Top 100

Here are the top 100 grossing movies, inflation adjusted, which makes
for a much better list than not adjusting it. If you can find one you
haven't already seen, you've got a movie-rental idea.

1 Gone With the Wind
2 Star Wars
3 The Sound of Music
4 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5 The Ten Commandments
6 Titanic
7 Jaws
8 Doctor Zhivago
9 The Exorcist
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11 101 Dalmatians
12 The Empire Strikes Back
13 Ben-Hur
14 Return of the Jedi
15 The Sting
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark
17 Jurassic Park
18 The Graduate
19 The Phantom Menace
20 Fantasia
21 The Godfather
22 Forrest Gump
23 Mary Poppins
24 The Lion King
25 Grease
26 Thunderball
27 The Jungle Book
28 Sleeping Beauty
29 Ghostbusters
30 Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
31 Bambi
32 Independence Day
33 Love Story
34 Beverly Hills Cop
35 Spider-Man
36 Home Alone
37 Pinocchio
38 Cleopatra
39 Goldfinger
40 Airport
41 American Graffiti
42 The Robe
43 Around the World in 80 Days
44 Blazing Saddles
45 Batman
46 The Bells of St. Mary's
47 The Return of the King
48 The Towering Inferno
49 National Lampoon's Animal House
50 The Passion of the Christ
51 The Greatest Show on Earth
52 My Fair Lady
53 Let's Make Love
54 Back to the Future
55 The Two Towers
56 Superman
57 Smokey and the Bandit
58 The Sixth Sense
59 Finding Nemo
60 Tootsie
61 Harry Potter / Sorcerer's Stone
62 West Side Story
63 Lady and the Tramp
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65 Twister
66 Rocky
67 The Best Years of Our Lives
68 The Fellowship of the Ring
69 The Poseidon Adventure
70 Men in Black
71 The Bridge on the River Kwai
72 Its' a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
73 Swiss Family Robinson
74 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
75 M*A*S*H
76 Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
77 Attack of the Clones
78 Mrs. Doubtfire
79 Aladdin
80 Ghost
81 Duel in the Sun
82 Pirates of the Caribbean
83 House of Wax
84 Rear Window
85 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
86 Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
87 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
88 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
89 Sergeant York
90 Toy Story 2
91 Top Gun
92 Shrek
93 Crocodile Dundee
94 The Matrix Reloaded
95 Saving Private Ryan
96 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
97 Young Frankenstein
98 Peter Pan
99 Gremlins
100 Monsters, Inc.

> Here are the top 100 grossing movies, inflation adjusted,
> which makes for a much better list than not adjusting it.

Great! I've been looking for such a thing for a long time.
Do you know how the inflation-adjustment was done? I prefer
portion of GDP. Actually, simply number of tickets sold
as a fraction of the population seems best, if anybody has
that information.

-Carl

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> > Here are the top 100 grossing movies, inflation adjusted,
> > which makes for a much better list than not adjusting it.
>
> Great! I've been looking for such a thing for a long time.
> Do you know how the inflation-adjustment was done?

No, but like you I've wanted to know this, so I put up the results
even though they may not be perfect.

I prefer
> portion of GDP. Actually, simply number of tickets sold
> as a fraction of the population seems best, if anybody has
> that information.

There's always number of tickets sold as a fraction of the total
number of tickets sold.

> I prefer
> > portion of GDP. Actually, simply number of tickets sold
> > as a fraction of the population seems best, if anybody has
> > that information.
>
> There's always number of tickets sold as a fraction of the
> total number of tickets sold.

It's actually the tickets sold part that I'm not sure they
keep track of, even today.

-Carl

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...>
wrote:

> Here are the top 100 grossing movies, inflation adjusted,
> which makes for a much better list than not adjusting it.
> If you can find one you haven't already seen, you've got
> a movie-rental idea.
>
> <snip>
> 49 National Lampoon's Animal House
> 50 The Passion of the Christ
> <snip>

i just found it really amusing that these two
happened to be right next to each other in popularity.

-monz