The Dark Samurai Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 As a big stats and numbers admirer like most members here, i feel that inflation and 3D have distorted popularity of certain films and the good ol' fashioned ticket sales offer very interesting comparisons and very interesting results, like Spider-Man still being the biggest comic book film in Europe ever, or Minions being the biggest animated film or that Deathly Hallows 2 sold 16 million tickets less than HP1 and was basically only as popular as the fourth film, The Goblet of Fire. The Force Awakens will most certainly become Top 7 when 2016 sales are added next year. 1) Titanic 111,420,2252) Avatar 89,868,0843) The Lord of The Rings The Fellowship of The Ring 61,260,3144) Harry Potter The Sorcerers Stone 60,577,9115) The Lord of The Rings The Return Of The King 55,704,5776) The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers 55,605,1067) Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets 52,801,8378) Minions 49,936,5729) Skyfall 49,651,06310) Star Wars The Phantom Menace 48,410,31611) Finding Nemo 46,479,04512) Star Wars The Force Awakens 46,041,650 *13) The Pirates of The Carribean Dead Man's Chest 45,005,54714) Shrek 2 44,617,05315) Harry Potter The Deathly Hallows 2 44,483,73316) Harry Potter The Goblet of Fire 44,402,96617) Ice Age The Dawn of The Dinosaurs 3,748,74718) Spectre 43,188,00019) Ice Age Continental Drift 42,847,19120) Independence Day 42,595,68221) The Hobbit 41,626,25122) Ice Age Meltdown 40,784,64623) Harry Potter The Prisoner of Azkaban 40,558,06324) Harry Potter The Deathly Hallows 39,904,92525) Harry Potter The Order of The Phoenix 38,686,29326) The Sixth Sense 37,122,35627) Furious Seven 37,030,78328) The Pirates of The Carribean The World's End 36,991,90629) The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug 36,952,66230) Jurassic World 36,783,01231) The Hobbit The Battle of The Five Armies 36,715,42432) Shrek The Third 36,295,60033) The Da Vinci Code 36,261,77834) Harry Potter The Half-Blood Prince 35,624,72235) The Pirates of The Carribean Tides 35,252,77536) Frozen 34,851,70337) Mamma Mia 34,157,15738) Shrek Forever After 34,152,97639) Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 34,104,81740) Spider-Man 33,598,19141) Man In Black 33,596,66442) Alice In Wonderland 33,566,43043) The Matrix Reloaded 33,355,39744) Ratatouille 31,143,50345) Star Wars The Revenge of The Sith 33,034,29046) Inside Out 32,880,38847) Madagascar 2 32,637,42548) The Chronicles of Narnia 32,424,20549) Despicable Me 2 32,328,88250) Star Wars The Attack of The Clones 31,757,60951) Inception 30,848,60052) The Pirates of The Carribean The Curse of Black Pearl 30,809,48653) Madagascar 30,072,33254) Twilight Eclipse 30,585,31955) Twilight Breaking Dawn 30,260,69656) The Avengers The Age of Ultron 30,136,04557) Toy Story 3 29,985,25558) The Avengers 29,707,93459) Notting Hill 29,690,10260) The Dark Knight Rises 29,662,630 * 2015 Sales only. Source: http://lumiere.obs.coe.int/web/search/ 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXtacy Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Was surprised to find the best film from Europe missing - The Intouchables. Where does that rank 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tower Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 1 hour ago, eXtacy said: Was surprised to find the best film from Europe missing - The Intouchables. Where does that rank The Intouchables: 43,851,253. Should be 17 between Goblet of Fire and Dawn of The Dinosaurs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 (edited) These days we talk a lot about bad exchange rates, but FOTR and HP1 were still more damaged than today films. Incredible figures for both. Btw, @The Dark Samurai, thank you very much for the list . I find this kind of rankings way more interesting than the ordinary WW list Edited November 5, 2016 by peludo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Wow. LOTR/Hobbit and Potter are dominating Europe. Really curious if Fantastic Beasts will join the list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 6 minutes ago, James said: Wow. LOTR/Hobbit and Potter are dominating Europe. Really curious if Fantastic Beasts will join the list. Maybe it can make Hobbit figures. Although I think that to repeat some characters from LOTR was a big advantage for Hobbit that FB do not have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titanic2187 Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Titanic was such a giant-ancient monster!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 How much of Spectre's ticket sales came from us brits eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Feng Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 The Force Awakens is No.2 or No.3 now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Samurai Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 Update for Star Wars the Force Awakens: 63,181,004 tickets sold, making the film the third biggest after Avatar and Titanic. Kind of crazy that no Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter film sold as many tickets, even though Star Wars is generally considered to be not too popular outside USA. Outside of the slight underperformance in China, an absolutely historical box office run. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 On 10/9/2017 at 9:34 AM, The Dark Samurai said: Update for Star Wars the Force Awakens: 63,181,004 tickets sold, making the film the third biggest after Avatar and Titanic. Kind of crazy that no Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter film sold as many tickets, even though Star Wars is generally considered to be not too popular outside USA. Outside of the slight underperformance in China, an absolutely historical box office run. I think that is a wrong asumption. Episodes I and IV were enormous in Europe too. Both are in the same level of admissions sold than LOTR films in Spain, for example: FOTR 7.0 million admissions SW4 6.9m ROTK 6.8m TTT 6.4m SW1 6.2m Said this, Lumiere calculates separately European Union and the whole European continent numbers. With that division we have this: European Union FOTR: 58.4m HP1: 57.4m TFA: 54.8m Whole Europe FOTR: 61.3m HP1: 60.6m TFA: 63.2m FOTR and HP1 were bigger in European Union and just with other European countries inclusion, TFA wins. We could make a showdown country by country, but maybe (and just maybe) the expansion of certain big countries during last 15 years like Russia or Turkey which were not accounted in 2001 makes the difference. Russia does not appear for FOTR and the Russian data is ridiculous for HP1 (barely 9,000 admissions). And among big markets we have these: Force Awakens UK: 17.0m admissions Germany: 9.0m France: 10.5m Spain: 5.3m Star Wars UK: 20.7m Germany: 8.0m France: 8.0m Spain: 6.9m Phantom Menace: UK: 13.59m Germany: 8.0m France: 7.3m Spain: 6.2m FOTR: UK: 15.98m Germany: 11.8m France: 6.95m Spain: 7.0m HP1 UK: 17.56m Germany: 12.6m France: 9.5m Spain: 6.3m Among big markets (I do not have Italy data), I see a jump in France and Germany, but a drop in Spain relative to the first parts of previous trilogies. And TFA has improved in UK relative to TPM, but not relative to Star Wars. I do not see these numbers so surprising. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 How the fuck is that Minions figure accurate? It's market grosses do not look THAT impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 18 hours ago, Jiffy said: How the fuck is that Minions figure accurate? It's market grosses do not look THAT impressive. According Lumiere: Russia: 8.4 million admissions Germany: 6.9m UK: 6.6m France: 6.6m Spain: 4.2m Italy: 3.6m Poland: 1.7m Netherlands: 1.6m Belgium: 1.0m These markets add up 40.6 million. And there are some markets like Turkey, Czech Republic or Hungary with 700-900k admissions each. It fits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 I generally believe that SW wasn't (and isn't still), so popular in countries that weren't very deceloped in the time that the OT debuted. The OT being that old, in many small European countries as well as Asian countries, people weren't regularly visiting cinema, or even If they did local movies were more popular. They weren't really updated with what was happening in Hollywood. On the contrary, countries like the UK, Germany, France, Spain who have been bigger economies and were more developed in the time that the OT released, were in connection with the USA and thus they followed American trends more. That's an explanation that I tried to make so it may very well be wrong. Any correction is welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...