Will Star Wars The Force Awakens earn more than Gone With The Winds inflated gross?

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SpokenTruth said:

AAA300 said:
It won't beat Jurassic world or age of ultron. Why do people people fantasize that star wars is bigger than what it is? Only ONE film has made over a billion world wide and it ranks 20 on all time list! Even with there mutli rereleases only one has made it to a billion. Don't get me wrong I think this movie will make money and its positioned its self well with the dead Jan. Movie season coming. But don't think it will shatter all records.

The hype and presense behind The Force Awakens if far higher than the Phantom Menace had.

Keep in mind the Phantom Menace had lower ticket prices than today and was panned by fans and critics.  If The Force Awakens is quality (and it should given the production and direction crew), $1 billion is an absolute given.

Analysts are expecting it to crush several records.  Why the doubt?

the Phantom Menace hype was gigantic hahaha and that film when adjusted for inflation actually is fairly big despite extremely lackluster reviews at the time

   the film will be giant in its opening weekend but thats simply because its Star Wars and its during a great time of year (holidays). to predict how well the film will do long term in theaters is impossible considering a ton of that will fall on the reviews and word of mouth about the film. something we have no idea of at the moment

  for Star Wars to break 2 billion it will have to be (obviously) a well liked movie and will need repeat viewers or people convincing others to go. again, plenty of bad movies have giant open weekends and then crash. so who knows what will happen