Hollywood poised for record-breaking year at the box office (Best ever $9.682 BILLION)

NY Daily News ^ | 12/10/09 | Amy Eisinger

[Libloather]

Hollywood poised for record-breaking year at the box office; 2009 set to best 2007's record intake
By Amy Eisinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 10th 2009, 3:26 PM

The Hollywood box office is having its best year in history, reports Hollywood.com Box Office. This week the box office grand total for 2009 is expected to hit $9.682 billion -- surpassing previous record holder 2007, when the tally was $9.68 billion.

With potential top-grossing holiday films still to come, Hollywood is bracing for their first $10 billion year ever. Movies that are still on the way this year include James Cameron's "Avatar," the star-studded "Nine," Disney's new "Princess and the Frog," currently only playing in New York and Los Angeles, and the action-packed "Sherlock Holmes."

Though the box office did see its typical slide after the Thanksgiving holidays, "The Blind Side" still managed to rake in $20.4 million over the weekend of December 4.

Other top grossing films of the year so far include, in descending order, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in the top spot, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," "Up," and "The Hangover," with late November release "New Moon" on their heels in sixth place.

[buwaya]

“Up” and the new “Harry Potter” were quite good.

There is still quality in childrens movies.

[guitarplayer1953]

Yep they need to take 50% of it or what ever they want to take from the oil companies when they have a windfall profit.

[ansel12]

You are correct about “Gone With the Wind” being number one.

Here are the inflation adjusted box office numbers.

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

[OldDeckHand]

"You are correct about “Gone With the Wind” being number one."

I thought GWTW was still number one. Rather than focus on money, I wish they'd count actual tickets sold. That would be a much more accurate representation of a movie's success, measured over time.

You think about how many fewer people there were in the country when GWTW came out, it really puts it into perspective what a cultural phenomenon it was. The newest movie on the list you posted that's in the top 20, is Star Wars: Phantom Menace. There's nothing from the last ten years until you get to The Dark Night, at number 26.

Irrespective of the money the industry is producing, people just aren't going to the movies in the same percentages they were going in, the first 75 years of film.

[Libloather]

Uh. I think it is 10 bucks now.

I usually get in for free. (It's who you know.) Still, no views for me.

[Cicero]

“Up” was fun, although not one of their best.

Our family went to see “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and really liked it. It’s a British Indie Film, based on a book by Roald Dahl.

[uncbob]

BE $3,003,285,714.29 in 2009

[ctdonath2]

“A Christmas Carol” w/ Jim Carrey was worth 8 bucks.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I’ve seen the worst (2012) and the best (Blind Side).. I enjoy movies...some more than others, Avatar looks interesting... Amelia could have been done better, but was good...

[proxy_user]

“I’m proud to say I haven’t been in a movie theater since 2006. No bucks from me.

Ha! that’s nothing. I last went in 1977.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I watched No Reservations last week... better than expected.

[ansel12]

This gives some information on estimated ticket sales, it is slightly different than that other chart.

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&p=.htm

[bert]

I went an I max Thanksgiving weekend and saw A Christmas Carol by Disney in 3D.

It was fantastic. Go if you can. It is not like anything you have seen before and is precise Dickens

I have been more movies in the last 90 days than in the last 10 years. that would be 2

[diamond6]

Was it good?

[OldDeckHand]

"This gives some information on estimated ticket sales, it is slightly different than that other chart."

That's better. GWTW sold an estimated 200+ million tickets. The US population in 1939 was only 130 million. Sure, people saw it more than once, but people saw Star Wars more than once too. It sold 178 million tickets with a national population approaching some 220 million people, which is impressive, but it pales in comparison to GWTW.

[chae]

Really? The poster for that movie creeped me out, I thought the animals looked like something from the taxidermist.

[OldPossum]

Whatever record they set it will be without a dime from me. Don’t go to movies, don’t buy or rent DVD’s. Who needs their crap? Not the OldPossum.

[Captain Peter Blood]

You might rethink that. I have heard that Holmes and Watson may be portrayed as Gay, rumor is that they have a bed room scene. If true this movie will not be on my list to see ever.

[Peter Libra]

I have been to about eight Hollywood movies in the last six years. One I did not regret seeing was "Gangs of New York" if only for the incredible sets of the kind of New York scenes. Even then the demise of the anti-hero was not historically correct.

My spouse finally got me to see "A Christmas Carol". Jim Carrey was the star. With all respects to the art and the acting of Mr Carrey, the word I used, was surrealistic. It was beyond clever. I suppose to an audience who have seen Star Wars etc, it fits.

A sign of old age, but somehow the old film with Alec Guinness, rang pretty true to Dickens. Yes, by all means go to see it, but...... do not take vulnerable children, Classified "General". Spouse says not suitable children under ten.

[Eye of Unk]

I don’t think it was quite as good as the ones of the younger Potter and friends, its a bit more mature, more death etc.