Which film has made the most money? The answer depends on the specifics of how you perform the calculation. Which movie made the most money for its studio or producers, or which one made the most money relative to its budget? Both methods are right, depending on what you're looking for. However, there is a third method that considers a movie's revenue throughout the years and decades. The greatest ever example of this factor is still the one that has been around for more than eighty years.

The world's highest-grossing motion picture

The 1939 Victor Fleming movie Gone With The Wind, which is based on Margaret Mitchell's novel, is considered to be among the best and most influential movies ever produced. The movie, which featured Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland, was set during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction period. It was one of the costliest movies ever made at the time, with a $3.9 million budget. But despite its large budget, the picture was a smash success, bringing in several times its budget with a total gross of $39 million. But there was more to it than that. Over the course of years, the movie was re-released several times, bringing in over $165 million more.

The Guinness Book of World Records placed its overall inflation-adjusted box office gross at about $3.44 billion in 2014. That would be about $4 billion nowadays. The two highest-grossing movies ever made are Avengers: Endgame ($2.7 billion) and Avatar ($2.9 billion), and this would make it even more popular.

Why did there never be a sequel?

In spite of its epoch-defining popularity, Gone With The Wind never had a sequel. Margaret Mitchell, the author, received a deluge of requests for a sequel to the book, but she stated that she had left Scarlett and Rhett "to their ultimate fate." The author stood up against requests for a sequel until she passed away in 1948. Her brother, who was in charge of her assets, approved a sequel in 1975 that MGM and Universal Studios would co-produce. The agreement fell through since MGM didn't like the script that Anne Edwards wrote.

In the end, in 1994, there was a sort of continuation in the guise of a television miniseries. Based on Alexandra Ripley's novel, which is a follow-up to Mitchell's book, the series was named Scarlett.

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