Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-1895174-20130517194545

Well, I'll trust you've done the maths. I certainly can't be bothered to. But that still means that there's roughly 50% of the gross outside of the domestic market. One country representing as much of the gross as the rest of the world combined doesn't seem to be a big deal to you. I know adjusting for inflation is useful. You're the one that said it wasn't worth doing. No, I said adjusting the international numbers for inflation isn't worth doing because of all the variables involved. When you want to draw a meaningful comparison between two sets of data, there need to be as little variables involved as possible. Well there are other numbers available to you, as you said. And I provided them all. It's an American inustry standard. Not a worldwide thing. Considering how large the American movie industry dominates the global movie industry, American standards are worldwide standards. Or do you have a problem that opera terms are in Italian? If you're talking about the gross, it includes the whole gross, unless you've mentioned that you're talking about a specific country. This is what I meant by "leaving out the international values" when talking about grosses. Again, no one left out international grosses, and the domestic gross was clearly labelled as a domestic gross. For example, the statement "The Avengers grossed $623 million" is incorrect. What is correct is to say "The Avengers grossed $1.5 billion" or "The Avengers grossed $623 million in the US". No one said the former. That's my beef. Forget about the rest of it, I just want you to tell me when you're talking American numbers. And for the record BOM should probably make that a little clearer, and I probably will take that up with them. I did tell you when I was talking American numbers. The sentence started with "On the domestic front, ..." Box Office Mojo makes it clear as well.