15 Most Profitable Movies Of All Time
1. Gone With The Wind (1939)
Gone with the Wind is another epic to find its way onto this list, and it's also widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made. The film's production was problematic from the beginning, and it was largely due to the actors wanted by producer David O. Selznick.
His demand to secure Clark Gable paused production for two years, but that did leave plenty of time to audition more than 1,200 women for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. The on-screen pairing of Gable and Vivien Leigh was celluloid perfection, and the movie scored big at the Academy Awards.
Gone with the Wind is the oldest movie on this list, and because of that, its adjusted numbers are ridiculously high. While its 1939 budget of $3.85 million seems low, it adjusts to $71 million, which isn't bad for an epic were it made in 2020, but it's the box office totals that are insanely high.
It's estimated that Gone with the Wind earned $390 million in 1939, which adjusts to $7.517 billion. The film's profits are difficult to estimate by modern standards, but fortunately, the Guinness Book of World Records did the math already, and its estimate puts the adjusted profit at $3.75 billion.
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