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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Mar 30, 2017 22:40:41 GMT
I've been looking at the box office figures for the Bond film series and was struck by the fact that Live and Let Die and Spectre had very similar adjusted for inflation figures.
However the world population was considerably smaller in the early 70's (~ half) and even just considering slightly smaller rates in the west, the US population has still increased > 50% in the interim period.
Therefore it seems clear that Live and Let Die in reality was actually the stronger performer.
There would obviously be other factors besides just population increase to factor - I was thinking the rise of multiplexes, real term increases in ticket prices, emerging markets, etc - but what I was wondering is if anyone has seen any websites / data which has made a stab at trying to model these year on year variables to give something more valuable than just the inflation-adjusted figures?
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Post by london777 on Mar 31, 2017 11:46:39 GMT
An important factor must be that people have far more options as to how to waste their time these days. Going back in time to my childhood in the immediate postwar years, my parents who were working-class, but not poor, went to the cinema two or three time each week. By the seventies they never went, being glued to the TV screen. You can extend that graph to this decade with the use of IT based entertainment.
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