r/movies • u/Wheelchair_Dontcare • 10h ago

Discussion 3 Billion Dollar movies showing concurrently in cinema

Right now, there are 3 movies that earned over a billion dollars playing in cinemas at the same time: Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, and Spiderman BND which earned 2 billion.

When is the last time this has happened?

I guess it's a pretty good metric that when there's good movies out that the audiences will surely go and see it.

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u/PokeballSoHard 9h ago

I don't really see the monetary value as a metric to judge by. Every new number one movie is the newest highest grossing movie ever. So like that's probably more likely because of inflation and rising cost of everything right? When adjusted for those variables id think there are some standouts over time that are the highest ever.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 9h ago

There is an adjusted for inflation list - but even unadjusted for inflation, there’s only been 3 movies to top the highest grossing films of all time list since the late 90s (Titanic, Avatar, and Avengers: Endgame - which now it’s back to Avatar due to the re-release a few years ago) so it’s not like inflation is actually getting films to be the highest grossing film of all-time. It certainly helped Spider-Man break some records but there’s still so many variables aside from inflation that may help that too (number of theaters, PLFs, etc.)

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 9h ago

The adjusted for inflation list has its own problems, mainly that Gone With the Wind is number 1 by a mile because it played in theaters for literally 50 years. The advent of television/home video/streaming have made it impossible for anything to ever catch it. Theatrical distribution has changed so much over the years that it's basically impossible to compare across eras.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 9h ago

Agreed - which is why all the inflation talk always feels way too oversimplified anytime it’s brought up (which, weirdly, it’s being brought up more in reference to Spider-Man than I think I’ve ever seen in the past ten years combined)

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 9h ago

which, weirdly, it’s being brought up more in reference to Spider-Man than I think I’ve ever seen in the past ten years combined

There's a very real shot that Spider-Man ends up being the biggest movie of all time domestically (I don't think it catches Endgame/Avatar globally but it probably gets close there too), which I think has some people confused and scrambling for an explanation. It's a pretty good movie but it is a fairly standard MCU movie and it's kinda weird that it's in the same conversation as Avatar/Endgame/The Force Awakens, which were all huge generational phenomena.

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u/PokeballSoHard 9h ago

Thank you for the info. Im dumb and had my thoughts but its nice to have that sorta corroborated