"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" looks ready to demolish box-office records when it comes out Friday, with advance ticket sales that are quadruple the previous record.
So it's a good time to look back at what are the highest-grossing movies ever. For this list, we looked at domestic box-office grosses adjusted for inflation, to see what old movies would have made in today's dollars, as calculated by Box Office Mojo. So there's no "Avatar" on this list.
The original 1977 "Star Wars" comes in high, but not quite first. You might be surprised by some of the other titles.
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10. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
Adjusted gross: $909,060,000
Unadjusted gross: $184,925,486
Walt Disney's first cel-animated feature-length film, about the princess and the Queen fearful of her beauty, is also the company's biggest hit in adjusted dollars.
9. "The Exorcist" (1973)
Adjusted gross: $922,397,100
Unadjusted gross: $232,906,145
The '70s horror film about a young girl who is possessed is widely regarded as the best in the genre. And at the time it came out, William Friedkin's masterpiece was by far the most terrifying thing around.
8. "Doctor Zhivago" (1965)
Adjusted gross: $1,035,289,700
Unadjusted gross: $111,721,910
The David Learn-directed epic starring British icons Alec Guinness and Julie Christie tells the story of a romance set against the backdrop of World War I.
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