Hollywood eyes record $10 billion box office for 2009
contrary to the foolishness of paulists and other psychotic poltroons, any year-spanning dollar comparison not adjusted for material debasement is deficient.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Film box offices were poised on Wednesday to eclipse 2007′s record $9.68 billion in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales with Hollywood eyeing more than $10 billion this year as audiences flocked to theaters during the recession. [...]
oh wow!
buried after the headline and hype:
The 2009 total was aided by a 28 cent increase in ticket prices from the year before to an average $7.46.The total number of tickets sold, or admissions, is expected to reach 1.4 billion, up from 1.34 billion in 2008. Still, that figure is not expected to break the record 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002, said Hollywood.com Box Office.
debased dollar: pay no attention
ignorami of the box office
ron paul campaign did not break kerry record
[update 091227: Hollywood Grosses Shatter Record
paragraph shadowed by the hype lead:
[...] Aided by a steady rise in ticket prices, Hollywood has taken in $10.4 billion at the box office this year, moving well past a previous full-year record of $9.68 billion set in 2007, according to Hollywood.com’s box office reporting service. But a few years earlier in the decade it actually made more money when the totals are adjusted for inflation. [...]
truth didn’t change the headline. shocker! won’t hollywood love hyperinflation when it hits? think of all the “shattered” records.]