Why do blockbuster movies like Avatar and End Game have there success measured in terms of money made instead of tickets sold, wouldn’t that make it easier to compare to older movies without accounting for today’s dollar vs a dollar 30 years ago?

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Why do blockbuster movies like Avatar and End Game have there success measured in terms of money made instead of tickets sold, wouldn’t that make it easier to compare to older movies without accounting for today’s dollar vs a dollar 30 years ago?

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Simply looking at tickets sold doesn’t account for each movie costing a different amount to make. If one movie cost $500,000 dollars to make and the other cost $2 million to make and each sold the same number of tickets which equated to $1 million in ticket sales the first movie was pretty successful and the second movie was a failure. Basically, equivalent ticket sales does not mean equivalent success.

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