Tuesday, July 7, 2009
News Gone With the Wind regains non-existent title
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Using a sophisticated statistical analysis technique called arithmetic, Bloomberg calculates 1939's Gone With The Wind is the top-grossing movie of all-time.
In recent years, the 1997 slapstick comedy romantic epic Titanic has been widely thought of as Hollywood's biggest all-time earner.
But apparently it recently occurred to someone at Bloomberg that 1997 dollars were worth considerably less than 1939 dollars. A little bit of adjustment for inflation and, voila, Titanic drops from first-place to sixth-place on the all-time box office list.
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