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Why are we using nominal dollars?

Instead of real dollars (dollars adjusted for inflation)? Most useful charts I see outside of Wikipedia use real dollars, because of course. Otherwise your chart is a chart of inflation, to a fair degree, and this is misleading the reader. Herostratus (talk) 02:00, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You make good points, but whilst charts adjusted for inflation exist at country level (e.g. United States/United Kingdom) it is notoriously difficult to do at worldwide level where inflation varies from country to country. It is further complicated by the fact that some films (especially the Disney ones) have accumulated box-office across several releases, so it is virtually impossible to do unless you have a "seed" list like at List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films_adjusted_for_inflation. Betty Logan (talk) 02:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Frozen why?

Can somebody explain me with details. What is wrong in Frozen gross in BOM? I don't understand Pieryknik (talk) 21:39, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason Box Office Mojo stopped updating the total while it was still playing in some territories. Even though it was 10 years ago I remember the incident well, because it caused us a massive problem at the time. We were watching it wracking up millions in Japan and German and yet the worldwide total just wasn't going up! We don't really know how much it ultimately grossed, but we do know it grossed more than what BOM have it down for, and we do know it grossed at least $1,290 million during its original (as opposed to $1,280 million) based on the individual tracked territories. It should be noted that The Numbers stopped tracking it even earlier than BOM, and has the gross at $1,271 million. Box Office Mojo also states that it grossed a further $24 million during a 2023 re-issue in Australia. This is not correct and is a symptom of the BOM double-counting issue; Frozen grossed $22.5 million during its original release, and BOM has included the original gross in the reissue gross. Ergo, the re-release gross was actually more like $2 million, rather than $24 million. Based on my estimates, Frozen ultimately finished just a whisker off $1.3 billion. Betty Logan (talk) 22:53, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually on BOM Frozen have$1,306,450,154. Maybe they was repaired? Pieryknik (talk) 11:45, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The $1,306m figure is a result of double-counting Australia's original release gross. It made $22.5 million on its original release in Australia. BOM then counts this gross again in the 2023 re-release, which is incorrect. So there are two problems going on here: i) BOM under-reported the original gross by around $10 million; ii) it then double-counted Australia's $22.5 million original release gross. Therefore it is over-shooting by about $12; if you deduct that figure from the worldwide total that would put the proper gross at around $1,294m give or take. Betty Logan (talk) 20:24, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ne Zha 2 isn't on BOM

Why Ne Zha 2 isn't on BOM. It is a huge hit Pieryknik (talk) 17:49, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-English films

There should be a new section for non English films. Keeping comment short, but shall help in building it. 𝓔xclusive𝓔ditor _{Ping Me🔔} 06:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This list covers worldwide charts only. Non-English films are included already. Betty Logan (talk) 07:00, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As Betty said, it's a worldwide page and having a section with a subjective criteria like that doesn't fit with the rest of the page. There are of other animated articles with different criterias, anybody is more than welcome to create other such pages if they think it's valuable information.DCF94 (talk) 16:36, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Betty and DCF. Also, the edit was challenged, now it should be left to consensus to determine if it's to be added. - \\'cԼF 00:16, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is Ne Zha 2 correct?

Why on this page Ne Zha 2 have 1.629M? In source it have 1.548M Pieryknik (talk) 14:45, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Someone keeps add a little bit extra each time why I do not know

It just needs correct but by the following day it surpass the gross this user put one Fanoflionking3 (talk) 20:04, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Snow White inflation adjustment

I just changed the Snow White inflation adjustment to match what is described in associated note. For some reason, none of the annual inflation rates used here on Wikipedia matched the source, which is the IMF annual worldwide consumer price inflation rate. I couldn't determine where those alternate numbers came from. They weren't in the archived inflation chart, nor were they the inflation rate in any specific country as far as I could tell. If I've made some mistake, please explain it here. Smoclon (talk) 00:33, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not your fault, but someone had changed the source. The correct index is this one: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PCPIEPCH@WEO/ADVEC. The global CPI is artificially inflated in countries with unstable currencies, so we rely on the index for advanced economies instead. It follows the same format as the adjusted table at List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films_adjusted_for_inflation. Betty Logan (talk) 00:53, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Will the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake count towards the series gross on this page?

Unlike Lion King 2019 and Mufasa: The Lion King which were entirely CGI animated, How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is live-action CGI. Will it count towards the series overall gross on this list, or does not due to being live-action? Edelgardvonhresvelg (talk) 22:02, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably List of highest-grossing live-action/animated films I imagine Lilo & Stitch and Smurfs will also be on that page and not this one. Fanoflionking3 (talk) 22:46, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature rule^[1] that its used as a indicator on this page, a film is considerate animated if it's created with a frame-by-frame technique, no motion capture, having many of the main characters animated, and the animation must figure in no less than 75 per cent of the picture's running time. HTTYD '25 does not fall at all into non of those rules, where's yeah as you said, Mufasa and Lion King '19 are like 99% CGI characters and all.

DCF94 (talk) 12:10, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ "88th Academy Awards of Merit" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-09.

[1] "88th Academy Awards of Merit" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-09.

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