Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-1895174-20130516025456

I originally said "it varies way too much to say that the domestic gross is usually roughly 50%". Now, if the standard deviation is large, that statement can be true, even if the average is exactly 50%. Removing the two films where the domestic gross makes up the largest percentage of the overall gross, it only drops the average to 47% domestic. That's still roughly 50%. And plotting the info into a box plot, there's no outliers. Slightly skewed, but no outliers. Then why are you adjusting for inflation? And requiring a gross that is versatile enough to do so... Because it makes Punisher: War Zone's gross even more depressing. And because it adds the tidbit about Elektra.

Also because maybe it's unfair to compare the grosses of two films released more than two decades apart without adjusting for ticket price inflation. If I were comparing it to, say, Iron Man, that wouldn't be necessary. No, I don't believe that you're the only one making this choice. But you did do it. Well, it's the American industry standard. It's an American website (it's not the world). They're Domestic grosses. I don't have a problem with you talking about Domestic grosses. You talk about it like I have a choice. These are the numbers available to me. And considering the site is the leader in this, it's the industry standard, regardless of whether it's an American site or not. It you have a problem with this, take it up with them. I have a problem with you (and BOM for that matter) talking about grosses (in general) but leaving out the international values. That is incorrect. No one left them out. Box Office Mojo didn't. Neither did I. In fact, the headline on the website as I'm writing this is "'Iron Man 3' nearing $1 billion worldwide..." We just can't adjust international grosses for inflation.