This is essentially the same list as the "adjusted for inflation" gross list I posted earlier which just takes estimated tickets multiplied by 2015 avg ticket price.
The skew specifically is that there was a lower deviation within the average ticket price before all the fancy stuff (rumble seats, 3D, IMAX, UltraAVX, etc.), so that figure was more representative of the actual cost to see a movie, and the 2015 average is unnecessarily skewed high regardless of inflation.
Then population skew. Assuming JW's run ended today at roughly the same number of tickets sold as Thunderball... the population of the US has almost doubled since 1965, so is JW therefore less impressive? Well yeah, to some extent right? But there has been a significant increase in the forms of alternate entertainment to cinema, which surely skews it back.... but it's impossible to quantify this.
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Yeah. No way for people to wait and watch gone with the wind on their 7.1 surround sound 100" projector streamed on Netflix. Totally different ball game.
Yup. Gone with the Wind's release date was declared a state holiday in Georgia. Hitler had just strolled into Poland a few months prior but the movie is the only thing that really mattered stateside. It was released when TV did not exist, was re-released 8 times, took half a decade to reach its total, blah blah blah...
Normalizing these lists is impossible, so all there's left to do is just acknowledge the fact that JW has made $1.5B worldwide and that's a disgustingly large amount of money in absolute terms regardless of anything else.
Yeah. No way for people to wait and watch gone with the wind on their 7.1 surround sound 100" projector streamed on Netflix. Totally different ball game.
As someone who loves movies but HATES theaters, this x1000
Unsurprisingly, a sequel has now been announced by Universal, and it will be released on June 22nd, 2018. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are both confirmed to return, while Steven Spielberg will executive produce. Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is going to co-write alongside Derek Connolly, but there's currently no word on who will take the helm of this sequel.
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At least they waited for the movie to release and be successful first. Much better than the number of 'planned trilogies' where the first movie bombs and we never hear from them again.
Is this really all that different than a superhero movie though? Mindless action and special effects. Endless sequel/reboot. No real plot, characters, or dialouge. Sci-fi/fantasy element that could never happen. Mindless summer escapism.
This is a superhero movie without actors in skin tight suits.
Not to rain on either. There's the occasional good superhero movie with good characters and a story relevant to the human experience. Just that I find it a weird statement. This is for all intents and purposes, another superhero reboot movie. Only the dinos are the supeheroes.
Comic book movies have to start having the bad guys win a few in order to make it more interesting.
Sure, it might mean the end of some good characters, but hell, maybe it's timie that Cyclops or the Hulk drop dead in their respective universes. How much longer do you think Jennifer Lawrence will want to keep doing the action movies? Maybe she gets bumped off as well.
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Comic book movies have to start having the bad guys win a few in order to make it more interesting.
Sure, it might mean the end of some good characters, but hell, maybe it's timie that Cyclops or the Hulk drop dead in their respective universes. How much longer do you think Jennifer Lawrence will want to keep doing the action movies? Maybe she gets bumped off as well.
This did actually happen, but it was terrible so they retconned it.
