Inflation Adjusted Figures: How Far The Force Awakens Still Has To Go

Originally posted: http://www.jedinews.co.uk/news/news.aspx?newsID=25003

While box office predictions are often, to paraphrase Grand Moff Tarkin, a ‘useless gesture’ it’s certainly an element of the films releases that I relish to track and follow. The Force Awakens is currently smashing records across the planet and – while inflation adjusted figures don’t account for tastes of the time and societal trends but instead look at pure numbers and calculations based on inflation figures – it’s interesting to see just how the 7th episode is stacking up against its predecessors.

If you look at adjusted figures for The Phantom Menace stands at $753,202,700 (that’s a combined figure of the original 1999 release and the 2012 3D version). That figure compares to Avatar’s $811,108,900, adjusted from the 2009 figure. In adjusted figures The Force Awakens is looking good to surpass Phantom and even possibly Avatar but almost certainly won’t come close to the adjusted figure of $1,485,517,400 for the many combined releases of the 1977 original. And even A New Hope falls short of the ultimate champ, 1939’s Gone With The Wind on $1,685,052,200.

But I said it at the start, trying to guess is a useless gesture and with the film flying out of the gate as fast as it has and heading for $1 billion worldwide by the weekend (only the 24th film to ever manage that feat) then the sky’s quite literally the limit.

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