Er zijn niet alleen meer bioscoopgangers bij gekomen, maar ook meer bioscopen gebouwd. De eerste Star Wars-film is alweer van 45 jaar geleden en sindsdien is er ook veel meer merchandise rondom Star Wars uitgebracht, vooral de laatste 20 jaar, en dit wordt alleen maar meer. Tel daarbij bovendien inflatie bij op (niet alleen omdat 45 jaar geleden een bioscoopkaartje minder kostte, maar ook dat men toen zuiniger leefde en minder uit gaf) en nog een miljoen andere variabelen/invloeden. Dan kom je er aan het eind van de rit uit dat de laatste paar Star Wars-films meer hebben opgeleverd dan de originele films.Ravelino schreef: ↑ma jun 13, 2022 8:49 amDit vind ik gek, zijn er dan zoveel meer bioscoopgangers/warsies bij gekomen? Want de eerste trilogie heeft toch dubbel in de bioscopen gedraaid, een keer vanaf eind jaren 70 en een keer een paar jaar voor Episode I. Of rekenen ze de revised editions apart?)
Niet dat ik je niet geloof hoor vind het gewoon gek, top stukje weer
Om maar eens een stukje te plukken van Wikipedia over de box office van Star Wars: A New Hope:
BronStar Wars remains one of the most financially successful films of all time. The film opened on a Wednesday in 32 theaters expanding to 43 screens on the Friday and earning $2,556,418 in its first six days to the end of the Memorial Day weekend ($11.4 million in 2021 dollars). Per Variety's weekly box office charts, the film was number one at the US box office for its first three weeks. It was replaced by The Deep but gradually added screens and returned to number one in its seventh week, building up to $7 million weekends as it entered wide release ($31.3 million in 2021 dollars) and remained number one for the next 15 weeks. It replaced Jaws as the highest-earning film in North America just six months into release, eventually earning over $220 million during its initial theatrical run ($984 million in 2021 dollars). Star Wars entered international release towards the end of the year, and in 1978 added the worldwide record to its domestic one, earning $410 million in total. Its biggest international market was Japan, where it grossed $58.4 million.
On July 21, 1978 while still in current release in 38 theaters in the U.S., the film expanded into a 1,744 theater national saturation windup of release and set a new U.S. weekend record of $10,202,726. The gross prior to the expansion was $221,280,994. The expansion added a further $43,774,911 to take its gross to $265,055,905. Reissues in 1979 ($22,455,262), 1981 ($17,247,363), and 1982 ($17,981,612) brought its cumulative gross in the U.S and Canada to $323 million, and extended its global earnings to $530 million. The film remained the highest grossing film of all time until E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial broke that record in 1983.
The release of the Special Edition in 1997 was the highest-grossing reissue of all-time with a gross of $138.3 million, bringing its total gross in the United States and Canada to $460,998,007, reclaiming the all-time number one spot. Internationally, the reissue grossed $117.2 million, with $26 million from the United Kingdom and $15 million from Japan. In total, the film has grossed over $775 million worldwide.
Adjusted for inflation, it had earned over $2.5 billion worldwide at 2011 prices, which saw it ranked as the third-highest-grossing film at the time, according to Guinness World Records. At the North American box office, it ranks second behind Gone with the Wind on the inflation-adjusted list.