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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:22 am

The box office juggernaut that is Transformers Dark of the Moon has now surpassed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time! According to Box Office Mojo the film has earned $1,119,112,943.00 worldwide.

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $352,262,443 31.5%
+ Foreign: $766,850,500 68.5%
= Worldwide: $1,119,112,943

News Credits: 4 · by **Slashercon** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:29 am

Can't say that I'm surprised. Anyway,There are a couple of films on the list that I think are superior films. lol TOY STORY 3 SUCKAS!!! :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:40 am

Very nice. There are no movies from before 2000 except Titanic on there... How high will Dark Knight Rises and Avatar 2 go?

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:11 am

Wow, impressive! Pretty great achievement for our beloved universe, I'd say.

News Credits: 1 · by **FanimusMaximus** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:36 am

The Dark Knight under Alice and Wonderland. For shame.

News Credits: 2 · by **Ultra Magnus** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:54 pm

4TW: Four the Win!

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:40 pm

how the f--- did that absolutely HORRIBLE Alice in Blunderland movie gross that much money? I swear, someone accidentally added a zero in there.

by **Rex Prime** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:04 pm

impressive but I Expected that, a few weeks/months later it my go to the third one, more months then it will be seconds, and the war between Harry Potter and Transformers starts for the first place. I wonder how much the Transformers 4 will gross if they make a one.

by **Deathsanras** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:34 pm

Impressive.

I've only seen two of the movies on that list, and one of them was DOTM.

News Credits: 1 · by **Starscream GaGa** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:32 pm

First-Aid wrote:how the f--- did that absolutely HORRIBLE Alice in Blunderland movie gross that much money? I swear, someone accidentally added a zero in there.

It was a 3D movie.

...Which in reality probably drastically helped DOTM's revenue.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:05 pm

I'd still love to see a list with ticket prices averaged. Let's face it, DOTM only got up there because of the increase in ticket prices.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:31 pm

Burn wrote:I'd still love to see a list with ticket prices averaged. Let's face it, DOTM only got up there because of the increase in ticket prices.

The key number in all of these would be "total tickets sold". Most of these wouldn't hold a candle to some of the older movies like Star Wars or Citizen Kane. And yes, 3D does inflate the numbers. However, DOTM had a lot more going for it, not the least of which is an significant- and surprising- appeal among the young female population age 16-25. I took care of 5 patients in that age group in the hospital and all five of them said- without my mentioning it previously- that the new TF movie was the one they were looking forward to the most this past summer. Very surprising to me. But if you get that crowd, you get money...just look at Harry Potter and Twilight.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:54 pm

I seriously doubt Twilight will be a threat this year. Yes, people will flock to see it, but it's going to rely on a LOT of repeat goings as HP and even TF appeals to a MUCH BROADER audience.

I mean I can't see an age bracket of 10-80 in the movie theatre for Twilight like I did for Deathly Hallows Pt 2.

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:58 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frADyjHd ... re=related

The song that played when this revelation came true.

by **dabattousai** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:03 pm

So to get the #1 or #2 spot, we must have James Cameron direct the 4th or Reboot to the TransFormers Franchise. :-?

by **CommanderHazar** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:18 pm

El Duque wrote:The box office juggernaut that is Transformers Dark of the Moon has now surpassed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time!

Meaningless. It doesn't account for lower prices on movies from years and decades past. Adjust for inflation, or simply count number of tickets sold, and I'll be able to take the list seriously.

by **prowl123** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:46 am

Deathsanras wrote:Impressive.

I've only seen two of the movies on that list, and one of them was DOTM.

Really? I've seen 7 1/2 of them (I stopped watching Alice in Wonderland halfway through).

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:16 am

Burn wrote:I'd still love to see a list with ticket prices averaged. Let's face it, DOTM only got up there because of the increase in ticket prices.

As are all the others, except maybe for Titanic. But it was re-released in theaters. Did that get added to its total?

by **all_the_primes** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:46 pm

The Hobbit i probably going to upstage one of these movies AND the Dark Knight Rises :-?

Like UltraSteel on Facebook · by **UltraSteel** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:30 pm

I probably looked forward to this movie the most, probably because I hoping to see a rebound after a sucky ROTF.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:49 pm

all_the_primes wrote:The Hobbit i probably going to upstage one of these movies AND the Dark Knight Rises

I don't know about that. It seems the LOTR movies are very mouch a "geek" thing. The Dark Knight Rises movie is going to blow everything away. I just hope they don't do it in 3D...I'm getting sick of it.

by **prowl123** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:31 pm

First-Aid wrote:
all_the_primes wrote:The Hobbit i probably going to upstage one of these movies AND the Dark Knight Rises

I don't know about that. It seems the LOTR movies are very mouch a "geek" thing. The Dark Knight Rises movie is going to blow everything away. I just hope they don't do it in 3D...I'm getting sick of it.

They probably won't. I don't think Nolan is the type to make his movies gimmicky.