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i dont find movie tickets outside of big cities to be much more expensive. if anything, they're increasing slower than streaming costs.
Perhaps, but movie tickets today are more expensive than they were in 2019. Box Office dollars is a poor way to judge a movie's draw when compared to ticket count.
It's all marketing, they want to compare money because otherwise they'd have to talk about how a movie from the 1930s still holds the record for most tickets sold in the US.
Weren’t movies out much longer back then? I feel like the cycle to streaming is so fast now.
I'm surprised to see classic films so high on this list, but there's so many more people in the world today, so it's unsurprising to see modern movies at the top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_by_box_office_admissions
Man, the fast and the furious films sold more tickets than I would have assumed.