[offtopic]Bureau of Labor statistics inflation calculator has a similar number to the one you posted adjusting dollars only.[/offtopic]
Cool!!! We got off topic quotes! Can we swap the regular quotes for off topic? I like the way it looks.
English Agent wrote:I cant believe it...............after all these years there is something i dont agree with what 'The Sweeney' has said![]()
Well over on the 'MI6' site, the 'SF' fans there have been going ecstatic believing that 'SF' is now the biggest Bond film of all time, surpassing 'TB'.
This apparently came about because one of the members there found an inflation adjusted chart on the Bond series, which skewered to lower box office figures..........this one list somehow became the holy grail on that site, and the herd mentality there took it to there hearts as if favoured SF.
There were one or two othere there who disagreed with this, but were given the cold shoulder.
Then there was this person, who joined in the discussion, and told them they needed to take in figures that other respectable sources had researced into, and showed that SF has not overtaken TB as the biggest Bond of all time, and is in fact still behind 'GF'............unfortuanately this person got attacked by a pack of wolves there.......but they have somewhat dissapeared since the figures have been shown on their site.
I wonder who this person is?![]()
Anyway, the true fact is no one will ever know which is the most successful Bond film of alltime, and does it matter.........as long as the series continues!
Wait for the Chinese BO for SF before celebrating.............Sweeney!
Omega wrote:I was trying to find out what was a BIG movie back in the 60s, I didn't do to well because most places only account for domestic. From Russia with love and GF are close nearly taking the top spot of their years too. I think Sound of Music was the biggest film of the 1960s
Above and beyond anything we have to say attendance for TB was tremendous, 166 million if I have the number correct.
I'm not sure what year this was done (Done BY AMC Film site) but if TB did $600 million adjusted then it is $1.33 billion movie. I'm not sure what numbers Mazer had give us. I do consider BO MOJO way off but even they are closer than that other number being used.This was the only Bond film in which all nine 00- agents appeared together in London, England, where M summoned them to a briefing about SPECTRE's plot.
Molly Peters (as Patricia Fearing) was the first Bond girl to appear nude (in silhouette) - in the steambath scene. And Martine Beswick, as Paula Caplan was the first Bond girl to appear in two Bond girls as different characters (she was fighting gypsy girl Zora in From Russia With Love (1963)).
With an Academy Award win, the second (and last win, to date) for Best Special Visual Effects.
With a production budget of $9 million, and gross revenue of $63.6 million (domestic) and $141 million (worldwide).
Thunderball had the highest domestic box-office earnings of the Bond films (to date) - when adjusted for inflation. Its domestic unadjusted gross of $63.6 million was $600 million when adjusted. Goldfinger (1964) was a distant second with $51 million (and $531.7 million adjusted).