this is an interesting idea for a chart, but these numbers are useless. It says they are adjusted for inflation but that just exacerbates an existing problem further. The gross receipts can be adjusted for inflation, but that doesn’t change the fact that a movie ticket for the original King Kong was only a dime and the laughably inflated number for Scream was based on tickets 100x higher. So, whatever. Here is an example of how to do it right, and a discussion as to why: http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

Good point Max, thanks for the link to that reference.

Hi,

The low revenue for King Kong is pretty surprising. Did you adjust for ppopulation, number of theatres, etc? Or was it too graphic for the times and only a small portion of the adult population could stand to see it?

It looks like some of the “wedges” were not drawn correctly. The wedge for the revenue of Return of the living Dead (29.9M) is much bigger than for the neighboring movie Nightmare on Elm street that made (55+M). Similar problems seem to exist for 28 Days later, Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Shaun of the Dead. The “wedges” for movie budgets of the last two movies don’t look right either. Why is the 7.49M budget of Dawn of the Dead drawn almost twice as large as the 10.1 M budget of 28 Days later, and 4x as large as the 33M budget for Shaun of the Dead?