This is all ego-boosting PR crap - of course it's gonna have made more money against a 10-year old movie, because, you know, prices have gone up since then!
Call this news when it beats "Gone with the Wind" if revenue, properly adjusted for inflation!.
Yeah, it is not adjusted for inflation, but that is still a meaningful benchmark. No movies has passed that bar in the last 10 years. So your "of course it's gonna have made more money against a 10-year old movie, because, you know, prices have gone up since then!" fall completely flat.
There were a bunch of other movies that were very popular in the last 10 years, and they haven't passed it either. Black Panther was very popular and it did not come close to Avatar despite the 9 year gap.
The price of the ticket changed as well. And in a way that should be factored in if you are going to measure cultural impact.
Gone with the wind sold 60M tickets in its initial 4 year run. The world population in 1939 was about 2.5B. Endgame sold over 200M ticket in 2 months. The world population is about 7.5B.
Gone with the wind sold 60M tickets in its initial 4 year run. The world population in 1939 was about 2.5B.
Endgame sold over 200M ticket in 2 months. The world population is about 7.5B.
So yeah, Endgame is actually a big deal.
The number of people with access to a movie theater (i.e. could see the movie if they wanted) in 1939 was only a few hundred million, while today it's probably around 4-5 billion.. So Endgame is still small potatoes compared to Gone with the Wind. Probably nothing will ever dethr
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Means nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
This is all ego-boosting PR crap - of course it's gonna have made more money against a 10-year old movie, because, you know, prices have gone up since then!
Call this news when it beats "Gone with the Wind" if revenue, properly adjusted for inflation!.
Re:Means nothing (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, it is not adjusted for inflation, but that is still a meaningful benchmark.
No movies has passed that bar in the last 10 years. So your "of course it's gonna have made more money against a 10-year old movie, because, you know, prices have gone up since then!" fall completely flat.
There were a bunch of other movies that were very popular in the last 10 years, and they haven't passed it either. Black Panther was very popular and it did not come close to Avatar despite the 9 year gap.
The price of the ticket changed as well. And in a way that should be factored in if you are going to measure cultural impact.
Gone with the wind sold 60M tickets in its initial 4 year run. The world population in 1939 was about 2.5B.
Endgame sold over 200M ticket in 2 months. The world population is about 7.5B.
So yeah, Endgame is actually a big deal.
Re: (Score:3)
The number of people with access to a movie theater (i.e. could see the movie if they wanted) in 1939 was only a few hundred million, while today it's probably around 4-5 billion.. So Endgame is still small potatoes compared to Gone with the Wind. Probably nothing will ever dethr