Hollywood’s 23 billion Dollar movies – They call these days “The Golden Age of Television.” With the red-hot popularity of shows like Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, and many others, cinematic TV programs are what’s selling.
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The phenomenon is a take on the “Golden Age” of cinema, which refers to the movies that came out roughly between 1927 and 1963 (the exact limits are fluid), when some of the most formative pictures came out.
But if you take the term “Golden” to mean lucrative, it seems like we’re still living in the Golden Age of Cinema. Of the twenty-three billionaire movies, 15 have come out in the past 5 years. Movie tickets and concessions are almost prohibitively expensive and online piracy is cresting, somehow blockbusters are still attracting people to the movie theatre. Certainly, seeing Avatar on the big screen is much sexier than watching it on your MacBook, James Horner’s majestic soundtrack rendered tinny by rinky-dink speakers. And many movies like Avatar have come out in the past few years.
However let’s not kid ourselves that this has everything to do with the quality of movies. Inflation has also played a role, having been more or less steadily increasing for the past decade. In other words, a dollar is still a dollar, but a dollar now is much less valuable than a dollar in the mysterious then.
23. The Dark Knight (2008) – Total Gross $1,004,558,444
Christian Bale, the American Psycho himself, made a badass Batman. Gruff, gravelly, and panting incessantly, he brought the tormented superhero into vogue, although Tobey Maguire gave it a good try in Spider-Man 3. Until then, superheroes cracked wise and wore their underwear outside their clothes (remember Captain Underpants?) It’s no surprise that his second attempt at portraying Batman would have been one of the most lucrative movies ever. Furthermore, this is the movie that Heath Ledger died playing the villain of, furthering peoples’ curiosity.
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