Adjusted: ~3.7-3.8 Billion $ Real Worldwide Box Office: 402.3 Mio $ Budget: 3.85 Mio $ 2. If you wanted to see Star Wars, you had to see it in the theater. Instead, it seemed to meander quite a bit. So it’s a good time to look back at what are the highest-grossing movies ever. As everyone should know, the top money-making film of all-time is NOT Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) but Gone With the Wind (1939). There are too many variables that vary from film released to film release, besides just inflation, to account for. I know what they were going for with the ending, but I felt absolutely nothing. Archived . It is in the orginal link and I nearly added it, but the graph got too busy. As far as my prediction for "Episode IX"??? The Star Wars films are the highest-grossing series based on a single property, earning over $10 billion at the box office (although the Eon James Bond films have earned over $18 billion in total when adjusted to current prices). Your Wikipedia link says Rogue One is the third highest grossing Star Wars film worldwide after adjusting for inflation, not second, and even that seems to be out of date. Time of year, competing films, economic downturns, natural disasters, global pandemics. 20. "Saving the world" becomes boring when you have to repeat it 9 times. Rogue One grossed $532.2 million in the United States and Canada and $523.8 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.056 billion. You might read this and say it isn’t important. Movie Box Offices Adjusted. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_One#:~:text=Rogue%20One%20grossed%20%24532.2%20million,%2C%20Zootopia%2C%20and%20Finding%20Dory. What’s troubling about this qualifier is that it completely discounts all other variables that have decreased box office ticket sales. Rise of Skywalker made $1.074 billion three years after Rogue One came out. And that’s before we account for other variables suppressing box office ticket sales in 2015-2016 and inflating them in 1977-1978. Post approval does not signify that this visualization has been verified or its sources checked. Here are the lifetime grosses of all the "Star Wars" movies: Note: Box office figures below are domestic earnings adjusted for inflation. The total box office for Star Wars (1977) not including the re-releases and adjusting for inflation is just above $2.1 billion. Star Wars: The Last Jedi finished its second week at the box office with $19.4 million on Thursday giving it a total of $464.6 million after two weeks of release. … Remix this visual with the data in the in the author's citation. Posted by 12 months ago. Advertisement Next The Sound of Music (1965) Movies. Biggest Summer Blockbusters adjusted for Inflation by pattap-21567 | created - 4 months ago | updated - 2 months ago | Public All Summer Blockbusters who made at least 1.2 Billion at the Box Office Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Press J to jump to the feed. Plus I think the whole Skywalker saga is overdone. Advertisement Next Box Office Mojo diligently researched the All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation chart. 17. Once Star Wars became a hit, a unique pop culture developed around it which had no competitor for several years. So many younger people fail to realize that, in the 70s, once a movie left the theater, it was basically gone forever. Adjusting for inflation, it has earned about half as much as the original Star Wars in 1977, Box Office Mojo says. 6. Rounding out the box office top 10 is the one “Star Wars” reboot that actually managed to appease most viewers. Adjusting for inflation, it has earned about half as much as the original Star Wars in 1977, Box Office Mojo says. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is also the highest-grossing franchise, amassing over $22 billion at the box office. Box office figures for all of the Star Wars films have been compiled for the PA news agency by the British Film Institute, and have been adjusted for inflation. 7.8. While it ranks a little lower on this list, if you adjusted the gross for ticket price inflation, then this would actually be the number one on the list. Movie Box Offices Adjusted. Thank you for your Original Content, /u/exmoor456!Here is some important information about this post: Remember that all visualizations on r/DataIsBeautiful should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. If we can’t even be reasonable about a seemingly innocuous thing like box office data, then how can people be expected to be reasonable about more complex issues? But certain movies are popular enough to overcome these negative events anyway and bring people out. The new Star Wars is not the most successful movie in American history. It also contains one of the very few retcons in any franchise that I can recall that actually improves the other films. With ticket prices adjusted for inflation, 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Star Wars' blow past the sci-fi blockbuster. As of December 2019, 27 of the top-50 are superhero films, many of which are among the highest-grossing superhero films.Such films include science fiction elements but are most associated with the superhero genre. Marvel Vs. Star Wars Vs. DC - Adjusted Box Office Inflation#Marvel #StarWars #DC The Sound of Music (1965) Adjusted: ~2.05 Billion $ Real Worldwide Box Office: 2048.4 Mio $ Budget: 316-400 Mio $ I'd watch a new hope 2 dozen times in theaters now. But this is a modern problem that washes over and drowns reason at all levels. It’s just box office data. In short, inflation is always going up, so are the amount of total humans, and so is Hollywood’s footprint in nations around the world. Top ten Star Wars movies, ranked according to their worldwide box office numbers, adjusted for inflation. It should have had the feel of a great heist movie. We could have some fun with that and divide by just TV viewership in 1977-1978 versus TV viewership in 2015-2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_One#:~:text=Rogue%20One%20grossed%20%24532.2%20million,%2C%20Zootopia%2C%20and%20Finding%20Dory. Marvel Vs. Star Wars Vs. DC - Adjusted Box Office Inflation#Marvel #StarWars #DC The new Star Wars is not the most successful movie in American history. Titanic (1997) PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance . It comes to us from director J.J. Abrams, who played it safe by delivering a somewhat familiar plotline. worldwide it grossed more than all episodes save 1977's Episode 4. But also there are different kinds of world events and economic circumstances that can fluctuate peoples ability to actually go out and see movies. Adjusted for inflation, Homer's campfire telling of the Odyssey still ranks ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the box office. Excellent point. Not satisfied with this visual? 6. Of course we have more murders now… there are 100 million more people. Let’s take the original Star Wars from 1977. Get ready to feel disoriented for the rest of the day. The Force Awakens is a big second with $528 million earned worldwide in its opening weekend and $2.066 billion total. 7.8. Then we could add another modifier to Internet activity in 1977-1978 versus 2015-2016… except we can’t since the Internet wasn’t even public 40 years ago. In the true list, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar aren’t within sights of the inflation-adjusted number one spot. Episode IV is still the third highest grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation We encourage a lack of critical thinking. Following two straight epic episodes full of epic awesomeness (I feel like I just violated a rule of good writing) the COMMUNITY writers de... Sony fired COMMUNITY show creator/heart-and-soul Dan Harmon following the end of season 3 because he was apparently difficult to deal wit... Jess & Magnus discuss GAME OF THRONES episode 6.05 "The Door" and the first half of season 6 as well as how it all relates ... KOR 5 - GAME OF THRONES Season 6 Midpoint Review (& The Door). Rogue One is the best of the new Star Wars movies, so it deserves all that. Avatar (2009) PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy . All … Ever since Star Wars: The Force Awakens flew into theatres in December, the huge crowds have had people asking when it might become the all-time box-office … I think the big reason for A New Hope getting that much was because there was not a way to watch it more than once except in a movie theater. Using data from Box Office Mojo, we've ranked every Star Wars movie that had a theatrical release by its box office. Either way this cerebral Star Wars adventure still managed to outgross its successor The Rise of Skywalker which only just scraped the $1 billion milestone at the box office. Star Wars has been very lucrative for Disney, with every film making at least $1 billion, but I wanted to do the math and find out the worldwide gross of each film (minus The Clone Wars film) when adjusted for inflation. Think you can do better? In the true list, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar aren’t within sights of the inflation-adjusted number one spot. We’d have to assign at least a 2X modifier since viewership, percentage wise, is down (by more than 2X, mind you) as people have more options. Rogue One earned more worldwide than Rise of Skywalker after adjusting for inflation, but not by that much. Either way, I think it would be in someways more interesting to see. But at least something like inflation, and then maybe a percentage of that years global box office, could get somewhere closer. Highest-grossing sci-fi films. We dismiss correlations because they don’t match up to some severity we’ve attached to other numbers, then dismiss those more “important” numbers whenever it suits us because we’ve become used to skewing data to fit our agenda. The following chart ranks all nine installments of the core Star Wars saga by their box office earnings adjusted to 2020 ticket prices. But the percentage of murders has decreased. The Force Awakens grossed $2.068 billion worldwide, and even The Last Jedi grossed $1.332 billion (Source). As far as my prediction for "Episode IX"??? 20. It made a ton of money in a time when box office smash hits could be counted on one hand (missing some fingers); in a time when there were a handful of channels on TV; in a time when the top 20 TV shows had nearly 3 times as many viewers as the top 20 in 2017; in a time when there was no Internet; in a time when video games were barely a thing. By comparison, The Force Awakens earned $22.93 million for a total of $651.97 million, while Rogue One managed $16.72 million during this day in its run for a running tally of $375.38 million. The rest of the movies don’t even come close to that mark. Rogue One was still based on that but had a much tighter story focus (and better action sequences IMO). 'ouch!' For reasons explained below , 22% or 28%, respectively was added to the inflation-adjusted box-office gross for any film released from 1987 or later.Then, films were scored (100 points for the highest-grossing film, 99 for the 2nd-highest, etc.) Of course, how much of this is due to the extensive reshoots is impossible to quantify, but it's still the best film in that time period in terms of nailing the "feel" of the universe. As someone who thinks Star Wars is just okay and is definitely not a hardcore fanboy, I have to say that Rogue One is my favorite one. Top 100 Films of All-Time: Here are the US domestic rankings (adjusted for inflation) (with a short summary description of each film), to fairly accurately show which films have been the largest blockbusters over a long period of time. The final installment of the Skywalker Saga should have broken box office records. Endgame became the highest grossing box office movie of all time (not adjusted to inflation) upon its release, and took only five days to pass the $1 billion mark. Even when adjusting for inflation, TFA beats the original by nearly $100 million. Therefore, the only reasonable standard by which to even compare box office sales is to count only the first-theater-run for the movies. Star Wars makes tons of money at the box office, but even after it leaves theaters, it continues to be a money maker. There was no home video version until several years later. Whenever a modern movie breaks some box office record you’ll inevitably read an industry professional, journalist, or fan comment about how it doesn’t match up to some old movie when “adjusting for inflation.” People seemingly note this to indicate the current movie box office numbers are not as impressive since fewer tickets were sold. Films appearing in either the Top 100 of the "Box Office Mojo" or "The Movie Times" lists of inflation-adjusted films were considered. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is also the highest-grossing franchise, amassing over $22 billion at the box office. The Force Awakens grossed $2.068 billion worldwide, and even The Last Jedi grossed $1.332 billion (Source). Endgame became the highest grossing box office movie of all time (not adjusted to inflation) upon its release, and took only five days to pass the $1 billion mark. I got the films' worldwide gross from Wikipedia and the value of each years' dollar from an online inflation calculator. I got the films' worldwide gross from Wikipedia and the value of each years' dollar from an online inflation calculator. I had uncles who watched it over 2 dozen times in theaters with their buddies and I know he wasn't the only one who saw it multiple times. My mom went with her friends multiple times because it was an ac'd escape from the SoCal heat. I’ve broken down the actual inflation rate versus ticket sales in 1977 and 1978 (its initial run) and adjusted accordingly. Plus (a) movies were cheaper to go to, (b) special effects were not done as well to this point, and (c) lot of people smoked weed. Box Office Records > Domestic > All Movies > Cumulative > All Time Domestic (Inf. A place to share and discuss visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc. Below is the math behind this (again, this is based on 2016 adjustment for inflation, not 2017 since I’m counting it against the final theatrical box office take of TFA). Something wrong when a one off film does much better than most of the primary saga films. The Star Wars films are the highest-grossing series based on a single property, earning over $10 billion at the box office (although the Eon James Bond films have earned over $18 billion in total when adjusted to current prices). The following is a list of the highest-grossing science fiction films of all time. OP, as a side note Rogue One grossed more in US sales than Episode 2 and 9, and worldwide it grossed more than all episodes' domestic box office sales save 1977's Episode 4. Including rentals, the figure jumps to over $12 billion. Adjusted for inflation, Homer's campfire telling of the Odyssey still ranks ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the box office. Top ten Star Wars movies, ranked according to their worldwide box office numbers, adjusted for inflation. We could have some fun with that and divide by just TV viewership in 1977-1978 versus TV viewership in 2015-2016. As everyone should know, the top money-making film of all-time is NOT Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) but Gone With the Wind (1939). So it’s a good time to look back at what are the highest-grossing movies ever. The following is a list of the highest-grossing science fiction films of all time. Adjusted: ~3.35 Billion $ Real Worldwide Box Office: 2790.0 Mio $ Budget: 237 Mio $ 3. Adjusted for inflation, all 11 Star Wars movies have made $22 billion dollars. It's just great. And that’s before we account for other variables suppressing box office ticket sales in 2015-2016 and inflating them in 1977-1978. More posts from the dataisbeautiful community. Spoiler alert: Almost all of them did exceptionally well. The fact that the thermal exhaust port was secretly added as a defect was a very clever decision, and I'd like very much to see more of this kind of intelligence and logic applied to future films. The regular Star Wars stories are so boring. Also qualifying as “a bridge too far” is the adjusted-for-inflation $530 million domestic total ($380 million in 2005) of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Adjusted for today’s ticket prices, the film would have earned around $1.15 billion at the box office. While it has dominated on the small screen, the Star Trek franchise has never been quite as commercially successful on the silver screen as its major competitor, the Star Wars Saga. Not to mention the availability of home video options in the modern age versus then… when there was none. Movies How Does 'Avatar' Stack Up Against Past Box-Office Champs? Comscore estimates that around 128 million tickets were sold during the film’s run. The problem with most of these kind of analysis of box office results, is that they only look at inflation and not at percentage of total box office. Highest-grossing sci-fi films. Given the sheer ruthlessness of certain fans, who can blame him? Either way this cerebral Star Wars adventure still managed to outgross its successor The Rise of Skywalker which only just scraped the $1 billion milestone at the box office. Which fails to account for increase or decrease in overall movie going public. Adjusted for inflation, all 11 Star Wars movies have made $22 billion dollars. Taking ticket price inflation into account, the original 1977 Star Wars film is still the most successful one. 'ouch!' Box Office Mojo diligently researched the All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation chart. Your Wikipedia link says Rogue One is the third highest grossing Star Wars film worldwide after adjusting for inflation, not second, and even that seems to be out of date. Top 100 Films of All-Time: Here are the US domestic rankings (adjusted for inflation) (with a short summary description of each film), to fairly accurately show which films have been the largest blockbusters over a long period of time. Many movies, prior to VHS rentals in the 1980s, and VHS --and later DVD-- ownership in the 1990s, were shown in theaters for years, not weeks or months like now. Adj.) Even when adjusting for inflation, TFA beats the original by nearly $100 million. — Young Il Kim (@theyoungilkim) January 5, 2016 When adjusted for ticket price inflation, the new Star Wars hasn’t even cracked the top 20 – where 1939’s Gone With The Wind still holds the top spot followed by 1977's A New Hope. Close. While it ranks a little lower on this list, if you adjusted the gross for ticket price inflation, then this would actually be the number one on the list. And we could include another modifier for video game use in their respective years but that’s such a ridiculous difference how could we even agree on a reasonable one? Totals also include reissue and special edition releases. Thanks. Can confirm, my dad was a senior in HS in 1977. Yes, they had the very first VCRs in the 70s, but they cost as much as a car (no exaggeration) and were only for recording from TV, since there were no video stores. That’s only part of the story though. Wouldn't say something is wrong. 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