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Gone with the Wind tops Avatar when ticket sales are adjusted

Original: A 1939 film beats Avatar if you count tickets Avatar holds the box office record at $2.92 billion. But when Guinness adj

Avatar holds the nominal box office record at $2.92 billion, but Guinness World Records' inflation-adjusted figures tell a different story. When receipts are recalculated at 2014 ticket prices, 1939's Gone with the Wind comes out on top at roughly $3.44 billion, having sold around 202 million tickets. The comparison keeps resurfacing whenever claims about all-time box office champions are debated.

Why now: People keep debating whether box office records should be measured in dollars or tickets sold.

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• A 1939 film beats Avatar if you count tickets Avatar holds the box office record at $2.92 billion. But when Guinness adjusts the numbers to 2014 ticket prices, Gone with the Wind (1939) still comes out on top at $3.44 billion. The film sold about 202 million tickets in the… · walletsum95 · 1

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