DakonBlackblade said:
In Brazil for example when Avatar released the Dolar was worth +/- 2 Reais. Avatar is the bigest box office in Brazil history with 60M dolars made +/-. Now with FA the dolar is worth +/- 4 reais, and FA still managed 25M dolars so far, that wouldve been 50M on Avatars day. So for FA to make more money than Avatar it needs to be seen twice as much, the fact it still managed 25M with this crap currency exchange rate is a phenomenal achievement. Thats just 1 country but pretty much all of Europe and the rest of the Americas also have hugely disfavorable exchange rates in comparission to Avatar. The Euro was almost 1.43 dolas on Avatar release thas a gigantic difference from what it is now (its close to 1.09 dolars now). (0.146 for Avatar x 0.153 for FA) that barely even make a difference, FA would gross as much as Avatar with like 95.4% of its tickets sales.
Looking at these exchange rates closer like Im doing now, since your post brought it to my atention FA realy has to sell way more tickets than Avatar to make up for the hughely disfavorable exchange rates WW, maybe even around the 1.3-1.4x more tickets mark. If doing the completly nonsensical ludicrous thing of considering that a movie that sold like 100 million tickets 70 years ago would sell the same amount nowadays and just adjust to inflation to see how much money itdve made is a thing, adjusting exchnage rates to match the ones more favorable to a certain movie should be a thing to lol. |
Some one over at forum.boxofficetheroy.com did a comparison with exchange rate and found that if you convert Avatar to todays currency, it's total gross would be 2.3 billion, not sure how accurate this is, but it seems to be about right, but thats a number TFA still might not reach, but it makes it a lot closer than it is.