  I love economics and I love being right. As a follow up to my article, “The Inflation of Spider-Man,” here are the actual top twenty-five grossing movies for the US market of all time. urlLink Lee’s Movie Info provided the nominal numbers and urlLink Steven Morgan Friedman supplied the inflation calculator. The number in parenthesis is the movie’s nominal ranking. The number in brackets is its box office revenue, (in millions) in 2003 dollars. 1.
(56) [$2,480.99] Gone with the Wind 2. (62) [$2,265.64] Snow White 3. (2) [$1,423.86] Star Wars 4. (276) [$1,227.78] Bambi 5. (375) [$1,067.10] Pinocchio (1940) 6. (39) [$977.83] The Exorcist 7.
(439) [$967.68] Fantasia 8. (27) [$926.94] Jaws 9. (103) [$899.83] Sound of Music 10. (123) [$860.07] 101 Dalmatians 11. (3) [$836.10] E. T. 12. (130) [$768.65] Jungle Book (1967) 13.
(21) [$701.67] Empire Strikes Back 14. (1) [$673.90] Titanic 15. (102) [$670.74] The Sting 16. (235) [$633.57] Doctor Zhivago 17. (373) [$627.16] Cinderella 18. (280) [$587.69] Mary Poppins 19.
(152) [$585.95] The Godfather 20. (363) [$579.00] Peter Pan (1953) 21. (268) [$565.76] The Graduate 22. (17) [$562.19] Return of the Jedi 23. (327) [$525.97] Lady and the Tramp 24. (70) [$537.71] Grease 25.
(279) [$517.09] Butch Cassidy 
