Box Office Inflation
August 13, 2008
I haaaaaaaaate when people compare how much a movie makes now to “back then” based on inflation of ticket sales. They so nicely leave out the inflation of everything else as well! The price of a ticket has gone up with the inflation of actor salary, crew salary, and the budget for everything else that makes a movie a movie.
Perhaps if someone (not me!) did an accurate comparison on inflation across the board with movies, I’d be happier, but to say that The Dark Knight may pass up Star Wars in terms of dollars, but not in terms of inflation is such skewed bullshit. Star Wars today would not have the same budget back then and the same salary rates it was lucky enough to have…
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Sharp | August 13, 2008 at 12:38 am
What spurred this?
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Gotham Ghost | August 13, 2008 at 12:39 am
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000003/#ni0549833
It has now grossed $441.32 million, or about $20 million short of Star Wars’ achievement. However, it’s far behind the George Lucas classic when inflation is taken into account. If tickets in 1977, when Star Wars came out, had cost what they do today, the movie would have earned $1.23 billion — an amount The Dark Knight has no chance of equaling. (When adjusted for inflation the top film of all time is Gone With the Wind, which would have made $1.26 billion in today’s dollars.)