Paxtibi ha scritto:
E nel 39 ci stava un solo film da scegliere. Mi pare evidente..

Spero che la faccina significhi che stai scherzando, altrimenti ci sarebbe da preoccuparsi.

The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka, and Midnight. Among the other films from the Golden Age period that are now considered to be classics: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, the original King Kong, Mutiny on the Bounty, City Lights, Red River and Top Hat.
Cinema of the United States

E la quantità di film che esce al giorno d'oggi aumenta esponenzialmente di anno in anno.

Ma parli per sentito dire?

Film entertainment production in the Los Angeles area declined one percent in 2007, according to a report released Friday by Film L.A. Inc.

Film production in the region was down for the ninth time in the last 11 years, said Film L.A., a nonprofit corporation that acts as a link between producers and local government agencies in issuing permits for film shoots.

"The 2007 data is in line with the decade-long downward trend in local feature film production that has occurred as other locales lure production with attractive economic incentives," said Steve MacDonald, president of Film L.A. Inc.

The film office said it arranged for 54,871 on-location production days last year, compared to 55,399 in 2006. A production day is defined as one crew member working at one location during a 24-hour period.

Feature film production in the Greater Los Angeles area continued its downward trend last year, dropping 6.4 percent to 8,247 permit days, compared to 8,813 in 2006, according to Film L.A.

Commercial production also dropped last year -- by 0.2 percent -- following a slide of 3.4 percent in 2006.
Film production continues to decline in Los Angeles

Per completezza, la popolazione USA nel '39 era di poco più di 130 milioni di unità, ora è quasi triplicata e si attesta sui 300 milioni (senza contare gli illegal aliens).

Quindi:

In an adjusted for inflation all-time box-office Top 10 (compiled by Dergarabedian), "Gone With the Wind" is the easy winner, with George Lucas' 1977 "Star Wars" in the No. 2 slot, with $1.26 billion in grosses, followed by 1965's "Sound of Music," 1982's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and 1956's "The Ten Commandments."

Jim Cameron's "Titanic" comes in at No. 6 on the chart (with $955 million) while "Avatar" doesn't even come close to making the Top 10, with a mere $558 million in grosses. To give you an idea how different the adjusted gross box-office chart is from the all-time box-office chart we normally follow, "Gone With the Wind" doesn't even make the Top 50 all-time box-office leaders chart--the one that now has "Avatar" on top.

To say that the chart we normally use is weighted toward modern-day movies would be an understatement. When Dergarabedian compiled the all-time box-office chart (the one that is not adjusted for inflation), only 5 of its top 50 films were released before 1997--Lucas' original "Star Wars" trilogy, Spielberg's "E.T." and 1990's "Home Alone." The vast majority of films on the list were released in the past half-dozen years. But when you turn things around and check out the adjusted gross Top 10 list, it has only one film--"Titanic"--that was released in the past 30 years.
The Big Picture

Quella di gridare al record è una delle più banali e antiche forme di marketing che esistano, e a quanto pare funziona sempre.