Worldwide top film grosses

Richard Dower

I'm seriously shocked at some on the list, like The Hangover....it's like, how? :eek:

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide

Avatar has along way to go, 2012 surprised me as well....some serious wonga these movies made!

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide

Galvasean

I'd say Avatar will surpass the one billion mark. It's still sold out everywhere.

Notable films.

# 11 Jurassic Park
# 13 Ice Age 3: Rise of the Dinosaurs
# 47 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
# 57 Night At The Museum
# 60 King Kong
# 107 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
# 127 Godzilla
# 139 Jurasic Park 3
# 144 The Flintstones
# 162 Dinosaur
# 245 10,000BC
# 309 Journey To the Center Of The Earth

krudler

Ice Age 3 making nearly 900 million quid is shocking, considering its terrible

Galvasean

krudler wrote: »

Ice Age 3 making nearly 900 million quid is shocking, considering its terrible

Never underestimate the pulling power of this dude:

S.M.B.

The whole Golden Compass situation is interesting.

137th on the list but it looks like the sequels will never be made.

Basq

Avatar has a long way to go? It's only been out 2 weeks.. it's well into the Top 50 grossing of all time after just 2 weeks - you need to remember that.. that's incredible!

Friends of mine tried to go see it 2 nights ago.. sold out and there was a queue out the door of the cinema for it (I'd say the majority of those queuing had only one film on their mind)!

It'll well pass the billion mark.. don't think it'll trump Titanic but Cameron can certainly sit pretty then!

irish_bob

Galvasean wrote: »

I'd say Avatar will surpass the one billion mark. It's still sold out everywhere.

Notable films.

# 11 Jurassic Park
# 13 Ice Age 3: Rise of the Dinosaurs
# 47 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
# 57 Night At The Museum
# 60 King Kong
# 107 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
# 127 Godzilla
# 139 Jurasic Park 3
# 144 The Flintstones
# 162 Dinosaur
# 245 10,000BC
# 309 Journey To the Center Of The Earth

while we all know that titanic is number one , when adjusted for inflation , its made less than half of what gone with the wind grossed , in the U.S, titanic took 600 million where as that rhett and scarlett flick drew 1.4 billion in america alone :eek:

johnny_ultimate

S.M.B. wrote: »

137th on the list but it looks like the sequels will never be made.

Don't jinx it! Please, please never release a sequel, Hollwood. Leave that nearly perfect series alone! Or at least make sure not to let someone called Weitz near it!

Galvasean

I'm no fan of the Harry Potter films, but hey, at least they're keeping Spider-Man 3 out of the top ten. Actually wait, they're also keeping Jurassic Park out. *weeps*

Pirates 2... such a terrible film and yet the third highest grossing of all time... Hang on, I saw that in the cinema. Now that's just depressing

re: Golden Compass. IIRC it didn't do well in the States (something to do with fundies boycotting it) leading to the sequels getting red-lit, but did very well overseas.

S.M.B.

See I didn't think much of the Golden Compass but it didn't tarnish the quality of the books for me in any way.

I'd still be interested to see what could be done with it.

It has to be religious reasons which put an end to any sequels though.

johnny_ultimate

Galvasean wrote: »

re: Golden Compass. IIRC it didn't do well in the States (something to do with fundies boycotting it) leading to the sequels getting red-lit, but did very well overseas.

Well the later books have a far heavier anti-religious slant, so they'd surely run into crazy trouble in America. The Golden Compass made some significant changes to appeal to a wider audience

(the most obvious of which is the happy ending in comparison to the extremely dark and violent conclusion of Northern Lights)

. Watered down adaptations of the more thematically complex sequels would be doing a great injustice to Philip Pullman's vision - taking the atheism out of His Dark Materials is like taking God out of the Bible (kind of). Really wouldn't like to see such rich material compromised for a higher gross. It is a far different series to something like Harry Potter, which can be adapted with more insignificant changes as the content is no where near as controversial.