Joker said:
I wonder if there has ever been a movie that kept making more money the longer it was in theaters.
You don't see it as much as you use to Tatantic was one of the last ones, it had a peak, when it came out and another at the time of Oscar then a long period of just hanging on making 5 million to 10 million a week, this lasted a year plus. it just floated in on the charts as 11 to 20, forever resulting in 500 million, which was more than its opening weekend, which was only $28,638,131.
Domestic: $600,788,188 32.6% + Foreign: $1,244,246,000 67.4% = Worldwide: $1,845,034,188
Now you have the DVD market, so that limits the life on the big screen. Companies seem to be using the big screen just for advertisement. DVD's make silly money, a lot of it, plus there are accounting loopholes for movie companies that make that market very lucrative.
Other info on Titanic
All Time Domestic: 1
All Time Adjusted: 6
All Time Worldwide: 1
Yearly 1997: 1
Yearly Opening Weekends 1997: 8
Yearly PG-13 Rated 1997: 1
Worldwide Yearly 1997: 1
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time: 130
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time: 161
New Years Days: 5
Christmas Days: 11
Opening Weekends: 193
Opening Weekends - December: 15
Opening Weekends - Holiday: 48
Most Weekends at #1 (non-consecutive): 2
Most Weekends in Top 10 (non-consecutive): 5
Most Weekends in Top 5 (non-consecutive): 3
Consecutive Weekends At #1: 1
Consecutive Weekends In Top 10: 4
Consecutive Weekends In Top 5: 4
Martin Lurther King 4-Day Holiday Weekends: 1
Memorial Day 4-Day Holiday Weekends: 135
President's Day 4-Day Holiday Weekends: 7
Second Weekends: 28
Third Weekends: 4
Fourth Weekends: 1
Fifth Weekends: 1
Sixth Weekends: 1
Seventh Weekends: 1
Eighth Weekends: 1
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation): 6
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide): 8
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases: 55
Rated PG-13: 1
Rated PG-13, Opening Weekends: 109
Widest Releases: 145
Fastest to $100 million: 73
Fastest to $200 million: 26
Fastest to $300 million: 10
Fastest to $400 million: 3
Slowest to $100 million: 249
Slowest to $200 million: 42