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Bums on seats

  • 19-01-2007 12:51pm
    #1
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭


    I was wondering, what do people think is the movie that has given its creators the best pro rata return on their investment.

    Lists always qualify the best grossing in dollar terms, but if a million people paid a dollar a head in 1950, a movie that 200,001 people saw at $5 a head in 1980 will be ahead in the list.

    So I want the best dollar value for dollar value return (or maybe just how many bums). I was thinking something like the Rocky Horror Picture Show that's on in most cities every weekend. Or maybe you know better :)


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  • #2
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Fairly sure it is Gone with the Wind.


  • #3
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    A few google throws out for most profitable movie:
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Deep Throat, Mad Max or The Blair Witch Project.
    They can't all be right, but I'd guess it was Blair Witch Project because the makers made that for not much at all!


  • #4
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


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

    ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION Gone with the Wind $1,329,453,600 (presumably that's US gross only?)


  • #5
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Rabies wrote:
    Fairly sure it is Gone with the Wind.
    This is true and it will probably never be knocked off the number one spot. There are more films released now so audiences are more fragmented.

    Gladiator is supposed to be the most successful film ever screened in Ireland... but I don't know how it does in the bums on seats stakes.


  • #6
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Is the OP not talking about the film that made the most in comparison to what it made?

    Gone With The Wind may very well still be number 1 though.

    It's hard to tell what a movie was made for because studios love to pass off films like Blair Witch as being ultra cheap when in fact once it got snapped by a distributor they spend another few million redoing sound etc. on it.

    Clerks must have made a fair whack of cash in comparison to what it cost to make.


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  • #7
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I thought it was "Deep Throat" myself given its sales in cinema, video, and DVD (can't recall the figures but it was talked about in the doc "Inside Deep Throat").

    Highest-grossing, adjusted by inflation, is definetely "Gone With the Wind". That's offset by the factor that it came out at the right time for its audience, production of movies afterwards was fragmentary because of the War, and there wasn't as many movies available.

    More recently it was something like "The Blair With Project". However, the OP asked the best return on the investment of the creators and I think the creators sold it to a studio, so they didn't get a big of a fraction of the final tally as you might think.


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