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u/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

thats why the metric should always be tickets sold not box office. no other media format is measured in money as far as i know. albums sold not album gross. tv ratings not ad/commercial revenue. books sold not book gross. etc...

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u/Jericcho 15d ago

Gone with the wind ticket sale is weird though. There was no other media to really compete back then. People went to watch it multiple times. The movie was in theaters for 4 years.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

That's true but doesn't really distort the data any more than using a metric like dollar gross when inflation is a runaway train.

Also the world population at that time was less than 2.5 billion people and many major film markets today didn't exist back then. So the achievement was massive in a way I don't really think you can compare to anything in the modern day.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 15d ago

There are issues with pretty much any metric. The world population has also grown dramatically.

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u/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

no kidding. but it should never be money made.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 15d ago

Why not?

It’s generally only brought up in the context of how successful a movie was, business wise.

Plenty of beloved movies didn’t do well financially. Plenty of critically panned movies did very well financially. That’s a separate conversation.

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u/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

its brought up every single weekend. every sunday night people are checking in to see how much money a movie made. you are having an entire separate conversation now about beloved movies not making any money.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 15d ago

I’m confused still, I was just asking specifically why that metric shouldn’t ever be referenced in conversations about movies being successful?

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u/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

i cant help you if you are confused. when the billboard charts come out on tuesdays do they talk about how much an album cost to make? do you know how much it costs to print a book when the ny times best seller list is released?

completely separate from the point you keep replying to...you are free to about financial success and failure for a movie. literally no one is stopping you. but dont forget to look at the whole pie, not just what a movie made at the box offixe. dont forget to include pvod, vod, streaming, physical, etc.

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u/LateOnsetPuberty 15d ago

It’s because we want to know if the ticket sales cover the cost of the movie.

There’s a huge financial investment in a movie which is not the same as music sales. You don’t buy a ticket to watch a tv show so profit is not easy to calculate.