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pennomi@lemmy.world 11 months agoEven that is misleading if the population is growing. Really it should be ticket sales per capita if we truly want to figure out the most popular movie of all time.
beefcat@kbin.social 11 months ago
By these rules, Gone with the Wind likely wins.
But it's still not a good comparison because of other factors. First off, movie theaters didn't used to compete with television, cable, video games, DVDs, streaming, or social media for your free time. The industry was also a lot smaller, meaning there were fewer high profile movies dividing up that whole pie. The lack of practical home video also meant popular films like Gone with the Wind would get frequently re-issued and continue racking up ticket sales.
It is essentially impossible to accurately compare the popularity of any two movies separated by more than a decade or two.
yeather@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Gone with the wind has such a huge lead when adjusting for inflation it’s insane, 481 million dollars when movie tickets were 25 cents. That’s over 1.9 billion tickets. It’s also 8 billion dollars in today’s money.
charles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is my new favorite movie stat.