Star Wars :TFA - Avatar gap thread- Updated Daily! Post your predictions! - $2,064,018,389 as of 11th April 2016! - The GAP is in the OP

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Lawlight said:

brute said:
The thing that will keep Star Wars international number a lot less than Avatars will be the difference in currency exchange, in 2009/early 2010 the U.S dollar was a lot weaker than it is now. Even if the currency exchange rate was the same, it still would have made less than Avatar in the international box office, but it would have been much closer than it will be now.

 

You have to factor in the price of tickets that have gone up since the Avatar days. It went up by 11% since then in the US. Even more elsewhere.

 

Still hasn't increased enough to off set the increase in exhange rate, per this: http://www.macrotrends.net/1329/us-dollar-index-historical-chart 2009-10 was an all time low for US dollars (which helped it in this case).

 

As I said, even if it remained the same, it probably wouldn't have passed it, but it would have been closer.