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Originally Posted by GatorB
Hey Einstien box office is higher because tickets cost more. Try looking at the site and see TICKETS sold. They peaked in 2002 when 1.575 billion tickets were sold. Number has been going down steadily and in 2008 only 1.341 billion were sold. That's the lowest amount since 1996.
The actors salaries is a SMALL % of a movies cost and if less movies get made it isn't the Hollywood millionaires you despise that are going to be hurting financially it's thousands of regular joes that work behind the scenes that don't get paid millions that are going to get hurt. But I suppose you think movies make themselves as if by magic. Also just because a movies makes $400 million doesn't mean the studios makes that much. The studios split the money with the movie theaters.Now you'd think a movie like Transformers 2 which made $400 mil actually made lots of money for the studio, well not really. First of all it cost $200 mil to make. Then you typically add in 15% for promotion so that's $230 mil. Now is made $402 million in the US. Studio gets half, so that's $201 million. So actually in the US that movie LOST $29 million If it wasn't for foreign box office the movie wouldn't have made ANY money.
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To be fair... we have peaks and valleys going all the way back to 1980.. just because they are down a little for a few years, means nothing.
2009, we already beat last year, we already passed 1996, and are on par to beat the previous 5 years... end of the year releases will make or break it.
The number of increased releases is re-released shows, even only showing in one theater, it's marked as a release. The growth in $1 theaters, those are releases that make far less average income and really add to the numbers of off crap movies to watch.