"Intentionally Anachronistic" Movies

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Films that intentionally mix elements from different time periods. This can be done for many reasons, including simply for laughs, as in Your Highness; or it can be used to create a world that is both similar and alien (Brazil); or the use of modern elements in an otherwise historical movie is used to point out this history is repeating itself today (Walker); or sometimes it is just purely for style (Moulin Rouge).

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Release
Date
TitleProduction
Budget
Opening
Weekend
Domestic
Box Office
Worldwide
Box Office
Dec 7, 2018Mary Queen of Scots $25,000,000$194,777$16,648,499$48,481,754
Dec 18, 2015As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume… $4,502$6,669
May 30, 2014A Million Ways to Die in Th… $40,000,000$16,797,385$42,720,965$86,778,557
May 10, 2013The Great Gatsby $190,000,000$50,085,184$144,840,419$353,497,733
Dec 25, 2012Django Unchained $100,000,000$30,122,888$162,805,434$449,841,566
Apr 8, 2011Your Highness $50,000,000$9,360,020$21,596,445$26,121,638
Aug 21, 2009Inglourious Basterds $70,000,000$38,054,676$120,774,594$316,802,281
Oct 20, 2006Marie Antoinette $40,000,000$5,361,050$15,962,471$60,862,471
Apr 1, 2005Sin City $40,000,000$29,120,273$74,103,820$158,527,918
May 18, 2001Moulin Rouge $53,000,000$167,540$57,386,369$179,199,536
May 11, 2001A Knight’s Tale $41,000,000$16,511,391$56,083,966$100,622,586
Dec 24, 1999Titus $22,313$1,921,350$2,920,616
Dec 29, 1995Richard III $9,200,000$91,915$2,684,904$4,199,334
Sep 9, 1994Wagons East $4,358,940$4,358,940
Dec 4, 1987Walker $91,242$257,043$257,043
Dec 18, 1985Brazil $15,000,000$30,099$9,929,135$9,934,484
Aug 17, 1973Jesus Christ Superstar $24,477,615$24,593,103


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