Re:60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thou...
by kwamenum86 on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:21AM
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Contemporary films will always have higher box office grosses because of inflation. The number of ticket sales is a better figure to use for comparison. Unfortunately that figure is rarely if ever reported.
Re:60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thou...
by froo on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:27AM
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The number of ticket sales is a better figure to use for comparison
...which if you check the article I linked is also reported.
Quote:
"An increase in ticket prices also helped boost January's box office. The average ticket price was $7.29 last month, up from $7.18 a year ago. But attendance surged in spite of the higher cost. Audiences bought 141 million movie tickets in January, up 16% from the 121 million sold during the same month last year."
Re:60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thou...
by nop on Friday May 08, 2009 @03:10AM
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It might be interesting to know that there's a Swedish study from 2008 that showed no significant change in ticket sales over the past 15 years. The study also showed people go less frequently to the movies but that's being weighted up by more people going. (It's in Swedish: http://www.sfi.se/Documents/Övriga%20rapporter/SOM-undersökn... sorry ^^)
The technology has advanced from mostly bittorrent instead of gnutella based networks.
The film industry is producing arguably better blockbusters (The Dark Knight vs Signs?) and are making more money than before with this year being one of the biggest years on record, even during a recession.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boxoffice2-2009feb02,0...
Mediadefender are now involved in a case where they DOS'd legitimate servers.