All-Time Daily Figures: A Summary

Alright, so by way of a summary of the two large preceding charts, let's consider first the breakdown for days above $20m:

Almost half of figures above $20m are also below $25m, suggesting a considerable barrier in that range. I would argue that this is due to the bigger, $25m+ days pushing several other days up with them. Take a film, for example, that opens with $30m on Friday, declines 20% on Saturday to $24m, and another 15% on Sunday to $20.4m. That's two $20-25m days for one $30m opener.

Now let's look at inflation and how inflated figures compare to actuals:

The effect is immediately visible and quite drastic. The change at the top is not particularly striking, largely because those figures come from recent releases anyway. But even there, the fact that the number of $60m+ days doubles is considerable. More startling is the jump in the number of $45m+ days, from 10 to 21.