INFINITY WAR, Biggest Grossing Movie Sits 50th In This Chart!

INFINITY WAR, Biggest Grossing Movie Sits 50th In This Chart I'm looking at

Today's news is that Avenger's Infinity War is going to be sitting at the top of the 2018 charts of blockbusters with $1.8B worldwide (ww) in ticket sales! That's pretty impressive, as the film just toppled Black Panther, which netted $1.3B ww.

(Note, I put these lists & numbers together a few weeks ago. This piece is about making a point, not for the exact numbers that the films are sitting in at this moment, so I have not made a huge effort to update to 'today's' updates.)

After it's opening weekend, Deadpool 2 already sits 10th in this list of 2018 films, with $301M! Dang, not bad for a sarcastic ass mutant hero. (Today it sits THIRD with $655M!)





Millions
Rank
Title Worldwide
1
Avengers: Infinity War  $1,817.30
2
Black Panther  $1,343.90
3
Operation Red Sea  $579.20
4
Ready Player One  $576.90
5
Detective Chinatown 2  $544.10
6
Rampage (2018)  $407.40
7
Fifty Shades Freed  $368.30
8
Monster Hunt 2  $361.70
9
Peter Rabbit  $335.70
10
Deadpool 2  $300.40
11
A Quiet Place  $296.40
12
Pacific Rim Uprising  $288.50

{http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2018&p=.htm}

For all-time worldwide box office numbers, Avatar still holds the number one spot, which is pretty impressive for a 2009 film,  considering that's an "unadjusted for inflation" number! And the first Avengers film sits 6th, Infinity War: 4th.

In this list, Infinity War sits 4th. in this worldwide sorted list, for the moment.




Billions Millions
Rank
Title Worldwide Domestic / %
1
Avatar  $2,788.00 $760.50 27.30%
2
Titanic  $2,187.50 $659.40 30.10%
3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens  $2,068.20 $936.70 45.30%
4
Avengers: Infinity War  $1,817.30 $595.80 32.80%
5
Jurassic World  $1,671.70 $652.30 39.00%
6
Marvel's The Avengers  $1,518.80 $623.40 41.00%
7
Furious 7  $1,516.00 $353.00 23.30%
8
Avengers: Age of Ultron  $1,405.40 $459.00 32.70%
9
Black Panther  $1,343.90 $697.80 51.90%
10
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2  $1,341.50 $381.00 28.40%
11
Star Wars: The Last Jedi  $1,332.50 $620.20 46.50%
12
Frozen  $1,276.50 $400.70 31.40%
13
Beauty and the Beast (2017)  $1,263.50 $504.00 39.90%
14
The Fate of the Furious  $1,236.00 $226.00 18.30%
15
Iron Man 3  $1,214.80 $409.00 33.70%

{ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ }

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But...

Infinity War Sits Fiftieth In This Chart!

But when you adjust for inflation... you know... 50 cent tickets versus $15 dollar tickets, it is a very very different chart we end up looking at.  When you adjust for inflation, and break it down to the number of tickets sold for a movie... things get very very different.

I've had debates about which is a more valuable measuring stick... ticket cost and box office "records" vs. number of tickets sold (Adjusted for inflation is another but same measure).

(The following is just a huge, embellished example to make my point - - -)

Some folks are hands-down, blindly convinced that it's about the money spent on a film today and the studio take that helps set the rank of a movie. But with inflation, there will always be a box office record being set.

Then I think this: Some day, when Friday The 13th chapter 1000 hits theaters a thousand years from now, it will "out sell" Avatar, Titanic, Harry Potter, The Matrix and everything else down the road ONLY because of inflationary impact on the dollar. Not because it was that great of a movie that appealed to the general movie audience.

Because I can see Friday the 13th out-selling everyone down the the road in time, and shaking my head because of it, I decided to turn to looking at just how many tickets were sold for a movie, or, adjusting for inflation. To me, this is the true measure of a film.

With that in mind, our top chart looks very very different.


Rank
Title (click to view) Est. Tickets
Year 
1
Gone with the Wind  202,044,600
1939
2
Star Wars  178,119,600
1977
3
The Sound of Music  142,415,400
1965
4
E.T.  141,854,300
1982
5
Titanic  135,549,800
1997
6
The Ten Commandments  131,000,000
1956
7
Jaws  128,078,800
1975
8
Doctor Zhivago  124,135,500
1965
9
The Exorcist  110,599,200
1973
10
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  109,000,000
1937
11
Star Wars: The Force Awakens  108,115,100
2015
12
101 Dalmatians  99,917,300
1961
13
The Empire Strikes Back  98,180,600
1980
14
Ben-Hur  98,000,000
1959
15
Avatar  97,309,600
2009
16
Return of the Jedi  94,059,400
1983
17
Jurassic Park  91,621,800
1993
18
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace  90,312,100
1999
19
The Lion King  89,146,400
1994
20
The Sting  89,142,900
1973
21
Raiders of the Lost Ark  88,543,400
1981
22
The Graduate  85,576,800
1967
23
Fantasia  83,043,500
1941
24
Jurassic World  79,049,200
2015
25
The Godfather  78,922,600
1972
26
Forrest Gump  78,614,600
1994
27
Mary Poppins  78,181,800
1964
28
Grease  76,969,200
1978
29
Marvel's The Avengers  76,881,200
2012
30
Black Panther  76,177,400
2018
31
Thunderball  74,800,000
1965
32
The Dark Knight  74,463,500
2008
33
The Jungle Book  73,679,900
1967
34
Sleeping Beauty  72,676,100
1959
35
Ghostbusters  71,173,700
1984
36
Shrek 2  71,050,900
2004
37
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid  70,557,900
1969
38
Love Story  69,998,100
1970
39
Spider-Man  69,484,700
2002
40
Independence Day  69,268,900
1996
41
Home Alone  67,734,200
1990
42
Star Wars: The Last Jedi  67,594,900
2017
43
Pinocchio  67,403,300
1940
44
Cleopatra (1963)  67,183,500
1963
45
Beverly Hills Cop  67,150,000
1984
46
Goldfinger  66,300,000
1964
47
Airport  66,111,300
1970
48
American Graffiti  65,714,300
1973
49
The Robe  65,454,500
1953
50
Avengers: Infinity War  64,959,900
2018
51
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest  64,628,400
2006

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{ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&p=.htm  }

This list is truly a list of classics, seeing how many times a movie drew in movie-goers to seats in a theater...

All I'm saying is that with inflation, the box office record will continually be broken, making it a great marketing sound byte for whatever film breaks this record. But it's a bit of a dupe, kind of like when California labels some lottery distributers "lucky sellers." There's no such thing gang, just sheer momentum of numbers that can be manipulated to pitch the product.


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