Something I'm curious about. Hear a lot about how much money such and such a movie made, but considering that it cost much less to go see the original Star Wars than it did to see anything released this summer, I'm wondering which movie holds the record for the highest number of tickets sold.
2006-07-10 09:12:41 · 23 answers · asked by Trouble 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
not sure about worldwide, but according to ABC news story a couple years bakc, the most tickets sold in the US is Gone with The Wind:
1. Gone With the Wind (1939) 202,044,569
2. Star Wars (1977) 178,119,595
3. The Sound of Music (1965) 142,415,376
4. E.T. (1982) 141,925,359
5. The Ten Commandments (1956) 131,000,000
2006-07-10 09:17:15 · answer #1 · answered by wyntre_2000 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Titanic
Rank Movie name Worldwide Gross
1 Titanic $1,845,034,188
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,118,888,979
3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US) $976,475,550
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $926,287,400
5 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $924,317,558
2006-07-10 09:14:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lot of the answers I have read made very good points, but they are not correct. The actual answer is Gone with the Wind. The movie made a total of $198 million back when tickets cost a quarter. That comes to a grand total of 792,000,000 tickets. Today, tickets cost around $12. That is quite an increase and the other answers don't account for that. Now lets take that $600,000,000 that Titanic made in it's U.S. domestic gross and divide it by the average ticket price in 1997 obtained from boxofficemojo.com at $4.59. You end up with 130,000,000 tickets. So don't walk up to me and tell me that Titanic can out do one of the most classic films of all time.
2006-07-10 10:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by Omega_Red9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 has just broken the records with $132,028,000 its first weekend out.
All Time Box Office (U.S.)
1 Titanic~~~~~$600,788,188
2 Star Wars ~~~~~$460,998,007
3 Shrek 2~~~~~$441,226,247
4 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ~~~~~$435,110,554
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $431,088,301
6 Spider-Man~~~~~$403,706,375
7 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith~~$380,270,577
8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King~$377,027,325
9 Spider-Man 2~~~~~$373,585,825
10 The Passion of the Christ~~~~~$370,782,930
2006-07-10 09:18:55 · answer #4 · answered by CdnLass 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As of 7/10/06 Pirates of the Caribbean 2 has sold the most tickets.
2006-07-10 09:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by erika_fekas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They was saying on the news this morning that the new Pirates of the Carribean Movie is the biggest seller so far to date. But as far as actual number of tickets sold to the public I dont really know. But I am assuming that is the way they would consider record breaking.
2006-07-10 09:18:07 · answer #6 · answered by surfer grl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id think it was star wars. Ive been told that Gone with the wind has sold 30 million tickets (actual tickets not dollars) so that might be it.
People don't read the question. I'd bet that some Indian films have sold more tickets but I cant find figures on that.
2006-07-10 09:16:52 · answer #7 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This website has a few different records, but none going by ticket sales. It does, however, have a top 20 list of movies released in the United States and has the price of tickets adjusted for inflation.
Star Wars tops it.
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/index.html
2006-07-10 09:19:38 · answer #8 · answered by Nein 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure how it measures against some of the more recent movies, but I know that Gone with the Wind used to hold the record for actual ticket sales.
2006-07-10 09:17:56 · answer #9 · answered by kygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Titanic
2006-07-10 09:16:12 · answer #10 · answered by Jasmine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋