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Most Profitable Movies of All Times
Author: Tsoof and Eden Baras  | Posted: 03-05-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 255 | Rating: (180)  (?) 
Movies, just like any other form of business, are investments for their makers. When decisions are made about whether to make the movie or not, the business people ask, how much money can we make?
Just like going to the bank and looking for the best investment, filmmakers look for the best investment. Some look for the best script that will make the most money or the best director that will drive people to the box offices. Others look for the best actor or lately the best computer animator to win the Oscar. Some look for the best budget for the project so they can have all the special affects and make extra dollars for the creators.
Movies, apart from entertainment for the crowd, are money making machines. It is the difference between what goes out and what comes in that will determine the success.
Surprisingly, some of the best movies of all times have made enormous profits, with over 7104 times the investment profit.
Number 1 – most profitable movie of all time
The most profitable movie of all time is "The Blair Witch Project" (1999). The movie tells the story of three young students who get lost in the woods while filming a documentary about a local legend. After several horrific days, they all disappear without any sign but their video and sound equipment. The brilliance of the movie was in the making and marketing. The actors, who were given a vague description of the plot, acted in such a way that the audience perceived it as a real documentary movie. This low budget movie was around $35000 and profit was 7107 times the initial investment and reached a top of $ 248,662, 839. No joke!
Number 2 – most profitable movie of all time
The second most profitable movie of all times is "American Graffiti" (1973), a George Lucas movie. This movie was a low budget movie. It was the first movie to use Rock and Roll music because it was the cheapest Lucas could afford. The film escorted a group of recently graduated teens and their stories during one night of hanging out on the streets in the summer of 1962. The movie was nominated for 5 Oscars and 5 other nominations and 7 other awards. The budget of the movie was $750,000 and the profit was 153 times more at $115,000,000.
Number 3 – most profitable movie of all time
The third most profitable movie of all time is, believe it or not, "Snow White and the Seven dwarves", an animated movie from 1937 from Disney's art room. "Snow white and the seven dwares" was Walt Disney's first full- length production and told the Brothers Grimm story of little Snow White hunted by her wicked step mother and saved by the adorable 7 dwarves. The budget for the movie was $1,488,000 (a proof that Walt Disney was a great visionary) with a profit of 126 times, resulting with $187,670,866 profit.
After the first three most profitable movies of all time, come others with an enormous profit rate:
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) with ratio of 116 times the investment.
"Rocky" (1976) with 106 times the investment
"Gone with the Wind" (1939) with 102 times profit.
In seventh place, "E.T" (1982) with profits of 75 times the investment.
And in eighth place, "My big fat Greek Wedding" with an initial investment of 5 million dollars and profit of $368,744,044.
As you can see, the size of the budget does not matter.
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