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Black Panther official movie thread (11/3/17)
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7 minutes ago, marvelcollector said:

Odd timing for a teaser trailer.

Well, since it is super to have someone posting cast interviews from two-three months ago I figured they would want to relive the entire experience.

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3 minutes ago, DeadOne said:

They just don't fully understand the Whos Whats and Whys of the posting hierarchy involved with the Comics related - Movies, TV, Video games subforum.

Oh, they do. It depends on what profile they are logged into. But you can set them straight.

:wink:

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54 minutes ago, marvelcollector said:

How exactly are the totals adjusted?

Titanic's adjustment is nearly double. Prices (CPI) haven't doubled since 1997.

When you are comparing such movies based on equal buying power of the USD, statisticians have created inflation calculators which factor in the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics charts. Sites like Box Office Mojo have created their own stats models, as that site tries to factor in varying ticket prices such as IMAX and 3-D. But the flaw with that is assuming all economic variables were the same across the ages.

So you are right. If you just go with straight dollars the differences even between a few years can be significant.

- Spider-Man (2002): $821,708,551 (2002 USD worldwide total)

- Spider-Man (2002): $1,132,153,604 (2018 USD worldwide total)

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1 hour ago, marvelcollector said:

How exactly are the totals adjusted?

Titanic's adjustment is nearly double. Prices (CPI) haven't doubled since 1997.

Put another way, Box Office Mojo calculates that while the general CPI hasn't doubled in the past 21 years, average movie ticket prices literally have...from $4.59 in 1997 to $9.18 today.

I can believe that.

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2 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

Put another way, Box Office Mojo calculates that while the general CPI hasn't doubled in the past 21 years, average movie ticket prices literally have...from $4.59 in 1997 to $9.18 today.

I can believe that.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) would actually account for something you just assumed was more than the CPI.

The CPI measures the change in prices paid by consumers for goods and services.

Of course cost of goods and services have drastically multiplied. Especially over decades.

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4 minutes ago, marvelcollector said:

The CPI since 1997 is 55%. That would put Titanic at about 1.02 billion.

It must be specifically movie ticket prices, as the previous poster stated.

CPI at 55% is an average of multiple goods and services. Some are going to be way higher. Some are going to be way lower. But in the combined average, those large variances get lost.

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