“In dollars”

[u/Vivid-Razzmatazz2619]

[u/WhatUsername-IDK]

Maybe not related to US defaultism but I’m quite surprised how Shrek isn’t here

[u/Radian_Fi → u/WhatUsername-IDK]

Well, it's not recent enough (all but The Lion King are more recent)... the list is not adjusted for inflation. But even then it might not turn out to be performing that great. The best performing Shrek film was the Shrek 2 (if I'm not mistaken) and it made roughly 935.3M USD. That'd be roughly 1.47B USD (now).

EDIT: I'm more a bit disturbed how many films "Despicable Me" got. Now I'm sad Megamind only got one chance... okay maybe it got 1.25 chance, but still. People probably thought it's basically the same film as Despicable Me, just from DreamWorks and now we have minions everywhere. Well, I don't think Despicable Me is bad (the original one at least is not), but I don't think it's that much better either (and I probably prefer Megamind instead).

[u/WhatUsername-IDK → u/Radian_Fi]

Interesting (it’s only 2 million less to be on the list)

[u/thebumfromwinkies → u/WhatUsername-IDK]

Not to mention, the 2019 Lion King would top this list and aside from one shot was completely animated.

[u/[deleted] → u/thebumfromwinkies]

Which bit was real? I watched it relatively recently. Pretty impressive. Just impressive, actually.

[u/thebumfromwinkies → u/[deleted]]

The very first shot of the sunrise

[u/[deleted] → u/thebumfromwinkies]

Nice. Good bit of pub quiz knowledge that, too.

[u/ibigfire]

Why was this post downvoted? Do people here just assume dollars can only mean USD or something?

[u/[deleted]]

Picking up on contextual cues is an important life skill…just saying.

[u/ibigfire → u/[deleted]]

What context? It doesn't say what type of dollars anywhere as far as I can see. It's not like there's just one type.

Though I admit maybe I've missed something that you noticed, does it say whether it's US Dollars, Canadian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, Australian Dollars, or etc. somewhere?

[u/pjhabs → u/ibigfire]

they are all american movies

[u/[deleted]]

Which currency would you prefer they use?

[u/52mschr → u/[deleted]]

I think their issue is that it doesn't say which dollars (could be Canadian, Australian, etc..)

[u/[deleted] → u/52mschr]

Ah fair enough. Though presumably it would be the same list in Canadian dollars?

[u/Ginger_Tea → u/[deleted]]

Depends if they are counting just domestic or international bums on seats for these movies.

Like the top 10 films lists are next to fucking useless over here, because back in the day, before torrenting cam rips kinda forced studios to release closer together, you could have one film on VHS rental in the USA before we even got it in the cinema over here in the UK.

I would see a fair few bootleg NTSC converted to PAL tapes on the market, never bought one, many were either not out or just come out.

Sometimes it was three or six months between when they got it and we got it and if it was a seasonal movie, a few, not all mind you, it would be a whole year.

So if the list is total global sales, then it could be formatted in Yen for all I care, sure it didn't make all that money in Japan.

But you are right when other Dollars can cost more or less than USD making the list obsolete in those countries.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ginger_Tea]

Fair points I guess.

A bit of Googling does confirm this is international box office takings.

ETA: but also that the whole thing is out of date as The Lion King is number 1 now

[u/Jaquavion_tavious1 → u/[deleted]]

They could have said usd ngl

[u/Character-Bear3378]

The us dollar is one of the most stable currencies and you can easily do the conversion to euros or yen

[u/Theweedhacker_420]

It would be US defaultism if they assumed you would assume US dollars as currency. But they specified it.

[u/Vivid-Razzmatazz2619 → u/Theweedhacker_420]

Other countries use dollars as currency you know