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From: dce@tekecs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Most Popular Movie
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Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 10:21:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 10:21:46 1983
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Gross sales does not determine popularity of a movie (as with
record album sales). You have to look at many other aspects of
the situation, like population and price. If you consider the
fact that Gone With the Wind cost less to see when it first
came out, and that the population of the US was significantly
smaller, and that distribution was not as widespread, you
might see a big difference.

Remember the thousands of gold records made in the 70's? Gold
records are those with some amount of sales, not copies. That's
why records went to $9.98 each. The top-100 records are based
on number sold, so why shouldn't the most popular movies be
based on the number of tickets sold or by percentage of population?


			David