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Fluffeh writes:
The newest figures show that the industry remains healthy despite continued and over-simplistic rhetoric by the MPAA that the sky is falling for the movie business due to the effects of online piracy. In 2011 the MPAA released figures claiming $58bn in losses due to piracy. These figures were later discredited and appear to have been removed from the MPAA website.
The US/Canada box office for 2013 was $10.9 billion (up just 1 percent from 2012), this was led by blockbusters like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Iron Man 3. The meteoric rise of the international marketplace has driven the industry's massive profitability, which now constitutes 70 percent of all revenue, up from 64 percent in 2009. This brings industry revenue up to $35.9bn for last year.
(Score: 1) by Rivenaleem on Friday March 28 2014, @07:39PM
Very simple:
US population 220 million. Rest of world 6.78 billion
That's a 1:30 ratio
Battleship 1:3
John Carter 1:2.8
After Earth 1:3
So Americans are 10 times more likely to enjoy a Micheal Bay-type movie than the rest of the world.
Sure Not all the rest of the world has access to movies, but I guess we can cut the number in half and my point still stands. Americans love Hollywood movies much much more than the rest of the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @08:29PM
> Sure Not all the rest of the world has access to movies,
> but I guess we can cut the number in half and my point still stands.
You can cut it in half, but that would be intellectually dishonest.
Try cutting it down by 99% because population count doesn't matter when talking about total dollars - what matters is disposable income and compared to the rest of the world, all americans are in the 1%. [policymic.com] So try again Mr Indignant.
> Americans love Hollywood movies much much more than the rest of the world.
Oh man, you really put your foot in it with that one, Mr Ignorant. There are only two countries where domestic films regularly outsell Hollywood shite - S Korea and India. Occasionally France will too, but that's not consistent. And S Korea has protectionist laws to help out their film industry.
(Score: 1) by Rivenaleem on Monday March 31 2014, @04:09AM
>Oh man, you really put your foot in it with that one, Mr Ignorant. There are only two countries where domestic films regularly outsell Hollywood shite - S Korea and India. Occasionally France will too, but that's not consistent. And S Korea has protectionist laws to help out their film industry.
Those are 2 different statistics. Whether domestic films outsell Hollywood or not, is irrelevant as to who enjoys Hollywood more. Domestic movies typically have a lot less marketing power behind them and there are fewer of them overall.
Here follows some made up numbers, just to display the point.
If 60% of the movies watched in France are Hollywood, and 40% are Domestic, you might say they prefer Hollywood movies over local, and I wouldn't argue with that.
However if 80% of movies watched in the US are Hollywood, and 20% are foreign, then you can say that Americans prefer Hollywood movies more than the French do.
So you see, both points can be 'right' Americans can like Hollywood movies more than the French, while the French can like Hollywood more than Domestic.
But I can see we're not going to agree on much of anything, so lets leave it at that.