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Originally Posted by m21sniper
Hollywood finished 2009 with $10.6 billion domestically, easily surpassing the previous record of $9.7 billion in 2007, according to Hollywood.com.
Factoring in today's higher admission prices, the year was strong but not a modern record-breaker for number of tickets sold.
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In Hollywood's glory years of the 1930s and '40s, before television eroded the movie audience, estimated movie attendance ran as high as 4 billion some years.
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I wish they'd only publish the number of tickets sold... not dollars. That way you'd have a fair comparison with other movies from the past. It's easy to make current movies' dollar figures surpass a movie from five or more years ago... they raise ticket prices so often.
Tallying number of tickets would also level the playing field another way... tickets sold at matinee prices would be on a level playing field with non-matinee tickets.
One more... I assume ticket prices in different countries vary somewhat.