Flipboard Culture DeskOct 16, 2023

Exactly 100 years ago today, cartoonist Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Quartz breaks down its U.S. top-grossing movies of all time (adjusted for inflation) in this slideshow. Which do you think topped the list?

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"Frozen"
23.4%
"Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens."
7.2%
"Avengers: Endgame"
23.4%
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."
6.8%
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
39.2%
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As Disney turns 100, a look back at the US's top-grossing Disney films of all time

Star Wars or Avengers: Which one do you think topped the list?

Quartz
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Update: Just 7% of respondents to this quiz knew or guessed that 2015's
"Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens" is Disney's U.S. top-grossing movie of all time, with an inflation-adjusted box-office total of $1,163,816,804. The majority went for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," which came out in 1937 and made $1,488,000 ($187,171,725 adjusted for inflation).

EDIT: Thanks to @overholt, we double-checked Quartz's figures and discovered they were using a chart that only went back to 1995.

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Based on this chart: https://web.archive.org/web/20180106050915/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm , "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the most successful Disney movie of all time, followed by "101 Dalmatians" "Fantasia" and "Mary Poppins."
All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

All time box office adjusted for ticket price inflation.

Oct 17, 2023 at 9:59pmWeb
Show threadMark LoundyOct 17, 2023
@CultureDesk That’s a bit of a statistical cheat. Snow White was the first full-length animated feature ever. So it’s had more time to amass revenue. How about inflation-adjusted revenue in the first two years of release? #applesoranges
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@markloundy Yes, this is all getting very confusing as in this chart of top lifetime grosses, "Star Wars Ep. VII" is back to #1: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?ref_=bo_cso_ac. Perhaps we need to stop looking at charts and start watching some good movies!
Top Lifetime Grosses - Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo