Broshnat Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Hi everyone This is a work-in-progress thread - I am attempting to collect a list of the top movies of all-time globally based on admissions but as you can imagine there are a lot of gaps! I wanted to share my progress so far and ask for help in filling in some of the blanks. I have focused on the major regions to begin with and would like to start on others such as the rest of Europe, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Chile and so on. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Good luck, but your list isn't close to accurate. The fact that you're missing HP1 and HP2 is glaring. HP4 and HP8 also sold a shitload of admissions worldwide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 This is a good idea but maybe does not belong in this sub forum? The International Box Office seems more fitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium George Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 12 minutes ago, Noctis said: Good luck, but your list isn't close to accurate. The fact that you're missing HP1 and HP2 is glaring. HP4 and HP8 also sold a shitload of admissions worldwide. Which position do you think they will be? I don't think any HP movie will be above any film from that list. They didn't have the current big markets where you could have more admissions for less money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 @Broshnat This should help 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 42,595,682 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 3 minutes ago, Premium George said: Which position do you think they will be? I don't think any HP movie will be above any film from that list. They didn't have the current big markets where you could have more admissions for less money. I don't think there will be any too. But If there is it will be the first one BOM estimates 55m tickets in America and the list above shows 60m tickets in Europe but no way there are 40m more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 The problem is that this list can never be accurate mainly due to the US where the estimations are never accurate because you can't take into account the 3D share of the movie and other stuff. I am surprised thought that admissions numbers are available nowhere. Not even studios know them? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broshnat Posted May 16, 2018 Author Share Posted May 16, 2018 26 minutes ago, Noctis said: Good luck, but your list isn't close to accurate. The fact that you're missing HP1 and HP2 is glaring. HP4 and HP8 also sold a shitload of admissions worldwide. 4 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 15 minutes ago, FantasticBeasts said: @Broshnat This should help 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 42,595,682 I love Europe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broshnat Posted May 16, 2018 Author Share Posted May 16, 2018 16 minutes ago, FantasticBeasts said: @Broshnat This should help 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 42,595,682 Yes I have seen that list - shame there is nothing from pre 1996? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Istealnames Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just putting it out there, the movie with highest number of Ticket Sales in India is the Bollywood movie "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun!" with 73,967,000 tickets sold. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium George Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 8 minutes ago, Istealnames said: Just putting it out there, the movie with highest number of Ticket Sales in India is the Bollywood movie "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun!" with 73,967,000 tickets sold. Didn't bahubali 2 broke that record. Heard above 90m for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Istealnames Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, Premium George said: Didn't bahubali 2 broke that record. Heard above 90m for it. Indeed, my bad, I forgot about them. Bahubali 2 had more tickets sold since it had multilingual releases in India. It's number is 105,000,000. There are legacy films with probably higher ticket sales, but they came out in an era with no data collection in India. (Mother India, Mughal-e-azam, Sholay). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 24 minutes ago, Premium George said: Which position do you think they will be? I don't think any HP movie will be above any film from that list. They didn't have the current big markets where you could have more admissions for less money. That is the key. Recent successes like Jurassic World, Furious, MCU or Star Wars have an obvious advantage thanks to their big huge numbers in China or Latin America. Any advantage that Harry Potter, LOTR or older franchises could take in Europe, Japan or Australia, are hugely compensated with China, Brazil and Mexico. The best example is Wolf Warrior 2. With basically one market, it ranks #16. And it has not reached $900m. But that only market has sold 3 times what HP1, HP2 or LOTR did in whole Europe. Another thing is if you exclude certain markets, but that would not be fair either. Where we can put the limit? It is really difficult. It is obvious that expanding markets, specially China, distorts any possible global comparison. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 54 minutes ago, IronJimbo said: I love Europe I guess you like the gap of admissions with Avatar. And since you like to take Avatar WW gross as an unit: Europe admissions (A=89,868,084 admissions of Avatar in Europe) FOTR = 0.68A HP1 = 0.67A ROTK = 0.62A TTT = 0.62A HP2 = 0.59A Worldwide gross: (A=2.788b dollars of Avatar worldwide) FOTR = 0.31A HP1 = 0.35A ROTK = 0.40A TTT = 0.33A HP2 = 0.31A Europe admissions just show that the distance between Avatar and the next ones in Europe is way lower than grosses say. You should be more grateful to inflation, 3D, ER or other parts of the world, not specially to Europe admissions. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 59 minutes ago, Broshnat said: Yes I have seen that list - shame there is nothing from pre 1996? I think that, at least, Jurassic Park, E.T, The Lion King or Star Wars would be in that list. But we do not have reliable data of every European country. Just some of them: Lion King: France+Germany+Italy+Spain: 33 million admissions Jurassic Park: France+Germany+Spain: 22 million E.T: France+Germany+Spain: 25.9 million Star Wars: France+Germany+Italy+Spain: 26.7 million admissions And UK was big for all of those films for sure, but there are not admissions data available, just estimations. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium George Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 1 hour ago, Istealnames said: Indeed, my bad, I forgot about them. Bahubali 2 had more tickets sold since it had multilingual releases in India. It's number is 105,000,000. There are legacy films with probably higher ticket sales, but they came out in an era with no data collection in India. (Mother India, Mughal-e-azam, Sholay). How accurate is the per year list in this- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Indian_films According to this Mughle-azam gross by inflation is 2000cr. Which puts it at a massive 148m tickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Istealnames Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 hours ago, Premium George said: How accurate is the per year list in this- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Indian_films According to this Mughle-azam gross by inflation is 2000cr. Which puts it at a massive 148m tickets. It sounds probable, honestly data at that time was pretty scant. Movies like Mughal-e-azam and Sholay ran for months if not years, much like the era of Gone with the Wind. During that period the Indian economy was pretty stagnant and I don't think ticket prices inflated by a lot until the arrival of multiplexes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCruiseTop Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 7 hours ago, Broshnat said: Hi everyone This is a work-in-progress thread - I am attempting to collect a list of the top movies of all-time globally based on admissions but as you can imagine there are a lot of gaps! I wanted to share my progress so far and ask for help in filling in some of the blanks. I have focused on the major regions to begin with and would like to start on others such as the rest of Europe, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Chile and so on. No matter how we cut the cake... JC is still the king. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...