I bet this is just an intentional mistake to increase hype for a movie. After all, you don't want to see a movie when the review says, "Tied for fifteenth largest opening weekend with inflation considered."

The biggest grossing movie of all time, adjusted for inflation, is 1939 "Gone with the Wind."

Unadjusted Gross: $198,676,459

Adjusted Gross: $1,430,476,000

It's amazing to think that in the last seven decades nothing has topped it.

Number 2 is the 1977 "Star Wars"; 3 is the 1965 "The Sound of Music"; 1982 "ET" is #4; 1956 "Ten Commandments" is #5. Not until #26 do we get into the twenty-first century with "The Dark Knight."

People just don't go to the movies like they used to. I haven't been to the movies in something like a decade myself. I couldn't even tell you the last movie I saw in a theater.

Biggest gross =/= biggest opener. I believe the biggest opening is Titanic, but not entirely sure.

*plays devil's advocate*

Ticket prices being higher doesn't automatically equate to higher sales, though -- especially with prices of everything else going up (well, oil has come down now), and wages staying stagnant or shrinking or even being lost by many people. It's fair to expect movie sales per unit to go down, equating to lower sales, in this economy.

But yeah.

I'm not sure if we're saying the same thing or something different, bones. Either way, my point is the media makes a big deal about certain movies making certain amounts of money when they might not have sold as many tickets as movies that made significantly less in previous years. With higher prices, not as many units have to sell to make the equivalent or higher amount of money.

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