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Avatar Re-Released in Theaters This Friday
And the re-release schedule of other high grossing films
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In case the DVD just isn’t enough Na’vi for you, Avatar will be re-released in select theaters this Friday, August 27. To date, Avatar has made $760 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo, good for 14th all-time, if we’re adjusting for inflation (and, indeed, we are).
By now it’s common practice for a movie that’s made hundreds of millions to be released in theaters after its original run. Here are the films that have done just that—and made more dough than Avatar:
1. Gone with the Wind
Original Release: 1939
Re-Release(s): 1947, 1954, 1961, 1967, 1971, 1989, 1998
Total Box Office: $1.6 billion
2. Star Wars
Original Release: 1977
Re-Release(s): 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1997
Total Box Office: $1.4 billion
3. The Sound of Music
Original Release: 1965
Re-Release(s): 1990
Total Box Office: $1.1 billion
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Original Release: 1982
Re-Release(s): 1985, 2002
Total Box Office: $1.1 billion
5. The Ten Commandments
Original Release: 1956
Re-release(s): 1966
Total Box Office: $1 billion
6. Titanic
Original Release: 1997
Re-Release(s): 2012 (planned)
Total Box Office: $1 billion
7. Jaws
Original Release: 1975
Re-Release(s): 1979
Total Box Office: $1 billion
8. Doctor Zhivago
Original Release: 1965
Re-Release(s): 1999
Total Box Office: $986 million
9. The Exorcist
Original Release: 1973
Re-Release(s): 2000
Total Box Office: $879 million
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Original Release: 1937
Re-Release(s): 1944, 1952, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1983, 1987, 1993
Total Box Office: $866 million
11. 101 Dalmatians
Original Release: 1961
Re-Release(s): 1969, 1979, 1985, 1991
Total Box Office: $794 million
12. The Empire Strikes Back
Original Release: 1980
Re-Release(s): 1981, 1982, 1997
Total Box Office: $780 million
13. Ben-Hur
Original Release: 1959
Re-Release(s): 1969
Total Box Office: $779 million