Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-1895174-20130519013128

I'm not trying to say it's more remarkable, but it's equally as significant. It is quite remarkable that 50% of the gross is from America, but there's another 50% out there. That's significant. Not really, no. I've already been over why it's better to use a single country's statistics opposed to a general, worldwide one. Where do they do that? Oh, that's right. America. It's just the way the numbers are treated... in America. And the movies are made in America. American standards are worldwide standards whether you like it or not. 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. So why do you care? 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. Bollywood's a bad example. It's a very large, highly-localized film industry. Of course they don't care how well American films do in the US because they don't care much for American films anyway.

Hollywood cares a lot about how well a film does in the US because it's the largest market for them. More franchises are killed for a bad domestic release than a good international one. There's signs that's changing, but so far the Resident Evil franchise is the only one that's stayed alive only because of how well it does in the international market (and even then, it's most recent film, which was tailor-made for the international market, underperformed, so we'll see how long that lasts). I didn't say Hollywood should care how much money they make from India specifically, but they should care how much money they make. Of course they do, but I was providing a comparison between two films. When drawing a comparison, it's best to limit the number of variables.

Do you even remember what got you upset in the first place? It was that I didn't list the international numbers first, and now you're trying to pass it off like I didn't list them at all. Nope. Surprisingly, America isn't the world. America's not the world, but it does lead the world in this, so American standards are global standards if you like or not. It isn't if we're talking about more localized film industries like Bollywood or Nollywood, but we're not. 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. I did read what you said. You were upset that they didn't say the daily numbers were domestic, and you chalked it up to some ra-ra nationalistic crap. The problem isn't with the website, it's with you not knowing how to read it. 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. It's okay, you've assumed wrong countless other times.