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Inflation adjustments for 2024 re-releases of The Lord of the Rings films in highest-grossing film franchises

I'm having trouble adjusting the grosses for those films now that they are back in theaters. Could someone else do them or explain how to do it? Please. And1987 (talk) 18:07, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why is Avengers not calculated into the MCU?

Avengers are Marvel and the redirect sends you to MCU. 73.53.5.61 (talk) 17:19, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's counted both as part of the MCU and separately. 2601:249:9301:D570:9862:6B3E:A395:D830 (talk) 19:21, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Birth of a Nation is missing

Although it's a dispicable racist film, it's missing on both this list and from the global inflation adjusted list. The page for box office admissions lists it as having sold more than 171 million tickets during it's initial run in the 1910s and 20s. It's gross has been estimated between 60 to 100 million. Shouldn't it be on here if we also have Gone with the Wind?

List of films by box office admissions Never17 (talk) 07:36, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Its racism isn't really a factor for a list like this. Gone with the wind glamorizes slavery and we include that. As far as I'm aware nobody really knows how much TBOAN grossed, or indeed how many people saw it because of inaccurate record-keeping and the fact it was sold on a "states rights" basis. That list puts the US gross at around $1.6 billion, but another estimate by Time estimates it grossed $1.8 billion worldwide. Another estimate puts its admissions at around 50 million by 1930, an astonishing number when the population was much smaller, but by this time the sound era was taking off and the silents were falling out of fashion. By 1930, TBOAN had taken $10 million in global rentals, and a year later had a very successful re-release with sound effects which took its earnings to $15 million. After that its appeal started to dwindle. It is estimated that the film ultimately earned around $20 million, so it is possible that it generated 100 million admissions all-told, but the Inside Kino source has it an almost double. On what basis did they arrive at that conclusion? Given all of the estimate floating around I think we'd need further corroboration and some insight into the methodology before we go adding it to charts. Betty Logan (talk) 20:23, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah i agree, it's a weird case where Nobody knows how much it actually made so it's hard to estimate Never17 (talk) 20:26, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The best estimate seems to be the 1930 estimate, and it had 50 million admissions by then, so I think it's a certainty that it is on the chart somewhere. It's just too difficult to pin down an actual number. Maybe we can add a note so it isn't overlooked. Betty Logan (talk) 20:29, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah between 50-60M seems most likely given the high ticket prices they were charging for it Never17 (talk) 21:03, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary re-release

I'm not the best at adding grosses of re-releases to the non-adjusted and adjusted film franchise sections. Could someone else add the grosses of 'Revenge of the Sith' to the 'Star Wars' part of those areas so I can have an idea on how to do it in the future? And1987 (talk) 16:28, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 2025 re-release for Sith had been added to the totals both in nominal and adjusted. For the future, the way you add re-release grosses to an adjusted total is by adding it separately, like for Sith "{#expr:{Inflation|US|555871502|2020}+<--2025-->34107714}" and when the Template:Inflation updates to the year after the one of the re-release then you have to add separate {Inflation|US|34107714|2025} for the re-release gross. As for the franchise tables, that has gotten a little complicated because of multiple node count limits that this page hit, so I had to readjust the Adjusted franchise table, so when you add a new gross to a film from a franchise, you hit preview, copy the total from the subsection and add it to the franchise total. i.e: Sith {#expr:{Inflation|US|555871502|2020}+<--2025-->34107714} - <--PREQUELS-->2415032394 or with the upcoming Spider-Man you add the total under Phase Six - copy the total from subsection - add to the <--PHASE 6--> franchise total. It's annoying, but it's a workaround to keep the adjusted figures close to accurate without triggering the node count limit. DCF94 (talk) 20:51, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Shrek 25th anniversary re-release in adjusted for inflation

I know that I asked for help for this last year with Revenge of the Sith, but it's happening again with the 25th anniversary re-release of the first Shrek film. I'm having trouble doing it and tried following the instructions in the previous topic, but I'm still having trouble doing it. Could you any help me? And1987 (talk) 15:05, 16 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I figured it out. And1987 (talk) 17:12, 16 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]