Originally Posted By alexbook >>Maybe to someone involved in the making of the film it is, but Cars is now #75 on the all-time highest grossing domestic films list. If anyone says it is not a hit, they are not looking at the facts.<< Make that #74: It just passed "Toy Story."
Originally Posted By alexbook #66, passing "Batman Begins," "Terminator 2," "Mummy Returns," "Armageddon," "Gone with the Wind," "Pearl Harbor," and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."
Originally Posted By FerretAfros But Gone with the Wind probably sold tickets for $0.05, while the tickets for Cars are $7.00+. Although it is good, it is slightly misleading. Is there a count out there in internetland of how many tickets were sold for each film? I think that would be a much better way to judge how popular movies are.
Originally Posted By DlandDug BoxOfficeMojo includes a chart "adjusted for inflation." GWTW does, indeed, top the list: <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/a lltime/adjusted.htm</a> Incidently, tickets to GWTW were rather high for the time, with reserved showings for its initial run. The days of nickel tickets were long gone by 1939, except in the fleabaggiest second run houses. One film that MAY have sold more tickets than any other is Birth of a Nation. Because of the way oit was marketed, no one has ever been able to figure out a true number. But it was staggering by any standard. The All Time Top Ten, according to BoxOfficeMojo: 1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,293,085,600 $198,676,459 1939^ 2 Star Wars Fox $1,139,965,400 $460,998,007 1977^ 3 The Sound of Music Fox $911,458,400 $158,671,368 1965 4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $907,867,700 $435,110,554 1982^ 5 The Ten Commandments Par. $838,400,000 $65,500,000 1956 6 Titanic Par. $821,413,700 $600,788,188 1997 7 Jaws Uni. $819,704,400 $260,000,000 1975 8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $794,466,900 $111,721,910 1965 9 The Exorcist WB $707,639,500 $232,671,011 1973^ 10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $697,600,000 $184,925,486 1937^
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I was thinking, do you think that the CARS DVD will do better than expected? I think there are a lot of beer drinking Nascar fans that would secretly like to go see it, but maybe they don't want to be seen seeing it...and will maybe buy the DVD for their big screen...perhaps to watch in the comfort of their own trailer? (I am so joking people, before you get all up in arms! )
Originally Posted By alexbook DVC_dad: You might be interested to know that boxofficemojo.com now lists "Cars" as the top-grossing auto racing movie of all time, beating out "The Fast and the Furious." In domestic gross, "Cars" is now #3 for the year, #63 all-time (#200 adjusted for inflation), and #11 among all Buena Vista releases. It's #186 world-wide all-time (and not yet released in the UK or Hong Kong).
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Happy 50th almost 51st, Disneyland! Cars pulled in another $1,603,231 yesterday, actually increasing it's take over Monday. How's that for performance?!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^^^^ I'm surprised anyone has any money left to go to the show after forking out $$ for Potc - LOL ! Also cars starting to hit some of the theatres showing it for less than the normal $8.50 here-- that also is probably having an effect.. bit heck-- still motoring along.... I'd like to make $1.5M per day
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Right vbdad... why would you take that kind of cut in pay? We shelled out $45 bucks for 3 adults and 2 kids. Food was MORE than THAT !!! It is so getting to where the DVD is far cheaper than going to the theater.
Originally Posted By Dlmusic It is debatable about tickets being sold for a lot of movies. For example Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs probably did sell more tickets than Gone with the Wind considering more children saw the movie. With lower prices for children, even the adjusted gross would not cover that. Sound of Music and Star Wars probably also had more child tickets. I believe it also is widely assumed that if adult movies were tracked like most domestic films that Deep Throat would actually be considered the number one movie of all time adjusted for inflation.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<Cars pulled in another $1,603,231 yesterday, actually increasing it's take over Monday. How's that for performance?!>> Cars does it _again_, going UP another 4.6% over Tuesday, pulling in $1,676,876. That a fifth week total of $15,420,955... with still one day left! Compare that to The Incredibles, which did $10,693,624 in the fifth week. Cars now stands at $210,595,357; #62 all-time domestic.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Right vbdad... why would you take that kind of cut in pay? We shelled out $45 bucks for 3 adults and 2 kids. Food was MORE than THAT !!! It is so getting to where the DVD is far cheaper than going to the theater.< if only .....LOL ! yep tickets for matinee for us (4) which includes 1 12 year old were 32.00 and we spent another 28.00 for food -- a large popcorn and large drink 'special' is 9.50 each so we actually held back but $60 for 2 hours...the DVD is much cheaper -- heck you can get a cheap no name DVD player and the DVD for that.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad True ... then however it occurred, ocurred, occured, to me that if we do not pay the theter prices, then the studio won't make the great movies that end up on DVD. So we are stuck either way.
