Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-1895174-20130515083258

Nah, it varies way too much to say that the domestic gross is usually roughly 50% of the gross. The average Marvel movie makes 48.248% of its gross in the domestic market. That's roughly 50%. And even if it were a heck of a lot less, that's still one country controlling a large plurality of the market. International grosses can be adjusted for inflation, just a heck of a lot less accurately I wouldn't trust a stat that advertises itself as "a lot less accurate". Besides, keeping track of the inflation rates of the nearly two-hundred different countries is quite difficult to keep up with. And borders change, so you'd have to keep track of what theaters in particular are selling tickets. Maybe people in Montenegro liked X-Men more than people in the rest of Serbia? The international grosses shouldn't not count towards the box office gross. Does anyone say they shouldn't? That's why I also offered the international numbers. They're just less versatile. I really don't like not counting all of the gross towards the gross, you know? Take it up with Box Office Mojo. Americans aren't the only ones to watch movies, and they're not the only ones to make them either. And who else watches those movies is never consistent, which makes it a bad statistic to base a comparison off of. Just think about what two movies I was comparing - there was still a Cold War going on when Howard the Duck was released. And sometimes films will have their releases pulled in many countries if they've underperformed elsewhere. For example, Green Lantern never released in China, one of the biggest markets for American films internationally.

Oh yeah, and we've only been talking about American-made films. So there's that. But if this were a Miyazaki film, I would have no trouble using the Japanese numbers. Just not an international one.