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Originally Posted by DamianJ
?The average cinema ticket price increased by 39 cents in 2010, consistent with the past few years, even as attendance to premium screening has increased (e.g. 3D),? says its new report on worldwide revenues. ?Moviegoing remains the most affordable entertainment option ? costing under $50 dollars for a family of four.?
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That is just the change from 2009 to 2010.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
Average cost of a movie ticket in 2000 $5.39. In 2010 $7.89.
The price of movies has gone up 68% in 10 years.
So they are making an average of 50 more movies per year, they have raised the price of a ticket 68% in the last 10 years and they are selling less tickets now than they did 10 years ago, yet when you do the cost of inflation/value of the dollar equivalence it means they only have about 9% more income now than they did 10 years ago.
I'm not an economic genius, but I would imagine that those extra 50 movies per year they are not releasing are not cheap. These box office numbers only show gross sales, not profit for the studios.
As I said, I don't think they are in danger of going anywhere anytime soon, but the trend of having to produce more to sell the same amount is not a good one.