Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-1895174-20130520190348

Whether it is better or not, is beside the point. There's a significant amount of the gross (roughly 50%) outside of the domestic gross. That much is irrefutable. Just not statistically so. At least not in a good way.

I've already been over countless times why it's better to base a comparison off one country's statistic. You clearly have to get out more. In many cases, American standards are worldwide standards. But definitely not in this case. No country takes note of the amount of gross a film by made in the US, other than the US. And going by your earlier statistic, this means that, although your domestic values are useful and the American industry standard, over 95% of the population of the world don't care about them. Most if not all countries track their own domestic numbers, particularly when they have their own national film industry. You have this odd assumption that something has to "be the world" in order to set a worldwide standard, which is a wrong on several accounts. The American film industry dominates the global film industry, making the American standards the worldwide standards by default.

If you have a problem with it, stop watching American films.

Now, so far, you've been trying to disprove this point just by claiming it's wrong. Because we're talking about American films in an American dominated industry. But if what I'm saying isn't true, then actually try and prove to me that other countries care about US domestic grosses. They don't, but other countries don't produce American films. And the only individual country the studios care about how much a film grosses is the United States. Like I said, more franchises have been killed by a bad domestic release than save by a good international one. Not upset - Disappointed. Not just daily numbers - All of the tracking ones from Daily to Yearly, and all of the different indices. I didn't chalk it up to nationalistic crap. I just mentioned that it didn't tell me that the numbers were domestic. There's no problem with me reading it, there's literally no indication that the numbers are domestic. There's no indication the numbers are domestic because they don't have to tell anyone who understands how to read the site. And since the indices are all there because they compare films' grosses, it is best to go off one country's.

If you have a problem with it, tell your national theater chains to start reporting numbers daily instead of weekly.

Well that's just not true. You assumed an international statistic I provided was a domestic one, that was incorrect.

You assumed neither Box Office Mojo nor myself offered international statistics, that was incorrect.

You assumed Box Office Mojo didn't make international statistics more available because they don't care to do so, that was incorrect.

You assumed 48% wasn't roughly 50%, that was incorrect.

You assumed something has to "be the world" in order to set a worldwide standard, that was incorrect.

You assumed a statistic bogged down with countless variables is better to base a comparison off of than one with significantly fewer variables, that was incorrect.