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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:58 am
by mlrg
In my country (Portugal), it's 6 euros at any time of day, any day of the week. That's around 8.5 $. In comparison, minimum wage here is 450 euros per month (630 $).
Pretty expensive for the majority of the population...
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:01 pm
by Zahveed
The highest here is 9 in the evening, but some of them are going down in price. I usually pay 7 bucks, but I go in the day time.
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:02 pm
by OscarGuy
Our matinees are in the 4.50 to 5.50 range here...evening shows are around 9.00...I imagine it's even less in smaller markets...
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:18 pm
by danfrank
What amazes me about this chart is that they use $7.18 as the average ticket price for 2009. Where I live (Oakland CA), even the bargain matinees are significantly more than that, and I'm pretty sure that bargain matinee tickets don't account for the majority of tickets sold. Are ticket prices really that much less in non-urban areas?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:01 pm
by Zahveed
OscarGuy wrote:You say that as if it wasn't probably already in the planning stages.
I believe an article on Avatar mentioned this, but still. I'm telling you to imagine: how much bigger could it get?
Speaking of Avatar, does anyone think it could pull in these numbers? If it's as stunning as everyone is saying, then it could pull in the audiances and probably get one of those ten picture slots.
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:46 pm
by Sabin
Kinda interesting that no's 1 - 9 were all Best Picture nominees and no. 10 was the recipient of an Honorary Award.
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:11 pm
by OscarGuy
You say that as if it wasn't probably already in the planning stages.
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:53 am
by Zahveed
Imagine if Titanic were re-released... in Threeee Deeeee!!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:14 pm
by Big Magilla
As far as I know The Sting was never re-released, but it was in theatres a long time.
Gone With the Wind and practically all the Disney films have been re-released numerous times, but in the days before the sale to major studio films to TV (1958) it was common practice to re-release major films in theatres every few years.
Even after the TV sale, it was still big business to reissue major titles that hadn't yet been sold to TV. The Song of Bernadette enjoyed a huge success in the late 50s. Double bills of The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators; The King and I and Carousel; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and Three Coins in the Fountain were hugely successful in the early 60s as was the re-issue of Giant even in the appalling, faded condition it had reached by 1960.
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:01 pm
by Penelope
The one thing about these lists to keep in mind is that several of these titles were re-issued, if not once than several times (as indicated by the ^); this is indicated accurately for films such as Gone with the Wind (re-issued practically every decade since 1939) and 101 Dalmations (re-issued at least 4 times since 1961), but not for Doctor Zhivago, which I KNOW has been re-issued at least 3 times--I saw it on the big screen in a 1992 re-issue; as well as The Sound of Music, re-issued at least 3 times as well, and Ben-Hur and possibly even The Sting (Magilla might know if it was re-issued). Thus, these are cummulative receipts, not one-time only receipts (which is the case with Titanic).
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:24 pm
by Big Magilla
Greg wrote:The biggest surprises on the list for me are Doctor Zhivago, 101 Dalmations, and The Sting.
Nah. They were huge hits. The one that always surprises me when I see these kinds of lists is #89, 195's House of Wax, which made more money than #90, 1954's Rear Window.
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:10 pm
by Greg
Box Office Mojo did a calculation of the all-time-top-grossing films in inflation-adjusted dollars:
Here's the top 15:
1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,450,680,400 $198,676,459 1939^
2 Star Wars Fox $1,278,898,700 $460,998,007 1977^
3 The Sound of Music Fox $1,022,542,400 $158,671,368 1965
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $1,018,514,100 $435,110,554 1982^
5 The Ten Commandments Par. $940,580,000 $65,500,000 1956
6 Titanic Par. $921,523,500 $600,788,188 1997
7 Jaws Uni. $919,605,900 $260,000,000 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $891,292,600 $111,721,910 1965
9 The Exorcist WB $793,883,100 $232,671,011 1973^
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $782,620,000 $184,925,486 1937^
11 101 Dalmatians Dis. $717,405,900 $144,880,014 1961^
12 The Empire Strikes Back Fox $704,937,000 $290,475,067 1980^
13 Ben-Hur MGM $703,640,000 $74,000,000 1959
14 Return of the Jedi Fox $675,346,600 $309,306,177 1983^
15 The Sting Uni. $640,045,700 $156,000,000 1973
The biggest surprises on the list for me are Doctor Zhivago, 101 Dalmations, and The Sting.
Here's the complete list:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm