Sorry but it is unrealistic, I might be wrong about the 5 billion but its almost 1.7 billion on USA alone, it doesnt get more unrealistic than that. Ppl make more money nowadays but in comparision they dont make so much more that a movie theater ticket became cheaper compared to what ppl make, it became more expensive, and theres way more competition from everything, even from other movies, on Gone With The Wind days we had 1 movie x nothing else for ages.

Fern Gully 3D was nothing like Dances with Wolves.

Keep in mind that Americans' wages (especially minimum wage) have been lagging behind inflation since the 1940's, so disposable income is less available to the average American.

You seem to keep thinking things but aren't bringing up the numbers to back it up like the five billion before you are wrong on several counts.

first the 1.7 billion being unrealistic. Realistic for what? for a movie to possible beat? yeah it's very very unlikely for a movie to pass it it sold so many more tickets than any other movie in the US by far, it didn't happen over night it took years of succesfull rereleases as well.See the list below Maybe instead of focusing on the number 1 movie. Look and see if it can't break the top 10 or pass avatar on that list. Plus while it might not even get into the top 10 in the US it can possibly become the number 1 in the world with inflation since the US box office won't make any where near as much of the total gross as it did for GWTW.

Just just claimed that Gone with the wind had no competition during the golden age of hollywood. Where some studios were pumpiong out 400 films a year. After the golden age and the studios lost much of their power the studios made fewer but larger budget films.

As for you talk of wages compared to ticket prices. minimum wage has improved with inflation a little less well than ticket prices have increased, though. Also lets not forget it came out while there was still the great depression and then WWII

A further thing, GWTW is almost 4 hours

minimum wage in 1939, $0.25 adjusted for inflation that's $4.25 today. So in other aspects, compared to when the movie came out and shortly after people even with minimum wage are better off. While on hour of work for many people won't neccisarily cover a movie and a little more, there are many more people working and there are matiness and bargains people can find to make up the difference.

Also a movie like GWTW has kind of seen it all in terms of how the american wages are. considering it's release ans rereleases 1939, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1961, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1989 and 1998. So it ran a full spectrum of wages, had thousands of movies as competition yet people kept coming to see it.

Wow, force awakens netted 37M on Tuesday acording to Box office mojo, this is insane, the movie is at 325.5M and hasnt even seen its second weckend yet. Its almost getting to 700M worldwide without having released on China.

It will be well over a billion before it comes out it China

The entire USA list is dominated by stuf from before the 80s, and full of pre 60s movies, its very very unrealistic to think any of these movies released today, with current ticket prices, multitude of entertainement avaliable and the fact ppl has less spare money because the amount ppl make did not follow how much stuf got more expensive and also the fact ppl have more bills to pay than they used to 30-40 years ago, would make anywhere near the million/billions they suposed would do with the adjustment to inflation. In fact the top 10 has only 1 movie from the 90s the rest is pre 90. Even Avatar wich was a absolute phenomenom, that had multiple re-releases is  only 14 on the domestic box office adjusted to inflation list and 3rd on the worldwide one, considering that in the past movies would only release years after theyre American release on some select few markets worldwide, the Chinese market wasnt even a thing, the fact that Gone With the Wind with its inflation adjusted budget still made amost 3.9 billion (ye I was wrong about the 5 billion, big deal, 3.9 bil is so much more realistic...) is beyond retarded, adjusting anything to inflation dont work thinks sels as well or as bad as they sell cause they release on the time they released, if you change the context the result would also be very different.

I don't see why people hate on Avatar for making 2 billion. It was a good movie.

I havent seen Star Wars yet(in fact, I haven't seen any in a while), so I'm not sure which one will be better

One last time. World wide adjusted for inflation GWTW is 3.4 billion. The number 2 movie for world wide is Avatar.  

So no need for excuses, or calling the comparison retarded. 

HA! Suck on that all those racist douchebags who wanted everyone to boycott the movie because of black people.