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Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 02-21-2008, 03:29 PM:

My daughter is a book editor. A current client wrote:

"Twice as many Aussies (per capita) watched Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth as Americans."

When asked for evidence, he supplied this reasoning: "US has a population of just over 300,000,000, Australia is just over 21,000,000. The US box office totaled $24,146,161 and the Australian box office totaled $3,159,011."

She wonders whether he took the different cost of tickets in each country into account when he wrote his statement.

What are ticket prices in Australia these days? Is there an "official" average price? What's the source of official info? In the US, Movieline Intl. lists the average movie ticket price in 2007 as $6.70 and in 2008 as $6.85.

Thanks in advance, you Boys of Summer Down Under.

Posted by Rick Hunter (Member # 1606) on 02-21-2008, 05:35 PM:

Average price at 'plex AUD $15 ... US$13.75
Smaller chain AUD $13 ... US$12
Inde AUD $8-$12 ... US$7.33 - UD$11

Posted by Sam Cat (Member # 3532) on 06-28-2008, 10:03 AM:

I am guessing the average Aus ticket price is around $10

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 06-28-2008, 01:13 PM:

do the math.

$24,146,161 Divided by 6.85 = 3,524,987

$3,159,011 Divided by 10.00 = 315,901

It all comes to about 1% of the total population.

I don't see where can prove his/her comment

I know these are rough numbers based off an average

Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 06-28-2008, 07:17 PM:

Ricks pretty much spot on for Western Australia too. I'm at an inde first run and we are $12 and $10 conc.