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Box Office Records Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Box Office Records? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

The film with the highest opening weekend ever in the US is "Avengers: Endgame".

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Endgame opened to $357 million domestically in 2019, a record that still stands, far ahead of its closest competitor, Avengers: Infinity War ($258M).

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As of 2022, the highest-grossing film of all time adjusted for inflation was 'Gone with the Wind'.

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When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind earned over $3.7 billion, far surpassing modern blockbusters like Avatar and remains the record holder under many methodologies.

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Avatar held the all-time global box office record from 2010 until 2019, when "Avengers: Endgame" briefly surpassed it.

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Avatar surpassed Titanic's gross in 2010, becoming #1. It held until July 2019 when "Avengers: Endgame" narrowly beat it. A 2021 re-release put Avatar back on top.

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Joker (2019) was the first R-rated film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

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Joker earned $1.074 billion globally in 2019, becoming the first R-rated movie to reach the $1 billion milestone, a feat no other R-rated film had achieved before.

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The movie "Titanic" was the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

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Titanic became the first film in history to surpass $1 billion in global box office revenue during its initial 1997–1998 release.

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As of 2021, no animated film had grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide at the box office.

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Frozen II was the highest-grossing animated film at $1.45 billion. The Lion King (2019) is not classified as a traditionally animated film.

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The biggest box office bomb in history (adjusted for inflation) is "John Carter" from Disney.

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John Carter lost about $200M, but The Lone Ranger and Mars Needs Moms did worse. Adjusted, the biggest bomb is actually Cutthroat Island (1995).

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No horror movie has ever crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office.

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The highest-grossing horror film to date is It (2017) with $701 million worldwide; no pure horror film has reached $1 billion.

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