Congratulations are in order to the people over at Paramount Pictures for topping $1,000,000,000 in ticket sales sometime on Monday. Sometime over the weekend Paramount will also surpass the $1.046 billion mark which will break there record of 1998 for ticket sales, and they still got quite some time left in the year.
1998 was a record setting year partially because of Titantic, which managed to haul in a fucking huge amount. BoxOfficeMojo puts the figure at $600,788,188 which is just over half. Man, a lot of people must have been dying to see Leo or Kate, cause that is a shit load of cash to haul in.
The films which helped get Paramount across that $1 billion mark are: Blades of Glory, Freedom Writers, Zodiac, Reno 911!: Miami, Norbit, Disturbia, Next, Shrek the Third, A Mighty Heart and Transformers.
A breakdown of the movies ticket sales courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo are: Blades of Glory - $118,175,865, Freedom Writers - $36,605,602, Zodiac - $33,080,083, Reno 911!: Miami - $20,342,161, Norbit - $95,360,247, Disturbia - $79,341,927, Next - $18,049,868, Shrek the Third - $316,959,197, A Mighty Heart - $8,477,841 and Transformers - $165,333,052.
It seems that Blades of Glory, Shrek the Third and Transformers were there biggest earners pulling in roughly the equivalent of what Titantic pulled in all together in 1998. That is amazing, 3 blockbuster films equal Titantic. Enjoy those figures
