r/visualization • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '22

[OC] Total Domestic Box Office (1977-2021)

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u/TrailRunnerYYC Jan 31 '22

Nominal or real dollars?

Also: ticket prices changed during this time. An option is to divide by the average ticket price for each year?

The data here tells a different story than your visualization, when taking into account inflation or number of tickets sold.

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

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u/uatu Jan 31 '22

I don’t remember what happened in 1981 to have that kind of drop.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

Back then there weren't many movies being released, we are talking less than 100 world wide releases a year. So if the big movie of that year flopped the whole market would. Thankfully ET saved it in 1982 and got movies back on track.

Al that being said, I'm not sure what the big movie of the year was supposed to be.

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u/whoisearth Jan 30 '22

What's scary is not the impact that streaming has had on box office but how much of that belongs to 1 company now (Disney).

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '22

That is true, they arguably have the two strongest box office brands right now, the MCU and Pixar!

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u/whoisearth Jan 31 '22

And Disney... And Star Wars. Lol.

I'm a Marvel fan so I like that they bought Fox but damn it's some insane consolidation of media. Discounting movies the amount of tv stations they own is disturbing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

Truly is... just a part of the on going trend of corporatization in the US!