AVATAR Highest Grossing movie EVER: PARTY THREAD!!

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amp316 said:

PlaystaionGamer said:

amp316 said:
But it only has sold like 100th of the tickets that Gone With The Wind has.

I finally saw this and thought that it was good, but not great. The effects were phenomenal and I thought that if they ended it after about the first two hours, it would have been pretty much a perfect movie. Then James Cameron decided that people would be upset if didn't have a happy ending and turned it into the Ewoks defeating the Empire all over again.

Gone with the Wind

- in Cinema over a year

- no compatition from other movie's

- no VHS release so you had to see it in cinema

- many many many re-releases

 

AVATAR truley is the Number 1 movie of all time! yay

You are aware of inflation, right?  Star Wars also sold way more tickets, not including the rerelease.

Gone With The Wind ( a movie Idon't even like, BTW)

- So what?  Avatar will be in the cinema as long as people go to see it as well.

-Do you think that Gone With The Wind was the only movie released that year?  *shakes head*

-Avatar probably wont have a VHS release either.

-I'm sure that Avatar will eventually be relreleased as well.

Avatar is the number one movie in money made off of ticket sales of all time, but not even close to the best movie of all time.  Blue Ewoks I say!!!  It was better than most movies though.  I'll give you that.  It's better than, for example, The Matrix.

 

You are so off the mark it isn't funny... I don't think you understand the differences between the box office today and when GWTW was released.

• Movies have a MUCH shorter lifespan now than they did. Gone With The Wind had a four year run at the box office. Titanic which is the biggest movie of the past 30 years had a year. There are other correlating factors as to why movies have shorter runs (more on this in other points), but the fact is that it is far more competitive now than when GWTW came out. Movie theaters were smaller, and had to play only the best movies, which gave GWTW a massive edge over competition.
• In 1940, approximately one third of every American went to the movies each week. Comparatively, the best weekends in America see maybe 10 million people.
• Movies were the dominant form of media in thhe 30s and 40s. There wasn't competition from TV, the intenet, DVDs or any other major media source other than newspapers. That is the major difference between today and when GWTW came out.
• You really don't get it with your smartass comment about Avatar not coming to VHS. You see, when Gone With The Wind came out, there was no feasible way to see the movie outside of a theater until TVs became common many years later in the 1950s. Today, a movie like Avatar will be released on DVD within a year, be on TV within three, and is already pirated. Comparatively, GWTW had virtually no other way of being seen except for box office admissions for a decade if not more.
• Avatar may get a re-release at some point, but it won't get the 5 or 6 that GWTW saw.

That is why GWTW is a bad comparison when you adjust for ticket inflation. The movie market was much, much different in 1939 and 1940 when GWTW made its debut. Heck, even when Titanic came out, it was a different time because VHS copies came out a year later after the movie was in theaters vs. 3-6 months for most movies today.

Comparatively, when you include other forms of revenue-generation for movies today, there is a lot more money, but its not in the movies alone.

For a movie like Twilight, you had:

• $190 million domestic cume
• Soundtrack sales (peaked at #65 on the Billboard charts. New Moon debuted at #2)
• Toys & Crap ($20 for a Eddy Cullen doll at Hot Topic, and $15 for a bottle of Vulturi perfume)
• TV Licensing Rights (pending)
• DVD Sales ($150 million USD - over 10 million copies sold in US alone)

And it didn't get a video game like other series like LOTR did. Gone With The Wind had what? Movies. And that was it for decades.