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Old 05-15-2019, 10:50 AM   #104
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Originally Posted by Fuzz View Post
Does anyone track ticket sales, or just dollars? Seems the most important factor to popularity would be number of tickets, not how much it made, considering the vast global diversity in costs.
I agree, but the counter is that there are more movies released today and they get shorter runs; there are very few re-releases anymore since they go to other outlets; there are many multiplexes today so a film can be on far more screens; and so on. It's just very tough to get a consistent metric.

But here: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/ you can see there is a record that is "inflation adjusted" that attempts to bring the disparity into line.

In general, I agree with you. Using the dollar value of tickets is an almost impossible way to compare across a time frame. Number of tickets over the fist 3 months after release (or some time frame) would be a better metric. But it won't happen so long as marketing want to be able to make everything a new record, facts are secondary.
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