Amph The 2023 Box Office Blood Barbie

The correct list is not adjusted for inflation but a "number of tickets sold" metric that takes into account changing prices.

I think Gone with the Wind still wins that handily, and at a time when the population of the US was a lot lower.

 

The counter-vailing pressure is that options for entertainment were much more limited at the time. In a less segmented market, popular things are going to appear more disproportionately popular than within a divided one, even if the level of passion/excitement is more or less the same.

 

A much larger percentage of the population went to the movies each week before TV.

Even with a much larger population so we have any idea if we’re to the same number of tickets sold from the 1910s to early 1950s?

 

This together with other external factors (proportional financial pressure, etc.) make all of these “modern equivalence” metrics a bit worthless. We could gleam some amount of impact on the zeitgeist from, say, proportionate unique audience share… and that’s impossible to measure because nobody has ever tracked - or would ever track - “unique ticket buyers,” so.

 

These were Infinity War’s last words after Big Jim walks in the room

 

Babylon to potentially beat Avatar 2! In France!

 

What's the over/under on 2 Avatar 2 Furious cracking the domestic Top 10?

 

Ah, yeah, this week for sure. Wasn't sure what the margin there was.

 

Seems likely it will land in 8th place passing Titanic

 

The Feast of Maximum Occupancy.

But seriously I don’t know why Quest would expect a $3 million Monday day over day with a weekend of $15.

 

Seems unlikely at this point, but it would be an entertaining box office competition to watch A:WoW and Titanic competing for the worldwide rankings. Two films released decades apart, by the same director, in theaters at the same time, jockeying for the #3 title.

 

So who in Hollywood decided to turn March '23 into May summer movie season, the prequel? That March release calendar is stacked. heck it basically start in mid Feb at Ant-Man 3 and then Cocaine Bear.

 

@BigAl6ft6 March has shown it can be a good window for movie openings due to spring break. Yes, obviously a lot of families go out of town (particularly the high school I worked as not only is a lot of students telling me they are going away for it but also our faculty as I am one of the few it seems that isn't going anywhere and many of those who aren't simply cannot since they coach a spring coach therefore they are in season or they would be) but you still have many who don't and are looking to do something that keeps the kids entertain for a few hours and despite how insane movie ticket prices can be (to say nothing of the concessions), it's still a cheaper option then a lot of other things you can do with them. I am actually surprised that Super Mario Bros is not trying to squeeze itself more into the spring break. March 24 has John Wick 4 opening but that obviously isn't a kids movie so I would think they tried to sneak into that slot and get more of the spring break window as part of their calendar. We certainly go see it then as I wrote on the Super Mario Bros thread my kids convinced my wife to go see it in the theater (took me none since I was thinking about taking them before they even saw the ads LOL!) and spring break would be the perfect time to go see a movie for us. Heck I might take the boys to go see Shazam 2 though they seem okay not seeing it until it comes out on HBO Max.

Looking at the calendar though I don't see any film becoming a uber hit like we saw with Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar 2 this past year. Not yet anyway.

 

That Adam Driver vs dinosaurs movie is going up against Scream 6, surprised Sony decided to face it off against an established franchise and not just move it a week or so. Sorry Adam but Ghostface wins this match up for me