

'House of the Dragon': Everything You Need to Know About HBO's Upcoming Series 'Loki': Everything You Need to Know About Marvel's Disney+ Series It's a Resurrection: 'Matrix' Will Add to the Box Office Boom 'Spider-Man' Began 'Avengers: Endgame' Box Office Beat 'Titanic' Worldwide? No, It Didn't, and It Won't At the time, the perspectives were especially murky because there was no box-office tracking there were only studio-reported year-end film rentals, which could be reverse engineered to estimate grosses. As other blockbusters followed - “The Ten Commandments,” “Ben Hur,” “The Sound of Music” - they each inspired passionate debate.

The argument over box-office bragging rights stretches back to “Gone With the Wind,” which set the standard with its $189 million domestic initial gross. Billboard tracks music by units sold so does the New York Times’ best-sellers lists.īut that’s not the way Hollywood does it. The calculus that remains unchanged is 1 ticket buyer = 1 seat if we tracked admissions instead of grosses as a metric of success, there wouldn’t be any discussion. Ticket prices vary time creates inflation. Money is a plastic concept (and we don’t mean credit cards). But when it comes to claiming the biggest-ever box office, that means contending with the adjusted gross.

It’s the top domestic and global release of 2019, and reached the $2 billion worldwide mark faster than any film in history. As “ Avengers: Endgame” crushes everything in its path, it’s already broken box-office records.
