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Originally Posted by Blazed
If your just counting american box office you never mentioned that, most a films money comes from outside of america so worldwide sales is obviously more important...
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Well the $238 million I mentioned was the US take. So I just assumed that logically one would understand I was talking American box office. Color me silly.
As far as worldwide sales. As I said, who cares. You are concerned with profitablility and a movie that makes $150 million could actually bring in less profit than one that made $80 million. In terms of a movie's money actually most comes from DVD purcahses, rentals, PPV and cable deals so should we count those numbers too? I think not.
In terms of record only US matters. Foriegn box office was nothing before a dozen years ago. Most movies got limited foriegn release to so to throw that in is disingenuous. For example Indiana Jones 4 has made 57% of it's box office from non-US markets. The original Raiders only 37% came from foreign box office. I like comparing apples to apples.