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“Highest grossing” — adjusted for inflation? Doubtful.
Copy-and-pasted this comment from another thread and slightly modified:
Box office records are never adjusted for inflation unless specified otherwise.
The reason for this is that you’d need to also adjust for inflation for every country the film released in, and convert it back to USD. And you also have to remember that the other Scream films were released at a time where going to the movies was one of a few forms of entertainment, relatively speaking. Today, we have a lot more options for entertainment - television, video games, anime, streaming, social media, etc., so movies now have to compete for audiences’ attention from other formats. And of course, you need to account for population differences now vs. 30 years ago.
Comparing box office grosses unadjusted isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we got for now.
Never understood why they didn’t just report the number of tickets sold. It would be easier to adjust based on population than inflation.
Which means this “news story” is just marketing fluff/promotional material and not real reporting. Less and less people are going to the movies, the original Scream was a phenomenon, but somehow a poorly received seventh sequel has outdone the original financially? What a waste of print.
Currently on the third spot for the top box offices of the year. First one is a Chinese movie I’ve never heard about, but might give it a shot just to see what all the fuss is about.
1.4 billion people live in China.
I know, I was just talking from my pov. Successful Chinese movies always gets me by surprise since we never know much about what’s happening in China.
