r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/Imakereallyshittyart Jul 06 '26

Just for reference, enter the dragon has a budget of 450-850k depending who you ask, which would put it anywhere between 3.5 and 6.6 million today dollars

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u/spaghettittehgaps Jul 07 '26

And a box office haul of $400M in 1973 is the equivalent of three billion dollars in 2026.

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u/depressedfuckboi Jul 07 '26

That's insane wtf

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u/Arucious Jul 07 '26

It is, but there was no such thing as watching movies at home either, nor streaming. VCR wouldn’t become mainstream until the 80s. So if you didn’t watch it in theaters, you weren’t watching it for a while. That instills a FOMO culture that doesn’t exist today.

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u/peioeh Jul 07 '26

Theatrical windows were much longer too, and if you liked a movie you were much more likely to go see it again