But why do you say "people doesn't care about it", what gives you that idea? :D

Because (most) people don't. I'm sure there is the odd Avatar fan here and there, but not many.

I couldn't disagree more, but hey, will know in 2017 ;)

estimates I've seen for ticket sales in the US in millions

225 Gone with the wind

194 Star Wars

161 ET

156.4 Sound of Music

130 Ten Commandments

128.4 Titanic

78.3 Avatar hardly low, 24th on the list. While it is 50 million less tickets in the US I'm pretty sure the rest of the world more than makes up for it in the other direction.

Some other things to consider over ages, the population was much lower when some of these movies came out, and there were so many more movies coming out every year than there are now and while Gone with the wind has benefitted from rereleases people kept going back to see it. Not all rereleases do well also Titanic had a pretty huge 3D rerelease itself that added $58 million in the US and another $285Million in the rest of the world.

The point of adjusting for inflation is to try and get a better comparison of ticket sales and not just dollar amounts the price of movies tickets while not a constant compared to the dollar hasn't flucuated so widely that they aren't comparable. So saying if they cost what they do now people wouldn't go makes no sence. They cost less that a quater when GWTW came out but EVERYTHING cost less and people were making less, and no Gone with the Wind isn't at 5 billion when adjusted it's about 3.4 billion wolrd wide.  want to hear something crazy? The movie that is listed as number 2 is Avatar with a little over 3 then star wars with 2.8 and Titanic with 2.5. So while hard milestones to reach, they are harldy undoable and the coparisons are fair.

While people in the some contries wre going to much more movies then, the movies had more competition from other movies then, plus movies today have a much bigger market than back then, the US population was 130 million back then so 200 million fewer people than now and the world population has more than trippled in adition to more people seeing movies now in some contries than ever before.

I am really excited for yesterdays numbers.

The Force Awakens is now the reigning box office champ as far as records go, having swooped up 19 since it's debut last week. 

In all fairness there are many, many, many articles showing the similarities between Avatar and Dances with Wolves.

It will do well in China. China has much less stricter laws with foreign movies coming in now. 

Also, wait for episode VIII to see more on Luke. I don't know why you think they handled him poorly. This is a trilogy after all, there's a lot more to tell from Luke's side of the story and I'm very excited to see it. There's no way they could have crammed everything into VII without royally fucking up.

So you think that gone with the wind were released today itd make 5 billion dolars ? And in like 10 year itll be 7 billion or so. Thats not how it works, if a ticket costs 100 instead of 10 a lot less ppl buy it, if Force Awakens ticket were 10 dolars it would definetly have sold way much more tickets. And them 50 years from now wed adjust it to inflation and say, hey Star Wars wouldve made 4 billion dollars if it was released today, and thats just retarded.