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Total domestic Hollywood box office for 2015 was ~10 billion[0]. Total 2015 revenue for Disney was ~52 billion[1]. Whatever you read, it is no longer correct.
by oldmanjay 11y ago
Total domestic Hollywood box office for 2015 was ~10 billion[0]. Total 2015 revenue for Disney was ~52 billion[1]. Whatever you read, it is no longer correct.
[0] http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2015 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2015
[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/224397/quarterly-revenue-of-the-walt-disney-company/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/224397/quarterly-revenue-...
- kbenson 11y agoI'm not sure why you think a department in a company with 52 billion in revenue can't individually have more revenue than an industry with 10 billion in revenue. Specifically, numbers posted seem to indicate there are some divisions with more than 10 billion in revenue[1]. 1: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-04/disney-profit-beats-estimates-as-film-studio-parks-post-gains http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-04/disney-pro...
- oldmanjay 11y ago52 billion can't contain an order of magnitude more than 10 billion no matter how you do your accounting.
- vinceguidry 11y agoAs I said, it's been awhile since I read that, I was sure I was misstating it somehow.
- jaibot 11y agoPedantic: It can if some of the departments are turning in massive losses.
- oldmanjay 11y agoThat's not the case at Disney. I'm not making an abstract point here.
- paulsutter 11y agoYou're not making an abstract point, you're making a minor and pedantic point. The comment said he didn't remember the exact details. His core idea is true even if he got the details wrong: that whole-industry revenue from movies is much smaller than Disney's overall business. That's an interesting insight. Your comment might be more useful if you acknowledged his core idea even as you corrected the facts. Instead you appear to be in such a rush to prove you're smart that you totally missed the central point. Just sayin.
- oh_sigh 11y agoRevenue can't be negative (without janky accounting which is irrespective of losses).
- kbenson 11y agoAh, I thought you were responding to this: "An entire industry's market doesn't even hold a candle to one company's department." I missed the order of magnitude statement.