Steven Spielberg Jaws In 1975, a record-breaking $260 million at the box office, but how much would that amount be today, adjusted for inflation? in 1975, Jaws was such a massive hit that it changed the face of the Hollywood film industry. Just when Tinseltown was starting to embrace a more mature approach to filmmaking with mature hits like The graduate And Easy riderThe success of Jaws Encouraged studios to focus on high-concept genre movies released in the height of summer – an approach that studios are still taking today.
Joe’s coined the term “blockbuster” because it had audiences around the block. The godfather to become the highest-grossing movie ever made, and it wouldn’t top it until Spielberg’s friend George Lucas released Star Wars in 1977. Jaws‘ box office run was historic, but how does it compare to the box office performance of today’s blockbusters? Adjusted for inflation, how much money has Jaws make?
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What Jaws’ Box Office Gross Would Be Today
Adjusted for inflation, Jaws grossed around $1.5 billion in its original run
Jaws grossed an unprecedented $260,002,562 during its original theatrical run in 1975 (via Box Office Mojo). With a handful of releases over the past half-century, This figure has since expanded to $477,220,580. Suffice it to say, Universal made a tidy profit against the relatively unnecessary $7 million it spent on the budget. Adjusted for inflation, JawsInitial $260 million gross comes to around $1.52 billionThat would put it in 11th place above 2012’s The Avengers On the list of the highest-grossing movies ever made.
How Jaws’ Adjusted Box Office Compares to the Biggest Movie Releases of the 2020s
Jaws would have outgrown Barbie (but not in Out 2)
Compared to the top-grossing movies of the 2020s so far (via CBR), Jaws‘ Adjusted-for-inflation box office haul is still impressive by today’s standards. It did not gain enough to exceed Inside Out 2s gross of $1.6 billion, Spider-Man: No Way Homes gross of $1.9 billion, or Avatar: The Way of Waters jaw-dropping gross of $2.32 billion. But Jaws’ That adjusted total is higher than the lifetime gross of every other top-grossing blockbuster to come out of 2020.
Jaws Greater than Barbie And Top Gun: Maverick$1.4 billion, The Super Mario Bros. MovieS$ 1.3 billion, and Deadpool & Wolverine$1.2 billion. Jaws‘ Adjusted gross is more than half a billion dollars higher than Jurassic World DominionS$1 billion, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$955 million, and Oppenheimer$953 million. These were all great movies, but they don’t come close to matching Jaws. It is no wonder that Hollywood has been trying to replicate the success of Jaws For the past five decades; It was a monster hit.
Source: Box Office Mojo, CBR