No movie has even come close to 1 billion real dollars domestically. I don't think Starwars will either although it has a chance to take over #1. It would have needed to be at about 350-400 million by now to come close to 1 billion in North America. It's only 54 million ahead of JW which finished at 652 million. It should have much longer legs but it would essentially need to muster up another opening weekends worth of ticket sales over JW to even put some room between it and Avatar (760.5 million)
You can't compare the entertainment landscape in 2015 to that of the 70's or even more so to that of the 40's. It would take an absolute phenomenon to come close to those top 3 movies (sound of music is #3 with 1.2 billion). I honestly thought Starwars would have a shot but I think it's at the carrying capacity of the North American movie market. Only so many theaters and these days seeing a movie more than twice in theaters is rare. When Gone with the Wind was out? There was no home movies. There was nothing else competing for your money. In order for any movie to come close it would have to create some sort of gimmick that would be so mind blowingly awesome that almost everyone would want to go see the movie in theaters again and again.
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Originally Posted by getbak
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Adjusted totals ftw!
The estimates had it around 7 million behind!