The biggest movie

Slimdust

Titanics domestic gross was $600,788,188. The next closest to that was Star Wars that got $460,998,007.

Nothing has even came close to the succes that Titanic had

Do you think there will ever be a movie that makes more money?

when?

what kind of movie will it be?

The Dude

I think it's going to be a while before something tops Titanic. Titanic was a fluke, a freak of nature. It was able to get such a large box office intake because of the fact that teenage girls went and saw it over and over again. Variety was saying that King Kong will do it, but I severely doubt that. As good as Kong is gonna be and as much money as it'll make, I don't see it making $600 million.

It should be noted that Star Wars' gross of $460 million adds in all of the re-releases as well. In it's initial run it made about $200 and fiftyish million.

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Dr. Giganto

Well, the thing is that those box office numbers don't take inflation into account. For instance, a movie ticket now costs about twice as much (maybe more) as it did when the first Sar Wars or ET came out. I found a website once which converted everything to today's dollars, and I think Gone With the Wind was actually the highest grossing film of all time. Titanic was up there though

Slimdust

Really? good find Mister D. I did not know that nor did I ever even think about that. Then the answer is yes of course. 20 years from now im sure the ticket prices will be a lot more then now.

Dr. Giganto

I'll try to find the website again...

Dr. Giganto

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

Ah...interesting that Gone With the Wind would have grossed over a billion dollars with today's ticket prices

thabreaker

I just knew one of the Lord of Ring movies or Passion of Christ would take that top spot. But I guess geeks and Christians going to movies these days.

Mr. Kennedy

A movie would also have to be in theatres for awhile, Titanic was in theatres for 9 months(12/97-09/98) while most movies are in theatres for 6 months max.

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Crockerinho

I think American Pie:Band Camp will top that oone day

Erin

Monk's First Lady

How the hell did the Ten Commandments get to high up there? I had to watch that in religion and I wanted to end my own life.

Lucas kicking some ass there, of his movies. Spielberg seems to be close, though I'm not as familiar with his stuff.