Maybe it would be good to actually have a thread devoted to it entirely.

Another one? Every year one springs up.

Anyway, amazing box office for an amazing movie. Cameron is the shit. 'nough said.

it will remain #1 for 20 years....at least.

it will remain #1 for 20 years....at least.

Shrek 2 gets way too much hate. It's not even close to the best movie of the decade (or even its most memorable), but it's not like we're talking about friggin' Alvin and the Chipmunks or something of that variety being the decade's biggest earner.

As for Titanic, what is there to say that hasn't been said over the last ten years? We never see anything stay in the top ten for three and a half months anymore, much less stay at #1 for that amount of time.

And this insane rise in inflation really makes me feel like it's completely unfair to ever look at box office without adjusting it. I mean, if a film breaks Titanic's record in 2015, everyone will call it the most successful film of all-time, but really, it'll only have half the number of viewers that Titanic had. And that's kinda lame for the "highest-grossing movie of all-time" if you ask me.

I think there should be a point where adjusted box office becomes the one people track; the only problem is, records would never again be broken and it would make the box office less interesting, so that will never happen.

And this insane rise in inflation really makes me feel like it's completely unfair to ever look at box office without adjusting it. I mean, if a film breaks Titanic's record in 2015, everyone will call it the most successful film of all-time, but really, it'll only have half the number of viewers that Titanic had. And that's kinda lame for the "highest-grossing movie of all-time" if you ask me.

I think there should be a point where adjusted box office becomes the one people track; the only problem is, records would never again be broken and it would make the box office less interesting, so that will never happen.

1930s - Gone With the Wind
1940s - Fantasia
1950s - The Ten Commandments
1960s - The Sound of Music
1970s - Star Wars
1980s - E.T.
1990s - Titanic
2000s - Shrek 2

One of these things is not like the other.

Agreed.

Thats what makes Titanic so impressive. Back in the 90s we used to look at the adjusted list and biggies like Jurassic Park and Forrest Gump were huge - but were nowhere near GWTW, Ten Commandments, Star Wars, etc. Then Titanic came along and actually matched them or came close adjusted. You'd need a $750m+ grosser to do that today but with the DVD/internet age - that aint happening.

I agree. Of course, the same goes for the all-time BO champion Gone With The Wind - - with a BO of almost $1.4 billion, representing gawd knows how many tickets in 1939 admission prices...

Just looking at Titanic's run to, its quite poetic as it stayed on top despite multiple close calls. It opened against a James Bond movie. In its 12th weekend, it was just $600,000 above U.S. Marshalls, then the now infamous estimated tie, and then beating The Man In The Iron Mask with Dicaprio in both in its 13th weekend. Then Grease taking the Friday spot, but losing the weekend in Titanic's 15th.

And I just learned a new fact about Titanic 10 years later! It didn't reach its peak number of theaters until its 16th weekend, with 3,265! It's the movie that keeps on giving box office feats!

MBFGW didn't until its 26th weekend, with 2,016 theatres

No, it represents ticket sasles from 1939 to 1989. The film was in theatres here and there for decades.

The film premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939... [and from] December 1939 to June 1940, the film played only advance-ticket road show engagements at a limited number of theaters, before it went into general release in 1941. - Wikipedia

I think Gone With the Wind's estimated ticket slaes are around 208m or so. A New Hope is at 178m. Titanic is at 130m, and ET at 142m.

No film in history sold as many tickets as quickly as Titanic did between December 1997 and May 1998. I think it's the only film to have sold more than 100m tickets in half a year.

BTW...according to the Numbers.com, Titanic has now,over the last few years added another 3 mill to it's WW total.

I'd go see a re-release on the big screen in a heartbeat! I've been waiting...