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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Does that take into account ticket inflation?
I don't know about opening weekend, but all time goes to Gone With The Wind and not Titanic if you factor ticket inflation.
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Ticket inflation. Misleading. Here's why. Due to home video, there are now seven times the amount of movies being made now than there were in the mid to late 70s. What does this mean? Well remember when internet porn was in vogue and relatively new to people in the mid-90s? There were way way way fewer sites and less competition, and more money to be had by the players. Same thing with the movies. More movies means movies have a way shorter window in the theaters to make $$$ and get moved out really fast. Movies like Jaws, The Sting, and Star Wars in the 70's were the only game in town, and regularily played in many locales for 30 consecutive weeks. And during their runs, they had few new releases to contend with. They sucked up all the action. Much less your bringing up Gone With the Wind, which back then had virtually no competition whatsoever.
This means that Titanic had the greatest motion picture run in movie history in the theaters, by far. Even with increased competition and new release challenging it week after week, it remained number one, and had the greatest legs of any movie ever.