@cornbredx: 41 million according to Box Office Mojo, but 35 according to The Numbers. It's usually best to go with Box Office Mojo, as they've always seemed more consistent with their numbers. I could be remembering wrong, but I swear that at one point The Numbers had Juno listed as having a budget of 100 million instead of 7.5 million.

For me, del Toro is pretty much a lock at this point. He won the DGA award, and in the history of the two awards, only seven people have ever won the DGA award and then not won Best Director at the Oscars (Ben Affleck being one of them).

Paul Thomas Anderson would be the least likely, if you look at how the DGA awards went, because if I'm not mistaken, he's the only nominee to also not be nominated for the DGA awards. As the two awards are pretty much voted on by the same people, I would say he'll probably come last, not that we'll ever see the order of the nominees.

Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (1929) should be on this list. It was the first time a multi-stage rocket was shown.

@karloss01: It really depends what sort of CGI they would go with. CGI can be incredibly expensive, and if they went for Tintin style (kind of photo realistic/cartoony) I could see it being very expensive. For comparison Warcraft cost $160 million, while Wall-E cost $180 million and came out 8 years earlier. Also it's not like Warcraft had any big name actors anyway.

@gstylzz: Far better show. As in light years ahead of Lost. Brilliantly written, acted, directed etc. For me, the only shows on the level of The Sopranos, are Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

@smashthestars: The interesting statistic that seems to be constantly swept under the rug. Is the fact that last year the domestic box office hit a 25 year low in terms of attendance, alongside having the worst summer for 22 years.

As far as I'm concerned there has only been two films in my lifetime that have really been gigantic record breakers, and they are Titanic (only two films have surpassed it's 97-98 gross), and Avatar (which surpassed Titanic by a billion, before Titanic's 3D re-release). Every other record breaker, and I think in some ways Avatar could be put in this bracket has been solely down to inflation and very little else.

@Xristophoros: Spot on analysis. It would be interesting to see how many tickets for Gone with the Wind you could buy for one ticket for Black Panther. I would probably say it would be close to the entire cinema. I know for a certainty that I paid £8.00 for a standard 3D ticket for Avatar. Yet to see Black Panther it would cost me £14.34, so in 9 years the ticket price has almost doubled.

I really wish they would start releasing ticket numbers, rather than just money made.

@ixidjfrizzixi: I've learnt that when films get near universal praise, it's best to go in with low expectations. I saw Civil War late, after everyone said it was the greatest movie since sliced bread. Yet I came out of it not seeing what the hype was all about. The only time I'd felt more disappointed was after reading Great Expectations.

@el_swanno: Lethal Weapon 2 was also released in the 80s.

@wicked_laugh: Demolition Man is brilliant, an absolute classic. Simon Fenix is still one of the best villians in the history of cinema.