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To LawrencA, cannot locate your reaction?

It looks as though the tcm moderator(s) messed up a wee-bit here & have this earlier item posted instead of the heading?

Yes, I made a bit of an error the other day on posting the all-time topo ten highest grossing motion pictures, so I feel comp[elled to (revise & correct it) The Top Ten Highest Grossing Films-(U.,S. & Canadian sales only compiled) 1st place is "SW: The Force Awakens"(2015) (Buena Vista/Disney) ($936 million in ticket sales, domestically only) 2nd "Avatar" (2009) (DW) ($760m.) 3rd *"Titanic" (l997) (Fox/Paramount) ($670m.)-(NOTE: To date the only one to win the Best picture *Oscar) 4th "Jurassic World" (2015) (Universal City Studios) ($652m.) 5th place "Avengers" (2011) (Marvel) ($623m.) 6th "The Dark Knight" (2008) (Warner Bros.) ($535m.) 7th "Rogue 0ne: A Star Wars Story" (2016) (BV) ($535m.)-(NOTE: this was the one I accidentally left out before) 8th "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) (Walt Disney) ($503m.) 9th "Finding, Dorey" (2016) (Pixar/Disney) ($486m.) & 10th place to date "Star Wars" (l977) (20th Century Fox) ($461 million) Worldwide Top 10-(as of March 2016): 1st place "Avatar" ($2,788.0) 2. *"Titanic" ($2,186.0) 3. "SW:The Force Awakens" ($2,058.3) 4. "Jurassic World" ($1,670.4) 5th place :Avengers" (2011 release) ($1,519.6) 6. "Furious 7" ($1,516.0) 7 "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ($1,405.4) 8. "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows, 2" ($1,347.5) 9. "Frozen" ($1,276.5) & 10th highest $moneyspinner$ worldwide "Iron Man 3" ($1,215.4) Adjusted for Inflation: 1st place *"Gone With the Wind" (l939-Selznick/M-G-M) (& has sold over $1.6 billion in tickets & or some official stats list it as making $1,757,788,200) 2nd "Star Wars"($1,549,640,502) 3rd "*"The Sound of Music" (l965) (Fox) ($1,239,013,800) 4th "E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial" ($1,234,132,700) 5th place *"Titanic" (l997) ($1,178,627,900) 6th "Ten Commandments" (l956 version) ($1,139,700,000)-(TRIVIA: The famed parting of the red sea sequence was filmed in the Paramount Pictures parking lot) 7th "Jaws" ($1, 114,285,700) 8th "Doctor Zhivago" (l965) ($1,079,978,50) 9th "The Exorcist" (1973) ($962,212,800) & 10th place to date "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (l938)($948,300,400) & Most $expensive$: *"Titanic" (l997 version) & adjusted "Cleopatra" (l963 20th Century Fox) NATO-(National Association of Theatre 0wnersvoted: Harrison Ford-(l942-) as #1 all-time $B.O.$ champion (1994 poll) Highest Grossing Foreign Language Film td:"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) ($127 million) Performers that currently hold all-time $B.O.$ record for most years as A #1:(TIE) *Bing Crosby-(l903-77) & Burt Reynolds-(l936-) (with 5 consecutive yrs each) Most successful director: *Steven Spielberg-(l946-) All-Time most successful film franchise: James Bond-(l962-) Lowest grossing Best Picture *Academy Award winner: *"The Hurt Locker" (2009) ($17m.) THANX & PLEASE SEND ANY & ALL COMMENBTS ON ANYTHIUNG I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE MISSED???

Although the *Oscar race for 'the biggie" seems to be "Shape of Water" you never know "LadyBird' might sweep, what do you think?

THANX AGAIN! I know it's likely for him to be at the top again, or close, but do you also find it ridiculous that we went from the likes of *Gable, Cary Grant, Garbo,etc to this???

My ma' just called from the other room & told me he was on. Sadly, you hardly ever hear of William Claude Dunbkfeild anymore?

This was a big deal in the '80's w/*Woody Allen & others in hearings

Combined the 2 at first with "Cape Fear" (l962)

Typically though it's *Going My WAY" & of course "The Quiet Man"

Soooo overrated (*1/2)

Thanx Lawrence, but I was talking about the top $B.O>$ star for 2017

Wonder who the annual $B.O.$ leader-(performer) is though for 2017? To both LawerenceA & Jakeem,. please let me know if you found out yet? THANX

LawrenceA, don't know if you were asking me how am I seeing all those flix?

WHO & WHAT WILL BE IN THE *GOLDEN RACE??? Just stumbled onsomething *Oscar wise & again, bare with me,below are my running tally sheet-(not final until 7 days before official noms to be announced on Tuesday January 23rd, 2018) & 36th year at handicapping this thing we love called *OSCAR:" though only 3 of my fav. films ever won it? My still early predictions of the noms for THE 90th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS-(AMPAS) (*-as usual always denotes official winner & with this leader) SO, HERE GOES AGAIN & PLEASE THROW IN YOUR TWO CENTS, I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM & AM GETTING OLDER SPRTYS FANS Best Picture?:-(NOTE: Once again there may be 8 to 10)? "Call Me By Your Name" Sony Classics) "Darkest Hour" (Focus Features) "Dunkirk" Universal City Studiosa)-(& amazngly took in $00m. in ticket sales!) (***-out of 4 stars) "Get 0ut" (Universal) ($175m.)-(has no business being in this race though???) (*1/2) *LadyBird" (A 24) "Mudbound" (Netflix) "The Post": (20th Century Fox)-(never know, is *"Spotlight" hadn't just won?) "The Shape Of Water (Fox Searchlight": (I projecxt it to leads the fielkd w/most noms.) & "Three Billboards 0utside Ebbing Missouri"($23m. to date & my fav. in 11 months!) & if there are ten? "The Phantom Menace" (Focus.) Best Actor?: Tiomothy Chalmamet in "Call My Be Your Name" Daniel Day-Lewis, "Phantom Menace" Harry Dean Stanton in "Lucky"(would be his 1 shot in 891yrs of life!@) Tom Hanks,. "The Post" & *Gary 0ldman in "The Darkest Hour" Best Actress?:-(closest race) *Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water" *Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards..."-(she's just gotta take it again!!!) Margot Robbie, "I, Tonya" *Soirse Ronan, "LadyBird"* & Meryl Streep in The Poster"-=(would mark her astionishging already record 21st shot to date!) S. Actor?: *Willem Dafoe in "The Florida Project" Woody Harrelson, "Three Billboards..." Richard Jenkins, "Shape of Water" *Sam Rockwell, "Three Billboards..." & Michael Stulbarg, "Call Me By Your Name" S. Actress?: Mary J. Blige ion "Mudbound" Allison Janney, "I, Tonya" Holly Hunter, "The Big Sick" *Laurie Metcalf, "Ladybird" & Octavia Spencer, "Shape of Water" AND Best Director?: *Guillermo Del Toro for "Shaope of Water" *Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird" Martin McDonagh, "Three Billboards..." *Christopher Nolan, "Dunkirk" & Steven Spielberg for "The Post" THANX AGAIN & I HOPE YOU CHIME-IN THIS TIME??? "

Almost all I've corresponded with over the last 17yrs agrees 100% TCM & I guess "BACKLOT" desperately needs to join all other film areas & conduct it's own & long overdue fans poll on their all-time favs in THE MOVIES PLEASE CONSIDER

& some on here may already be aware of this rather gruesome, morbid & perverted item. I forget the guys' name, but he was interred in the niche just above Marilyn & deliberately too. Plus,. he demanded in his will he be buried face down-(you get the idea) even his widow is still furious about this true fact & apparently legal action has been taken to remove him, but still nada has been done WHO RECALLS HIS NAME?

Do you think somekind of fans-(US) petition drive would help out at all?

Originally they desperatelywanted & even somewhat planned for the legendary Judy Garland to be in the role *Susan Hayward took instead

& a rare appearance in it by Tony Bennett-(l926-)

If you think this Mae West-(l893-l980) movie was lousy, you all must check out 19709's stunningly awful-(& not even fun, just annoyingly awful!) I easily rate it among the top 3 worst flix ever produced (TRIVIA: On all 3 vacations to Tinsel-Town & I';vbe touched on thgis many times, I was lucky enough to stay at exact same motel located at 777 N. Vine. you could even see the Paramount water Tower from there. Anyhow, I just felt that a massive bldgh/apartments seemed fam,iliar to me, so I looked it up & it was/is "THE RAVENSWOOD APTS" at the end of Vine. West lived there 48yrs & passed away inside as well. It's ultra red lights are so bright you can easily see them all the way up at the "Griffith 0bservatory" She oviously didn't have far to go top work at Paramount, huh Though she chose NYC to be laid to rest

Of course you can't leave out the works of Edward D. Wood Jr.-(l923-1978) & anybody reading this must see 1994's marvelous "Ed Wood" (****-stars!) & only grossed $6m. *Martin Landau delivered one of thee greatest performances in recent years as Bela Lugosi

I split a wee-bit with you on 1966's "The Oscar" though & think it's a fair picture (**1/2) but by no means a great one Plus, any moivie that features *"THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: FRANCIS (ALBERT) SINATRA AT IT'S FINALE CAN'T BE ALL BAD

YEP, inthe immortal words of both *Gary Cooper & *Clint Eastwood. It is a sloppy film & the also already gone Roger Ebert-l942-2014) cool guy, but always actually bragged about writing the screenp0lay for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?"

I loath The Kardashian's & this is typical of the HCOC-(Hollywood Chamber of Commerce) I think they even have a "Walk-of-Fame Star?" & that reminds me of something very sad, *Joanne Woodward-(l930-) was chosen as the very first celeb to be given her "WOF-Star:" in 1958. Probably due to her just winning her *Academy Awardfor "Three Faces of Eve" All insist she has really bad ALZHEIMERS

THANX FOR ULTRA FAST REPLY! But why would an online poll cost $dough$? they should also let the folks vote via regular mail & you also hit the nail on the head in it being TCM Backlot-(WE SHOULD START A PETITION DRIVE!!!) I mean in my massive & ever increasing files of all things cinematic, this is the only hold out??? Even AMC had a fans survey