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Originally posted by: Bossk
Hey guys, just wanted to note that Shrek 2 has now officially passed TPM to become the fourth highest grossing movie of all time.
1 Titanic $600,788,188
2 Star Wars $460,998,007
3 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial $434,949,459
4 Shrek 2 $432,493,392
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $431,088,295
While it isn't grossing nearly as much as it was a few weeks back, in a week or two, it should pass E.T. for the #3 spot.
Think Spielberg will rerelease E.T. again to bring it's total gross up enough to reclaim #3? Or was his humbling at the last theatrical release of E.T. enough to discourage him from doing it again?
Instead of basing the popularity of a movie on the amount of money it made, they should have based it on the number of tickets sold. That way, you wouldn't have to try and second guess a movie's poularity compared to something that's two or three decades newer/older. You wouldn't have to figure the inflation/deflation rates for their times when comparing. But alas, it's too late to do that now without confusing most people. I don't think they count the number of tickets sold for a particular movie, do they?