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Despite Piracy Claims, North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion In 2016 (variety.com)
Slashdot reader rudy_wayne writes: Despite constant claims of losing billions of dollars to "piracy", the North American box office closed out 2016 with $11.4 billion in ticket sales. That marks a new record for the industry, bypassing the previous record of $11.1 billion that was established in 2015.
Disney had four of the top five highest-grossing films, including "Finding Dory," the year's top film with $486.3 million. "When holdovers are taken into account, Disney had six of the year's ten highest-grossing releases, a group that includes Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which debuted in 2015," reports Variety. Other top films include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($408.2 million), Captain America: Civil War ($408.1 million), The Secret Life of Pets ($368.4 million), and The Jungle Book ($364 million).
Disney "controlled more than a quarter of the domestic market share despite releasing fewer films than any of the major studios," according to the article, which notes that the record was achieved despite the absence of big releases in several major movie franchises partly through higher ticket prices (and possibly also inflation).
Disney had four of the top five highest-grossing films, including "Finding Dory," the year's top film with $486.3 million. "When holdovers are taken into account, Disney had six of the year's ten highest-grossing releases, a group that includes Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which debuted in 2015," reports Variety. Other top films include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($408.2 million), Captain America: Civil War ($408.1 million), The Secret Life of Pets ($368.4 million), and The Jungle Book ($364 million).
Disney "controlled more than a quarter of the domestic market share despite releasing fewer films than any of the major studios," according to the article, which notes that the record was achieved despite the absence of big releases in several major movie franchises partly through higher ticket prices (and possibly also inflation).
Why do the worst movies make the most money?
Because parents will pay any amount of money to shut the kids up for 90 minutes.
No sig today...
Sure! Everyone who downloaded the movie would have gone to the movies at least twice because it was SO good they wanted to have it so they can watch it many times over. Clearly every download is at least 3 lost ticket sales.
No wait, they could invite friends, and judging by the Facebook page, everyone has about 200-300 friends on average (but I'm absolutely certain that the average pirate is one of those basement dwellers with thousands, but let's be conservative in our estimate), so that means we lost at least 900 ticket sales per downloaded movie! Let's be realistic because at least some of them would have watched it yet another time, every download counts for 1000 ticket sales lost!
Now we only have to assume that for every ticket you sell one evil terrrrist pirate arrs and downloads the movie and your estimate is accurate.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.