Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey crosses $1 billion worldwide, becoming his third billion-dollar movie and his first to reach the milestone without Batman.
It’s interesting how many films are passing $1B. Honestly I think it’s more due to ticket prices and inflation. I wish they tracked ticket sales vs gross revenue.
There are a few reasons why we don’t list the amount of tickets sold:
The movie business never started reporting tickets sold. From the inception, it’s always been raw dollars, so the data for tickets sold literally does not exist for older movies.
Not all tickets are equal. An evening ticket is more expensive than an afternoon ticket, and IMAX ticket or 3D ticket is more expensive than a standard ticket, a ticket at a big city mall multiplex is more expensive than a ticket at a family-owned drive-in theater in the country, etc. So just listing the raw ticket amounts wouldn’t tell you how much was made.
The studios don’t really care about tickets sold, they care about profit.
It’s interesting how many films are passing $1B. Honestly I think it’s more due to ticket prices and inflation. I wish they tracked ticket sales vs gross revenue.
There are a few reasons why we don’t list the amount of tickets sold: