Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-3317214-20130519010003

Not really, no. I mean, there's about 200 countries out there, and one that represents less than 5% of the world population making up roughly 50% of the gross is statistically significant.

You say that like I'm making an argument. It's just the way the numbers are treated. The people who calculate the statistic and the people whose livelihoods are determined by them treat the American gross just as importantly if not moreso than the worldwide gross. That's definitely changing, but it's not there yet.

If you have a problem with it, you can take it up with Box Office Mojo and the major studios. Where do they do that? Oh, that's right. America. It's just the way the numbers are treated... in America.

We've already established that I don't have a problem with how Americans use their domestic gross for calculating statistics, measuring success, adjusting for inflation, etc. So, I have no interest in taking that up with BOM and other studios.

But thankyou for refering me to them. I didn't realise from your last few comments that I could, in fact, do that if I had a problem with the way they run things.

Because that's Bollywood. Last time I checked, Marvel's never made a film through Bollywood.

But on that, I don't get your point. If Bollywood doesn't care about how much money their films make in the US, why should Hollywood care about how much money their films make in India? Okay, I'll elaborate.

I didn't say Marvel made a film through Bollywood. And what I said applies to any country. And you missed the second part of what I said: Indian people aren't overly concerned by how much money American films make in the US.

So, in other words. Indian people don't care about how much money anything makes in the US, because it's just not relevant. And that's why using American grosses, to the extent you say the American film industry does, isn't a worldwide concept. The rest of the world doesn't care.

Now, there's a difference between caring how much a film made in some other country (even if that country dominates the film industry, and despite having less than 5% of the world's population, account for 50% of the gross), and caring how much a film made all up. I didn't say Hollywood should care how much money they make from India specifically, but they should care how much money they make.

Again, it's a worldwide standard by being an American industry standard. Nope. Surprisingly, America isn't the world.

Because they don't track international daily numbers. American theater chains are the only ones who report daily. If you have a problem with it, take it up with your national theater chains. And the national theater chains in every other country that isn't the United States since BOM can't do anything with just one foreign country's daily numbers. I understand that, and that's not the point. Again, meaning that I have no reason to take it up with theatre chains. Thanks again for trying to help, but you wouldn't have to put so much effort in refering me to these people, if you actually read what I said. My problem is not with the theatre chains. Or with daily tracking. It's with BOM not telling me that their numbers are domestic.

Also, you do realize that the statistic I provided on Punisher: War Zone is the international statistic, right? Sorry. I didn't realise that. I saw you guys throw a lot of numbers out there, and I assumed the statistic was domestic. Sorry for accusing you. But I'm still accusing BOM.