The Force Awakens Box Office Thread: $1,73B

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Lawlight said:

Insidb said:

Lawlight said:

Less entertainment methods but also a much lower and much poorer population. There's 186M more people now with a total of 318M living 10-15 years longer. There was also a lot less theatres so it was less accessible than nowadays.

I think it will crack the Top 10 but not the Top 5.

It was also released 7 times, as recent as last year, so it has had every advantage of every generation.

It's hard to believe that another film will see such fortuitious circumstances.

Boxofficemojo shows 2 re-releases with minor grossings in 1989 and 1998. I'm assuming these were very limited while the ones not mentioned were in a very few select theatres. The 1998 re-release was in 214 theatres. Very different situation from the Star Wars re-releases which released in 1982 and 1997 in 1070 and 2104 theatres respectively.

There were releases in 1939, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1961, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1989, 1998, 2013, and 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#Later_releases