Box Office Special: 1984 Hits
Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 5:00PM Rather than talk about this weekend's boring box office results (nothing new to see here beyond a big weekend for that new kill-the-trespassing-teenagers flick Don't Breathe) let's travel back to 1984 which was a hugely influential year for franchises of many kinds. What can the biggest hits tell us about the then and the now?
TOP TWENTY OF 1984
numbers adjusted for today's dollars via box office mojo
01 Ghostbusters $589.6
Two Oscar nods. Spawned 1 terrible sequel, two animated TV shows, and this year's reboot
02 Beverly Hills Cop $581.5
Led to two sequels, a TV remake, and a TV pilot that wasn't picked up. Beverly Hills Cop 4 has been in some stage of development for 20+ years and is still supposedly being made. We'll believe it when we see it.
