Actually ticket prices around here for Titanic and episode 1 were a lot more than they are today. about $12 per ticket if I remember right.
Hell, I only paid $4.25 to go watch the Clone Wars matinee
I don't really look at the inflation numbers either, just saw them on the site when I looked it up and found them interesting. It does make some sense though because films were definitly a lot cheaper in 1977. I'd like a total tickets sold type stat to compare the movies from different decades.
A New Hope had two theatrical releases to accumulate its total as well which makes TDK even more impressive by comparrison. Before the Special Editions, Star Wars I believe it was below 400 million.
I never would thought TDK would be that successful either, but cudo's to them.
Also of interest on the Clone Wars, it didn't have the wide release of the standard big movie. In Winnipeg it was showing in only half the theaters, and only one screen in each theater.
Most new movies get two or three screen per Silver City type place. I think all involved knew ahead of time that this wasn't going to be huge, an experiment for Lucasfilm this was.
I went to a friday afternoon showing and there were less than 20 people watching with us.
