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I've always been curious when it comes to box office hits, BUT whenever I search the top worldwide hits (including from ANY country) ALL I get is North American movies... That's not what I'm looking for :/ Although they are VERY popular worldwide, it feels like the world lives in the bubble sometimes and doesn't realize there's been hugely successful movies out of the continent... or something^^ I mean, Spirited Away scored VERY high in Japan when it was released,but I want to see how, for example, movies like that stand to other movies worldwide, not just the Japanese box office. Heck, Bollywood is HUGE and has a market just about as big as ours, but they never seem to get the credit^^

SO does anyone know a site, or something, with the top worldwide box office hit of all times? Top 10, top 100, doesn't matter, I'm just very curious with it^^

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide

i'm not sure how accurate this site is...

jon_jinn wrote:http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide

i'm not sure how accurate this site is...

IMDB is usualy very accurate, I use this webbie quite often. But occasionaly they are wrong, so double check everything IMDB is one of my most-visited-websites

Viewing this list was a very sad reminder that brainy movies just don't make much money.

Sohma wrote:IMDB is usualy very accurate, I use this webbie quite often. But occasionaly they are wrong, so double check everything IMDB is one of my most-visited-websites

Yeah, they once said that Rodger Bumpass, the guy who plays Squidward on SpongeBob, Dr. Light on Teen Titans, and various other additional voices, had died during heart surgery. In fact, many thought the site was so trustworthy that Titansgo.net even wrote that in their info page about him. I was saddened by this, until I went to Wikipedia and found out that Rodger Bumpass had not died; in fact, he directly told them something like, "Hey, I'm not dead; where did you get your information?"

I know Wikipedia's not always trustworthy, but there's a link to a news-site that has the article for it. Apparently, that newscompany posted a story about his death as well and had to apologize.

Yeah once again it's ONLY North American movies (with the exception of Spirited Away, BUT that's probably only there because it did air over here). See what I mean? I'm certain that other movies from India or China or wherever would be on there too, but there aren't :/ And when they mean 'worldwide' on there it's "how these American movies did around the world and not just in America" type of thing :/ The search continues...

Well we in the U.S. do tend to regard the entire universe as revolving around us.

Tenshi no Ai wrote:Yeah once again it's ONLY North American movies (with the exception of Spirited Away, BUT that's probably only there because it did air over here). See what I mean? I'm certain that other movies from India or China or wherever would be on there too, but there aren't :/ And when they mean 'worldwide' on there it's "how these American movies did around the world and not just in America" type of thing :/ The search continues...

These really are the world-wide numbers, I'm afraid. The proof is the two Miyazaki films which I am certain had nothing like these kinds of numbers in the NA market. In contrast, the one Chinese film (Wo Hu Cang Long, aka "Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon") probably is on this list only due to its popularity in the NA market.

Here are the two things you are failing to consider when looking at this list. One, Hollywood is the only producer with a genuinely worldwide market. In India they see Bollywood AND Hollywood. There may be three or four countries in the world not included in Hollywood's market, perhaps North Korea or Myanmar or such, but US movies show up pretty much everywhere else eventually. Two, the NA market numbers are topheavy in the total, because we pay a small fortune per ticket in comparison to most countries, and these numbers are the retail volume, not the producer's eventual take. If you pay eleven bucks a ticket, you are spending enough to send a couple families to the show in some countries. I doubt the list would look even remotely similar if they counted heads instead of dollars.

EricTheFred wrote:These really are the world-wide numbers, I'm afraid. The proof is the two Miyazaki films which I am certain had nothing like these kinds of numbers in the NA market. In contrast, the one Chinese film (Wo Hu Cang Long, aka "Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon") probably is on this list only due to its popularity in the NA market.

Here are the two things you are failing to consider when looking at this list. One, Hollywood is the only producer with a genuinely worldwide market. In India they see Bollywood AND Hollywood. There may be three or four countries in the world not included in Hollywood's market, perhaps North Korea or Myanmar or such, but US movies show up pretty much everywhere else eventually. Two, the NA market numbers are topheavy in the total, because we pay a small fortune per ticket in comparison to most countries, and these numbers are the retail volume, not the producer's eventual take. If you pay eleven bucks a ticket, you are spending enough to send a couple families to the show in some countries. I doubt the list would look even remotely similar if they counted heads instead of dollars.

Yeah I see what you mean now. Like, I know how HUGE a market Hollywood is for sure, but I guess I was certain that other countries would have films on there... Never thought about the expense, either, knowing it probably would be cheaper in other countries (assuming they don't have the commodities of AC, comfy seats etc)

North Korea reminds me of Jupiter-Tokyo in RahXephon because of the way the people are isolated from the rest of the world.

I think though that there have been a lot more movies made outside of Hollywood in recent years just because it costs more to film in Hollywood.