Quote Originally Posted by carole View Post
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I was wrong about the popularity of it here, it is doing well boxed 10 million so far.

There is a little bit of kiwi in a lot of movies these days lol.
Glad you brought this up! Some of the critics were/have always brought this point up about sales and money when a new film debuts.

Let's say that a movie in 1985 makes 12 million dollars during it's run.

(Let's throw out inflation and all the other factors?)

And lets set the ticket price @ 6 dollars. So we get a 2 million people to see the movie.

Let's take the same 12 mil and apply that to Avatar.


Now, ticket prices are 12 bucks- and higher for the Imax and 3D movie houses.


Only one million people will see it.

I have seen some sites that have compared box office numbers for a 1985 flick and a current release, adjusted for inflation and ticket prices.

So, even tho AVATAR is approaching all-time box office sales? When you take into consideration the factors involved? It makes more money, but less people see it.

I just typed in some keywords....

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm