Blog Post #2

In this post I am going to talk about the highest grossing movie and most viewed TV series finales of all time. I really enjoyed talking in class about the highest grossing movies adjusted for inflation and not adjusted for inflation. Those two movies were Gone With The Wind (adjusted) and Avatar (not adjusted).

Avatar may be the highest grossing movie of all time domestically w/o adjusting for inflation with a total of 760.5 million dollars and Gone With The Wind making 198.6 million, but after adjusting for inflation Avatar only made 812 million while Gone With The Wind made around 1.68 billion dollars. Its truly amazing how much inflation has changed prices and how much a movie actually makes. It will be very interesting to see if there will ever be a movie that will truly gross more money than Gone With The Wind.

Next I want to talk about which TV series finale was the most watched of all time. Today a lot of people may think the answer to this question is shows like Breaking Bad, Friends, or maybe How I Met Your Mother. But the truth is that none of these are the correct answer, in fact only Friends made it into the top 15 list at #5 with 52.46 million viewers. The correct answer to this question is the hit series M*A*S*H, with 105.9 million viewers (over 60% of households). 

In fact M*A*S*H is considered one of the most popular TV series of all time. Yes Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and Breaking Bad were all wonderful finales, except maybe HIMYM, M*A*S*H towered above every other series finale and will likely stay that way for awhile if not all time. 

Sources:

Highest Grossing Movies

Most Viewed Finales

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