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The international market is much bigger today. Just look at China. Western movies were banned from the country for decades until 1994. And it was a small market for some time. It's only the past ten years or so China has seen a massive growth. China had less then 5000 screens in 2009. Today they have over 66000. And that is probably the biggest reason (even bigger than inflation of ticket prices) I personally think comparing the money movies released today makes with movies older than ten years is really pointless and a waste of time
China actually keeps the lion’s share of Chinese market grosses. In those markets, Hollywood works for them and not vice versa. As per the deal, Hollywood gets 25% of grosses. In other countries it’s 50% and maybe more.
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And it's going to top Skyfall as Sony's biggest hit.
https://deadline.com/2019/08/spider-...ll-1202670412/
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Looks like Sony is going to re-release Spider-Man: Far From Home in theaters with deleted scenes for...reasons? Either way, I may see it again.
https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-far-f...eleted-scenes/
But in 1939 there was no TV I know it was invented but not mass produced to the masses yet so outside of some releases every few years once a film left theaters chances were you might not see it again. We see films within months of release now even sooner if someone pirates so yeah making money now is more impressive IMO.
In the '30s you had Radio, you had theatre, you had dances, and while sports was still not as big today it was developing. After all one of the biggest figures of the '30s was Babe Ruth. So it's not a media wasteland where cinema was all people had that some are making things out to be.
Also remember that Hollywood made more movies per year back then, than they did today. So competition was fiercer as opposed to today where so much is banked on a few tentpole releases. In the case of Disney, almost exclusively.
In any case adjusted for inflation isn't about alternative entertainment competing for much today. IT's the comparative ratio of dollar-per-ticket prices then and now.
In the classic period, the first release of a movie depending on its success could last for years. Gone with the Wind didn't have a short release window and skedaddled. It actually stayed on screen for years and so on, depending on theaters and so on. That also applied to all movies. You also had repertory theatres where you could see films after their first release ended. This practice continued until the mid-60s or so.
Heck why do you think it's possible that so many classic comics characters are influenced by silent films. Silent films, surviving ones (only 25% of all total productions, some estimates make it lower) were obscure stuff in the '30s and yet young writers and artists like Siegel and Shuster, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson were all inspired by silent films for stuff like Superman (Metropolis is named after the silent epic), and The Man Who Laughs and a lot of other films. Steve Ditko was also inspired by silent films and his biographer Blake Bell noted he was known for regularly visiting repertory theaters to see older films.
So again this argument that older releases had special advantages does not hold up.
According to CBR and Sony Pictures, the re-release will include four additional minutes of a "never before seen action sequence."
https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-far-f...heatrical-cut/
I'm betting that it'll be the fight against the Manfredi Family that was shown in the trailer, but cut from the film. Why cut that scene in the first place? It looked cool.