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In response to
"But these things are cumulative. Legs are cumulative. Days with bigger numbers are just gonna bare that out."
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Inigo
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Except the point of multipliers is to get rid of that effect.
Posted by
Reagen
Dec 30 '13, 12:44
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If movies earn proportionally all the way, the difference is going to be zero. If something causes that curve to spike upwards like that (and suddenly), there's an effect to go looking for. In other words - Frozen jumping the same percentage as Tangled from a proportionally higher number over Christmas should look identically on the graph - except that it got a mini boost the weekend before.
And that the effect is cumulative is precisely what I'm saying, but I think it just a little different way than what you are. Because Frozen had a better 4th weekend to play on (in terms of available audience) than Tangled, it didn't drop as severely, and that 4th weekend is what got the Christmas boost.
>Especially when one film had Disney devote screens and attention to Tron Legacy while the other did not. Your cutoff day coincides with Tangled losing a decent amount of screens, and more importantly, the bigger venues inside a theatre to Tron.
Again, *precisely*. It started off $20 million higher, so it had more box office to "give" and stay significant to the studio and theater operators, who let it keep its screens. Personally, I think they were shortsighted in Tangled's case, but whatchagonnado?
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