>$4.5 billion box office at a time when the global population was 1/4 of what it is today and an even smaller percentage of it had access to a theatre Why can't modern Hollywood produce a phenomenon like this?
most of the tickets sold were for the newsreels that would play periodically.
>>214545380Then how come no other film from the era came close to this in terms of box office?
>>214545334It's Japan's turn.
They would just keep movies in theaters longer. Gone With The Wind's initial theatrical run was 2 years. If you kept Spiderman in theaters for 2 years it would break the record.
>>214545499If the economics of keeping Spiderman in theatres for 2 years made sense then they'd already be doing it. So that's just cope.
>>214545334>Why can't modern Hollywood produce a phenomenon like this?Nobody watches movies anymore.
