlMjA&ntb=1





Star Wars
Titanic
ET

Domestic

 

[AristotleAmadopolis]

is there a list for most pirated and most streamed as well as dvd and vhs sales?