Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-3317214-20130517161435

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.

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.

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.

I know adjusting for inflation is useful. You're the one that said it wasn't worth doing.

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.

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.

Well there are other numbers available to you, as you said.

It's an American inustry standard. Not a worldwide thing.

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.

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".

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.