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[lab276]

$3.9m OD from RTH!!!!HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!

Where did you get that number from?

[DeeCee]

He's making it up.RTH, where are you?

[DeeCee]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/hunger-games-scores-huge-1-8m-in-australia/Let's sayT-$1.741mF-$2.25mS-$3.0mS-$2.0mTotal-$9m

[Robertron]

$3.9m OD from RTH!!!!HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!

You bastard.

[Robertron]

Saturday will be huge. All young school kids will eat it up on the weekend.

[DeeCee]

Just checked At The Movies. They both basically hated the movie.

http://www.abc.net.a...xt/s3442322.htm

DAVID: So it’s a really horrible story but they’ve had to make a film that will appeal and will be censored, classified, for young people and I think that’s a compromise they’ve never managed to come up with.

The queasy-cam is deeply annoying, but worse is the lack of suspense or involvement. One mystery: there's a credit for Snake Wrangler at the end, but I didn't see any snakes. Where were the snakes?

Edited March 23, 2012 by DeeCee

[lab276]

It's a shame they didn't like it, but I disagree that it was censored too much. There was plenty of blood in it and plenty of on-screen deaths.

[Cedarpoint1111]

Haters gon hate.

[lab276]

I generally agree with them though. But it's entirely fair that they think that, it's their opinion.

[Heretic]

Wow. Australia is probably going to have the biggest opener for THG OS this weekend.

[DeeCee]

Just a note on comparing the USA/Canada to Australia.In 2011 films screened in Australia earned AUD1.09Billion which is roughly USD1.1Billion. Which is about USD47 per person spent at the movies.In 2011 films screened in the USA/Canada earned USD10.2Billion. Which is about USD29 per person spent at the movies.Now dividing 10.2B by 1.1B gives us 9.2. So if the Domestic:Australia ratio is bigger then 9 the movie performed better in the domestic market then it did in Australia. If the ratio is smaller then 9 the movie performed better in Australia.

[lab276]

^ That's interesting. Does it only apply to 2011 films, so if you want to compare TDK or something, you figure out the ratio for 2008?

[DeeCee]

It just works for 2011 and now as nothing much has changed with regards to the exchange rate for the last few months. The Aussie dollar has been hovering just above parity. In 2008 I think the Aussie dollar was a lot lower.

[lab276]

So you can't just say, the AUS BO in 2008 was $945.4m and the DOM BO was $9630.6m and therefore the ratio is 10.09 and TDK DOM:AUS is 11.84 which means that it was relatively more successful there than here?It's probably a stupid question, but I'd like to understand this.

[pinocchio]

TDK was released in 2008.Average ticket price in USA at this time: 7.18 USD --> something like 75 mio tickets sold.Average ticket price in Australia at this time: 12 USD --> something like 3.3 mio tickets old.Per capita moviegoing was on the same level in 2008.If you compare population it's obvious TDK was a much bigger hit in USA/CA than it was in Australia.

[lab276]

I was only using TDK as an example. What I'd like to know is why you can't do it for any other years? Is the exchange rate really necessary for something like this?

[pinocchio]

If the USD tanks, OS results in USD gross will look just amazing for any flick. But that doesn't mean anything because those USD would be worthless.

[lab276]

I think we've got a misunderstanding.

Edited March 23, 2012 by lab276

[pinocchio]

What do you mean? USD/AUD had huge price swings during the last ten years:http://au.finance.ya...urce=undefined;You always have to consider currency exchange rates anyway.

[Rthmessiah]

So you can't just say, the AUS BO in 2008 was $945.4m and the DOM BO was $9630.6m and therefore the ratio is 10.09 and TDK DOM:AUS is 11.84 which means that it was relatively more successful there than here?It's probably a stupid question, but I'd like to understand this.

The general rule of thumb is $aus / $us and 10% is the usual benchmark so if a film does well in US or doesn't then if Aus does 9% or greater its considered good, if film doesn't do well in US then here have to have a much higher % to be consider it did very well here compared to US, quite often the UK is benchmarked these days as well but not as much as DomesticTDK $aus46.089/ $us533.345mil 9%