Re: He is Risen

On 2008-03-26 16:39:52 -0700, Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:47EACFE5.3030708
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> 
>> Star Wars' influence was what made most of Spielberg's following
>> successes (and perhaps not-so-successes) possible.
> 
> The fact that Close Encounters was a big success and ET a huge success
> doesn't matter, compared to the godlike miracle that is George Lucas?
> 
> 
> Here is a list of the top grossing films of all time, adjusted for
ticket
> price inflation:
> 
> http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/inflation.php
> 
> Here is a list from 1977 on:
> 
> http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/inflation.php
> 
> Four of the Star Wars movies do very well. So do three of the Spielberg
> science fiction entries.

Just for fun, adding up all the Lucas movies in the top 50, you get:

$5,092,729,463

Just a hair over $5 billion for six STAR WARS movies and three INDYs.

Spielberg gets:

$5,164,543,258

for E.T., the three Indy movies, two Jurassic Parks, CE3K, Back to the 
Future, Twister, Men in Black, and Shrek.

Lucas has more movies near the top of the list; Spielberg has more 
movies on the list overall.

Gross receipts and influence aren't by any means the same thing, but 
both men can be pretty proud of what they've done.

kdb