All time top movies in admissions USA, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Spain...

[pinocchio]

Pol Chogan looks funny, but Linda Koslowskij is a natural

The stunning thing is it sold 46 mio movie tickets there, or did I misunderstood something?

[Rudolf]

The stunning thing is it sold 46 mio movie tickets there, or did I misunderstood something?

That's what I understand too.

[pinocchio]

46 million movie tickets for Crocodile Dundee 2 within the SSSR...That's a lot of movie tickets.Probably more than the rest of the world combined.

[pinocchio]

I guess Star Wars was never released in the SSSR because I could not find any numbers from this Russia link.

[Rudolf]

There are people that think that Star Wars (meaning SDI (Reagan's strategic defence initiative)) destroyed the Sowjet Union.I think it was Gorbatschow.concerning the movieI found an 1977 article with translation:http://michaelidov.t...ar-of-the-stars

Edited April 12, 2012 by Rudolf

[Heretic]

Oh wow. Avatar had 16.5m admissions in the UK, ranking 13th of all time. Didn't know it was that high.

[Anaotchan]

@ lab:USA hide admission numbers because newer movies would look bad compared to older ones.

I'd been wondering about that... My own guess for them using gross instead of admission numbers was that $ are the more relevant unit for them. They care about making a profit, not about making historical comparisons.

[pinocchio]

I'd been wondering about that... My own guess for them using gross instead of admission numbers was that $ are the more relevant unit for them. They care about making a profit, not about making historical comparisons.

But those gross numbers tell you nothing about profit. Until the mid 80ies or so the industry actually reported rentals -- the money that the distributor can collect after movie theatres took their share.Then the USA switched from rentals to gross. The idea is simple. Thanks to rising ticket prices you can always communicate new "records" even if overall admissions for a single flick are not too big.

[Anaotchan]

But those gross numbers tell you nothing about profit. Until the mid 80ies or so the industry actually reported rentals -- the money that the distributor can collect after movie theatres took their share.

how interesting! I had no idea.

Ideally they'd report both admissions and rentals, that way we could discuss both historical trends and short-term profits. But sadly they don't report those numbers for our sake... :-)

I guess we should be grateful that most European countries still do report admission numbers.

[pinocchio]

Thanks and welcome to the forum anyway!And you already have an avatar, which is cool.There are members here with +800 posts or whatsoever who still were not been able to include an avatar.

[Heretic]

Another Potter fan, Anaotchan?

[Anaotchan]

well thank you pinocchio!

I lurk around here... but I rarely have anything worthwhile to contribute

Another Potter fan, Anaotchan?

me? nooooo

[Heretic]

Welcome.

[Anaotchan]

thanks

[efialtes76]

Top 5 in Italy(since 1967):

1.The Godfather:21.810.251

2.Last Tango in Paris:15.174.116

3.Trinity is still my name:14.939.033(Terence Hill)

4.Titanic:13.530.972

5.Watch out,We're Mad:11.302.074(Bud Spencer and Terence Hill)

All-Time Boxoffice(Titanic Nº1...AGAIN):

[*]1. TITANIC € 69,400,000

[*]2. AVATAR € 66,800,000

[*]3. LA VITA E' BELLA € 47,700,000

[*]4. CHE BELLA GIORNATA € 43,474,000

[*]5. IL CICLONE € 40,000,000

[*]6. FUOCHI D'ARTIFICIO € 38,300,000

[*]7. CHIEDIMI SE SONO FELICE € 37,843,000

[*]8. NATALE SUL NILO € 34,622,000

[*]9. PINOCCHIO € 33,520,000

[*]10.THE LION kING € 32,900,000

[juni78ukr]

Top 5 in Italy(since 1967):

1.The Godfather:21.810.251

2.Last Tango in Paris:15.174.116

3.Trinity is still my name:14.939.033(Terence Hill)

4.Titanic:13.530.972

5.Watch out,We're Mad:11.302.074(Bud Spencer and Terence Hill)

All-Time Boxoffice(Titanic Nº1...AGAIN):

[*]1. TITANIC € 69,400,000

[*]2. AVATAR € 66,800,000

[*]3. LA VITA E' BELLA € 47,700,000

[*]4. CHE BELLA GIORNATA € 43,474,000

[*]5. IL CICLONE € 40,000,000

[*]6. FUOCHI D'ARTIFICIO € 38,300,000

[*]7. CHIEDIMI SE SONO FELICE € 37,843,000

[*]8. NATALE SUL NILO € 34,622,000

[*]9. PINOCCHIO € 33,520,000

[*]10.THE LION kING € 32,900,000

Are those numbers official and could you please provide a source? I will be very grateful for any info about other big hits in foreign countries.

[efialtes76]

The Numbers are from Boxoffice Benful.http://www.boxofficebenful.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/694-milioni-di-euro-in-italia-per.html

[juni78ukr]

The Numbers are from Boxoffice Benful.http://www.boxoffice...italia-per.html

Box office grosses I got it. But 21 mln admissions for The Godfather and 15.2 mln for The Last Tango in Paris? That is so enormous. Edited April 20, 2012 by juni78ukr

[Olive]

TOP 10 movies in pounds in UK

before TITANIC‘s re-release and DH2's final number is not available(should be around £73.1M).

1 Avatar 20th Century Fox £93,442,625 2009

2 Toy Story 3 Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios £73,405,113 2010

3 Mamma Mia! Universal Pictures £69,166,087 2008

4 Titanic Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox £69,025,646 1998

5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Warner Bros. Pictures £66,096,060 2001

6 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring New Line Cinema £63,009,288 2001

7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Warner Bros Pictures £62,300,000 2011

8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King New Line Cinema £60,880,923 2003

9 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers New Line Cinema £57,600,094 2002

10 Casino Royale MGM/Columbia Pictures £55,287,027 2006

[Rudolf]

Box office grosses I got it. But 21 mln admissions for The Godfather and 15.2 mln for The Last Tango in Paris? That is so enormous.

Godfather has an italian theme.Tango had Brando at the top of his popularity and had the reputation of a highly erotic movie ( a must see at the time).