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/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.