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^^
top worldwide box office hits?
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http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide
i'm not sure how accurate this site is...
i'm not sure how accurate this site is...
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"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
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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
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Viewing this list was a very sad reminder that brainy movies just don't make much money. 
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Sohma wrote:IMDB is usualy very accurate, I use this webbie quite often. But occasionaly they are wrong, so double check everything
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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...
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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.
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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)
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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.
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.
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