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title: Cinema of the United States text: based in and around the 30 Mile Zone in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of a film grammar. Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. The major film studios of Hollywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful and most ticket selling movies in the world, such as "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "The Sound of Music" (1965), "The Godfather" (1972), "Jaws" (1975), "Star Wars" (1977), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), "Jurassic Park" (1993), title: Epic film text: cited as helping to revive the genre, grossed $658 million domestically and over $2.1 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of all-time behind the 2009 film "Avatar", another epic which grossed $2.7 billion worldwide. If inflation is taken into account, then the historical epic "Gone with the Wind" becomes the highest-grossing film ever in the United States. Adjusted for inflation it earned the equivalent of $1.6 billion in the United States alone. Adjusted for ticket price inflation, the science fiction/fantasy epic "Star Wars" stands at number 2, with an inflated gross of $1.4 billion in the United States. title: Star Wars (film) text: before losing it again the following year to "Titanic". In total, the film has earned $775,398,007 worldwide (including $460,998,007 in North America alone). Adjusted for inflation, it has earned over $2.5 billion worldwide at 2011 prices, making it the most successful franchise film of all time. According to "Guinness World Records", the film ranks as the third-highest-grossing film when adjusting for inflation; at the North American box office, it ranks second behind "Gone with the Wind" on the inflation-adjusted list. The film was met with critical acclaim upon its release. In his 1977 review, Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" title: Avengers: Infinity War text: be available at a later point. "Avengers: Infinity War" grossed $678.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.369 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.048 billion. It became the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, as well as the highest-grossing film of 2018, the highest-grossing MCU film, and the highest-grossing superhero film. Its worldwide opening weekend of $640.5 million is the biggest of all time, beating "The Fate of the Furious" (2017) $541.9 million. It was the fastest film to make $1 billion at the worldwide box office, doing so in 11 days to eclipse title: Jaws (film) text: million of gross revenue; it supplanted "The Godfather", which had earned $145 million in rentals. "Jaws" was the highest-grossing film of all time until "Star Wars", which debuted two years later. "Star Wars" surpassed "Jaws" for the U.S. record six months after its release and set a new global record in 1978. , it is the 204th-highest-grossing film of all time with $470.7 million worldwide, and the 66th-highest domestically with a total North American gross of $260 million. Adjusted for inflation, "Jaws" has earned almost $2 billion worldwide at 2011 prices and is the second-most successful franchise film after "Star