{"id":14291,"date":"2026-09-07T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14291"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:08:17","slug":"big-bucks-shrinking-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/07\/big-bucks-shrinking-butts\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bucks Shrinking Butts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/09\/07\/business\/media\/summer-movies-box-office.html?unlocked_article_code=1._VA.YUS8.evyg2Safj9vu&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hollywood\u2019s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing Tickets<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/brooks-barnes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooks Barnes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/christine-zhang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hollywood Box Offices Are Back\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwzDA2oBqSk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollywood\u2019s summer \u2014 by its accounting \u2014 was a triumph for the ages. Ticket revenue was not only the highest since 2013, but the second highest of&nbsp;<em>all time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just don\u2019t look too closely at the math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movie industry ranks box office results by the raw dollar total, without adjusting older figures to account for rising ticket prices. It is the simplest method and, not incidentally, the most flattering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when you do an apples-to-apples comparison, translating older box office totals into today\u2019s dollars, Hollywood\u2019s summer loses some of its shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/09\/07\/business\/media\/summer-movies-box-office.html?unlocked_article_code=1._VA.YUS8.evyg2Safj9vu&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Hollywood\u2019s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing Tickets By\u00a0Brooks Barnes\u00a0and\u00a0Christine Zhang Hollywood\u2019s summer \u2014 by its accounting \u2014 was a triumph for the ages. Ticket revenue was not only the highest since 2013, but the second highest of&nbsp;all time. Just don\u2019t look too closely at the math. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14292,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}