Inflation: The Economy's Miracle Grow

I love economics and I love being right. As a follow up to my article, “The Inflation of Spider-Man,” here are the actual top twenty-five grossing movies for the US market of all time. Lee’s Movie Info provided the nominal numbers and Steven Morgan Friedman supplied the inflation calculator. The number in parenthesis is the movie’s nominal ranking. The number in brackets is its box office revenue, (in millions) in 2003 dollars.

1. (56) [$2,480.99] Gone with the Wind
2. (62) [$2,265.64] Snow White
3. (2) [$1,423.86] Star Wars
4. (276) [$1,227.78] Bambi
5. (375) [$1,067.10] Pinocchio (1940)
6. (39) [$977.83] The Exorcist
7. (439) [$967.68] Fantasia
8. (27) [$926.94] Jaws
9. (103) [$899.83] Sound of Music
10. (123) [$860.07] 101 Dalmatians
11. (3) [$836.10] E. T.
12. (130) [$768.65] Jungle Book (1967)
13. (21) [$701.67] Empire Strikes Back
14. (1) [$673.90] Titanic
15. (102) [$670.74] The Sting
16. (235) [$633.57] Doctor Zhivago
17. (373) [$627.16] Cinderella
18. (280) [$587.69] Mary Poppins
19. (152) [$585.95] The Godfather
20. (363) [$579.00] Peter Pan (1953)
21. (268) [$565.76] The Graduate
22. (17) [$562.19] Return of the Jedi
23. (327) [$525.97] Lady and the Tramp
24. (70) [$537.71] Grease
25. (279) [$517.09] Butch Cassidy