Talk:List of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada

Mama Mia

Unconstructive? It is simply untrue that Mama Mia is the number one grossing movie of all time in the U.S. and Canada (let alone adjusted for inflation). It made $144 million in North America, $600 million worldwide. Yet, not only is the figure in this article not the figure for North America, it isn't even adjusted for inflation. No wonder so many hate wikipedia.

Box Office Mojo puts the domestic ranking at #201 (unadjusted for inflation). It doesn't meet the criteria for the list. It is on List of highest-grossing films as it should be.--RDBury (talk) 16:08, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Back to the future

Altough the movie article mentions the gross of $ 381 million, the title doesn't appear in the unadjusted inflation list. Howcome? Khullah (talk) 03:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Base Year?

Whats your base year for all this inflation adjustments? You should state it to give the adjusted figures some meaning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.41.31 (talk) 16:30, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

The Blind Side

According to this

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2010&wknd=01&p=.htm

The Blind Side has grossed $208,476,067 as of this weekend, which should place it on the list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.241.76 (talk) 15:56, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

okay, well i added it, it places at #74 as of 1/14/10, i didn't source on the article because none of the other movies were sourced, but heres the link from box office mojo

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.241.76 (talk) 06:11, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Table w/ Inflation Template

Would there be any opposition to making this list into a sortable table?

Also, would there be any opposition to using the Inflation template that is here in Wikipedia. This will automatically show the adjusted dollars based on the current day's adjusted rate?

Something like this:

List of domestic highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Year	Domestic gross	Domestic gross, inflation adjusted
1	Gone With The Wind	1939	$198,676,459	$4,351,869,997
2	Star Wars	1977	$460,998,007	$2,317,901,017

Jj04 (talk) 17:05, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Gone With The Wind Ticket Estimate

The 202,044,600 figure for "Gone With The Wind" has some issues. For one thing, it's accurate to 7 significant digits, while I'd expect such an estimate for a 70-year-old movie to be accurate to 2 or 3 significant digits at most. Also, the figure is most likely exaggerated. Following the links, it seems this figure assumes the tickets were sold for $0.23. This may have been true For the average movie in 1939, but I think a longer film such as Gone With The Wind may have had a higher price, so fewer total tickets were sold. 200,000,000 tickets is more than the number of people alive in the US and Canada in 1939. Can anyone confirm such a high figure with a specific link? 70.75.188.13 (talk) 08:52, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I have a few issues with this chart since it includes so much original research but Gone With the Wind had 10 re-releases so that probably explains why the ticket sales are more than the population of the time. Betty Logan (talk) 10:54, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Betty, the Original Research was only recently added on Jan 22. We can go back to the published Box Office Mojo adjusted list I think.... Cshay (talk) 00:18, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Original Research: Someone Removed Box Office Mojo Inflation Adjusted Dollar Amounts

Someone changed the Box Office Mojo adjusted gross list to a wiki table with CPI adjusted templates. The two lists are quite different, for example, Titanic is #6 in the Box Office Mojo gross list but it is #1 here. I am concerned that the current list with CPI adjusting is Original Research and that is against wikipedia guidelines. The Box Office Mojo Adjusted list is here: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm Cshay (talk) 22:26, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

After more thought, I have gone ahead and reverted the CPI adjusting template. It really is Original Research. Let's continue to use the Box Office Mojo figures since that is an external source Cshay (talk) 21:11, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

The current list is still pretty different than the Box Office Mojo one. For example, Avatar is supposed to be #26 on the list. This Wikipedia list needs an overhaul, but it is too much work for me to try to tackle right now. Flyer22 (talk) 01:12, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

You are right - the current list is the Box Office Mojo list from almost a year ago (I think). So eventually someone will need to copy the latest data from Box Office Mojo into this list. 75.101.11.171 (talk) 06:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)