Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
TF3 has just nudged out the third Lord of the Rings movie, to make it into the number 4 spot on all time highest earning movies list. It would have made number 3 (for a little while) if the last Harry Potter movie was released a couple months later... but TF3 won't climb above that one now.

1.119 Billion dollars worldwide... Not bad for a movie that got mixed views and reviews.

There's no way Paramount or Hasbro would walk away from more TF movies now... and we still have the worldwide DVD sales to come.
I'd love to see real world figures for these movies.

The Smurfs is higher on the list than Terminator 2, which should tell you everything you need to know about how utterly meaningless and redundant these lists are.

It doesn't take into account ticket price rises over time, certainly doesn't account for the 3D surcharge, it doesn't account for the increased population of the world, or the percentage of that population with access to cinemas.

Which is not to take anything away from how surprisingly well TF3 has done, especially after TF2.

Imagine how much money these things could make if they were great instead of just good?