Top 200 Domestic Grossing Movies of all-time (Adjusted for Inflation)

[Walt Disney]

30 minutes ago, Cochofles said:

 Thanks.

I was curious in terms of how Marvel comics, which I understand were basically bankrupt at one point, managed to finance that film.

 

They actually took out a loan with Merrill Lynch to raise the money to finance the movie. They put up the rights to some of their superheroes as collateral to get the loan.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Captain America: Civil War.

 

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has been removed from the list.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Zootopia.

 

Superman II has been removed from the list.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of The Jungle Book (2016).

 

Signs has been removed from the list.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Finding Dory.

 

Batman Returns has been removed from the list.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of The Secret Life of Pets.

 

Up has been removed from the list.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

 

Iron Man 2 has been removed from the list.

[franfar]

MGM and UA used to be titans of the industry. 

[Walt Disney]

This year has been a truly spectacular year for blockbusters and a legendary year for Disney. Whereas in 2015  6 films made this list, there were 7 films that made this list in 2016. No other year currently has 7 films on the list from the same year.

 

Even more incredible is that 5 of those films are from Disney. That is just an incredible level of success. One studio has 5 of the top 200 domestic grossing films (adjusted for inflation) in the same year. This has truly been a magical year for Disney, which is a great sequel to last year when Disney had 3 films make the list, with one of those 3 (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) reaching number 11 all-time. Disney's dominance on this list is incredible. 43 out of the top 200 films are Disney films.

 

Universal continues to find success, as the Secret Life of Pets is the latest Universal film to find its way onto this list. Universal's total of blockbusters on this list is slowly climbing towards Paramount's total. Also, Fox added a movie to the list as well with Deadpool. 

 

Next year may see more blockbusters added to the list, and others will be removed, but it will be very difficult for 2017 to have more blockbusters added to this list than 2016.

Edited August 20, 2017 by Walt Disney

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Beauty and the Beast (2017).

 

Beverly Hills Cop II has been removed from the list.

Edited August 20, 2017 by Walt Disney

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The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

 

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has been removed from the list.

[Walt Disney]

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Wonder Woman.

 

Liar Liar has been removed from the list.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

Great news, everybody! Box Office Mojo has just a recent update: Now the "Adjusted for Inflation"-list has been expanded from 200 movies to 300 movies. 😃

 

Cool, right? 😁

[MrFanaticGuy34]

But there are some things that are pretty weird. 🤔

 

Two animated films from 1995, Toy Story & Pocahontas. Their adjusted numbers are way far away from each other.

 

This is how much they made unadjusted:

Toy Story = $191M DOM

Pocahontas = $141M DOM

 

($50M DOM-gap from each other)

 

Now look at how they made,

DOM adjusted wise:

Toy Story = $389M

Pocahontas = $289M

 

($100M DOM-gap from each other. Seems a bit too far away) If anything....Pocahontas's adjusted gross should be a bit higher, honestly.

[aabattery]

13 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

But there are some things that are pretty weird. 🤔

 

Two animated films from 1995, Toy Story & Pocahontas. Their adjusted numbers are way far away from each other.

 

This is how much they made unadjusted:

Toy Story = $191M DOM

Pocahontas = $141M DOM

 

($50M DOM-gap from each other)

 

Now look at how they made,

DOM adjusted wise:

Toy Story = $389M

Pocahontas = $289M

 

($100M DOM-gap from each other. Seems a bit too far away) If anything....Pocahontas's adjusted gross should be a bit higher, honestly.

 

What? That makes perfect sense. Adjusting them pretty much doubles their grosses, and thus the gap between them pretty much doubles.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

5 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

What? That makes perfect sense. Adjusting them pretty much doubles their grosses, and thus the gap between them pretty much doubles.

Not for all movies released in a same year, though.

 

With some exceptions.

[aabattery]

14 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

Not for all movies released in a same year, though.

 

With some exceptions.

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm

 

They just use a flat value for each year. It's not an exact science, anyway.

Edited October 7, 2017 by aabattery

[MrFanaticGuy34]

22 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm

 

They just use a flat value for each year. It's not an exact science, anyway.

I guess you do have a point, though.

[Walt Disney]

Box Office Mojo has changed its list to a top 300 domestic adjusted grossing films list. They must have done that to bring more excitement to their website because it is getting much harder to make the top 200 list. I will stick to tracking the top 200 domestic adjusted films because a list like this should be hard to make. Studios need to be able to continue to make all-time popular films in order to get them onto the top 200 list. It isn't easy having a film rank as a top 200 domestic adjusted film, but it is certainly an accomplishment. Also, it's a great cut off point to analyze which studios have been making the most popular blockbusters of all-time.

 

I should add that Box Office Mojo's top 300 list is not accurate. There are a lot of older films that aren't on their list that should be. There are 15 films missing from their top 200 list that should be there, which is why I created this list in the first place. However, their top 300 list is missing even more films.

 

This year has so far seen some excitement on this list. Disney added 2 more films with their live action Beauty and the Beast film and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 gives Disney 6 superhero films currently on the list (not counting The Incredibles). However, that doesn't give Disney the lead in superhero films because Warner Bros. added Wonder Woman to the list, which gives them 6 superhero films too. However, after BvS didn't make the list and now Justice League looks like it won't make the list either, it is unclear what the next WB superhero film to make the list will be. Meanwhile, Disney should get a 7th superhero film on the list next year with either Black Panther or Avengers Infinity War (or maybe even both).

 

Disney should add a 3rd film to the list this year with Star Wars: Episode VII- The Last Jedi. It will not make much of a difference because if it does make the list, it will replace Zootopia, so Disney's total number of films on the list will remain the same. The interesting part will be to see how high on the list The Last Jedi can climb.

[That One Girl]

I never knew that only 285 movies sold more tickets than The Flintstones