Ace Ventura, Mask and Dumber all came out in 1994. Is there an equivalent for an unknown actor to score 3 hits in one year? Channing Tatum had 3 in one year, but he wasn't that unknown.

Carrey's wage for Dumb and Dumber was already $10m. Crazy.

A STAR IS BORN (1976) adjusts to $348m...

That is actually insane. Was In Living Color super popular to warrant him getting a $10 million paycheck right off the bat with Dumb and Dumber? Did they see his work during filming and immediately greenlight The Mask and Ace Ventura? I guess I'm not sure which one he actually filmed first - doesn't seem clear on Wikipedia.

EDIT:
Here we go - http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-15/ ... jim-carrey

That article came out in May of 1994, where Ace Ventura had just released and exploded in popularity. He shot The Mask directly after Ace Ventura's filming ended (but before it was released). He then shot Dumb and Dumber in the summer of 1994, released later that year in December.

IIRC, while he was known to some because of In Living Color - he was generally and unknown to the mainstream audience.

And he did manage to negotiate a massive pay day for Dumb and Dumber off the back of Ace Ventura's success and The Mask's buzz.

The following year Ace Ventura 2 would go on to open to $80m adjusted. Insane.

I've updated my adjusted list based on the 2024 ticket price of $11.784 USD and a 3% increase estimate for 2025. 76 movies now adjust to $700M+.

1 Gone with the Wind $2,455,252,798
2 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope $2,161,928,994
3 The Sound of Music $1,729,416,965
4 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $1,721,759,403
5 Titanic $1,645,238,408
6 The Ten Commandments $1,590,015,120
7 Jaws $1,555,540,922
8 Doctor Zhivago $1,506,697,114
9 The Exorcist $1,342,400,002
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $1,322,989,680
11 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $1,312,249,189
12 One Hundred and One Dalmatians $1,212,748,227
13 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back $1,192,791,717
14 Ben-Hur $1,190,046,210
15 Avatar $1,181,097,216
16 Avengers: Endgame $1,156,328,179
17 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi $1,141,647,849
18 Jurassic Park $1,114,220,695
19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $1,096,164,920
20 The Lion King $1,082,016,213
21 The Sting $1,081,973,732
22 Raiders of the Lost Ark $1,074,697,288
23 The Graduate $1,038,690,122
24 Fantasia $1,007,942,142
25 Spider-Man: No Way Home $960,491,340

26 The Godfather $957,923,422
27 Forrest Gump $954,459,374
28 Mary Poppins $948,933,161
29 Grease $935,785,799
30 The Avengers $933,147,103
31 Jurassic World $932,184,597
32 Black Panther $926,232,357
33 Thunderball $907,886,496
34 The Dark Knight $903,802,221
35 The Jungle Book $894,291,260
36 Sleeping Beauty $882,106,404
37 Avengers: Infinity War $878,995,557
38 Ghostbusters $865,134,509
39 Shrek 2 $862,381,720
40 Spider-Man $857,228,129
41 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid $856,397,922
42 Love Story $849,802,394
43 Independence Day $840,752,659
44 Top Gun: Maverick $828,455,270
45 Home Alone $822,125,207
46 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi $820,429,596
47 Pinocchio $818,108,902
48 Cleopatra $815,441,075
49 Beverly Hills Cop $815,034,468
50 Goldfinger $804,717,576

51 Incredibles 2 $804,707,866
52 Airport $802,427,226
53 American Graffiti $797,608,631
54 The Robe $794,455,303
55 Avatar: The Way of Water $788,507,436
56 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $784,428,498
57 Around the World in 80 Days $784,270,710
58 Bambi $773,310,529
59 Blazing Saddles $767,571,910
60 Batman $764,327,551
61 The Bells of St. Mary's $761,569,906
62 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $748,153,092
63 Finding Nemo $747,507,375
64 The Towering Inferno $744,948,786
65 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $733,611,129
66 The Lion King $732,167,978
67 Cinderella $731,909,449
68 Spider-Man 2 $730,177,424
69 My Fair Lady $729,006,154
70 The Greatest Show on Earth $728,251,200
71 National Lampoon's Animal House $726,919,714
72 The Passion of the Christ $724,668,204
73 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith $720,053,519
74 Back to the Future $719,212,389
75 Barbie $716,345,602

76 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $700,643,197
77 The Dark Knight Rises $698,900,249
78 The Sixth Sense $698,867,478
79 Superman $696,499,448
80 Tootsie $690,672,224
81 Beauty and the Beast $689,993,737
82 Smokey and the Bandit $689,810,460
83 Finding Dory $681,620,062
84 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $681,439,213
85 West Side Story $679,856,480
86 Close Encounters of the Third Kind $678,764,103
87 Lady and the Tramp $676,483,463
88 Lawrence of Arabia $672,867,696
89 Inside Out 2 $672,569,600
90 The Rocky Horror Picture Show $668,405,944
91 Rocky $668,049,101
92 The Best Years of Our Lives $667,563,600
93 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker $667,373,041
94 The Poseidon Adventure $666,374,123
95 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $665,128,813
96 Twister $663,777,908
97 Men in Black $662,911,289
98 The Bridge on the River Kwai $660,281,088
99 Deadpool & Wolverine $655,848,234
100 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $654,223,252

Probably underrated that they pulled this off with a Felicity Jones spinoff... how far the brand has fallen.

Something beating TFA should be pretty realistic if it only has to be 400 mil less than its adjusted number.

Rogue One is very much like Captain Marvel. It opened 1 year after TFA so had that halo effect. It's still incredible that TFA beat Phantom Menace adjusted which felt like the most hyped film of all time when it was released.

I can honestly say say I’ve never heard of the bells of st. Mary. A couple of so called flops on here as well. It is kind of ridiculous to think maybe a misguided film like cleopatra probably would have cost 150-200 considering the talent, but would cost the same today

Is there an explanation why films cost less today, it’s an area of inflation that has very much interested me. Did switching to digital really have that much of an effect.

It’s particularly apparent in action films. Die Hard 3 cost 100 million in 95,

I'm not an expert in film budgets but I feel they take more advantage of tax incentives maybe? I feel like I hear budgets as "after rebates" so if Australia for instance is covering 1/4 of the budget with tax credits the film in itself cost more.

It feels like $600m is now the "$300m" magic blockbuster mark that many of us cut our teeth on in the 90s/early 00s.

2-3 films a year get there. Still rarified air.

since ageless wonder Demi Moore is blowing up at the moment, worth noting 1990s GHOST was one of the biggest hits of all time when it opened in 1990.

Disclosure too, one of the worst films ever made adjusts to over 200, oh that cleavage!

Remember when she got a boob job for striptease, another terrible movie. She was nuts and tiotally crashed and burned after ghost.i. Give her credit , i did like gi Jane

I believe she got the bolt ons prior to Indecent Proposal.

In the early 90s she was dominating hubby Bruce at the box office. Then in 94/95 it switched - Bruce made a comeback with Pulp and followed up with DHwaV. Demi had one flop after another - Scarlett Letter, Juror, Striptease etc