"Titanic" dethroned

DARTH SABER

DARTH SABER

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Well, looks like Avatar has surpassed Titanic as being the highest grossing film wolrdwide (Domestically it still has to make another $40 mil to pass Titanic...But I figure it will probably do that in a couple of weeks.)


Odd as this may sound, I actually found several other film's this year that I consider to be better.

I guess Cameron does have the magic touch.


DS
 
Cameron is a real 'Goldfinger'.
Too bad he passed on the idea to take over the Spider-Man franchise. Just imagine what could have been....
I STILL haven't seen Avatar:wacko but I hope to get to my local IMAX soon to check it out...I am expecting a lot from it based on what most are saying so I hope it's not a let down.
 
well, you have to remember that ticket prices are a lot higher than when titanic was in theaters. There has been inflation.

Plus, titanic was never in imax.

Titanic is still beating avatar in ticket sales..So honeslty..it doesnt deserve highest grossing film.
 
Hell, nobodies yet to even come close to knocking Gone With the Wind of its perch. Come back when a film surpasses the 1 TRILLION dollar amount
 
DARTH SABER said:
Odd as this may sound, I actually found several other film's this year that I consider to be better.
DS
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Dude, I enjoyed it enough to see it more than once at the cinema, but no, that's not odd. It's not a technically good film, but it is an engaging one.
 
Yeah... if we were to go strictly by ticket sales Gone with the Wind is still the highest... and I'm pretty sure that you'd find others made long before Titanic that would have beaten it. But to stay the highest grossing for as many years as it did... with inflation and ridiculously increasing ticket prices... that's pretty impressive.

Especially given that it was fairly mediocre... I mean it's two stories that have been told a thousand times. The tale of the Titanic and a love story similar to Romeo and Juliet or Gwenevere and Lancelot... or any other number of tales of star crossed lovers.
 
GWTW has 70 years to gross the approximate $1.5 billion that holds it at the top.
That's in adjusted dollars, BTW.

Avatar doesn't even come close... yet.
Given the very short timeframe it's been out, I'd say it's doing rather well. A chap on another forum tried to argue that the Credit Crunch is the only thing holding Avatar back. GWTW ran continuously for four years during a world war!!

I don't care what it grosses, TBH. I watched it, saw a good film and really enjoyed it.
Looking forward to the next cool movie, now.
 
Article that I read last week gave a hefty attribution to the fact that not only are ticket prices higher in 2009/10 than they were in 1997, but Avatar more ofthen than not gets a good extra bump for the extra money for not only IMAX screenings, but also the extra charge for 3D screenings which they say are $3 or more depending on the theatre.

Going on ticket sales, GWTW and Star Wars are still way ahead. Probably others ahead of it as well.

Something that GWTW has on pretty much everyone else is that by virtue of being around 70-80 years, it had 40-50 years of no competition from TV, VHS, or DVD's until the mid/late 80's. I don't know the specific's, but i'd read before that it's been re-release many times in theatres prior to the advent of home players.
 
If Gone with the Wind came out for the first time this year it would have made epic fail numbers beyond belief. The choices of films back then weren't very many, so basically they had the upper hand there.

I wonder what would happen if they released Back to the Future at the same time as Gone with the Wind in 1939. No doubt people would be flocking to see the time traveling delorean.
 
niennumb1 said:
If Gone with the Wind came out for the first time this year it would have made epic fail numbers beyond belief. The choices of films back then weren't very many, so basically they had the upper hand there.
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I think you grossly miscalculated the draw of historical romances based on big events (the civil war), based on the best selling book of their time....

with an original release in 1939, 10 Oscar wins, 14 nominations
re-releases in 1947, 1954 and 1961, 1967 1971, 1989, and 1998.

and before you say it had no competition
the Wizard of Oz came out the same year

2 cultural icons... and GWTW was the clear box office winner
 
Well, Wizard of Oz was deemed a failure when it came out in theater.

It didnt become famous until they showed it on tv for the second time
 
couldn't have been too big a failure
it was nominated for several academy awards including best picture, and best visual effects, best song, best score
 
tgreco said:
couldn't have been too big a failure
it was nominated for several academy awards including best picture, and best visual effects, best song, best score
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That was before the Oscars became the public spectacle they are nowadays, and were awarded on true merit. Remember, Rob Bottin was denied even a nomination for his work on John Carpenter's "The Thing" in '82. Now it's all politics and publicity.
 
Being nominated for an award doesn't prove it was a success either.

In the jist of things, it barely made a profit and not a lot of people went to see it or cared for it.

This is explained through several documentaries. Even cast, crew, etc etc thought the film was a failure.

It is sad because some crew members died before the film became famous in 1959 when they aired it on cbs as a christmas special thingy.
 
but being nominated for an award does prove that at least some people saw what a marvel that movie was technically, and even if the audience couldn't appreciate it on release, it did find it's audience and become a classic (not unlike It's a Wonderful Life)

I realize WoO wasn't the hit that they expected it to be, but for NiumNumb to claim the GWTW is just some old movie that would never do the business it did today, and only did the business it did because there were fewer films or it was the only big movie released that year is completely unfounded

GWTW has earned every ticket sale it ever got
it's a great movie that works on a lot of levels.... there's a reason it's a classic, and it shaped all the narratives that came after it

and what I find funnier is Titanic came up with it's formula using GWTW:
a fictional romance, effected by a historic tragic event
 
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