For your film-trivia edification, the new list of the 10 biggest U.S. box-office hits of all time, adjusted for inflation (from Screen Digest):
1. Gone with the Wind, 1939 – $1,262,779,000
2. Star Wars, 1977 – $1,113,248,000
3. The Sound of Music, 1965 – $890,096,000
4. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 – $ 886,590,000
5. The Ten Commandments, 1956 – $818,750,000
6. Titanic, 1997 – $802,162,000
7. Jaws, 1975 – $800,493,000
8. Doctor Zhivago, 1965 – $775,847,000
9. The Exorcist, 1973 – $691,054,000
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 – $681,250,000
The same, not adjusted for inflation (from IMDb):
1. Titanic, 1997 -, $600,779,824
2. Star Wars, 1977 – $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2, 2004 -$436,471,036
4. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 – $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, 1999 – $431,065,444
6. Spider-Man, 2002 – $403,706,375
7. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, 2005 – $379,392,611
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 – $377,019,252
9. Spider-Man 2, 2004 – $373,377,893
10. The Passion of the Christ, 2004 – $370,270,943
All of which hopefully makes Michael Bay feel even worse.
Meanwhile, the best film of the summer has not quite hit $3 million.