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Originally Posted by Ansur
I did. That's how I came up with 2.4bil for Avatar to match it. GWtW sold a little over 202mil tickets in its 1939 run when prices were averaged at about $0.95/ticket.
But for profitability, the production and marketing budget for Avatar was about $460mil. The company gets between 50-60% of the ticket sales, so they needed it to make $760-920mil to get profitable. GWtW had a total budget of about $4.9mil and took in over $400mil worldwide.
However you look at it, Avatar has raked in about $450mil in profit for the studio, plus the theaters are making good money from it. That's more than the gross of some successful movies.
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Avatar is a massive success, nobody's arguing that, we're just kicking around whether it could be seen as more or less successful than other massive successes. It doesn't really matter in the greater scheme of things but it's interesting to think about culturally.
As an aside though, I don't get where the 2.4bil comes from. GWTW's adjusted is $1,485,028,000. That's saying that by present day's average ticket prices GWTW would have made that much money. Avatar is operating in the present day already so it doesn't really need adjusting (although the figures show a slight one). Doesn't that basically mean that to top GWTW Avatar needs to make
only $1,485,028,001? Or did you factor in the fact that 3D charges more than average and that's where the extra billion comes from?
I mean, this adjusted list seems to be actually one of the things Spooky was asking for, it's rankings based on tickets sold. It doesn't factor in profitability, nor the fact that 3D tickets cost more as far as I can tell.